While I was reading an article, I found some facts to be quite interesting and also, a bit controversial..!! Here they are…

Love is the ultimate danger ground for men. Once a man is in love, he can just kiss rest of the world goodbye! Though frankly speaking, love is very overrated.
A man’s greatest strength is his initial attraction to women. His greatest weakness is his unfailing ability to get distracted within a short period of time. Men definitely need to work on that!!

- Kelly Dorji

I never expected this day to end so ruthlessly….

I had a pretty good time till 7 ‘o clock in the night.. I was at Maria’s house at that time… Good ol’ pals meeting and talking heart to heart after a long time… Maria had to attend her uncle’s wedding anniversary party at around 8, so I thought of leaving in a few minutes. So I called my bro to come and pick me, as I had to go to Spencer’s as well, to buy some things that I needed at my hostel. He said that he’ll come and pick me in an hour, as he needed to go elsewhere for some reason. Then he broke that horrible news to me…….

It was about the death of my 10 year old second cousin, Sandeep, who got drowned in a river near his house… I stood there dumbstruck…. This news was so unbelievable.. Just a week before, he had been running around everywhere with the other kiddos when the death rites of my grandmother’s brother was being performed… Of course, death doesn’t mean anything else than family get-together for kids… Everybody had turned up when such an important person in the family had died at an age and situation unfit for any normal human being… He was not even 65 I think… But his death news wasn’t that surprising, coz he had been undergoing dialysis twice a week and sustained his life with the help of medicines.. In fact, he had already written down his instructions that were to be followed after his death..

But this is a different matter… Who saw this coming? Why did it have to happen? And I cannot imagine his parents’ grief… My goodness…. Each time I think about it, my heart breaks…. How will they feel everytime his absence is felt? How will they feel everytime they see his clothes and his things? Tears are coming to my eyes now… I am praying to God to give his parents and his small brother the strength and courage to accept this reality…

Sandeep, my little brother… May your soul rest in peace….

Everything’s back to normal.. except my tastebuds… :(( I learned a valuable lesson today… Black current and Strawberry flavors don’t go with each other… And in fact, its one of the yuckiest ice cream flavors ever made…. :D

Some kind of emptiness had been enveloping me for the past two days, and now, everything’s back to normal…. Its strange how a simple thing, something that should have been let gone with a laugh, can be made huge so as to interfere our peace of mind itself…. Well, I think that incident reflects the flaws of my character.. I am too sensitive, I have a terrible ego, I can’t accept my mistakes coz I believe that I cannot make mistakes, and when someone or something points out one that I made, I sulk, and make it a big deal…. But in the end, I am ready to let it go.. Thanks to my forgetfulness!!! Anyways, I’ve already started working on all my negative traits.. Hope to get rid of it, tough as it is…

Nope! I am not dead…. yet! :D I am very much alive…..! But like I used to, I cannot spend time on net to connect to my online friends anymore… Lets say, workload? Yeah.. think so…. Projects, Assignments, Seminars and Presentations.. and also, the fashion show thats about to be conducted in November.. and, some personal reasons too…. Anyways, I am not enjoying life so much right now.. We have somehow become rebels in the hostel.. I cannot understand the reason why the BFT guys r so discriminated by the others.. And why the hell are they calling us “Fashion People”? Why can’t they use “BFT” instead of “Fashion”? We don’t call the Food Microbiology guys as “Food People” or the BCA guys as “Computer People”.. If somebody breaks one of the rules in the hostel, the warden asks them whether they developed this sort of behavior after being inspired by the “Fashion People”…. Whats that about???? We havent broken any of their f***** rules till now, I swear… But after that, we have started doing so. After all, why should we be blamed for something that we haven’t done?

We have lots of work to do at the department and sometimes will not be able to come back to the hostel before 7.. But the warden brought a new rule that we should get back before 4:30.. !@#$ To hell with their rules.. We saw to it that we reached back only by 6 or 6:30pm for a week.. And afterwards, the time limit has been increased to 6:15… And the next rule…. No matter how late u sleep, u should get up at the 5am wake-up bell.. While we had an assignment for Surface Ornamentation, we were doing it all night, and finished it after the 5am bell had rung.. Which means…. I don’t know.. What does it mean?

And problem no. 3, the BFT students hafta go out for various reasons, like, the college store doesnt provide all the stuff that is necessary for us. So we have to get it from a store called “Thread Centre” in C’cherry town. Thats the ultimate store for getting everything, absolutely everything thats necessary for our course.. They are the official suppliers as well, of all our Fashion Art Books, and Still Life Drawing Books.. These r really long and big books for drawing and sketching purposes.. We hafta visit this place atleast once in a week to replenish our resources. We take permission from the warden and go out, and obviously, she’ll not be too happy about it.. But it is because of this that we all know that our Warden possesses excellent creativity and imagination. After the common prayer at night, she’ll give a vivid account of our rendezvous with the guys of SB college, a neighboring co-ed college. Sigh… Had she started writing a little before, who knows! She could have been a renowned author(ess) by now…..@!#$%

For all these reasons, the hostel is becoming rather hostile to all the students of BFT.. And some of them are planning to vacate the hostel next year. I too wanna do it, but lemme see, if 4 or 5 students are willing then I might move out too.. But its the matter of security that is giving me second thoughts about it… C’cherry is a horrible town after 7pm.. Girls living alone would certainly not be safe.. Either we should ask our HOD, Mridul Ma’m to come and live with us, like the passed out seniors did! Or we should hire somebody who can be trusted and also who can protect us.. But who?? Some of us thought about it and finally came up with the perfect ad!!!!

WANTED : A middle aged woman, should cook and clean for 5, preferrably a widow and children married and settled abroad(so that her chances of going and visiting them r almost zero!!!), should value our safety above everything, should take extremely good care of us, and most importantly, should be able to stand up to anyone who dares to break in into our home(female version of Hitler, to be exact!!!)……

Thats it… Anybody interested? ;)