Worth Mentioning!!!

Well, I think this one's worth mentioning here - the first idiots to have given up their precious leisure time in favour of joining office/work!

a) Gagan Deep Singh Arora - he joined the Delhi Trial Courts (Criminal) even before most of us were out of Pune!!
b) Gautam Dembla - he joined the Delhi Office of DLF Home Developers Pvt. Ltd. on 16th April! He was the first among the college placement people to have joined work!
c) Parama Ray - she joined Fox 'n' Mandal, Kolkata on 16th April too, only that she tried her best to delay her joining, but wasn't allowed to... poor thing!
d) Tanushree Nandan - I too joined office unwillingly, on 17th April, because I was not given the option of joining later - poor me! I was, therefore, the second among the college placement people to join office.

Whether we deserve to be applauded, or we should be laughed at for not being able to enjoy some time off after these 5 gruelling years is something you guys need to deliberate upon! Do leave us comments - I am sure we at least deserve that!!!

Sentiments of a fresh Symbi pass-out!

Last Day in College

Raah dekhi thi is din ki kabse
Aage ke sapne saja rakhe the naajane kab se
Bade utavle the yahaan se jaane ko
Zindagi ka agla padaav paane ko
Par naa Jane kyon... dil mein aaj kuch aur aata hai
Waqt ko rokne ka jee chahta hai
Jin baton ko lekar rote the
Aaj un par hansi aati hai

Na jaane kyon aaj un palon ki yaad bahut aati hai
Kaha karte the ..badi mushkil se char saal seh gaya
Par aaj kyon lagta hai ki kuch peeche reh gaya
Na bhoolne wali kuch yaadein reh gayi
Meri taang AB kaun kheencha karega
Sirf mera sir khane kaun mera peecha karega

Jahaan 2000 ka hisaab nahin wahaan 2 rupay ke liye kaun ladega
Kaun raat bhar saath jag kar padega
KAUN MERI gaadi mujse pooche bina lejayega
Kaun mere naye naye naam banayega
Mein AB bina matlab kis se ladoonga
Bina topic ke kisse faalto baat karoonga
Kaun fail hone par dilasa dilayega
Kaun galti se number aane par gaaliyaan sunayega

Sadak mein Beer kis ke saath piyoonga
Wo haseen pal AB kis ke saath jiyoonga
Aise dost kahaan milenge
Jo khai mein bhi dhakka de aayein
Par fir tumhein bachane khud bhi kood jayein
Mere gaano se pareshaan kaun hoga
Kabhi muje kisi ladki se baat karte dekh hairaan kaun hoga

Kaun kahega saale tere joke pe hansi nahin aai
Kaun peeche se bula ke kahega..aage dekh bhai
Movies mein kiske saath dekhhonga
Kis ke saath boring lectures jheloonga
Mere farzee certificates ko raddi kehne ki himmat kaun karega
Bina dare sachi rai dene ki himmat kaun karega

Achanak bin matlab ke kisi ko bhi dekh kar paglon ki tarah hansna
Na jaane ye fir kab hoga
Keh do doston ye dobaara sab hoga
Doston ke liye professor se kab lad payenge
Kya hum ye fir kar payenge
Raat ko 2 baje poha khane aur cig pine kaun jayega
Tez gaadi chalane ki shart kaun lagayega

Kaun muje mere kabiliyat par bharosa dilayega
Aur jyada hawa mein udne par zameen pe layege
Meri khushi mein sach mein khush kaun hoga

Mere gam mein muj se jyada dukhi kaun hoga

By -

Abhijit Purkar

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Although this piece is composed by Abhijit, I'm sure all of us feel the same way! Thanks Abhijit, for articulating our sentiments!

Of Memories and Promises…

29th March, 2007

The appointed day has come at last… five long years become history today… a history that exists only in our memories… a history that is known only to us… a history that is at once beautiful and gruesome, wonderful yet terrible, inspires love but is still hated…!

The last day of college life… the last day of exams… the whole batch seemed to have gathered in front of the college – there were people who usually scampered off to the nearest hang-outs as soon as the exams ended, those who usually fled the scene before the inevitable “re-evaluating” the paper begins (this category includes yours truly! I hate it when my batchmates start discussing what the right answers are/should have been – I mean, who wants to write the entire exam all over again?!)… even those, who had finished their two-hour papers in an hour’s time…! Given the fact that our exams ended at 6 pm, and that most of us hadn’t been sleeping well for the past few days, courtesy the exams, that’s saying quite something! Perhaps it just showed that in spite of everything, we still cared for the small things in life!

We were moving on… on to a new phase of our career… on with life…

We were leaving a lot behind… our friends… our carefree life… our favourite hang out places…

It was truly not sinking in yet… some of us are settled in life… some aren’t… some know where they would be in the next few months… some aren’t sure about the next few days! It still felt like the ending of any other year, when the reassuring feeling of coming back for yet another year at Symbi filled our hearts, and the only promises exchanged were the ones of meeting up and keeping in touch in the holidays!

But it was different this time, and the air of finality was everywhere… our eyes were filled with anticipation of the uncertain, sadness of leaving our identities behind, anxiety of creating a new one in the big, bad world… shouldering new responsibilities, not only of charting the growth of our career paths and making our families proud, but also of living up to the name and reputation of being a “Symbi-ite”!

The heart still refused to believe that its time to bid adieu… the mind stopped the many tears from rolling down the cheeks… we promised a lot – to ourselves, to our college, to our friends… and wondered silently, which of them would life let us keep?

As of now, though, we all have our own plans made – surprisingly enough, they all sound quite similar… Plans to enjoy the last few days in the city of Pune… to take full advantage of our carefree student-life that can never be replicated… to eat, drink and be merry… to revisit all those favourite haunts which are etched in our memories forever… to create a “few last memories” to cherish forever… to exchange the last vows of keeping in touch!

We slowly disperse... Some of us want to execute the plans they have, some just want to make one still... As we take the slow and uncertain steps out of college, the ones that are perhaps the first ones taken towards the journey of future life, we do look back fondly… and remember that this is the place which has taught us the skills of life! And the place waves back to tell us that one day, we will surely come back, more successful than ever, and fulfill all these promises – the ones we made to ourselves, the ones we gave to each other, and the ones that our “Symbi” asked of us!