The League of Extraordinary Not-So-Gentle men

Gtalk:

Nishant: abey jaldi join kar @ 7.254
Me: kaun kaun khel raha hai?????
Nishant: abey sab hi hai....jaldi join kar ...last slot

AOE:
BabarDgr8: teams kya???
AzgarKaDost: me + pussy+ potty + kundan vs. rest
SNap: 11
LiNux: kaunsa map???
Beowulf: michi :D
LiNux: kya frusth log ho :P
@: accha hai...mast se camp karenge
SitheGod:14
SitheGod:14
PottiusRamusI: i am weak ... please dont kill me
The game is starting in 10 seconds.......
Press cancel if you see any mistake
BabarDgr8:10
BabarDgr8:10
BabarDgr8:10
The game is starting in 5 secs.....


And thus started a game of AOE which would last for more than 90 minutes. A million military units would have been sacrificed by a single click, thousands of bombard towers would have been built and broken, trade profits would be in the billions.......And this is how we spent most of our time - playing this game like madmen day in and day out, only taking breaks for food and sleep when utterly neccessary. And to top it all off, we would have long post-game discussions as to where we made the crucial strategic mistake and where we could have turned the game around.
This is how we spend the first sem of our 5th year. And I am not at all being modest when I claim that I was THE worst player of AOE of this group....not that I was inexperienced, it is just that I couldn't do any good at all....
But then came job season and we stopped playing. Then in the spring semester, most of us spent most of the time in TSC playing hockey or footer or watching a cricket match. But never would this bunch of friends spend a single hour for academics until very neccessary.
And in academics, we knew only two things, exams and guides. Classes were like some mythical places where some people still go, but it is not for us any more (not completely true...will verify later). We would spend hours discussing each others' guides and bitching about them, but would never make any effort to do something productive. For us, going to meet our guides would be a very rare and auspicious occassion, and we would be sent off like soldiers going to the warfront.
Now you would be wondering who were the members of this League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (although none of us were anywhere close to a gentleman). Agreed that in the following picture the people look like sane individuals, but get them a couple of pegs and the true selfs emerge. And trust me when I say you don't wanna be on their bad side (especially the guy who looks the cutest in this pic...I am not taking any names).

So let me introduce to you this group: To start with, we have our grand old man of the wing, our dear Satra daaaaaaaa. He is the weirdest most cutest creature at heart and god knows how I have made him life hell in the class and in the wing. Then there is Sweety, the guy who can fool anybody with his face, but underneath it lies a monster, and it just needs 3 pegs to unleash that monster. But be sure to stay at a safe distance before you do so. Then there is the psychotic ferrari fan Deep, the guy who can't utter 5 words without one of them being a gaali. I have no idea how he stays at home and controls himself in front of his parents or how he managed to get through his job interview and his project evals. Wanna hear the weirdest of excuses not to wake? Try waking up Jha ji on one fine morning, and I promise you that you will hear excuses you have never ever heard before. Still then this poor guy was never let to sleep peacefully. But lazy he is not. The guy having the highest laziness co-eeficient would be the genius Kundu. If he weren't that bright, he could never have got through IIT the way he did. But talk about bright and forget ad, or as I love to call him, chut-ad- :-D. Then there was the gult Indra, the guy who kept making weird robotic creatures in his room, and wouldn't give up a chance to show it to one of us. And lastly, I had my two children, my son Pathak and my daughter Pushkal. Pathak was my partner-in-crime in making smart remarks on every one in the group. And since both of us were wella most of the time, we would be in somebody else's room bugging the hell out of him. Otherwise, we woud be busy watching Southparl :D. Well, Pushkal's (also known as 'pussy's') room was actually the hub, and everybody would go there to bhaat or play some game on his computer, or just for the carnal pleasure obtained by molesting cute Pushkal. Cute he may be on the outside, but you better not get into an argument with him, or he will make you regret the day you were born and got the brains which made you argue with him.
But whatever it is we are doing, we do it together. And since we could not study together, we rarely studied until required badly. We did try at times to study together, but you can ask Satra, Prasoon, Deep, AD how painstaking those sessions were.
One thing we loved to do together though (other than AOE, CS, Carrom, Chess, Business, Monopoly,WoW) was drinking. Mostly during the job treats at GI. It would mostly start with the person(s) giving the treat going to everybody else's room asking them to get ready. And getting ready was one prolonged process. Not because we all bathed very rigourously and took a lot of time in dressing up and all. It was basically because all of us were damn lazy and had a very high inertia of rest. Invariably everybody would be sitting in front of their respective monitors either playing some game or watching some series. You would literally have to pull us from the front of the computer and kick us into the bathroom. Now once the wheels were in motion, people would start to get ready in a jiffy.

Then came the thing about getting the main reason we went to the treats: BOOZE!!!!!! One

car would leave early via Billi's while other car consisting of the lazier lot would depart later directly for GI. Once in GI, there were only two things of interest: food and booze. And food was synonymous to "CHICKEN", although we had the poor gult Indra who had to make do with a vegetarian diet. But we hungry animal would still not spare his plate of paneer tikkas and

paneer pakodas.
Now came the actual part about the drinking. The bartender was yours truly most of the times, and I was known for my extra-special pegs :D. On any typical evening, you would see people sharing a drink like gentlemen. Look at Prasoon and Deep. Don't they look decent?
Now once the drinks started and the starters would have been ordered (generally Tandoori Chicken, Chicken 69, Chicken Pakora...basically by the end of our streak of treats, we had tried most of the starters on the menu of GI), people would settle in and start bhaating. Sweety would be busy taking pics of different people while the rest would be involved in their discussions. Invariably, the gang would break up into smaller groups, some discussing WoW, some discussing football, some discussing AOE, some (like me) busy making drinks for everybody else :)...........Now how would you know that the alcohol is starting to kick in??? Take a look at AD. If you can see most of his teeth, you know that he is high. And once he is high, he can't keep himself from smiling; and that the best smile I have ever seen, unfortunately I don't have any pic of that :(.
Then gradually as people start getting high, the main course is served. But since most of us are high, food holds not much interest anymore. Still we complete the dishes, but with a half heart (but thats enough :D).

The next step would be to go outside to the lawn of GI. And there you see what people do when they get high. The favourite thing to do is molest poor Pushkal and take advantage of him. Unfortunately Pushkal was the only one among us who never drank, so we could never go to the full extent of raping him :(. But then there would be other things like GPL. But most people would be too disinterested to kick anybody, so they would end up dropping that guy. And at this time would begin our second photo session.

Here you would see our dear Jha ji with his trademark cowboy shooting pose. And Jha ji was really a cowboy at heart - rarely bathing, wearing the same jeans and clothes from months on end. Come on the topic about saving the damsel in distress and riding off with her into the sunset, Jha ji has been treated with mixed fortunes. While one damsel ended up marrying somebody else, this romeo of ours didn't take long to sweep another girl off her feet with the magic of his fingers (I mean SMSing ;) ).......Sorry I diverged from the topic.
Then we would eventually get so high, that we would literally get high (forgive me for this

relaly really bad joke, just couldn't resist :D). Then we would somehow stuff ourselves back into the car and get back to our wing where we would either sleep off or get back to the business of playing some game. A carefree time like that will never come again in any of our lives ever again, but we can always look back to these times.......the times we worried for nothing, the times when we learnt so little but we lived so much....the times we laughed together even though all of us wouldn't have a reason to be happy, in fact some would be utterly disappointed......but celebrating every moment of happiness together was the norm even if it were 5 in the morning and you were dead tired....
Salute to all you guys.....