A typical Bachelors room - Jijo

Cutlet April 09 is the first thing your eyes come across when you enter my room and next to it some cut-outs from some random magazines. I tried my best to cover up the blankness of the wall with anything and everything I found. It’s still 75% empty but still a good attempt. As you enter through the brown door an old half broken cupboard cum shelf is stuck to the wall with my wallet, phone charger, glasses and CD case in the top section, and my clothes pouring out from the lower section, faces the door. There is a shelf on the wall behind the door which some interesting items like an old gramophone player,few gramophone discs and an ancient walking stick which belongs to my landlord. The continuation of that wall has one bed stuck to it and opposite to that another bed stuck to the opposite wall. One with a blanket and a mattress on it and the other with everything a household needs. From utensils to an immersion rod to washed clothes and the list is never ending. It’s been like this since the day I moved into this house, that’s like two years back.

The only neat and tidy corner of the room is where the study table is that is between the two beds. The table is quite professionally organized, with a laptop in the center. The phone on one side, the modem on the other, three ashtrays flooded with cigarette buds, three pairs of headphones which don’t work, a pen stand and few empty cigarette packets. On one side of the table is a statue of Mother Mary on the floor and the other side is a card board box full of my housemate’s text books which I have never seen him using and a dustbin next to it. There is a window above the study table which can’t be opened as that side of the building has common walls with the neighboring building. There is another window above the bed with the pile of junk on it which is never shut as it’s the only source of fresh air. All in all a typical bachelors’ messy room is what any guests who come to the house describe it as. But for me the room being messy, clearly shows that I have better work to do in life than waste hours cleaning my room which won’t stay clean for more than one day.