Actually speaking, I have no work today and hence its "Raining posts". This is about the time i was making a transition from School Life to my college life. It was around the begining of August. I had already sat at home for one complete year. Preparing for something which was never supposed to be with me, A degree from the IITs. I was almost on the verge of nerval breakdown and saw no chances of survival for my dreams. I took admission into Haldia Institute of Technology with my badly ruined WBJEE rank, bad because i was the 14th last entry in by batch. I had screwed up JEE ranks due to my IIT preps. But still here we go...Atleast i was admitted into one of the top 5 institutes in bengal at that time.
My first day at the college, was actually in the hostels. It was around 4 o'clock that i entered the hostel. It was a 4 storyed building and was called "Utsab Bhawan". Before that i had met some gurdians and their "Children" who were really concerned about how their son/daughter would walk the streets of Haldia without holding their hands. My first tryst was with this...about 5 feet tall and a little miserly looking guy...We were supposed to be 3 guys staying in the same room. I had already checked the name of my roomies from my hostel warden..and i wondered...this must be one of them...So i ask him..."Hello, Are you Saikat"...He aptly looks at me and replies..."No i am Abhra..Abhra Chatterjee"...He sounded mechanical...I put my baggages on the bed and took out a pile of Audio cassettes...The guy was with his parents...by that time...they were measuring the dimensions of the room...Abhra had a conflict with his father about it to be pentagonal or Hexagonal...I was blatantly looking at them...The moment they saw my cassettes...they were a little scared....Thankfully i did not have a guitar back then...By this time...One more guy just slicked through the doorway...A thin, almost fair guy about 5.5 Feet tall...The most striking feature about this guy was his "Coinciding" similarity with his father....I knew that this is Saikat...He dropped his bag...Left his parents...And then...By the time Abhra's parents had already gone...Asked me..."Chol bhai, ciggeratte kehye ashi..(Hey bro, lets go and have a puff)"...I looked at him i awe for about 2 seconds...And i told him..."Ami khayi na (I don't smoke)"...So he replies by saying..."Yarki marish na, tor chehera dekhe ami sob bujhe gachi...Lojja pash na..(I can make out that you smoke by seeing your face, don't feel ashamed)"...I seriously did not...But struck a good chord with this guy...
We made a plan that, since we were outside the campuss...We would go inside the college premises as i had my school mate Bikram to meet...So we set out...It was almost like 1.5 Kms walk to the campuss...We walked...Some in denim jeans...We were about 12 guys...We enter the campuss...un aware of anything...Suddenly...One of the guys...Mintu..meets a senior from his place and we ask him "Where are the first years staying"...He laughs sarcastically...and comments..."Are you guys nuts??...you should immediately go back to your hostels...If anybody spots you here...YOU ARE GONE"...We got scared like hell...and took two steps at a time to get back to the hostel...
During the evening...Saikat took me to the 3rd floor...(We were in 2nd flloor)...He got me introduced with this guy by the name of Kachan Pobi...The guy looked a little out of sorts...Was randomly speaking slangs...In particular a few...which i ll leave here because of family viewership...But someway...this guy looked too cool for the first day in Hostel...As i entered his room...I saw his roomie...A guy who was holding his trunk case all the time...We asked his name...He said.."Monojit"...We thought he must be one of those book worms who was misplaced in time...We chatted and Kanchan had already covered all the air in the room with the "tales of the conquerer"...Me and Saikat came late to the room...as we entered...I saw two guys chatting with Abhra...One guy had almost exhausted all the hair in his head...the other had all his teeth out one shot and was laughing continously making Punn...I come to know that these guys are called Anando and Rajdeep respectively...They were all taking about their 3rd roommate...Who was sleeping from the time they entered the room...This guy was called Krishnendu...
And the story continues...These guys became one of the memories in my life...Which i realised as time went by...I ll continue the saga...if you guys have enjoyed till now :).
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