Swimming Pool Incident!

I am totally a "Water Freak" i must say! My mom always warns me whenever i go to places surrounded by water! As always right from 4th standard i used to go swimming! The place i started swimming and learnt it completely was in the Valley view swimming pool where me and my cousin Mahesh used to go!
After i was kinda a good swimmer i started going to MIT, swimming pool which is just 20 mins by cycle from my place. A huge group of my friends used to turn up there every day and we had a real lot of fun! The time duration was 1hr a day and we had passes or tickets through which we were allowed in. During weekdays we used to go in the noon and weekends it was early morning swim! It used to be real fun.

"People who did not know how to swim were always asked to be on the lower side of the pool"

This was during the May holidays which we had. It was a pleasant morning and as usual we were around 14 guys all set to enjoy in the pool for an hour! Nobody knew what was coming!
On this particular day we had a new friend who was joining us named Deepak Mallya! He did not know how to swim but he had just come down to have some fun.
Our usual routine in the pool during the hour was take some 4-5 laps.. Play some games, specially the coin game, wherein the coin is thrown into the water and one must search it without wearing the goggles. Then again at the end 4-5 laps.
We had our first set of 4-5 laps. The pool was totally empty except for me and my friends and a doctor uncle who always used to come in the morning. We even played our game after which we decided we'll have the last set of laps and wind up!
We were on our 2nd lap n i saw a cement like thing right below inside the pool. Since i was not wearing a goggled i could not make out what it was exactly. I stopped my friends and informed them about the same. We went in under the water and reached the bottom of the pool to find out that Deepak Mallya was lying underneath with his hands on his nose. He was unconscious. And it was totally difficult for me and my friend to pull him up because he was totally heavy. We then quickly went up and asked the lifeguard for help who in turn went in and pulled him up! We all were out of the pool surrounding him just hoping that things were fine with him. The doctor came to the spot and did the initial First Aid stuff and then he was taken to the hospital.
A day later he was discharged and when we asked him about the incident he never knew what had happened.
It was by God's grace that I noticed him and alerted my friends and the lifeguard.
I still feel real proud remembering this incident wherein i was responsible for saving a person's life :)

I would just like to say never ever play with water, if you don't know how to swim do not take the risk and jump into the water. There are so many deaths occurring these days due to water. If preliminary precautions are taken by us we surely can do a lot.

Cheers,
Muki

A meet which proved to be really sweet!!

Sunday, 18 Oct, '09 was the day when i met my good old engineering friends after a long long gap! Thanks to Panoy, Poota, Bammi, Jadu, SSP, Tutam who made it and made the day worth remembering :)

We decided to meet for lunch at DT, Manipal and as usual some din't turn up due to personal reasons! Wish they too were with us! Santa n Jithe! Missed yu guys a lot..

SSP our inspector was out of form on this day! Dunno what was on him! His usual style at DT was not to be seen! After lunch, under the shade of a tree at End Point, Manipal pulling each others legs, remembering the good old days spent during our Engineering life, cracking those old bull shit jokes was just amazing!

From there on 6 bikes to Malpe beach was just an amazing ride!

Those college days will never ever be back! Those moments we spent together can never be brought back! Dam.. I really miss those days.. Those friends with whom i spent the most wonderful days of my life!

Wish i could get back!!!!!!

Thanks guys! Miss yu all!

Cheers,

Muki

Goa- Shri Mahalasa Narayani

The Pretty Lady of All Time! Shri Mahalasa Narayani

Goa, as we all know is the land of divine grace! Every other road has a temple! For all Amchi's (Konkani people) their respective kuladevata temple is situated in goa. So is mine!

Shri Mahalasa Narayani being my kuladevata, the temple is situated in Mardol,Goa.

Every year during navrathri in the temple a 5 day function is held wherein all the devotees will surely make it a point to be there and collect the prasad! This prasad which is know as "Kaul Prasad" is given only in Goa and only during the navrathri time!

Me, dad, uncle and my aunt decided to leave to goa via train on 5th morning, Monday. The train was scheduled at 2.20 and luckily it did arrive at the scheduled time. We had already booked the tickets so there was no problem in getting a seat. It was Mangalore-Mumbai Matshyagandha Express. Believe me at every stop from udupi to goa he had stopped and when we reached goa it was 8 p.m. The train travel was really wonderful! Passing through the mountains, rivers, the longest tunnel of Konkan railway near Harwada was really fun!

We couldn't get the bus from the railway station so had to hire a taxi! Petrol being cheaper in goa than in karnataka, the taxi fare for just a mere 20kms was 500 bucks!! WTF.. We had no ther choice but to take it! Since the pooja was at around 9.

I must say I have never seen more lazy people than the people in goa! Morning a.m they open their shop! Evening by 6 p.m the shops are closed!! :) Even then they lead a luxurious life!

We got prasad at 3 a.m in the morning! Standing in the queue was such a great task! Met a cute lil kid named Adithya! One n half year old! Very smart and cute!! Sorry, forgot to click his pic!!

Next day, we had our train scheduled at 3 p.m, Verna-Mangalore Passenger!

On the way I saw the Karwar Landslide which had killed so many people and nearly 25 houses burried due to mother nature's fury! It was seriously touching to see the things there as the train passes by the spot! Cylinders, Television sets, utensils and what not. Everything being removed from underneath the soil! The rescue operation was in progress! I have been told there are still more bodies underneath and the search operation is on! Feels real bad for their family! They have lost everything! Beloved family, house, everything!

In honnavar there came this small boy nearly 7 years old! He had a huge lays packet in his hand! He smiled at me as he sat right opposite to me! He started eating the chips! Mind you, his hand, until his elbow was inside the packet! Until udupi he nearly ate 7-8 packets of those huge lays! I was seriously dumbstruck seeing the way he was gulping the chips! That too not small packets.. I guess it was the 20 bucks one! :)

We finally reached Udupi at 8.30 p.m :)

A tight scheduled goa tour had come to an end safely with the grace of goddess Mahalasa Narayani!

Cheers,

Muki

A Great Start for the Blues!

It was curtain raiser for the season. It couldn't have been better.

Chelsea Vs Manchester United battling it out for the Community Shield.

After Guus Hiddink the Blues had appointed Carlo Ancelotti as the next manager! Yesterday it was a awesome encounter against the Red Devils.. The Blues prevailed.. The better team won..

With the likes of Drogba,Lamps,JT in good shape the future for Chelsea is looking great..I somehow had the gut feeling yesterday that we will surely win it! We did.. The penalties were just awesome to watch.. With specialist like rooney,owen,valencia being there SAF put in evra to the spot :P

He's regretting it now for sure.!

It was great victory to kick start the season with a bang! This is the start of "Blue Era"!

Go Chelsea.. :)

This is the man behind the Blues!!!!

The Scary Night!!!

When in Final year of my Engineering we had arranged for a days trip to a falls near Kudremukh.. "Hanuman Gundi".. A very nice place to visit.. We had left from college around 7 in the morning.. Had a nice time there till around 3.. Den visited Malpe beach.. Had dinner in Manipal.. As usual some frens visited the famous "DeeTee".. It was already 10.30 when we had finished our dinner.. Our driver had already started complainin as to how long it'll take for us to finish up things.. He had a guest whom he had to pick up from the airport at 1am.. After a long discussion as to which way we would take whether the Karkal-Moodbidri route or the Udupi-Mlore route we finally decided to take the Mlore-Udupi route as it was the national highway and it would be less risky.. We finally started from Manipal at 11pm i guess.. As the vehicle a mini bus had a speed limit machine installed in it the driver couldn't travel over 60km/hr.. We had to drop some of our freinds at Mlore..

There again we had problem with this guy called Ramnath.. His house was at Kulshekar near Mlore.. He started eating our head as to we gotta leave him near his place as there was no means of transport for him to go.. Who knew the trouble would start by doin so!!!!

If we had to drop him at Kulshekar we had to take the Neer Marga route which is really horrible.. If at all something happens to the vehicle or so there s no means of help we ll get in that region.. No street lights nothing.. One side the driver started his kirkiri by telling he's getting late and he's got to pick up the guy from airport!!! We had no other option other than taking the Neer Marga route..

It was very cool in the night.. I guess it was around 12.30.. We were not even half way through and suddenly the vehicle comes to a halt.. Oh my.. Not again.. We were running out of gas..This foolish driver of our had filled the tank with diesel early in the morning when we left college.. After that he din bother about it at all.. So foolish of him.. The tank was fully empty.. The reason the driver gave was the diesel meter showed half full :)

WTF!!!! At 1 am in the night and that too at such a place where shall we find diesel.. There was no means we could walk all the way to college like we did the other time.. College was around 25 kms away.. All because of this Ramnath..If not for him we would have taken the highway route via Farengipet and even if the vehicle had stopped we could have asked someone or the other for help since it was a highway..

Now nothing could be done.. 2 vehicles which passed by refused to stop.. The place only is so scary that people will never stop for help.. We were just praying that let someone come and save us from this problem!!!

Suddenly from no where a person comes.. He was wearing a short as i remember and a t-shirt!! According to me there was not a single house in and around the place where our vehicle was stopped and no street lights too.. It was a junction of 3 roads.. He came from one of them.. Approached our driver and asked him the time.. Soon after that he left.. Dunno where he disappeared.. Only a few of us saw that person.. A very skinny guy.. Old age.. Dunno what he was doing there at that time of the night.. !!!!

Our driver started telling the person who came was a GHOST!!! Otherwise at that time of the day nobody would come and ask for the time.. That too at that place where there's no house around.. We were really excited about this.. Some were quite frightened too hearing about the ghost.. A guy named Preetesh told us about something called "KURVAIL" ghost!!! I don't know whether it exists or not but according to him it does and it is found at the junction of 3 roads seems :P.. He even said the person who asked the driver the time was the ghost itself and it cannot be anyone else at that time.. Santosh was really frightned hearing this.. N to his bad luck the vehicle too had no fuel.. Din't know how much more time we had to wait there..

Only god must save us from this problem.. We were lying on the road having nothing to do and were chatting.. Suddenly a bike comes and he asked us what our problem was.. As he came to know we were out of fuel he said he'll get us fuel from his place which was not far from there.. Our driver went along with him to get it.. We were even scared now as to whether the driver would return back or not :P Specially santosh.. After about 15-20 mins the driver returned witha huge can full of fuel!!! It was god only who saved us at that point of time.. The guy who gave us fuel had 25 litres of diesel at his place which he gave us.. I dunno how he had so much quantity..

We really had a very good experience that day.. Miss those college days where we had so much fun.. Wish those days come again.. Miss yu guys...

Cheers,

Muki

Life @ CEC- Part II: The Late Nite Walk

These were the final days of my college life.. I had a friend circle of around 8 in hostel.. Except 2 of us me n jadu all used to booze :) It had been a routine for us in the final year every week once or twice we used to go out for dinner as it was the end of our studying n we would part away soon we made it a point that in the final year we ll enjoy to the core.. And as i had mentioned earlier my college is located in the mountains we had to come to B.C road for a good treat!!! We were the regular customers of a bar and restaurant named Dakshin Court in short DC!!! It was a very good restaurant.. Decent people visited.. Most of the time filled with students of CEC..

This was the day when me,kulla and shiv shankar had to attend our Hughes training in Mlore.. It always used to be till 8 in the night.. So we used to have dinner utside n return back to the hostel.. When we were on our way back from Mlore Santosh calls me up saying he n others will be coming to DC for dinner and then we ll go back together.. So we met up @ DC around 9.. We were totally 6 together.. Tutam had internals n had asked us to get some parcel for him.. We started eating n as usual the others BOOZING!!! N i ll have to mention when these guys start boozing the time doesn't come into account.. There are times when we were there in the restaurant till 2 or 2.30 n den returning to the hostel.. But this day as all my frens were no present the ceremony ended a lil early.. I guess it was 1 in the nite when we left DC to hostel..

There's no other means of transport to our hostel from B.C road except for autos during that hour.. We hired a auto.. The auto drivers there hesitate a lot to come to our college.. The reason they say there are "Ghosts" on the way to our Mountain side college.. I have heard a lot of people like the bus drivers, our hostels servants say this but i never believed because i never saw any.. The auto driver we hired was kinda not fully agreeing to come to the college.. We had to persuade him a lot.. We 6 of us in a auto :) Above that i guess 3 guys were totally blown.. After a long time of discussion with the driver he agreed to come to our college for 150 bucks :).. just 15 mins way they charge such a huge amount.. No big deal in that because it was 1.15 in the night when we started from DC..

On the way as usual we were shouting, cracking jokes as though it was 1.15 in the day time.. I dunno what the driver must have thought seeing us behave like that.. I am 101% sure, seeing one of my fren who was totally blown the driver must have thought

" Jokulu marey.. Hakina jasti anda.. Kaas mast undu.. Incha pura hakada life halu malpuera".. meaning "these kids are totally blown n are pampered by thier parents giving lots of money n these kids spoil their life"..

He din't speak a word to us.. But we spoke a lot to him.. :).. The streets on the way till the college hardly have streetlights.. Nothing can be seen in and around.. Both sides of the road are forests n all creepy sounds can be heard when silent..

We were almost half way through n suddenly our auto stops giving a jerk.. It usually happens with some auto's because there are steep up hill roads.. We were not worried so much.. Suddenly the driver says the auto has broken down n he cant fix it now.. Shit!!! We are half way through n we cant even go back to fetch another auto.. At that time of the night where to get help from.. I was not worried about walking to the college which was around 4 kms from that particular spot.. But some of my frens were having a prob.. They were pretty scared.. One of my Fren named Joel Preetam's house was located nearby.. So i called him up n requested him so that we could park the auto in his place as he cant leave it on the road.. He readily agreed n his dad helped us in that matter.. One prob solved but our huge problem was to get back to the college..

We had no other way other than walking the 4.5 kms in the nite wid only the moon n our cell phones showing the way wid the light!!!

We started walking all the way.. It was pitch dark.. Except for our cell phone lights.. Jadu had his special cell phone torch leadin the way..Guys who were blown came back to their senses after walkin a km or so :) It was so much fun walking with them.. Santosh n Jadu were pretty scared though.. I and Kulla were scaring them a lil more by telling all nonsensical stories.. :) Walking 4.5kms is quite a tuf job in that time of the day.. Above this we had to carry tutams and his roommates parcels all the way.. Such a huge parcel we shifted from one guy to the other in regular intervals.. I n kulla fought regarding that too :).. Each step which santosh put ahead was wid so much scare in his mind.. :) His face was worth watching even though now he denies he was not scared.. But everyone knows how scared he was.. :)

We tied our shirts to our waists n singing nice songs we moved on n on n on..!!! Finally around 2.30 or so i guess we reached our hostel.. Entering the hostel thru the construction building.. Climbing walls to get inside.. Wow.. Wat a nite.. I just cant forget this.. There were no ghosts nothing.. I guess we were having so much fun even during that time of the night n in that place we never felt the walk tiresome..

That night walk will be cherished by everyone for sure throughout their life.. Specially Santosh!!!

Cheers,

Muki

The Case Of Jean D'silva!!

This happened to me exactly 2 yrs ago.. 25th May, 2007..During my 2nd year of engineering.. 4th semester.. N to add on to the embarrassment it was on my b'day!!

Let me tell yu who this Creature is exactly... Her name was Jean D'silva.. n she was our field theory lecturer.. She had just completed her graduation from MIT, Manipal n joined CEC.. She din know to spell the word Field Theory n she was taking up that subject for us.. As usual i n ma frens were having fun in the class.. I used to sit in the 1st bench den cos any mischief yu do or even yu sleep in the class yu go unnoticed.. Last bench guys are always in the focus.. I always took benefit of this.. On this particular day as she entered the class she was quite fine.. All were busy wid thier own work though.. Me, santosh n pradeep were in the 1st bench..

During my PU holidays i used to go to my uncles shop.. Stationaries.. There when these MIT guys used to come to buy stuffs my uncle used to tease them sayin " Oh MIT.. Knowledge is POOR!! "

meaning the logo of MIT which said " Knowledge is POWER "..

Well this is wat i said to santosh in front of "The Creature".. " Oh MIT.. Knowledge is POOR!! "

She heard it.. WTF!!! why did it come out my mouth den.. i seriously din have in mind it wud hurt her ego.. i just said it for fun to santosh.. She got wild at me hearing that.. She threatned to leave the class n also she ll cut off my internal marks..!! Oh common.. i tried to explain to her wat i meant.. She was not in a mood to listen to it at all.. I din give a Dam to it.. Noon we had Analog Labs.. In Engineering, if yu have taken up Electronics and Communication as yur specialisation like me yur Dead n Gone cos the lab attenders behave as if they are the HOD's.. If at all yur absent for a particular lab yu have to give a apology letter addressing the Lab attender.. Not the HOD.. tht was the state of we E&C students.. I was just praying she that " The Creature " won't complain to the lab attenders about the incident.. Wid great courage i went to the department to submit my record!! I went in to see all the lecturers around " The Creatures " table speaking to her.. The moment they saw me they called me up n started shouting at me like crazy saying " I don know how to respect the lecturers.. I din know how to behave in the class nor in the labs.. " this n tat.. Oh my.. My fren Santosh was dumbstruck listenin to this.. Finally it was over n i entered the lab.. I was so silent in the lab.. Just wondering wat a day it was.. The same moment i get a call from our Assistant Professor(" He's the most Sick Person i have ever seen in my life").. This idiot "Creature" even after the whole bunch of lecturers shouting at me she has complained to the sick guy!! I knew this was the end.. I better find a nice rope to hang myself rather than meeting him.. I went inside his cabin n to drive me more wild " The Creature " was der sitting in front of him cryin!! I said to myself.. WTF!!! Me just telling somethin related to her college makes her cry n create such a huge scene??? Now it was the Prof s time to get his anger out on me!!! He said i must call my uncle to the college.. He must come n tell the Prof tat he won't comment on others college or other ppl!!! Who the hell is this Prof to ask my uncle to do all this.. I said i can't call my uncle.. Den he said write an apology letter n I'll hand it over to the principal.. Let him decide yur fate.. Until he decides it yu must not attend the college premises.. n also i must ask my dad to meet him..Done!! I thought tat s the end of ething.. I came out of his cabin n to my astonishment 4 of my lecturers were der to console me regarding it.. They were the ones who shouted at me sometime back.. Now consoling.. I cudn believe wat was happening.. They told me it was unfair on my part for being treated so badly.. They told me i had committed a mistake but it was not of such a magnitude as to create such a big scene.. These 4 ppl went to the Prof n tried to convince him as to not to take the matter tho the princi.. But that guy as i had already told was such a adamant sick guy he took it to the principal..

Our principal den was Dr.Prem Kumar.. I have never seen such a personality in my life.. He's my role model.. The work he does is of such high appreciation.. CEC watever it is now is cos of this guy.. Whoever are placed in big MNC's today are cos of this guy.. Cos of him the companies came to our college for Recruitment.. I had a very good relationship wid him.. It was so good that he used to call me his son.. Even now he does.. :-) m really very very happy for that..

The principal din know it was me when the Prof told him about the incident.. He summoned me.. In my mind only one thing went on all the good relationship i had will go down within a second for the silliest of mistake i have done.. But to my surprise when the principal saw me he told the Prof..

" I guess yu have made a mistake Prof.. This guys my son n he cant commit such a mistake.. I have confidence in him.. He s never into such things.. "

The professors face was worth watchin.. The principal knew it was my b'day.. He hugged me n said just forget watever has happened.. n don commit this again.. The Prof din even utter a word.. I jus felt like spitting over his face for the things he did..

This was the worst B'day ever in my life until date.. Will never foget that Creature Miss Jeane D'silva!!

Thank god ethin ended well that day.. Else i guess i wudn be here writing this post :-)

Cheers,

Muki

Life @ CEC- Part I

Right from my childhood I always used to hate staying in hostels.. My parents always used to scare me, whenever I irritated them the most, saying they would admit me into a hostel in future!!

The things yu feel yu shouldn't see in your life, sometimes it so happens tat yu ll surely see it :)..

I din wanna go to a hostel @ ne cost.. Wanted to stay with my parents n study, as i knew after engineering der s no chance i ll get to stay with them!! but it turned out right the opposite...

I guess i joined my engineering college on August 1st week.. My college's located in a mountain.. M not joking.. The path which leads to the college is so horrible.. Something like a hill station.. Very cool during rainy season n for people who love to sleep its the best place ever!!! The best thing about our college hostel was we were allowed to choose our roommates.. I had a fren named Ashwin Shenoy aka Panoy... We decided to stay in the same room..

It was a sunday n the room allocation process started.. We got our room n started meeting our new frens.. Most of my floor guys were my PU classmates itself.. So we really had a nice time sitting n chatting together..

The 1st n 2nd floor of the hostel were for the freshers n the 3rd floor was occupied by the 2nd year guys!! We all had the fear of ragging.. I still remember the stern look our seniors gave d day we joined hostel!! It was really very scary..

It was mid noon n we were feeling quite bored sitting in our rooms.. A guy called Damodar Baliga decided that we all shall go to the 3rd floor where ther s a TV room n enjoy.. So collecting a lot of courage a few of us started moving towards the 3rd floor.. We were really scared as to what the seniors reaction would be.. But still we moved on.. We reached the TV room.. Sat on the chairs n switched on the TV!!! Dam.. The door behind us was shut n we all were kinda trapped inside.. Our seniors had locked us up inside.. For about 15 mins ther was no sign of them opening the door.. Den suddenly the door opened n 3 guys come in n ask us, "Who gave yu permission to enter the TV room!! Tat too on the 1st day of yur admission.. " We were all silent.. He den said, "This TV room is for the seniors.. For juniors ther s a TV room in the ground floor.. Get out of here n don even dare to come up n also don even think of complaining.. If yu do yu'll face the consequence.." We just rushed down the stairs.. We were dam terrified from their behaviour.. After n hour or so we went to the ground floor TV room n were enjoying der.. To our surprise the warden comes n bashes out at us again.. The ground floor TV room was for the lecturers n we were duped by our seniors..

Evening we were sitting in our rooms.. All seniors were out on the ground playing n we were not allowed to come to the ground for a week!! On the mountains sitting in yur room sucks badly.. We all gathered in my fren Gujjadi's room.. He had a mp3 player with woofers.. We played some music n were enjoyin.. The music was quite loud n again the warden comes n shouts at us for playing the music so loud.. He said , "Is this a hostel room or a disc where yu can play such loud music.. It s 10 in the night n yu people are enjoying.. Being the first day @ hostel cant yu sit silent for today atleast.. Yur system is out again playing music this loud, it ll be in my room.. Did yu get it??" We all were dumbstruck.. 1st day @ hostel n we get fucked so badly..The seniors were enjoying each n every moment of this standing in the 3rd floor.. Neva expected such a terrible start to my hostel life...

But as days passed by i came to know the days i spent in hostel were the Best Days till date through out my life..

Me n my roommate Panoy during 1st year of our engineering..!!!

Cheers,

Muki