Necker Cubicle

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I came to GEC Thrissur along with my father. For the first time I was staying away from home and since none of my Trivandrum friends joined in GEC, I was completely stranded in a pool (sea?) of strangers. To make things worse someone told me that GEC was so notorious for raging. My mind set was no better than a 4 year old kid joining the KG. Someone took us to a classroom where we waited for my turn to get the green card. A senior came to me and gave me a pamphlet in which it was written “Study and Struggle” in big block letters. “Awh!! Are we studying here to struggle??” I thought. The pamphlet was something which provides you with the information about the hostels near to the college. After all the formalities at the office, we set out to find a hostel bed for me. And that is when, this lean fair guy with the naivest look i had ever seen tripped on us – Aneesh. He was with his father and they had found a hostel for him. We had a small chat with them a...

My amma had a transfer to a remote place last week and that means no more home made food. I had some basic lessons from her on how to cook. The theory seemed to be so easy, the only thing is you have to wait for 20 minutes after keeping the stuff in stove (for most of the items). But I was so sure that the cooking thing will never happen as I believe I’ll never get bored of hotel food. Now, how I ended up cooking.   This day my father fell ill and I decided to make kanji for him and did it comfortably as there is no need to be bothered about the salt and other ingredient quantities. The prime difficulty is in getting accustomed with the environment. I made about 10 calls to my amma enquiring where the matchbox is, how to switch on the gas cylinder etc etc. Now the hard part was yet to come – to make the curry (I too planned to taste my first dish and I needed something with rice).   I had another theory class on making the easiest of all curries, payaru curry (peas curry),...