25.Aug.2005
Dear diary,
Today is special for me. Today is my first day in a college. I am afraid, as I am coming from that small village in Tamil Nadu to this big city of Bangalore. Appa has worked a lot for me to get here.
26.Aug.2005
Dear diary,
I got new friends. Very good friends. Many are from outside India. Though they are very rich they love me very much.
5.sep.2005
Dear diary,
I do not have much clothes like my friends do. Most of them are old. I am feeling ashamed wearing those generation-to-generation shirts.
7.sep.2005
Dear diary,
I am so glad. I saw a girl version of mine. She is also from a village, maybe, just like mine. Poor girl, she’s pretty but do not have any good clothes like her friends.
21.sep.2005
Dear diary,
Today is my birthday. My dearest friends gifted me two t-shirts and a pant, a funny pant that has got six pockets. They call it ‘cargos’. I cried in silence. I love them. Well, one of the t-shirts they gifted me had a writing like this – ‘Why drink and drive when you can smoke and fly’. I didn’t understand what it meant, but I simply laughed.
25.dec.2005
Dear diary,
Today is x’mas. I got some money from my father. All of my friends went for shopping. They took me too & I bought a t-shirt that had writings. This time I understood what it said. Today I had a beer and I vomited. It tasted very bad.
3.Jan.2006
Dear diary,
I got the results of my first semester, passed in all. I saw the girl today, she was very happy perhaps she too must have passed in all. Hey, I noticed an earring in her ears, which were as big as bangles. I think it’s the new fashion.
22.Oct.2006
Hey diary!
Today my friends and I went to the hairdressers. Well, I had to call up my dad to get some money for bleaching my hair. I said its for the text books, well that wouldn’t be too much of a lie, as my friends said hair is also important.
30.Oct.2006
Hey diary!
Check out my new hairstyle – spikes! Cool! We went to the movies today and had a pizza from pizza corner. Hey! I saw the girl again. Wow! First time I am seeing her in top and jeans. She had a writing in her tee’s too – ‘GALZ RULZ’. Cool!
14.Feb.2007
Hey diary!
Today was the Valentines Day. The canteen was full, but we got a table after a fight. Well, I saw her again. My god! She changed like hell!! Sleeveless tops, jeans (knee’s torn), tummy’s revealed, a navel ring! Phew! The body language, the dialect…nobody would ever believe it’s the same girl…Well, I said to my buddies, “Look at that girl, dude, I’ve been watching her from the day one. She was a kinda normal village girl. Look at her now! Oh, these girls change too fast”.
Every one stared at me, eyebrows raised – I wonder why??
