Mr himself

This guy is called the Mr himself as he can see only him in life. He has a feeling that all the people in the world are going to cheat him or take money and all this nonsense. he is supposed to be the eldest but behaves as the youngest. this guy is doing his bachelors in engg. He was willing to stay with us.( including him we were 5 , so all was fine as were following the rules of the indian student apartment act that 5 should stay ) So he shared the advance rent , caution deposit everything. But then this guy is not as simple as he is. He is always lost in his own world. All he thinks about is himself, his money , his time everything about his life. He does not care as to what happens to others as long as he is fine. He is very particular about money , even a single dollar or that he will not leave 50 cents. All of us had problems with him , but then we said not all of us are perfect and we decided to stay on. But then he had problems in everything and i did not like it. i said listen if u wanna stay u stay if u dont want then leave. it was getting too much for all of us to bear with him. everytime he would accuse us saying we are rich guys and we have a lot of money and stuff. problems came and he left . We told him that we would give him his share the advance rent once the 5th guy comes. he said fine. But then now the 5th person wants to leave, tho uski tho waat lag gayi. everyday he comes to us saying paise dho paise dho. he says we swallowed his money and all this.he says he doesn't get money from trees ( as if we get !@#@ ) I got really bugged today and told him "look Mr we never swallowed your cash, stop accusing us all the time. we will give u the cash once we have it. we cant give you any money now " he got really pissed and threatened to dis connect the electricty ( the electricty connection is in his name ..i mean he is so funny ) i said bhai jo karna hai woh karo. this guy is like too much. he is real funny..

the 5th guy wants to go back !!!!

All of a sudden this 5th person has assumed a lot of importance in our gang. this is for the simple reason that this guy wants to go back to india, its not even 3 days since he came and all he talks is that i want to go back. He did not have a very good journey till here. He lost his hand carry on the way. When he got it back his cash was missing ( about 700 $ ) , so he was all down. Then these guys told him that there aren't any on campus jobs , and its going to get difficult . On top of it he attended the class the very next day he came and as expected he never understood a thing. ( most of us dont understand , so i guess its ok but then he got scared ) . Now he says " chodho bhai mein india wapas chale jaatha." he says i am small guy , i am not aiming to build any houses or buy cars jus let me go. All of us tried to convince him but then for a second he is fine, then he goes back saying i wanna go. so we said ok. teek hai aap jaana chahren tho jaayie. None of us want to force him to stay back. we really cannot tell him anything. he is feeling very homesick or its the culture shock or its jus that he is very scared about the high tuition fees and stuff we dont know. so lets what happens in the next few days whether this guy goes back or not.

5th Person

The 5th person arrived yesterday. i mean my 5th room mate. we were only 4 till now but the rule in all indian student apartments is utilise each n every space in the house , adjust with how many ever you can ...all this to save money. more the people less our rental bills are. The person who came is a lucky guy, i meannot everytime a bunch of guys go to recieve a person from the the airport ..? . The normal routine is that people usually take a " bart shuttle " from the airport to reach here. nobody gets a royal welcome. Bart shuttle is nothing but a shared taxi and they charge quite a lot about 60 $. so yesterday about few guys drove down to St Louis airport ( this is 2 hours from carbondale and only closest major airport ) to pick him up. With his arrival our house was complete. we are 5 of us in a 2 bedroom apartment which is little smaller than the dda flats . One bedroom is little bigger than the other one so three of us are gonna share it and the other one by the remainig two. I am gonna be in the bigger one ( lucky me...!@#!@ ) sharing with two other hydbadi guys . There is one abcd from pakistan....hez like born in pakistan , but brought up for a quite a few years in US. He is doing his bachlelors in aviation & management . He is into a lot of rap music , cigars and stuff. But the good thing about him, he has a car. so when ever we need to buy grocery and stuff we go with him. otherwise we take the University Bus which keeps circling around the campus and the town. Its free for the students but it does go to a lot of places and it takes a lot of time...

now coming back to the 5th room mate. we dumped his luggage in his room. Heated the food from the fridge , served it with a glass of pepsi and some mango juice all part of the first few days luxury that he would get . he was pretty happy good tasty food ( made by me..oh thank you very much ....cooking is ..u know quite easy for all of us ) . he finished his dinner ,left his plate and walked away to the washroom to wash his hands. We called him back and said " dekho bhai yeh khana juice yeh sab hum log karengee,lekin boss u need to wash your plate " i mean its good for him that he gets into the routine as early as possible. poor guy was little embarresed but then what do we do all of us washed the plates after we came. Its like a simple rule here in all the student apartments. " jo khaye wohi wash karen"

The journey to the destination is always the best....

Finally all the hype is over and i am settling down to normalcy in this place. I still dont have proper access to the internet( none of my room-mates have desktops or laptops at home ) so i guess it will take time for me to get into serious blogging. To start with the stop over at frankfurt was very good. That was my first step on foriegn soil and i was little excited , i liked the place. Every 30 secs there was a landing or take off. It was a such a huge airport with so many gates. It was also the first time i encountered walk ways ...so it was nice. my flight to frankfurt was an eight hour flight . I went hungry for the most of the time as they served very little food and i hadn't eaten much at home before leaving. It was a huge flight like a big hall. probably double the size of our local domestic flights. Till today i feel that my journey was the best thing. This place is really quite depressing , probably because missing i am missing india, chennai my home my comp my bike my friends most importantly my cell phone ..god i miss all these so much...i am constantly reminded of all this. Everyday i ask myself " kahan se kahan aa gaye bhai .... aage kya karna hai.." its such a good life back home with friends home food no restrictions...anywyaz cant help now... taken the plunge so better not crib about it...