My so-called independent life

I had opened my blogger dashboard to update my other blog when my eyes fell on:

CONFESSIONS OF A NOT-SO-DANGERO... MIND

43 Posts, last published on Jul 4, 2007
I guess its high time I updated this blog. Exactly 10 days from July 4th I had left Mumbai for Pune to join the software company i got recruited into during my college placements. First time away from home, I was kinda apprehensive but at the same time very excited to live the "independent life". Let me tell you how my life has changed since then.

1. First of all I am earning, not high enough to buy myself a car but high enough to survive on my own, buy stuff using the debt card, buy expensive gifts and treat friends in classy restaurants. well...you can never flaunt your parent's money the way you can flaunt your own "hard-earned" cash.
2. I get to reach office 1 hour late and still not worry about the defaulter's list.
3. I get to sit for meetings in swanky meeting rooms and act as if I am trying to "make this world a better place to live in".
4. I am calling people 20-30 years elder to me by their first names. This is not that big a problem but calling a 50 year old guy- 'Gajanan' (thats my senior project manager) tends to get a bit awkward.
5. I eat bread for breakfast, cow-dung for lunch in office, and dal (read water) with chapati and rice for dinner. Maggi has become my survival kit and tastes better than anything else here.
6. I stay up till 2 in the night to wash my clothes. During day time I rejoice when my program runs successfully and at night I rejoice when I manage to remove the stains off my clothes.
7. Life without TV suddenly doesnt seem impossible.
8. I can now differentiate between a good branded cigarrette and a local one just by the smell. No please, I dont smoke. Its just that 8 out of 10 people in pune smoke . I get into the lift after lunch and I have no choice but to bear the stench of smoke till it reaches the 7th floor. I didnt know so many people in this world wanted to kill themselves.
9. I get to come home smelling like beer. Oh no again, I dont drink. Once in our office party some drunk idiots ended up spraying beer all over the dance floor. May be next time my company should think twice before giving out beer bottles for free on parties.
10. I have not seen a single crow in pune. A place in India without crows!! Not that it has anything to do with my life but still....weird I tell you.

Well... If you dont have a boyfriend, dont drink or smoke, dont take drugs, hate shopping, hate partying till late night, then this so-called Independent life isnt gonna be any different than the normal one.