Wednesday, June 25, 2008

June's sleeping beauty.


What's the best place for sleeping? Specially, after sleeping for 10 hours on the previous day?

I have some peculiar juniors who somehow are very fond of me. Maybe I'm also very peculiar myself. But, I won't argue with them who says I look peculiar because of so many peculiarities around me. ;-)

Anyway, back to the story... I have a junior whom I have named Rishi. One of my friends took it a step further and named him, Riko (short for Rishi Koel). The word Rishi refers to the spiritual leaders engaged in deep meditation in the caves of Himalyas. But this guy is not any better in spirit than me. The reason behind getting this name is he deliberatly tries not to talk. I mean, he doesn't talk with anybody unless it is extreme emergency situation. And he even tries to avoid this also. If you ask him about this, he'll say that he doesn't like to talk. But we know (after knowing him long enough) that he likes to talk very much. But deliberately avoids it, just to make him look different and peculiar. It's very puzzling but true that he likes to be peculiar.

He acts in such a way that anyone will notice his peculiarity within 5 minutes of meeting him for the first time in life. Anyway, we enjoy this very much. And make sure that anyone meeting him never misses to notice this. I have seen many people ask him why he doesn't talk. He gives his old answer that he doesn't like to talk. But some lunatics just never stop asking. Then he gives his excuse that if he talks, he gets very hungry. Not everyone is satisfied with the answer but they, doesn't seem to have any interest in embarrass him more. Believe me or not, I also believed in this Crap!!!

What the problem is, we don't mind his being peculiar. What bothers us is that he deliberately tries to be peculiar. But what he can't realize that, he is a peculiar himself. He has some behaviors which are very peculiar. For example, just give him a place to sit & leave him alone for 10 minutes there. You'll find him asleep. He can't help it. No matter whatever the time or place, he can't help but sleep. If you are looking for him and can't find him, he is probably sleeping.


Some days ago, I was very annoyed with him and told him to leave me alone and go away. It was about 2pm and do you know what he did? He just went home. But, not in a usual way. When the bus reached Nikunja (he lives there) he probably figured out that home is not away enough. So he went to Tongi (almost 20 kilometer away) and then after reaching there, he figured out by away I just ment Out of Sight so he came back. On the way back, he felt very tiered and again went home. (I had to merge the story in whole from many of the other students who lives at Nikunja, Uttara and Tongi and from him.) He reached home at 7pm, according to his roommets and went straight to bed & within 5 minutes he was asleep. He over-slept that night and missed his class on 10am.

I had class till 2 and after that I had chance to meet my buddies. And one of his roommates asked me what I did to him the previous day. I told you he was very fond of me & everyone knows this. I also told you, if you're looking for him and can't find him then he's probably asleep. But the other probability is; he is with me. And if he does anything, people ask me first. Anyway, when his roommate asked me this, he was there. Then we started to gather the whole story, fragment by fragment from different people and him also (usually he doesn't lie). At last we recovered the whole story and calculated that he had slept more than 12 hours. Do you know what he was doing during the calculation? He was sleeping.

One of his roommates took my cell phone to take his picture. After some clicks, we resumed the calculation. Where he was sleeping, was a table left by some person who sells food by the side of a road. I wander why he needs to make himself peculiar deliberately!!!

Why my friend called him Rico? Well the Rishi part is for the same reason why I call him Rishi. The Koel portion needs a little explanation. Koel is a bird weighting 300-350 grams. And can lay 250-300 eggs. Those are one fourth of a chicken egg. Have some nice decorative black spots. My friend found its shape similar to his face.