A friendship I cherish...

Everyone needs a friend like him but I dont think everyone is fortunate enough to get a friend like him - He is Viks from Indore

I used to wonder why he is such a special friend and all I can say is there are far too many reasons for the same. But the most important is that He is THERE when you need him - for support, for encouragement, to give you sound advice, to back u up when the chips are down, Bottom-line - you can always bank on him.

Sometimes when I ask his opinion - he exactly knows that I am not asking his opinion but just asking him permission to do something which he knows I would anyway do - and he understands my exact intent and smiles and says - "You are right, da - go ahead"

I have never stopped playing pranks and pulling legs at him and had it been any other person, I would be typing this post a lot slower as I would be having only one hand and would have lot more than 208 bon es (i think thats the correct count?) in my body...

I remember the famous "Towel incident" college which is one of the many pranks I played on him...

One day I and K were on the corridor of the hostel bored when Viks came out of his room and was passing us. I and K decided that we were bored and we would give Viks "bumps" - for no rhyme or reason - just to kill time!!

Viks said "Guys, I am going for a bath and just have undergarments and a towel wrapped around my waist - This is not the best time - please". But no - we were not in a mood to listen. Realizing that Viks started running towards the bathroom to escape us and we followed in hot pursuit..

He managed to get into one of the bath areas and locked the door but the problem was that the baths are not fully closed and the walls are only about 9 feet high. There is about opening about a foot wide between the wall and the roof... So K decided to climb the wall and get into the bath through that - when he got on top - he started laughing devilishly at Viks, who was shocked at what K was doing.

He knew he was no longer safe ther - he opened the door real-quick and ran out to the corridor... We managed to catch him by the towel but he still kept running through the corridor with us tugging at the towel...

That is when we saw Praf and his girlfriend come from the other end of the corridor - we saw them and let go of the towel... However the towel had gotten loose with all the tugging - Seeing Praf and his gf, Viks panicked. In an effort to tighten the towel, he tugged at one end and forgot to hold the other end... In a flash, he was holding the towel in his right hand and it was as if he wacing it to somebody without allowing the towel to do its primary duty - protect his Assets. He ended up looking like a Spaniard in a bull-fight and he was waving (the towel) at the bull (ok Praf was a bit on the plump side)...

In an attempt to cover-up for his mistake, Viks brought the towel from right to left and he again forgot one basic thing - HOLD the other end - so it swayed to the other side. Praf's gf was pleasantly shocked at the striptease - she knew our hostel had some notorious guys but she never expected this in the wildest of dreams...

Viks gave up all his attempts to get the towel into base position - he just threw it to the ground and ran to his room - I an K were in splits



Any guy other than Viks would have been infuriarated - but then he has a great sense of humour - he too joined in the fun and we all had a good round of laughter at his room later...

One thing is that he is liked by everyone in the batch as he is a really nice person. But sometimes people try to take advantage of this and take him for granted - though what they dont realize is that as long as Viks is in a good mood - life is fine - but if he gets pissed off - then well God save the person...

But the good natured guy that he is - he never actually shouts at anyone and even if he does, he will bounce back pretty fast. I remember having quite a few disruptive arguments but then we have bounced back pretty quickly...

Viks - forgive for the numerous pranks I have played on you in the past and for the ones I am going to play on you in the future :) One thing is for sure - I cherish your friendship...