hi all,
Life has taught us lot of things...we have been shocked, had our quota of fun, and also impressed and impacted from the everyday news...The panchantra stories to the chicken soup to the today's real life stories...
This is from our desk...shanvy and vysan
Life has taught us lot of things...we have been shocked, had our quota of fun, and also impressed and impacted from the everyday news...The panchantra stories to the chicken soup to the today's real life stories...
This is from our desk...shanvy and vysan
Did you know about this Day?
Posted 14th March 2008 at 07:50 AM by Shanvy
Last week I was on Mount Road near the voltas signal.A week day, the traffic was hectic, too hot, was sitting waiting for the traffic to ease as the driver had to take a left turn. We were all stopped as there was some procession progressing.
Suddenly there was this procession, with a band and guys dancing. There was a pallavan bus, with very few people inside, the bus was decked with flowers, for a change the driver had big smile and a very happy face,seeing this started searching for the conductor,finally located him and he was enjoying a piece of cake and a cup of juice with the passegers.
I was shocked, what was happening, and after that this was the conversation that took place between me and the driver.
Me:My god! what a different scene from the normal moody, angry ptc drivers,conductors and passengers.
Driver: Yes. and that too with police protection.
Me: But why police protection.
Driver: Have you not studied in college.?
Me: Yes. what has that got to do with this procession
Driver : This has everything to do with the college
Me : What?
Driver : It is called bus day. A celebration by the college boys who use that bus everyday the whole year. they celebrate by giving a treat to the driver and conductor, also some present to them.
Me : And the government accepts wasting one whole day by the students for celebrating this Bus day.
Driver : Yes! other wise how will they be doing this with the support of police personnel
I really never knew there was a bus day before that. my god, what a waste of one whole day. the traffic stagnant, the collection that got stopped in that route, and on stop police personnel's man hours..
I feel it is a waste of money
. If the students wanted to celebrate could have taken the driver and conductor during their lunch hour and treated them.
What do you think..and BTW did you know about this Bus day,Or are you all thinking I have not seen the face of college..

Suddenly there was this procession, with a band and guys dancing. There was a pallavan bus, with very few people inside, the bus was decked with flowers, for a change the driver had big smile and a very happy face,seeing this started searching for the conductor,finally located him and he was enjoying a piece of cake and a cup of juice with the passegers.
I was shocked, what was happening, and after that this was the conversation that took place between me and the driver.
Me:My god! what a different scene from the normal moody, angry ptc drivers,conductors and passengers.
Driver: Yes. and that too with police protection.
Me: But why police protection.
Driver: Have you not studied in college.?
Me: Yes. what has that got to do with this procession
Driver : This has everything to do with the college
Me : What?
Driver : It is called bus day. A celebration by the college boys who use that bus everyday the whole year. they celebrate by giving a treat to the driver and conductor, also some present to them.
Me : And the government accepts wasting one whole day by the students for celebrating this Bus day.

Driver : Yes! other wise how will they be doing this with the support of police personnel
I really never knew there was a bus day before that. my god, what a waste of one whole day. the traffic stagnant, the collection that got stopped in that route, and on stop police personnel's man hours..
I feel it is a waste of money
. If the students wanted to celebrate could have taken the driver and conductor during their lunch hour and treated them. What do you think..and BTW did you know about this Bus day,Or are you all thinking I have not seen the face of college..
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| | Dear Shanthi ma'am Surprised to see me in blogs section?? Landed up here accidentally while searching something else n the word 'college' True ...when it comes to celebration, that should be done with out giving any disturbance to others..But today's youngsters (though i am not including all, still many) don't seem to care about all that. They need to get things done their way.Year before last, we celebrated our friendship day in college. Not only our section students but almost all celebrated in allotted classrooms. It was total fun. We ordered for a huge cake jus for the sake of applying it on others. And we bought a separate cake for eating. Bought samosas, cool drinks too. But those cool drinks were used like champagnes..shaking the cool drink bottle n opening the cap fiercely jus to wet others with the carbonated liquid..But for all these our respected staff members were there with us to make sure others were not disturbed by this..Even then, last year our HOD dint grant permission to celebrate inside the class. So we went to Besant Nagar Beach, occupied a small space near the shore n enjoyed playing beach volleyball, dodge ball n many other games drawing a big circle around us to make sure we don't go beyond that circle n get curses from the lovers enjoying their own world there..![]() |
Posted 14th March 2008 at 09:33 AM by Meenaneelakantan |
| | Shanthi my friend.. I did not know about this day ..You can tell I am quite old ..But really why get surprised anymore.. either its this Bus day or some Taxi day some excuse these days to cut classes and while away time.. precious time.. if we say anything at all we are preaching.. If I were you I would just sit back and enjy that spectacle ..what do you say:) |
Posted 14th March 2008 at 12:16 PM by Anandchitra |
| | meena,Looks like i have not been to college.thanks for coming in. When I read your reply, I felt did I really go to college. I was found more in the library than the canteen. never bunked a class, veda you don't need to ask..he already complains about being in a very very .....college.. I agree, the students today, want things done their style. So you people had masti at the beach..disturbing so many of them....what in the day light??? |
Posted 15th March 2008 at 11:18 AM by Shanvy |
| | AC, Agree with you. looks i am old, then you should be vintage (sorry just kidding, now don't bring thambi into the picture..).... I was just watching the whole show, I thought the conductor and driver were enjoying..but bus days and taxi days, yeah we can't blame them when we have days for everything today... |
Posted 15th March 2008 at 11:20 AM by Shanvy |
| | Dear Shanthi ma’am <o:p> </o:p> I thought I should not step in blogs section again.. You know why? Your ELDER sil drove me away with a cane from one of her recent blog n has written that I should not enter again ![]() <o:p> </o:p> Reading your line ‘would like your august presence here more often’ i was not able to sit back n jus read your post without replying.. But somebody doesn’t like even my leap year presence here..wat to do? <o:p> </o:p> Shanthi ma’am you need not tell us that you were in library always, we could see the impact of that here in IL even now. <o:p> </o:p> Do u mean I bunk classes? Bunking finds no meaning in our dictionary without the word ‘mass’ in front of it.. United we stand always.. On that particular friendship day, we dint bunk classes n we dint go to beach..It was half day that day for us n only in the afternoon we went..<o:p> </o:p> We students always have masti no matter where we are..Beach added some more flavour to it..As I told u earlier we were very strict in seeing to that the love birds there were not disturbed by us.. <o:p> </o:p> Ok ok..You dont have to regret or doubt whether you had been to college really. Mine is a ‘typical’ college..why don’t you come n join in my college now? No No..You imagining yourself now as a college going student n all is too much..i meant to say there is vacancy for a lecturer post. I can recommend you for that. But I can't guarantee you that my friends will listen if you come n talk about MuthuswamiDhikshidhar n Thiyagaraja Bhagavadhar even there .. ![]() <o:p> </o:p> |
Posted 15th March 2008 at 02:38 PM by Meenaneelakantan |
| | AC dear, Why did you drive meena with a cane??no problems, meena, you are welcome in our blog. you can rip it apart, hijack what ever you want. but, did you know about a bus day..being the new gen college gal. Thanks for the compliment. but those days, my classmates and hostel mates used to make fun, she can be found in the hostel, library or lab. nowhere else..(what a boring life i had led??) mass bunking sounds good. that way you would not have lost classes right. nice to know that you have masti, a long with your studies. I am not regretting. now I may not be able to do justice to moomoothigal, but digital electronics, computer architecture may be I have not touch and can do a little justice. but believe me you would not want a lecturer like me. |
Posted 15th March 2008 at 08:49 PM by Shanvy |
| | First time in the BLOG SECTIONDear Shanthi and hai to all bloggers........... My first entry in the blog section........... College students search for reasons to bunk their classes........so they create a day .............First time i have heard about BUS DAY in a Tamil Film PARTHEN RASITHEN (before that never) C in future they will even celebrate Auto Day, Call Taxi Day and some more..........the students will create many celebrations and they will click on many ...............Their minds will work better then me in this regard......... |
Posted 16th March 2008 at 02:49 AM by Honeytha |
| | Honeytha ,I am honoredThanks for coming here. A warm welcome here. I have not seen that movie. but had a real life version in front of my eyes...and were in the traffic jam for 15/20 minutes... Yes students will have days...(with any names)...to enjoy and bunk classes. Definitely their mind works better than us.... |
Posted 16th March 2008 at 10:23 AM by Shanvy |
| | It had been more than a decade since I completed my college. And I have known this college day celebrations right from that time. Dear Meena and other college goers, pls dont mistake me, Not just this gen of youngsters even our gen of college students and every gen of college students had fun and real fun. This trend of Bus day is started specially by the Nanadanam Arts College students and now it is been followed by many other college students (especially boys). They dont listen to the drivers or conductors who ask them to move inside or not to stand in the food boards. This day they really honour them. They make sure that the same conductor and driver is honoured and in general many drivers and conductors choose to go in those routes in the peak hours. I have seen many of my friends becoming so friendly with these drivers and conductors and still now they have in touch with them and their family and infact one of my friend is paying for the education of the kids of a driver and conductor. Every thing have two sides, both good and the bad. I just wanted to show you the good side of the bus day. |
Posted 16th March 2008 at 11:59 AM by rajmiarun |
| | Dear Shanthi, Thanks for welcoming me........ Dear Rajmiarun, As u said their might be cases different......but as u told about sponsoring for their kids.........really great............ to that guy......and thanks for the information that this bus day was started so many years before...... |
Posted 16th March 2008 at 08:31 PM by Honeytha |
| | rajmi, thanks for writing hereNice to know about this day being there for so long.. I agree that they are making the day of the driver and conductor and also helping their families. My only question is why to disrupt traffic, going in for police protection and wasting manhours... |
Posted 16th March 2008 at 10:10 PM by Shanvy |
| | As far as I know this procession thing is a recent trend. When my friends celebrated, they all get into that bus and on that particular day, they ask the driver to drive the bus round and round; they wont bunk the classes but with the permission of the HODs they do it. Each route celebrate bus day in different hours of the day so that they wont distrurb the traffic. Infact they have been doing these celebrations in the non peak hours. I think the trend is changed now. |
Posted 16th March 2008 at 11:32 PM by rajmiarun |
| | Rajmi, I was told by the driver that day it was a trend for the last few years. I am not against the students celebrating a day.it is only about disturbing traffic at peaks hours... |
Posted 17th March 2008 at 05:43 AM by Shanvy |
| | Should be so, because when I asked my friend, he told me they made sure that they didnot disturb the traffic and they always had the celebrations only during non peak hours. Infact my friend and his gang take the driver and conductor for lunch on the busday it seems. |
Posted 17th March 2008 at 05:47 AM by rajmiarun |
| | Dear Shanthi, The Bus day is there from my school day onwards... I have been part of that Bus day celebrations... Those days it used to be only during that one trip... It is not the whole day... It will be that bus and that particular trip... will be real masti... and that to till our school / college... After that, the route will continue... There is no stopping or disturbing the route.... May be todays generation of students... I couldnt imagine of police protection and stopping the whole trip/day... that is too much... Rajmi, your friend helping for the studies of the drivers son... is great... All salutes to the man with such a great heart... you should be really proud to have such a great friend... It is nice to hear of such people... |
Posted 17th March 2008 at 11:37 PM by Vysan |
| | Dear Shanthi, The Bus day is there from my school day onwards... I have been part of that Bus day celebrations... Those days it used to be only during that one trip... It is not the whole day... It will be that bus and that particular trip... will be real masti... and that to till our school / college... After that, the route will continue... There is no stopping or disturbing the route.... May be todays generation of students... I couldnt imagine of police protection and stopping the whole trip/day... that is too much... Rajmi, your friend helping for the studies of the drivers son... is great... All salutes to the man with such a great heart... you should be really proud to have such a great friend... It is nice to hear of such people... |
Posted 17th March 2008 at 11:40 PM by Vysan |
| | Yes Veda, I am really proud. Infact he had been an inspiration to many of us. Infact he is also one of the reasons for all of us friends doing lots of social work and other activities. |
Posted 18th March 2008 at 04:17 AM by rajmiarun |
| | Veda, I never heard you talking about bus day, and also you being from a very strict college never thought about your participation..anyways learning new things.. And yes rajmi's friend is a great and life will be more great with more of them around..may his tribe increase. |
Posted 18th March 2008 at 05:34 AM by Shanvy |
| | Dear Shanthi, You know what I wanted to tell in my post that the cat is out of the bag and I wanted to ask you whether you knew about Veda's pranks during college days. Now you have come out with it. Was he from Vivekananda? Which batch? |
Posted 18th March 2008 at 05:38 AM by rajmiarun |
| | Dear Rajmi, I know most of the pranks that veda played as you can count on your fingers...yes he was from vivekananda..1985-88 batch |
Posted 18th March 2008 at 05:45 AM by Shanvy Updated 18th March 2008 at 06:06 AM by Shanvy |
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...when it comes to celebration, that should be done with out giving any disturbance to others..But today's youngsters (though i am not including all, still many) don't seem to care about all that. They need to get things done their way.
We ordered for a huge cake jus for the sake of applying it on others. And we bought a separate cake for eating. Bought samosas, cool drinks too. But those cool drinks were used like champagnes..shaking the cool drink bottle n opening the cap fiercely jus to wet others with the carbonated liquid..But for all these our respected staff members were there with us to make sure others were not disturbed by this..Even then, last year our HOD dint grant permission to celebrate inside the class. So we went to Besant Nagar Beach, occupied a small space near the shore n enjoyed playing beach volleyball, dodge ball n many other games drawing a big circle around us to make sure we don't go beyond that circle n get curses from the lovers enjoying their own world there..



...............Their minds will work better then me in this regard.........
to that guy......