The Big B

I have a brother. Lets call him Bharath. Why ? That's his name, that's why you dumb idiot. Ok sorry sorry, I forget you are doing me a big favor by actually reading my posts.

So this Bharath is about 4-years younger to me. Engineering student, 3rd semester. Someone who greedily ate up jackfruit and mangoes as a child, he's a chubby plumpy brat. To me, he was a pest when he was a little boy, you could often find him jumping on me, or destroying high-tech toys that my dad gifted him, instead of a more deserving me.

He moved onto a residential school, sometime around his 6th standard, and our letter correspondence started. I share my longest letter correspondence with him, we wrote to each other almost for 5 years. I still have all his letters, and I loved his style of writing. We probably became better friends through our writing, and our friendship grew.

He came down to Bangalore for his college studies, and we started meeting more often. It was only then I realized that he was wonderful company. There was nothing we did not talk about - Cricket, Tennis, F1, Politics, Actresses, Models, Movies, Songs, Games, anything anything and anything. Talk of trade deficits of third world countries and he would have an opinion on that too. Very very aware he was, of what was happening around.

Don't you dare think our conversations were limited to such superficial aspects. Come midnight, and our real talk starts. Philosophy, figuring out what life is, family problems, everything was talked about. He's the kinda person with whom you'll want to open out and reveal everything, because he exactly understands what you are trying to say.

He's a monster when it comes to Internet Usage. The BSNL guys better read this part, he's the source of all your huge losses last year. 2.5GB is the download limit each month. He downloads hardly 2 GB worth data. But come happy hours (when Internet is literally free, 2am to 8am) he downloads whole movies, all amounting to about 15-20GB (sometimes even more) each month. Thats 15-20GB, can you imagine that ? And he's hoping his dad's gonna get him an Unlimited Internet Plan. If that happens, its better you quit BSNL and move onto AirTel or Sify, as I have a hunch that BSNL is shutting down pretty soon.

He has a big role in giving me one of the best birthday gift - the Calvin collection. Both of us love Calvin, I have slowly allured him to like F.R.I.E.N.D.S and he's begun to like it too. We agree on so many issues, but differ on a lot more (like Akshay Kumar movies for example, he loves them).

Probably that's what makes our relationship special, we laugh together, argue over stuff, enjoy together, fight with each other, and make it a point to put each other into big-time trouble, and are also the ones who rescue each other when one of us is in big-time trouble. He's turning out into a wonderful friend, and I look forward to a wonderful experience with this guy. He's got a cool dress sense, really brilliant, very tech-savvy, great sense of humor and 'single' (that's the most exciting part, ain't it ?)