Tuesday, July 11

2720...

years ago, it was a regular day of my post grad years. i remember sitting there on the sidewalk just opposite anna's canteen, sipping tea with a friend and doing what everybody did during a tea break....look around, gossip, basically stay clued on to wats happening with whom (a small well -knit campus life ensures this as one of its many goodies)
this guy (mind you he is not any regular guy, i mean in my life i am yet to come across a more good looking specimen from the male species) walks up to me and we exchange pleasantries and he chats for a while and leaves.. a yet another daily drill/an obligation, each memeber is supposed to perform towards one another. once he leaves my friend (this is actually a teacher of mine from the college where i did my graduation from and is now here pursuing her phd), cannot hide her excitement of having met this hunk and is pleased beyond doubt and expresses the same in no subtle ways.
so that was the time when 2720-as we (i mean the whole campus female flock) used to call him (no point racing your minds in decoding this. i tell you you won't succeed!) was perfection personified to all of us..
i mean the guy was a concept-good looks combined with absolute charm, great soft skills and loads of atitude and the optimum level of financial backing made the whole package -well extremely enchanting and hence truly tempting (trust me, as i speak for the whole class of 2002)

alas! but all good things come to an end, do they have to? why???? aaghhhhhhh!!!!
next year, i had an opportunity to get to know him better, and the magic slowly faded away in thin air. in reality,2720 was not this don juan- super human, fantasy hero ....well he was very much human- carved out in flesh and blood with a more than an average levels of vanity and arrogance.
in hindsight, i feel if someone is as good looking as he was, it is actually a curse, in the sense that, such people are more prone to be skewed up towards the abnormal (ie. because they are not average) and are rather the misfittted ones... like all the geniuses history has produced. probably we dont realize this but it is such a blessing to be just one in the crowd and not to be very striking

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

hmmmm... really?
i still think i could handle it very well, if i was graced with all that :-)

interesting though....yes, i know what you mean, you cant judge a book by it's cover, sometimes the package can be quite disappointing. still, people do pick it up... hahaha

Anonymous said...

And 2720? something ot do with his age?
the license plate of the vehicle he used to drive... his roll number...

zzz-writer said...

hey tarini you know, there were days i would hope that the moment this guy opens his mouth he would prove this dictum to be true:

since light travels faster than sound...some people appear bright till you hear them speak!!!!

he he he...alas! no he was good package actually, but just the theme was rotten... but i have nice (visual)memories atleast :d

zzz-writer said...

hmm.. anonymous, well you can't get this out of me....this is the fraternity of the class of 2002...
btw, nice try...:)

Anonymous said...

oh my god i you still remember this number!!!!

zzz-writer said...

its the focus on all the hocus pocus!!