Tuesday 6 July 2004

Aala re aala re....

Hi all,

How are you all?

Yes, I've reached 'aamchi mumbai'. Life is going just OK. Still to settle down properly here. But I am missing Hyderabad and my friends terribly.

The weather here is horrible. It rains 24 hours a day with some breaks in between.

The college is pretty good. But my hostel is very antiquated in appearance. I hate that fact because it acts like a mental depressant. I’ll soon be changing my hostel to a relatively new one as I find it difficult to see these walls around me. But thankfully the campus is very scenic. I am attaching a picture of the campus.

Food is not great though it is expensive. But as it is dry it helps people like me who are dieting. So I have no probs.

My colleagues here are nice and friendly. Around 15-20% of the batch is Telugu. 30% of the batch is from Infy, TCS or Cognizant. But you won’t be bothered about these data, so ya, 15% of the batch is feminine.

I did not see many traditions here. However there was one which I’d like to mention. All freshers are grouped into teams WITH ONE GAL in each team. Now each team is supposed to stage a VULGAR skit in the hostel at 10:30 pm in front of everybody. As I joined late, I could see only the last ones. And believe me, they were really really vulgar, filled with double meaning dialogues and gestures. I'm feeling shy even to write those dialogues here. But some of them were damn hilarious particularly the one where a team made a spoof of ‘Sholay’. Everybody was in total splits.

There are some other events coming up. Let’s see how they go.

Classes are going OK. But I don’t see students giving much importance to acads. It looks like a typical engineering college where acads is a 'one-day-match'.

That’s it guys. Keep writing to me. Love.

Take Care,
~Gattu.

PS: I have not seen the leopards yet. Seems like they have started hiding after I came ;)