Seniors, we have become/ Freshie 2001!!

Second yr came and we had first glimpses of OUR prey;) The innocent lambs ( we were too when we joined, rather even now we ARE) moving arnd with their parents, the corner of their eyes trying to capture a glimpse of the seniors - not knowing what these loving seniors are holding in store for them!!
Ragging was bad for our juniors - i have to accept. They saw stars everyday/ night!! I could safely say that i am glad that i was not my senior! (did i make sense??) anyway the period of ragging went by fast...(i am sure the jus' would disagree with me on this point)!!!
The ragging had almost come to an end except for the "chosen few" who due to their over smartness or dumbness ended up getting thulped by the seniors even during the fag-end of the rag period...the lucky few included Boris for his stupidity, Chandra/ Tinku/ Sreeni for their over smartness??;)...n whtever...The NRI freshie had got over and the very next day was the our Mallu freshie for our beloved juniors..
the tough part was getting the Nri - mallu juniors to come for the freshy..what with them havin boozed their guts out the day before for the NRI freshie, most of them were not in their senses when mallu freshie had to begin and after numerous calls by the seniors to the first yr hostel all of them turned up for the freshie...one person though who was completely bonkered out was Sundeep...he had had a bit too much the day before and he could hardly stand on his 2 feet...he was even reluctant to come for the freshie..but somehow the Nri-mallu's of our batch..convinced him n pulled him for the freshie....
then there was the arrangement of freshie...we had got the Royal Southern hotel for conducting the freshie..esp since we had given them a double deal...NRI freshie n Mallu freshie on consecutive days and courtesy us..they got a lot of business for that yr for almost all the freshies..!!!it was something we had discovered - good hotel, cheap rates and suddenly everyone wanted a piece of the pie.......
the hall booked for the freshie was a medium sized hall (they called it the banquet hall) with food catering to both the veg n non-veg buds....along with the hall came the Music system and the mike...the system was pretty decent..good enough to play some songs and for juniors to put on music and present the first yr event..whatever they had to do...there was a small stage/ podium...that was carpetted in red...a chair was kept in the centre..where each junior went up..and gave his/ her intro...and where they were bombarded with questions abt their baap/ their maa and so many other questions which would make them sweat...and at the same time would please the sadistic minds of their over powering seniors...this was also the chance for each senior to tease another of his batchmate/ his senior by asking tricky complicated questions to the juniors abt their college heriditary...!!!all those seniors/ batchmates who were despised...were made fun of courtesy thru the juniors at this juncture...!!
another memorable thing was the invitation card that we had published and sent out for all the seniors inviting them for the freshie...the FUMS were infuriated with this action of ours..they created petty scenes like, one of them dint get the invitation card and it meant they were not invited for the freshie...after a lot of coaxin many of them,...all of them finally agreed to come for the freshy...(it was obvious they would come ..but then they wanted to make us beg them n this was their way of making the whole freshy very formal - as they termed it - by giving out invitation cards)
the whole work of organising the freshy was divided up into tasks amongst us second yrs...some were given the work of getting the girls to the hotel...some were in charge of transportation - to n fro..others to check if things were in order in the hotel before the function started off...and one was given the duty of getting the then final yrs to the hotel...I was the chosen one for supposedly having the knack of talking soft n cooling them off..(this was told to me, i think..so that I would not refuse the OFFER)..anyway I acceded..
on the chosen day all had got set going ...I went to the final yr hostel - to get those seniors..and boy was not I scared..what with all these towering characters boozed n their anger regarding invites still not calmed down...I got together everyone in the van designated for them (as per their request...they wanted a separate van altogether for 13 of them to reach the hotel)...and when i was abt to enter...couple of them pushed me out..telling the van was exclusive for them...and not for any freaking junior..be it the organiser or whoever...smart me -instructed the van driver then to take the van to royal southern n decided to come by TNSTC to the hotel..but few of the other seniors (sidi, sujith etc..) got me back into the van despite what few others said...the journey started off...i was a sitting duck in the last seat..just trying to hide myself n prayin that this trip to the hotel ended soon...while the final yrs were hurling abuses at me n my batchmates for not providing them A/C coach../ video coach and what not :-P...in between one of the seniors...(Jiby)..came behind..and started narrating story of how he n his batch mate slapped each other during one of their ragging sessions or so...and to illustrate this..out of the blue..THUD...the whole van that was buzzing with noise n abuses...became silent...there was just the humming of the engine that could be distinctly heard...the pain of the whack could be felt by my innocent soft cheeks only later on...I was shocked - for having got the slap, for not knowing the reason why I got slapped and for the humiliation of being prob the only 2nd yr to have got slapped by the FUMS.....however thanks to that...all the abuses being hurled were stopped...suddenly everyone came back to the senses except the one who had delivered the slap...all were calmin me down..(they probably thoguht I would get angry or upset or whateever) and now the abuses were on to that senior...prob he dint realise the strength of the blow he had just metted out...anyhow..later on he came n apologised and the remaining part of that long journey was spent in silence...
anyway the remaining part of the freshie was pretty uneventful..the regular happenings and nothing in particular...!!!