End Kota: Part 1

I'm a few days away frm the sea shore now. And this is among my last few posts.

So reflectin back, I'll make an attempt to condense many thoughts into words... which appears a seemingly impossible feat right now - but then so did what I did.

The following will be posts that I never got around to postin for reasons I don't recall.
Some maybe abruptly incomplete, some may lack flow, n some may not even say anything at all. So i'd like to say, What the hell does it matter anyway?

Now since my feedback bout the ppl here comes off as excessively negative, let me write bout some of the things they are pretty cool at.

Given they are fairly intelligent, they are also pretty funny. Like in classes, a trademark thing that everyone does is shout maaro maaro, todo, kaato (burn thrash destroy - stuff an angry mob wud shout) for simple tiny randomly trashy things.

Like - if some guy's enterin the class a bit late, or the marker stops workin, or while some guy's askin a doubt. Its funny cuz bout a 100 students are shoutin it without the least intention of harmin anythin, simply because the pen that was bein used stopped workin. Or if the mike the teacher is usin isn workin proper, they'll all shout, "break it, throw it out the window." Or if the teacher says, "So here's a challengin question, lets see if u can do it." n within seconds they wil be shoutin, "No, we cant!!" when its all too obvious none has given it a try.

Or if the teacher is writin in a rather small hand, or goin too low towards the bottom of the board, so that the ones at the back can't see it, they'll shout, "Write smaller, n write lower." (it sounds a lot cooler when a 100 students do it at once, n in hindi.)

Then if some teacher is talkin bout takin some leaves or somethin, they all start shoutin the names of rival institutes.

They are intelligent too, my house mates, when there was a theft of the gas cylinder on the ground floor, were rendered cylinderless. They wudn pay for it, n the landlord, who'd been away at the time of the theft felt they were careless(true to an extent), n so didn see any profit gettin a new one for them. Thats when they started usin electricity to make maggi.

(The followin procedure is incredibly risky - Don't try it at home) They hooked up 2 conducting rods, directly to the plug sockets(at a 200 Volt potential) and put it in water, which wud then heat up in seconds to give perfectly boiling water, to which they'd add the masala maker, and the maggi cakes. (Of course its highly NOT recommended, cuz the water is essentially undergoin electrolysis, wid the metal rods actin as electrodes, n the salt completin the circuit. Its bound to give rise to unknown reactions, n formation of possibly harmful salt complexes)
They didn do it for too long, more because they managed a cylinder frm somewhere, than frm precaution, but of course the idea had been interestin to watch.(not to mention a nice brainwave)

This was essentially an attempt to de-stereotype them, incase the perception had been that of dumb guys who cud do math, but not make human conversation. Amongst themselves, they are witty n hilariously funny. Like this guy who lives on the bottom floor was kinda bein scolded by the guy who lives on the top floor, for havin smashed a glass bottle out of fun, on the terrace. "Ur gonna clean that up okay? Cuz the maid will shout otherwise!!". " But DUDE!!! She'll shout at YOU naaa?!" which was like totally funny.

Lets jus leave it here on a positive note, n pray, they evolve into better ppl. Esp my house-mates.