End of an Era - Part 2: Mihir's Place

Mihir's Place.......bhai what can be said about it. I thinks it's safe to say that 4 years of engineering would have been a lot duller if not for Mihir's place.

This is a weird time for this blog , given thatIi'm here in Cal....but for the first time in the past two weeks have i found any time at all. But this blog is not about that....there will be another one for that. This one is about Mihir's Place.

Going back 4 years.....well it brings memories both cherished....and downright frightening. Memories of Mihir's apparent suicide attempt,mine n Ajit's complete disregard for it.....n even if we did bother, how exactly do you stop Quinty from going over when he's hell bent on doing it.N oh yes...the one guy who could have helped....was asleep in the bathtub....after having stopped a ceiling fan with his bare hands.Other's such as Sahil's "Walk the line "test resulting in him walking into a wall........bali's free loading....Mihir's balcony with senti talks about being a fauji kid and endless games of peanut butter are fuzzily remembered too....

That was only the beginning of a long ...eventful journey.Every party here , you were sure to run into WEIRD people. From his roommate to his roommate's sloshed mates...Himanshu who doesnt stop talking about bikes and Vishwanath who doesnt stop talking at all.Random people have landed up here....including the local mamu gang.

N then came the opposite of the mamu gang n walked of with Mihir's laptop .Over the past two years another creature has come to infest these hallowed halls....Palash the Pig( not as an insult dude...but then you arent really a rhino are you).

The last time I saw this amazing place .....t'was in the rush to get Mihir to the airport in time...and I regret that I didnt even wait to pay my respects as be the case.For 4 years we've talked about throwing Mihir's dad a party for providing us with this place......but as with so many things with us, it just remained a plan. It's unlikely that .....no scratch that it's probably downright impossible that we'll ever meet up there again ....but a guy can always hope cant he....

The end of an era....

A few weeks back Manyu said to me " We'll be lucky if ever two of us meet up in the coming years...three is a possibilty.All of us ....never going to happen. " It's only now, as I prepare to say goodbye to XII C ...after I've spent another evening with the people who've become family, that the true import of these words is beginning to hit me .And the sadness that it brings with it is surprising....sentimentality is afterall not my forte.The thought that we're never going to crash at Mihir;s place again...is a little incomprehensible to be honest

For 6 years XII C has been an integral part of my life in one way of another....we've endured past the shifting loyalties that college life brings on.We've all had our own groups and friends in college but I can say with absolute certainty that we're as much a part of XII C today as we were on the day of that photo session and on the day Makhija cried.

Sahil and Jimno went to Tolani, might as well have been in another city for all the freedom they got from there .And yet Mihir's place is the place to be on weekends. Manyu pushed off to another part of the country altogether and yet when he's back here it's as if t'was just yesterday that he was getting suspended coz of Vera. Ajit disappears from everyones radar for months on end , and yet when he's back among us , people still call him 'handle' and mock his porn collection

For the past couple of weeks, not a day has gone by that these memories and so many many more....Mihir's place and Gad's place, everyone sloshed and everyone sober.... they've made me smile .

We're always going to remain friends , these past years have ensured that.But all 6-8 of us sitting around with glasses in our hands , talking senti nonsense....that's over.

I'm sure my time in Cal is going to bring me a whole new set of friends and experiences and I'm excited about that . But I'm gonna hold onto those memories for a while longer. My next few blogs are gonna center around the people and places that made XII C . it's going to revolve around Manyu , MIhir ,Sahil , Lambu and all us other jokers.....

And for once , I'm actually looking forward to typing out my next blog .