6th January, The day "Mozart of Madras" Allah Rakha Rahman, The Lebanese-American artist, poet & writer Khalil Gibran & My dear greatest FRIEND Seriene celebrate their birthday.

This year there was not much planning & programming for the surprise birthday party or any kinda celebration. But he came into class, which was a bit of surprise for me & got enough birthday bumps. By afternoon team ostinato had somehow decided to go out in the evening to celebrate the birthday.

Mr.Richard took charge of organizing everything & we met at PMG, near Richard's hostel. But we were in a "SITUATION" due to his lack of communication. But we resolved it soon & reached our destination "ALL SPICE", our newest hangout place. Again another "SITUATION", "THE BIRTHDAY CAKE", had to wait for one hour to get the cake...

So we decided to fill our tummies till the cake gets ready. After one & half hour the BIRTHDAY CAKE was ready & looked like we cant finish the cake by ourselves so we decided to cut it at "TEMPLE", Seriene's house. So me & Richard went in Activa & Seriene and Ziyad left to take a bus.

8:30 pm, Me & Richard reached PONGAMOODU & a call came from my HOME asking me to get back HOME in 30 minutes, sheesh... spoiling our party. When i called Seriene to know their status, he said they are still walking towards Pattom from "All Spice". So i asked them to wait at PATTOM junction so that i can handover the cake to them.

As we reached PATTOM our plans changed... we decided to cut the cake at "THE PATTOM JUNCTION" itself... sounds crazy... so we plunged into the idea, another "SITUATION" arised there was no knife...!!! ZIyad said he will get it somehow & asked me & Seriene to wait. Richard & Ziyad set-out to fetch a knife, but Richard was so tensed thinking that our CRAZY IDEA will land us into trouble. Finally they came back after five-minutes with a knife... Ziyad came running holding a knife on his hand & an old man got frightened on seeing him. It looked like a PYSHCO running with a knife at the PATTOM junction. He got it from Baskin Robbins on a security of 100 bucks, he just entered the shop & explained the "SITUATION" but the shopkeeper was so reluctant to give, the 100 bucks played the trick & knife was in Ziyad's hand.

No candles & No cameras... The chocolate truffle cake on top of the Post-box... Four engineering students... A knife in hand... "Pattom Junction"... Nine at night... Wish the COPS could have also joined the party...!!!

Occasions like this never comes... So treasure those beautiful moments...

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed- Khalil Gibran

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SERIENE
This one is dedicated to You...

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All were eager to see the needles in their watches to reach 12:30Pm... Oh god... the tight scheduled seventh semester B.Tech exams came to a much awaited end... Phew...!!!

After a few scheduling, re-scheduling & planning we reached Kabab restaurant at pattom to take our lunch & celebrate the day. Me, Seriene, Richard, Osti , Melvin & Sandy. After the lunch we dropped Melvin at Hostel & had to pick up Noble, who was standing at the PMG Bus-stop after a big THEPP from Richard... lol...

Then we headed towards EASTFORT in Ostinato's very own wagon(My car). Reached EASTFORT & parked the car inside GANDHI-PARK & as we were heading towards the bus-stop... Seriene, Sandy & Richard ran on seeing the Low-floor bus...

Yeah the Newly introduced KSRTC's lowfloor bus, riding on it was our "PLAN OF THE DAY". Those guys ran like small kids running behind ice-cream vans...!!! By the time we managed to reach the bus-stop, there were two buses one going towards Technopark-Kanniyapuram & Other towards kowdiar, even though i wanted to take Kowdiar bus, others insisted to take the other bus. So without much arguments we entered the bus.

Bought tickets to Kanniyapuram, the last stop, for 38 bucks...!!! Me, Noble, Sandy & Osti stick to sit at front section(the low floor section) & Richard & Seriene moved to back seat(The upper section). On the way Mobin boarded from University, even though it was not a stop the conductor stopped the bus for us.

The Bus's worth 80 lakhs for that you can buy a Benz S-class, but you never expect such head-turning. Everybody's eyes are on the bus, from the small kiddies, ladies, motorists, old people each & everyone on the road cant take eyes out of the bus. Yeah the bus has "THE ENVY" factor, no wonder a KSRTC bus tried to hit the bus intentionally(FOR more details read METRO MANORAMA) .

The bus drove through university, GH junction, detoured from pallimukku towards Kannanmoola, through Medical college, ulloor, sreekaryam, Technopark & Finally reached kanniyapuram.

On the way at ulloor, the bus had a narrow escape from getting scratched, but an alto car had to face that brutal faith...!!!

We the reliable engineers on-board were closely examining & evaluating this engineering marvel from VOLVO. Starting from Driver's dashboard, it has almost all the controls of the bus. A camera at the rear, at the entrance, the clarity of the video is simply awesome. Infact it has the features of a luxury car on the dashboard. The seats are very comfortable, audio system, display panel etc... Should give 10/10 for the accessories in the bus. The conductor & bus driver were also friendly, they were sharing their experience in the new bus & was talking about the bus fares & all. For hospitality also 10/10.

From kanniyapuram we bought tickets back to EASTFORT. The bus started after a 10 minutes halt. The return journey was so romantic as it was raining outside. You can feel as if you are traveling in a SUV. The journey from kanniyapuram to Eastfort was 1 hour long. As per the conductor there are enough commuters in the bus all the time & 25% of people are like us who board to experience this new journey. As the bus is air-conditioned you wont feel tired even after a 2 & half hour journey...!!!

Better catch a seat infront, its like the business class with regard to comfort.

USP: Redefining city bus travel...

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Time, 5 minutes past 9:30 am & i m five minutes late to the exam hall. The exam is on in the drawing hall, Room No.315. Kept my bag outside & entered the hall with a happy face, got the papers & walked towards my seat. Oh...!!! I remember this seat, this was my permanent seat during s4 drawing hours. Good to be back to my seat...

One hour before: Sitting on Sandy's bed, reading the DME-II's problem that was done in the class. Managed to read all the problems that was done in the class within a span of 1 hour...
Back to present: Got the question paper & my eyes moved to the B-Part(Problems always comes in the B-part).
Answer any two questions from B-part(out of 3)

After reading the B-part I thought to myself, at least i can answer 1 question correctly...

Great i'll do the question from Journal bearing & Ball bearing, dont even know from which part the other question came...!!!

All set... started with A-part Answer Any 5 questions from A-part(out of 6)
Answered 3 & moved on the B-part...

Didnt even read the question, right away i picked up the Given data & wrote it... & moved on to read the question. Oh god...!!! Screwed up... this is not the type of Ques i READ...!!! Kept the pen & Qp aside & had a look around...
Rilshid sitting with popped up eyes...!!!
Rizwan scriblling something very fast nervously...!!!(As usual)
Everyone around me are writing this stupid second series so seriously...!!!

Then my eyes met the scribblings i have done on the drawing table... Could find lots of HappyNuts on the table... my mobile numbers... my ex-gf's name... & much more... & I realised that i have done more scribblings on the table than i have done on the drawing sheets in S4...!!!

Slowly i came back to question paper & the bulb lightened up...!!!
Voila...!!! I have cracked the question... Hurray...!!!
I jumped(literary), chair broke & i was in Air doing the balancing act...!!!
This balancing act made enough noises to attract the exam taker's attention...!!!
& there i stood embarrassed...

Blush... Blush...

Slowly got one extra chair & continued with exams cracking both the problems with correct answers...

At the end of the day, Happy Feels Happy after designing A journal & A ball bearing...!!!

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Time was 15 minutes past 2 in the afternoon, double hour of THERMAL ENGINEERING was going on. The temperature inside the classroom was well above 306 Kelvin & lot of murmuring was going on the class. The desk was filled with steam tables, calculators, books & all. I was sitting in between THE PILGRIM & THE RocK StaR [Read till last to know their real names ;)]. Everyone were involved in finding the solution to the problem sir gave.

The problem was related to what will happen to the steam when the pressure drops, isotropic reaction reaction takes place blah blah...

I was busy figuring out how to answer the question & finding values from the steam table. Suddenly The Pilgrim teared a paper from his book & started to write something. I didnt see what he was writing, i thought he might have understood how to find the solutions. After a few seconds i just glanced what he was doing, i saw him writing something else other than the TE problem. I thought "Oh... may be he is writing some letter to the HOD". After a few minutes he just passed the paper to me...

I read what he has written. After reading i felt like hugging him & standing up to congratulate this guy for doing such a great work. He has written a beautiful poem in the middle of TE class!!!

The poem goes on like this:

A lovely little cloud once fell in love

with the bright full moon.

Try as he might,

could the cloud not reach the moon.

The moon amused by the cloud,

winked at him in mock.

For the moon had seen

many such little clouds.

Hurt the cloud cried itself

into rain & fell upon barren land...

And where upon he fell, LIFE was born...

I showed the poem to The Rockstar, he too was excited to read the great creation. All of a sudden he started to argue that we cant imagine 'The Moon' to be a female & all. Pilgrim started to give the explanations, before their volumnes started to increase i just alerted the guys that we are sitting in TE class. The double hour was over within no time & we came out of class typing the poem to forward it everyone. [especially to the girls who love poems ;)]

NB: People with Broken hearts become great poets...

The Pilgrim: Seriene Mohammed

The Rockstar: Visakh.K [ please note its Visakh not Vaisak ;)]

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