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This one is about Sisyphus Raja. As you can make out, the first thing people notice about him is his name. Peculiar. Ain’t it? So is it good or bad to have such a peculiar name instead of the ubiquitous karthiks and kumars. This is worth a debate. Lets see the pros and cons. A peculiar name is advantageous when you are getting introduced first time to a girl. You can be pretty sure that any girl who wants to talk something for the sake of talking, is going to ask what kind of a name it is. Since its your name you must be knowing stuff about it and can go on crapping. And I am sure Sisy has used this topic for flirting extensively.
Now the cons of having a less known name. In the classroom while rollcall any teacher can quickly remember the face that goes with this sort of a weird name. So it is difficult for others to give proxy for him. However with progressing semesters, lecturers became more dumb or lazy or both, that we got away with proxy calls even for SISYPHUS.
And about the name, I don’t remember much. Once Sisy was explaining to some lecturer that it was a Greek mythological character or rather a stone that gathers moss while rolling (Weird huh!! Forgive me Sisy I have a very poor memory) or something of that sort.
The first time you talk with him, you will feel WOW this guy knows his things and gadgets and is trendy. (hmm I’m not going to say what you are thinking) He spends a fortune on changing his mobile phone as often as the season changes. He plays a lot of PS2, but the funny thing is that he lost out on a challenge in his favorite game NFS to a rookie. But he drives his Baleno a lot better.
He loves to drink. It seems it all started when he was in his primary school. During the vacations in his native place, his parents used to mix some beer in his milk so that the poor child doesn’t wake up in the middle of the night hearing spooky sounds. Thus he picked up the habit and is now a virtuoso.The puzzling thing about him is that we can’t find when he is sober and when he isn’t. The enigma’s favorite tee says “I’m home. Take me drunk” This sums up Sisy for u.
Has a long list of girl friends. Was very close with one in first semester but then broke up. Anyone in our group who mentions that sported a black eye for a week. Then in third year he fell bigtime for Divya. During our combined studies, he used to slip away to dreamland imagining some raunchy tamil numbers casting himself and her. Now has got a lot of close friends in Coimbatore.
He is going to become the next GM of his dad’s company as soon as clears his papers and gets through college. And he has promised me that he will give some inside info for me about his company’s share in the Madras stock exchange, but he still doesn’t what its face value or current valuation.
He had vowed to finish off every lecturer who was mean to him. Anytime he gets scolded, the next line he says is “enna! thookidilama?”, but still I havn’t seen him make one flying. The funniest incident between us happened during an Antennas assessment test. Sisy and I had not prepared for the test for obvious reasons. We depended on Gowri to show us the answer sheets. Gowri finished his first sheet and passed it to me. I scribbled it and sent my sheet to Sisy. As happens in the game ‘Passing the secret’, the content got degraded after every hop. Then when I returned Gowri’s paper, one more guy in our middle wanted to see. So Gowri kept his answer sheet inclined. Gowri was absorbed in the questions that he didn’t notice our antenna teacher seeing him. So he got caught in the act (no pun intended). We thought he would plead and ask sorry. But dude he surprised us and even the staff. He started arguing how he could be treated like this when he had studied all night. Finding it illogical, he was given an instant zero. Sisy and I came out of the hall contented with our performance but feeling sorry for Gowri. But this is the clincher. The sheets were returned with me scoring 2 and Sisy scoring 1 on twenty five.
However Sisy, Gowri and I cleared the subject when the class topper and one electronics nerd were given arrears.