Tonight was the last event for the EDLC (English debate and Literary Club)-a club for which I had been the hostel representative for the last two semesters. It was a memorable and learning experience for me on the whole.I have met the best people I have ever known through this club.Working together as a team ,a small group of 10 -11 people was wonderful ,specially when none of those have a single trait in common-all absolutely different with qualities of their own .

Well ,I was really relaxed after the event was over and planned to write a post on it (EDLC and the treasured memories) until I read one of my friend's testimonial for another of my friend.Rewind to my school days.

Back in Sophia we had a very strong group of about 12 girls -all great friends .But after we changed our streams we slightly grew out of touch .Parul ,Aki and I for some weird reasons which we still can't figure out opted to take Maths and hence the choice of engineering followed.We were together into all our endeavours and the disasters that followed .I guess we had our share of wild crazy things that we accomplished as a trio.

Parul is one of those who are born jokers .They just dont have to do anything -i.e try hard at making people laugh.She has this contagious attitude that spreads giggles and smiles and laughter. Most of the times she gets her timely comments direct on target but when she doesn't she gets pathetic -though in both situation she remains the most amusing person on earth.
Aki is this chirpy girl next-door who will laugh to tears ,carry all her baggage of her past with her ,discuss every possible - smallest of the smallest (consider an encounter (a simple hi for a fraction of second) with sm person X -) she makes them seem like events and (this one really amuses me) connects a mental list of all things yet not told to another mental list of all people yet not caged .:)(She doesnt read my blog..that's good for me)...and what not .Together we were the most complimentary association of three ppl which supplemented each other in the best possible way.

Well I am posting here a testimonial that Parul wrote for Aki ,one of her bad bad writings I have read in a long long time.By the way,otherwise she writes pretty well .But the poem full of errors and stupid fit-in rhymes (Consider the last lines....the most desperate of attempts I have ever seen at rhyming ) is one which refreshed my memories and would have moved me to tears if I would have been in the mood to -but you know I am not -I am over with all the duties as an EDLC Rep !Thus the tata :)
But seriously speaking these lines describe our trio in an excellent way-

AND I QUOTE

"those were days chirpy and colourful
those memories r saved in heart n r wonderful
innocence childhood
and yet we were on edge of yoof
we have shared our tedy years
and walked together thru girlhood
our topics changed from soft toys to boys...
all naughtiness of a kid
to juvenille young gals bliss .....
she has been there since years near me
the trio is still entwined n may be it always
i pray to thee!!!
ritu aki u r special in heart
n yeah i don think ne hunk can play ur part.... ;- )
remember the years we fought we disagreed
then we grew to face complexities of deeds
career ambitions success failure all
was that we had gone thru together...
butneva cd nethin tear u apart..
i know inspite of nethin we did neva depart....
my sweet days r lonely incomplete without u two
we have entered new lives ..
with relations bonds totally new
but still we are blended in a string
very strong

how we laughed at each oda yet neva sarcastic....
how we ate everythin whether food or plastic :)
how we transformed from tomboys to gals
delicate n decent
n material for chums
we have together also tolerated ppl
who were friends but u no how they were....
n still moved on to be a support
n yeah to each oda submitted life's also reports
my golden times my uncontrollable laughters
my innocent tears
my stupid desires
our wonderful dreams
all we have shared
friends in life r many
but nappy ones r rare...................."

UNQUOTE

Actually I would have loved to put in my inputs and change some parts of this poem ,but I think that would have taken away a lot from what this poem brings back to me - a refreshing and rejuventaing breeze of friendship from the past.

Tata