DeaDly AllianZ

DA ..wow sounds like a rock band.. a war front.. latest play station game.. Well this was what we called ourselves. A bunch of college guys looking out for a collective identity. It may look silly and over rated to call ourselves that. But hey we were teenagers then. And what more do you expect when there are far more dreadful and sharp clan and wing names on the IP Msgr. All thanks to the DOPY guys at college who came up with an idea of a U-shirt where we could customize our T shirt design with our own pics, captions and group names. That's when we came up with this name. The shirt was anyways awfully printed and was of poor quality which turned to rags within a few weeks. The shirt was gone and all that was left was a new name for us. Ya I know it doesn't sound that exciting, but believe me it did when we were in our early college days.

It all started on august 27th 2005. It took 24 hrs or more to travel to Pilani. But it felt as if I had been traveling for ages. This is where I will be studying for the next 4 years BITS, Pilani. Wait a minute ..this is not what I saw in my dreams. Where are the tall 10-storey buildings with twinkling glass panes ? Where are the bikes? Where are the air conditioned and marble floored hostels? No geysers? No Mc D? and what the fuck No model like girls roaming around the campus? Why god why.. why me.. What wrong did I do.. The first couple of days were spent saying Aal iz well.. aal iz well. And finally the good news came as a silver lining.. NO ATTENDANCE. phew.. chalo zindagi mein kuch toh acha huya..

Surprisingly there were a lot many f my class mates from my +2. To be specific 44 of them. Our first year was very comfortable as it took us very less time to make space for ourselves with few embarrassing though funny so called Interaction sessions with seniors. Since RAGGING is a punishable crime in Bits. Late night lachas, class bunks, volleyball, computer games and not to mention the movies on the holy enlightenment based the system of life :P. With all this hard work each one of us except the geek of the batch VIDDU ended the year with flying colors. Hey don't blame it on us its the fault of the BITS system. We studied phy chem math and bio for about 5 years. ab aur kitna? Isn't there anything left to study other than this. Thus we neglected these subjects and came up with a plan to revive our image and sweep the new techie courses in our second year.

But it was too late. We flied off way past the gravitational field of books and classes. We became serious with our lives shifted our lacha topics from girls,cricket and more girls to "It would have been good if we studied in our 1st yr". Ha like it was going to help us anyway. But it did help to kill time. Another major change in our lives was that we were seniors now. Then came the troop of Jnrs coming to our wings. Each one of us picked our favourites. How?? well it was simple. Jnr saying "anna nenu guntur nunchi" was picked by Pine.. anna nenu hyderabad nunchi" was picked by ISC.. "anna nenu 10P avvali naaku gyanodayam cheyyi" was picked by GMK. But the all time favorites were "anna nenu rajamundry nunchi".. We were even ready to slit throats if necessary to have a friendly interaction with the flowers. This was when we discovered there were a lot of innovative and creative ideas hidden in each one of us. Thanks to our seniors and jnrs as well with whom we had a really great time at SK and VY. These were the days when we had the maximum fun at bits. Amidst all this there was some political aspirations rising in few of us which were hardly supported by the rest. Anyways who the F cares if your are representing a hostel. what are you gonna do? make sure the toilets are clean? But the scenario was very different with others in the campus. I was amazed to see the exaggerated tense atmosphere created. Lite lo was the motto we used and carried on.

Then came the CDCs. Obviously we performed up to our expectations. Ramu made zeroes .. I made Ds. Pine cleaned profs chambers and made few As. Nmk made C in Consys. Viddu as usual was the black sheep and was accompanied by another one from EEE GMk. Anyways who cared about grades. No one pays the mess dues, hows dad's gonna know anyway.

The 4th year was unusual with the PS coming up and ppl scattered around the city. And to our luck recession hit our fates during placements. Which was disappointing . but hey life must go on. At least poor placements gave each one of us the chance to think abt what actually each one of us want from his career. With slight motivation we moved ahead on our respective chosen paths.

Now when I look back at my past life I cherish each moment of chatting, pulling legs, feasts, play, movies.. I think we were destined to be together. Each one of us individually so different yet alike. Most of us would not admit it but... even after ISC n NMk are in the US .. GMk planning to move.. Nitin being called Buffy a 100 times a day.. Ramu being called the lover boy .. Viddu shouting on ppl for commentin on his Bike. whatever silly may be the reason for the outburst, feeling of something being void, But...

But deep inside each of us knows that if he is in trouble or something happens to him there are people who are there to stand up for him, to stand in front of him, to care for him, to praise him, to fight for him and to cry for him as well.

I know its not the guy thing to tell your friends that you love them for what they are. But I find no fault in expressing this to each on of us the feeling which ties us together though apart. I love you guys. This one as totally dedicated to us. \m/