F.O.S.L.A.

It is 3rd year of Engineering. The back-benchers were having a conference during ‘Computer Networks’ class. The topic of discussion is that to increase your chances of getting accepted into a post-graduate degree, you need to have a lot of extra-curricular activities.

Me: “Extra Curricular? Hmm… You mean things outside the academic curriculum? Dude! All our activities are extra curricular. I think if you want to get into a post-grad school, you should pay attention to you curricular ‘activities’ first.”
Abhilash*: “No dude! We need something to write about in our admissions essays. The admissions committee likes stories.”
Puneeth: “Write about the time you hit the buffalo and fell off the bike? That’ll blow the admissions committee away. I mean…You hitting a car or a truck is understandable…but a buffalo?”
Abhilash: “No no… It has to be something like being in the debating team or organizing the college fest or something like that.”
Me: “The closest I’ve gotten to a proper debate is when we argued with the watchman to let us into College after 8:15!”
Abhilash: “Come on dudes, think! If there is no club we can join on campus, we should just create our own club. That’ll sound good on the essay. ‘Founder-president of the college debating team’ – Yeah, lets do that”
Puneeth: “I don’t want to start a debating club. Lets start a different type of club.”
Me: “What kind of club?”

Half an hour of debate later, F.O.S.L.A. was born – Frustrated One Sided Lovers Association. All the 4 of us would share the title of ‘The Founding Fathers”. Puneeth had torn out the middle pages of my universal book and drawn up the ‘Treaty of the Last Bench’ which all of us would ratify to create F.O.S.L.A.

F.O.S.L.A.

We, the people of the sovereign last bench, on this glorious 14th day of the month of May of the 2003rd year since the birth of Christ, declare our Democratic club – The Frustrated One Sided Lovers Association – OPEN!

It is also hereby declared that we, The Founding Fathers, shall continue to extend our deepest support and sympathies to all the member citizens who shall remain to be one-sided lovers and as a result be completely frustrated with their un-enviable and thoroughly miserable existence. Our glorious Association shall, as long as it exists, celebrate the frustration of being a one sided lover.

May all the frustru people Unite under this Glorious Banner. May the will of the Lord be with us.

Hereforewithunderneeth signed.

PS: Rakhi Sawant Rocks!