Ragging.....(BitterSweet Memories)

I remember my first day of college, it was my orientation day i had waited for my bus for more than an hour, chased after a bus which i realized was some other college's bus only after i managed to stop it :. Imagine how awkward that would have been!! Anyways after an hour of waiting my college bus did show up and once it did, i got on it got a seat did not bother looking back :P, who would?? and fortunately no one called me back :D. It was only later i realized that there were no seniors on the bus :

However, entire first year would not be so as my principal and chairman had promised! but i thought i had a couple of days time to prepare for my seniors, second day of college all of us were supposed to gather at a stop where the bus would pick us all up. As i was searching for people i knew, i managed to find some people from my college sadly they were my seniors :. A whole bunch of them too.

So i am asked by the first senior, "which branch are you from??", i say "IT" and everyone starts "wooing" almost thought i had won a lottery or something :P. After all the wooing he asks me "Arey BD kotta ra!" ( which essentially meant spill out your bio-data, BD is also a poor mans cigarette in telugu ), so i replied saying "Alvat led anna! " (meaning i dont smoke bro! ) and i hear a roar of laughter :P so he made me listen to other juniors giving there bd's :P i was pointing out the mistakes they had done. I might be exaggerating but it was almost like we had become best friends :P... the bus came everyone let us go, i had survived first day of ragging!! :D

come second day, there were many more people :P and this time they asked us to find out the names of the girls (juniors) and what color dress they were wearing we were not supposed to write it down ! when we finally managed to do it, they made us play imaginary cricket. A guy asked me to sing a song and after i showed him my singing talents he asked me NEVER sing again!

In the coming days we were made to do many things ranging from writing the lyrics of a song, to reciting poems, translating them from one language to the other, SINGING!, Dancing and many other things which are not meant to be posted on a blog :P..

But my most memorable ragging moment was when we were called by our super seniors to top of our building.... while we were climbing the steps all of us were a lil scared after all we had the chance to not to go!! yet we did go, i remember one of my classmates saying "It seems as if we are walking right into the lions den!!" . Most of us laughed it out! although he was right! what would they make us do?? who knew!!

And finally we reach the top floor and there are seniors waiting for us as soon as we walk in all of us are seperated and we are asked to do something or the other ! nothing out of the ordinary yet! that was until when they wanted us do something a lil more daring, i was asked to bend and another guy was asked to jump over me!! and this guy who looked quite athletic i had no doubt that he could do it runs and drives his knee right into my skull!!

for a couple of seconds i had no idea of what was going on, later i realized that i was being carried out of the floor by my classmates. As i was regaining my senses i realized some people where quarelling could not quite understand what was going on but later on i came to know that my classmates had got into an argument with the seniors for what had happened. Felt great knowing that i had some awesome people to call my classmates and was excited knowing that we would be spending 4 years together!

Now 3 of those 4 years are up, i have made many friends, i have lost a few. And after a year i will be loosing a few more, a few will remain till the end. But no matter what i will always treasure these memories!! :D