Girl in The Bus

"Palakkadil ninu Bangloreleku pokuna super deluxe bus standite valathu bagathu nirthiyirikunu ticket book cheythavar dayavayi busil kayarendathanu” (The bus going from Palakkad to Bangalore is parked in the left side of the bus stand, those who have booked the tickets are requested to board the bus)

All started running towards the moving bus; these stimulus-response reactions will never change even though you have your seats reserved. The bus stand was crowded as usual; Sunday night all the inter-state travelers and students moving out kept a dull face - all hate Mondays. I was expecting some good looking girls in the bus. But KeralaSRTC buses are a dry place, I bet you it’s hard to find eye candy in this crap bus. Airavat and Kallada buses are really blessed in this respect.

As usual some gentlemen and women were late. I saw a somewhat ok girl coming near the bus; even cactus looks beautiful in a desert. She was accompanied by her dad and mom all speaking in a tamil-english-malayalam mixed accent. Her seat was just behind the driver’s seat and I was sitting behind her. He rapidly scanned the seats and the seat numbers, and then started shouting at the checker, (he saw some guy sitting next to her seat number)

Why don’t you have separate seats for ladies; seats should be reserved for ladies in online reservations, how I will send a girl alone in a bus with some guy sitting next to her. Its not safe and blah blah blah…………………….

I respect the care, social awareness, love, protective mentality of a dad. Seeing all of us molesters and the frequent usage of “I don’t mean you all” made all the passengers uneasy. Finally, another girl with a cute and innocent face stepped in. She was more than ok, a new oasis in the desert. The gentlemen sitting next to lady got up and gave the seat to the lady. WOW to the beautiful reflection in the glass opposite to me!!!!

The bus started moving and the girl’s dad and mom started following the bus till Chandranagar (I hope he stays there, thought I at the time), waving hands risking life and traffic rules. What a love, awesome ………. The moment the car moved to the pocket road the guy who was sitting in the seat next to cactus girl came with some other guy,

Mr: We both (cactus) booked the tickets together; can I take her to the last seat, this guy (pointing to the new gay) will sit next to you.

Oasis: hmm…….

New Guy: I am not imposing, it isn’t any of my business.

Cactus: (very humbly) Please………………

Every one's face “What the f**k” reaction. I was more than sad as I had only one reflection on the mirror.

The New Guy had a big bandage (seemed like some fracture case) on his hand, still the new girl was so scared to press the semi-sleeper button, and she stayed sitting upright all the way till Madiwala Ayyappa Temple. I was the lucky one: I had enough space to stretch out my legs as she didn’t pull back the seat.

If only the dad had seen all this...

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It happened this way with me

B’lore, 5.30 am, I am neither a rooster nor an owl; I go to bed fast and ‘sun rises in the east/west’ its still an axiom, I never care, all I knew it was too early for me. Why so early, it’s not my error “Electronic City……. Electronic City” the one- man-show man who acted as checker, a cleaner and the driver of my bus which drove me to the sunny valley screeched. Oh I am here about to join my first job in this city, I saw some thing like a pyramid, some hyperbola sort of parabola structures merged concrete pieces , back of my mind so bisection, truss structures all flashed as a sinister taking back to the geometry and mechanical class. IT block are clumsy.

30th March 2008: Induction for my first job, “welcome all” the training team head called us, “Jet Set Goooo…..” all I wanted to here was that, made a small group of friend all of the same gender:-( stared a merry round around my campus. El-Dorado, my mind was screaming like a European adventurer near the Ecuador’s Lake Guatavita. My campus was huge, cafeteria’s had a mouth watering menu, nice chicks round me, amphitheaters what else u need for a visual treat.

1st April 2008: auspicious day to start your training “FOOL’s day”, My C tutor has already stated the class.
Slide 1: Programming Paradigms
Structure programming and OOPS concepts
Opps It didn’t take a good amount of time rather it took hardly 3 min to say I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. All my college days I hardly studied that ‘bits of paper make an answer paper’, and ’40 is your pass mark’. My grade was the worse-st as per my bench-marking, I never imposed non-superlative over itself. It took less time to study that ‘all are mathematics’ ellam kanakanu (in Malayalam).

4th may 2009: ‘Indira Nagar’ Crain’s Training center, some thing was vibrating in my pants pocket, a text message “Rs.XXXXX got credited to your 10 digit account number”. I came to my electronic city campus that evening to take money from ATM all was set like a Tamil movie; it’s a sort of tradition in movies to have music and dance in auspicious occasions; it was a DJ Night. 24th I declared recession, beware every money spend there is a month.