A Life by Prashanth Krishnaswami

Then and Now,

In General, Happiness, Life, Random thoughts, Uncategorized on May 21, 2008 at 7:29 PM

I was just thinking of a few random things while taking bath today morning and the idea for this post came to my mind. I had a lot of misconceptions while I was in school. All of them have been rectified by the experiences of college life. I just thought I’ll write on a few weird ones here.

Then: Any female with fair complexion is considered hot.

Now: There’s a lot more than that!

 

Then: An invite came from some University of Phoenix in the US of A. I was proud that some American university had invited me to join some course.

Now: Not even the worst of dunces would go there.

 

Then: I was proud that the opening page of MSN said “welcome, Prashanth” I was  like “They recognize me! I must be great”

Now: It’s only because of a stupid cookie!

 

Then: Getting a job in an IT company in India requires one to be of exceptional academic background and possess extra-ordinary skills of negotiation and technical prowess.

Now: Most of that is bullshit! I’m placed and I have none of these!

 

Then: All fellows who go to IITM are absolute geeks and think of nothing but research and academics.

Now: Aaha! Tiffany’s and Cafe Coffee Day! So that’s where most people went! :D

 

Many more to come in this list.

Yours Skeptically,

uleadin

P.S. I’ll update this post when something pops up appropriately. So keep checking back this post if you want to see more of these.

  1. Ahem! Good post!

    U of Phoenix is 60km away from where I am going, so better watch out your words!

    And yup! Thats what I do @ IITM. I had 3 dinners y’day. First dinner with ADI lab peeps, then with the students, and the third one.. well with a friend :D . I slept like an ogre y’day night. Oh.. and not to mention 2 lunches :D

    Please elaborate on

    Then: Any female with fair complexion is considered hot.
    Now: There’s a lot more than that!

    Oh.. and damn! in 1st year, I shook hands and took the card of a TCS guy out of awe! I still maintain that card to today :)

  2. Then: Any female with fair complexion is considered hot.

    Now: There’s a lot more than that!

    Ya, thats what I had been thinking as well… Unfortunately in college, founf many fair complexioned girls, but barely 5 to 10 can be considered HOT. Especially, in our batch only ONE. Waste batch da namba :(

  3. @Arun:

    What are you? a trash can?

    @Praveen:

    Only One = E**A? :D

  4. @ uleadin
    so whom did u think was hot then and now?
    and dude i guess u have’nt been to the dhaba at the IIT thats one hell of a place da….

    @ PSP
    dei u should’nt talk on this topic at all da… u know almost every other girl in our coll.

  5. @uleadin – Ya, who else is hot in our batch? None whatsoever!

    @Srinath – What??? No way! I know barely 10% of the girls, thats all! Naan romba nallavan da, yaen yaarum namba maateengreenga?

  6. @csrinath:

    Gurunath’s Pattiserie

    @Praveen:

    well…er…ah…

  7. @uleadin – Paatheeya, you were not able to name anyone else! Not even your own GF!

  8. Prashanth, you were thinking of fair beauties while in the bath?

    And for heavenssake PSP, she walks like she’s got wooden legs.

  9. @Sundar – You are just being jealous buddy!

  10. Good concept da, looking forward to more of these ‘Then and now’ post.

  11. wat abt maggi @ gurunath pattisierie? :-D

  12. @Teal:

    Yeah! That’s a good eat when you’re slightly broke :D

  13. @ uleadin
    so whom did u think was hot then and now?

  14. Jealous? ROFL, PSP.

    What do you mean slightly broke Prashanth?

  15. @Sundar:

    “Prashanth, you were thinking of fair beauties while in the bath?” I wasn’t thinking of fair beauties, I was thinking of the idea for this post.

    slightly broke is when you don’t have money to spend on lavish restaurants and coffee shops.

    @Praveen:

    I agree with Sundar about the wooden legs part. Why does he have to be jealous? He has a GF who looks way better than yours!

    @csrinath:

    You won’t know those female who I thought were beautiful then. Now I think nobody in MNM is ‘beautiful’. Enough? ;)

  16. I don’t agree da. MNM Girls are pure and beautiful in the mind :)

  17. @Arun:

    Hiss! Hiss!

  18. @ PSP,
    have you forgotten how you used to (and still do) flirt with innocent girls in orkut!?
    Do you want me to remind people here of the ‘testis’ incident! :P

  19. @Narain:

    ‘testis’ Incident? Do remind people here da! I request you to! :D

  20. @ narain
    testis incident? tell me more

  21. @above three comments – You ppl are becoming GIRLS man! Full time gossipping aboyt umours and other stuff that never happened! Shame on you all!

  22. Ah! So many requests!
    So, here we go!

    This happened when we were in our second year. PSP was (and is) the reigning king of orkut and this conversation took place between PSP and a random girl (something which is not new!)

    PSP (in blue coloured font) : Hi
    Random girl : Hi
    PSP (in red) : I’m P.S.Praveen Kumar.
    Random girl : So?
    PSP (in green) : Whats your name?
    RG : How do i believe that is your read name?
    PSP (in yellow) : Well, if you dont believe, have a look at my testis.
    RG : $%#&*@

  23. @Narain:

    ROTFL! LMAO! look at my ‘testis’. is it a 3D hologram authentication for genuineness?! hahaha!
    Macha, I haven’t had a hearty laugh since arun made a post on similar lines as these. something like “men in my what?!”

  24. One of my class guys had a even funnier explanation!
    he was like, “Oru vela avan k*tt*ila pacha kuthirukaano?”
    :D

  25. @Narain:

    Y-U-C-K! I’d rather die than be alive and end up doing that! :D

  26. @ PSP
    man u have guts… u want some random girl to have a look at ur testis…. hats off dude