THE RENEGADES, 2005-2009 batch @st gits college of engg.

The Return

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:40:00 +0000

Fully dressed, I lay on my bed, putting off the inevitable for a few more moments. Wishing that I could stay here all day, with nothing to look forward to, except sipping a drink and reading the morning paper. Wishing, that I didn’t have to fight again. Wishing I could live in peace. But fate sometimes has a habit of making your life go around in loops, repeating the same pattern. I had always known that this day would come. That the time for battle would come again, someday. But I wish it was another day, how I wish that. I reluctantly got up and left the room. My family waited downstairs anxiously. I forced a smile. My mother’s tense face cracked for a second, then resumed its previous morose expression. ‘You’ll be all right son’, my dad clapped my back and said. I stood still for the customary prayer before I left. I closed my eyes and tried to concentrate on the prayer my parents were chanting. But my heart beat was too loud to let me hear the whispered words. I don’t want to go, I thought. I’m not going. Another voice in my head sighed ‘but of course you will’. I crossed myself with a sad smile.

I thought of my friends, my brothers in arms, at this moment all of them would be saying tense good byes at their respective homes, preparing for the greatest battle yet. Some still can’t believe it. Some had even crossed the seas, thinking that they had left it all behind. Yet, a few knew it was just a matter of time, that we would have to go back. How many will make it today? I wondered. How many will fall? I closed my eyes emotionally, then re-opened them angrily, hardened by renewed conviction to the cause.

The enemy has thrown the challenge at us. The time and place had been fixed. We will not tremble. We will meet them in battle, no matter what. The war isn’t over yet. I felt the familiar smirk coming back to my lips. I felt defiance course through every fibre of my body. The war aint over yet.

I left the house without looking back, with my chest thrown out and my head held high. I held the tricolour proudly up to my chest. This is what I’m fighting for ….. Green- for 3rd semester, Yellow- for 4th, Magenta- for 5th. We will do whatever it takes. We’ll reload our calculators; draw our pens, some of us-drafters. We will sip bitter black coffee late into the night. Whatever it costs, we will claim what should be ours by right- our B.tech degrees.

Go tell the patrons of Mambalathu, that it is time to stock up again. Send messengers to the good people of maliyekadave, tell them it is time to relive the days of glory. As the eleventh month dawns on Saint Gits College of Engineering, look to the eastern gates. Listen, for the cacophony of bike horns and the rising boom’s of car woofers. When the winter sun shines through the morning mist, on the 6th day….the Kings shall return….

Hasta la Victoria Siempre! – Ever Onward to Victory!

A RENEGADES TALE

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:52:00 +0000

Four years ago, I had just struggled through an entire year in my own approximation of hell – Brilliant, Pala repeaters course, and was terrified I’d end up in a college where everyone around me studied 4 or 5 hours on a working day, while I felt like an incompetent idiot, again…. I had this idea in my head that I would get to have fun only if I got into a government college. So even though I got a scholarship for a seat in the electronics and communication department at Saint Gits College of Engineering and joined up, I was pretty depressed as I was expecting to have four boring years. We had foundation classes during the holidays which I mostly bunked, still living in denial. Then our formal classes began, and I was put in the class of FY-C 2005. All my illusions of an uneventful, boring life in college were shattered in about a week. In class, I spent most of my time getting bombarded by paper balls the size of coconuts every time a teacher turned to the blackboard. In fact, it was customary for students to bring stacks of used notebook paper from home purely for ammunition. We had already discovered that newspapers aren’t very good for making paper balls. You either started rolling ‘em up or paid with bruises. It was a hell of a class. We had people from all branches and soon we became friends with our classmates’ friends in other classes and so on. Within no time almost everyone in our year became great friends. We started going for trips and parties within a few months and it was always attended by dozens of people from all branches. We were such great friends that we simply couldn’t comprehend how our seniors seemed to stick more to their branches than their year. We promised each other that we wouldn’t go down that path, that we would always stay as one, irrespective of our branches. It’s a promise we have kept till now, the last days of our college life.

I heard “1st year ki jai” during our own fresher’s day in first year as some of us stood on the stage singing “We will rock you”. Back then it was a sound of joy and laughter, a promise for a future together.

Then came 2nd year and with it, experiences that forever changed my perspective about the college and had lasting effects on me and many of my friends. We started having problems with seniors, the college authorities, seemingly everyone. We were no longer innocent first years who had a penchant for having fun, at least, not in the eyes of the rest of the college. To some, we became notorious - rebels against the establishment. We struggled to adjust to the new treatment for a while, coz we were still the same old kids we were a few months ago, only in new and very different circumstances. We were constantly in trouble in college, mostly for standing up for our friends against seniors and college authorities when they were being persecuted unfairly. I think I spent more of my time at home than at college, clutching big fat show-cause notices and suspension orders. After a while we learnt to go with the flow of the current. There’s no denying we changed. But whether the circumstances changed us or we changed the circumstances, I guess there will always be a debate. And frankly I don’t care to debate our side too much. I believed in what I stood for, what I continue to stand for. But through thick and thin, our batch stayed strong. The tougher the times, the stronger became the bond. I guess there are some things that you can’t go through together, without being bound together forever. Our old “1st year ki jai” which was a slogan of happiness and spirit became “s-3 ki jai” and then “s-4 ki jai” and so on to “s-8”. It morphed into a cry of defiance, sometimes of unbridled rage. But throughout, it remained a symbol of our solidarity. It lasted through all the fights, suspensions, dismissals, strikes and everything. The batch became something more than a mere group of students who joined college in the same year. It was a cause, a banner or a flag which united everyone under it. Through four years, it has been the only institution that has justified the faith we put in it. If you need help, the batch is with you. Whatever class or branch or block you are in, there will always be people to answer your call. They‘ll commiserate with you when you hit a rough patch, they’ll celebrate when something good happens for you. When you’re cooped up in a building getting through different stages of a job interview, they’d be celebrating each stage you get through in their own way, opening bottles of whisky and calling up anyone who didn’t hear the news yet. That was the kind of camaraderie that we had. Your successes and failures weren’t yours to enjoy or bemoan alone, it was your friends’ too.

Coz among us, there are no royal mechs’ or ec rebels’ or king electricals’ or mighty civils’ or majestic computers’. There’s only S-8…one year, one gang and one voice . You come for nakshatra or fresher’s day or any program at college and look for the most spirited and wild crowd in the audience. If you’re looking for us, on sunny days look for the dust rising up in the amphitheatre. On rainy days look for the nuts dancing in the rain. Hell, when we went on our S-5 five day tour, we caused a mini-riot in the Brindavan gardens of Mysore when our EC , civil and electrical classes met up inside the gardens. When the EC and mechanical buses came close to each other on a highway, we were calling S-5 ki jai from one bus to the other. It’s difficult to describe the experience, the emotion we feel…to go out there and yell “bolo bolo s-8 ki…” once and hear dozens of voices yelling “Jai” with spirit. It’s an old promise, upheld against all odds, every single time. A memory to cherish, every single time.

Now we’re on the last leg of this great journey. Every day we come to college eagerly, and every evening we leave, sad that one more day has passed. Not because of our love of this college. Not because all our memories here are sweet. But because this is where our friends are. Coz this is where we came together, laughed together, rode together and of course, screwed up together. This is where our batch is. Here, we lived a life, that was larger than life. We got enough memories here to last us a lifetime, and maybe make a dozen campus movies. All these college movies are full of actors acting out our kind of life, imitations really. This here is the real thing.

For those who‘ll follow in our footsteps through the years in this college, I have only have one thing to say. Don’t give in to those who’ll have you split up along the lines of branch and class. And if any of you do manage to stay together, if any of you do manage to keep calling “Jai” for your year and not for your branch, remember….we started it. Or if this custom ends with our passing, and you never hear that sound here again, know….that there was such a batch.
For one last time……… “BOLO BOLO S-8 KI JAI”

Sharath C George,
S-8 EC
2005-2009 batch

Note: I originally wrote this as an article for our college magazine, when a friend told me to write something for it. However, they never published it in the magazine.

babu mon in dikki

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:32:00 +0000

Me and babu had digital lab supply. So after that we went to celebrate. Picked up ummachen,ajin,rijin and all from bhajis shop and went to parakkekadave and then to another place which was flooded. Somebody suggested we dip babumon in the water. That prompted babu to jump into my car,lock the doors and keeps his hands pressed on both the central locks on both doors in front so that we cant open it from outside. We spent 10 minutes trying to open it while he kept laughing at us from inside and making faces at us. Finally we managed to distract him and open it.

We dumped him into the trunk and closed it for a minute. When ajin opened it to let him out, he said its very comfortable inside, so he closed it again. But we were still worried about whether he'll get enough oxygen so we went and opened it again soon. That's when he started using the mini fire extinguisher i had inside the trunk as a weapon. Sprayed it into the faces of everyone who went to let him out. Also when i tried to check whether there were air-holes into the trunk from inside the car by putting hand through the air holes, he found out that air hole and sprayed the fire extinguisher through that into the car. Now that really pissed us all off.

So we backed the car a bit into the water, and well most of the remaining stuff is kinda censored. But if you're one of the people with access to the restricted section of the blog, just log into that and you'll get the remaining details and also get to see the remaining 2 minutes of this video, which i kinda edited out of this.

Anyway after all that we drove back to puthupally with him in the trunk and let him out in front of bhaji bhai's shop. The people on the streets were pretty surprised throughout all this. Lucky no1 called the cops really.

making new friends after the last S-8 exam

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:50:00 +0000

Bollywood style.new friendships through song and dance.Making new beginnings even as we leave..........

S-8 EC final trip to vagamon

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:29:00 +0000

We went on our last trip from college on 21st april.to vagamon.we went to vagamon mottakkunne,pine forest and parunthumpara on the way back.it was an awesome trip.unfortunately i am unable to elaborate more as the details are a bit foggy.heres a few pics though.
the highlights of the days as i remember it, included some1 throwing a beer bottle out the window, which unfortunately hit a jeep coming behind us.luckily for us they were decent and only asked for money for the glass.

parunthumpara was awesome.so misty that once u go down a hill people on both sides cant see each other.and a big drop to the side.

if u hav access to the restricted section, sign it to see a cool video taken on the misty hills of parunthumpara.

Celebrating the last day of class in S-8 EC

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:52:00 +0000

Kicked off the day by autographing every1s shirts with permanent markers. Then barged into all the juniors classes to bid them goodbye (and assure them that we'll be back every 6 months to renew our visa).
Then back to class for one last time for a huge cake.most of it ended up on our faces though.Me and parunthe and numerous others who washed up early were used to clean the floor.

New year's eve at Kovalam

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:38:00 +0000

This is how we got kicked out of the restaurant adjoining a beer parlour in kovalam.first a group of foreign guys wearing stupid hats started singing songs in the beer parlour. So in response, we started singing the national anthem under ammini's leadership.But a hindi speaking guy swayed over and said we shouldnt sing the national anthem in a bar. So we sang "sare jaha se acha" with the hindi guy. That shut up the foreigners. a few of us had ordered dinner in the adjoining restaurant. The guys came and started dancing like crazy to the beat of the chenda melam from the beach below. Ammini and tintumon (reju) were rocking the place but the restaurant workers didnt like it for some reason.

Also seen below, the guys building a sand-something..

We were told that there was lights off at 12. But what happened was fireworks and the cops on the horses chasing every1 off.
Ammini wished all foreigners and policemen happy new year before we left though..

Alfresco -08 from the makers of horizon 08

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:07:00 +0000

Alfresco -08 .s-7 ec tour dvd.....releasing soon.....

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:06:00 +0000

Happy birthday Jeebu Jacob

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:08:00 +0000

santhosha janmadinam kuttikke.santhosha janmadinam jeebu kuttikke

S-7 EC tour notice to all saint gits students

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:36:00 +0000

Mechnius 08 - saint gits mechanical department technical fest

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:21:00 +0000

Mechnius 08 (august 27th) - the technical extravaganza presented by the mechanical department of saint gits Chief co-ordinator - Oommachen (seen in pic)

The events of mechnius are;
1.Junkyard wars
2.Best manager
3.Paper Presentation
4.Project Presentation
5.Network Gaming
6.MOTOR SHOW Competition and Exhibition.

for details, contact rino oommen (oommachen) : 9847565533

Parunth vote of thanks at onnam palam

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:52:00 +0000

What a chief co-ordinator.heres parunthe repeating his horizon vote of thanks for us at onnam palam coz we couldnt hear it live as we were winning the network gaming competition at the time.

Horizon 2008 video presentation

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:46:00 +0000

The much appreciated video presentation of horizon 08 conducted by s-7 EC, produced after two weeks of hard work by Jeebu Jacob,Anish M George and Lijo Thomas in shooting the videos,editing it, etc. The first time they took all the videos and later found out that there was some problem with the head of the camcorder, so they did it all again. The narration was done by Megha Pillai. The ending video effect of the clouds moving over the college building was filmed painstakingly by Jeebu and Anish. Special thanks to Lijo's friend Manu for helping with the editing.

p.s: the praising words about the college administration is purely fictional and any resemblance of any of those qualities with anyone from the college administration is purely coincidential and unintentional.

Ammini and samathi after signing corporate deal

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:57:00 +0000

Jason Thomas (ammini) and emil k paul (samathi) after signing a corporate deal, namely - signing the register for receiving the blazer and uniform provided by the college. We call it a corporate deal because of the huge amount of money, we suspect our college authorities has made in providing us with such sub-standard clothing for the high amount of money paid by each student in his/her fees for uniform and blazer. Initially the blazer was given rolled up in a plastic bag. It was only after students from several batches refused to accept it, that they provided us with a blazer cover and hanger. The blazer's material is very poor and the cloth for the uniform shirt is simply shocking. Most students agree that it is the flimsiest material they have ever seen for a shirt. Its a certainty that every student will wait with crossed fingers, for the shirt to come out of the washing machine in 1 piece after the first wash. Best of luck with that. And we advice you to refrain from using any sort of detergent, washing powder, etc.

Horizon 08

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:55:00 +0000

Horizon, the electronics department technical fest on august 7th and 8th. Chief co-ordinator nammude swantham parunthe adhava anish prakash john. assistant co-ordinators-jeebu jacob and anish m george (all s-7 EC). Inviting everyone and requesting your whole hearted co-operation

Happy birthday thoma

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:30:00 +0000

Thoma in form. thomacha onne parayan ollu. "sagar alias jackie"

Babu mon on fire

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:59:00 +0000

Think this is funny? you aint seen nothing yet.and u wont, unless u hav an invite for the restricted section...sorry. Get ready for the real thing in restricted guys. just waiting 4 some more material

First year,first party - "the alpha and the omega" in restricted section

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:35:00 +0000

The first and one of the greatest. Due to obvious reasons, we found the content unsuitable for general public viewing.The above video is the only 1 which could be shown on this blog. So members please log into the restricted section to see amazing action from ammini,reuben,arun g, etc,etc

If you're reading this through orkut, click view website or go to www.renegadzx.blogspot.com
If you have already been invited to view the restricted section, click "restricted section" and sign in with ur invited email id and password, or fill in the form to apply for an invitation.

Renegades driving ksrtc buses in pappanamkode

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:38:00 +0000

Alen,Arun G,Kovoor, Thoma, Solomon, Nandu, Bachu at ksrtc pappanankode trivandrum during industrial training

Mararikulam trip

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:06:00 +0000

11 of us- sharath, fido, kishore, reuben, roshan, ajin,sherin (chechi), jason (ammini), aju,oommachen (rino), and rijo (oommachens older bro) left for mararikulam around 11 am in kishores and oommachens cars. Of course we didnt know it was called mararikulam beach. We only knew of it as the beach we went to in first year. As a result we went somewhere we never intended to go at first and ended up in some place where the pedestrians said there was no beach nearby at all. After some phone calls, we concluded that it was chethi beach we went to in 1st year. But since the people there said mararikulam was better we went there. When we got there we realized this was in fact the 1 we went to in 1st yr.

Video:us getting to the beach

Since it was still very sunny, we decided to go and have lunch first. We had lunch at a number one place.

Then we came back in high spirits and from then on it really started.

We were just lounging in the water when we saw a vallam (canoe) with an indian flag.The fishermen were trying to push it inshore. Naturally we went to help the indian flag bearers. Heres a video of our effort. This video is presented by our own ammini in real bbc-cnn style.

Ammini - bbc

After our hard work, we decided to relax by playing frisbee & swimming in the shallow waters

While the others played cards, me and ajin went looking for some scenic photos (below). From left - sharath, sharath, ajin

We came back around 6.30-7 stopped at thanneer mukkam bund on the way. Ummachen was walking around wearing a thorthe and executive shirt with his brother begging him to wear pants or go back to the car. Of course reuben wasnt wearing pants at all but at least he didnt venture much from the car. Those pics will be posted in the restricted section. If ur a member, click http://renegadzxx.blogspot.com/2008/07/mararikulam-trip.html for photos that were censored from this blog.

Trip tomorrow 5th (saturday)

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:39:00 +0000

We think we are going to a beach we went to in first year.about 20 km after kumarakom i think.of course no idea if thats where we are going. The idea came up when we were sitting around in front of reubens house at 7 pm today.

completely last minute with no proper planning.just like always.he he.loving it.most of the guys r asleep with no idea there is a trip tomorrow. Now kishore and oommachens cars confirmed. Possibly fido's. Anil is asleep with no idea about any of this but i ve sent him an sms. vibu's car not sure.So tomorrow morning every1 call every1 and get the show on the road by at least 10 (gud target in theory)

If any1s reading this who hasnt gotten the message yet, call some1 in the morning or come to kanjikkuzhy around 9.30 or 10 which is where v ll probably be meeting.

And someone take a flying disc.

If you want to call some1 in the early morning (be4 8 am) pls dont call me.call any1 else

Introducing a popular video in orkut - "ARUN K ON TREE"

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:00:00 +0000

For some reason this video is becoming very popular in orkut.

Presenting- nanamillayimayudeyum tholikkattiyudeyum paryayamaya arun k jacob....on tree

How to view the blog through your orkut profile

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:15:00 +0000

Most of our readers view the blog using orkut. However most dont know how to add it to their profiles, so they visit it through others profiles. This will tell you how to add the blog to ur orkut homepage and read it through orkut itself.

Step 1: In your orkut home page, click the edit button to the side of applications in the left margin, under your photo as shown in this screenshot (click to view bigger image)

Step 2: In the next page that comes, click my feeds as shown (circled in red)

Step 3: In the next page that comes, type in or copy paste www.renegadzx.blogspot.com and click add (as shown in this pic, circled in red)

Congratulations! Now you've added the blog to ur profile.

Step 4: In your homepage or profile, check the extreme left of the page, under your profile photo. You ll see a red button called renegades. Click that as shown in this pic.

Step 5: Thats it. Now you can read the blog right through your orkut profile. So can others visiting your profile. However you will not be able to read or write comments written on the posts, search older posts for people you know, use opinion polls, etc. To see all the content and features of the blog, click view website (circled in red) or go to www.renegadzx.blogspot.com

P.S: Our stupid college has blocked blogs with their firewall, so you may be blocked from going to the site directly if you're online through the college network. However you will be able to view the blog through orkut, even though images may be blocked.

Thats it for now folks. Hopefully before this hartal ends I ll be back with another "how to" post on using rss feeds and comments.
Chow.

Happy Birthday Vibu

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:30:00 +0000

Baboocha age 21.