Rollercoaster Ride

It was the summer of ’07. 26th june. We were all safely registered a day before and entering Arjun, looking out for any known faces dat we might remember during interviews and registration and of course, PagalGuy. If there is one thing dat I wud like to thank god for, then it wud be my shifting to FTB from FTA. Actually, there were 2 of us, initially enrolled in FTA attendance list- Shahan and me. These past 2 years have been literally a rollercoaster ride for almost all of us. All the events, good or bad, that occurred in FTB produced perfect ingredients for the success of any movie –
drama(johri and urshita spitting fire),
action(tamal and rishu at swords in one of our parties),
romance(sadly, none of the rumours graduated into a reality, including mine, albeit the family came closest),
emotions(I just remember urshita and shilpa with brimming eyes, tired of constant public scrutinization),
suspense(PLAN B, and who leads the joota chati faction),
comedy(list is endless viz. Prusty’s Faculty Exchange Ekta Kapoor ishtyle, again Prusty’s ‘fingering’ habits),
war(monthly fight through chain mails viz. sanky vs. johri, ruchir vs. shilpa, tushar vs. pavan and more…always and always entertaining for the rest of the class) et all.
For the first few days, we all mastered in one thing – introducing ourselves in a very ‘resumeic’ manner in which My Name was the clear winner though Mrs. Brand Equity offered this coveted recognition to Mr. Kaul – naam to yaad rahega.
Now how few of us would be remembered not just by our names but also by our acts in class:
Shahan – Mr. Bean
Neeti – global queen
Neha Asthana – cultural shock
Neha Rastogi – now Tandon…..sorry guys
Pankaj – chota coke
Pavan - bodybuilder
Piyush – bhagwaan
Prasad – treadmill walking
Prashant – Big B
Puneet Goyal – My Name is …
Rahul Gupta - latecomer
Rahul Jha – shayar of IMT
Rahul Kaul – opener in every ppt
Rahul Bhagat – his one word reply to every question asked in class…. ‘OB’
Rishupreet – US ambassador
Ritika – part time
Roshan – his unending love for maa-behen
Ruchir – his hands asked more questions than his words
Sahil – DON
Sankshep – 19.75
Saurabh – tau
Shailesh Agarwal – Shailesh sir
Shailesh Jha – IT troubleshooter
Shenoy - Nadal of badminton
Shilpa – chatterbox
Shobhit – abhimanyu
Sid Juneja – daydreamer
Sudeep – statistician
Tarun – dadda
Uday Bhaskar – Mr. Matakkali
Stuti – kid of our class
Urshita – never ending slides in a PPT
Vaishali – we will take it ‘offline’
Johri – first bencher, be if left or right side
Chadha – FTB Rocks
Vishnu – pervert singer
Vishu – no brakes


Co-author : Pratik