Sunday, 16 November 2014

Dear Diary - Taking a Step Forward

My Beloved Diary,
I saw what Onam was for the first time; it was amazing. Half the boys were looking like south-Indian dons and the other half was fidgeting with their mundus. Some were busy pulling a Ranbir Kapoor from the movie Sawariya. How can they not care about the innocence of our eyes? I mean, our minds might be corrupt but our eyes? Such inconsiderate people.
The girls looked stunning - all wore the same thing yet they all looked different and simply amazing. If it weren’t for the girls the event would have been boring and uninteresting. But I want a mundu too. It’s a much easier for people; subject to constraint that you can tie it. Just think about it. You don’t have to starve for a week to look good in a mundu, you don’t have to color coordinate, you don’t have to wax/tweeze your legs, your capris are always there to protect you, you can always fold it in half, there is no competition, and you can always adjust your mundu in public in Ranbir-Kapoor-Sawariya style without giving a flying fish about other people getting really really uncomfortable. Girls should be given mundus too.
Fish! There go my dreams of wearing mundu. I triple folded my roomie’s Onam sari and tried to tie it like a mundu. I can’t decide whether I look like an oversized marshmallow, a floating white cloud, or, Olaf from frozen. Seems like it’s going to be saris for me. For life. But I ain’t complaining.
And what’s with these insects. I don’t know how, I don’t know why and I have no idea where bugs sneak into my room from. People who say the bigger the better clearly have never had a 4 inch long insect in their room and stare at them dead in the eye. If it weren’t for the cleaning staff, I would have set my room on fire and run away long ago. Why don’t these bugs get it that they are not welcome in my room? But I have learnt my lesson from all this - never bring green comforters here. That’s where the horror stories start from.
They have started serving mystery food in the mess. The mysterious item on today’s menu looked like marmalade and leaked oil like halwa. Interesting marketing tactic, suspense filled food – the only thing that was missing till now. Take what you eat; guess what you eat. Awesome! And what’s with these power cuts. This guy just stood there contemplating his next move in shower because the power went out when in the middle of the night in the middle of his shower. Perfect time to remember god.
Did you know that operations is all about ganging, flexible equipment, grinding and drilling; and there’s more to come. No wonder boys have a preference for this specialization.
Hey! Remember the ass assaulting girl I told you about. So… she drummed somebody’s bum with dandiya sticks during the dandiya night. Yeeaahhh… And people call me crazy. Have you ever noticed that the higher the boots go up your leg, hem of dress and heel, and platform of your pumps go the higher the prices go. What’s worse is that we have come to age where the saris are cheaper than bikinis. Über face palm. Kalyug I tell you. Ghor Kalyug.
And I found an onion in the ocean! Why? Because lemons are too main stream.

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