Everyday in our life brings us a new challenge. One such great challenge was posed to me on 18th December 2008. The challenge began when my dear friend, who had promised to come with me, suddenly resigned. So I had to make this journey to the far land all alone. Destination was VTU, Belgaum. VTU btw is Vishveshwaraya Technological University. The name which most of us have seen on our exam papers or on the results website, but none of us really know who or what or where this is!!. So I set out to look for VTU!
On reaching Belgaum, I was quite amazed to learn that Belgaum is after all not a small town at all! Its quite a big place with a few shopping malls to boast off! I always had a picture of Belgaum with VTU at the centre and a few houses other than the university campus. But Belgaum has more than just VTU in it! Anyway, moving on, I got a companion at Belgaum bus stand itself. Guy from Kashmir apparently but studied in Gulbarga and was in Mumbai on the 26th of Nov near Nariman point. So passing time wasnt a problem initially atleast. Stories flew from Kashmir to Mumbai to politics to apples to more politics and finally VTU. Once I reached the campus, I was awstruck by the sheer size of the VTU campus. After all how much space does the admin office of VTU reall
y need!! But then V have all been paying a lot of fees. They need to be used up somewhere!. So VTU people have been building good looking buildings far away from people's view in Belgaum.! They have an amphi theatre which can accomodate atleast a thousand people if not more.... and all that in a place where there are not more than 100 people at any given point of time. Out of these hundred 10 are from various colleges who have come there to collect their degree certificates, like me!!!And the rest are the office people who have no reason to visit the amphi theatre! They also have a huge gym, quite well equipped and new. For whom, I donot know!!!!Co
z its closed for the visitors! Also there is a indoor stadium kinda thing which also is closed for public. There also are a few scaled models of GSLV, ISRO models. Y?...I donot know!!!! The person who was incharge of getting the certificates done was very understanding. He collects our details at 10 am and askes us to come back at 4 30 in the evening. Thats what he does everyday so thats what he will do to us as well. Y such a thing when it can be done in an hour easily!!!?...I donot know!!!!..And if i failed to mention earlier, VTU campus is 15 kms from the city and there are a very few buses which come and go from this place. Hence I couldnt have gone out for a while and come back, coz I am not sure if I ll be able to come back once I leave the campus and move out! So I am forced to sit there with my Kashmiri friend and a few others like me, on the lawns of VTU and discuss Mumbai attacks! How interesting! Thank God I found a bunch of idiots like me there to give me company. Also there was a girl!!! Yes, a GIRL!! But then with her was her dad too. So no chance of flirting either. Just plain talk and smile. Y did she need her dad there with her! Didnt she know that she was the sole source of entertainment for a few young gentlemen like me out there !!! Didnt she anticipate that! I am guessing she did, but so did her dad!!!! Thats y he was there! Another dad was even smarter. He was wearing a wig I can tell U and had come alone even without his daughter! How convinient for the daughter!!!! So thanks to all these wonderful facts that I just mentioned above, I spent a day at VTU doing nothing! Nothing also might be an understatement coz I really did nothing at all!!!!!!!!! Sat through the day to finally get my cert at 5 30 and then back home next morning! An absolutely uneventful day of my life spent at VTU. I ll remember this day, until next time I go through a day where in I dont even travel and it goes this un eventful! Until then this ranks as the most boring day of my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!God knows Y i wrote this, but its gud to have record of my most boring day. Might come handy to compare it with another day in the future!;)
