A Shy Guy from Comps...

I have known this guy since the last 10 years. Almost a decade. Both of us went to the same school, same junior college, same engineering college and believe it or not – same work place as well. I must say Tarun has been lucky all these years to enjoy my company. As they say… All Goods things come to an End… and it did one fine day when I left my work place.

Well… this post is not about me… It’s about the B'day Boy Tarun… Tarun Amembal.. Lovingly (Pyaar se…) we also call him Ambe (derived from his surname), Mango (English translation of Ambe), Mangolal (another Hinglish term fro his surname), Lambu (thanks to his height), Comps (from the Mand Computer Branch) and many more…

Tarun has been THE most famous guy in the college campus. There is hardly any student in the college who does not know him. Atleast, he was THE most famous guy amongst the girls. According to the Animal Kingdom statistics there were (wait lemme count) 4 gals who were mad about Tarun. I don't want to begin a new controversy by namimg the gals. Hmm… For the guy who did not have to try too Hard...

He was also the first guy in the college who stripped on the stage in a fashion show event. Hold on gals… he just stripped down to his waist. I wish I had that snap so that I could put it up here. Tarun has been my room partner during our 4 years of engineering college days in Dombivli. I along with Bawa have been witnesses to his funny antics. One of them happened late in the night when we had newly shifted to our room.

That night, we were in deep slumber, when suddenly Tarun started blabbering something. Bawa asked him what was troubling him so late in the night? Tarun replied, “Shampoo Upar ke shelf mein hai…” We both were confused. Asking him the same question again gave us the same reply. So, we asked him, “Shampoo kyon chahiye?” And the reply we got was, “Fir bhi re…” This marked the end of the mid night conversation and Tarun went off to sleep as if nothing had happened.

Exams or no exams - it made no difference to Tarun. He was always found dozing. And when he was awake he was always found eating. So, you can say that eating and sleeping were his favourite hobbies. Another of his famous incident happened during our exams. Myself and Bawa (I am not sure about him but I surely was) were studying hard as usual. And Tarun was dozing off as usual with a book dangling pre cautiously from his hands. This was nothing new to us. Whenever he sat down with a book, this was bound to happen. Either the book would fall down or his head would bang against some object. And then Tarun would glance at both me and Bawa. If he found neither of us watching him, he would continue to doze off but if one of us had been a spectator to his stunt, then he would simply take off his spectacles and go to sleep after telling us, “Bahut neend aa rahi hai yaar… 15 mins mein jaga de…” But we knew that waking him up would be a futile attempt.

If I go in detail describing his sleeping incidents, a minimum of 3 posts can be dedicated to this guy alone. But I can’t resist describing one more incident. Tarun will kill me for this. But here it goes. Once Tarun and his dad had gone to check out a room for our stay in Dombivli. The room was devoid of any furniture except for Tarun’s favourite furniture – The BED. His dad asked Tarun to stay in the room while he went down and purchased something. When his dad returned, he found that Tarun had locked the door from inside. Even repeated ringing of the bell failed to open the door. Finally, the neighbours came to the scene on hearing the commotion. Upon knowing the story they asked his dad to peep into the flat through their balcony. Thankfully the flats in that building were built in such a way that the 2 flats had adjacent balconies very close to each other. When his dad peeped inside, he found Tarun lost in his dream land and snoring his way to glory. Little did his dad know that even a wait of 5 minutes acts as chloroform and puts Tarun to deep sleep.

Well, to be frank no matter how much Tarun slept, he always managed to clear his exams with flying colours. This only indicates 2 possibilities. Either Tarun was very smart or the portion of Computer Engineering was very simple. Since the former seems unlikely, I guess Computer Engineering is very easy. Hahahaha ;-D.

Right now Tarun is in San Diego and maybe missing the Animal Kingdom. But I know what he misses the most. Pani Puri….. So, here I present to you...

The EATER...
The DOZER...
The POSER...

And Tarun... he cant escape hungry animals waiting for him... We all are waiting for him to return so that we can celebrate his Birthday in style... 24th Feb... the day Tarun was born. So guys, after we come back from the Goa Carnival, we have one more party waiting for us and this time all the expenses will be borne by Mr. Tarun Amembal (Comps guy- adopted by Telecomm). HOLLA to this one...