The unforgettable month

This month will ever be remembered by me, for all the happiness and sorrow it brought. It started with the new year celebrations. I was in my aunt's house then, enjoying the party there. There was a children dance programme in their apartment. After that we played housey. And when the clock ticked twelve, we had the new year cake cut. "What a nice way to start the new year", I thought for myself.

Just after a week, came Kirti's birthday. Ramya came up with a secret plot to disguise us all, including the big cake, to surprise her dear friend. Everything went well and we finally ended up eating the whole cake. Later we went to CCD, where the birthday girl turned to a just born girl (:P) and acted childish. Like the kids who do nothing more than what is told, she ordered what we requested and did not order for herself. And later she complained when we were eating, which was very funny :)

After the first week passed, acad work got more prominence. It was not until Saarang that fun had its sumptuous role. The starting ceremony of Saarang was awesome. It was presided by BMK. He amused us with his grand performance. Sometimes it looked like a badinage of musical instruments. Gummadi, Subhashini (good sister) and I went to the starting concert. Slowly many other friends joined us. This was on Day 0 of Saarang.

On day 1, I was very lazy and didn't go for any event. But day 2 was very interesting. I went for pottery workshop and watched dramatics for 3 hours. After that I went for the Shaankar Eshan Loy show on day 3 evening. Those guys really rocked the show. We were dancing, may be it could be called jumping, all the time. I went alone to the show and got scared by the long line for entry. Quickly I found some friend (Rahul) standing midway and I joined him :) After more than half an hour of waiting, I entered the theater. There were hordes of people inside and I was lucky to find Slinky(god), who cleverly reserved seats beforehand. Not to get bored, there was Ramya to fart at times during the show. The show was rocking and it went till 10:30. I got completely exhausted after the show and went back to my room.

On day 4, I got back to my routine life. I enjoyed so much during Saarang. But life cannot have happiness throughout. And hence came the sad day. It was on Republic day (26th Jan). When I was buying a gift for my friend(Subhash), I got a call from my father telling that my granny expired. Like anybody, I tried to forget it. But it's not that trivial :P I slowly got upset and also quarreled with a good friend. I just stayed more than a week with my granny during my winter holidays. It is not so simple to build a relation or to destroy it. I still miss her. She used to be the chatter box, never ending. And I pray that her soul rests in peace.

Things I do

What can be funnier than the things I do daily ? I do all kinds of crazy things and they are bound to be funny. Here is the list:

1) When a monkey comes to my room, I welcome it. Somehow I think that they understand hindi well. So I use my "thoda thoda" hindi. When it tries to enter, with all disrespect, I was shouting "jaaoy ! ". But it entered my room, it becomes my guest :P. Now it can do anything. It can sit and watch a Movie or search the wardrobe for food.
I tell this old encounter with a monkey to all my friends " Once a monkey came to my room and sat on the chair beside me. ( I have two chairs, one for me and other for books ). Then it started staring at the monitor. With full anger I started shouting "jaaoy! What the hell are you seeing ? ". So it too got angry and suddenly jumped. Luckily, it didn't jump over me. Instead it jumped towards the monitor. There is a banana lying before the monitor. It snatched the banana and went off. In general, I point the monkey towards the food. Otherwise they will waste a lot of time searching, even though they are IIT monkeys.
Yesterday morning, another monkey entered my room and I didn't notice it until it reached my bed. I was sitting before the computer, doing my work. I did not care this time. Let it take what ever it likes. It took the fruits on the bed and went off. I felt very happy as the fruits are rotten and I was in a mood to throw them off.
I feel that monkeys are also good. Just like us, they work hard to find food. When a monkey comes, I point it to the food, so that I can eat peacefully and leave. But the bad thing is that they don't put the plastic covers and bottles back into the dustbin. They throw them everywhere.
Sometimes I think that monkeys are really crazy. When I went out leaving my room open, one monkey took my water jug and threw it down. Poor bottle ! Though it's maker marked it "unbreakable", it fell from two floors and died. I stored it as an antique. It is my best water jug and it's replacement was not even half cute as it was. For all the havoc the monkey created, I quoted it as "brianless". ( brainless: the most common word I use )

2) I talk to all animals (:P). This quirky behaviour leaves many of my friends puzzled and perplexed. I suddenly say "hi" seeing some animal. If somebody was there beside me, they start searching who is there. Some friends are used to this and they don't complain.
When I was a little child, I used to be afraid of lizards and other petty animals. But now I fear them less. Sometimes I like the little squirrels, and just born lizards.
Birds are one of my favourite creatures. IIT M has wide variety of birds. They fly in groups from north to south in the morning and south to north in the evening. [ only a few kinds of birds ]

3) I love the trees, the greenery. That is why I became the garden secretary. "What's there in trees ? Are you going to f___ them ?" asked a senior when I said that I love the trees in the campus. Many people in the insti don't recognize the gifts bestowed upon them. Mere understanding is love. [ no philosophy in this post ]

4) I cry when I make a grave mistake or when I see a senti movie :). Grave mistakes never happen often. The first time I cried after coming to insti was for a silly thing which appeared grave then. I cried before SVV. I installed fedora linux in the computer room, without permission, and it removed the boot loader. The tech sec pained me and told me to meet svv. And he too pained me. Then I started crying :). It looks so silly now. I wrote a boot loader on my own. [ just fart ] And I cried for such a silly thing. But I fixed what I did myself :) . It was not a simple thing. The previous boot loader was lilo and later it got 3 oses with grub as boot loader. [ sorry for being too technical ]

Coming to crying for senti reasons, I do it for "feel good" reasons. If you really get attached to the character, you can feel the pain he goes through. But I hate telugu movies, especially the modern ones. They contain too much senti and the actors can't even portray half the senti of the scene.

5) I like to pain people when I am very sleepy. Many a people say that I am more than a drunkard when I am sleepy. All the restrictions are lifted and I speak whatever comes to my mind, never caring about the other person.
I think that I can write well when I am sleepy. But it turns out to be false. The last post, which I wrote at morning 5, had many mistakes. I edited it again.

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The list has many more things which are not worth mentioning. For example, I was wearing a torn pant and a worn out t-shirt from 2 days.

Song of the week: Jaya jaya jaya janaki kaanta (http://www.musicindiaonline.com/lr/1/844/)
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