OTHER PRICKS IN THE WALL

Duh.. Despite my worthy effort to make the previous post complete, I must say I failed miserably. It was a little late when it came to my notice that more than a million points were left untouched. For that matter I lay my trust upon you readers to put those left out parts in the comments section. I'm sure regardless of how many times we question, contemplate and reiterate, new points would pop up with each passing second. In the mean time I was thinking we could move on to other interesting people around.

This time its not just one person, there are 4 of them.
Yea!! FOUR!!

For these four can hardly exist individually, it would be tough to brief them so(and I'm not going to do that here). Briefing them individually ain't gonna be interesting anyways. Coz what hits us in the end would be the result of their team endeavour, in which each member would have done their part beautifully without fail. Believe me, they play better than the FBI when it comes to team work ;not that they break in through your roof and say FREEZE!
They are popularly known among the mallus as the 5. We did not name them based on their count, in which case we would have called them the 4,and not 5. 5 coz they
belong there.
How they got to be in the post here is quite simple to explain.
But before that tell me something; imagine you are in college and your friends call you out for dinner on a saturday evening. Would you prefer:

1) joining them

2) not replying and sitting in your room the rest of the evening playing Plants vs. Zombies, with a mindset that you fooled your friends real bad.

If u think the first one is the obvious choice, read on. For those who think otherwise, don't let the zombies get through your garden, play on.

Though this is the case with them most of the time, we never gave up on them. We called the 5 whenever we went out. It was not that we were critically missing their company every time, but because we always fell short of people to share the taxi fare. There is a frigging lengthy procedure involved in getting them ready for the evening. You mess that up and you are gonna have to pay the whole taxi fare by yourself.

I could put together a few points that you've to keep in mind while inviting the 5 for dinner (aah.. now this has started to look like maunamviduanuvishamam.com) hmm.. whatever..

1) You don't make fun of the 5, don't even get close to making fun.

2) You don't say 'beer'. ( its not that they don't drink.. eh don't question, just follow the rules)

3) 'We'll play after we return' - would be a good statement.

4) If they say 'No', DO NOT ask 'Why?' ( trust me, the reply would come nothing close to what you have in your wildest imaginations)

5) And if you get a 'Yes', stop the conversation then and there. Further talking would only give them a chance to change their choice.


Okay.. now that there is a 10% (TEN PERCENT) chance that the 5 will join us for dinner, we get ready, call the taxi and run to their hostel to get them ready. We sit outside their hostel and call them. Again there are quite a few possibilities here:

1) We call each one of them on their phone.
They don't pick up.

2) They pick up.
We - "Guys, where are you people?"
5 - "Hostel...Where did you put the football after the game last night?"
We - "Football?! YTF do you want to take a football for dinner?"
5 - "Dinner? O.o"

3) They pick up.
5 - "One of us got a headache, we ain't coming"
We - "Let him sleep, rest of you can join us?"
5 - " No, we got to mourn for the pain he is going through. Wanna join us?".
We- " Yea, we gonna get sloshed to get over it".

4) They pick up.
5 - "Stop crying! We are coming."


And finally when we see them come out of their hostel, we get the feeling we have succeeded. Which lasts only until we find out that one of them is missing, while there is not one in hundredth of chance that they leave one of theirs alone. Later we find out, the guy just went for a shower ( they say shower and for us shower means the one in the bathroom) and we don't dare express any kind of surprise. After at least half an hour of waiting, we get in the taxi and leave for the restaurant. Once we get there, the 5 forms a different group, sit on a different table, order for themselves. We are super cool with that; as long as they put their share of the taxi fare and pay for their food, why should we care?
Explaining what they order would require me to stay awake for another 2 hours. (I could put that in the next post)
Now after the dinner, they get up, wash their hands and come to our table - 'leave?'
we - ' guys paid your bill?'
5 - 'bill? O.o'

Yea.. we then find out that everything was put into one bill and was kept on our table. Alright guys, its Rs.200 per person, you could put your share right now or give it later on to so and so. The 5 just walks away discussing how the plants could be made immune to the zombies. In case you did not get what that meant, it meant -
'we are the 5, we don't deal petty cash.'


hmm.. that will be it for now. Looking forward to bring up more posts on the 5. I should say what is written here has not even completed the F of FIVE.
But for now.. Adios..

=)

This post here or rather the very blog itself comes in response to the call for a place to put together the ideas and thoughts about someone. This someone is a self proclaimed symbol of perfection and a complete all rounder. A person who says has an extended range of understanding of 'relationships' and lime*. The word relationship I suppose is his all time favourite. Just like Jeff in coupling loved the word 'naked', this guy loved 'relationship'. He always put effort to use it at least 7 times in a sentence in every conversation he had. And this number was directly proportional to the number of people who heard him ( 7 is just the lower limit). And of course there were exceptions to this habit of his. Exceptions as in, if he finds out a junior girl could hear him, he would simply replace the word 'relationship' with the phrase 'broke up'. Yes! such is his sincerity to his juniors.

Coming to limes, he acknowledges himself as one of the co-founders of the lime society at college. Any decision taken by the society in his absence is sure to result in catastrophe and shedding of tears. Talking about lime performances, the poor lad was always thrust upon with roles that could be performed only by a person with sheer expertise and professionalism. These roles which he played ('as a dog or as a dead body' - well that's not the point here) have and will always remain unparalleled in the hearts of the audience. Making of the script is left exclusively to this guy. Boy! You should see him fetching creative ideas from within (seen Edward Norton in the movie 'The Illusionist'?).

Hmm.. I can say the world is no longer a safe place for such mind blowing personalities. Such people always attracted envious faggots(literally). Looking through the eyes these people - he could well be rewarded the worlds most annoying person award (when he really would come only 4th or 5th).

His definition of a good friend actually is a living listening machine. These poor machines were supposed to be victims of his opening up sessions. And these sessions had a minimum span of 2-3 hours. But these 3 hr sessions really does help you understand him...a lot. There are just these few sentences he keeps repeating over and over, so that by the end of the session he can make sure you never forget them.

1) I was in a relationship.

2) You won't understand.

3) MY BITSAT score/ AIEEE rank is...

4) Founded the lime club.

5) You won't understand.

6) I broke up - you won't understand.

7) *The whole list of lime club performances*

8) I was in a relationship.

9) * He would mention the names of a few guys over n over again ( mostly seniors or juniors, never a single person from his own batch)

10) Did I say? - You won't understand.

11) I broke up.


And if you already knew the above points and still think you could be his friend.

I'll say you could only have one of four reasons stated below:

1) You are gay.

2) You are dumb.

3) You're looking forward for the next Nobel Peace Prize. (though there are other easier ways to it, you opt for the best)

4) All of the above





*lime - A performance using gestures and body movements without words (courtesy : Word Web)