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Prelims over:

5 papers >
Paper 1 - 25 mins
Paper 2 - AB (will have to give it on 25th)
Paper 3 - 2hrs mins
Paper 4 - 2hrs 30 mins
Paper 5 - 2hrs 50mins (Never did sit for the whole time, but this was close)

MC External Viva : As expected went smoothly (Thnks to SP Sir)

This is the name of my school group. Did write a long mail on it. Pasting the same here. Some interesting things to read in it. Its really LoooOOOOoooong. So wont mind if you skip it altogether. Not all have time like I do. LoL

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Hi eVeryOnE !

Now this would defenitely be a long one from me... so do take out time and read it. Also if I miss your name then I m so sorry. If I associate you with something which is not related to you then again I am sorry.

Firstly, let me Thank Akshata for initiating this string of responses...

• do people still bother to rememeber.its not a forward
• yes we do bother hehe.
• Re: [School_Friends] yes we do bother hehe...
• RE: [School_Friends] yes we do bother hehe...

Now, this is why groups are for ! 3 Cheers for Akshata ... Hip Hip Hurray! Hip Hip Hurray! Hip Hip Hurray !!!!

Hey Thnk Us even for Sandeep,Akshat and Amar who replied and also for all those who read these mails and thought of replying but coudnt.
Now something about me:

Let me start by saying that school days for me dont seem that far. It feels like yesterday (err... may be day before yesterday... hm.. somehting like last week or so ... forget it .. i hope you get it, arey bhavanaoonko samjho)

School days is what my memories are made of, Diploma (which I happened to choose after SSC) is most forgetfull and now again Degree (BE) is enjoyable (after Diploma I have grown to appreciate even the slightest of good things that happen in my life :--) LoL

I am not pretty sure about other streams but Mumbai Universtiy(MU) Engineering surely suCks ! Its the most insane place you can be. I am sure so many of you would share the same feelings (Akshat, Bonsy, Dazzle, Vasajit, Rohit, Shruti, Kushboo, Nihal, Prakash ... and the list goes on). Kyun dukhti nas par haath rakh diya nah?
I would also like to mention one good thing about MU which is... one who passes out of it is a certified Crunch Situation Specialist. So now you know who to contact in case of crunch situations. (Need not say most of the times they are the ones who create such situations)
Well I can go on and on about Engineering may be forever. So, keeping the crap with me and writing about something else.

Well this reminds me of Doctors who are quite a few among us. I didnt get into medicine bcoz of disection and the related acts. One good thing about Doctors is that they get a chance to serve our nation and the people. Bade dil wale log hain!

Also quite a few opting for Commerce. Now for the record I know the basic funda of commerce:
Debit the reciever and Credit the giver. Did I get this right >?

Is anyone of us in something completely different...? Do tell us !

Being in Engineering I had the chance to meet quite a few (Akshat, Rohit, Kuchboo, Dazzle, Shruti) bcoz basiccaly we engineers follow the same pattern. When we have exams others and enjoying. When its our turn, everyone else is busy with college.

Its been a little over 5 years after school. Did meet so many of our school mates in these years in person and also online. Yup quite a few regularly pop-up online (Akhil, Akshat, Amar, Deepti, ManAsi, Chandani, Riyaz, Jayanti, Maulik, Sheetal, Kartik...) Chk the member list of the groups to get hold of their ids and add them to your favourite IM client.

Hey let me try and complie a exhaustive list wherabouts of everyone I have been in touch with and also heard about from you all:

Akhilesh

Mech. Engg in Chennai. Still continues to have that X-factor which drives galz crazy. LoL

Akshat

Comp/IT Engg in TSEC Mumbai. Majhe main hain

Akshata

Medicine. No specks now and a lil leaner. (tats wat shw once told me)

Amar

Presently can be classified as a Phirang. LoL

Ankur

Commerce. Also swims a lot. Stil same as he was... jst different hair cut LoL

Chandani

Bio Grad. Doing 'nothing' nowadays (now this is wat she stresses). :--) Looks gr8. LoL

Cherie

Masters in Psycology (am i right?) I knw she and me are ones who need Psyc treatment. Coudnt stop laughing over on each and every prank that we played on others and ourselves whn (Sndy,Amar, Chandni, Cheri and me had been to see Iqbal ) Oye Bubbly is all I can say !

Dazzle

Elec. Engg from Terna. Yeh bhi bechara Engg kar raha hai like so many of us.

Deepti

B Arch. Vacation time for her now. Akshata I am sure she now reads mails so you can try dropping her one 2. Surprisingly, we last met at bus stop(s). We were at opposite ends of the road waiting for the bus and communicating using sign language. Filmi Na !

Gupta Brothers

Business. Dana pani acha hai

Jayanti

PG in Nutrition. All the more reason for all guys to Queue up. Hahahahhahha LoL

Karthik

Pursuing Diploma. Hey hes got his hands into many things .. Like H/W and stuff. Loves bikes and owns a couple of antiques. Drives them like crazy. Dhoom

Kushboo

BE in St. Francis.

ManAsi

B Arch. Recently finished with her submissions.. LoL Hope you noticed that capital A. Now do emphasize on it otherwise she gets annoyed. ManAAaaaaasi (Even this would annoy her)

Minal

Mst hav completed Bio.

Maulik

Commerce.

Nikita

Grad.

Nihal

BE. Kidhar hai tu.... maja ma na ? Stil remember his attire in Alladin (Drama competition)

Pooja

Mst hav completed Bio.

Prashant

MBBS. Doing gr8 as always. Did brk a few records in CET.. LoL

Prakash

BE. Met quite a few times in the Saloon. LoL

Punit

Guessing,... Commerce. Did see wuite a few times in Goregaon. Most of the times spotted with his bike.

Ravish

Service Management in Denmark. Chases Scandivanian galz now. LoL

Richa

Doing Arch. Tats it !

Riyaz

Dentist frm Gulbarga. Aate jaate rahta hai. Doing gr8 there.

Rohit

BE frm Vartak. I still do look UP to him. LoL

Rahul

Commerce. Met a couple of times. Was in Bhavans.

Sandeep

Learning English... LoL. Met last month. Doing good. Hey dude do mail any of the pics of that meet. Wanna be Managment Guru

Sheetal

Studying Phsycology ... ? in Bangalore. Sorry If i m wrong mujhe elaj ki jarroorat hai lagta hai.

Shruti

BE. Working with Murthy.... LoL !!!! Nah. Since shes from our batch she would probably be in finaly year now. I am sure she would be placed in Infosys.. so probably she would begin working next year.

Smita

Medicine.

Tejas

Dnt knw ... ! Modelling... surprising... well All the Best to him. I mst say hes got good physique. Did meet him last @ Prabodhan (same place where we would have our Sports meet)

Vasajit

BE somewhere in Maharastra. Now has a bike. Hodibabaaaaa

Varun

Studies with Sandeep. LoL

Vivek

Commerce. Hes bcome a coOL DuDe now. I am sure you woudnt recognise him by his looks but his actions are still the same.. (Not many know what I am hinting at ... Akhil, Riyaz.. i guess you know?) Calls me Surve. LoL

Sorry if I missed any... may be its bcoz its 3:15am NOW.
Well its been a really long mail as I expected whn I started writing it.
Surprising statistics:
Words: 1365
Characters (no spaces): 6078
Character (with spaces): 7425
Paragraphs: 109
Lines: 210

You can get in touch with me anytime:

Yahoo: ak47surve@yahoo.com

Mobile: 9819319609

Hey its my exam time now. For ppl who are unaware abt Engg ethics: For us exam fever starts right after submissions are over and time table is put and it continues for atleast a month to month and a half. I will keep mailing. Will need your wishes. (Also if you want I will scratch your back.. you scratch mine.... LoL )

Good wishes to all of you.... Take care

Keep in touch.

Goodnight, Shaabha Khair, Shubhratri !

[Note: Forwards on the groups are temporarily banned. Find out better ways to say you are 'AliVe and KiCKinG' LoL. Though if you wanna forwards mails do include (School_Friends OR SF) in the subject line]

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Hey finally I startd studying.

Did read a single page today of MC.

Not bad ! Wattaasay?

A pretty good start on this auspicious day of Saraswati Pujan. Sound good !

Will keep u updated of my studies 2.

Keep chking.

Today I had been to this amazing event of Kshana - Moments of Happiness (of which I am a fairly active element) at Shraddha Vihar Girls Orphanage in Andheri. Though I do take active part in organising events only in the first 2-3 months of the sem I do try and attend the events if possible.

The event was scheduled from 3:30 to 5:30 and I did reach on time for the event but could not plan and reach with others bcoz I was expecting a call from someone who may hav joined me.
It must be 15 of us there and it started with the usual Hi... Hellos and stuff.

First up was a magic shoe for the kids (most of them (arnd 35-40) were 8-13 age group and another 20 odd were of 14-17 age group) didnt confirm bt it loked so. The magician was a regular at our events but today he was at his best. I coudnt even guess wat was going on actually. Everyone, I mean everyone enjoyed the tricks. He did a great job and later I even congratulated him personally.

Next up was a small filler by 2 gals from the same place who performed well. One of the gals danced like a pro... wid the rythym.

Now after this we had a game... read on this is the interesting part....!
The game was pretty simple all the gals were divided into these 3 group houses (red,green and blue) and they had to build this long straw by joining straws that were provided The trick here was to first collect max no of straws and then join them together w/o any brks. I was made the red house leader. I started my job immediately and tried to group all the red house galz. To my surprise a few of them were calling me Sujal... [frm Kahin to Hoga LoL bt i didnt realize it until later]. The rulz wer explained and I used my team leading skills to motivate them (eg: i asked them to split into grp of 4s and wrk). While all this was going I did realize that I was being referred to as Sujal. I promptly replied I am Akshay and as usual they did voice their Qs whether I was Kumar or Khanna... LoL but they ddint stop they were still referring to me as Sujal. The game started and all was lookin fine bt the only prob was that my team waited for the others to collect the straws and them did peick up the remaining ones (less compared to others). I was waiting for them at the other end where we had to join the straws together. These galz were still calling me Sujal and I was jst blushing away bcoz I was so mch surpised by all this. We finished the earliest bcoz we had colected the least no of straws. I did try to cheat for them... I knew wher the xtra straw packs were kept bt I was caught red handed while doing so by Vaisakhi. This Sujal thing was getting more prominent now since they were free as all the strwas wer put in place. Now othere Kshanaites did understand wat was going on and even they were surprised. LoL. We knew we were loosing... bt it was a happy ending.

Next up was a filler by Anand wid some mimicry of stars which was a hit. Hes a class apart at hosting events bt i guess even Roshni does pretty well. Shes not into mimicry its jst her persona which is a attention puller.

Now we had the most happening session comming up - The Jam Session. Music wasnt upto the mark bt was okie for tat place somehow. When the music started I heard screams of Sujal... Sujal... Sujal (I saw behind and those 13-16 age odd galz were waving at me as if calling me behind). I wasnt mentally prepared for it bcoz it takes me time before I get onto the dance floor. I dnt like to start the whole thing. But here it was gona be different ! As soon as I realized wat I was getting into my ran out.. newways i was near the door so it was more like jst going out for fresh air. Everyone insided realized that they were calling me to dance and I sud join them.. esp Aditi she pulled me in and pushed me behind wid all those galz surrounding me. By GODs grace no gal misbehaved... LoL! except pulling me by my hand. The music was on and I was the center of attraction there ...I had to start something... and I did some nice moves here and there .tats it and tats all tat I can do. But i kept the tempo going. Those galz were suggesting some moves and I was trying them out. Now other Kshanaites were jst staring ..LoL I guess they were surprised by the fan following. There are couple of excellent dancers with us Kunal(like Govinda) and Aditi (nice and smooth). Now I was gettin repetitive bt wsnt gettin bored bcoz even the music wasnt upto the mark and those galz (12-15 pf them) were chattting wid me continuously. Asking me wehre is Kashish (female lead opposite Sujal) and otehr kinds Qs. Now this was my time. I said Kashish is standing there (I pointed towards Aditi) they pulled her in and I did get company for sometime. But they werent impresed by Kashish as mch aas by Sujal so Kashish was chuckd off soon. Now I had started this funddo move ( Bulb lagao, nal bandh karo.. LoL ) it was a instant hit. Everyone was in it. Tried everything frm fitting bullbs, eating apples and jst looking at ladoos. Try and imagine how these moves looked like. OoooooH my I really performed them well dnt care mch bcoz everyone liked it atleast they were njoying it a lot. We had Kashish ocassionally comming up to shake a leg. Well I was being called Sujal.. Sujal bhaiya.. Sujal Uncle and sometimes by mistak Akshay. I still can recollect everything. By the end of the session i was a lil tired bt i dint stop bcoz their enthusiasm was addictive. At the later stages they were prompting me to try 'Bulb lagao, nal bandh karo' step LoL.
Finally the dance session was over and I thought all the fan folowing was over.

I did sit near the steps to tak a few breaths and get a fell of things. By this time Kshanites had started serving snacks (cake and veg pattice). I did try helping bt there were already enough of us involved in it and I didnt want to create confusion so I again did sit on the stairs with Vaisakhi. Now all Kshanaites were also referring to me as Sujal... LoL.

To my surprise these galz were still waving at me and enacting that 'Bulb lagao, nal bandh karo' step. Even I reciprocated their actions which sent a roar thoughtout the hall.. Sujal.. Sujal.. Sujal. They also offerd me wat they were eating and i did eat jst a lil from each ones plate (Vaisakhi was staring .. LoL and said bhaiya ko nahin khana hai ,.and i said .nahin nahin khana hai.. ! jst to keep their heart)

In sometime they finished their snacks and again were free and so I was surrounded with them asking me all sorts of Qs. (egs: Hey is she(Aditi) really ur Kashish? I said no jst for today LoL. Then where is ur Kashish?I said I wud bring her once dnt worry. LoL Wats her name? and so many...) I was answering them honestly as always and making sure they were not offended anytime. I did ask them wat they were doing and wat wud they like to do and aLL... They had some xam on monday and all were schooling and wer in didffernt stds.

It was time to say goodbye ... bt the byes were not ending. I mst hav shaken hands with most of them more than once... and repeated tat dance step so many times jst for public demand. Others (Roshni) did pull me out of that place bt I did go inside again and again ( well to get my shoes then wind-shitter...etc). They did ask me whn wud i come bak... next Sunday? next month? etc. I didnt want to discourage them so I involved Ritesh (ChirmanSaaab) to tell them when. After some hesitation he did promise them of Christmas eve(24th i guess). Now phase I of saying goodbye had ended and we were out of that place and most of the galz had gone upstairs.

Outside we were taking group snaps for our memoirs. Now ther was again this wave of Suja.. Akshay.. Sujal..(voices), to everyones suprise 10-12 galz wer there on the terrace waving. Now this I never expected (bt everything tat day was unexpected) so i did wave at them to.. some return flying kisses (very innocently though) too. Now ther was this expt tat Aditi(Kashish) performed... she stood very close to me more llike huggin eachother and the voiced frm the terrace stopped. LoL funny results right ! But they all started as soon as she wasnt tat close. Even this continued for long.

Now it was time to actually leave the place. SAid my final goodbyes for everyone at the top... also my last wave and i did repeat tat step again a few times.
Still remeber a few name ..Priyanka,Savita, Sapna, Priya...this is for the recoed If i get bak there again)

ChairmanSahab ka ofice main promotion hua tha isliye we moved straight to Fanoos - Arabian food join (tried for CCD bt no place for 15 of us). Sorry didnt mention about Vidhi Swapnesh's cousin who had also come. VeeeeeeeeeEeeeeeeRy cute and sweet. Did a lot of timepass wid her at Fanoos. Usko bahut pakaya... ! We playd KBC2 .. I was computerji she was asking Qs and we were screening others.

Also met Kunal(diploma close frnd bt not in touch mch now) there wid his frnds! Usual hi's and all.. ! Treat frm Ritesh was good ...Ice teas and Pizzazs. Did chit chatter a lot.. it was over in lil over an hour. Said final goodbyes to all ..... and esp to Viddhi.

For me it wasnt over had to reach cousins place the same night... so it was me,Roshni and Aditi who went by bus to Andheri and I later caught another bus for Santacruz. Had dinner there finished the wrk fro which I had been ther and reached home by 12.

Finally I am writing this and re-living all the moments.

Treks are FuN!
Even more FuN if they are unplanned lik this one!

Chk these pics out !

http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=mrqv9t4.kxzgj2s&x=1&y=b7qsap

Well pics can no way let you experience what we did bt jst giv u a faint idea of wat was there.

Some higlights of the trek:

Trek was cancelled.

I tld Amit I wanna go there wid my frnds... can I mak it? He was assertive as always and in sometime called back and confirmed that even he would come. It was 8pm now. We decided if no one else is coming then we would surely go ahead with the trek. I tried getting in Sankool,Swapnes and Manav. Manav agreed instantly... he was all exxcited to come for a trek.. his first one.

I did my usual research the same night like i always do. It comes in handy.

Got up in the morning.. packd bags and reached goregaon stn before time very mch lik me... on time when it matters(so now you kne y i m late to college). Manav arrived late bt its fine I never mind ppl comming late. Reached Dadar and then boarded Kasara fast local. In the mean time Amit called and we was going to board the train from Kalyan which he did. Introduced Manav to him and started having a jugalbandi of dialouges on eachother ... makin fun of myself and others. Reached Asangaon by 9:30am as we planned.

The trek started with a long walk on the tracks. Amit and Manav took a halt to chng clothes (strip in front of villagers pasing by on the track) on a platform. I gues it was there jst for them.

After the tracks it was a walk on a tar road upto the base village. We did order for food and asked for Pitla-Bhakri esp. bcoz its the best to have @ sch a place.

Started the trek... need not say it was luch greeen everywhere with beautiful flowers around.

The trek was divided in 3 phases: walk upto the river (which was more like a stream then) - trek trail of rock cut steps - fairly easy climb

Manav did pretty well to match up wid us not to mention the words of encouragement and misleading facts that we kept on disclosing about the distance left and time left etc. so that he keeps going and we come back on time.

Did discuss a lot of things... usual marathi words that I m not aware of and Amit who keeps on using them... other trek exps... howtos for manav... todo and nottodos.... likes dislikes... atmosphere... historical facts (by amit) ... and ya also 'Jay gunj' to be sung while entering the fort. Amit taught me this it goes like...

Gou Brahman Pratipalak
Kshatriya Kulavatounse
Sinhaasanadheeshwar
Shri Shivaji Maharaj Ki Jay

Well it took me a long time to byheart it. It solved 2 purposes one being I would get to do the honours (singing it at teh entrance) and irritating Amit by repeating it continuously.

Met felow trekkers on the way.. fells good when u meet them bcoz u knw u r on the right path.

Final stage had this lader ( shidi ) .. there were 2 infact and new one and the pld one.

It was really cold out there... winds blowing at high speeds. Spent some time arnd saw the caves, entrance around and then sat beside a water tank for havin few snacks that we had carried.

Finished everything and then started the descent. The descent was speedy and simple. We njoyed it.

The icing on the cake was a waterfall of which we came to knw later by other fello trekkers who had been there. U can chk the pics to see how beatiful the waterfall was. Bahut maramari kiya. Amit and Manav ne milke mujhe bahut paani pilaya ... sari trek ki bhadas nikal de.. ( bahut paani pilaya)

Even though we didnt wat to leave that place we had to and we did leave it after about an hour. Reached da village house where we had ordered for food, ate it and started for Asangaon. Wittnessed da striptease again by Amit and Manav on the same platform ... GOD y me only! LoL

Hey also got to see a firefly on the track !

The train was waiting jst for us .. ddint see anyonw else on the platform except the driver ..no one in the compartment either. got the tickets and the train started... dhk dhk dhk.... !

Listened to music while in the train.. chkd the pics again (well all the pics were taken from Amits cell.. coudnt believe we wud get sch fine quality pics) Hey theres this video in his cell too whn i had removed my T-shirt.. the t went witht the flow of the water and me runnign behind it (well its the retak tat he shot)

Said the final goodyes to Amit and man main thnk Us bcoz he made the terk worthwile.

Need not say at the end that every trek exp. is unforgetfull and cant be put in words for U.

[hey anyone interestd in trekking do leave a comment or get in touch ...I wudnt mind giving u a call when i plan my next]

Its been raining heavily for the last 2 days especially during nights.
I do have a welcome visitor at home though.

Its a reflection... no Its an illusion... no no ... Its a firefly !

Yup its a firefly. Looks awesome ! A small greenish-yellow bulb moving and flying around. Coudnt stop staring at it. I have see fireflies when I have been to treks (everywhere on trees at night in Peth and on railways tracks when I had been to Mahuli).

I have also seen jugnoos at Juhu Beach long long back. I still remember dat site of a boundary formed at the edge of the beach in the evening after sunset.(Can anybody confirm whether Jugnoos and fireflies are the same creatures?) I remember me and my brother collecting a few of them in a bottle, bringing them home and waiting dedicatedly for them to glow which they never did.

Well did take a few lesons in Gujarati.. dnt knw when ? bt i do understnd it very well now !

Chk this conversation to knw wat i m capable of >>>

chandni_thaker2002: oongh pan nathi aavti...
ak47surve: lori sunaoon kya
ak47surve: toh paku oongh avech
ak47surve: sur de ....
chandni_thaker2002: k...start
ak47surve: tume mara devalanoo geem che
ak47surve: tame mara kevalanoo ghem che
ak47surve: atyaratave amar prem che
chandni_thaker2002: lolz
chandni_thaker2002: AMAZING!!!!!
ak47surve: need bhaag gayi
chandni_thaker2002: ekdam...
ak47surve: ya continue karron
chandni_thaker2002: naaa...toh hu kaale pan nai sui saku
chandni_thaker2002: u r soooooooooo funny!!
ak47surve: LoL
chandni_thaker2002: im juzz readin ur lori again n cant stop laughin...
ak47surve: hahahaha
chandni_thaker2002: lol
chandni_thaker2002: i have literally stored ur lori...
chandni_thaker2002: on ma cell
chandni_thaker2002: oh god....im sure im gonna laugh on it in my slep also

Will post update of Mahuli Trek that I had been to this Sunday !