When Mankind Has Enough Helicoptors To Shoot Down Mosquitoes!!!

Well atleast that is possible when guys with absolutely nothing to think of try and kill time because that is the only reasonable thing they can think of doing!
Still feels like a day or two ago (and it still makes my jaws ache when i think how very frustrated we'd get). Back in the hostel when we had absolutely no pressure (usually the beginning of the semester of people & almost the whole of the semester for guys like me ;)) our mind was like a horse that had no tethers (fortunately or unfortunately that state of mind would invariably carry forward to till the very end - even on nights before the exams). Oops, sorry i've been constantly using the word we/us and the likes and i havent 'introduced' him to you - Meet my room-mate, Amit (better known as Time pass - T.P. for short). . I don't know if i'm authorised to say this but i guess i brought out the best in him!! Together we were the most notorious room-mates in our hostel, so much so that our room had messages written on the door warning trespassers to watch out or they'd be sucked into the eye of the storm (or something vaguely implying that atleast)!!! The other members of the discussion were generally people who did get sucked in the eye of the storm! Anyway lets get our helicoptors back on the 'mission route' ;)
At night when we would just go to our beds to doze off (or during times when we got really frustrated after having spent all our patience on trying to comprehend some abstruse subject that we had to study in order to get through with our engineering!) we'd suddenly realise the place was a 'jungle' with mosquitoes prowling all over the place. And the T.P that Amit was, he'd suddenly blurt out, "i wish i could shoot them with missiles!" and i would join in like the Chemical Engineer that i was soon to be, "we could shoot them with sodium needles! and just before they were on the collision course, we'll spray a little water so the explosion is fatal!!" But after further mulling over we ask of the other, "but how can we track them down??" "I guess we'll just have to have helicoptors chasing them all over the room." We'd discuss the 'battle plan' for a good 45 minutes or till the time one of us would think it was time we got back to slogging it out for the exams again.

One particular syndrome that we'd infected during the 3rd year of our engineering was to make the worlds most sophisticated (paper) Fighter Plane. All care was taken to make the 'lift', wings and tail perfect - which infact improved with each new attempt. From where would we find such large volumes of paper? (i'm sure you'll find yourself asking this). What use were the journals - it would hardly be of any use once the oral exams were over (as was the case here!). We (me and my roomies) would make around 5-6 planes a minute! (Lockheed-Martin are you listening??). The test 'air-strip' would be from our room's window to the road leading to the canteen (our room was on the 1st floor then and later on the 2nd floor). (Too many brackets here - don't you think..??) We had tried all the available models from the MiG-21s to the Su-30MKIs, MiG-27s to the Jaguars! (atleast in speech, if not practice). One piece of machine (or paper should i say) that we were really proud of was our very own production - The "kick'em ass" planes! They were designed to conquer enemy territory and return back - ofcourse they never made it. Damn those stupid japanese kamikazi pilots!
And the funniest part was we would'nt give a damn who was walking on the road - professors, teachers, students -- we would just make them take-off on their 'scheduled time'. During these days we got a high by doing a very strange thing - passing a 'comment' (if it qualifies as one) to all the girls (all the 'local' (ghaati) girls i.e.) "Oh Local Ladkiyon!" we would shout at the top of our voices and then take shelter behind the curtains
Oh what great days we had back then...
Why can't we go back in time and relive these moments all over again??
Oh Life seems so cruel (specially when you got nothing to do all day long!!)