These were the Early days of collage and I had recently got the admission in course of my choice and in a very happening collage (Lala collage @Haji Ali) and collage itself was located on a sea shore of Haji Ali, Although collage had no campus per se but it had tall building from which you could view Haji Ali sea face and the whole wide blue sea and Haji Ali Mosque. Well with so many beautiful things around who had the time to think about love??? At lest I didn’t.

Alka was a beautiful girl and an intelligent one and I enjoyed her company. She was good at math and had promised to help me, I in turn had promised to help her in C, and although I didn’t realize it then but at some level I carved her attention. Well things were going as normally as they could and I was going with the flow and I must say I enjoyed it.

It was this whole new world that had opened up before me as if I had discovered a secret cave full of wonderful sights and treasures and I was busy exploring it, to top it off the Icing on the cake was the collage timings well they were in the afternoon from 1pm onwards so that left me enough time to reach my class in time and quite leisurely too. During those days I used to sleep late at night wake up late maybe by 11pm and get ready by 12’O clock and head to collage which itself was a very enjoyable journey. I used to take 92 Ltd. Bus from my place which was always empty cos it was the first stop and I always used to make sure that I got window seat on right hand side of the bus, From then onwards I used to put the earphones on to enjoy the music for one whole hour as that was the time it used to take me to reach collage,

I must say those were the golden years of my life and I enjoyed each and every day of my collage life Well…. at least the first year cos then onwards the journey of my life became bit rocky But like they say If it ant’s rocky it ant’s exciting so I guess that fair but still Those were the best days of my life and the ones that will remain etched on my heart forever.







I still remember the first day of my collage; it was the inaugural ceremony as it was the first batch of BSc (I.T) Course in Lala Collage, the Director decided to start the course by breaking the coconut in front of goddess Laxmi statue and for this purpose a girl was selected from the audience, Her name was Gurveen and she seem to have gotten a bit annoyed or maybe embarrassed that she was being called to conduct prayer but never the less she complied with the Directors request. After the ceremony was over we all headed towards the classroom

Well the classroom wasn’t much more then a room with a blackboard and Individual sitting benches but the good thing was it was on the sixth floor and if you turned towards your left you could see sea through the window. Well the first day of the collage was how the first day of collage is supposed to be. Only one period, Everybody Please introduce yourself shouted the professor, well there you go I though to myself first day of my collage at last. I couldn’t believe my self at last I have achieved what I always wanted me studying my favorite subject computers in collage and in a non-engineering course well what more could a guy ask for.

Roll No. 31 shouted the professor and I got up from my chair rather clumsily “Sir I am Abhinav Sabharwal I did my schooling from A.E.J.C and then decided to study computers, I am from science background” Next shouted the professor and I was once again lost in my thoughts. I had a quick look around and after introduction was over we were given a lowdown on course contents and general schedule that would be followed by collage and then like we were allowed to take a break and we all ran out of classroom like a pack of monkeys trying to escape from a cage Well that’s collage life for you isn’t it

“To go to a canteen follow the people at chow time and avoid seniors like hell” well this may be mantra for a engineering grad but we were not in a engineering collage, we were in a commerce collage which for the first time had started a technology course so the concept of ragging was blissfully absent which meant that we could roam around collage without any worry and as with any collage we reached the most important place Canteen

Most collages have a bad canteen some collage have really good canteen but in Lala’s you had 2 canteens on the fifth floor and another on the ground floor facing the sea. We usually preferred the 5Th floor canteen as it was near our classroom.

“Chotu Ragda Samosa jaldi la” Shouted Amin. Hay your really get good Ragda Samosa here and I looked up and saw this really fat guy trying to strike up conversation with me, now I am usually the kind of guy who prefers to have lunch alone so it came as a bit of surprise for me well the first thing I noticed about him other then his huge body was his silly smile and his intelligent know it about everything look. Later when I got to know him better I found out that not only was he the most technosavvy guy but also knew everything about the technology and programming in particular he was also a very fast learner and could grasp any concept very easily, A very hard working guy I gess cos he was always among the first three in the class when it came to scoring academically

Quite funnily our professor was very young. In fact as I will later come to know he had just completed his MCA and this was his first job, but I gess that was a good thing cos he could understand what we needed and maybe we could relate more to him as he was almost in the same age group as us maybe only 6-7 years older then us