· I am too used to vada paav, chai breakfast.
· Feeling of uselessness and unproductiveness is a constant mate in Pune… here you can’t feel that way.
· Clean clothes surprise my nose… make me feel out of place.
· Money is not an issue… you can always ask for it.
· Things are not scattered around… you don’t have to spend hours picking up things, looking under them for stuff… nor are there things under you when u sleep.
· There is actually a time for everything.
· Hygiene doesn’t depend on you any more.
· There’s always clean water.
· You don’t need to go treasure hunting for food.
· People tell you what to do… and how to do…
· Compared to the mess meals, all meals at home seem to be delivered from 5-star restaurants.
· Meals are supposed to be at regular intervals.
· There’s always electricity.
· A.C.!!!
· 10:30 is like past bed time.
· You have to be awake for at least 12 hours a day.
· U can’t play music 24/7.
· Now whenever at home, you are working somewhere or the other.
· Collars are not compulsory.
· Some of the things around you serve no purpose and are actually ‘AESTHETIC’.
· Hugs and pecks are rare.
· Sinks work… Lights switch on!!!
· There are chairs to sit on.
· You need not check your wallet before every meal.
· Alcohol is non-existent.
· Wants can be made to look like needs. In Pune needs also are optional depending on the date of the month.
· There is ample time for everything.
· College= person in front of you, you don’t talk… lost.
Home= Land line + Internet= Always keep in touch… with people you don’t even look at in college.
· Though bored in Pune too, boredom at home is more boring. ‘I am bored’… the most typed chat words.
· You are tagged intern.
· You can only explain to your relatives about 10 times as to career in media ≠ reporter.
· You are over whelmed with your mother tongue.
· Randomness vanishes… Everything is planned.
· World seems dull… colors faded… due to lack of S.I.D.
· Not everyone you are with is of your age.
· There is no one place from where u can get all software, movies and songs… pune you have joji…
· All your needs are already stacked at home.
· Home = no crisis = no panicking = no fun.
· Where are the girls???
· You are bored enough to write such notes.
· Every time you try and sit on a ‘wall’, mom dad call you back saying if you are jobless, be jobless at home.
· You greet friends with “How you been? Where’s your internship? How’s the work?” rather than “wanna drink?”
· Mc Donald’s is not as good as MEGA BITE!!!
· You can’t justify eating junk saying ‘I’m hungry’…
· No fresh ATM notes… all of them come via mom.
· You are provided with ‘In case of emergency money’.
· Your jeans get washed every two days.
· You have no one to bug or talk to at 2 in the morning.
· There is no fantastic 61 bottle collection at home.
· There is liquor at home which lasts for more than two days and which you cannot consume.
· There are no WiFi connections to steal from.
· You can’t bitch much.
· No scooty back rides.
· No 1’0 clock airport food.
· No so many friends to love!!! L
· No Aditi Shah!!! Sob… sob…
· Basically, No LIFE!!!
