The Boobie Dance

( the narration is how i met your mother style)

Year 2034

Kids, in the fall of 2009 me, talli and manish bansal were preparing for microwave exam in a bansal's room which had a red light in it. It was kakkar's subject so it was bound to be agonizing! To lighten the mood i switched off the tube light and switched on the red light and perform the hilarious dance which was later to be known as 'the boobie dance'. It is the same dance step which me and your mom performed on our wedding day and on the day we were desperate for money and had to perform it on streets. Seeing the reaction talli and bansal gave, I decided to expand this step a bit. It was your uncle mauntri's 2nd placement party and I started doing this step and it mesmerized people, who, unaware of their actions started performing it with utmost vigor. And then came the swashbuckling hasta la vista performance where this step was made public by the chakri me and your uncle mauntri performed while doing the notorious step( in words of your still unmarried uncle chooro). And then this step became a part of our thapar party culture where no party was complete without this step. And now 25 years later this step is a part of Indian Culture. Like hip-hop, salsa etc. Boobie dance is also taught at highly esteemed institutions. Needless to say, I am paid a royalty :)..All right now I have to leave...Gotta go to the re-union and catch up with your uncles and check out their wives ;)

The Rishikesh trip (the little things)

The rishikesh trip led to generation of new names for a lot of people!

Risheek became Rasik Balma, Jaideep became Jesus( the pic speaks volumes!), Adarsh dharewa became Dhauro, Deepak became zalil bachha, Devang Sethi became Debong, Immu became Oh No!.

The Rishikesh trip!!

Now this trip re-defined adventure...at least for me. This trip had everything in it from Rafting in the perilous water of the Ganges to jaali hiking to tiger hunting (lol!) to living in primitive era to gorging on good food. Not to forget the journey we made in almost every mode of conveyance. Be it a Cab, train, open jeep, refugees waali jeep, Rafts, Truck, Bus and an auto.

I remember Mongu coming to my room and telling me," yaar rishkikesh me me 10-12 rafts to palat hi jaatein hai...jaan bhi chali jaaati hai :O"...From this dialogue on we named the trip as " The beginning of the End"...Then we were squashed into a single cab where we met an angel named sherry( our cabie)... And then began torture from Patiala to Ambala. The journey was of 90 minutes Sherry shared 3 jokes with us...3 THAT's IT!!!...Each joke was 20-30 minute long and had a pathetic ending!! There was no Stop button once he had started! Anmol almost went loony!! But yeah it was fun seeing sherry make a fool of himself and humne uski le li :P

Then came the journey to Rishikesh by a train...Like always we had general tickets(Budget problem!) and we entered the sleeper class..Thankfully the TT was reasonable and let us off for a meagre 100 rs. :D

And then we reached that awesome camp with tents and a lantern and had an awesome rafting experience! At one time all of us had jumped into the river and were floating together singing and screaming. The water did something to balma's hair which made him look like a lecherous villian of the 90's!! After coming back to the camp we did a bit of water jumping and late into the night we played a series of games... A game Zap and zoom taught to us by Mauntriii( remember chooro ka JAM!!) Then it was time for dumb charades in the lantern's light...I am still unable to comprehend how dhauro guessed shawshank redemption!! Next day we had an early morning hike...which turned out to be a damp squib since most of us were unable to wake up at the time allotted to us by our camp guide (No surprises here!).The it was kayaking time and as expected each one of us made sure our kayaks overturned!! Then when it was time for us to leave we were unable to find any bus and had to take a TRUCK! If you've never been in a truck never get into one! That's a wise thing we learnt that day! And we were off to Jim Corbett! Details about the JC trip later! But yeah Kaku,Muju and Tayal were terribly missed :(

The hop-point we all are headed to!

Yeah hop-point! Coz no one is looking for a life-long slavery of the current companies we are going to! So this is where you can contact our 'gang' in the next 1-2 years:

Abhishek Tayal, Sarbjot: USC

Adarsh Dharewa: Evalueserve

Jaideep Singh Juneja: XLRI

Nitish Mahajan: Stryker

Manish Tahiliani:Aricent

Muzahid hussain: Ciena(most prob)/Aricent

Prateek Monga: Aricent

Ashish Garg: Aricent

Paras: Sapient (Do i smell MARRIAGE here??)

Risheek Puri: Aricent

Rahul Mantri: IIM Shillong

Rahil Gupta: IIM Ahmedabad (Oooooh! La!La!)

Ankur Karwasra: Aricent

Devang Sethi: Fiserv

Deepak Mahajan: IBM

That's some huge names we've got there...And to think most of us had Aricent as our first jobs!

the pool party!!!

Now this was one of the best party ever!!! and i am not saying coz i was one of the organisers!! But the expression of the guys in the pics..First things first this party was thrown by tayal (USC), rahil (IIM A), jaideep( XLRI), Paras (Sapient + Aricent + birthday) and bhanuj ( Sapient + TCS).. It was a dream-party...Al the buddies together in an isolated water park along with a todu DJ, drinks and food(ahem!!). Considering the volume of people involved( 50 odd) a bus was arranged( for which they had to pay himself :P) which brought them all the way from TU to this water park and then the fun started.. From rocking in the gigantic waves to the karoake performances to the struggle for snacks to floating in the tubes( from which one was violently thrown off) to controlling the piyakkad guys(:P).

Some highlights:

Majority of people got their head banged on the house slide( the one in the topmost picture).

Performances of noobs on mike at the karoake event.

Sethi's keys 'drowning' in the water and Dhami diving into the perilious pool to get them without a second thought.

Chooro ka rona in which he himself fed ice-cream to almost all the guys saying " tu hume bhool to nahi jaayega".

Balma and mongu ki harkatein(Ahem!!!)

Sethi's legendary performance which brought the manager running to us with a panic-stricken face screaming " EH KI GAA RAHE HO!! NIKAL JAO"!!

The group Boobie dancing!!

It was an AWESOME night! All of us went happily-exhausted to our hostels! Wish we had more such kinda parties!!! Agar kabhie reunion ki to aisa hi kuch kareinge!

The arduous task-performance during power cuts!

All right! So we're neither celebrating holi nor are we a bunch of raving lunatics but somehow our creativity reaches new levels in case of power-cuts! Generally this time is spent on terrace discussing people( do bhai and immu qualify as 'people'?) or in the notorious D-block's lanes!! But this time it was something completely OFF the hook! I think it was kaka's idea to fetch banana- shaped-somthing from the tree outside A hostel's mess, which was some 10 feet high...so we took a leaf out of the matki-phodne-waalas-in-holi's book and decided to form a pyramid! It was one like that of Maslow's pyramid! Here's a detailed description:

At the bottom layer lie the physically strong fellows( barring chooru/cute ashi who was punished for the sins* he performed when he was on the 2nd layer from the bottom :P) viz. jaideep,Anmol and mongu!

At the second layer lay the fellas who were comparatively less stronger ( barring Rasik Balma who was laying his wrath on chooru for the back breaking deeds he performed whilst on balma's back): Deepu (Zalil bachhe ki zalil smile) and karwu!

Then came the guys who wanted to be the one to fetch the banana-shaped-thingy but were fought down by kaku: mauntri and Mitav.

Then at the top of the layer hamaara kakoo.

And God did we have some trouble getting to that thing ( which was conveniently broken down as soon as it reached the hands of these delinquents :( ).. We tried every formation under the sun! But then our perseverance did pay off!!

*All right so the sins referred to here are not what jiju and chooro did behind closed doors..That's somewhat personal :P..but what chooro was trying to do while in 2nd layer was break the people-below-him's backs... balma was in an excruciating pain as chooro was doing his level best to break his spine with his knees while I was crying myself hoarse as chooro had grabbed my neck for support and was trying to garrote me!!!

The COMEBACK!!!

It's a little late i know guys par kya karein...as i said to kaka before the no of todu events itni GHANI speed par ho rahe the ki blog update karne ka time hi nai mila....lekin chalo there is still time to reminisce over the overwhelmingly awesome last days we had at Thapar! Almost all of us were waiting for the day when we will move on to our jobs and get away from this slave like state where almost all time is spent in completing the 75%quota. But when the final day came...man did we got senti!!!( :'( )....That was one sad day...It was a day we all realised how much goodbyes actually suck!! But then again I have this strong belief ( and believe me I am not saying this for the sake of saying something NICE) that our group will definitely touch the skies...All of us are dreamers( not day-dreamers :P) and want to achieve something big in life! And that is the vision you have when you embark on your journey to the highway to success...We will definitely encounter loads of twists and turns on this highway but this digressions will be temporary and we will be back on track! All the best mitron aur sakhiyon (:D)....Fly high!!