Birthday Bash and ZNMD

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, The movie we guys wanted to watch, cos we guys too live by the same principle. Thanks Raghu for booking the tickets, and thanks to Reagan for making it. Last time Reags commented on FB that he will fly down from Canada if we went for a movie together and it did happen. 

3 Birthdays in one week, why wouldn,t there be a celebration.

Planning to nominate 2nd week of July as Pirt week. 

Unfortunately out of the 5 guys gathered, 3 of them were Birthday Boys, So Ram Charan and Arvind couldn't deliver some Birthday bumps to them.

Great Movie & Yummy pastry, and it did not end there, we guys had a  lavish dinner and we finished the day with a long drive. 

PS: Pirtans We are lagging behind in our target for 2011

Reagan's Birthday !!! :)

16th July

"Happy Birthday Reags"

Reagan's Birthday !!! :)

16th July

Happy Birthday dude!!

May God guide you in all your decisions and you never fall short of any guidance. Hope this year is better than the rest of the years and all your dreams come true and wish you that your hopes get close to realisation and never fall short of belief in god! May god bless you !!!!

Reagan leaves to Canada

It's Canada calling for Reagan. Rogers, the telecom tycoon in Canada needs a Pirtan for their project!

Once again a Pirtan stands to haul a MNC from the crisis. This is supposed to be a six month long project. Hope Reagan Bags the role and makes us proud.

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PIRT hopes that all his efforts are converted to recognition that will help him grow from strength to strength. Canadians are very friendly and a Canada is a non-racist country. So, we are sure that Reagan will be welcomed in Canada.

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PIRT Wishes him a Bon Voyage.

Kozhikode Trip: Nishad's Marriage

Last Year around this time we were busily planning on how to get to Nishad's Marriage which was in Calicut/Kozikhode. Since we had 3 holidays(24th sat, 25th sun, 26th mon-republic day) in a row we were able to make it. Until the last day many of them did not confirm and we were not able to book tickets. So Shuaib arranged for a car. Finally the people who made it were Malviya, Shuaib, Reagan, Shankar and Arvind. We left at around 4 AM and Arvind picked up everyone. From there our "Journey of troubles" started. Shuaib, Reagan and Arvind drove.

As soon as we crossed Bangalore, we came across our first problem, a Flat tire, in fact the tire had ripped off and was of no use to us. We replaced it with the stepney and went on till Mandya without a stepney. The car would wobble and rattle if we went faster than 60Kmph, and we had to travel 380Km. At Mandya, we stopped, and got new tire, fixed the puncture, and also got the wheels balanced and aligned. By then we were too hungry and had our breakfast. It was somewhere around 9:30 and our parents would call to find out where we were as we left so early. We would say we are in Mandya and they would be shocked, for which we would say, we are driving very slowly.

Chamundi betta/Hills

We stopped in Mysore for lunch and we did not get any place to park. So, we parked in the Zoo's Parking area. It was so hot and we did not get any shade to park. We had our lunch and came back to the parking lot just to see another flat tire. The new patch on the punctured area had probably melted due to the heat, again the engineers got to work and changed the tire and again we had to hunt for a puncture shop.

Though the Bandipur route was longer, we opted for that. We were in Bandipur at the dusk and we enjoyed the drive through the forest. We had our eyes open to spot something in the wild, we were a bit lucky to spot some.

After the wheel alignment and balancing we could drive a bit faster and once we were out of Bandipur we just cruised through the amazing roads of kerala. The roads were a beauty and a great pleasure to drive and Malviya was counting the Kilometers we covered without encountering a speed bump. It was around 127KM. All of us enjoyed that drive.

We stopped at some view points and took pictures. The place was so silent and there were hardly any vehicles on that road.

We reached Nishad's house quite late but on time for dinner. We all belted the dinner as we all were damn hungry and all of us were non-vegetarians. There was rice and yummy chicken stew. Nishad had booked us a big room with two double beds and a single bed. We guys were so tired and it was 11Pm. It was Nishad's marriage the next day and he was still hanging out with us so late and dropped us at the hotel.

The next day all got up and were getting ready for the reception which was in the morning. Since there were 5 of us it took some time for all of us to have our bath. Suddenly Nishad drops into our room and we are all shocked, he is the groom and we all were what the hell are you doing here man? Nishad was like, " The reception is over." We were shocked. We went through so much planning and hurdles to reach Calicut and some how we made it and we did not attend the reception.

He was so cool and was lying on the bed. It was like it is someone else's wedding. He had come to call us to his house for some kind of function and only when we reached there, we got to know that all his relatives were waiting for us. It's a ritual in their community that the groom's friends have to dress up the groom. He told us lets hurry up as all are waiting and when we all rushed to his room on the first floor and entered his room, the cameramen and photographer followed us to his room. They had to capture the entire dressing up.

After this, all Nishad had to do was to stand in one place and all his elderly relatives will come up to him and he has to fall at their feet and seek blessing and they will give him a ring.

By now Bhavya had also made to Nishad's house with her husband, in fact she had been there before us. All of us had not seen such a ceremony. After this we all went to the marriage hall and we had to wait for the right astrological time to enter the hall. All of us entered together and we saw that the hall was already full and everyone was waiting for the Bride and Groom.

A priest just said something probably some prayers and then Nishad put a gold chain around Deepa's neck and Hooked it and the marriage was over in a flash. We were all shocked to see such simple procedure. All the guys except Malviya(who is already married) planned to marry a mallu girl, because of two reasons. Firstly the wedding ceremony is so simple and secondly the amount of gold we would get. The Bride was completely covered with gold.

After the marriage we all went to Kozikhode beach, 5 of us played in the water for more than 2 hours with just a ball and we had so much fun. After we cam out of water and dried ourselves, we ate a lot of stuff that they were selling on the Beach. The 5 of us kept eating a lot of fruits that were soaked in salt water. We kept buying and eating them. We all got back to the hotel and took our stuff as we planned to stay in Nishad's Beautiful house. His house is on a small hill that is by the highway. There are hardly any houses around and they have huge area surrounding their house. This area is filled with a lot of trees and the air there was so fresh and light. The house has a huge kitchen like the old fashioned house and a big store room out side the house. The store room has a link to the kitchen and near that is a well. Its a duplex house which is modern from inside and ethnic from out.

The next day we had planned to leave to Bangalore and Nishad's dad insisted us to come along with Nishad's family to Deepa's house. Morning 6 of us along with Nishad's dad had breakfast and we again had Chicken stew, Chicken fry with aapam and nool puttu. By then we are tired of eating chicken and drinking tea. In Deepa's house, Deepa's Dad did not leave us until we had lunch, and it was only 11AM and we had just then majorly feasted in Nishad's house. Some how we pulled ourselves and there was more Chicken and tea to loose our appetite. Not that we did not eat it. We still stuffed ourselves and shot of to Bangalore.

The car had some problems with the reverse gear and later we had problems with the 5th gear as well so we stopped by at a mechanic shed to get it checked. The mechanic made us wait for so long and he just left, That bastard was trying to con us, the job was just a matter of 5 minutes, he deliberately was delaying us so we would pay him how much he wants, Malviya had this doubt form the beginning. There was a Coorgie mechanic and we spoke to him in kannada and he fixed it for us in minutes and finally we were on our way out of Kerala.

We were already late and we took the same route back and we had to belt through the roads. But when we entered Bandipur we had to slow down. Thanks to the mechanic mofo that we got delayed, we entered Bandipur at dusk and were able to spot a lot of animals.

We saw some really long Peacock, Elephants, Wild hens and cocks, Ducks, Deer, Boars, Black Monkey, Macaques. By the time we were out of Bandipur the sun had set and we were on our way to Bangalore. The car gave a lot of problems and one thing everyone learnt in the Trip is that if friends are together no problem is a problem. We just overcame all of it. By the time we reached Bangalore, we had traveled 950 Km.

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More pics from Shuaib's Cam
More pics from Reagan's Cam
Nishad's Marriage album

Aal izz wel......

One fine day, Shuaib from the planning and the motivating department had planned for a movie: 3 idiots and it was scheduled on the 3rd of Jan 2010. The Pirtans who so ever wanted to come had voted in the blog and our Analyst-Advisor RamCharan Booked the tickets online.

On Jan 3rd we watched 3 idiots at *ex cinema

The movie was great and we all had a great laugh. It was a good mixture of college life, friendship and life after college. The movie showed how eager two of them were to meet their third friend.

It also showed how eager we were to meet

The movie was about 3 engineering college students and their college life... so what better group can watch this movie than us: 6 engineer friends. The funny part about this is, during interval everyone went away and got snacks for all... and there were so much that it took long time to finish it.

Aal izz wel

We don't think we could have enjoyed this movie with any other group, as every character in the movie had a resemblance to someone whom we know from our engineering life. The movie was like going back in time and watching our own college life... only that we were not in a hostel and none of our college mates committed suicide.

Lunch at Ullas

After the movie we stopped at Ullas to fuel ourselves and it was a great time spent with friends. When you are with your pals, you can always say "aal izz wel"

More pics

Birthday and New Year Clebration

We celebrated the New Year along with Priya's Birthday who was born on the 1st Jan. Srikanth, Raghavendra, Shuaib, Ram, Reagan, Arvind and Priya went to Barista on MG road, where Priya treated us.

Pirtans got her a cake and also played a "Happy Birthday" song at Barista. This is our first celebration of 2010.

Since Ramu's new initiative, there will be more of such celebrations.

Cauvery, Chennapatna, Kanva reservoir and Muthathi

Trip to Cauvery and Muthathi is another venture of the PIRT. It was a one day trip and Raghavendra, Srikanth, Naveen, Shuaib, Arvind, Ram Charan and Reagan (From left to right in pic) all came together for this.

The Pirtans planned for a 2 day trip. The planning went on for more than a week. So many calls, messages, mails and conference calls were made for the "Saturday-Sunday" trip. Even on Friday night we were not able to decide on the destination, mode of transport and the people who are coming. It was so funny. We simply could not decide in spite the talks and chats . We would agree on something and after a day it would get scrapped. Then on Saturday we decided that we will "just go" somewhere and decide about the destination. That was am awesome idea. On Saturday we called and asked Reagan and Shuaib to get their cars and both agreed, so one problem was solved. By saturday night 7 of us had confirmed.

So, on the dawn of Sunday we just left......

We did not know where to but just took a direction and we hit the highway. On our way we took few detours and explored the roads and you can see what we came up with. We saw some amazing landscapes and empty places which we had for ourselves.

Kanva Reservoir (above) was one of the places that we visited. The weather there was amazing and the when we were on the reservoir we could see the horizon (below) as there were no buildings and we could see the rains in the distant. Slowly the passing clouds came over us and we all had to run for shelter.

The reason we had a get together was to decide and plan for a 2 day trip. Select the place, transport, the dates and the people who are coming. We had so much fun that we totally forgot about the motive of the trip and did not plan about the trip until we stopped by to have tea on our way back.

It was not the best season to visit the Cauvery/Kaveri but she was as elegant as always. Though this trip was not planned it was far better than all of our planned trips. Only when you plan you know what is right. So, nothing went wrong and we just drove randomly and enjoyed the freedom. This was actually a "Pre-trip Planning session": A trip to plan about a trip.

These are two unique feature of this trip and that is the speciality of PIRT, no planning but effective execution.

Its good to have friends, its great to have good friends, its greater to have so many good friends and its greatest to have so many good friends for 7 years.

Photos from Sriki's Camera
Photos from Arvind's Camera
Photos from Reagan's Camera

Go Karting

One of the outings after PIRT was formed; Go Karting at Patel's Inn in RT Nagar. Ramu and Arvind planned to meet and they had to make a choice between Go Karting and Bowling. Soon the word spread to all Pirtans and all decided to go for Karting.

Reagan(7), Nishad(2) and Shankar(8)

Shankar and Nishad taking the sharp cure in a heated race.

Ram Charan trying to give a lap lead to Arvind.

Race between Shankar, Raghavendra and Nishad.

Highlights of the video:
1:04 Raghu's Skid
1:31 Shankar bangs in to tire wall
2:18 Starting of the "Climax"

Commentary: Reagan, Ram and Arvind

More Photos

After the races, we all had lunch together and had fun there too. Later we went to Narasima's house and there Narashima was treating us like guests and giving us a lot to eat and drink but we were all full by then. We hung there for some while and then left.

Farewell 19-05-2006

One of the best part in my life: Engineering

The four years of engineering went by so fast. Academically what i remember is for the first month of the semester nothing is done (we just wait for our previous semester results), then starts the first internals. Three internals with a gap of a month and in no time 3 months are gone. Now there is cricket, throw ball and other stuffs in between these months. Three months have passed in a blink. Then is the lab records, assignments and lab internals in the fourth month and at the end of the fourth month starts the study holidays and lab externals and continues to the fifth month. Fifth month we have our Externals. and finally our semester holidays for a month. In no time a semester is over and the waiting game starts again.

When I joined East Point, I never thought that these four years will be happiest years of my life. I loved the company of my friends. Am proud to say that the Friendships that i have made in my engineering is now more than 7 years old. Its very hard or rather impossible to have so many friends for such a long time. Though I have been close to a very few of them, i have also had a good time with others. I will never forget our IS Cricket team, which will walk into the ground without any practice and invariably walk out with a winning note. The only team (out of 17 teams) who had girls in their cheer group. The days in which we played late and did not get and source to get back home. On one such day we took the brick tractor to reach Avalahalli after winning a cricket match, the days we cheered for our throw-ball team, the walks from our college to Bidrahalli bus stop was so much fun every single day, the bus rides in the college bus that was filled with chattering mouths and non stop FM, the days we bunked classes using sports, culturals and ISE forum as excuse, the days we argued with our lecturers, the days when we were thrown out of our classes, the days we got caught for something, the days in which we were late to class, the days in which we made fun of our lecturers, the days when we played hand tennis with our class mates in the class during breaks, the days when we struggled not to sleep in class after the lunch break, the days when we ate our lunch during the class hours, the days when we couldn't control our laughter in class, the days when our friends got caught for something and the way we laughed about it, and lots more.

those fearless days of youth are gone. If I could rewind time then I will come back to relive these days!!!

With time memories fade, but not the ones like the birthday treats and birthday bumps, the fun we had in ragging the juniors and the frolic we had after getting caught, the mass bunks, the Kannada and English classes which we never attended, the break time chai ritual, the shared egg puffs and mountain dews, the group studies, the internals, the internal questions, the corridor talks with other class students during breaks, the prayers that i sang in others ears during assembly, the holidays, the naughty pranks, the bike rides and drops, the exams and its fear, Visiting friend's place, the 3hour lab periods which we finished in 1hour, the fights, the rackets in class, the rumors, the celebrations, the long queues for paying examination fees, the last minute preparations, the last glances of the books which we never opened after the exams, the 3hour exams where i couldn't control my pee, the tension of exam results, the shameless laughs shared after having a back or bad results, the revaluations, the ever postponing assignment dead lines, the unsubmitted assignments, the talks during class hours, the discussions about previous day's match and movies, the happiness in making other class students jealous, the friendship bands, the smses, the gud mrng and gud nite msgs, the movies, the things we shared, the stupid jokes, the pulling of others legs,

Those happy old days are gone but not out of my heart

I thank you all who has been a part of this journey.
I wish I can be a student again and meet our friends every day!!!

I have failed to make much better memories after the farewell. All of these are making me live another day.

Farewell Photos (high definition)

An Irish Blessing to all of my FRIENDS

A sunbeam to warm you,
A moonbeam to charm you,
A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you.

College fest in 2005

Sanskruthi 2005

This post has all the achievements of our class mates in the year 2005

Skit : 21st century Mahabarath.

In this video you can see most of our classmates. This script was written by most of the actors of this video along with Bhavya and Vinutha. Bhavya was the narrator. Vinutha was the costume designer who designed the crowns and the Ganesha's mask. The whole team was responsible for the props (like the monitor, keyboard, joysticks, Bat-Bhim's gadha). Overall a good team effort.

We actually got the II runner up, but later the judges decided to give away only the winners and runners prizes.

Cast: in the order of appearance
Vinutha : Lord Ganesha
Reagan : Dhuryodhan
Sarfraz : Dushasan
Khalid : Arjun
Arvind : Yudhishtar
Haider : Bhim
Swarna : Dhritarashtra
Gangambike: Gandhari
Ram Charan: Shakuni mama
Nishad : Draupadi

Mad Ads : Dhoka Cola: a Flop show

This is one of the stupidest/funniest things we did as a group. This is what you get when you force a junior to do the role of a girl standing in the bus stop and another junior to do the voice over. We had loads of fun while scripting, casting and recording. We had not practiced it as a whole program as someone or the other would be missing. We only rehearsed in bits and u can see all the flaws in this video, especially with Haider Ali, who had no idea of what he had to do. Since we did not get anybody to do the girl's role, we forced Haider to do it. He had no option but accept it has we were his seniors. We actually planned to have Nishad for that role, but he was busy practising for his mime with the other Mallu group. However he agreed to play the Ad man role at the final momment without any script and practice. We might have not won the competition but it was awesome fun and a great experience and definitely an integral part of our lives.

"This video is our MEMENTO."

Cast:
Haider Ali As Gal in the Bus stop
Sarfraz As Salman Khan
Reagan As Hrithik Roshan
Khalid As Amithab Bachan
Arvind As Sharukh Khan
Nishad As Ad Man

Solo Singing

Rajendra Malviya was the only one from our class to have taken part in this and he had chose a great song pictured on the great Big B which was later remade by the SRK. A must watch performance which shows courage is important than talent. :)

Face Painting

This is to show that we had very well talented class mates (artist) and a very cooperating classmates (models), below are the Artists and their models

Winners: Vinutha and Arvind.
Runners: Mythili and Mahendra.
Also in video: Gangambike and Bhavya.

Fasion Show

Mr. East Point: Sarfraz Ehasan

Sarfraz won the Fashion show that year, there we many participants but no strong contender for the "Mr. EPCET" post except for a guy from Comp. Sc. Dept. Sarfi walked the ramp with great confidence, and walked better than others.
The judges were Nanda Mam and Hanume Gowda Sir.

Other Achievements in Samskuthi 2005

Rangoli : Bhavya
Cricket Winners: Team ISE
Throwball Runners: Team ISE
Hindi Anthakshari Runners: Team ISE (Sarfraz, Malviya and Reagan)
Overall Best Department: ISE

Our all-round performance in Sports, Cultural activities, and Studies gave the Information Science Department its first ever "Best Department Sheild"

Out of 4 classes in the IS dept. our class was the only reason that the dept. got the award.


PS: if any achievements has been left out, plz leave a comment and it will be added. Thank you for your cooperation.

Marriages Of Friends

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1> Bhavya's Wedding

Place: Bangalore
Date : Feb 2008
Attendance: Vinutha, Swarna, Nishad, Arvind, Khalid, Shuaib, Savitha, Shwetha VV, Chaya, RamCharan.
Pictures will be updated soon

2> Savitha's Wedding

Place: Bangalore
Date : 23 May 2008
Attendance: Mahendra, Shiva Kumar, Arvind, Bhavya, Vinutha, Rajendra, Reagan, Ram Charan, Nishad, Swarna, Chaya, Prasanna.
Pictures will be updated when available

3> Chaya Rani's Wedding

Place: Bangalore
Date : 29 May 2008





Attendance: Shuaib, Nishad, Arvind, Srikanth, Shankar, Raghavendra, RamCharan, Ganesh, Swarna, Savitha, Bhavya, Shwetha Rithisha.

After a long time we friends met and the occasion that united us was Chaya Rani's Reception, we all had great fun and it was like a great get-together. All of us had dinner together and stayed late and enjoyed each others company, wish such days come again and again....

Now Chaya don't come to conclusions and decide to marry again and again :) !!!

4>Swarna and Kiran's wedding

Place: Mysore
Date : 18 Jan 2009

Swarna's Wedding is another day in our lives that we spent together and totally rejoiced the day. RamCharan had arranged for a tempo traveler as the marriage was in Mysore, We planned for a early departure and the pick ups were well planned, but the pick ups got delayed due to a couple of people....

Though the tempo traveler had some mileage issues and ran out of fuel on the way, the journey was well relished. On our way to Mysore we had breakfast at Kamat, who actually gave us a heavy bill. The travel time was completely filled with fun and laughter. Everyone was made fun of and "pulling others legs" seemed to be the theme for the day.
Once we reached Mysore, we occupied the top gallery of the marriage hall that was not taken by anyone. The whole gallery was for ourselves and we had a great view of the reception as well. we had a ball and later had lunch together.
Since the trip to Goa in December 2005 we had not been out side Bangalore as a group and after 3 years we traveled together

Attendance: Raghavendra, Shuaib, Naveen, Srikanth, Chaya, Divya, Indhu, Shwetha Rithisha, Vinutha, Bhavya, Shankar, Ganesh, RamCharan, Arvind, Nitya.

More Photos from Srikanth's Camera

More Photos from Indu Priya's Camera

5>Nishad and Deepa's wedding

Place: Kozhikhode (Calicut)
Date : 25 Jan 2009

This trip to Calicut by car was more like a misadventure. From the day we were invited, all of us were planning to attend Nishad's wedding... but the planning took so long and many of them were not able to decide if they were coming or not. Enough time had run out and we were far from booking tickets, so we went by a car. This Road trip was amazing.

Have a close look!! this is the simplest and fastest marriage that we ever witnessed. We actually wanted to kidnap Deepa (she has a lot of Gold) but Reagan wanted to cut Nishad's fingers (he had about 14 gold rings). Man these kerala marriages !!! I dunno whats with gold and malu weddings.

Attendance: Shankar, Arvind, Reagan, Shuaib, Rajendra and Bhavya.

Photos Of Nishad and Deepa's wedding (unseen pics: PIRT Exclusive)

Photos of the "Journey to their wedding"

Photos of Nishad's marriage and the voyage

?> Rajendra Malviya's Wedding

Place: Bhopal, MP
Date : ??/??/ 2008
Attendance: Nil

This is why you should always invite your friends to your marriage, see the video and u will know the consequences of not inviting your friends

Cast :
Victim: Rajendra Malviya.
Assaulters: Nishad, RamCharan, Reagan and Arvind.

PS: If anyone's name left out in the attendance, please leave a comment and they will be added soon.
thank you for your cooperation

Base for the formation of PIRT

The supposedly Goa Trip which later got converted into a Karnataka pilgrimage can be said to have laid the foundation of the Pirt. It was not a great trip but the people in the trip made the trip exciting. This was one hell of a trip that was very eventful. Since it was our last year of our graduation, our class mates decided on going for a trip and Goa was the unanimous destination. Many new relationships were made, and existing ones made stronger. We got know our class mates better and in a new way, the way that we have not known before, the way they are outside college.

We were in our 7th semester (Dec 2005) and everyone knew that, this was the last semester to enjoy. I would say that everyone did enjoy to the fullest. We started our enjoyment even before we boarded the swaraj mazda. Most of them have loads of memories that puts a smile on their face. The happenings in this trip is still spoken about and laughed over and over again.

Our Gang consisted of

Students: Arvind Shekar, Chaya Rani, Mahendra, Md Shuaib, Naveen Vasudevamurthy, Nishad Mohan, Raghavendra, Ram Charan, Ram Krishna, Reagan Bhaskar, Sandeep Gowda, Shankar Naidu, Shiva Kumar, Shwetha BC, Srikanth, Swarna Sree and Vinutha P.

Lecturers: Savitha and Veena.

Places Visited:

Goa, Shringeri, Murdeshwar, Goukarna and Koloor.

Buzz word of the trip:

Ling ling ling ling.

New phrases learnt:

1> you can go play with your b***s
2> Scratching as****e
3> Who is exploiting the situation

Since Graduation most of us did not meet each other for a long time. Each of them busy at first with job hunting and later with their work. Friendship faded away, communication among us reduced. Then came few marriages of fellow mates in 2008 and 2009 which was like a reunion. That’s when we revived our relationship and knew how much we missed it. Gone are those happy days but we still can make few happy moments out of the remaining life.......

Slowly the PIRT evolved.