Treat Club

This is not my writing. But its a part of who I am. Its a tribute to the time I spent in IIT, the best time of my life, so far.

The Brothers Kara-mazov (ByVarun Sud)

While I have your undivided attention let me make the most of it and maro a ganda you might otherwise have refused to be tortured with : Why can’t anyone find rooms B-23 to B-34 in Karakoram House IIT Delhi?.... Well, uhm uhm, because it’s the unreal wing!

Pick a random hour on a random day in a random semester. Mer, GrimReaper, Shakti, Pongi, DilbaghSingh, Maddu, PappiSingh, Vivid and TreatClubber are in intellectual discourse. A finished packet of Hungarian chocolate lies discarded in a corner. The topic of debate on 9 days out of 10 would have been the female homo sapien, but a certain Reading Comprehension in CAT 2003 has changed all that, and girls now come in a close second to Cultural Capital (or CC as it is colloquially known). Just then the phone rings in B-26 and a female voice (with which the above characters are by now only too well acquainted) asks: ‘Can I speak to Rohit Arora?’

And then before the topic of discussion can go back to how red (of low CC content) or green(of acceptable CC levels) a certain random someone is, Adidas makes the characteristic loud entry. And as always he has news. Mer has been spotted with two different female soldiers in Nescafe in the last 24 hours and what follows is a lengthy Spanish inquisition.

Just as the inquisition seems to have dragged on for too long without any logical conclusion, news arrives that X has just got a job. But Pongi crushes all cheer and hopes of demanding a party by recalling the rules of Treat Club, to which we swear allegiance.
The 1st RULE of Treat Club : You do not ask for a treat.
The 2nd RULE of Treat Club : You DO NOT ask for a treat.
The 3rd RULE of Treat Club: If someone says "no booze" or goes broke, taps out the treat is over.
The 4th RULE of Treat Club: Only two guys to an extra large pepperoni pizza and pitcher of beer.
The 5th RULE of Treat Club: One treat at a time.
The 6th RULE of Treat Club: No Vegeterian, no Chinese.
The 7th RULE of Treat Club: Treats will go on as long as Mer has not had his fill of cheesecake.
The 8th RULE of Treat Club: If this is your first night at TREAT CLUB, you HAVE to treat.

The mood is suddenly mellow as we realize rule 1 and 2 cannot be violated. But GrimReaper saves the moment by pointing out that Adidas should be currently attending the Ghazal Nite and not lurking around in this boring map, and everyone joins in the nuking as the normal mood of cheer and excitement returns.

It’s now close to 2 in the morning but that does not deter PappiSingh from being spotted in his towel, just out from his fifth bath of the day. (Now you know whom to curse the next time you are forced to use an unflushed toilet). Nor does this unearthly hour stop two friendly neighbourhood attachees, from Nil and Kumaon, respectively, from dropping in to check out a certain Vivid video creating waves on the LAN.

And GrimReaper has a party to attend at the Elite modeling school the next morning and Maddu has class as 8. And Shakti is apparently going to have a hangover tomorrow for he has been eloquently quoting Wordsworth for the past 20 minutes. And its now four in the morning and everyone clearly needs to sleep, but kya karen, UT pay jaana hai!!