One month down and I am still surviving. Actually it was hard to believe that the one month mark is here already and to remind us of just that, we had a party. The party is a thanks giving party organized by the junior batch (that is my batch) for the senior batch as their mid semester exams had ended the other day. As usual I am back in my room at 6.00 in the morning and it’s really pleasant outside and I wish I could just stay out. The party was not as nice as the earlier ones. In fact in the middle of the party when the DJ was playing some really sad songs I was messaging Roshini in Chennai and was telling her that I was already bored of the party and she replied back saying that knowing me as she did … she was surprised that I actually managed to enjoy the earlier two parties. But towards the end of the party it was really as if the DJ was trying to make everyone go to sleep, but he ended with Summer of 69 which has this amazing ability to make you really swing with your head going BANG BANG BANG.

The one month has really changed me, I mean a month ago I felt as if I was waiting for something in my life to happen and now that I am here it feels as if so much is happening that I don’t know what to take in and what not to take in. the experiences here have been amazing and each day I am learning new things (I had warned you guys right at the beginning that I can get really corny at times so here it comes). The one thing that I love the most about this place is that it teaches you to be independent. I know its easy to say things like that when things are going all right for you and you actually look at all the positives of staying alone but I also know that one day when I’ll be really low the one thing that I will want the most is to sleep in my own bed at home and feel secure. But I guess that I how life is and we should be thankful that we are at least somewhat in control of our life because it at least gives us the chance to make our own choices. No  doubt we will go wrong sometimes, but then again at least you can curse yourself for taking the wrong decisions and then try to act a little bit smarter the next time around.  

At the party I really wanted to get drunk this time around, actually my friends think I am so much of a control freak that I refuse to get drunk coz I think that then I will no longer be in control (this thesis is terribly untrue I must add). This time around after my customary two drinks I start feeling fresh and light and feel like dancing like hell but then I think that this time around I will get drunk so I am making my way towards the drinks stall to get me another vodka when Mohit Jain comes upto the public announcement and says that we are running out of drinks and the last bottle was on its way to being finished. By the time I reached the stall, the last drop of the last bottle had already been exhausted (much of it by Mohit Jain himself as was proved beyond doubt later). So I lost out on another chance to get drunk. So then I took to dancing and after the usual moving my feet a little in both directions and trying to sound really cool I gave up. Later I was telling Ridhima that if she insisted on dancing with me anymore she would actually start dancing like me (she is a real great dancer). Another unusual thing with me around here is that once the rock music starts (floyd, nirvana and GNR) I go really wild and lose all my inhibitions about moving me body in public and start doing crazy things without having actually gone high on anything in particular except the music and then I did not realize it at that time, but later about ten people at least were asking me if I was drunk or what. Later when I was getting bored of the music and me and Ridhima were sitting on the stairs looking at other people dance and we saw Arvind (Mr T) dancing his heart out. He is a really cool guy who is majorly chilled out in life and always with a smile on his face. So Ridhima tells me that I also looked exactly the same way as Arvind did when dancing and so I told her that real people did can get drunk on themselves. Later Piyush also joined us and when the party broke Piyush, Me , Ridhima and Bhavana decided to take a walk around campus. I ran into one of the exchange students David who is a brit and after some small talk, even he decided to join us. I got talking to David and over the courseof the discussion envied him more than anyone on this planet. He is here to do research on Operations and will be here till September. So I asked him what he wanted to do after he finished in Spetember. He told me that a job was waiting for him in London but he wanted about three weeks off for himself, so naturally I asked him what he was going to do for those three weeks and he told me that the first week at least he was going to spend in Nepal because he did not know anyone there and he just wanted some time off for himself. I could have given anything at that moment to be like him. I mean forget the time or the money aspect, I am half sure that even though we might get any of these two or for that matter even both, we would not be able to enjoy it like they do. Its an intrinsic part of their spirit, something we can learn from all foreigners.

David has also left for his room and now I must reluctantly go down for breakfast, as my eyes are shutting and if I sleep now, I will miss breakfast. So long till the next entry and once again a very happy one month anniversary for me at MDI.