Another Mortal Life

“This week has been awesome and awful at the same time!” Well, ok, this is an exaggeration, for my life does never vary that much. But yes, this week has witnessed quite a variety.
This Monday, while the impractical guy’s eccentricity was at its peak, he walked out of a practical class, decidedly sure that he’s not going to do this course this time around. He has got gutsy enough to face the repercussions, or perhaps he hasn’t got in him the ability to face things the way they stand. Whatever! (What’s it with me that whenever I write about those incidents in my life which I would’ve rather liked not to be in, I tend to replace ‘I’ by ‘he’ or ‘you’.)
The same Monday night saw me in the birthday bash of a friend, quite different from the usual ones I’ve been in. Loved it! Absolutely loved it! The continuous grin on Mr. Ashiq's face was a bonus treat (though there was hardly anybody who cares to go deep into poetry, and so that wasn’t the right platform my friend! But then, you were actually forced.), while I saw Mr. Cool shed his you-know-why-girls-love-me poise for a while. After an hour or so, he asked me one of the most difficult questions anybody can ask you- “Tell me at least one thing you don’t like about me.” Well, well, well, I haven’t got anything like that, seriously; may be I don’t know you enough.
Recent days have also seen the love for orkut suddenly running high in the blood of some of my long lost friends. A hope-u-remember-me from the ones you so obviously remember can surprise you anytime. Equally great is to find out someone yourself and say- “Wow! He/she is here!” A few of them have made some no-comments-visits to this blog too! Suddenly orkut has started making sense! Glad that I didn’t delete it!
Bathing in negligibly-hot water in the evening 2-3 days back, has pushed me into the unfortunate cycle of headache, sore throat, a mild fever etc etc. Nothing can be worse than a sore throat, you think, when the phone rings and you know your parents are on the other side. So I was too happy not to pick it up yesterday! And today when I picked it up (there’s a limit, isn’t?), the “Hello” was enough for mom to know it all. All the inevitable advices followed, though (I think) I was able to convince her that it’s a sore throat only, not accompanied with anything worse. I was told to gargle and I was like “It’s so kiddish. I won’t. No way!”
A few minutes later, phone rang again, on the other side was a friend complaining why didn’t I call back on his missed calls! O my friend, this is the day when I’m thinking twice before even picking up the calls that ring for minutes!
Then, had a few words with another friend of mine whose marriage is scheduled later this month- the first one from my batch in school to marry! I always wonder why a well-educated guy should marry this early, but then, there are reasons which tell me I shouldn’t wonder. Anyway I've got another justifiable reason to bunk classes in a semester which has already seen too many unjustifiable bunks from me! (Did I say ‘too many’? This should be a positive sign!)
And again, the phone rang, yet another friend. Ask me how much I hate receiving ladies’ calls when I’ve got a sore throat; I can’t even chat online with them in this state! But having been already at the receiving end of some angry words for not picking up the calls (or for not calling) twice earlier in the day, I hardly had any choice. She couldn’t make out any difference in my voice at first (thankfully), but as soon as I told her, she realized she is a doctor in the making- “Gargling would be the most effective thing in this case.”