A pain in the ass

It all starts on a beautiful summer day in the city (and also an urban legendary place where everything is orange on fridays in fall) of clemson. (for the lesser informed, it is a small smaaaalllll place in the southern state of south carolina in USA).


At 9:43 am my mobile rings. fighting all the sleep, I decide to pick it up since it is my mom calling from India. I talk to her and hang up the phone sayin that I will call her back (which I only remember now that I never called her back!).


I decide it is time to wake up.. oh wait, did I sleep ? with all the work I am up to these days (of eating , sleeping and regularily utilizing my brain in mastering the art of gambling) I have lost the sense of time, and sleep. I remember sleeping sometime last week, But that is all I can remember right now. Well anyways, I tell myself it is time to get started, big day ahead.


I go online immediately, before I brush my teeth, for I do not want to face the wrath of my lord god, who said "thou shall not brush thy teeth, before thee visith the holy place". (And I guess by now you all know what the holy place is. No not the loo you perverts, the virtual world!)


I see miss s and talk to her about what happened yesterday and she ends up amazing me like always, and miss m who I end up yelling at and also threatening to kidnap her children :P (that is a different story for a different day). I see miss r whose wit I try to match, and miserably failing. I dont see my friend p online but I see b who admits that he has turned into a psycho (am happy now that hyderabad wont miss me ;) ). I finally give up and brush my teeth and decide to take a bath.


But I notice that all my clothes are dirty and I needed to do the laundry (any dress worn more than 8 times needs to be cleaned, hence my whole collection needed .. nay deserved a cleaning session) I notice that I do not have either a laundry basket or some sort of a bag to carry the clothes. That is where innovation kicks in. (rather memory of dhoti walas from India) I tie em up in a blanket and carry it on my back all the way to the laundry. downstairs.


I try to fit one months of laundry into a single load, and the machine cant take it. So it is bye bye jeans (and it being summer, i think i can handle it) but now the tricky part, how do I make it start! (I always used the laundromat where all I needed to do was put some coins). I call up my friend and ask him how to start, he explains. I hang up the fone. I realise I hung it up too early, I call him back to ask "when do I put the detergent in". He laughs and tells me, I hang up the phone in embarassment. aah, time for my bath, finally!


And finally an event that had not taken place in over a month, finally took place! And no it is not the first time in a month that I had taken a bath, I actually took a bath yesterday. Yes, It is the first time in a month that I had my bath two days in a row :D (pats myself on my back) And finally I put the clothes in the dryer and get myself clothed and run off to the bus stop to catch the CATBUS to the university.


I get to the university and wait eagerly to punch my time card (which is the only proof that I actually do some work) which cant be punched until 15 minutes before the scheduled time of work.So for the next 10 minutes, I have nothing better to do than watch the clock tick. Really interesting. And finally after punching in I come to the Library where I am scheduled to work.


oh did I mention that I actually had to walk for 15 minutes to the police station and 15 minutes back to the library to actually work!. and after 30 minutes of walk, this is what I find. NO FREAKING CHAIR where I am supposed to do my work. I ask around and some poor old lady does all she can to find the best chair she can. And then I set myself up to 5 hrs of procastinating the stuff that I thought I would do in the library.


4 hrs past, and I cant take it anymore and decide to blog about the day I have had, and here it is. The only solace are the beautiful women who are walking past me. (Damn! women look great in red :D ). Oh well.. getting back to the blog, it took me a good 50 minutes to write (and perhaps make up) the stuff I have been through today.

But where is the "pain in the ass", you ask? Have a look at this.

actual dimensions 8" X 12" and I am a 5ft 10" guy who weighs over 100 kgs.

(un) Forgettable Times

Yes there are a few "forgettable times" in my life.

like this time once, way back in engineering..
me and a few of my friends decided it is fun to lift and throw each other in the river, while we were supposedly having fun during the peak season of the "krishna puskharalu". Yes we were having fun. Yes we were being stared at by all those elderly old people who forgot what having fun meant. Yes the police was giving stern stares at us. But we didnt care, we continued this fun for a long long time before the police guy finally lost it and yelled "enti , intha sepu godava chestunnaru, migata vallu emi kavali ??. ika vellandi!!" (why are u making such a nonsense for so long, just leave and let others have some peace.)

hmm.. nothing funny about it right ? well why did that incident make it here.. well.. the police officer turned to me and said " vallaite college pillalu, meekemaindi sir, vallathone gola chestunnaru" (they are college kids, they are bound to be mischevious, what about you sir, what the hell is wrong with u ?). and the hillarious laughter that broke out immediately after that statement answered the police guys question ,that I was infact the second youngest guy of the lot :((.

And sometimez, its not the other guys stupidity that gets me into weird situations, just my absence of mind. Coming to the new country, I have already set some kind of an impression on this foriegn desis.

Couple of weeks ago, I thought that I would listen to them english songs online,in the computer lab like everybody else. And I brought my headfones like everybody else. I also hooked em up to the computer cabinet like everybody else. I started playing the songs , but realised that my headfones that I got cheaply were not that good so i decided to raise the volume. Aah! now much better! :). So thats how it was for couple of minutes, but this girl beside me who was speaking on the fone kept giving me weird looks. And then finally she decided to just give a nasty look to me and leave. I was stunned. I thought maybe the sound from my headfone was too loud and it was audible to her nand she was being disturbed. So I removed my headfones from my head and wanted to see how loud they actually were from the outside. Turned out the sound was too loud.

Infact it was even louder than when I had my headfones on. This is when I realised :P that the cabinet of the computer I am using is on the left side of the monitor not the right :D (to which my headfones were actually connected!!). And this is when I realised the whole lab was rocking with the music of "Staind" (dun remember what song) for couple of minutes full volume. And this is when I also realised the meaning of the nasty look that girl gave me. Jeez why cudnt someone come up to me earlier and gimme a slap on my neck saying I was disturbing them. Those Snobs!!

well anyways, I also turned on a fire alarm by mistake last week. keeping to the tradition, I shall make many (mis) adventures , just because it wud give me more stuff to blog about.

Till then, bye bye.
SYKO.

p.s. SYKO wud be my new nickname that I have earned so far in my university. People are tending to call me ITEM these days, but I am smarter than that :P