Room-mate
Looking for room mates involves a very complicated course of action.
I mean, if you’re lucky you might have a room all to yourself …..that would be really awesome…..but if not, then u need to share your room with someone……someone who you’ve never met in person…someone who’s living habits you aren’t aware of…someone who u couldn’t trust your life with. That, I guess could pose to be a slight problem. Fortunately, I think I've found classy guys to share my apartment with. Hey Amit and Ritesh, thanks a lot for having me as one of your roomies…. and please don’t worry about the comments that a few people could post on this blog….I’m a nice kid…you guys have nothing to fear.
Ramesh I hope you have no hard feelings…..literally.
I had asked Amol how I ought to go about looking for a room-mate. Asking Amol for help is the most efficient way of treating a predicament….at least it holds true for me, coz we have similar interests and the fact that he arrived in this country a year earlier, meant that he’s faced the problems that I face today.
So Amol guides me through the whole thing…..the first thing he insists is to find seniors who’re looking for roomies. This helps coz they’ve been staying in that apartment for quite some time and have by now furnished it to the brim. So basically you walk into a fully furnished apartment.
The second objective is to find gullible roomies….who take all the crap you throw at them.
The third thing is to find a variety of roomies….the studious ones will remind u that you’re here to study…the carefree ones will remind u that u can afford to fool around and yet hold on to your grades.
The fourth objective is to find an apartment which is within close proximity to the university and at the same time well within your economic constraints.
The fifth and indispensable aspect of finding an apartment is to have breathtaking neighbors.
But these are Amol’s views which aren’t applicable to me. The innocent warm hearted person that I am, I only look forward to satisfy objective 4….everything else is an exploitation of trust and does not appeal to my virtuousness.
So what’s next on the agenda?
I need to find Deepti a room mate. Why do I need to find her a roommate u ask…..well…..let me put it this way….. She’s my favorite person in the world and helping her would be the noble thing to do……that and the fact that I’ll get to crash at her place every time it’s her cooking turn…..plus if I can manage to charm her roomies I’ll get to crash at her place every time it’s their cooking turn….bottom line…no more cooking for me…. ever.
So how does one go about looking for roomies for a friend…well….u start with what the roomies have to offer. If all of them have expertise in cooking the same kinda food we will have to eliminate some of them. The idea is to incorporate a team of chefs who have proficiency in diverse cuisines.
I’ve started interviewing potential candidates as roomies for Deepti and hopefully by the end of this week we’ll have a winner. The feedback that I’ve received for this position has been mind-blowing. I’m in the process of working out a deal with NBC and if everything goes according to plan, I’ll have my very own reality show aired on prime time television sometime early next summer. I plan to call it "The Room-mate".
I mean, if you’re lucky you might have a room all to yourself …..that would be really awesome…..but if not, then u need to share your room with someone……someone who you’ve never met in person…someone who’s living habits you aren’t aware of…someone who u couldn’t trust your life with. That, I guess could pose to be a slight problem. Fortunately, I think I've found classy guys to share my apartment with. Hey Amit and Ritesh, thanks a lot for having me as one of your roomies…. and please don’t worry about the comments that a few people could post on this blog….I’m a nice kid…you guys have nothing to fear.
Ramesh I hope you have no hard feelings…..literally.
I had asked Amol how I ought to go about looking for a room-mate. Asking Amol for help is the most efficient way of treating a predicament….at least it holds true for me, coz we have similar interests and the fact that he arrived in this country a year earlier, meant that he’s faced the problems that I face today.
So Amol guides me through the whole thing…..the first thing he insists is to find seniors who’re looking for roomies. This helps coz they’ve been staying in that apartment for quite some time and have by now furnished it to the brim. So basically you walk into a fully furnished apartment.
The second objective is to find gullible roomies….who take all the crap you throw at them.
The third thing is to find a variety of roomies….the studious ones will remind u that you’re here to study…the carefree ones will remind u that u can afford to fool around and yet hold on to your grades.
The fourth objective is to find an apartment which is within close proximity to the university and at the same time well within your economic constraints.
The fifth and indispensable aspect of finding an apartment is to have breathtaking neighbors.
But these are Amol’s views which aren’t applicable to me. The innocent warm hearted person that I am, I only look forward to satisfy objective 4….everything else is an exploitation of trust and does not appeal to my virtuousness.
So what’s next on the agenda?
I need to find Deepti a room mate. Why do I need to find her a roommate u ask…..well…..let me put it this way….. She’s my favorite person in the world and helping her would be the noble thing to do……that and the fact that I’ll get to crash at her place every time it’s her cooking turn…..plus if I can manage to charm her roomies I’ll get to crash at her place every time it’s their cooking turn….bottom line…no more cooking for me…. ever.
So how does one go about looking for roomies for a friend…well….u start with what the roomies have to offer. If all of them have expertise in cooking the same kinda food we will have to eliminate some of them. The idea is to incorporate a team of chefs who have proficiency in diverse cuisines.
I’ve started interviewing potential candidates as roomies for Deepti and hopefully by the end of this week we’ll have a winner. The feedback that I’ve received for this position has been mind-blowing. I’m in the process of working out a deal with NBC and if everything goes according to plan, I’ll have my very own reality show aired on prime time television sometime early next summer. I plan to call it "The Room-mate".
posted by Pratap at 5:34 PM
5 Comments:
Hey Pratap,
This is a classy blog and v appropriate!! Hope you n Chunnu find good 'room-mates'.
-Anuya
Aditya...thanks a lot....with friends like u, y would i need enemies?
Hmmm..southies...well ramesh is a south indian...and he's one of my closest friends...but all of consider him as a maharashtrian....hehehe....i guess u have ur issues to settle.
And I thought there would be thousands of Chunnu's tokens spread all over the US who will die to be her roomies?
Dear Anonymous,
Yes she has millions of tokens.....and yes she has her network in florida too....but the idea is to get roomies for her who i can approve of....y do u think i have millions of people sending in their resumes to qualify for the post of Room mate??? :)
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