Kingpin

2009-03-05T03:09:00.000-08:00

I have always wanted to write about this guy. Always!!! Its taken me so long to write about him. I dont blame him, I cant blame myself either. Its just that mind sometimes doesnt understand the intricacies. My mind, not his. To be true I could not find any single aspect that would put him above others. Just for the sake of mentioning I can say that he is cool, he is calm and he is a great person to be with. But that wouldnt do any justice to him, not even a wee bit.

The other day I was reminiscing about a certain event, when he was around. The tensions were high in our group. Blame it on the ego that we have nurtured, blame it on the laziness that we have shared, blame it on the anger without which we cant live. It aint a war. Its just a scene from our room. All of us were angry or upset about something or someone. No one was ready to step down. And then there was Babu. Its amazing how this guy has become what he is today. He just did a few things and all the tensions vanished. He is the Kingpin of our gang, no kidding there. Had he not been there we would have fallen like a house of cards. He is the pin that holds us together. He is indeed the KINGPIN.

Babu aka Suri Babu aka Surendra babu, we miss you, dearly!!!

Chapter 2- Comeback

2008-11-25T06:15:00.001-08:00

I am no historian. I am not even close to being a person who knows history well. But from what I have observed throughout my entire life I have seen satirical comedy rise to its threshold levels. When thunder strikes a person he is dead. When a satire strikes a person he is alive but close to being dead. In a physical fight you can get beaten to the worst possible extent but your self respect would not be hurt because you would have given a blow or two. But in a war of words, against a strong opponent you are left with nothing but gruesome humiliation, clobbered self respect and all the possible bad feelings you can ever imagine.

The only guy with such a unique quality is Manju aka Manoj. You might be thinking that I am belittling him by saying so. But make no mistake, every word that I have written will make sense to you if you had experienced a Satire from him. It just doesn't keep coming but when it does it comes with a bang. Not to take away anything from him, he is the most calm, down to earth person that you can ever come across. He is the walking encyclopedia, the living google, the epitome of decency, the mascot of programming and programmers.

Chapter 1

2008-03-18T23:42:00.000-07:00

This blog is a testimonial to all my friends.

First up..HERO: In many movies that we have watched, the story is about a group of guys where you would always find one character who turns out to be the main lead of the movie, a character whom we call HERO. I always used to wonder what if there is a movie about us, who would be the hero. Would it be me? Naaah... definetly not. So who would it be? Now if you know all my friends then may be you can come up with an answer. Think for a moment before you read further. If you did find it then just read on. How would you want a hero to be? A guy who can lighten up the mood, a guy who can stand by his friends in all the adversities, a guy who has a girl, a guy whose company you would like to be in. These are some of the qualities of my HERO. Now does your hero have all these qualities. If he does then may be we are talking about the same person. I came to know him by the name VCS aka sint aka sprint. He is the hero of the story that I am talking about, one guy who doesnt care much about things that seem trivial from a broader perspective.

The Entertainer: What if you could find a guy who can make friends at a rate close to impossible; who can make each person feel that he is special and that everything that he does is not only good, but awesome; who wants to be everything what people crave for; who goes by his heart and who never gets angry or frustrated. May be the last clue would have sparked the right answer in your mind but its my duty to go further and pay a tribute to one of the best entertainers I have ever come across or it would be befitting to say that I would ever come across. Tala aka vizu aka talavade aka manga and the list goes on. "A normal guy with abnormal talent" should be a one liner that would best describe him.

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Family Man... Think of one guy from our gang who is capable of getting married right away and run a married life in a systematic way without any hassles? Who would it be? There is one guy who is a little more mature to his age, who can run a household as if he has been doing it ever since he was born. I might sound sarcastic but I would say that he can be one hell of a friend, sometimes overprotecting the ones he likes to the extent that it starts suffocating. I never did experience this suffocation but I have seen people who did. I used to wonder whether such a caring nature is good or bad? Extremes sometimes end up having the reverse reactions. Cutting my philosophy short I need to introduce you to this guy. Lets have a little twist rather. I leave it to the reader to guess. He carries a brand name with him, a brand that has had a influence in BITS and mostly in Andhra-samiti.

..........-------- The only guy from our gang who could have been a 10 p if he wanted, the only guy who could whack the cricket ball out of the ground every single time he stepped onto the crease, the only guy who could do the bicycle kick stunt whenever he played football, the only guy who could have easily won the FASH-P contest every single OASIS had he gone for the FASH-P auditions, the only guy who had the real calibre of becoming the PREZ without anyone campaigning for him, the only guy who can code any program be it C or JAVA and code at the rate of 1000 lines per minute, the only guy who could drink 10 beers and still stand steady, the only guy who could make girls desperate for whatever, the only guy who could walk naked in the deadly cold weather and still be alive, the only guy who says that he can do all these things which would never even be close to reality, the only guy who invented that 'self hype is the best hype'... None other than chom aka anil.

More are yet to come, so keep waiting and keep blogging.

When I started this blog I thought I would finish it within days. But its taking more time than I even imagined. Now I realize how difficult it is to write good about people. "Write-ups" in bits have proved that we can write not pages but books together about people because all that we write in the write up is a complete mockery of a person or in the worst case its the imagination of what the person would have done. But to pen down the realities and the good points about a person makes the task much more difficult. I will still put in my best efforts to keep this task that I have undertaken moving.

I have been thinking for a certain period of time now, trying to attribute themes to people whom I know, whom I think I know well. Since my list of friends just keeps going on but the knowledge has limits, limits which I now think are starting to get breached. So you might see a shift in narration. If that hurts you can do the honors of excusing me.

There is a sect(of my friends) whom I always admire and would always want to be like them one day. I would like to term them as awesome because they are indeed awesome from my perspective.

Someone who has shown us what innovation really is, someone who has shown us what being different really is, someone who is one among us in some ways and someone who is a alien at times, someone who is absolutely optimistic and who gives you a killer instinct to go for it. With all these characteristics even you would believe that this someone is infact awesome. I would not say more because my narration may actually belittle him and that I do not want to happen. This some one is Shake aka Rajshekar Muppa.

I have always liked and admired people who are selfless atleast when it comes to friends. I have found very few people with this selfless attitude. You can knock his door and ask for any help and believe me I am not exaggerating, ask for any help and you will never get a negative answer. I have seen instances where I would get frustrated and ask people to literally fuck off had I been in his position, but he does not do that. He is awesome. He is Vivek.

Its always rare to find MULTI-Talented people and when you find such a person you are awe-struck. I would term this as All-rounder because i feel this would better suit this person. Most of my friends are extremely good at some things and kinda poor when it comes to others. But after much thought I feel that I know one such person. He might not be extremely good in everything, but he is really good in many things. Acads, sports, dance... name it and he would have the aced it. May be I missed the fun part. He is funny at times though he intends not to be. And he made me happy by proving that he is far better than me when it comes to losing mobiles. ("After having seen actress Shriya live he lost his senses and his mobile") is just one instance which would say it all. But the catch here is that most of the times all his talents are masked by his tense attitude. I need not give a name because everyone would have known who it is by now.

Strategy Strategy and more Strategy. One only guy can come to your mind if you have been with him for atleast some time. And if the name has already come to your mind there is no point in me going ahead, but I still shall for the readers who did not have a chance to meet him or be with him. Apart from him I can rarely find a guy with such determination. He is one of the laziest assholes you might come across but when he wants to do something and makes his mind about that you cant find a person better suited for the job. A terrible mix of Strategy, determination and laziness makes it weird at times but it is what he is. "Pottodu Chaala gattodu" he proves this proverb in telugu to be true. He is none other than Candy (rumours are that this was not a name that bitsians came up with but a name that he begged others to address him with) aka Naveen Darsi.

F.R.I.E.N.D.S

Kingpin

Chapter 2- Comeback

Chapter 1