Blue Seas

What's worse than an alcoholic room mate? A sober room mate undergoing withdrawal symptoms from alcohol. True story.

We sat there on the steps by the waterfront. The night breeze from the river whipped our faces. We flicked the hair from our faces and pulled the beer cans closer to our knees. In the distance, through the dark I could make out the wonderfully painted windows of the MICA building. 'Peculiar city this is', I thought to myself, remembering the statues of the six cartoon animals in the field next to the MICA building. I saw them everyday on the way to the university. They looked like six giant cream puffs and were called the 'Sorority Lion' or something like that. S looked across the river from where we were sitting at the restaurant on the opposite bank. Hooters. They were playing some kind of catchy music. She sighed and muttered, 'I hate this damn country. They have no bandhs, no strikes. It rains everyday but it never even floods. They freaking don't even have load-shedding.' Somewhere within the dark, silent waters of the river, a small, white fis

Now that you are gone, I have no reason to write.  I'm waiting, and hoping, not for you to come back. No. But for something else to come along. So that once again I have a reason to fall asleep at night while praying. Once again I have a reason to smile suddenly in the middle of a crowded classroom. So that once again I will have a reason to close my eyes as I look out the window. Something else will come along. Till then, I have no reason to write.

Now before I start, you must know that this is only the second year that I've been living alone. I mean before that, I did nothing, literally nothing on my own. I didn't have to lift a finger. And now suddenly I found myself thrown into a world of laundry and midnight library sessions and half-baked microwave lasagne. But clearly, that wasn't enough for me, or my roommate because we decided to do something interesting this fall break. And by interesting I don't mean renting bikes at ECP (though that would've also been cool). We decided to take a short weekend trip to another country. So it was a typical day at home. I was sitting at the desk, working on my laptop (read: trying to download the latest episode of How I Met Your Mother) and Sakshi was sitting on the bed listening to music. Sakshi: You know what? We should go to Bintan in the break. Me: We should totally go to Bintan this break! Wait, let me Google it... Bintan is one of the many islands of Indonesi