The Premise

Hey folks... I would have loved to introduce myself in a photograph standing on a mountain with bulging biceps and sporting a sunglass, with the sun behind me. But then the sun has its own glory, the sunglasses have their own charisma and the biceps... in any case they won't prevent my photograph from being used to scare adults. So as they say, short and sweet; "I am Bobby".

It’s been quite a while I have been in US and I find that I am still not adjusted to the lifestyle over here. I get up every morning, take a bath (I swear) and try to look my best in the hope that at least some beautiful girl will smile at me. Dreams; they are so nice to think about. Anyways dreams apart let’s get down to business. Before I embarked on my journey to US I had already made my necessary arrangement for accommodation.

When I boarded the plane I knew that life is going to be fun, I am going to meet new people oww!!! oww!!! not exactly new people, new assortment of people. And boy I was not disappointed, to start with... my roommate, lets call him Mike* (not his real name, Mikes please don’t take it personally). I really don’t know how to explain him hmmm… dumb… to some extent. I remember him calling up a guy and asking whether $18/100 CDs are cheaper or $15/100 CDs are cheaper. The other guy gave him a respectable answer, salute to the other guy.
S-A-L-U-T-E

Before I start with people, let me describe to you my accommodation. It is quite large apartment with a huge hall, a huge bedroom, a small bathroom, a kitchen and a balcony. Spacious indeed that’s what I thought till Mike mentioned that another 3 guys are staying over here, which makes us 5. Before we move on to another topic I really need to explain to you the condition of the room. There was a huge pile in the corner consisting of some toys, some suitcases and some members of the Orthopteran family. In case you are wondering what is that, I am referring to cockroaches. I like that, referring to object bombastically.
Anyways it was like ---here a roach, ---there a roach ---everywhere roach roach.
I tiptoed around the house since I didn’t want to step on any roach and incur the wrath of the Roach council.

I went to the bathroom… well it seemed like the bathroom outside a busy bar. Thankfully since the flush was working, it was not stinking.
God save the flush… (everybody in chorus) God save the flush… God save the flush.

The bedroom looked fine to me except that I couldn’t see the floor. C’mon people what would you expect when you have 5 people living in an apartment and sleeping in one room. Anyways I didn’t have much of options so I decided to stay till some agrees to take me in. Oh no no no I am not that difficult person to stay with, its just that I have a bit of systematic approach to things. Ok and let me make this clear I am systematic, but not in a psychotic way. Sorry doctors… (Psst: these docs get very excited when you tell them that you are a psycho, especially the neurotic ones). Neurotic that’s rhymes so well with Erotic eh!!

I had a bath bought some food from the store nearby, warmed it in a microwave with a gallant history of its own (I learned about it later, man I still hate the day I warmed it in the microwave and the dumb Mike didn’t tell me about it). He is soooo soooo dumb. After my so called dinner I retired to bed. That was the first day first show.