Oh my god!!!!! The number of changes that have taken place in my life and that of the people around me is phenomenal. In the past month and a half my life has taken a 180 degrees turn. (yeah the usual 360 degrees is wrong because u end up being at the same place then :P : source (townsend)).
Life as I knew it has changed. I am not sure whether it for the better or for the worse.
Before I moved to the US of A, I had never lived away from my parents. As my mom was working, we (my bro n me) were well disciplined and took some responsibilities at home but I must say that we were pretty much pampered. There used to be food ready for us all the time. If mom had' nt cooked anything Dad would take us out and I can say we lead a comfortable life. I had loads of friends. I used to go out with them , blew my parent's hard earned cash. There was no real responsibilities at all. I used to be one lazy bum. All i did was eat, drink , sleep, hang out with friends, thats it. I had all the time in the world and did nothing with it.
After I moved to Us of A, things changed. I moved in with 3 other guys from bangalore (subbu, Harsha and Vinay). Initially i felt like we were runnin a family. We had so many decisions to take. N I am sure we din't necessarily take the right decision all the time. everything happened so fast that I can gladly say that after one and a half month I am kinda well settled into this place. Of course, having nice roomies helped a lot. We get to here a lot of stories of roomies not getting along but we guys are having loads of fun. I think we have learnt to keep our ego aside and work together to run the house. The biggest change ofcourse is how much of work we do here. We cook, wash our own clothes, wash vessels, clean our toilets and all this besides studying and doing assignments. It has almost become natural to us. All of us were hesitating to cook in blore. One of my roomies dint't even know how to break a egg till recently and now we make good tasty food to eat. So far everything has been a "almost" smooth ride and hope it continues.
I say " almost because there have been days when we goofed up and there has been no food to eat at home and we went hungry and stuff like that. But overall we r not doing that bad.
We owe a lot to the seniors who have helped us out here, especially Prem Swaroop ( we call him our god sent angel :P). We also have made lots of amazing friends here, from different backgrounds and its been quite a experience. I can confidently say I am having a good time.
On the hind side being here also means that I cannot talk to our stay in touch with all my close friends as often as I would liek to do. I used to meet these ppl almost everyday and now I would n thave spoken to them for days. My friends back home have become very busy with there work and even they are hard pressed for time. I just hope that we don't lose touch with each other altogether. It would be tragic if that happened. Also the added responsibilities can be a pain sometimes. Like we almost forgot to pay our rent on time this time around. In a country where everything depends on your credit history that was a huge risk to take. There is no if and but here. If we screw up the penalty is very huge and we don't get second chances often.
Like they say only thing constant in this world is "change". I hope we all change for the better.
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hmm.. i can add chetan cooks quite well :P yeah its quite tedious-tryin to manage a house while submitting one assignmt after another..i guess its just bout finding the right balance-betwn family n friends (back home), studies n parties (btw where've all the partyin days disappeared :( !!)
Well... I really dint look at this in this perspective. Ya life has become more responsible once work started but dint know that things are changing even at your end!
Hope we all change for the better!
PS: @Vik: Looks like you remember only about your class!! So... "Hi".
Prez. Cartman has nothing to say .... sigh! ... I miss Jason's jam room the most I guess!
Poo poo you!! My mom still cooks for me!! I don't do any work!! etc etc etc in a taunting tune... :-p
Must say, you have an "interesting" way of narrating your experiences..Speaking of this particular post, well, things definitely do change, and it's more often than never that we don't want them to! Despite all that, life moves on, takes it's normal course, blah blah blah..in short, we learn to adapt to the changes, and later even tend to forget the way things originally had been!
Asides all that, I happened to come across your blog, and so, here I am, leaving a comment too! Do visit my blog too, and comments of any sort are welcome.
true we learn to be more responsible here! :)... all is for good.. don't worry bro by next year you will have your own set of friends to hang out with.... u just started off...
Firstly, thanks for going through my blog and leaving your comments there. It's not often that I come across people who agree with certain of my conceptions..and glad to see you are not one of those who revolt against them!
Also, I'm not sure how or where I happened to come across your blog..if I can reminisce right, it's been quite a long time too! So, I'm sorry, I'm totally blank on that.
Anderson , cant believe u wrote all this !!!... its gonna rain elephants in india.... jokes apart , definately true..!! none the less... evrything will remain the same , when u get back... :D
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