10-c

It’s all over folks. From ‘is’ 10-c has become ‘was’. With Kapil moving on, only three members remain, of that only two of the original 10-c, the third one being a part of amendment. From living a hundred feet up in the air, it is fair to say, we fell down hard. It is only now we are ‘really’ exposed to cochin . While in 10-c we were in our own atmosphere (you can actually take it literally given the state of that house while we were in) and came down to Cochin only once in a while, be it heavy rainy days, or sultry days, 10c remained unaffected. Now we live in the first floor hardly ten feet above the ground and in the heart of an giant ecosystem. It is a entomologists dream come true. The variety of insects on display is simply fascinating. From the fire-fly on your blanket, to the our friendly visiting 5 inch banana spider, there is a wide variety. Not to forget the raw mango eating rats in the ‘galley’. The problems we are facing are only because we were too used to 10-c, to used to living up high there, that we failed to see down near the earth. No power cuts in 10-c, always had generators. So in effect we had a better time in 10-c that I had in Chennai where our flat doesn’t have generators.

· Kapil has moved on. He leaves behind a lot of things other than his blanket, jeans and t-shirt. He leaves behind a trend of which we are proud. I had never heard of barista before, I never knew I could go to coffee day. I had my first pizza in cochin . My first Baskin Robbins ice-cream. Whenever we go to such places, he would shower us with his experience on the variety – what to take and what not to (although he himself screwed up a few times in coffee day hehehe)- he would have been there a zillion times. Now kapil is back home in Coimbatore looking for the right way to move forward.

· Vinay has moved on too. He leaves behind even more things! His blanket. A huge pile of books. Carefully torn pieces of paper enough to fill a normal sized dustbin to the brim. His old navy blue t-shirt. A pair of ‘wudlands’ shoes ( wudland is not woodlands). He tried a lot of things. He thought of a fitness regime in going to office to cycle. He even bought a new cycle for the same. His never ending arguments with everyone in sight would be remembered for long.

· So has Jvk/Venkat. He gave the PDP. His Pentium 2 pc. That was a life saver for a long time in 10-c before rajan brought in his high handedness. We watched umpteen movies in the PDP. The most hilarious being ‘Finding Nemo’ ‘without red colour’!! ( there was a problem with the cable in the monitor which was duly replaced). Rajan has still not forgotten Venkat’s ‘towel’.

Ps: sai, saran, vinay, kapil

venkat,

one,two, three

three different paths, similar goals. Some day the third path would merge with either one or two. It might be an biography of the remaining or an auto.