Good Times..

I am not superstitious about ending numbers with 0, and this is not another one from the Series, '101 Science Tricks' , ' 101 Mystery Stories' etc from Pustak Mahal... 101 is the flat number of a small 2 Bedroom Apartment, in Koramangala, in the city of Bangalore. At the edge of the army firing range, this aparment gave a view that few apartments give in bangalore .All the stuff in the house is donated by dwellers who in the course of time, either got married or got better paying job's , and went on to live mundane live's elsewhere. Stuff includes a fish tank, a full kitchen, with all desi and videsi utensils, and a fridge too, that has cooled nothing else in its entire lifetime, but Beer, and sweet's that Jimmy and Nimmo used to bring back from home.

I dont know how the fish tank got there, but I guess some dude who used to stay there figured that girl's dig fish ( in the tank of course ) , and they dig dude's who feed the fish too. By the time we inherited the house, party's with girl's had come down to once in a few months. So usually, a day before the party there a mad rush to clean the house to give it a semblance of sanity. This included cleaning the fish tank, and running to the nearby aquarium to buy the cheapest available species of fish. One Gold fish is mandatory though. During the course of the party, each guy takes turn's to feed to get the "Oh Cho Chweet" response from the girls. I guess the fish must have felt that they have come to paradise.. Only problem is that once the girls have left, no one care's two hoots about them and they are left wondering where all those wonderful fellows went.

A permanent fixture at the house is Tommy, the faithful watchdog. Nimmo's consider's Tommy as his best friend once he is drunk.. You can hear "Mere Puttar" ... "Mere sabse acha dost" etc etc, in the corridor when Nimmo is coming back from Kamadhenu Bar.. escorted by Tommy.. Tommy faithfully waits outside the door of his master the whole night.. In the morning the door opens and Nimmo rushes out .. late for an appointment with his latest girlfriend and finds Tommy outside... "Dog... What the f*** are you doing here.. get out of my way" .. Tommy is left pondering pondering . "What a Jerk .. But he looks a lot like my master.. only thing is his hair has got some sticky stuff in it and he smells funny.... Wonder why my master does not come out during daytime" ..

Thats Nimmo for you.



101's most heavyweight ( literally ) resident was Pillai.. alias Pill's .. at 135 Kg's, Pills was in the best shape of his life when he was in 101. Most of his time was spent between the Sh** department ( that's what the toilets were affectionately called) in 101, Sleeping in the Hall, calling up insomniac American ladies from the Dell Call center. He is also the first one up and ready to go when someone says "P" of party .. Well sometimes's Pill's is out for 2 - 3 parties
at once and gets quite high .. Once Pills was coming back from one of his chain parties and I was sitting outside the house.. I went " Hi man why are you pushing the Bike" .. Pills : " Umm .. I dont know. I have been pushing for some time" Me:" You look like you fell down" Pills " Oh Yes.. Thats why I was pushing the Bike" Me : " Well you can always start the bike after you get up from the fall" .. Pills : " Oh . I figured it would be easier to push. " .. Me: " #@#$@!#@$@!#.." ...
... There are many stories with me in the Pills position, but lets not get into that ...

Pills ..



Jimmoo the The Sardar Who gets Drunk with Pepsi.. is another integral member of the house. For two years the waiters in Kamadhenu Bar tried to get Jimmy to put a drop of Rum into his pepsi ( Ya that's right, not the other way round as usual with Sardar's ;-)), but failed miserably. As 70 % of the time, Jimmy is the only sober person in the gang, we rely on him to make sure the bill's are actually correct. Probably one of the infinite reasons why we decided to suffer his absolutely revolting PJ's ...


Jimmy



Tina ... The Serious Guy of the house. elite ( sleeps on the only bed unlike other poor fellows who sleep on the floor), and aristocratic. He usually is tensed about something at office, till the time we met one of his co workers.. we asked" Hey you know Tinu who works in your group in Wipro. Does something very serious and important most of the time" .. Reply was " Oh he.. he sit's around and read's novels most of the time" .. Tinu tried to explain that those were his CCIE books and not novel's but we preferred not to believe it.. He has an amazing bike ( refer blog below ) ... Tinu has left for Dubai and the bike is still in 101. A memorial for all those day's..

Tinu ..




The next guys is Hari Puttar.. The oldest member of the house.. A die hard Osho fan, spends, most of the time in the house, reading about Osho's views on sex , While he is out, he goes around taking pic's of "Poor India ,Hungry India" .. Sometimes he get's bumped in the head by locals who dont appreciate his "art" ..

Hari Puttar





The other folks are ... Cow ( George ) Pills Junior ( Major Saab ) .. and the visiting professors, Santhu , Sachin T, Manu .. I.N.S Ramesh etc .. I will be back with their stories soon ..