Another Bypassians Meet........

Hi Bypassians,

Its been a long time since I had blogged...

Well here is another dose of Bypassians.. for Bypassians....... ........ reasons .... were many like office / my housewarming ... etc

I had forgotten to mention about the Bypassians meet ... happened long back ... on the day of holi.

The bypassians present on that day were Girish , Javed, Kempanna, Gopal, Pradeep Singh and me (Somu)

Venue: Pai Victory off - JC road

We had a great time , bringing back the good old days we all had spent in Bhatkal....

The discussion started with the topic on AEC hostel , how bad was the dal and how filthy was the mess.....

Then it turned to our super seniors like Sandeep Shetty, Sharath Shetty, Aravind Singh, Omprakash Rai, Ankinidu........

We also discussed on how scary were the initial days in Hostel ...... My personnel experience on my first day at AEC was the scariest ....

The scenes I had seen on that day were .... peeping from the second floor of second block ...... becos it was a new year day, all of us had locked ourselves in our rooms fearing of some drunk senior knocking our room to ragg us....

at mid night 1.30 we (Basu, Krishna, Altaf......) heard some one shouting .... then what we saw was something taken out from a Rowdy movie......

We saw one of Andhra senior is running behind another one with a sword in his hand...... ooops

We saw the drama for more than 20 minutes ..... all of us shit scared to the core....

Everyone of us decided that ... today is our last day in AEC...... the episode continues.....

This was one of the episodes by me .......

I will keep posting the discussions we had and the experiences we shared in the coming blogs.....

I will leave a few snaps taken on that day ..... (the snaps are not that clear as it were taken on Gopal's N series cell phone )

Umesh is getting married.... Congrats !!!!

Hey Bypassians,

It’s been a long time talking to you all,

Guess who’s happy this month … Wedding bells are ringing for one of our co-bypassian….

Umesh Bhat….is the (un) Lucky …. Sorry Umesh don’t mind for the Un…. Well the experience speaks … what you all married bypassians say …. hmmmm … ????

Umesh has sent the soft copy of his marriage invitation card to post it on bypassians,

Here goes Umesh Bhat inviting all bypassians,

Hi Aecians

I am Inviting You And Your Familly On My Mairrage Function On 4 th May 2007.

Considering this is my personal invitation please attend my marriage.

Umesh V Bhat





I just want to advice Umesh by the following quotes prior to loosing his “Bachelor “Status,

Well Umesh please read them carefully and … better not understand the meaning…..

Just kidding man….. Do not take these quotes seriously…..


Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want, then when you see what the other fellow has, you wish you had ordered that.

"Why do married men gain weight while bachelors don't ?
Bachelors go to the refrigerator, see nothing they want, then go to bed.
Married guys go to the bed, see nothing they want, then go to the refrigerator."

"I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; and then it was too late."

"Make love, not war. I'm married, I do both."

"Love may be blind but marriage is a real eye-opener !"

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person"




“Congratulations to you on behalf of all the bypassians”

Somu

Sudhir's first and second day at AEC, Bhatkal

Hi Bypassians and AEC'ns,

Its been long time since the last blog,

Sorry for the delay guys,

Well there is a response for my blog on the first day's in AEC and Bhatkal,

Sudhir has responded with his warm memories of Bhatkal,

Such memories will make us feel the time of Bhatkal.... those first days in Bhatkal with lots of hopes and thrills...... why dont you all share the first days at Bhatkal .....at AEC...???

Here goes Sudhir's First and second day...


Dec 4th, 1993
Time: 8 AM.
We took a rickshaw from Vaibhav to AEC!!!..I was amazed to see the rickshaw mounting a hill.............!!!!!!!!
My parents were there with me to the Principal's office for the formalities of joining the college! (They had accompanied me in the rickshaw)
I had the CET board seat allocation chit with me, and after flashing that at the Principal's office and after undergoing the other formalities, we went to Nagraj's Canteen......we had idlis and coffee along with the peon at the principal's office (forgot his name!).....My dad offered him 20Rs for his courtesy for joining us to the canteen!....As a respect, he told me (in front of my dad) to come next day to the college and contact him for any assistance that I may require!...He also told us to go home for that day!....Next day was a sunday. I asked him whether the college will be open the next day!..he replied that Friday is an holiday for AEC!

Dec 5th, 1993
We were still put up in Vaibhav. At around 8 AM, I took a rickshaw again (alone this time, leaving behind parents at the lodge) to the college!
I met that peon, whom we met the earlier day and asked him for the Electrical class. He told me that its in the first floor above Principal's office and also that the class starts at 8:00 AM. I rushed to the class in the first floor, it was 8:15 AM.......I asked the Lecturer's (forgot his name, Maths lecturer - not Ataulla!!!) permisson and the was looking for a place to sit.......class strength was huge (around 120 people)...finally I found a place and warmed it!
I saw next to me on the left, a lean and handsome fellow, with brown eyes sitting!...I said Hello to him....and asked him where he was from!....He said in a typical Malayali accent...that he is from Trivendrum, Kerala. He was none other than Matthew Solomon Mathai!!!!!!
After that class and one more class (don't remember that at all!)...the classes were called off and we were asked to go home and come the next day!
I headed back home(oops..sorry Vaibhav lodge!)......I walked all the way to the entrance to the hill to AEC and in the VRL booking office, Booked 2 tickets for that evening to Bangalore, for my parents and went to lodge.

My dad and mom, in the meantime had talked to Sudhir (receptionist at Vaibhav) and arranged for a small house in Mood Bhatkal. When I went to the lodge, they told me the same and it was time for us to visit my future-house in mood bhatkal. He showed us the house and although the rent was expensive (400Rs PM), my parents were okay with that as they believed some other AECians may join me as promised by Sudhir. He also explained that there are buses from bypass to AEC, when we expressed our concern that the distance is too much to commute daily!.... His comments made us feel a bit good. We asked Sudhir (he was the owner of the house) to get the house cleaned and we went all the way back to Vaibhav and packed our things to come back with our luggage at around 3:00 PM.

So, finally I got my accomadation thing done!...Now, It was time for us to shop!...We went around the stretch from my room to Quality (old one!)..and purchased some utensils and other stuff!..I had to keep track of the route from the room to all the places we went so as to make sure, we reach the room, without any hiccups!!!..I did it very successfully (needless to say!)....
My mom prepared some chapathis and curry that evening and now it was time for them to leave Bhatkal, leaving me alone, high and dry!!!!
That painstaking moment also finally arrived, Sudhir had arranged a rickshaw from my new house to Bhatkal bus stand and back!....I saw-off my parents and came all the way back to my new house in mood bhatkal!....not to mention that I had tears in my eyes. I had never been away from them, uptil that time!!!


Thanks and Regards,
Sudhir V Pudwal

Comments for Sudhir's post...


Narahari said....

Hey Sudhir

That was a good one..But what would have been more interesting was the third..fourth...etc days during the riots!!..the struggle and the run-aways stuffs..so hope to see those soon..

Cheers
Narahari

9:09 PM

Sudhir said...

Sure dude..i will....

7:24 PM

17 days after the New Year blast.....

Guys....

Hope you all had a blast on the new year day..... well its all over now and 2007 is 17 days old so as the new year blast, the party, the resolutions.

I always felt that the good times should have frozen in time and we could have enjoyed that moment of joy forever..... nope this is not the reality as the cruel future becomes the ongoing present and puts a full stop for the moment of joy and pushes it to the past.... thus the past becomes so adorable that we keep going back to our past .... remembering those good old days.... those unforgottable moments..... (I am getting confused myself... lemme stp here talking about past present and the future)

One thing is common with all Bypassians ..... we all are AECians ..... whether we liked our college or not ... its true that we all were there....

Though the blog is to talk about Bypassians and bypass .... its not complete without talking about the our college , Hostel, Mess the TV hall........ the co-education .... so on

We (Most of us) bypassians have spent atleast one to two years in the hostel and had tasted the famous (in-famous) Dal of our mess.

As we talk about bypass there was a parallel world running on the AEC hill at the hostels and we all were a part of that world atleast one's.

I have decided to talk more about the hostel and the college world from now on ... so please do send me your Hostel experiences......

Lets refresh all those College and Hostel memories once again....

To start with ... i am posting the photograph of the 1st 2nd and the 3rd blocks hostel..... this is where most of us started our AEC life....????

In the next Blog I shall start with my first day experience in the college.....

Meanwhile I request you all to share your first days at the college... mail me on somu.sk@gmail.com .... I shall post them on the blog...

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New Year Eve.....A party at Kubera

Hi all,

What to say on the New years eve... the pictures above say it all ....still let's start with the definition of the new year..

The New Year is an event that happens when a culture celebrates the end of one year and the beginning of the next. Cultures that measure yearly calendars all have New Year celebrations.

Ooops.... that's what Wikipedia had to say..... not me.

Guys Wish you all a Happy New Year ..2007 .... in advance....

Haven't we spent enough time cursing Bhatkal , Aec..... when we were at bhatkal ?

But honestly we had lot of things to complain .... like no co-education at the college, the teaching staff, the hostel, food, the rain, the sweat, jam packed tempo's, no busses to bypass, saikumar & Mithunda's movies... well the list goes on ..... still there are 100 of other things we complained about.... which was the reality back there...

But don't you think we also had some of the advantages of being in bhatkal ... which were the one kept us alive there....

Like the Kubera, Quality, seven seas, Sindhu, murudeshwar, the APM buses, the packed tempo's with good people kind enough to give us the that lill space to creep in and hang on to it also worth mentioning the other minor advantages of coming in tempo's (we all know),
the konkan train which made going Goa just a matter of 100 bucks in the pocket, the fish curry (for the fish eater's), Laxmi theatre (for morning shows) and Pushpanjali (for night shows), the near by hotspots like Gokarna, Toodalli falls, Baindoor beach, trasi beach, .........

There are so many to list.....

Every new year eve brings me loads of bhatkal memories to me....

The new year parties at kubera, parties at shirali, the goa trips .....

The memories of the unplanned trip to Goa..... the time we had spent in Madgoan busstand and the panjim trip the next day.... all are sitting like the mpeg clips in my memory.... all I need is to replay it whenever I feel .....

Each one of us had atleast 4 newyear parties at bhatkal (some lucky one's like me had more than that) and we all have party even now.... but that carless attitude... no responsibilites, no worries about money, wife , job, kids....while partying .

The true parties was only at parties we did at bhatkal .

I am leaving the following flash clips for you all .... Happy New Year once again...

Somu

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Response No 1... for Pradeep Singhs article by Sreenath

Hi all,

Here is the first response on Pradeep Singh's blog......

It's not that each one of us had to feel the same way what Pradeep, Somu or Gopal felt ...... well Sreenath has a different story to say ......

The truth is out here on this blog for the first time straight from Sreenath.....

I think all of us will have a say on this one....

Somu

Here goe's Sreenath's comment.....

Well it’s all flourishing moments I ever had in my life during my stay @ Distinction block…like Pradeep said he saved money when he stayed away from distinction block, I thought why not I make some money out this Distinction block? (sounds crazy ... look how I did it.....)

I went and cut a deal with CSC student and here was the deal…’I will move get you my single room and how much can you afford me?

He replied with a big smiling face how much you want? I said 3K .....and next moment the deal was closed and I walked away from the hostel and stayed near K U B E R A……..

Enjoyed for 2 months with out studying just watching bur..'s and full time playing and cooking…continued this for next 2 months then I realized...... I was screwing my career.......oops....

One fine day came back to hostel and Told Raj Kumar (ENC professor and then Warden) and here it goes my conversation with him …

”Sir I want single room now, he said you had volunteered...? your room to some one else so we don’t have any more, I said sir I am not able to study properly after I left hostel, he said I told you many times but you never listened to me…You better come next year, I will talk to my management about you and I will personellay request them to get you shared room, sir if I waste my final year like this it will spoil my career.

He said this year you enjoy next year you can study well…;-). Then some tears (mosale kanneeru)…and started "sir actually we are very poor sir....!!!!???", we didn’t have money to afford a single room at that time, that’s why I gave that to other person. as now we got loan sanctioned and I want to study hard ..... so that single room is very essential..… he told ok I will talk to Bokaro(Principal and the management tonight and will try to get you shared room)….sir please sir…...

He told you come and meet me tomorrow. I met him next day, he told I have 1 single room but if you can pay the bill by end of today I can give you other wise I will give it to Satish Jarali ;-)…

I told him sir give me time till tomorrow I will call my father to get the money and come tomorrow morning itself… he told ok today you can shift but you should pay tomorrow….I paid after ..........5 days ;-)……….

Will update about Satish Jarali’s case later…

Pradeep Sing da article ... on the distinction block

Hi all,

Its been almost a month since I blogged sorry for the delay,

Hey all here is an article from our own Kannada speaking Sardar....Pradeep Singh,

Currently he is working in Ericcson and had been to Bhatkal and to our college in connection to installing an tower for Airtel,

The topic of Pradeep's article is about the Hostel and to be more precise .... its about the famous distinction block....

Man....!!!!! we all had heard lot's of stories and myth'n block ..... only top scorer's get in there and all the rooms are single rooms.... there is water 24/7 and next to the mess..... there were so many attractions and advantages we all saw and wated to be there in our final year.....

Well most of us did not have that good marks to enter there .... well .. I think none of the bypassians did bother about that .... vcos... we already had our own 5 star single rooms at Bypass.....

Well Pradeep has got some nice photographs from the top of the distinction block....(none of us had accesses there)

Along with the article is also shares his feelings about the distinction block,

Here goes Pradeep's story,

Enjoy....!!!

Somu

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Hi Bypassians,

These are recent snaps from top of 4th block... i.e. final year block...

Most of us might have got this idea at least once to stay in this block in final year and study well and walk out with a distinction in final year.......( I think this line will rake up lot of replies from people aboard your blog :-)......... )

In my case, when the time came, I was not selected for that... I gave myself an explanation that I saved the extra money which I might have had to shell off if I had got a room there....

Or.... I dont remember, I did'nt even apply for that block I guess..... Or am I saying this just to save my face?.... :-).......Iam not sure......

Whatever... these pics are different from all we shared before because these are taken from terrace of 4th block where nobody has access..... Airtel is planning to put a mobile gsm site on top of this block to give coverage to campus... the guys who went for survey have taken these photos......

Please share it among our friends aboard your blog.

You've set it ablaze, now keep it Burning.....CHEERS !!

Pradeep

Going back to the room where you lived

Guys,

How doe's it feel to you to go back to Bhatkal.. Bypass ... the street you use to walk every day ... the room where you once lived...????

Well tell me honestly how many of you ever visited the above said places in your dreams after moving out of Bhatkal...?

No matter how worse the days were at Bypass but we always cherish those memories of Bypass.

I hope my experience (listed below) may resemble many bypassians feelings about our stay at bypass,

Just imagine that we have got a time machine and we all are back in time when we were at Bypass.....

Wether it may be the Shanbhag compound OR GK Block we all shared the same locations (u can say hot spots). and the following places and the pictures will hit our mind as we back to one of the old days of bypass,

Imagine you are getting out of the tempo at bypass after a busy day at collee ...

First we see the ramu canteen ... lets have a chai and a smoke.... feelin better .. lets move on and start walking to our rooms,

Now if you stayed at GK block..... cross the temple (forgot the name) then comes the public school ... take a right ... u can see satish chandra office (the liquior contractor) a familier face oppt to the office (you know who ?) ... move on there comes a big building and you can see window of Balu's room. come further enter the familier steps upstairs.... first comes Narahari's room on left... hey u can see sooraj Kawa on the right... next on right ... a room with a nice music system ... u gussed it right ... sarvanan and sudheer's room .. then suri rama and at last balus room. Down goes the steps to the GK block owners house ( worth mentioning one name "Burma aunti" with that thick pleasent voice). Lets come to the Balcony near the stair

If you stayed in Shanbhag compound .... after the public school cross the kashi math take left... before Jayesh's house on left here are the rooms ... first one... Somu next the bank guy Ravi ... Kiran's room ... the famous Narasimha Murthy's room.... couple of cute faces... comes sameera simha/sai kumar's room.

next to Jayesh's house was the famous aunty Mess .... we all had many hot dinners / lunch's...????? those little chapati's, rice and the famous dal and .... how can we forget the butter milk... after a heavy meal.....

Also how can I forget that nice view of Jayesh's house from my room... an ideal house to own in bhatkal... nice garden full of flowers , lawn....

(its getting longer ... lets visit the other spots in coming days like The veer vittal road ... the familiar kashi math, the Shanteri Kamakshi temple... etc)

let me know ... if you are back in Bypass ????

Continuing The Bypass S..... book Scandel !!!! (by Sameera Simha)

Hi guys,

This is the continuation of "the Bypass S..... book Scandel"

This is what Sammera Simha had to share with all Bypassians!!!!

One of interesting thing about Bypass is Somu's Circulating Library. He had a wide variety of books from local to international flavours. He used to borrow and donate the books who are in need.

Ya you have gussed it right, It's not engg books they are s.. books or more commonly known as syllabus book, story book or SB.

Somu Circulating library was not only famous in bypass but also in college. He matainted a varity of books from Debonair to Nenapu kadtave, Ganda hendati,Romanchana,. Somu . was the fund raiser to bring a new book. The contributors were chandru, prashnath, Sai kumar, Narasimha, kiran and others. The library became so famous that even Ramu (Ramu canteen) used to ask. Some of them dropped exams to cover entair syllabus of the book.

Chandru(Steal Man) used to steal books from fellow mates. He had an instinct to steal others book. There were some persons who used to give sanyasi look but they used to read more than others. The people on board are Gopal, Sai kumar, Umesh, Vikram. Especially Saikumar used to Read the books several times.

The latest technology was introduced by Narasimha, He brought a computer and tell me one person who dint see a movie [ BF] in Narasimha computer. Girish, Javeed, Kiran, Ballappa and Narasimha, Saikumar made most of this emerging technology.

Inspite of the corroupt environment there were some studious boys like Johnly,Girish Gowda and lost but not least sameera

There is lot more coming up....... Please wait and reply to this

with Regards
Sameera

Siraj's Marriage Invitation to all Bypassians..

Hi all,

One of owr co-bypassian Siraj is getting married on 5th of November 2006 at his Native Shimoga so here is an invitation by Siraj,

"Hi Friends I am getting married on nov 5th at shimoga.so u r cordially invited 2 attend the function with ur family members. The reception is on 7th of nov at hotel shivani sirsi"

"I have invited all my freinds 2 whom i know and have their email id's with me. It would be great if u add my invitation in ur blog so that my invitation can reach freinds like javeed dodmani,narsimha,reddy,vedamurthy and all other bypassians"

Suvarna Karnataka Rajyotsava...

Ella Bypass Geleyarige Suvarna Kannada Rajyotsavada Shubhashayagalu.

Happy Golden Karnataka Rajyotsava to all the Bypassian friends!!!

This day reminds me only one voice ..... the Bypassian SP Balasubramaniam ...i.e Kiran... singing "Karunada thayi sada chinmai" and of course our great Annavru singing "Huttidare kannada naadalli huttabeku"

(Here is the link for all of you to listen to this song http://www.kannadaaudio.com/Songs/Moviewise/A/Akasmika/Huttidhare.ram)

Jai Kannada

Somu

The Bypass S..... book Scandel !!!!

Hi all,

Nice to be back on Bypassians,

There is couple of things to cheer. First one is "Bypassians has crossed 500 hits" and the second one is for the Suvarna Karnataka Rajyotsava.

Guys did you guess what scandal I am talking about??

Well...well it’s not about you!!!! So doesn’t worry just read on....?

We all remember how difficult were the days at our college (without Co-Ed) and I am dammn sure that every one of us had our own personnel collection of the S.. books.

There might be some people asking honestly ...what the heck is this S..book all about.... If you are saying so then you are lying.

I know that you had some or borrowed some and had kept them in safe places like below your bed OR locked in your suitcase.... so on

When I started burning the precious money buying these books .... There were lot of readers and borrowers ..but no payers..... then one day I thought about a crazy Idea to start an S.. book fans club. After discussing with friends..... ooops there was a huge support by all of them on this Idea.

Thus we officially kick started the Bypassians S.. book fan club. e went to an extent to choose the President, Secretary and the members. We even decided the membership fees and other terms and conditions ..like... who will buy and read it first, how much time he can hold the book for himself, when does the next member get the book... etc.

There was only one single rule prohibiting sharing the book with non-members.

The club went well and flourished within few months... the collection which started from kannada books went on covering expensive English monthlies like De...r and Pl...oy.

I actually feeling the urge to revel the members names but... but... because of you guys and to maintain the privacy I am not disclosing the names.....( its ok... no need of thanks ... I can understand ur situation)

The club went well until a major scandal took place...

One of our prestigious member Sa..r Si..ha violated the rule and we came to know that he is sharing the books with a non member and this non-member forced Sa..r Si..ha to give the books to him...???????

Itna Bada Aparadh.... Such a Injustice...... we tried to explain the non-member to become a regular member and get the books...... NO...NO the Guy said NO....

Then there was a big fight with the President of the "Bypassians S.. book fan club" and the non-member. There were no casualties ....!!!

On that sad day we decided to close down the "Bypassians S.. book fan club"

This ends the S.. book scandal story.

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2)The great tale of Superstitious Chandru

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ಇವರ ತಾನು ಎಂಬ ತೊಡಕು ಕಥಾಸಂಕಲನಕ್ಕೆ ಈ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿಗಳು ದೊರೆತಿವೆ:
• ಹುನಗುಂದ ತಾಲೂಕಿನ ಮೃತ್ಯುಂಜಯ ಸಾರಂಗಮಠ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ
• ಬೆಳಗಾವಿ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಪ್ರತಿಷ್ಠಾನದ ಸಿರಿಗನ್ನಡ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ
• ಕನ್ನಡ ಲೇಖಕಿಯರ ಪರಿಷತ್ತಿನ ಅತ್ತಿಮಬ್ಬೆ ಪ್ರತಿಷ್ಠಾನದ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ



ನಿಮ್ಮ ವಿಮರ್ಶೆಗಳನ್ನು ಮರೆಯದೆ ಕಳಿಸಿ,
ಸೋಮು

Dad I really miss you.......

Father, Father, hold me now,
I long to feel your touch.
Father, Father, my heart weeps still,
I miss you so very much.

I miss your warmth, I miss your smile,
I miss your gentle guiding hand.
You taught how to hold a bat,
When to walk, to run, to stand.

You offered such acceptance,
Always let me be who I am,
Never questioning my decisions,
You helped me become a man.

You were ill when I arrived,
At the start it brought us close,
Often nursing me off to sleep,
I was much luckier than most.

To this day, I rejoice my fortune,
Knowing I was a lucky one;
To be born of a loving and gentle man,
Who reached out and touched his son.

Father, Father, hold me now...

Hey all bypassians sorry for posting something serious like this,

With deep sorrow I am announcing that one of our co-bypassian Santosh Shanbhag lost his father yesterday. I pray to god "may his soul rest in peace"

Let god give all that power and strength to Santosh and his family during this sad time.

Santosh we all are there with you ..... be brave ...take care of family especially your Mom ... it is devastating for her to loose her life partner.

Guys I all ways wonder why ??????
GOD (if there is any one by that name).... I dont belive that you ever existed....
Even if you were there .... then why do you take my father so early,

Hey god if you are seeing this blog then let me tell you one thing that I stopped believing in you the day you took away my Dad ... He died on my lap.... I prayed to you thousand times ..... you never came to my rescue. Now I dont even believe that you are there.......

My dad passed away on April 19th 2003, I never thought or imagined in my wildest dreams that I have to lead a life where my father is not with me......

This is for my dad

"I had so many things to tell you" " I missed so many chances to come close to you and tell you how much I love you" Sad thing was... we came closer ... when you were sick and when I struck that friendship with you and ... even you started talking to me like a friend... you went away..."

"Daddy, I love and miss u so much. I never thought the man who hung the moon and strongest man on earth could ever die. I wish you were here with me healthy and strong. I wish I could hug you and tell you how much I love you. I wish you could hug the me one more time. I hurt so bad. I was in denial about you dying. I didn't think you would ever leave"

I just pray one thing dad.... keep coming in my Dreams....

( Hey bypassins I could not hold myself from writing all this... I have just written everything coming from my heart and I am posting this .... without doing the spell check)

Sorry for the serious stuff this time.... But ....I have a message for all Bypassians... Guys don't waste time in arguing with your parents .... time is precious.... even the parents are... so love them as much as possible ... do not hesitate to ask them to be your friends.... get close to them today.

Somu

Inviting all Bypassians through Youtube

Hi Mates,

I have uploaded an video inviting all the bypassins to check this blog out.

Click on this link to see me calling all bypassians to visit this blog and share their comments .... ON YOUTUBE........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utSzJzdrjpM

Cheers

Somu

The Ultimate Hangout for AEC'ians - Kubera

(Recently when I was in Bhatkal ... I forgot to take the picture of kubera..... when I started travelling in the bus and neared I suddenly remembers what I had missed....... but still managed to get a glimpse from the moving bus.... thus its not clear ... but Kubera fans can make out clearly the steps of Kubera ....)


Guys I am really sorry for not posting anything for a long time,

Well !!! the reasons are many ...... (like I was busy shifting myself from an employee to an employer..... yes I have stared on my own now with a staffing company doing business both in India and USA... Total Business Solutions www.tbsicorp.com...)

I think thas too much of a talking about myself ..... I am voilating the basic rules of bypassians group where in we are here to share our stories as bypassians and not what are we doing now...

We really had lot of depressing moments back then.... starting with ... Internals went bad, did not get marks in internals, feeling lonley, failed in exams, no girls, no co-education , no money to , No current (power) ................ well you name it....!!!

In bhatkal and at Bypass We had all the reasons to get depressed...

I still remember that we had spent a hell of time cursing ourselves for coming to bhatkal...

So... So when you are so depressed .... you should be only in one place to relive the stress THE GRAND KUBERA.

Every time I think of a depressed situations in Bhatkal, I see only one place use to come to our rescue...... THE GRAND KUBERA.....

Not only the depressed moments ... even when we were happy and could not hold ourselves any more.... go to Kubera.

I am sure that we all have spent countless hours in kubera discussing how big and rich we all gonna be once we finish this course.

For all bypassins who never belived in travelling by Auto ..... when it comes to going Kubera... never think twice... get an auto or bus .... anything

Did'nt have any money ????? never mind .... your friends are not helping you ??? never mind ... just tell them you are depressed/happy and going to Kubera!!!!! and see the magic ....Once the program is fixed the money use to flow to us like a miracle (that too with easy EMI's) Thanks to all of those broad hearted friends,

That dim light of kubera , those cabins filled with AEC'ans ..... sitting in a corner cabin with friends..... the initial discussion of what to order..... sellecting the starters....... back to the hoot discussions till the order is served ...... Cheers!!!! two glasses...... we are all in a different world .... then next.... finish the glasses ... go to rest room... empty tanks ....... come back to the hot discussion.... order another XXXXX ..... finish that..... then comes the great food of kubera.....
That silkey Butter chicken with Butter Naan... hmmmm... god I wished this moment would have been as long as it can be....

Party is over ..... back to Bypass.... go to sleep ... dont bother to get up early tomorrow ... because its a Friday....

Thinking of .....Introducing all Bypassians

Guys,

As suggested by Narahari I am thinking of posting details on each individual Bypassian,

To start with let's share the email IDs,

Here come the first lot of email ID's,

Narahari - ms.narahari@rediffmail.com
Somu - somu.sk@gmail.com
Vijay Kiran reddy - vijay_kiran@yahoo.com
Gopal - unipowerproject@vsnl.net
Sameera Simha - sameera_simha@dell.com
Narasimha Murthy - laranaguru@gmail.com
Javed Doddamani - javednd77@yahoo.com
Chandru Gowda - chandra_gowda1@rediffmail.com
Pradeep Singh - pradip.gill@gmail.com

I request all the bypassians seeing this blog to share their email ID and I shall post them on the blog,

( I have some photographs of the Famous Ayesha Plaza ... just to refresh your memories)

In The Memory of K (kai Masters)

Hi Bypassians,

When we talk of bypass ..... how can we forget the stress busters / short pleasure rides....

Wondering what are these stress busters... The Great Baindur shirur TEMPO's

Well how can we call them as stress busters..... ???? you can say .....the tempo's were always jam-packed and no air to breathe.... how can they be the stress busters / pleasure rides.... ???

A million $$$$ question ... but the K masters know the answer ( K masters = Kai masters)

Is it sounding like some lines from suspense Novel.............. sorry

Let me talk it straight. All the bypassians know what are theses tempos and why are we talking about them and about K masters.

We all thank these Tempo's from bottom of our Hand (not heart) .... that they really helped us commute daily to college and back to the room.

We also had the APM busses for our commute ... but they ... were ... tooo ... spacious and empty...and ... boring....

That's why every one proffered the Tempo's........ Am I saying right ???

I know that every one of us have our own sweet memories of those short but memorable joyrides.

Any bypassian saying " I used to go in Tempo's just to reach college in time .....!!!!" IS A BIG LIE....... ha ha ha

I still remember waiting in bypass (after a heavy break fast in ramu's canteen) for the 8.15 APM bus...... once you r in the bus then can see the big bunch of gals.... cant see the face.... u all know why... .. cant even recognize who... is who... but there were few of the K masters who were so perfect in judging who is who just by looking at ...... their............... arre yaar nothing else ... their chapples. The journey till college was sort but ...... was a unique memory every time.

Even while coming back from college.... the tempo's .... FULL JAMMED with people... some how insert your leg in ....and search for a place for your hand for a firm grip............... guys what are you thinking...... firm grip for your hand.... so that you are in the tempo and not fall on the road.

Well some of us used to get out of the tempo at bypass .... but there were exceptions .... some people use to decide to go on till Shirur / Baindur ( There are examples of going till Mangalore aslo) .

Now don't ask me why did they continue till shirur / baindur or mangalore.......


(NOTE : Initially I had thought of mentioning the names of the K masters but... It will not be right on their part as now they all are not single and Grown Up.
Moreover ... we all have done it so why point out few people.... ?? )

Cheers

Somu

Hey Bypassians is Growing !!!

(Some more pics of Bypass taken from my cell phone just for .... all of you..)

Hi All,

I was really Overwhelmed by the response on bypassians ,

I am happy to say the hit counter has crossed 60 after the day I had posted the blog. Thanks to all the bypassians visiting this blog.



I urge all of you to leave a trail of yourself on this blog.... you can do this by any of the following ways,
1) You can post your comments (link next to each posting)
2) You can sign my guestbook (you can find it on the right end saying "sign my guest book")
3) You can also mail me - (somu.sk@gmail.com OR somukorannavar@yahoo.com)

I have recived lot of encouraging comments from many bypassians.....

After seeing the comments I was really charged to post more articles and pics on the blog.

The comments ....really are boosting our motives and helping me come up with more updates on the blog,

I also request to all bypassians to mail me the name and email-Id's of themselves as well as the people whose names are missing from the list.

Here are some of the bypassians who have sent me their views ,

Narahari , Girish Gowda, Vikram, Sreenath Narasimha Murthy,

After Girish Gowda's comment I am going to update the list of Bypassians you can see that next to the Dedication (at the top of the blog)

and here are their comments ;

1) From Narahari (Sr Bypassian ..)

Somu,

Hope you remember me...its great man....good work..

Post more pics if you have please...

I shall publish this to the aecians group...

Cheers

Narahari

2) From Jayesh - ( Permenent Bypassian...)

Hey Somu,

It was really nice to see all of you..I could recollect the old memories. Mailnly the late night studies..and the Maggi Noodles and lemon rice by Prashant. Giri's adventures..when he got a thon in his hand....and many more

thanks

Jayesh

3) From Girish Gowda ( Co Bypassian)

Hi Guys,

Girish Gowda here.

Seems like you have forgotten many other people. Vikram Rao, Johnlee, Bhatta, Santosk Shanbagh, Sai. Please update their names also ;).

Good that you have posted this on the blogger. Keep blogging.

I remember many things - Lakshmi talkies morning show, rainy days when almost everybody would not keep well, the discussions we used to do - only about the next dose of food ;).
OK Will blog more soon.

4) From Vikram ( Co Bypassian)

nice job somu....

i enjoyed and really all those memories came flashing in front of my eyes....

that's true.. the days we enjoyed at the bypass, ramu's canteen, the highway bridge, was something different...


Keep writing .....

Cheers

Somu