207 tenants attacked by 'lisa'

Cochin : Approximately around noon on thursday, 4th june 2009, the original tenants of 207, messrs suthin, vysakh and jazim were attacked by a strange creature that was hiding in the bookshelf residing in the bedroom. Suthin was the first victim to notice it's presence while studying, and informed vysakh who had to be brought back from slumberland and eventually did the same to jazim as well, who woke up the moment the news was known to him. this is reportedly the first time jazim had woken up from his sleep in a matter of mere seconds.

the creature looked like a cross between a snake and a lizard(hence the name 'lisa', devised by suthin). it had a long smooth body resembling a snake with feet that looked like it belonged to a lizard. this creature, that was black and brown in colour, was extremely fast and agile...one of the reasons that contributed to the utter fear the 3 tenants were experiencing.

hidden behind the books, the tenants resorted to removing the books one by one holding tools to defend themselves should the creature attack, namely suthin's sweeper, jazim's broom and vysakh's deodrant. sources suggest that vysakh perhaps intended to spray the deodrant into the eyes of the animal and distort its vision, but his true intentions in his weird choice for a weapon remain unclear.

after a long and gruelling process, the tenants managed to isolate lisa to one corner where it hid behind a single book. as the 3 tried to lure it away from that book, the creature ran to the other end of the shelf where, forgotten by the tenants, laid ANOTHER book and hid behind this. eventually the shelf was emptied and the floor cleared to give the animal space to move, while the clearly larger and more dangerous tenants shook in fear and contemplated their next move. smashing and splattering it all over was suthin's idea, but jazim and vysakh weren't in favour of cleaning carcass off the floor. thus they waited till lisa got out of the shelf. its sudden movement across the floor prompted suthin to recoil, vysakh to jump backwards on the bed and spray the deodrant blindly into the air and more hilariously, caused jazim to fly back so much that he clung onto the window grills like a monkey.

lisa neared the hole on the floor(which was suspected as the entry point), but paused at that point for several minutes as the tenants held their breath for its next move. it seemed as if to turn back and bid goodbye; but fortunately for them, it crawled through the hole. the hole is at present blocked with tape.

since this incident, lisa has become an instant hit. the tenants are however aware that this is just the first of many threats that they could face in the coming months as the rain pours down and dark creatures that are messengers of fear and despair, some even of death, seek shelter at 207. maybe they also have heard of the fun the humans were enjoying here, and wanted to be part of it.

this is vysakh reporting for 207 news.

Telicherry Traverse

Its that time of the year again, folks...when the exams are over(at least the regular exams) and we are left longing to just get home and fall flat on the bed to get some well-deserved rest. the past month was very gruelling, especially for myself and jazim who had to painfully stay overnight many times for the sake of 45 marks on our papers. zubin on the other hand, did work hard here and there, but took the exams very coolly alltogether. but thats zubin for you.

but that blissful moment of ultimate sleep never came...but not for a bad reason though. zubin and jazim, our 207 telicherry tenants(or in the mallu style,thalassery) had invited myself, suthin and 3 of our college mates,namely shaheer, ali and libin, to come home, explore their "tharavaads" and have their deliciously cooked food. it seemed like a good opportunity and thus, we took it.

personally,it was my first time in 9 years i took a long distance trip on a train. and it was the first time ever i travelled in a packed general compartment(yeah yeah, i admit i was a virgin to all this,but not anymore!!). horrible experience at first, but at the end, it seemed like it was worth it. 6 hours, most of which i spent lying on the floor with my head on top of suthin, with his head on top of zubin, whose head was around shaheer's arm, who was leaning side by side with ali, whose feet were being used for support by jazim...(libin got in from another stop, and luckily for him, he got a proper seat!). give it some time, u can construct this picture in ur head. it wasnt very comfortable. but it was an experience to remember.

6 hours over and i took my first step in thalessery. not a very happpening place, not as advanced as cochi. nothing at all spectacularly amazing actually...at least until jazim, who was leading the pack, took a sudden left turn from the road and a HUGE house blocked our entire vision. that was jazim's mom's "tharavaad"(im sorry calvin, couldnt find an english word for it). and believe you me, it was huge. i mean...ive seen such houses, even bigger...but to have a friend who actually lives here and to be taken there...well, that was something exhilarating. there we were treated to a wonderful breakfast and a mind-blasting lunch by jazim's relatives. to quote russel peters, it was "tooooooooo good!" i could actually write another post entirely dedicated to just how tasty thalassery food is. for now, you guys can use just one word to describe it  : majestic.

after that it was tour time. we were taken around to meet up with more of jazim's relatives, followed by a trip to his own house. (all transportations owed to the santro belonging to his cousin) and then the spotlight was shifted to zubin, as we met up with his relatives, worthy of mention is his grandmom, apparently the only educated, english speaking woman in kerala of her age, an amazing 80. and of course, a visit to his dad's tharavaad was inevitable. and BELIEVE YOU ME, this was bigger.

u guys must have seen family trees, i suppose? u know how they are usually pretty long, right? well guess what, no exagerration intended, zubin's entire family tree was in that house. every room(lost count of the number of rooms) had a family alloted to it, and each of them had their own history. it took us approximately 20 minutes when we left the place, having traversed just half of it!! it was something to think about for me, especially, not being a big family person myself...but its worth checking our for anyone. truly fantastic.

a trip to tipu sultan's fort awaited, plus....errr....i forgot the name of this place, but it was basically rocks overlooking the sea....yet it was serene and beautiful. especially coz we arrived there some time before sunset. the day climaxed with a marvellous dinner at zubin's cousin's place as we took a bus(thank god!) back home....with a refrigerator in tow.(yes ppl, we have a fridge now at 207). jaz stayed back in thalassery for few more days.

after we reached back at 5 30 in the morning, i finally got that well deserved sleep i had talked about. perhaps it came a day later, but it came at the price of having witnessed the history and unity of a family and having to eat the best food in all of kerala. i guess i can live with that.   :)

vysh

the birthday carol...

note- like usual the v man yet again seems to have posted prior to me. so that gives me a petite factor to contribute with, and i myself am not aware from where to start. damn you vysakh, leave some detail for me!(THE finger!)

prologue- yes! the last post was more of an eviction order for all the regular invitees to 207 but it all started with rohin. the evening after the our last exam, ringg ringg and guess who's heading to wreck it all, the man in workshop clothing, rohin(:P). from then on, its been him and thanks to the fact that "cedric the entertainer's" exams were over too. combining these two, what do you get-hullabaloo.. but having the tiny puny conscious lingering within us, we guys managed (ohh did i forget to put 'managed' in " "..!) to put in some vectored effort towards study, yes!! the first week of exams tagged sleepless and we all hated it just as much. regulars of the day were, shuttling between home and hostel-running through the hostel corridor-hunting down resources-no water to drink-stinky loos-combined study comprising of 8 guys-midnight-2am-4am-"little" nap-GULP-7am-revision with toothbrush-uniform with tea-staircase with tension,tat'tat'tat and kaaboom, EXAM HALL, blackout! allah dammyit..!

the timeline...

day 1- the dusk to the showdown which we will all reminisce no matter how long from now. "sreekutty's bday bash" started with bidding goodbyes to irene at the airport and then the god damned(!!) rain which kinda knobbed the agendum in mind. blah to that! now back home where sreeja was made the princess(DUH!) and walked the red carpet to the 21 candle light scrumptious birthday cake. so what do you think will happen when you have cake and martian people like us...hades! after the cake makeover session, the ramp was all set for nothing but fantabulous slumber. "first come first serve" was the rule for bed space which left me and zubin stray off to the other room (no no, dont let your mind wander!). 

day 2- morning 8am...KNOCK! that was my head and my feet in my premises as well(;)).. wonder why i got that one from jen-C? all the boys ang girls taking turns to rush foam into their mouths and some of them weirdly finding it amusing to talk during the process. argh! all dressed by now, the photo session starts with the boys all going props, foregorund and background to the lens and doing whatever possible to be everywhere in the picture. now to the ladies, blah... so poof did we all go for the CUSAT tour(yawn!) and then a little of baskin robbins and VEG lunch. please dont remind me about that. now what is a party at 207 without stepping in sandunes yeah'.. this time it was our treat to sreeja so the private room impressed us and knocked the bday girl as well. i always wonder when will we not be welcomed there. destination home was the objective after all the hookah dazed and confused. home sweet home with yet again  torn clothes and butt loads of time to waste... hungry kya'..!?tho dominos kaa..!and that was just what we did. zoom to the pizza place and zoom to haven and zapp to the pizzas when they were unpacked. even the cheese didnt get enough time to settle in, it was forced to melt. hooligans, i say!

day 3- the entertainer and ms DOC leaves in the morning with the trademarked kiss from the DOC. that was the only thing i (prefer to) remember. the rest of us lazing around in pyjamas or whatever he or she was wearing then decides to hit the road for the leftover in the agenda. movie was the end of it. wait..did i say movie, i bet that most will only remember nothing but the name of that movie. no, it was not sleepless in seattle.

day 3n+1(we are engineering students)- gape, drool, stare, scratch, lick, play with toes, kick stones, bite nails, eat leaves, turn pages, commmode, coop, hump(thought i shouldnt make zubin feel left out)...

well that was basically the most myopic way in which i could describe the set of days that will remain. hemorrhage of despair or whatever saddening in you is what we at the "domain of awesommness", are good at. ;)

and i owe it all to sreeja's knifelike contagious gag, rohin's hercules "kallipppe" scowl, susan's "i am your mommy" posture, dilu's "lets's ride" attitude, tiddly merin's officious elan, jenC's "dont piss me off"(GULP), suthin's evergreen laughs that can kill, vysakh's sympathetic accomplice grin and zubin's tendancy to always be the "unexpected" one.   

regards,

jazim

PS: to all those dumasses who made it for the bash ie., sreeja, rohin, jenC, dilu, merin and susan.. i dare you to step in at our place before 30th of this month. hmph! this one goes to irene and tessy as well. hmph to you too..!

:P

did i just say dry day?

my previous post here included statements that emphasized the seriousness of our upcoming....im sorry....ONGOING exams. and jazim's post further implied the same message i had wanted to send out : STAY OUT OF 207 DURING THE MONTH OF APRIL! and i was sure that the message had settled in all of us, especially believed that the tenants ourselves would enforce it.

boy, how wrong could i be?

april 8th was zubin's, jazim's and my 3rd exam. april 20th was the next.

april 9th was sreeja's birthday. u do the math, and u will know that we could take a couple of days off safely from our studying. and that's exactly what had happened...on april 8th,we brought the guests home(actually, the rest of the gang is losing its "guest" status...we might as well pass them all a duplicate of our keys). despite a mess up due to lack of communication between us that evening(it's bound to happen between close friends, gotta accept that, right?), we threw a great midnight treat for sreeja...had gotten her a surprise birthday cake and she just couldn't wait to blow the flames off the 21 candles and share its waxy(kudos 2 the candles 4 tht!) yet delicious taste with all of us while the camera kept clicking. that was one moment for all of us to cherish.

the next 2 days included baskin robbins, north indian veg food, sheesha(our bday gift for sreeja btw), dominoes(sreeja's treat for us), fast & furious and marrybrown with the farewell at the railway station. all-in-all, yet another memorable day to be marked in our calenders. 

personally, the highlighting features of this little get-together were the small moments...our conversations throughout the night, merin's blasphemy, the unexpected drunkenness from the 4th 'tenant' who doesn't pay rent, the chemistry between two particular individuals, 6 people getting squashed on the bed trying to sleep etc etc aaaaaaaaaaaand above all.........sreeja's laugh. i can still hear it ringing in my head :)

so that's a valid enough reason as to why the tenants were suffering from a hangover during the aftermath. but we are indeed getting back to our feet, definitely not gonna give up on these exams. and that's why once again, we say...STAY OUT OF 207 DURING THE REST OF APRIL!!

yet i know you guys will come barging through the door any day to create more memories at 207. and guess what? we love it.

yours sincerely

vysh

hello goodnight fun me!

since the v-man has already spoken about the updates here, i am just making my presence felt here. the 'nocturnal month' kicks off with the usual ring of silence and with an enormous deal of "to do" agenda. suthin is all buckelling himself up for his exams due to start tomorrow. zubin and his usual goof around still trademarking him but with a new fabregas hairdo. v-man is finding it too hard to resist his hands off from the novel that often confounds us to think of it as something else. hate to admit that we are moving into status-hibernate from now on. but no worries, will be back to ensavage the mayhem designed and crafted by instinct and sheer foolishness to construct the on-demand  intrigue. for now its going to be GOD da**ed books, little sleep, toast bread and jam, gallons of fuel, not so many GB's, single pair of home clothes, zero laundry, une hall ticket and trivial time for willy nilly liesure. allah dammyit indeed..!

until the next time..

jazim!

dry day at 207

yes, ladies and gentlemen, we are ebbing the flow of fun at our beloved home, 207, on account of being plagued by exams(all 3 of us, plus zubin).

please hold no hard feelings(this comment is specially directed to our resident banshee, sreeja, coz she seems to miss us the most). but we are hoping that regular working hours will resume when the exam season ends for all of us.

take care...

vysh

Jazim runs over a cat with the bike

Cochin: approximately at 1900 hours on tuesday, 24th february 2009 mr.jazim abubacker reportedly rode over a pedestrian cat with his newly obtained Ambition motorbike. the innocent passenger behind him was vysakh surendranath who also witnessed the horrific incident but was unable to do anything about it.

according to the eye witness, vysakh(the cat couldn't be categorised as an eye witness,being dead), jazim had just entered the campus turning right from the junction and had accelerated tremendously. the cat was crossing the road, but increased its pace on jazim's arrival. but due to his speed, both his swerving and applying of brakes were to no avail as both the wheels ran over the cat with 2 noticeably loud thuds. on account of goosebumps, both jazim and vysakh dared not to turn around and see what had happened.

however, later while relaying the story to suthin and zubin on the terrace of 207 , jazim denies that he had ridden fast from the CUSAT junction and persists that he had gone "very slow". upon hearing this, it was concluded that jazim is indeed armed and extremely dangerous, and that no animal should be fooled by his tiny size, but should take extreme precaution.

the animal kingdom, reportedly, is very shaken by this loss. rumours have begun that the cat family is seeking revenge and their powers might just extend upto the supernatural realm. for instance, on the way back, the body of the cat was nowhere to be found. moreover, on the terrace of 207,  jazim had suffered a horrific injury as he tried to jump over the rope tied to hang wet clothes, and landed on his right leg heavily and hurt his already damaged ankle. granted, he was stupid, yet it is to be believed that this was the mysterious effect of the cats' curses on him.

it is widely hoped that suthin will post his views on this tragedy, keeping in mind the numerous jokes and theories he'd made up on the terrace with zubin's assistance.

this is vysakh reporting for 207 news.