After long time.. I recalled my Diploma days during discussion with Aritra (CA colleague) and thought to write some thing about very innovative game in college days for snacks.

It was very successful game and our group enjoyed it for at least 6 month but at last some body insider like fake ipl player leaked the key of game. :(

As everybody know, how much money we have to spend in college days. Same thing we had in our college days but every body wanted to have heavy snakes. So what to do. This time I stood as a hero and found out a very nice trick in "Tambola".

Rules of Tambola. If reader knows the rule switch to next paragraph :
Everybody has to pick a number from a range. Suppose 4 players are playing and range is 20. so every player will pick a number. ex. A -> 3, B -> 7, C -> 11, D -> 13. Now in clockwise direction, everybody has to speak out one number and he cant speak out his own number. ex. A spoke 7 and 7 had chosen by B so B is winner and out of game. In this way guy who remained in the game at last is loser and that guy had to give treat to whole group. This was the magical game we used to play during snacks time.

Guys may be you are thinking it is very simple game. What is interesting in it???

We were 5 best friends in diploma. So we used to play this game with other folks who visited "Pappu Tea Stall" (the famous tea stall out side campus). There was very high probability we will get treat from this game. Why?? haha..

Now I am revealing my very secret trick which I used for this. We have common number which we use to select in round robin fashion. We had (2, 6, 10, 13, 17) numbers which we used to pick number from this pool and give first chance to new guy to select any number so he cant tell his number at first. Now we guys used to tell numbers from this pool and get out one by one.

In this way 4 out of 5 can win without any problem. At the end, 1 guy from our group and new guy remain in the battle.

Hard luck, out of 2, other guy won the game. Ohhh..... now new drama had to start. Now nobody feels hungry, one tea can be shared by two guys or some thing like that and what ever bill, shared by whole group. So it used to charge every body app 2 rupee for one snack round.

Now good luck, our guy won and other guy lost. Suddenly "Kumbhakaran" the devil wake up in each stomach and want heavy snacks.. :):) We used to order whatever available at tea stall (samosa, kachori, cigarette etc..).

Later on, we matured more this game and had a good strategy to find big fishes (financially strong guy) for this game. If any big fish visited to tea stall, we used to loose 1-2 games intentionally so that that guy get confidence in his faith and in 3rd game used to give him a "Jor ka jhatka dhire se" and get nice snacks party.

In this way, we followed this trick for more than 6 months but don't how this trick came out at the stall and that day we all had to disappear from that stall for 1-2 weeks. After that Gyanu took care but we never played this game again.

But for 6 months, daily we used to have handsome snacks without spending much from your own pocket. A nice way to save pocket money.. :):)

In my college days, I used to dream about my forthcoming professional life and always believed them to become the best phase of my life. But now as I m into my much awaited proffessional life, what i miss most is my college days, and I now know that those gone days will always remain best part of my life.
I am a touch more luckier than others as I got oppurtunity to experience the two totally different college life, Diploma and Engineering. Its very tough to judge which was better as I enjoyed both the lives very much. Found lots of good friends.
Diploma life was totally "tapori" life and engg life was little bit professional. U know a lot about my engg college life, but I will tell some thing about my Diploma group. We were 11 Dashing up-downer boys from Dewas to Ujjain, but not for attending college only roaming in Ujjain. In that, we were 5 in group before second counselling. Ghanu (The action hero, always ready to fight with any one, I escaped lots of time from ragging due to him), Panday (We use to call him as advocate of group, He can argue with anyone, about any issue. Actually he drived our group for whole 3 years). Vikas Patel (We call him "Limer", typical farzi dude, always do very strange activities). Diraj (A cute and adorable boy in our group) and myself (I think, I dont require any explanation).
I want to share one of the most memorable day of my life which I enjoyed very much. I dont remember the exact date, but in 1996, 1 sem, just bunked from college, to escape from raggaing, roaming in the middle of city (Gopal Madir area where a lot of marrige halls are situated). All 5 guys were feeling hungry. No one wants to move a bit without having any thing. But you know the college problem, no money at that time. So we were thinking a bit about that.
In between that Patel saw a barat, passing from next street. He told us to follow him. Panday asked why?? patel: "oyeeee nachenge and khayenge". Dalal: "oye maaar nahi khani". Patel:"are diru chal na be and dekh mera kamal". After all we decided to follow Patel. First Patel entered into the barat and start dancing with the boys. We were watching him for couple of minutes. He was only gud barati dancer at that moment. He made some fan for his dance in that barat in just couple of minutes. After 2-3 minutes, he convinced 1-2 guys to pull me and Diraj also in dance. I was totally amazed on wats going on, How they are pulling us for the dance, they even dont know anything about us???". but then also I was enjoying the situation and start dancing with Patel. You will not believe, it was my first dance but not in any relative or friends marrige, "Ek farzi shaadi". we 3 danced app 15 mins and then try to pull Panday and Ghanu also for dance. They also joined us.
I was totally amazed, no one knows us, still we were dancing in barat. Peoples in barat started to pull us back, if any one tried to go for break. It was very enjoyable moment between Tasse (a kind of band, where 5-6 guys holding big drums and form a circle and beat them with their whole power). We danced with the Tasse appo 1 and half hours. In between that Patel also got 2-3 pegs and some snacks from the barati boys. I was totally amazed how he was managing that. I asked him, "he told, he will explain later".
After that barat reached to marrige hall, where a band and peoples were waiting for us. Bride's brothers just come closure to groom and tried to take him for marrige, but suddenly Patel againg came in picture and stopped them and asked for "Dulhe ke Dosto ka Nek" and started dance again. All the barati boys were supported us and started dance with us. Here Patel perform extra-ordinary. He played "Nagine Dance" and some very new moves for us. We rest 4 just supporting him and rest of boys just enjoying the situation and started dancing after couple of minutes.
Bride's father was requisting Patel to allow the groom in. But Patel was asking for Nek (1000rs). All the boys were supporting him. After 1 hour, Bride's father came and agreed on 500 rs. Patel took this 500 rs. Barati guys were asking their share, he told "Oye bad me baat lenge, koi baga thode hi ja raha hu". At last we stopped dancing and reached inside.
Now all the baraties were moving toward Mandap and we were searching for food and tried to go out as quickly as possible so that no one recognize us. At last in next to next hall we found the party place. Then we just attacked the food. In the hall only, we 5 and caterers' workers were present. All the baraties were busy in marrige ceremony but we were busy in having food. After finishing gud food, we just came out in just 20-25 mins. All the incident of the day was flashing in my mind at that time, we laughed a lot in near by garden on this incident.
At last, I asked wat Patel told to barati boys. Patel introduced us as collegue of Dulha. I asked "Zandu baam pakde jate to joote padte".Patel: "oye kuch nahi hota, pahchane jate to koi dance ke liye bhi gusne nahi deta".I thought for a while and convinced, he was correct.Then I asked "why he asked for money??".Patel: abe party ka jugad ho gaya.I: "pakde jate to??"Patel: I already spoke with some barati boys regarding that.
So it was my first Dance and farzi party in Ujjain. After that we regularly had farzi parties, but not like that. Ohh we also had 500 rs, we had gud party with that....