Kirrukal

Hmmm well, let me take u to first year civil engineering class…. the subject which I never liked in addition to mechanical engineering,Engineering drawing (ED) paper..though liked those class hours as almost we used to be free birds in those classes..
ED and mechanical engineering paper was taken by Mr Nagarajan and civil engineering handled by a sir( forgot his name ) but cud rem his name starts with N let me cal him as Mr X.(reader’s i.e my class mate if u still remem his name drop a line to me …)
Let me throw light on Class atmosphere first..as all jus entered the college no one was mingled much ..some sort of groups were there…we can see many groups in the class with at max a group consist of 4 or 5 persons...all this is about guys..we the gals great mingled easily we did;nt had that much groupism …

Normaly fourth hour (an hour prior to lunch break ) in most cases would be civil engineering paper and that sir Mr X is tooooooooooooo shy type sir..
As if he has drawn some lakshman rekha for himself ( sorry not teasing him just recollecting things)..
His lakshman reka start from board ,stage and then middle column first bench guys..
Please note some times it expands to other columns n rows..but almost alltime it would be same as mentioned earlier.. and Mr X dared to cross his lakhshman reka attimes..but countable..

As soon as he enters the class... all would stand up …Good morning sirr………..
We last bench people did’nt bother to do that also….
He used to enter the hall with a paper in his hand or some times some notebook in hand... and first thing he would do is turn towards black board n draw soem figure/diagram..while he is drawing the figure on black board .. at his back fish market ..kai kai kai iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii though with reduced decibel fish market…
Soon after finishing drawing he used to utter some word to one n only the first bench students ..i shud say first bench boys used to listen to what he says..
U can guess first bench student “eppadi erapanga na…all padipal case…” I could only rem karthikeyan ( later ECE branch ) used to sit in first bench ..followed by him Amar…Ashok some where in 3rd or 2nd bench… yeah now i remem.. some sort of confusion with name..
In our class there were two persons with same name "Ashok"..so to make it clear we did "namkaran"( gn new names to them with some suffix added to ther oriniginal one).. one of them was bit short compaired to other so later we used to call him as "kutti Ashok" n other "Punjab Ashok" .. that time ( during first year ) i did'nt know y he was named so ...later came to know his parents were staying near or at punjab... and he also came from there ..so was the that name...
ok let me come back to civil engineering class.....

It looks like first bench boys and Mr X has some bilateral/Mutual agreement between themselves… ;)
Yes once there talking finishes ..it means lecture is over…and then starts the process to write notes.. I jus rem concret stone,pillar,roof,basement ,blah blah..
aah writing notes ! most of them used to do perfectly ..as only hope to pass in the exam…
Earlier days ( begining of first year) we used say from back” sir kekala ..pls be loud”..he did;nt bother about the comments from back..later we stopped thinkin y to waste engergy..

I forgot to say when Mr X is busy drawing the figure in his back “chapathi’s “ would be flying .. seems like cricket practice..one would be throwing .. other catching and swallowing…. They even don’t need “sabji” to eat that “chapathi”
mostly the Leture n notes writing things would be finished 10 minutes ahead .. followed by attendence...
Then normal routine chit chattign starts ..exact fish market it would be..
Soon we hear (grinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.. some times tan tan ( during electricity failure) .at boys end ..most of them won’t bring lunch box..those who used to get it..some might already cleared during class hours n leftout boxes the moment it is opened .. next millisecond the box would be empty..( panjathala adi patta mari) i think that’s the reason boys don’t prefer to get lunch box..
First year we used to have lunch in class room itself…we the gals decent ..used to share food n have lunch…
Still I remember the lemon rice, ammad bath( tamarind rice), pongal ..aah too my mouth is watering thinking that..…
At least civil engineering paper somewhat ok .Mechanical engineering paper worst ( as for me)..
Mr Nagarajan would come and mostly would give closeful advertisement.. we can count his 32 teeth…
Some times he takes trouble to stand ..otherwise it seems like he has reserved his seat in .. no waiting list business also ..it is confirmed reservation .. ..he would enter the class and take his seat..
“ellam sogappu color booka edanga..page no 30 eduthuteengala” ( take your red color book , then navigate to page no 30) ...this is one of the sentence which he used to say often...

Actualy the thing was our mechanical engineering text book was red in color and the author of that book was Natarajan.. may be he don’t want to say the name similar to him..then we can hear some word like front view,top view ..sutham didn’t remember other then that..
(appove onnum neyavagam erakadhu n now after so many year....no chance.... )
I rem one incident happened during his class…
It was Tuesday and Gowri shankar ( guess I rem correct ) once want to skip his class ..so he went to sir and said “ Sir ennoda relative ka marriage so seekaram poganum veettakka” ( I have to attend marriage funtion of my relative so needs to go soon)…
For that our sir told” Aenya enndha urulaya sevva kelamai kalyanam vaikiranga ?”
( do u have marriage on Tuesday?)
Whole class started laughing?
Commonly according to indian tradition we won’t have marriage funtions on Tuesday…
He could’nt say anything came back and sat on his place..after that
“ Aenya solluradhu sollara ora correct aana reason solla mudiyadha?”
( before asking excuse think for the apt reason n then convey”)
Then he repeated “sevvakkelamai kalyanama pa” two or three times in the class that day.. n we had fun…

Infact they should had removed mechanical engineerign class from timetable..it was jus a class where we do over work n sirji would do his work( taking rest )..
Engineering drawing also handled by him only…usually last two hours ED class…
In the beginning bit enthu…used to listen the class n draw punctually ..as was using drafter first time..later ..none other was as boring as to attend ED class…
Thanks god I did;nt get Cup in that paper..jus passed..
In the exam hall when I got the Q paper ..had a galnce from begining to end .. did’nt got any clue , what they asked to draw…peeped in front,side could’nt get any clue..benches was arranged with too much gaps..then what I drawn what all drawing I remembered..( similar to what I had pasted in fun/cool link answer sheet)..i was damn sure would fail in that paper..god’s grace just passed…

Mostly during ED classes he used come in the start of class would give some exercise and then he would disappear..
We would make all sort of setup as if we are working and wander in the hall n kill time.. followed by packing to home…those days there was no college bus ..so all used to take city bus ..full college at city bus stop ..heavy rush it would be…some how could manage to take bus n reach home..


To be Continued....

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