20th birthday….long time back btw

BIRTHDAY MEMOIR

– Sasidhar Akkiraju.

I’ll remember my 20^th Birthday the most. Staying in the Hostel makes you feel special on special occasions.

I slept early, the day before the night after (yeah! It was midnight when it all started), all of my friends decided to pay me a visit and wish me on having wasted one more glorious year of my life.

I was in the midst of a dream (a good one, I remember), and then I felt pain in my butt (doesn’t happen to me often) and my dream turned into a nightmare. Opening my eyes, I got the closest view of the ceiling fan (reminded me, I had to clean it). Then I discovered gravity (although Newton did that long ago, I’m sure it didn’t affect his back as it did to mine) and just when I thought it ended, I was made to get know gravity better (its funny when u all u get is introduced over and over again), over and over for about 20 times (not that I was counting, nor my friends are any good at math).

The “birthday bumps” (that’s what they defined the ass-kicking session as), were over. My birthday lasted for a day, and my friends had made sure the ‘bumps’ did too.

After the exhausting session of kicking ass, my friends decided to use my multipurpose bed (the good old bed…there were days I spent more than 20 hrs on it). Now imagine 16 to 18 guys, more overweight than under on a bed, a single bed, a single- old bed, a single-old-almost to pieces-bent at the middle-bed (Hard to imagine, good that I have a photo). It was two by the time they realized it was not feasible. Now I had two beds, both unusable. Not that I’m complaining (how diplomatic does that sound !!), they also gifted me back my own underpants, very neatly packed along with extra large pack of condoms (they got it at a buy one get one free offer).

Then everyone wished me luck on the coming glorious (hopefully) year and said they hoped and prayed. Hoped I get a girlfriend (as if that’s gonna happen anytime soon) and prayed for the girl I was to get (that she doesn’t get me !!).