our navratri 2007

okay the day started off normallyexcept for the fact that it was navratri and days arent normal during that season and ours was no exception.there was the gay trend during that time that all of us visit each others' places for golu (south indian tradition of displaying statues). so we joined in and it was raghuls' place that day. oibviously all the girls were kinda pretty excited owing to the bulid up we had given about his place for an year. specially athmika, you should have seen the smile on her place when she was there... okay things were going smooth apart from the fact that raghuls' mom thought of divya as abinaya's mother!! well, poor divya... anyways the food was great. i dont even remember how many servings of samosa i had!! and pretty soon the golu got over and the day ended. But not for the gay5 (i hate using that name but since i have started off this section that way so have to continue it). well things were just getting started.

So i came about some events in the chennai chronicle and read that there was some durga puja in besant nagar. what better ocassion will we get? so we decided and headed off to bessie. 

oh boy seeing the number of bengalis there reminde

d me of kolkata!!(though i've never been there but still) it was hell crowded and statues were amazing. we thought of having something there but the prices were sky high there. then after some prashad and fotos we headed off to beachside to have our dinner.

well it was some dhaba (dhaba in chennai means a very big restaurant) and we planned out for the rest of the night. well it was me jagan bigb bri and atul. and ofcourse no one eats with their mouths shut. jagan just tipped off the limit in teasing atul with his singhman theories. obviosly atul got pissed and left. we had my bike so i gave it to atul and told him to take it hostel.

so it was just the four of us now. we thought there will be bikers in the bessie beach road late night. so we waited in the footpath till around 12. we saw a group talking about bikes and sat opposite to them. watching them talk made us feel they r gods with bikes and would soon create some show. and that was exactly what we were waiting for. one was like "machan he can do 60 degree wheelie da!" another was like "whatta! 60 and all is kids stuff. i can do 90 machan for 3 seconds. my bike goes 0-60 in under 4." well it was intimidating and exciting as we could watch something great. so the clock ticked 12. all of them went for their bikes. we thought now is the time. we were on our feet too. and there they left.

no stunts nothing. we had wasted all the time there watching them talk. anyways we thought why to waste the rest of the night and went towards the beach. it was unusual though, no one was there. not even a single soul. then we saw the devil in hyundai accent. painted blue and red. lights flashing all over the place. and a loud voice from the microphone made us turn ours heads. "panand manni ku enna da beach ungalukku. vada velliya!! (what the hell are you doing here at 12 o clock? get your asses up here)" thats what the policeman said from his car.


all of us got terrified. and we started walking back towards the footpath. all of us had hostels in mind except me and jagan maybe. we were thinking of reasons to give in that inspector. well we reached the footpath and started walking towards the hostel. but the car caught upto us. a fat policeman got out of the vehicle with fear all up his throat. we stopped and said some whisper of an apology. but he didnt stop. he simply charged at us ready to strike with his hands out. i thought time had come for my first visit to the police station. we all got shit scared and backed out. all of us except one. yes, that was bri. i dont know what he was thinking and stood his ground and did not move an inch. the policeman came close to him and his hand was 10 cms away from bri's face when he stopped. the he asked " who the hell r u? and what are you doing here?" then we started our anna university crap. that name 'anna university' has brought us out of many problems. then he ordered " i want you out of here the next minute." we thought we were the luckiest bastards there and ran off to the streets of besant nagar. we stopped out at some corner and then looked at each other. THIS WAS ONE HELL OF AN EXPERIENCE!!


all of us started jumping, hugging hi5ing shouting (which was no more than 1 decibel). jagan was having one hell of a time. you give him anything of an adventure and he eats it like raw fish. big b was acting matured and was kinda freaked out to get out of all this. bri was dumbstruck to speak or laugh. then he explained the he got shit scared and did not move in front of the policeman.
then a terrific stupid crazy (or whatever you call it) idea came up. i said "abe firse chalen? beach aaye to pani ko chhuuna hai " and jagan was the first to respond. he agreed at once. bri was thinking of all the possibilities as usual. big b hated himself to be be with us and ordered us to go hostel and stop dreaming stuff after that narrow escape. well we ignored him as usual. he could have left us like atul and gone but big was kinda scared to go all alone. so he had to come wherever we take him. so he knew his protests were useless and shut up after trying to convince us for half an hour. so we had to show off what we were doing. so we messaged everyone we know whatever happened and what we were going to do. i was excited and kinda scared too!! at some points i wanted to call it off and go to hostel. but we had gone too far planning. so we had stories like we lost our watch!! in the beach. the second one was like we lost our way. so we roamed around all the streets checking out the police everywhere.


once the car was out of view, we literally ran across the road. we ran towards planet yum.we thought everything will go on fine and busted!!. the police vehicle was right behind us. jagan ran off somewhere out of sight. big b hid himself behind some truck and asusual bri was too dumbstruck to run. so i told him to pose as if he was peeing. so both of us discharged. but we were wrong. the police came for some other car in which some people were drinking. that was a narrow escape! and we hid ourselves behind the walls of planet yum. all of us were literally lying down on sand because our shadows and give us up. the flood light was strong there. we were down talking in whispers for about 10 minutes. it was 1 o clock.nobody had any clue on what to do next. then i just had a glimpse back and saw a man walking towards us. i presumed he must be from the slums. everyone else was too busy watching out for the police. so i shifted my position as if i was casually sitting. and i asked him till when the police will be there in my normal voice. everyone else freaked out thinking our cover had blown. but then we talked to that guy from the slums and made up a fake story that we lived in thiruvanmiyur and got stuck up in the beach late and never knew about the curfew at night. well that guy's name was murugan and he seemed nice but was drunk. so we couldnt trust him. he offered us to sleep with him till the next day morning. we were glad to hear that and accepted. so we went to his ooor(place). his place was not hut or something but just plain beach sand. then he was talking to us with his 3 friendsabout our college thiruvanmiyur etc.


suddenly he asked if we have any mobiles, or i pods. bri had his i pod. but we told him we didnt have anything. he was more of a friend by then. he took out an mp3 player and asked us how to charge that. jagan was about to reply but then one of his friends told him that you charge it by plugging it to a computer. the next act was the one of the most terrifying acts of my life. he took out his arm, swinged it full 180 degrees and slapped that guy. we were clueless of what happened. then he said " im asking them not you. so keep your bloody mouth shut".then he repeated the question. this time our answers were same but came out in a more of respectful manner. it was obvious he was the leader of their group and everyone was scared of him. the other guy started crying. then murugan offered us some more water which we politely refused and lied down. all of us agreed that the place was dangerous and we could get ourselves robbed or worse killed if we sleep.


but the very next instant i slept. i was too tired the way things had gone throughout the day. jagan and bri talked for sometime and slept when bigb offered to stay up. he was going mad looking at the clouds. i could read a million thoughts in his mind. he was very far from sleep. by the time he woke us all up it was 3.30. so we went into the waters and completed our night. the waters were unusually warm at some places and cold at some. we saw some big fish dead in the shores. we took a long walk to the ends of the beach.


well it was 5 and the bessie church was opening. so we thought we could pay a visit there. when we were walking in front of planet yum, we saw a some red and blue light flashing!. not again. it was them in their accent. as usual jagan had this habit of dissappearing. he dashed into the bushes and was invisible. i asked the lady what to do? she told me to sit down as if i was shitting. that was an incredible idea with the situation around. so i did that. and bri and big b were too embarassed to sit. so they just posed as if they were peeing. but there was no harm done. the police vehicle just came and left without and questions. ahhh a narrow escape again.so we left for the church as decided and then walked our way bak to the hostel cracking jokes. boy jagan had his share of adventure for the night. big b was still too excited the way he spent the night. and bri, well it was very hard to say or presume what he would do. so i had no clue about what he was thinking. me on the other hand(being a lazy ass) had done too much work for the night and was planning to do the thinking part tomorrow. so i slept. and slept. and slept. realising that it was 8 pm when i woke up and had my dinner.

The start of the gay5 : Portfolio

first of all im writing this blog for myself.... so any visitors or fans dont expect anything big...

ill just stick to the facts about the origin and replication of the gay5!!!!

ok it was july 30th 2006. i just joined anna university B.Tech Biotech and discovered my new roomie was a gujju!!! wow!! lucky me... And dhaval turned out to be the same exact person i thought. But it was my point of view on gujjus which changed. Coming back to the hostel, i enter this hostel hoping to see many hindi speaking fellas and what do i find, tt and g saravanan! there was tamil all over. arrrgghh.. but then i met these 2 ppl named jagannath and bharat iyer from orissa and bombay respectivly. i was so relieved. i was hoping to speak hindi after a long time but these people were too busy discussing their tamil movies comic scenes... frustrated i went to sleep. first day of college, i see arvind. phew finally some1 who i can talk in hindi with... on my way towards the canteen, arvind introducees another guy in our class, Japesh. he and his jokes were too much to piss me off. i used up my usual fake smile to escape.

then a couple o days later i meet this NRI called bharath KS. that guys was big. i though this guy was interesting and was hoping some fun out there, but he never seem to be interested. i bombarded him with so many questions, but he was like yes.... no..... yes.... no..... geez what an ass... so i sit in the corner of the room thinking what im gonna do with such people.....how boring these people are. im gonna have one hell of a time here. but i never knew that some of life's biggest adventures will be with these guys. and for an adventure freak like me it was just what the doctor ordered.

firstly it was ragging. it was the only time i had fun in college.... me and arvind were considered the scape goats for everything. but that was no big deal. then came our very first outing. there was a guy called parveen. i've seen it everywhere that these weaklings who cant survive anywhere outside home, come to far off colleges thinking they can do it. rubbish... me jagan bharat iyer and thiyagu, took care of his trip and got a ticket for him in black from chennai central to delhi after the charts were put up for the train!!! we got it by paying bribe to some railway official and that was our first glimpse of the outer system works. i dont know about thiyagu but i am sure me jagan and bri considered this an experience rather than a burden.

then over the period of six months the five of us, me jagan bri bigb and jappu got to know each other. Common place--- Atuls' room 211. that was the common meeting point for us.

jagan was the perfect diplomat as i guessed in our very first meeting. i saw the frustration in his face when he used to talk to thiyagu yet he used to smile everytime. i discovered that behind his lazy appearence, there was an intelligent brain hiding there somewhere. and his talking abilities were great. he can talk the proper slang be it english hindi or tamil and convince people with his self confidence. The perfect CR our class could have chosen. but the problem was depending on him was risky. he forgets stuff (i dont know unintentionall or intentionally) , though he pretends as if he doesnt, and so u cant trust him all the times. you will find him dissappearing from the hostel most of the times to secret undergroud places. (we believe he has links with al-qaida). only god knows what he does. but apart from that, there is an adventure freak hidden inside him. his curious mind has no limits and will end up making some story or the other even if there isnt one!!!

next comes bri. this man will start off to be a mystery. looks like a drug addict. looks like a big introvert. looks a spoilt brat who doesnt care about studies. but like the famous saying, never judge a book by its cover. all that is false for this guy. he just has a slow processor but amazing database. brilliant in english as everyone knows. very intelligent when it comes to complex thinking lke judging people but a nincompoop when it come to do the simpler stuff like answering a question in class. oh boy his dialogues r unique "eee bhai" "abeee eeeee" and ofc "main ek second ruka aur socha" lolzzz..... he appears to be the most confused person in this world (ill tell you when i talk about bessi or tirupati). he got lots n lots of patience. he explains every hindi phrase to thiyagu word by word (not anymore!!). he is the best company you can have. he'll talk somthing or the other which will turn up interesting. he always accompanies me in the last bench!!!>. best person to share ur thoughts with. very good with secrets. a very good dmc player and of course, a person with a lot of guts!!! he along with jagan will agree to anything and everything. i hope he remembers valentine's day!! and ya he has an intelligent sense of humour and knows when to talk and when to shut up in a group. the worst case with him is when we want something out of him. he is the poorest in describing facts and stories and a very poor gossiper indeed. but always shows his real interest in it as he doesnt have the tiniest bit of diplomacy in him.

Japesh or jappu as we call him is the most intelligent of the lot academically. he was the good boy/ topper in school. but then he got sick of being called a padippu. so he decided to have the "stud boy" image in college along with being the topper and that exactly what hes doing now. though he sucks when he tries to show off he's cool n all that... his flirting is bad (worst i've seen). typically he's a nerd with license to thrill. always ready for gossips. very spiritual and has some of his principles which he will never overcome. but then he never compromises on the fun part. but this guy tries to do it with the studies and principles part and hence spoils the party (remember kanchipuram). likes talking about his own gossip!! he is good when ur with him in a group but very irritating sometimes when ur alone with him in delhi. tries hard with his mokkais which only the girls find amusing (and the purpose for him is solved). a very generous guy indeed, always sponsors us for food or petol or coffee days!! if his ATM card would'nt have been there, i would've been a beggar by now. always keen on learning new stuff and suck at it. example is hindi of course. a perfect nalla payyan whom you can trust with anything. he has his life most transparent as compared to any of us. everyone knows everything about japesh! if you call him for an adventure, he'll just come for the show off part and forgets the whole point. so he is not completely 'in' in whatever stuff we do. he comes just for the sake of it and show off.

big b!!! as the name suggests a weird fella.... a gaming freak and thinks his life is a game in most of the situations and he has to play through it. talks to himself a lot and only god knows what. always thinks different than any of us - that is sometimes so stupid that u feel like hitting him or it'll be so creative that you'll admire him. we thought he tries to be cool listening to music when we speak and walking alone talking to himself etc etc. but now we know thats how big b is. hes not the bravest of persons but he doesnt care what we're doing but still he'll be with us everytime just cuz he likes us. this guy is a true one woman man and would never ditch his girl ever. likes to eat a lot and looks for some reason or the other reason to go to raghul's place. aLWAys ready to go out of the hostel, be it where ever u like. a loser by nature though. thats the only way he's not gifted. but he works hard to compensate it and has already succeeded.. we try hard not to show off the sypathy factor on him and thats exactly what he wants us to do. otherwise he's a great fella with an amazing sense of humour and energy. he the nice cute big B of our class and the sweetest part is, he hates if ppl call him that!! he is the least into gossips of us five and comes around with us just to be with us. sometimes he does try to show off that he's interested in gossips but doesnt last for minutes cuz theres is simply just one thing he can think of these days.......

and of cours the fifth member is me arun. unlike the others i like describing myself a lot but if i start now, ill go on and write a book and still be not satisfied. so ill leave my part at the moment.

so there they are the gay 5 as we call ourselves!

being out of the box is what we looked for. the independence days, republic days are examples of stupidity. our first real trip was pondicherryin jan 2007! pongal vacations. the beach was awesome. jus the five of us (-jagan -japesh -bigb +arvind +raghul +dhaval) and all due to a sudden plan. similarly there was this skit for btx in feb 2007 which made us work hard and some new experiences for us. speaking of experience, our best trip till then was the MGM trip in feb. it was just 25-30 ppl but still it was fun. then came the frequent visit to raghul's place. this is one of the major reasons for us to gossip. Then came the DUKHI parivaar. and the gay5 became the gossip5 cuz every other day there was some issue or the other to gossip on. but we never used to talk in hostel. so mostly it used to be ccds or some dinner place outside or raghul's place. Then came the pondicherry trip with class which was ok and there was a lot to be organised by us in that. but the freshers was a big big flop. none of the 5 except probably me n jappu were into ragging. then the DUKHi parivaar reached its hieghts during the trek to perambikulamthere were some 35-40 of us and gossips all around. the only person missing was jagan but the 4 of us were enjoying the sight to the max.

then came the biggest of them all, the golu festival for the tamils and durga puja for the bengalis. i read in the chennai chronicle that durga puja was held in besant nagar. there was this trend in The DUKHI that every1 were supposed to visit each others homes for golu. so it was raghul's place this time and we all gathered there. except for japesh who went for golu at his friend ramya's place.so i suggested why dont we go to this durga puja held at bessie to make the night grand. as usual the five of them (-japesh +Atul) agreed and we went to bessie......................................................................... the rest will come over in the next post

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