Roll Number 36

In first year of our Engineering, sections were not divided based on the streams since in first year everyone had to study the same syllabus. So in my class, there were students from all streams.
This happenned when I was in my 1st sem Engineering. Our physics lecturer was taking attendance. Instead of calling our names, he was calling our roll numbers which was easier for him. After calling all the numbers, he used to ask again if anyone didn't answer their attendance. That day also he did the same and a guy got up. I dont remember his full name cos he didnt continue in my stream after 1st year. He got up and said, Sir number 36 is absent. Then our lecturer looked in his register and announced the name..oo "Divya"(name changed) is absent.. hmm..The whole class was laughing but Guru sat down as if nothing had happenned..
Those were the beginning days of our Engineering and we sometimes used to forget our own roll numbers or be absentminded when our number was called...but this guy had remembered her roll number and I think he was missing her that day :P..
Believe me, now I dont remember what my roll number in class was when I was in 1st year Engineering, but I cant forget this roll number 36..I was just out of my PU and was very 'innocent'. This was the first sample of my college life I got.

AA Dinagalu..(Reliving those days)

First of all, Thanks to Orkut for uniting some of the 5th class friends together again after almost 18-19 years. For me it was only till 5th standard I studied in Chethana English Medium School,Madhugiri. I had to move back to my native after that.Others were all localites and they continued in the same school.After that I lost touch with that school friends.
In my 2nd PU, I met one of my Chethana School friend Smitha Raj during our Mathematics tutions. That was it.And after that when I moved back to Bangalore, I found Smitha in one of the Orkut's communities and added her into my friend's list. I also recognised few of my Chethana friends in her friends list. But did not add them thinking that they may not be remembering me since I left that School very early. However, Rashmi got to know about me from Smitha and she had called me. It was really a very pleasant surprise for me that day. And later Mohan and Bhanu got added to my list.
So we planned for a short meet in Bangalore last year. It was only 4 of us then. Me, Smitha, Rashmi and Mohan.Bhanu was in Germany doing his M.S(Even now he is in Germany but doing his Doctorate). So only 4 of us met in Jayanagar 4th Block and chatted for sometime. Smitha was in a hurry cos she had to pack to move to the US with her hubby. Me and Rashmi went to her home with her and saw her wedding photoes.
After this Rajiv also called me after getting my number from Rashmi. He said we will again plan for a get together. However, we had to wait for a long time for it to happen. By then, Rajiv got married when I was still in Germany. It was because of this chethana school friend Bhanu, I could have a great time in Germany. Thanks to Orkut :).After I came back, again we were planning for a get together. And luckily this time Bhanu was also visiting India in June. So we all fixed up to meet on June 21st,2008 in Hallimane. Rajiv came along with his wife Navya, Chethana(yes, our one more friend) also came from Madhugiri for the meet, Abdul also joined us, Mohan, me and Rashmi. So all 8 of us had lunch in Hallimane and went to Rashmi's home to spend some time together.Chethana and Mohan could not come to Rashmi's place as they had some other work.I was really surprised that Rashmi's mom and brother remembered each one of us so clearly. Initially it took sometime for us to pick up the conversation. Everyone was thinking so much before talking.Then Rashmi brought out some of our school photoes( I didnt have any). When we were looking ourselves in the photoes, everyone started to pickup their old memories..after this we chatted and chatted for a long time reliving all our old scool days..
How these boys used to call me man-eater(I was the moniter of the class :P), how I used to walk in the class with a stick in my hand (Rajiv told me I used to beat them with the sticks :D),How Rashmi was seen always talking in the class (even now she does that :P).. Rajiv and Bhanu's endless pranks, how Abdul pronounced "Kamala" as "Kemala" then..Chethana's long hair..our school day dances..our school day makeup man who used to paint our faces after which everyone looked alike :P..how those cute little (THEN :D) Bhanu and Rajiv danced..our rank holder, Moniter badges..our drawing competitions..our teachers, especially our PT Sir,how he used to make us stand in one position(with our hands up..or stretched..etc.) for a long time on saturdays during our mass PE...his beatings if we got out of the positions..and then about our other friends whom we remembered after seeing the photoes..We really had superb fun seeing the pics.We all looked soooo cute in those pics from LKG and 2nd standard.Probably you will also find us cute..so putting those school photoes here.. Please click on them to view them in larger size.
Hey, My friends who know me, try to identify me in the pics. However, I will point out those whom I have met. And my Madhugiri friends, please try to identify our other friends.. :)..


Bhanu: Not in this LKG Pic..when asked, he said "LKG yaavonu oodhirodu?" (Who studied LKG..meaning He didnt study LKG :P).
Rajiv :From the top, 2nd row, extreme left.
Mohan : From the top, 2nd row, 5th boy from the right.
Abdul:Top row,5th boy from the right.
Chethana : She too did not study LKG..Direct UKG admission
Rashmi : Just behind our head master.
myself : top row, 2nd from the right.

Bhanu: Top row, 4th boy from right..standing like swami vivekananda..

Rajiv :Top Row, extreme right.

Mohan : From the top, 2nd row, Beside the girl.

Abdul: Standing beside Mohan

Chethana : Standing beside our Manjula miss's right.

Rashmi : The only girl standing in the 2nd row.

myself : In the girl's row, 2nd from the left

I am not present in this 7th std pic. One more friend Smitha Raj sitting on the bench, 3rd girl from right. you can identify the others :P
Updated the post after getting some comments about this post from my school friends when we were exchanging mails in group.
Mohan's comment was the ultimate..so putting only his comment here..simply copy-pasting it from his mail: Putting the english translation in brackets for his comments in kannada.
Leela : Blog thumba chennagidhe(Blog is very good)......Thanks for identifying me twice both in LKG and 2nd std photos ( as in ur blog).......but hege antha gothaglilla(but donno how)........FYI Leela, i joined chethana school from 3rd standard.
And now about how Bhanu ate his Roti and Sabji in Hallimane in German ishtyle :P..Eating Roti like pizza which was rolled up in his left hand..and eating sabji with the spoon. And I would want to share one thing about this thing: I remember this same Bhanu and his friend's were making fun when we saw some localites having roti sabji in this ishtyle in an Indian Restaraunt in Berlin. When I told Bhanu about it, he said..he was comfortable in eating this way!!! What would you say for this now???
PS: My chethana school friends..please help me in finding out who that boy is whom I have identified as Mohan.. :D..

The word "Flirt"

I still have to complete 2 more parts about 'My Voyage to Deutschland". But that takes some time cos its going to be a little lengthy.
However, I could not suppress my urge to write this small post on this word "FLIRT", how I got introduced to this word for the first time, what did I first understand etc..
Yea, I studied in English Medium(long back :P), but there was not one book in our syllabus which had this word(or was I not aware?). So in school, it was out of question to know about this word. And I lived in an environment which was like my own world..school,play,music classes,friends..that was all my world. Had never heard of this word till my 8th standard.

Now, I had to move to Mysore for my 9th Standard to study in a very prestigious School. This school was so disciplined that we had not spoken to any boy in our class all through our high school. All my one year of 9th went just in getting adjusted to stay away from home, competing with the so called brilliant students there..etc..
I had got some very good friends in Mysore who were very good looking also :P..They used to use this "Flirt" word like "look he is trying to Flirt with me"(Node avnu nan jothe flirt maadakke nodtha idane). Even then I had ignored that word thinking that Flirting means eveteasing which was very common :D.I didn't even try to know what atleast my friends meant when they were using that word :P.I did want to think much about it. That was the level of my innocence (or ignorance?) then.
After my Highschool I had to move to Tumkur for my Pre-University. In PU also, I dont remember having used this word anywhere. It was just too innocent even then :P.

And now for my Engineering, I again joined a prestigious college in Tumkur itself. I had this unknown fear(even my parents :P) about Engineering colleges cos I had read in news papers about ragging. So, I didnt join the college Hostel instead joined a private hostel which was a little far from the college(to Tumkur standards). Now our college had students from all over the country. Sometimes had to interact with some of them, I used to visit my friends in the college hostel too..got to know people from many other places.. Now again..these girls used this word a lotttt!!! By this time, I had become less innocent :D.. Now I wanted to know what exactly this word meant(I was in first sem). So went to my Hostel which had people like me :P..opened the dictionary and started to search for the meaning of the word "FLURT"(I thought this was the spelling for this word :P) along with my room mates. I did not find any word like this.. I thought it might be a slang which people use and gave up searching.
But one day, I gave a chance to myself to try permutation/combination of the possible letters in the word. Haaaaa..here I got it.."FLIRT".I showed it to my room mates as well :D. And now I have forgotten the exact meaning which I had got from the dictionary :P, but I know what exactly it means :D..
And I have been using that word too frequently ... Heeehehehe :D..So..I am no more innocent :D..