First day, not the best
Year was 2000 Month July and day I don’t remember, but was my first day in GEC Thrissur ECE batch. I sat in the class with facial gesture of an aspiring engineer. Benches in the class were not spacious to accommodate 60 of us. I was struggling to sit 6th in a bench of 5 and beside me sat a long, lean but strong person. I introduced myself to him and he told me his name Tomy Devasia and he was from D.B college. Well quite rhyming rite??? Tommy Devasia from D.B college. But be cautious about rhyming sentences they will make to look funny when you are trying to present something serious. Parents were instructed to leave from the room and a person with nice smile entered the room accompanied with a serious looking short person. “I am Dr R” said the person still with a tinge of smile in his face “ and I am HOD of the department of electronics and communication” he spoke to us for the next 10 minutes and in that short but inspiring speech he conveyed us that our’s is the first batch he is supervising as HOD. He seem very excited and genuinely interested while he welcomed us all to the college. He left the class in a hurry and told us he will be catching up soon. The open stage was occupied by the other person who introduced him as Mr. P and he told us he is the staff-coordinator for our batch. And then happened the thing I was most weird of, Introduction session. Well to be frank I am having a fairly good stage fright and I always used to runaway from any situation that demands facing audience. Mr. P as he appeared found a little strict and serious. But with a smile(later it become infamous in whole college) in his face he told us to introduce ourselves one by one in front of the class which has a small platform in front. I was having butterflies not only in stomach, all over the place and I was sitting second bench as first one. And the game started, most of the people looked comfortable with the situation. Everybody introduced themselves telling name, college they studied earlier and some even appended their hobbies to it. It was my turn I went in front pretending confident, holding my breath and my hands behind back and told “I am Libin Mohanan M, I studied my +2 in KMM English School and my hobbies are reading and listening to music”. I stopped and paused for a second and walked back.
I felt relieved, confident and came back to the edge of that bench holding head high. Relief doesn’t last long, Suddenly Mr. P announced this with an unsatiated face. “I expected you people to be more elaborate in introduction, Well just telling name going back is not what I expect from persons who are going to be engineers in 4 years. Well lets stop this and instead we will go for another more interesting type” “Everyone of you have 5 minutes for talking to your friend and you should introduce him in front of class”
I was rather comforted to hear this atleast I am having a companion to share the stage. Also I was having confidence I brought back from the daring venture I just did. Tommy and me started preparing for the new presentation and finally our turn arrived. We both walked to the platform and paused, Tommy Started “This is Libin Mohanan M, He Completed his +2 from KMM English school” and he finished promptly telling that I am a right arm offspin bowler. Nobody before spoke to these details and I stood happily there as class looked keenly to me as what I am going to tell. I started “ This is D.B Devasia from Tommy college” Paused, What have I told?? Nobody other than me know I had miscued it. But Tommy have already started laughing. I corrected, “sorry he is Tommy Devasia from D.B college” and the class erupted to laughter. I stand there with a forged smile acting to be in total control of the situation. Somehow I rushed through the lines, finished, walked back to the seat just peeked on the way back to some faces, people were still not fully recovered from the laughter. That was my first impression on class and Mr. P in his speech afterwards emphasized on good communication skills throwing a glimpse on me.
Well thank god first session is over, this is I was thinking at that point. What about you people? :D
