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I spent my last weekend in Srirangam, in mama’s house. After a long time, I went to the Srirangam Temple. I went there at around 7:30PM with my uncle. Around 100 people were there in the queue, but fortunately the queue moved very fast. After darshan, as I was walking through the walkway, I recalled the last time I came there. It was one year back.My first year NSS(National Service Scheme) camp. It was an excellent trip. We came here to clean the thousand-pillared Mandapam here. I felt it worth-while to recall my previous trip

Flashback(consider yourself facing a rotating mosquito coil for effects)

I think it was during our second semester, I was the A-Section Class Captain for NSS(Just Namesake) while Karthi was his class Captain(G-Section) and Krishna was the Vice President. Sundaramoorthy was the Assistant Class captain of B-Section.Vignesh was also in NSS

It was scheduled to go to Srirangam Temple and clean the premises on a weekend,and we left on one sunday. Day-Scholars planned to come there directly. After our break(In Agate Hostel), we got in the NITT Bus. I was in the last seat. I don’t actually remember whether Karthik was there or not, `coz he had bunked a lots of NSS classes. Vignesh & Sundar were in the front(Along with girls). I was trying to tolerate Tirunelveli-Anand’s mokkai. He was terrible. I was told that Vignesh’s Friend(i) was sitting near Sundar and that created much of rage among guys(Come-on, thats common!)

Later we reached there at around 8:30. We were asked to clean a large mandapam. It was huge. The entire area was divided section-wise. I was along with my class guys. I thought, just ordering them will do the job, in turn I had to initialize the job. We started sweeping. Vignesh,Sundar(& Co.) were sweeping on the other side of the mandapam. Sundar was in high enthu.Poor guy, the rest of his batch was looking at him and he did the job with a great interest. I thought Vignesh wouldn’t sweep as it was a matter of prestige, surprisingly, he got the sweep from his …… and started sweeping.

Half of my batch took rest. We took turns in sweeping & washing the floor. Krishna was in real enthu. He started taking up jobs himself.

After finishing the job, we went to have Darshanam. It was a long queue, being weekend. We saw Lord Ranganathar & we were tired when we came out of the queue.

After a while, everybody got tired and we went to the Annadhanam place in the temple. The food was pretty good. Rice,rasam & curry.

After the food, we went back to the bus, found our seats & were on the way back we discovered that two people were missing. It was Gokul and his friend. The left the slippers in the bus and were searching for us. Since it was too far, they came alone and we made our way back.

When the bus reached Agate, all guys got down while Vignesh and Sundar were still in the bus along with the girls. Again everybody’s(not exactly) face became red-hot. They were actually going to Shopping Centre near Girls’ Hostel, which we didn’t know at that time.

It was an enjoyable trip. Besides we had many other NSS trips & camps.

• We had been to a village near Thuvakudi(I forgot the name) for giving notices for the eye-checking camp.
• We had an eye-checking camp where none of the villagers turned up and we had our eyes checked.
• We went to conduct events for school students in the same village near Thuvakudi, where Parijat was in the Juice committee singing songs(Kam-chor!)
• Krishna dug a well for the same village(No,He didn’t do it all alone)
• We had a blood donation camp where I wanted to donate blood but I couldn’t.(That is another funny story)
• We cleaned the campus by removing all plastic wastes.

At the end, we had obtained grades. Krishna got an S(10) while me,karthi,vignesh got an A(9) and unfortunately the sundaramoorthy, who had 100% attendance and was the one who worked really hard, got a B(8)!

(Though this article is totally non-interesting, the envy two years back looks funny now, thats why I decided to blog it)