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something she is perfect at. The best part was I hadn’t met a girl in ages who liked cricket. Boom she came!

Beep brr Beep brr...

“Shut up rabbit, am feeling sleepy”

She called me bunny rabbit, this has a long history, and I broke my front tooth, when I was 5, in an accident where I tried to act like a superhero. So the tooth which followed was not very impressive, hence I was termed the bunny rabbit, and the only person who stuck to that name, was Shreya! I knew where to get her too, in class 4 fancy dress competition she came along with a huge cut out of a milk bottle, and she got into that and gave a long introduction of how milk was good for health. It was actually impressive and she stood first, and I called her bottle. So I was the rabbit and she was the bottle.

“Soja na, it’s your time to sleep, good night shreya, take careJ”

Delivered to, Shreya.

This had been our routine, for more than two years now, it was like we knew what the other did at a particular moment, we lived miles away and yet we were accustomed to each other’s routine.

Beep brr Beep brr…

“Good night rabbit take care”

My break up story is clear, I fell for a girl who seemed my type, but then scared of commitments. Eventually she broke up with me the day I asked her out, a ‘yes’ in the morning and in the afternoon she says it isn’t going to work out and finish!!

That was the first time I had proposed. Proposal and break-up on the same day, I don’t know if there is anything faster than that, should find out about the records, who knows might stand a chance. So that was it, a month’s romance and getting to know each other, while nearly an year to get over.

By the way I forgot to tell you guys that, I am pursuing my Engineering from a private college, in Chennai, as per the decisions made 20 years back.

Chennai, Chennai.

Is capital of Tamil Nadu, one of the four metropolitan cities of India, also the home of private engineering colleges, over a 100 colleges and still counting.

If Kota is India’s centre, to crack entrance exams, then Chennai is the home for all those students who don’t crack it. It’s like a triangle, no matter where you start from, let’s say X is your city, so from X to Kota, then slog for two years, and back to X, wait for results. If you don’t make it, then next stop Chennai. 

Fortunately, I didn’t go to Kota. I never had it in me to crack an entrance exam. So my parents had to put in their lives savings, for a private college, my heart ached to do so but could nothing. I had failed to get through.

My college is around 30kms away from the city, and that highway has more than 20 colleges. Let me give you an idea about the crowd of such private colleges. They say that once you fail, you either become more determined to do well, or else you don’t give the damn and say “nothing worse can happen and take things lightly”

So these private colleges also had the same category of guys like in our country, the rich and the middle class, I wouldn’t say poor, because once a guy enters a private college, no matter how poor he/she is we call it lower middle class. I still haven’t been to properly differentiate between the upper middle class and the lower middle class. But that’s how it is.

So the rich guys are there just to get the degree, join there dad’s business and later get married and yes, not to forget an engineer’s degree has value in the groom market, so off course he gets a fat dowry. Then among the rich you have guys who come just to have fun, and throw away money. Then among the middle class kids, you’ll find some of them totally into studies no matter, what they want to score awesome super high marks and get a job. Then the rest are pretty much focused initially then as the time passes by, they get bugged with life totally frustrated and then comes the life saver alcohol, which gives them the new excitement in life. Not that they liked alcohol or something, it is just that it gave them something to look forward to at the end of the day. After a tiring day of attending college, where you have to attend classes only for the sake of 75% attendance, and that can be a pain. Unlike the IIT’s here everything isn’t cool, we have to slog for attendance, and slog to clear papers. No high paying companies, so the one who scores high gets a decent job though the return on investment will be after 3 years of working.

Basically a guy here is fed up with life, and only wants to finish off college and get out as soon as possible.