Last evening, I went to my alma mater PEC which has seen unprecedented changes since my graduation. The whole college has got wiFi connectivity now. So you just go, open your laptop and start googling and orkutting and downloading songs or movies or software. As my cousin(who belongs to the present generation of pecobians) sat downloading 1 thing after other, I couldn’t help getting amazed at how far pecobians have come. In the lunch break during winters, you can see people sitting on the grass, in the sun with their cool lappies with DAP (Download Accelerator) working overtime. Hostellers have made separate rooms dedicated to online gaming. In the canteen, movies are floating in the air from 1 table to the other. Guys are just ‘pinging’ their friends in the class to ‘maaro’ their proxy. What a cool, hi-tech life – for all us pass outs to be envy!!!
Our time was different, you see. In the winters, under the sun, we just sat on the scooters in the parking, or on the grass in big groups, chatting and chatting and chatting. Add to it the occasional bursts of boisterous laughs. I struggle to remember what was there about which we could sit and talk whole day.
There was no dedicated room for gaming in the hostels but yes cricket and football used to be carried out in full enthu in the grounds just outside the hostel.
In the canteen, live music used to float around with a cool guy in the center with a guitar entertaining everybody, from KK’s yaaron to Nirvana’s Dive. Or else, drawing sheets were made (those are ideally meant to be made in drawing halls with drafter, scale etc.. but .. well.. ideally) which quite often ended up having oils marks of samosas or red marks of the sauce!
And proxies.. ahh! the proxies. Well ‘generally’, it was not needed to inform friends that they had to maaro proxy. They knew that if some one has not come and the proxy is possible then it has to be done (Sometimes at the expense of one’s own attendance)
Can’t resist to tell an incident when Singal sitting on my left said “Yes sir” and “Present Sir” in 3 different voices to consecutive roll numbers before me. I was laughing so hard that I missed mine!! But what the hell.. have we ever cared??
So, I don’t really envy the generation of today. Need I???
4 comments:
oye... Kaake... You need not envy even a bit dude... even a bit!!!
They will never smell the sweat like we did when we played cricket and futball... Saala the personal interaction, the actual emotions and expressions not the dummy yahoo emotions.. They will never enjoy it... Its they who shud envy us rather than we...
No, you don't have to. The real life is much much better than the virtual one. Yeah, agreed, technology has improved for better life but it has also taken us far from the reality.
I see a lot of kids playing online games.. cricket, soccer & others..
I can just say, they are missing THE fun.
well... sahi hai ... yeh sab to abhi mere coll mein bhi nahin hai ....
the good thing to note is that no matter whatever intention coll auth have in setting up wi-fi in your coll ppl won't change ... earlier ppl used to SMS for proxy requests now they use free-ka-proxy-ping service...
no doubt such changes... but given the current changes and a chance ot go back what would you choose ....those boisterous laughs, leg-pulling or a lifeless DAP working overtime???
@amrut, cuckoo and KT: exactly my thoughts... Those was much more fun than today's virtual friendships...
Infact I would say that during college, one should add to the closeness and after college use the technology to maintain it!!!
I loved my college life the way it was and if given a chance would like to repeat it the same way n number of times!!!
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