Letter 13

Hi Cos and Sec,

Cos seems to play hard-to-get these days as well. But Sec, Sud seems to be quite a thing. I mean I understand that HST-ans lead a life buried under statistics but then I did not imagine them to be so fascinated with female under-wears. And to think of bra collection as a hobby is beyond the most frustrating things I have heard in a long time, worse than the dont-take-bath movement.

However, I should not have been surprised really because Rohan, from HST-Fire too used to be obsessed with figures (numeric/ feminine). Last night I had kept a few of our letters on my desk when a very good friend of mine Wishie saw them and asked me if she could read them. Of course, I allowed considering she's a good friend plus we (Cos, SEC and I) never like the idea of privacy. What is more, Wishie and I happen to have a common HST-an friend. That guy is from HST-Space (not the new kid in town, but an old rusty friend. I know this is getting confusing but... !!) .

Anyhow Wishie told me how a love and sex-starved HST-an was consoling another such fellow in a blog. HST-an 1 tells HST-an 2: "Don't you worry dude. One day we'll extract our pound of flesh with a vengeance." What that means essentially is that, HST-ans are hot property outside HST in the marriage market. Of course it doesn't make much coherent sense to me since I always thought marriage does not have much to do with farming, boat repairing, plane manufacturing skills but then not everyone thinks the same. A little more probing on my part quickly revealed that HST-ans often claim a lot of dowry along with their pound of flesh. Do they teach in HST to be good husbands? No. Of course not. But what they teach in HST lays foundation for money churning and the Pound of Flesh happily lives with that. The irony however is that HST-an doesn't have an option but to go for the bargain. That is the most he can get under the circumstances: live with the flesh that was bought at some random slaughter house.

Yet I will not blame HST-ans alone for this. The pound of flesh is equally at fault.

Cos and Sec, I take heart from the fact that we shall never be that pound of flesh. Neither shall Wishie be, for she is an intelligent and smart woman.

Anyways, Sec I am glad to inform you that my deo and perfume bottles are well in use because there are too many dont-take-bath movement supporters around me. So I carry my perfume and deo around spraying wherever I can, almost like an environment freshener.

In the next mail I will update you about what happened in the summer with Rohan. Meanwhile, just think of it- I checked Sud's profile and he happened to be Dugald's friend. So you can imagine what he will be like. And I also read the testimonial where a girl has written stuffs about him which painfully resemble what I feel like writing to the new kid in town from HST-Space.

I quote some of it:

"One can not expect to get to speak to Sud always because he is often out of order and in those times he is beyond the reach of anything vaguely human and seemingly normative."

So here we go again. yet another victim of the whims of an HST-an. I think feminist brigades should launch a campaign to ban the interactions of any female with the members of this institution err... but then my life would sink to depths of banality (even worse than what it is now, if that's possible)

Let's hope for change. Write to me.

Love ya,

Tan.