THE ROYAL MEXX - Semesters 1 and 2 ... And so it begins ...

Ive completed 3 years in my mechanical class in GEC. I still remember the first day like it was yesterday. It was such a strange atmosphere ... it was the first time I was in a class with such a massive number ..60 !!!
And on top of that there were just guys !! The first day I noticed just two guys ... Abhijith and Nidhin .. cos they were the guys who were running around and meeting every1. ...the first couple of days were quite uneventful ... then we got to know each other and then all hell broke lose !!!! We discovered that our class had a large number of football freaks. So we collected money and used to play atleast an hour of football every single day ! Then came the inter-class football matches ! And that single tournament made us famous .. we beat the seniors !! So then the football craze went overboard with us playing inside the class and we broke exactly 4 tubelights!!! We also used to have a carroms tournament in class until our stupid staff advisor stopped us !! We also play cricket in class once in a while ! Also there used to be regular card games ... the popular one being "Bluff" ... we even played in the bus.

Man we sure have done a lot of weird stuff in class!
I still remember our first apology letter.... it was hardly 2 months after we joined. It was my sister's wedding and the entire class cut classes for that day and then next day it became a huge issue. Since we were new comers we were let of easy with just an apology letter signed by all of us!
The second one came on the day we were supposed to verify our ID cards at the IT lab. We go there and open the door and then someone screams "close it !! close it!! so 1 guy kicks it shut !! ... And the stupid IT people acted as though we had burnt the entire lab down !! So there came the next apology.
So within three months of joining college we were the notorious class !!
Then came the third one !! :P
We had this electronics teacher named Mrs. Sreelatha . .and she pretty much hated our class right from the first day .. so we gave her a real tough time in return. (And that was a time when we hated anything that had electronics attached with it .. not that thats changed now ..but still..).
So then one day she reads this notice in class and we start applauding .. then she goes like "There is no need to clap" . And so we stopped. And then when the notice was read out in the next class ...they started cheerin ... so we thought "If they can, so can we". And so we start clappin and hootin and screamin and so the teacher walks out . And so there came the next apology. ... and teacher walkout 1!!
A frequent visitor to our class was The Principal .. Mr. Varkey Philip. He used to regularly come and plead with us to shut our traps !! But to no avail ... :P.
The thing we probably hated the most in the first year was probably the workshop! The place was filled with a bunch of assholes !! They used to act like they dint have a spine around girls!
So we spent the rest of the year cursing the workshop teachers and hoping they would sign our records. I still remember standing behind one of the sirs .. it was carpentry I believe.. and was making faces while one of my best friends was trying to get his record signed and was struggling not to laugh his ass off!!
One of the new ideas we had come up with was " Chipping".. invented by arguably the most creative person in class..Ajay MNK.. We used to push the guy sitting at the end of the bench onto the floor in the middle of class... that sure was fun !! It was hilarious to see the look on the teacher's faces !! Especially kaatu's!! Also we used to shoot paper bullets at each other...
Another frequent scence in class was Vishnu, Manu, Athul and Nikhil dancing their heart out to the Ketchup song .. .yup .. it was a regular song and dance routine ... and during the lunch breaks me and manu used to "perform" Linkin park songs !!
The civil engineering classes used to be fun ... especially Mr. Shiju's .. he used to have 2 hour classes and we used to take a 5 min break ( Which we extended to 15-20). During that break we used to buy sip-ups (I know childish but then who the hell cares ???) and we used to stand and suck on them outside class till it was over and the teacher let us in. Then in class we used to take out our reserve stock and suck on them in class!!! Boy those days were fun !!
I still remember how we used to take on the seniors in Booing people off stage and beat em ... our class versus the whole of S4 :P..
That year we were shifted to an isolated location for a while cos we were becoming too much of a pain in the butt ... and there the HOD used to come visit and threaten us regularly ! ..But that class saw the beginning of our famous "Jaloltsavam" ... It started of between me and Nidhin... he had this pitchkoo thingy and he sprayed a little water on me .. so I waited and poured half of a small bottle of water on him .. so he chased me halfway around the block and emptied a huge bottle on me ... and so it began ... slowly atleast 6 ppl were involved.. and that marked the beginning of our most famous tradition !!
This year also marked our respected class rep Visakh gettin involved in politics .... he had one leg in the KSU and the other in the SFI .. so one day he was givin out these SFI pamphlets and the KSU dude found out and came in our class and started calling out the SFI people ... who were in another year altogether .. and all of us were like " Y the F*** is this guy actin like a bigshot here ??? That was so funny !! (He got beaten up later that day btw)..

And here are the stuff I had forgotten the first few times .. I cant believe I had left out such important stuff!! so here they are ....
The raggin we had to "suffer" in first year ..... The seniors were so kind to us .. we had a negligible amount of ragging! The only bit of ragging they actually did was the time they came to class and made people introduce themselves. That was the Vishnu had to get his "Sunshade" cut, Vivek Mohan had to relearn Marching and Thiru "defied" the seniors!!! They left him with a couple of empty threats but thats all!!

Then after a few weeks of joining college, we were shifted to the EC class ... and there we went berserk !! We started writing on their tables and walls. I remember we wrote "EC sucks" on their wall with coloured chalk !! :P Boy that sure did get us into trouble...and guess what the EC guys did !! NO they dint confront us or even talk to us about it ... they complained to the teachers!!! BOO HOO LIL BABY WANT A PACIFIER COS BIG BAD MECH DRAW ON WALL !! :( ... ughhh disgusting .. I think thats the day that the anti-EC sentiment took off in our class!! And after that there was this incident where one of our classmates referred to one of the EC girls' dress as "Inappropriate" on national TV :P. And its not her but their class rep who comes to seek justice and when we confront him, the dude is like "Dont make it a class issue!!" !! WTF ?? If you dint want to make it a class issue, then why the hell did the class rep come with a few other guys to clear the issue ??? Boy some people !! I guess all the other mech students everywhere can understand "The anti EC sentiments" .. its genetically imbeded in each of us and we just need something to make it active and I guess these were it for us !

So that was that .... and one day we were simply sitting in Civil engineering class when one of the teachers came and asked for a couple of volunteers. So we being the civil minded students we are (Yea right ... any excuse to cut class is fine ! ) we went to help only to discover to our horror that we had to help shift the entire library !!!! But since we had only like a 100 books altogether the books werent the issue. The problem was the bloody shelves !!! They were so bloody heavy !!!! It took 6 people to carry one !! Man that was some of the hardest manual labour that any of us had done!

Like I mentioned earlier , we used to play football a lot! And one such football match produced arguably the greatest soccer moment in History ..greater than Carlos's freekick, greater than Baggio's miss .. greater even that Maradonna's hand of god. I shall simply refer to it as " The Adithyan Manouvre" because there can be no name that can truly do justice to something so great! That was a "career ending" move for Adithyan .. he never played football after that day! Not because of a horrible injury ... just because of the shame! WELL IF YOU KICK IN A BLOODY BALL THAT WAS GOIN OUT BY A MILE INTO YOUR OWN BLOODY GOAL, YOU BETTER STOP PLAYING AFTER THAT !!!!!

Moving on from sports, .. it seemed even mother nature couldnt stand the trouble we were causing the world...so she made one final attempt to end it all! Twas the workshop model exam. The first omen came when the electricity supply went off. The poor innocent guys in the Smithy section rejoiced not knowing that they were almost going to get fried!!! ..so they step outside for a breath of fresh ,non-coal polluted air when "BANG" a lightning stike just a few feet from them!!And then they get back in as quickly as possible!! Yea I know that wasnt that great an incident and I just tried to make that seem dramatic but hey!! Its a collection of memories from the first year !! Deal with it !!

We also had a Christmas/New Year party in class in first year. Yea guys..... remember we had one in class??? It was the time we were shifted to the class near the HOD's room. Mahesh and Visakh and all went and bought food with the money we had collected from everyone !!
Shaji sir was chief guest then and he said in his "speech" that it's nic to hav such comraderie in the students and that we should cherish such moments. And cherishin we are sir .. we sure are !
REMEMBER !! Yea!! That was a nice time we had but I guess we all forgot.

And remember the song we sang that day .. the song we may call our class "Anthem" ?? Yes... I am talking about Nabeil's song !! The mapila paatu ... sorry but I cant utter the words here. The internet guys will get me banned!! :P

Guys .. remember the University Body Building tornament that was held in our college ???

Yea .. the best exam we had ever written in engineering was probably our first year second series test in Electronics. It was more a test of how many techiniques of copying we knew than of actual subject knowledge. Some of us passed question papers, while the more daring ones took the entire textbooks in!! I guess almost everyone got over 40 in that test. And so our sessional marks dint get totally screwed!!

And talking about exams, the first year story would never be complete without the "University Squad " story...... It was the Engineering mechanics university exam and Visakh as usual hadnt a clue what the subject was all about. But luckily for him, behind him sat geeko nerd Vishnu! So Vishak borrows Vishnu's answer sheet to check the paper quality. But unfortunately the university squad walks in. So the extreeemely brilliant Visakh drops the paper not behind him but under the guy sitting next to him who happens to be the unfortunate Rohith. And so the squad catch hold of him and start "interrogating" him!! But they still dint know whose answer sheet it was.. so they tell everyone to check whether they had all their answer sheets. And that was when there was a display of acting soooooooooo magnificent it has to be mentioned here..
Movie Title - Exam wars ... Attack of the squad!!
Hero - Vishnu R Nair
Heroine - Stadium owner's daughter
Villain - A feared gang from the University of Kerala known simply as "The Squad"
Scene : The search for the missing answer sheet...
The hero is under extreme tension and fear of being debarred and hence ruining his future. His first thoughts were .."Who will maintain the stadium?" ..and that single thought of his love was all the fuel he needed to pull it off.. Us lay people may think that he would slowly check whether each answer sheet was there and slowly reveal the fact that it was him with a look of pure innocence that even a baby couldnt have! BUT NO ... in what would seem like a piece of bad acting, the hero takes one single look at his answer sheets and discovers its his sheet! But that wasnt bad acting.... he was just using his X-Ray vision to look at all the answer sheets at one go. Everyone knows the hero always has super powers!He then made such a "convincing" argument that the answer sheet had infact been blown to the ground by the supercharged high power ceiling fan that our college was famous for. ....And so that scence produced one of the greatest moments of acting genius .. the kind that makes a little part of you die! ..
But all jokes aside, two guys almost got royally screwed that day... but it was through sheer luck that they werent debarred. Luckily the paper fell under Rohith and not Visakh himself. That incident pretty much ruined the exam for the rest of us in that room ... but most of us managed to pass that exam.

But some of the best fun we had in the first year was probably stickin stuff to people's backs and making them walk all around the college... our favourite target was Adithyan. Probably the best one was when Vishnu and I stuck "I STILL WEAR DIAPERS!" to Adithyan's back and made him walk in front of all the other classes:P .. everyone was cheering him on from the class till the cooler. Poor guy ..was so humiliated that he never talked to us after that :P!! There were many more such incidents .. but this was the best one.
We also used to pin tails onto one another ....I am still a regular victim of Vivek Livingstone's "Operation vaal". The best memory of the tails was when Nabeil had a tail pinned to him and at the same time went around lookin for people to put another tail on without having a clue that he had one on as well. That was sooo bloody funny !!!

Since the power supply mains were in out class, we made full use of all the huge switches and levers ......we hung our drafters on them:P. We also used to regularly hide Manu S Das's bag. Hey Vishnu ....remember that day in class when we were throwin stuff out of the class (All of them mine :( )??

Oh yea ... and we came in second place in sports meet unfortunately .. but that was the last time !
The sports day also witnessed the greatest basketball match ever! Between S12 and S6. And the referee ... me ...and I had no clue!! It was one hour of me just being yelled at and threatened by both teams .... in the end the seniors won just because of my amazing refereeing.. sorry guys :P
So by the end of the first year most of us had gotten pretty close .. and I guess the tag of "Mechanical" and "The Royal Mexx" we took to heart. So with that we came to the end of the first year.
So heres a list of our teachers... atleast the ones I remember .. 1)Basic Mechanical Engineering - Mr. Rakesh( staff advisor) and Mr. Suneesh
2)Basic Civil Engineering - Shiju, Louie( AKA mosquito), Amjad
3)Mathematics - Mrs. Nalinakumari and Mrs. Sherly
4)Chemistry - Mrs. Ally ..(I think that was her name ... If its wrong please let me know )
5)Physics - Babu
6)Basic Electrical Engineering - Mrs. Arlene
7)Basic Electronics Engineering - Mrs Reshmi, Mrs. Nadeera and Mrs. Sreelatha
8)Engineering Mechanics - Anil Kumar (AKA kaatu)
9)Engineering Graphics - Mr. Remesh
10)Workshop - Superintendant Mr Babu.


Class topper - Mr. Praseed E.T. with an awesome 85 !!
Football team - Jaikrishna, Ajay,Praveen,Praseed,Athul,Aravind,Jojo,Jayakrishnan, Vivek Mohan, Binoop and Arun SS who betrayed our class and shifted to EC !!
Class cricet team - Vishak, Mahesh, Anurag, Vishnu, Jaikrishna, Kiran, Jitin, Mohd Raseen, Jayakrishnan, Ajay, Praveen, Niju.
1st year also saw the formation of the college basketball team .. kudos to these guys .. they started the team all on their own without a coach and grew into a cohesive unit .. guys .. were proud of you ... they are .... Vivek Mohan, Jojo, Jaikrishna, Aravind, Athul, Manu, Nabeil, Praveen, Faisal, Nitin Panicker.
Guys who represented the college in a cricket tournament - Vishnu, Mahesh,Mohammed Raseen, Visakh, Jayakrishnan
Guys who got into the college football team - Ajay
College TT team ... Adithyan, Jojo and Jaikrishna ...
Chess team ... Thanzeel .. special mention of Honeru Kambi Vivek Livinstone on his valiant effort to get into the team that ended in a humilating 10 move defeat!!
College Band - Vivek Livingstone, Manu S Das, Abhay Mohan, Rohin Thampi
University Youth Festival - Group song - Jibin and Nikhil.
Initial dance group - Jaikrishna, Praveen, Manu, Rohin, Jaikrishna(Yeps he is all over the place..multi talented) .. (we never made it to Dhwani)
College quiz Team - Abhijith and Alen


If I forgot anything please remind me ...
P.S. - ive already edited this 4 times !! make that 5 .. no 6 ... aaagh !! 7 ...8... aaaannndd 9 !! damn .. 10..11 ..got a little more to go ! and finally done with the 12th edit .. atleast I hope I'm done !