Who moved my cheese . !!

The point is that searching for a room mate is as herculean a task as searching for a soul mate. In both cases, you fear being caught up with the wrong one. Before you go ahead and commit (note the word that I use here) a room to him, you’ve got to make sure of his habits, whether he is a non-vegetarian, whether he smokes, is he a fun person to stay with or of the intense, ranting types like the one who appears in F.R.I.E.N.D.S. as the first room mate of Chandler. You get what I mean. It’s not like you would put up the add on the Infy bulletin board one morning and posts will flood your inbox with prospective female, super models, 5ft.10 inches, curvaceous body and having a sexy stride kind of profiles with photos attached for you to choose from. Although I wish the situation was so. Unfortunately, it’s not gonna happen for another 50 years in India and be prepared for a few hairy, unclean, unattractive and ranting men. Did I just say unattractive, whoosh!! Now erase that off your memory. I dint mean it... :)

This blog had seen a lot since it was first started in the month of May 2006.A lot has been written here about my friends and roomies and I guess it would see no more about them. A few have moved out in search of greener pastures and a few in search of better halves. And I am now left wondering what it would be like to be the CEO of a halwai shop. Well, it has been my dream since the early days in Infy; not to own the halwai shop but yea to head a company. And since everybody has moved on, I am now finding means to fulfill this dream of mine. McKenzie nahi mila to kya hua. “Ram halwai” bi chalega. And the urge to get out of Infy has become stronger than ever.

So, SH fulfilled 2 dreams of his in the last few days- buying a four wheeler and driving it to his own marriage.

ASH wanted a change as well from watching TV, eating noodles and drinking soda; so he too decided to indulge in a few real pleasures of life; he decided to tie the knot. You might hear or spot a tiny Amrita Rao fart but hearing ASH flirting with a woman on phone for hours together is a rare phenomena. The guy who was a lambretta scooter till a few days back has just got transformed into a pulsar 220 and comes along the tag the “fastest Indian”. What I am saying is, he went 0-100 in 5 seconds leaving us all behind, defying all the dating laws to find someone who thinks he is her better half :p . On more serious thoughts. I wish best of luck to him and a happy married life in future, note; he is still in the Ladka-ladki-ko-jaane-le phase and would be married in a few weeks time.

As for SH, I just hope RS, his fiancee finds soon that he snores louder than a garbage truck, a lot of sleepless nights for her. And for SH the honey moon has just begun. Hope, you at least now stop watching re-runs of JWM. It was a stupid movie anyways with no logic nor a strong script with a valid reason for the story.

Talking of JWM, you know they say that the best way to forget an old crush of yours is to have a person to replace her/him. Shahid couldn’t ask for more when he found Kareena, I don’t know why did he even take so long to accept the babe in Kareena. It was nothing but 6 songs, 3 hour long sadness for Shahid and Kareena’s exaggerated way of proving herself. The directors always try to balance the hero-villain strengths and weakness. If the hero has killer looks, the villain has a sexy assistant by his side. If the hero is strong, the villain has a thousand goons to protect him. You get what I am saying? But here in JWM, the other guy Ashuthosh never had Shahid’s killer looks nor was blessed with an army. Hell, he wasn’t even financially strong like Shahid. What did Imtiaz Ali expect from the character of Kareena to quit an industrialist and marry a mediocre? The answer is clear, grab the industrialist’s son and kiss him in front of mediocre. Rude na …? Bad girl Kareena: P

Anyways, back to the main topic. I had the best of my friends as my roomies and I am sure, looking back now; I would say that this time of our lives, our first job, first few years after college and the initial taste of corporate life sure would go down making the memories nostalgic. At some point or other we have all been at the same turn in life; be it job transition, hikes, mid 20’s crisis or just plain work life attitude. It’s at this point, 3 plus years later that we would take different turns in life; different paths and I guess we have realized and learnt this in our own way. Hope we appreciate this time spent in shaping our lives and it’s for this reason I am sure we would also always say in touch.
Ueee ma .. ! I never knew I could be so profound. Don’t sweat this stuff if it does not make sense to you because those who have felt it; it would sure make lot of sense to them…

on that note:- I sign off !! I do not know if I have enough fuel to keep this blog active but I just hope that I return soon with different, small joys of life.