I am no good at titles...

Last Saturday (18/3/2006) was my farewell. It was postponed a million times already and I had given up hope of going 'coz my proj manager in Motorola would not give me off for the 3rd week in a row inspite of me doing no earth shattering research. Seriously....I would love to be! I would like to imagine myself working on a seemingly impossible piece of code and peole calling me all the time saying 'where are u? We need u to get this done! Nobody else can do it!'. ROFL.

Anyway getting back to what I started with.....geeta (the hostel rep and a very darling junior of mine) called and told me that the farewell was postponed to a weekend so that I could attend. ( I swear she did! This is not somethin I am sayin to glorify myself)

The farewell was beautiful. All hostel farewells are. Seriously. I thought I would end up crying but I eventually didn't. But ever since the farewell I have been choked up. I realize how much I am actually going to miss hostel! These are some of the things I will definitely miss...

• Me and my roomies(Eleza and Saparya) all invariably waking up every single morning at 8:45 to attend a 9:00 class.....And managing to make it!
• Cribbing about mess coffee/sambar/rasam/papad/anything all day long but still trying to sneak 2nd helpings of each
• Singing 'action' songs(actually making every song an action song) with Eleza and making everyone around us look at us with an expression of mingled exasperation, amusement and pity
• Fighting with that stupid moron hostel secretary to get mess reduction
• Sitting on the terrace late at night and talking about life,men,careers,dreams and realities
• Knowing that whenever I need it a hug is less than 50m away
• Being in the mess hall at 7:30pm sharp every Monday to eat the biryani served for dinner
• Screaming myself hoarse at every sports week/hostel day/previous farewells/any other event that happens
• Dancing for stupid cheesy and sometimes awesome music with the music blaring at 1 in the morning
• Fighting to watch some particular programme on the common TV in the mess hall
• Having chai in the mess for 10 minutes but a conversation during chai for over an hour
• Dorji' laughter which I could hear when she is locked in her room on the 2nd floor and I am in the ground floor of the other block
• For that matter Solachi's laughter which goes on for 15 minutes continuously at the same loud volume level
• Watching Eleza trip over the wire, then hit her head on the table, then bang her leg against the edge of the bed, then trip over the stool and finally wake up every morning
• Amrita's hazaar ways of making Maggi yummy
• Planning, plotting, conspiring,scheming and all that for every birthday
• The birthday bumps (Especially the ones Lakshmi got whenever it was anybody's bday)
• Watching Radhika's ears go red whenever she lies....She still can't lie!
• Thinking of a new way to sneak out of hostel every single week
• Raiding Amrita's wardrobe at all times of the day
• Bitching,bitching,bitching about the warden/hostel manager/anyone in the mgmt.
• 200 girls standing together whenever any problem arises in hostel
• The first year students screaming liiiiiiiiiiiiiitle less when I pass by
• Watching a movie with ten people crammed into a room and the lights off
• Crying for the movies and hoping nobody saw
• analyzing the movie later
• Acting/talking/looking completely crazy and being ok with it

Oh and so so so many million other things which I will keep posting as I keep bloggin...

-Sravanthi