The Hostel Life

The blog lies wasted and neglected. So I take the initiative to add the least bit of life to this. 

I recently shifted to the college hostel. This had a number of ramifications; that now I would be spending my weeks in the hostel, eating the mess food, washing my own clothes and managing everything on my own and the way I wanted to manage things. However, the single biggest change that shifting to the hostel brought about was that finally I was not wasting 2.5 hours of my time on daily to-and-fro travel.  I found myself much more fresh and energetic.

And now the downside: The energy gained by not travelling all the way across Delhi was conveniently wasted away in uninterrupted table tennis sessions and in mindless gossip.

Hostel life is fun. Main experiences  had in my first 2 weeks.

1) Power Outages are not cool. Literally. Midnight and Early morning power outages coupled with mosquitos that disrupt one's sleep are not cool at all.

2) Water shortage is not cool. Literally, again. Of course, you may opt to move to the other hostel for a bath, or get a bucket of water from an MCD tanker when it comes , or even go to the terrace of the hostel and scoop out your pound of flesh, err, water and do the stuff in the open without a care in the world. But there is nothing like going to a bathroom , turning the tap and listening to the sweet sound of the gushing water. It may not be adventurous, but it is definitely cool.

3) People who drink and then create a commotion are not cool at all. They are generally hot and raging enough to cause some damage. Though they do cause maximum damage to themselves. Whatever happened to taking a drink in the evening and then dozing off into pleasant dreams?

4) A Hostel without Internet connection or LAN is like a bird without wings. O Lord, save us from this calamitous fate !

Thats about it till now. More will come as it comes.