31 January, 2009

Fuck,Behenchod,Rats,Cricket,Surathkal,Bottle jumps....

Ok.. I know its a very explicit and weird title for a post.. I mean wtf!! who has a title filled with expletives and rats!! Well folks, its a daily ritual in our hostel room.. these expletives are heard quite frequently. What's new about that you may think. The new thing about our room and these words is that these were uttered in sleep!!!

We are four in a room. Me, K-Man,Davangere and Satya (for those who don't know, its me Sai, Karthik, Kishore and Satyaprakash). At first, I thought we were all normal. But into our first two weeks together, and all the quirky things about us started getting out.

Me, I'm quite a normal fellow. Except for maybe the times when I'm nearing the completion of a particularly long assignment or an EG homework, That's when I get really excited. Some even call me horny!! I start singing really meaningless stuff at the top of my voice, even making songs out of swear words like gandu, fuck, bitch etc.. etc.. I suppose that is really weird.

But no one even comes close to K-Man. He is just unsurpassable in terms of the crazy things he does without even knowing that he's doing them! The first time he spoke in his sleep, he wakes me up, has his eyes wide open, and tells me to look at something that doesn't exist! That was just the beginning. With each passing day, his talking got wilder and wilder. Once, he gets up n says and I quote "Fucking dude, fucking dude,...... behenchod.... fucking...." and back to sleep.

Once, I was finishing an assignment in the afternoon. K-Man sleeping on the bed. he gets up, calls me, and says " Catch it! catch it! catch it dude!" I'm like "What should I catch dude. What the hell should I catch??" He says "Catch the rat! Catch the rat! Catch the rat!!" and I just broke into laughter.The other day, Mayya, Kishore and I were watching a horror movie, all three quite scared, and guess what! K-Man strikes again! He gets up, stares at us with wide open eye, and suddenly opens his mouth wide open just like the ghost in the movie. Kishore hasn't gone to the loo alone in the night again ever since.

Another K-Man special happened after he got into the college B-Team (Yes, he is a good cricket player). He hits me in the head at 4 in the morning, and says "I didn't hit you, it was the ball.. the ball.." and he's back to his sleep.

With so many episodes happening right in front of my eyes I suppose I couldn't help but jump into the fray i suppose. Apparently, I woke up, asked Raghavan "How many bottle jumps did you do? How many bottle jumps did you do man! Tell me how many bottle jumps did you do??" Poor guy apparently said 25 and asked back how many I did. As expected, I was asleep by then!

I suppose I could go on and on about our trysts with sleep talking. But this is enough for one post. Keep rocking K-Man, Get more and more fucking dreams! See more rats! Hit more cricket balls! While I go and try to find out what exactly bottle jumps mean...

26 January, 2009

Highway to Hell


Well, I really don't know why I thought of life as a journey on the highway to hell. Was it in any way related to the famous song by AC DC? I don't know. I sat down, inspired by my friends Bala and Sushan (damn you guys!!), to get into this and the only thing that flashed across my mind was this title. I think I somehow relate life to this journey on this really tough and taxing road, with all its difficulties and which finally would lead to somewhere I don't know. I've decided I'd just highlight all the parts of my life which have been especially entertaining and sometimes extremely tough. (By the way, I'm giving myself ten days before I give this up!!!). Man is it tough to put your thoughts into words!! And for me, who is an introvert by nature, this is an acid test. I'm just hoping I don't get burned through and through!