I went to calicut to attend convocation. Kranthi, Nagaraju, Om Prakash came to bangalore on 17th Jan morning. I took them to my flat. Prepared maggi for them and returned to office.
They went to RT Nagar to buy a gift for Gurudatha as his birthday is on 19th Jan. He is the one who celebrated his birthday thrice in NITC from M.tech.
We started from my flat in the evening. Gurudatha joined us at majestic. Guru's sister also coming to calicut to see convacation. We bought sweets for our professors.
Our bus was at 10pm. It came a bit late and started at 10:30pm. There was some problem with the bus, the driver took us to bangalore bus depot and changed the bus. I felt the bus is going very slow and making so much sound. By bad luck, we got front seats in the bus. We reached MYSORE at 3AM. Generally it takes max 3 hours to reach mysore from bangalore.
The driver and conductor went to get another bus from depot. My self and two passengers got down from the bus and started discussing about the kerala and karnataka busses. Another bus came at 4AM. We got into the new bus and I slept for a while.
We thought by 10AM we will be in the college. But, the driver took us very fast. We got down at kunnamangalam and reached college at 9AM. We directly went to canteen. Srinu, aravind and other batch mates were at canteen. I felt very happy to see them after a long time. We went to chanakya to collect our convocation dress. We met some of our batch mates near chanakya hall. BPR came to chanakya hall, we met him and gave him some bumps. It was fun meeting BPR after a long time.
We collected the convocation dress and went to G-Hostel. On the way, we met our juniors sri krishna, Gopi etc. Nagaraju came to college with his wife. Most of my batch mates came to attend convocation.
we went to srikrishna room and got freshed. I forgot formal dress for convocation. Kranthi and others were telling that we should wear formals and only formal shoes. I started searching for a formal dress and shoes. I got it from my juniors and MCA ppl. Thanks to them...
We went to our department to meet our lecturers. Luckily all the lecturers were in the college. First, we met Madhu kumar sir. We started talking with him, Priya chandran madam also came there. We gave sweets to them.
Vineeth paleri sir was on the first floor. We went there and met him. We took couple of snaps with him. We gave sweets to him. We met nazeer sir, saleena madam and kaladi sir. Every one felt very happy.
Then we went to meet our HOD, sebastian sir. He was also at his chamber. We went there and greeted him. After that we went to canteen to have lunch.
After the lunch we came back to hostel and got ready with convocation dress. Everyone was looking different with the dress and the faces were glowing with smile.
We went to convocation hall at 2:30pm. All the ppl were assembled there. Function started at 3:30. I felt a bit uneasy with the dress. And the hall was packed and does not have proper fans etc. There was a speech by our director and chief guest. Chief guest speech was for 1/2 hr. After the speeches, our director distributed degrees to all graduates. The function got over by 6pm. Kranthi got a gold medal. We felt very happy and he deserves it.
We took some photos out side the convocation hall and went to chankya hall to return dress. We took some photos at chanakya hall also. Then I met some of my batch mates there. Congratulated all of them for completing the post graduation.
We went back to hostel after returning the convocation dress. We were planning to arrange a cake for guru. Srinu called me and told that he ordered a cake in kattangal(next stop to our college). We went to kattangal after dinner and collected the cake.
Guru also came to kattangal and gave a juice party to all of our friends.
Our junior pramod came to us and asked us to play age of empires. We agreed. We were playing AOE almost after 9 months. Kranthi, nagaraju, sumith played in one team against our juniors. I was with kranthi and helped him in playing the game. It was fun.
Its 12'o clock. Guru birthday. We came to first floor and our juniors arranged a table, knife etc. We gave some bumps to datha and wished him. Guru distributed the cake. As there were very few ppl, so much of cake was there. I gave some stills with the cake. Suddenly, srinu took the cake and rubbed on my face. BPR and me ran behind him to catch, but we could not catch him. We came back to hostel and started chatting with juniors and our classmates.
We all enjoyed the convocation. All are happy to meet our batch mates after a long time. Some people were saying that college should conduct a convocation every year and should invite all so that we can meet our batch mates at least once in a year. Every one remembered the happy days in college once again.
