Friends From Memory

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I guess I have written this here before - when I am free and don't have any work to do my favorite pass time is to read some interesting Blogs and few days back I was going through my twitter timeline came upon a link from Tajim's tweet and it landed me here. At that time only I decided it is a nice concept and I should also replicate it on my Blog.

During my School period I got opportunity to make many friends primarily because my Father was in a transferable job and after every 5 years we used to change our place and so we have to change our School also.

Today I will try to remember all the friends that I had during this period of my Schooling, some I am still in touch[very few] but with  most of them I am not in touch. Some must be doing very good with their life some may not [like me]. Whenever I am free or feel nostalgic I try to remember them, think about them, think about that time[I would give everything to get that time back]. I just want to tell you all that I still remember you ,I don't know if you  think about me anytime. If you still do you can contact me here .

During my School days we lived in Meerut,Delhi,Betul[M.P] and then again came back to Meerut to finish my Schooling. These  names are in order of my Schooling.

• Himanshu[started schooling with him then did Engg. too]
• Mohit
• Priyanka Joshi[First Crush]
• Puneet Tomar[Landlord's son in Meerut]
• Vaibhav Bhatnagar[Best Friend till 6th grade]
• Hitesh Kakkar
• Suveet Passi
• Amit Sardana
• Neha Sardana
• Chestha Sharma
• Gati Verma
• Pankaj Arora
• Rahul Arora
• Richa Ahuja
• Shruti Mahajan
• Rajesh Sharma
• Kapil Seth
• Varun[Very fair fat boy came from some Gulf Country]
• Faisal
• Ronnie
• Ankush Dhawan
• Harish Iyer
• Manish
• Puneet Jatav
• Elham
• Zoobie
• Raja Jham[Best Friend till 11th grade] 
• Sachin Sharma
• Robin Jaiswal
• Kapil Kurien
• Sourabh Nagle
• Deepak Nagle[Commited Suicide after result of 9th grade]
• Rakesh Solanki
• Rakesh Khumbhare
• Durgesh Rathore
• Garima Pandey
• Garima Pathak
• Shweta Baghel
• Ruchi
• Devina
• Aashoo Bais
• Sonal
• Neha Panwar
• Monica
• Shivani Soni
• Sweeti Khandelwal
• Lokesh Sisodiya
• Pankaj Dongre
• Abinav Ram
• Manish Mahajan
• Nishedh Kokash
• Deepu Joseph
• Sagar Vipat
• Shumbham Gothani
• Sheeba
• Sushant Dixit
• Badal
• Bhushan Sainani
• Deepak Sainani
• Mukesh Tharwani
• Hemant Kadwey
• Shobhit Agarwal
• Ankan Gupta
• Vikram Sable
• Pankaj Inhe[had fight with him once]
• Sumeet Tiwary
• Anoop Bharadwaj
• Devendra
• Arpana Upadhyay
• Atul
• Manan Anand
• Ashuthosh Raghuwanshi
• Atish Mohan
• Harpreet Mehta
• Aditya Raghuwanshi
• Rajat Sharma
• Arpit
• Vibhor Kataria
• Alok Dutt
• Sahil
• Ashwani
• Umesh
• Parveen

These are the names I could remember at this instant of time there are some faces in my head but not getting their names I will keep updating this list as I get other names. Also I have only added names of friends till my twelfth standard maybe in future when I will grow old I will add names of friends who I met in my graduation and further in my work life so this list is ever increasing.

P.S - My Best Friend Manish insisted me to write a Post on my views about Politics,I told him that I would write on my next post but could not write to which I could only say that I would write soon but not sure when, in the mean time I would request him to write his Political views on his blog to which we had not update since ages.

Also Today is Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shashtri[Manish always remembers him so good of him] hence a nice day to write a post.
  

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Two Lively Guys !!

Tweet They came and now today they had gone back and i know i will miss them a lot, in case you are wondering to whom i am talking about , well i am talking about the two Internship Trainees that came to my Office for their Summer Internship.

  Sheeraz And Prashanth

It was about two months back when i was climbing stairs of my Office and met my Boss in between, he stopped and said to me Abhishek we have two trainees and you have to look after their training . As i entered the conference room where they were present i saw two young guys who still looks like they have passed their Schools sitting. My Boss introduced me to them and left the room. Prashanth and Sheeraz were from Hyderabad and have just completed their third year in Engineering from a renowned Institute . We started our Conversations in English about what we will be doing and where we will be going, but soon i came to know they both can speak Hindi also although Prashanth whose Hindi i found to be very funny as he is not accustomed to it.

Gradually we became good friends and whenever I used to go on site for work they used to follow me. As the terrain they were seeing was completely different for them they had so many questions to ask. Abhishek Ji ye Kayku hota h ??? would ask Sheeraz in his typical Hyderabadi accent, but to understand Prashanth was little bit difficult when he speaks Hindi so we have to take help of our English linguistic skills. I remember on first day we went to Pilakhua near Ghaziabad and have eaten Bhutta with them and when returning they shared my Lunch which was Arbi ki Sabji and from that i learned Arbi is called Chamagadda in Telugu.

While Prashanth with his Nice Touch Screen Phone of NOKIA was curious to took pictures of every new thing he get to see while Sheeraz wanted to ask about places to eat here in Meerut. They both were huge fans of Non Veg food and will tell me daily what they had eaten, Being a Vegetarian myself i still would tell them where to get best Non Veg from.

From Monday to Friday they would be with me and on weekends they used to roam around. In fact they visited Delhi around 3 times along with NOIDA, Agra ,Fathepur Sikri and Sheeraz even went to Ajmer in their short stint they had here. They both had so good attitude that in Office they were known to most of the people in fact they introduced me to some of them. 

                                                                      Sheeraz And Me in Canteen
Sheeraz is a Horse lover, whenever he sees one you could see glare in his eyes, i must say he is an Animal lover, knows so much about them and will always tell me unusual stuff about them. A true Muslim he was, on Fridays he used to go to Mosque in afternoon, even Once on Shab E Barat(i may be spelling it wrong) he spent whole night in Masjid praying. Whenever i was on low he used to crack a Joke to make me happy.

                                                     Prashanth and Me Sipping Coffee
Prashanth first sentence would he Hello Ji ! whenever we used to meet. He tried his best with Hindi and in the end i was able to catch what he wants to say. Most of the time he would be busy clicking pictures from the phone that he had bought from his Cousin he even bought a mini Laptop from one of his Friend for internship(what a great Friend he would be ). We used to have Coffee in the morning in the Office i will miss that now.


As i am the Junior most in my department it was nice to have someone with you around your, now as they both had gone back i will be again lonely. Have learned so much from them, their lively attitude,ever smiling faces of them, there was something in them that whoever meets them becomes fans of them instantly. Yesterday was the last day of them in Office and unfortunately i would have to go at a site at a distant place i would be returning late in night, i felt very sad for not being there with them on their last day. They pleaded me to meet them in Night but i came back late and could not meet them.


I know they both would be reading this Post, there so much i want to write about them but for now i just want to say that it was wonderful time with both of you here, i will miss both of you ! I don't know if i had fulfilled all the queries that you had but i tried my Best.  Just be in touch where ever you are. Surely we will be meeting again.




Here are some of the Pictures with them.

 

                              Pigeons Prashanth Clicked this in Gol Market

                                       I at Khurja at a Ceramic Shop, clicked by Prashanth

                                       We 3 returning from Dadri

 

                            Me and Prashanth at a site while Sheeraz just ahead of us           

 

                                                        Peacock on way to Dadri

                                                              Prashanth at Taj

 

                                  I guess person in btw is Sheeraz

  

Lastly Prashanth and Sheeraz in Office

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Best Friends !

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From past few days i was thinking what to post on my blog and nothing was coming to me and now here on Sunday afternoon i was sitting in my room and in came an idea why not write about my best days which are gone and i can't bring them back no matter what i can do. Sometimes when i am down and out(like now) i try to visualize the better days that are gone by and thats what i am trying to do with this post.

After preparing full one year for Engineering Entrance Exams, i gave all the exams that i had been enrolled to and was already knowing the result as i had not performed well in them. Full one year was wasted and the Money that was invested too, first came the IIT result i didn't even checked it(but i got the confirmation few days after i received a letter showing my poor performance in it), when i was giving IIT exam some twenty minutes were left , examiner came up to me she was seeing my OMR sheet the holes in Maths section were not filled yet, she said you haven't filled them yet please fill them fast, now who should tell her that i am unable to solve them thats why not filled those holes, but in desperation all blank holes were filled by me on same option and yes i got 12 marks in my IIT exam and you should get around 100 to crack IIT.


After AIEEE result my father first time in my life condemned me saying " You are a below average student " I could not argue on that as i had ruined all of their dreams that they had nurtured for me. Now in state Entrance exam i also fared bad getting 17,838 rank in Uttar Pradesh. Anyhow i was able to get a Mediocre college in my town.


Now my College story started, First day of the college i was quite nervous went by city bus and coincidentally met a Guy in my Bus who also joined my college with same branch as of mine. Went to college there were lot of new comers, on first day we were shown college premises and day was over.


I must tell you how i first saw my Best Friend, I was going to my college one day and City Bus stopped at one stop there i saw a guy in my college dress he was drinking water from the Hand Pump and hurriedly came on to latch the Bus, he was a thin,tall guy with glasses on. Then i saw him in my class also. As we were following the same route we got acquainted to each other. His name was Manish Rajora. I think you make friends who have common interests like you. We both have interests in Politics,current affairs,general knowledge,taste and so we became very good friends during the course of the time. There are lots of instances amongst us and here i will narrate some of them.


As most of our class mates used to come college by their personal vehicles we both came by buses,autos and by our foot. He used to come from Modinagar and i from Modipuram then we used to meet at a common point from there we took City Buses which are like hell you have to struggle for getting even a foot hold and we did all this for 4 years, after City bus we used to walk for a kilometer or so and the same process again in evening for return journey, but we enjoyed every moment of it. I guess we were the only two in our college who has done so hardship.


One day we went for a movie actually our whole class bunked for the movie. Everybody has taken their tickets in group. As we didn't have much money we took the cheapest ticket. As we were on the look out for our seats we got the front row seats. Now for whole movie we were trying to conceal us from our friends who were enjoying elevated show at their seats and we were struggling with our neck as scenes in movie were moving from extreme right to left and so does our neck. Any how we finished the movie and it was planned that we will never watch again movie from front row but history repeated itself once again at a different theater.


Who says that ragging happens in first year ? We were the guys who gave it every year. In first year they ragged us thats ok, but in second year its our turn to pay back, one fine evening we were returning to our home some guys called us and they started ragging us one by one, they abused us and made our fun and we have been ragged again we were so dumb. But it doesn't stop there only we were again ragged in third year.


Yes we were best friends but we have difference of opinions also. Like once when we were returning from our college and we were having discussion on whether Capital punishment must be given or not. I being little liberal is always against it but he who happens to be a Jat also was in favour of it. On that day we had heated discussion and no body was cowing down. We didn't talked to each other on that day.But i respect his decision and also mine and its perfectly all right to have ones own faith on any particular thing. I know he is reading it, you must remember Manish when we went to BSNL Office for training purpose on Delhi road  at that time also we had argued. But our fighting always remained upto words only and on the next day it used to be over.


As he mentioned in the comment section in earlier post when we went to Delhi for ISRO paper we enjoyed a lot what a time it was for us !  i guess we don't went there for giving paper we went to roam in Delhi exam was secondary thing.Once we went to trade fare also and roamed all day long, i miss those moments now, Yes it were our best days.


Two years had gone by after passing out our college, one year we were both unemployed and in April 2009 we got selected for same Company and now are working in same Company, but time has lot changed, i miss all those moments that we shared with each other. Now here i don't have many friends and i am not enjoying my job also. But then this is life and you have to move on with it. 


Today its Friendship day i thought why not to write about my best friend ever. You may argue that i don't call you much but you are and will be my Best friend !
I dedicate this post to you ! 



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