A - Z of my life

My brain is baldy wired. Sometimes there are many crazy idea seem to pop up in my mind. Sometime these ideas can not let me sleep. Infact now also I am unable to sleep because of that many things are running in my mind ranging from to start reading for GRE before its too late or to noble lecture “My father’s suitcase” by Orhan Pamuk.

There are many things which are closest to my heart, about whom I always think subconsciously. Was trying to put things together, and found out that all those things can be organized in alphabetical order.

will start with A today ..

A for AOE (Age of Empires)

Started playing this game in second year, when sameer was my roommate in coral hostel. We both became very crazy about this game. Still I couldn’t rationalize playing this game so fanatically but sometime you have to follow your instincts. The voice of Paladins and Elephants kept running in my mind. In second year of engg there were many important subjects to study like Network Theory to Microelectronics but found AOE more attractive.

As the game started to evolve from original Spanish Persian Black Forest Late attack game to All Random Champion game and then many new players joined the battle. ET (a.k.a Achilles) was the first to join, infact AOE gave him reason not to watch porn and rather play AOE.

We moved in Emerald hostel in third year. Because of tech savvy persons like Saraf and Nikhil we were the first in our batch to have lan connection in hostel. As Iqubal Quadir, founder of Grameen Phone a telecom major in Bangladesh ( which is sponsor of Bangladesh national cricket team ) said “Connectivity is Productivity” , hence we became more productive as we got our lan connection.

So we started playing AOE on lan. By this time many new players were there, but it was time of Hector and Achilles, Bal Thackery (a.k.a sameer) and Rash. We played 4 -4 ( four vs four ) most times, for which we have to wait many times for the last person to join. Mostly played in team of Oddu vs Non Oddu, Circuits vs Non circuits, Kamakkal vs Rest and our personal favorite Top wing vs Bottom wing. Sometime we have to wait because it was difficult to get 8 comps. Thankful to Kancha, Neel and Yogi we found comp most times. And then we would start the ultimate battle, which would last for atleast a hour after that hours of discussions, playback and match analysis. Once we start we would play two to three matches, so we end up sleeping after breakfast ( which was the incentive to play third game to have breakfast)

I was playing good, rather very good at that time?? Me and ET were winner at Pragyan 06 AOE championship. But I wasn’t good enough to beat ET on one on one, and still I regret that. So things were good at that time, studying OpAmps or Control systems in classroom and then playing full night AOE after class and in mean time just think about AOE. We used to play mostly during Exams when all busy people would be in their rooms to study !!

But things came to end in seventh sem. Our top wing team ( Me, Achilles, Bal Thackery and Sardar) started to beat bottom wing team comprehensively. One thing is that I always like to win only I don’t like to lose in AOE. So because of my attitude (p.s because of me only) Sardar (a.k.a Baggu) shouted at me, bahut chillaya ki tu bahut hero mat ban and so on.. Then we became “Best Friends” afterwards. Despite of sharing a common wall we never talked in entire seventh sem. Today also I feel bad about my attitude that day. Hey Sardar yaar sorry for that day.

Unlike of all Bollywood story, this story didn’t had a happy ending. We never played in Emerald after that. Just recollect that once we went to SAASTRA for AOE tournament but unfortunately lost in Semis there. Tried to play many times in last sem, but sadly couldn’t play last game.

Still I can not forget those nights when I played 4-4 or the time when there was only goal in life was AOE. Despite falling grades (became 7 pointer in two consecutive sem) only direction was AOE. AOE was in my dreams, it was in classroom lectures, was in dinner time discussions it was every where ..

Only one wish unfulfilled, I wish I could do ..

net send * guys join AOE

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& could play one last game …