Well then, here we are with this month’s supply of rumours meticulously collected from our myriad sources. Of late, the Electronics department seems to be abuzz with romantic liaisons, rumours and what not, which is also evident from the fact that they have grabbed a major chunk of spatial estate in Rumour Mill since the last issue. So we strongly urge other departments to jump into the fray and uphold their dignity and assert their spatial rights over Rumour Mill. And most importantly, for everyone who ever wondered how to measure love, we bring you an answer. Love, as we have been recently told, is measured in inches. Read on to find out how and why.
The ‘King’ of final year electronics has been seen with his lady love, currently in her 2nd year, for quite long; nothing new about it. What is amusing about the couple is the things they talk about. The discussions are invariably related to their future house- from acrylic beaded curtains to polka dotted upholstery and kitchen sets with non stick finish to stainless steel cutlery. The two never go anywhere except to Big Bazaar to shop for sasta and tikaau appliances in the weekly sale. No wonder then, that they are seen outside the campus only on Wednesdays! The poor girl is always seen listening demurely, the guy being an incorrigible motormouth. Do not get us wrong, we hold no grudge against him; the Prince is an admirable fellow. The day the library cards were issued, he bunked his first class to go and hide books for his princess so that she could get them all later. We are quite sure, this unconditional love is the reason the large hearted girl is making allowances for his incessant chatter; anyway everyone knows who is going to be doing all the talking some ten years down the line.
From the same asso, we have another final year-2nd year couple which is even more restricted in its movements than the previous one, scarcely ever moving out of the library area. While our Prince could never get enough of his monologues, this branchmate of his cannot get enough of his iPod and even while with his girlfriend, has the earphones plugged in. We are not casting any aspersions on the true feelings of the boy for the girl- according to sources, he went to her FCP lab several times last year and typed down programs for her. However, we worry about the communication aspect of these relationships. For the benefit of all males, single or committed, we wish to inform them that girls love to talk about themselves; every one of them does. So if you are going to bore them with tech talk or future talk or your-dreams-for-your-career talk, thinking how patient and concerned she is, then you are sadly mistaken; for, in those silences you cannot hear her fiendish brain whirring rapidly, whipping up plans to dump you as soon as possible. Suggested reading for boys of this asso: "Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me", by Ben Karlin.
Team Renesa is pleased to have become the source that scatters sunshine and cheer into young lives. We have discovered a love rectangle in the 3rd year, each vertex in a different department creating a tumultuous vortex of emotions. We begin with the 'CONman' who is experiencing the spring of love in his Autumn Fest. Whether it is his bass guitaring or his money managing skills, something certainly made the dil of the neighbouring department's 'sacred ash' girl from ‘India ka Dil’ go madly dhak dhak for him. As we mentioned last time, they are often seen together after their CAT classes. Enter: highly accomplished sportsperson from mech who is sweet on the above girl. He went around telling everyone that it was he who was being referred to in the rumour in the last issue, and happily got a GPL from his batchmates for the same. Now, mech guy + sports champ = lethal combination by which any girl is bound to be taken in hook, line and sinker. So we have on our fourth vertex this coder-dancer-badminton champ who is secretly besotted with the boy. An interesting scenario is developing here; we are waiting to see how the rectangle develops into an octagon or, better still, a dodecagon.
While you were yawning at the boring show of red lipsticked girls in nightdresses sashaying with pink puffy teddy bears on Fashion Night in Sparsh last year, there was some interesting nuclear bomb chemistry playing up on stage. The Rajasthan Romance brewing up between the 2nd year Dancing Queen, who reminds you of the ‘Little Boy’, and the 'Monday' boy who proudly displays his IIT JEE 2008 AIR in the ‘about me’ section of his orkut profile gathered momentum all the way till this semester when the two gave the phrase ‘going places’ a completely new meaning, by going to Mumbai for a day to get away from their hectic college life! This has set quite a high benchmark for other couples, especially those of the final year, most of whom have not gone beyond Valentine in one direction and the railway station in the other.
Nosing around a bit more, we found that this Rajasthan Romance has a rather complex plot behind it. The above couple is part of a larger gang which, true to its name, loves bunking classes and roaming around. There is another couple in the group, that of the KVPY scholar and the Stud. We call him the Stud because almost the entire bevy of 2nd year females loves him. The two couples are often seen playing mixed doubles with each other. To ‘monitor’ all this in the group is a girl from the civilized world; however insiders claim she had been bitten badly by the green eyed monster when the above couple had got together as she too, like all the other girls, had had the hots for the Stud. To complete the bizarre group is another girl who, though infatuated with Stud, settled for tying him a rakhi in the end.
Next we have the whirlwind romance of the 2nd year 'Counting' Ahmedabad girl who was the only one from her batch to attend the A.I.E.S.E.C. national conference. Sources say she has been irritating anyone who would bother to listen by gushing about it since the day she has come back. The week long conference, which according to her was ‘super duper excellent’, not only provided her with valuable insights into leadership skills and international opportunities, but also gave her her first ‘true love’. There was, however, a prelude to this discovery, in which another guy fell madly in love with her; the girl then had to lie to him about her relationship status to ensure that their relationship stayed purely platonic. Then she herself fell (in her own words) “madly, unconditionally and irrevocably” in love with another guy, got down on her knees and asked him to dance with her, saying, “Izzat ka sawaal hai. Please do not refuse”- to which he politely obliged. Perhaps she cast her spell on him during the dance because they are now committed!
Another 2nd year girl has been bitten by the ‘true love’ bug and was observed screeching unabashedly about it in the corridors of her department. When coaxed to elaborate, she mysteriously said, “Do inch ka pyaar hai”. Maybe we have very dirty minds, but the only meaning we could decipher out of this cryptic message is something too vulgar to be published here!
Finally, Mr. Very-Shy of the 3rd year can be seen grinning goofily these days. And why not? From the Home of Clouds, a bright Ray of Sunshine has filled his life with love and light recently. We congratulate the couple and wish the two utilize their education to build a strong foundation together and live in a lovely castle happily ever after.
That is all for this time. Keep your eyes peeled and ears cleaned for anything RMworthy in the Fest. Have a grand time.
