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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Of Fountains and Moonbeans


Moonbeans is your equivalent of the ubiquitous "College Canteen" - the most flamboyant part about it being its location - forming a modest third of the triangle between the Green Library, the fountain hoop and itself .
The coffee haven for people 'studying' (well, some actually do!! ) in meyer/green, or the more unfortunate people breaking their head over some code in sweet hall, it fully lives up to its name.
It's a fine afternoon, and you decide you've had enough of acads, and you just want to grab a cup of coffee, watch life zoom by (or rather, bike past you) ; you invariably end up getting slightly shocked when you perceive the serpentine queue waiting for their own potion/poison. Still, never mind, you wait patiently for tea/coffee, or sometimes samosa (yeah!! they have that too!!) .
The guy behind the counter is a really warm person, and he sometimes asks for your name, tries pronouncing it, usually with a good measure of success, and if the crowd is not too bad, will also say - "Kaise ho" (Apparently, he does know a smattering of several languages! ) .
You smile, conveniently forget politeness, and wait for your coffee.
With the cup of life in hand, you then head to the fountain, the steady drone of water drowning away any directed noise, so the only thing you hear is a steady gush of H2O. Another ideal location to go over that paper which doesn't seem to make sense even though you think you've read it enough.
Things now move speedily towards a happy ending, and that paper is no longer greek and latin.
Peace is restored, and you head back home to search for something else to break your head on.

Looking forward to many more fountains and moonbeans!! :)

5 Comments:

  • @ bhavna

    helooooooooo
    check out "Home" !!!! :-)

    By Blogger nandhini, at 12:58 AM  

  • hey..
    didn't know they had samosas as well.. nice post yaar..

    By Blogger Prasanthi, at 5:59 PM  

  • @ prasanthi

    yeah! they seem to have a smattering of diff cuisines.. never tried anything other than coffee though :)

    By Blogger nandhini, at 8:39 PM  

  • The best part of a "college" canteen is the idle laccha sessions that you can put their for hours. Is their any place on campus like that? Everyone seems so busy and glued to their laptop/papers man!

    By Blogger opamp, at 6:10 PM  

  • well, you shud have stuck around for next qtr too...
    the lachcha sessions have already started :p
    but yeah, I agree college canteen w/o laccha is kinda incomplete ....

    By Blogger nandhini, at 3:52 PM  

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