Sunday, November 2, 2008

How to write a letter

This weekend was one of those where there are no plans at all, the type that’s spent wasting away at home. I stumbled upon a link to this Google group we had during our college days. We used to have a lot of fun posting messages to that group during our exams, everyone used to stay online for hours, replying to each others posts, fighting, and having a battle of wits. Among those posts I found one with an apology letter that we wrote to our profs. We were caught for not writing notes, throwing paper balls when the profs back was turned, and making a lot of noise. The dean barred us for giving the exams unless we wrote a letter apologizing to the prof. So there we were, around 20 of us, sitting on the stairs of the auditorium, writing our first apology letter. There were another 2 letters we wrote later in the year, but this was the first. All of us chipped in with the best words from our vocabulary, and the result was - One really professionally written apology letter, I am not even sure that the profs understood it completely. Click on the picture below to read it.

There were times where we had around 200+ posts every week, with people ripping on each other for any stupid reason. To give you and idea of the stuff that was usually going on in the group, heres one incident. There was this one time I was pissed off with a "Mr. X" and thought he was being really self centered and had a little of the "I am better than you" attitude, so I made a couple of stupid jokes on Mr. X. Here is a sample of the jokes.

Q: Why did Mr X cross the road?
A: He wanted to proove he was better than the chicken
A duck and Mr X walk into a bar
Duck: quack
Mr X: quack quack i can quack more
Q: What did Mr X say to the apple and the banana?
A: I can talk and u cant.. im better

Ps: Mr X isnt a bad person, we are still friends and meet up on weekends.

College days were fun. After reading for around 2 hours, i still have a lot more to complete. Reading the posts brought back all the memories of the last 2 years.

2 comments:

  1. i thought it was prof. vimal ...ya but i remember the paper balls incident :)

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  2. It must have been vimal, I think this letter was for some other reason, but still those days were fun.

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