I must

confess. People have always told me IITians will be in some extreme and it is a rare occasion when u find a normal guy who does his (some) degree in IIT or graduate with some degree from this great place. I never believed it until recently when vasudevan returned from IIT for Dussehra. The nite we met after his arrival, was phenomenal. We met at satyam cinemas. The first thing i noticed about him was his level of childish idiotic dialogues. we were discussing something and following was the reply given by him, with his hands pedalling something in air ????!!!!

"இப்படிதான் டா செய்யணும்"

"செய்யணும் இப்படிதான் டா"

WOW!!! what a man. Though he was already qualified to be an eccentric, now IIT has added more bloody things to his mind. We then found our way to ID inside satyam....the place was jam packed and we had to wait. Waiting on any other day wouldn't have irked me. But along with his new cranky head, i had to wait....wait and nothing more to do. The minute we knew, we had to wait, out came the words form his mouth

"நம்பலாம் எதுக்குடா வெயிட் பண்ணனும்? எதுக்குடா வெயிட் பண்ணனும் நம்ப? வா எவன் தலைலயவடு தட்டிட்டு நம்ப சபுடுவோம். சபுடுவோம் நம்ப எவன் தலைலயவடு தட்டிட்டு".

Fortunately soon we found ourselves seated in a chair. We ordered what ever we felt like ordering. I thought that was the end of his tantrums. Soon, we found a waiter walking along with a dosa in hand. And i felt somehting uneasy about to happen. YUP!!! and vasudevan didn't disappoint me. He called the waiter and told him "The way u carry the dosa in the plate will not have a good thermal efficiency. The dosa cannot be maintained hot if u carry it in this position"....The waiter had no idea and b4 he could burst in rage, i had to converse with vasudevan as though we were talking. The waiter walked away with a cynical face. Soon we finished our dinner and we entered the cinema hall.

Happily we sat to watch the movie. Soon we were half way thorugh the movie and the so called intermission came on. To my surprise vasudevan was hungry!!! I have never seen him eat like that, for that matter i have never seen him eat...I bought a large popcorn and a large coke...ofcourse at his expense :):)...The minute we got back to our seat, the popcorns began to disappear in a jiffy :):)....mind u, i did not even take one!!!! :'( ....When i tried to pick one, the intellectual in him awoke...."machan, the angle of inclination of your hand is not right to pick up the optimum amount of popcorn from the baggage".

BOSS!!!!!!!! this was too mcuh for me...instead of telling me this, he could have rather told me a STRICT NO NO for the popcorns...i was not sure, whether he was really mad or he was trying to be mad :( :'(....

Soon after the movie was over, i took him to my room. Since it was too late to travel all the distance to drop him and come back. Though the lights were turned off immediately after we entered my room, it was really difficult for vasudevan to sleep. All through night, there were only two words that went past the tunnel between my ears if one existed!!!!!! Yes the words were HUNGRY and TOILET. Indeed his food habits has changed as a result his other system too has collapsed. :D:D

The next day morning i dropped him in his home. Though we share a great interest in music and share few common strings in music, this time his intensity in debating was more than usual...it was way high and i couldn't match up with him. Seems all the time, he spends in IIT alone, he had been missing illayaraja, rahman, our legends MSS, DKP, Maharajapuram etc....Every night when he was online, we used to discuss about music.

He just sent me a lot of youtube clippings and we used to debate on it...They were all yesteryear songs of illayaraja. It was 12:00 in the night when he sent me the final link. It was the famous song machana pathingala, and it is indeed a great song till date. From the previous discussion i was a bit frustrated coz i didn't like the song and at 12:00 in the night, u dont expect me to enjoy this song. Following is our chat conversation :):)

Vasudevan: Hear this da
Ya wait a min d a

11:58 PM vasudevan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy-eSv-gA4o&feature=relate
Watch this
Three layers of the instruments
The talam changes and then changes instru
12:00 AM Dei u there ?

me: irruken da
ada keka try pannitu irruken
12:03 AM that is a good one da

Vasudevan: Hear it a million times da

me: dei evalo vatti ketalum adu appadiye dan da irrukum
million time ketta illayaraja nerala varuvara?

vasudevan: No da

me: darisanam tharuvara?
12:04 AM apparam edukuda million times keka sonna?

12:09 AM Vasudevan: Chumma than da

12:11 AM me: dei

hearing it a million times is by no means an ordinary feat...even illayaraja would not have heard it a million times in his life time :'( and this crack pot wanted me to hear it a million times at midnight and for no good reason :'( :'(...

Only IITs can produce such great minds :):)

LONG LIVE IITs. Hopefully vasudevan returns to his normal eccentric self soon :( :'(
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