The Tandoori Picturization

The mess is bad on Tuesdays, everyone knows that. Now that forces us simple and food loving people to eat outside. This Tuesday happened to be no different, but for the overlapping of the cultural fest of VIT, Riviera 2010. The fest in itself was awesome, a nice change over the dull and monotonous college life.
Coming back to the dinner, the location for dinner today was decided to be Dhaba Express, the order was standard. The usual. Tandoori with coke, with some side dish and naans thrown in. Which happened to be Rogan Josh today, due to some incident in the day which required a minor treat on Reaper's part. The incident in itself is will be kept under wraps here, as the reaper feels the leaking of the same will cause a lot of 'lucky @$$' comments being thrown over the net. The Dinner. Well, it was all usual, until something very unexpected occurred. When we had walked in, I had noticed a girl, XD, sitting amongst the diners, while we were eating, I noticed the same girl walking up to our table in a way so that it took the longest possible time to get here. Her expression was that of a teenager just being given a dare to 'peck' a guy from her class, needless to say, she was blushing. So, very cautiously, she walks up to our table and greets the Reaper with a heartfelt 'hello'. The rest of the conversation will be presented in an unabridged dialogue-format to allow you to be impervious to my comments that would have crept in if I had to write the same in a reportage format.

Lady in White Tee with Huge Red Lips printed on the front: Hello!

The Grin Reaper: Hi!

LIWTWHRLPOTF: I am sorry to disturb you, but a few days back I saw you perform in the .....

TGR: Acoustic Vibes!

LIWTWHRLPOTF: yeah! What was the name of your band again?

TGR: Afterdark..... * smiles *

LIWTWHRLPOTF: Yeah! I loved your performance . You guys were superb! If you dont mind, could I please have a picture with you?? [ Somebody (=me) hoots in the distance]

TGR: Yeah Sure.... But....Now?

LIWTWHRLPOTF: Of Course not...

TGR: Please wait for a min, I am almost done here. [ He was not, we had just started ]

LIWTWHRLPOTF: Thanks!!

And she left, what followed next was 5 mins of extreme suppression of imba laughter, Reaper was elated beyond words and the colour of his face was starting to reach alarmingly low wavelengths. She was his first fan, This was probably the happiest he had felt in months, who would not be?
Anyways, as soon as he was finished, the next problem showed up. How to attract the attention of the girl to the fact that he was ready without looking too 'pushy'? Well, he had no idea, I am not sure why. He kept giving her awkward slanted glances for 2 mins and then he finally realized, after I muttered instructions to him in between my rounds of silent laughter, that he had to look at her with his face and eyes pointing in the same direction. And needless to say, it worked. Mr. Reaper proceeded to her with dignity and joined her for a little chat on Riviera, Food and her college...

Nearly 10 mins later we were on our way back to the hostel and our newly found celebrity was beyond himself with elation. The lady, as it turns out was from another college and had come here for some events in Riviera, and as per the records, she was doing bio-tech from somewhere nearby. When I asked the reaper of her name, his hands suddenly reached for his head and he had a look on his face which is often seen after one realizes that the 10 mark question he skipped in the exam was as easy as a walk in the park.... After six long seconds, punctuated with hysterical laughter by yours truly, he finally remembered her name, although I am not too sure of it, but I took his word for it....

And That is how The Grin Reaper met his first ever fan.

Jftr, Thursday mess is bad too.

Ciao!>

VIT's T(h)anksgiving

Had my BEE exam today, for the non-engineers out there, its an acronym for Basic Electrical Engg. Now, the exam went well enough for me not to feel utterly depressed and hopelessly lost, so, quite surprisingly, I was in a good mood after the exam, which jftr, was not predicted, more on that later. What really marked the day was the presence of a real, yeah REAL, BATTLE Tank in the Campus. Picture this, you are walikng down the footpath, under the shade, one hand on the makeshift notes copy, the other clutching and squeezing the imaginary throat of your BEE teacher, and lo, you see a TANK parked in the middle of the crossroads!!! The first reaction is to look around for reinforcements or flankers, but the rust and the fungus accumulated on the flaky exterior of the armour kinda kept you from it. A very quick examination of the road surface around the tank forced me, sadly, to rule out the possibility of it descending (at 9.8m/s-squared of course) from heavens or of it being Ejected from Hell itself.

Anyways, it could wait, and by the look of things, I dont think the TANk itself had much of a choice, there was an exam to 'ace'.

Unsurprisingly, on the way back, the tank was still there, but the presence of 4 Huge yellow cranes circling it kinda gave the whole scenario another dimension to expand into. The TANK was initially parked right in front of the BioTech building, The 'hexagon'. So, when the cranes started to pulll/push the 'Thing' to a less obstructive location, I swear I saw many of the BioTech people crossing their fingers hoping one of the crane controllers might lose control of the tank and thus resulting in an unscheduled razing of the hexagon. but Alas! It was not to be, mostly due to the timely intervention of the uniform clad 'alledged' Army personnel, because honestly, judging by the momentum and the erratic movement of the tank sideways, an early cristmas for the Hexa-goers was quite a possibilty at one point of time......>