the guy with the ipod..

interestin title huh...? well this ones about me....bwa ha ha, actually they all are...coz its all blog so there..!! the guy sitting all alone in the back bench with an ipod on, this is a phrase I use a lot.. and like most neone who knows me would have figured out...its about me...im the guy whos sittin in the back with the pod on..

everytime i looked to the others in the class, there were people who i wanted to interact with... guys i wanted to become friends with....girls i wanted to become friends with...or mebbe even go out with.. actually, definitely go out with... but I just sat there doin nothin...why? I have no clue...

people tell me that I have to break out of my shell or whatever.. but the fact of the matter is, it aint easy....im comfy in my shell..no one threatens me or mocks me inside this place.. however, its only now that Im here...past my college days, that I can feel the pinpricks of regret about the people I didn't get to know..

its not like I did not try anything at all....I did make a few attempts but suffice to say that nothin worked out...and I got disheartened...

Im happy to say that i think im finally making the attempt to make friends...and i think im doin ok with it.. i have managed to acquire four or five friends here in the US which is more than what I could ever have done back home...

thats one thing im glad about..

now lets talk about parties....

people say that goin to parties is a lot of fun..lemme try and analyse that...we are talking about a room full of people who are drunk or well on their way there... and the ones who are not drunk are usually capable of similar heroics without alcohol...in such a scenario..how can anything interestin come out..? I know i know, when people get drunk lotsa interesting things might come out...come on dude....get your mind out of the gutter for a sec..

and then people say that you can meet new people....get to know them....and so on...lets think about what a typical conversation might look like...

"hey there, im bob"

"hey bob, im alex"

"are you a new student?"

"yea, and you?"

"yup".....  

"so, you're in computer science too?"

"yea"

"which courses have you taken?"

" blah blah and blah, and you?"

"oh, i've taken blah, blah and blooh...so we have two common courses.."

"yea...."

"yup...."

"cool huh?"

"yea.....common courses...what are the chances..!!"

"actually if we account for the mutual probability here, lemme see....thats 140 factorial by....UGHH!!"

the UGHH at the end was alex socking bob on the nose...

as bob falls, he calls out the finished calculation with all the force of a curse...it hits alex in the ear...and hes out like a light too...

alternatively...

"hey there, im bob"

"hi, im lisa"

"so.....do you have a boyfriend?"

"yea....i do..." bob notices that lisa looks sad and worried...

"he aint treatin you right is he?"

"what makes you say that?"

"your face looks worried..."

and then lisa tries to speak when bob draws in every inch of courage and speaks..in a tone worthy of an arthurian knight on a quest

"he must be a real piece of crap to make a beautiful girl like you feel bad, why if i could get my hands on him..."

lisa shakes her head dejectedly...

shadow falls over both bob and lisa..

"my dear, your misery has clouded my vision......will you go out with me, i'll make it all better" shoots bob....putting it out there in the open.....hes takin a shot on this one..

"that aint my misery bob"

"oh no? what is it then?" enquires bob, not really interested, hes suddenly noticed that lisa is wearing a tight tee...

"thats my boyfriend's shadow"..

this is what followed.... bob + kung pow = blob... there wasn't much left of the poor critter..

third and final scenario....bob comes in realizes that nothin good is gonna come out of bein at the party...and he pretends to get a call on his cell phone...walks out....goes home...and blogs...

im like bob...not meanin that I get beat up by hittin on someone else's girl...or that I can work out  probability jus like that...i would avoid such a party too....

thas it for now...

later..

magus..