Guest Post - 1

This is by the guy who insists on not keeping his elbows on the table.Plain lies he has written.People are hell bent on making me unpopular.

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Its a pleasure to snitch about someone in their own blog. I am happy IL CATTIVo aka Jupitor Jones(more about this later)has given me this opportunity(without realizing the consequences). There is a definite advantage in writing about your buddy from your school days.. you can narrate the 'Then, Now and Inbetween' stories.

Then:
A long time ago, IL CATTIVO joined Little Flower High school(Chhota Phool-badaa school). Frankly, he didnt make much of an impression with his Sandy Cheeks smile and teeth(from Spongebob Squarepants cartoon). Ofcourse, there was something we had in common .. both of us used to read Nancy Drew. I gave up. Not sure about IL CATTIVO. We also read famous 5,hardy boys and any other book that we could lay our hands on.In those days of mystery and intrigue, we, meaning IL CATTIVO, came up with a secret code language. Numbers and symbols to represent alphabets. We felt pretty cool about it too. And our signing names were Tom Cruise(TC) and Jupitor Jones(JJ). Ofcourse, We both knew IL CATTIVO couldnt carry something like Tom Cruiseso he ended up becoming Jupitor Jones.

Later in life, around seventh grade or so, a teacher came in and said that the seventh grade scores are what will decide our careers. Apparently, wherever we went people would look at our seventh grade marks and then give us jobs. we were supposed to get good scores or be at the bottom of the food chain for ever. I am still looking in the classifieds for such a requirement.Anyway, turns out the blog owner was good at acedemics and I .. well I wanted to be good at it. So, IL CATTIVO and yours truly went into super preparation mode. We came early to school to give each other question papers which we prepared. Lunch hour's too went to these exams. Of course, the enthusiasm fizzled out slowly and we went back to playing football with a cricket ball in the basketball court(really, its true). I somehow remember Shash being the goal keeper most of the time. End of the year, turns out IL CATTIVO was once again among the top rankers. I chose to reveal my brillance at a later stage in life. I plan to keep blogging till that stage comes.

IL CATTIVO wasnt happy that he wasnt getting any respect in Hyderabad and so he went off to Madras. I didnt have any such problem. It didnt bother me. In the next four years whenever IL CATTIVO called up and wanted to meet, it was in Persis(This place serves one of the best biryani's in town).Around my engineering final year, I went to Madras with my dad for my US visa appointment. IL CATTIVo booked the hotel and was ready to pick us up in the station. I was pretty impressed in the way he spoke in tamil to the auto driver too.So he did learn something in these four years in Madras. Of course I didnt get to go around a lot since I was too concerned with an other small matter..I didnt have an appointment at the counsulate. Thats too long a story for this blog. Bottom line, I managed to get in and get the visa. Didnt stay too long after that in Madras but I think we did eat biryani.

Now:
Last year, I met IL CATTIVO, 20 pounds heavier but the same Sandy Cheeks looks. He still boasts about imaginary girls he knows(all two of them!) and wonders what I do with my hands under the table. Things didnt change much. Jupitor Jones - you need to get a girl.

Inbetween:
Nothing much to say. IL CATTIVO spent time in between then and now thinking how much of stamp collection,empty cigarette box collection and salsa classes he would have made if he didnt meet me.

-Revanth Reddy

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Henceforth this guy will post regularly on this blog. And more people will be jumping in to share this space with me.Peace, love and empathy.