My Foodale..!

How I wonder our lifestyle scurrying so fast as we abode with everyday technologies. This had made our need to everything instant and crack. Thus, food being one of the compulsions to survive has to be of the same kind. So we mostly cross over to junk foods rather than time-consuming home-made food or to be more accurate after going away from home we go scarce of home-made food and due to shedload of work we usually ignore. But, as we know, food being one of the compulsions for survival we often have it during extreme hunger and that to again instant and stomach-filling ‘junk food.’

Well my story is sort of different as I don’t go for junkies nor am I away from city hustle-bustle. It may sound odious to you, but it’s true. To be frank, I was a die-hard junk-lover in my olden days. But, eventually this love for junks were trampled to death due to some fine circumstances. Life of a teenager has never been easy as we learn and make mistakes simultaneously. There’s no time to think. I was as stubborn as a bull so, always held a conviction of being correct every time. Adding on to it, the intense pressure was clouded around, of passing the 12th exams and getting through to a reputed college. This bull-behavior and rigorous pressure made me drown in chaos. Unable to handle such palsies of life, I lost my eating balance by skipping food regularly and making my digestive system falter. Months skidded by as my sufferings doubled and I started bearing miserable acidity in my stomach. Whatever I ate caused a terrible cuss! Then, I went for medic ation. All my favorite junkies and spicy foods took an abrupt halt to my taste buds. And whenever I tried taking them, they were frowned off from my body snottily. Though this phase was an end to junkies, it was a scintillating start to my new nutritious life. Thanks to Ayurveda which helped me put right my ill system but only for healthy foods. 

Since then I adhere to my diet. No matter how hectic the schedule runs, I never compromise with my diet timings albeit I’m at a risk of messing with something else. It seems tricky to manage healthy diets but, ‘where there is will, there is surely a way to it’. In return, I’m enjoying a healthy life with no regrets. Today when I fancy those goofy days, I beam at myself and conclude ‘Time knows how to change things for better; we just need to be resilient and keen enough to learn from our mistakes ’…

Evanjelina Sanjana

National Institue of Fashion Technology, Mumbai

Letter from my Heart…

Dear Bala…

I don’t really remember when I first met u… But i think that program of stalin’s depty CM sworing near Mahindra city.. and that Netherlands program was the first intro with u… then came programs like Vadapalani Campus Inauguration… were the initial days we worked together. We started working in events… Your home near main campus… And you having some friends in main was a big advantage…

We intially worked in many events… like AARRUSH , MILAN etc… we going to main campus… and so many other things if you remember… STRINGZ 10′ was something which we started with… we got very close..me as convener and u as co-co… That’s how people called you… I always took u for granted..i knew u wil allways support me… those Meetings at A.V Hall..nomination of captains and vice captains… making the house list… rules and regulations…event names, etc. was all fun… those were times i will never forget… good old days dude…

To tell u something; in all committees… there is always a big dispute among the top posts in committee… but in our case we never fought or quarelled… I knew that most of the times it was you , who gave up… every time it was u who supported me in all decisions…. understanding all the politics and limitations available to us in all regards… You never had ego problem… almost all my friends were your friends… we had so many people in common…

I really dont know how to thank you for all that you have done for me; countless help… priceless help..!

Me, you, Aki, Deeps, Vaibhav and so many more going to Mahabalipuram was something I will never forget. Then came me, you, Deeps, Monisha and Ashwin’s trip to ECR..that road out… and that lost key… panic.. tension… great day… that’s something which taught us a moral that wherever we go, key must be safe..! That was one cool great day…

Those night out once in my bike… HOTEL CHECKERS… the ASCENDAS… and finally dinner at late night at one of the grandest hotel in Ramapuram… the road side one…

Hmm… Whenever you come in my mind… I remember the shirt you wear… Keep that as a trend dude… something unique and creative… the jimky… jigu jicka shirt… I do appreciate the things u do… The way u have been creative… The way u entertain people; you are always different from all others… And that’s wat really makes people like you… your mokkais… your support in small events to from our department programs to small small other department functions remains priceless…

Whenever I was offered to organize any program, one person I took for granted was you… Fooling to get a camera for u; from Ashok Pillar to Viveks via Saravana stores are things i shall never forget… I wouldn’t have got this good name in college without ur support da… You seriously have done so much for me… that too without expecting anything in return… You remember when SPORTS MEET 2010; RESPLENDENCE work started, I was very very upset with u… You didn’t support at all… u were busy with IV works only… that time I was really worried how I will do the sports meet 2010…

Finally as the events started… You came in… and relived me… You only took care of all events on the spot; while i took care of arrangements. You were the one who took care of ground works… Our whole IT department and the batch life was only cause of u; the I.V wouldn’t have been without u… I know how much pain u took in organizing them…and how much sacrifices u did for that…

U really had great determination… and the way you managed all of them… hats off to u boss..! Really great job; the whole IV… I really use to wonder how u mst be feeling… I know well that at the course of time … U were upset also, but the very next day you would get up in the morning and start back to your routine work…

Great Machan… Really Great..!

Without your support no event could have been what it was… MILAN 11′; the last event we were all together… the night return, the late night arrivals; so much fun we had… that was the only event which we did less work and enjoyed more i guess… And the rest events; we never enjoyed. We worked and working was a kind of enjoyment…

One coolest and among the best moment was the long walk after getting dropped from Anuradha madam’s car at the toll gate at porur and a walk all the way from porur toll gate to Ramapuram… a long distance though looked small cause we kept talking and talking; guess we discussed the best moments… we ever shared..!

I am very sorry if I have had ever been rude to u… I know at the course of conduct of events I have not obeyed u or had not agreed to ur words… Hope u forgive me for all those… something great in u was, even if i had been rude to u, u did not take it in bad sense… had it been someone else, it would have been a big fight and must have made a scene… please da do forgive me… You’ve advised me so much in tough situations… so much… Some of which even u dont know…

If a all i got that student appreciation award and all those laurels and good name and respect in college, it’s cause of u… in other words u have a very major share in that… You were never jealous and even if u had been u never showed (lolz… jst for fun) that was the greatest part of u… I really wanted u to come for that Yelagiri trip… Hmm… You never turned up for that and I really missed u then a lot, cause’ u were the one who really was eligible from Ramapuram campus to attend that thanks giving treat come discussion trip to Yelagiri…

Meeting u at SRM hospital during my WIPRO training too was another great fun… If at all I have done anything which u have not liked… Please forgive me da… It may be in any regard, any matter, anytime or any event… sorry ;-(

That day when I came to drop u at the Kodambakkam station near that hotel; Ashwin’s sister’s birthday I was totally speechless and almost in tears, cause’ the next day i had to leave for Assam though i will come back to chennai and meet u… It will be like leaving u guys for a while and then meeting u…

lets try our best to stay together da… Wherever we go… Whatsoever the case may be…..

And I will really miss u a lot da… When i see any photo of college life; for most of the have been of events, you come in my mind as u have surely been a part of that event… small event as volunteers or big events as Co-Co…

Love u loads,

Machan

Kumaraguru Loganathan

WIPRO