Cowz n Bullz

"You got to have friends to make that day last long," sings Bette Midler but @ IIM HEL (L) u gotta have a good neighbor to make that day last long ;). And I claim myself lucky to have one such goodie goodie neighbor, Vip. It is on the record that my neighbor (read good neighbor) has put up with me for the past 3 terms:P.

In today’s fast food culture, we want it quick, sharp and now. And a very amusing thing about our way of living is our ingenious methods of filling time, known by a typical Indianism called “time-pass”. A quick time pass can be anything from the tasty snackette of the flash game on mobile, through to a full meaty meal that is closer to a game of “Cowz n Bullz”. I see a collection of these as a smorgasbord of delights.

The lectures @ our school are long and tedious and the profs don’t let you sit in peace. There is nothing sacrosanct about the break between the lectures and thus we make sure to make up for it during the lectures. Like any other day me n my neighbor were busy playing Cowz n bullz. Not that we weren’t paying attention to the lecture, we mastered the art of multi tasking by then :D (I ain’t a braggart :P).

Suddenly something struck my mind. An image flashed and then it was persistent in my eyes. Bingo!! Eh u right, the moron prof of ours caught us playing. He is intelligent I say. He pretended to create a snapshot world, to address some really ‘big’ issues in an upfront manner. His voice is something that sounds like vacuum, piercing your ears. It was almost frenzied, nail biting anticipation. When asked for an explanation, I decided to play it serious. I said so nonchalantly "We aren’t playing, we were discussing the subject-LAAA…” But hold it. He was no ninny to believe it. I bet I would have seemed to be a raconteur at that juncture. But he was comfortably numb, I looked and tried to reconcile myself as if nothing happened.

Sometimes there are obvious reasons for whom the bell tolls. Other times these hardships and heartaches show up at the most illogical doorstep. The question, “Why do you think it happened?” is the best answer you can give a person who approaches you with, “Why me?” Oh eh! This is exactly what I encountered when I asked a couple of my frenz.

The fruits of this labor are obvious: We ended up getting second lowest marks in the class despite of doing pretty decent in the exams. Never ever did I even remotely think that cowz n Bullz could turn out to be so expensive ;)