16th August 2006

Writing here after almost 3 years, in my next attempt for IIT I’ve finally made it to ‘OUR’ dream IITs and now I am one of the IIT Delhite. The first two years passed away without any surprises. Pehla saal tumhari yaado mei hi beeta… aisa koi din nahi nikla jab tumhari yaad na aayi ho :( . Here in IIT I made some wonderful friends Binnu, Montu, Baccha were a few of them. In IIT only these three people knows about the Neha things and were very supportive to me about all that had happened. These people helped me in my studies and cheered me up whenever I felt sad.

Here in IIT like almost 99% of the guys I too tried to log into chat rooms. The purpose for me was different as others logged in to try for a girlfriend but I logged in to find a friend without caring whether it’s him or her. I just need an unknown person who can listen to me and with whom I can share all my sorrows and felt relax. It really helps to share things and best part of sharing with unknown is that it won’t come back to you in any way. I knew I was looking for an impossible existence but deep inside I had hope that there must exist someone like that. But I was wrong, as if you say “HI” to someone immediate reply came as “Hi, ASL please…” (ASL – Age Sex Living). And when I replied back I didn’t even get a good bye, just ignored by them. People out there were just selfish and I think 95% of those in chat rooms were probably some Guy with the hopes to find a girl or I would say a prospective girlfriend (that’s what they thought of). Worse was the case on social networking sites like Orkut or Facebook. I was just fad up of these things and didn’t even log in for few days at stretch as where wasn’t anyone whom I can talk online.

Life changed after a couple of week ago when I’ve started receiving some funny mails from a group. It was actually one of mine idiot friends who got me registered to that group. After receiving the mails for a few days from the group I had also contributed in form of a couple of funny mails that I got from my friends. Within next 2-3 days of dropping those mails I’ve received a lot of friend requests similar to.

. hiiiiiiiiiiiii
. I am XYZ
. I wanna know abt. u.
. actually i wanna friendship with u.
. if u are intrested then replyyyyyy..
. byeeeee

And in return I replied the mail

. Hi XYZ,
. Always interested in friendship
. Myself Pranjal form Indore, studying at IIT Delhi.
. What else you want to know.
. Tell me sumthing about you too :)
. Pranjal

And so on the mail continues, 70-80 % of people didn’t reply after first set of mails. And after 3 rounds of mails there was only one person who was still replying… SIA