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Tuesday, April 11, 2006

f P Economics

What can best pep us up in the middle of writing a lengthy record,at the end of yet another fruitless session of chat or worst case at the brink of a catastrophic exam. A drink of ale? A sip of strong coffee? Or how about fP? fountain Pepsi as the makers call it…as we wait with our fingers crossed for the opening of the fP counters across the college, get ready for an all new spending pattern that can change life, business and habits around this place.

Owing to the marked re-entry of aerated drinks into canteen refrigerators , amidst a babel of health-hazard threats, soft drinks are now the pulse of the burgeoning food industry in this part of the world. Given a permanent thirst we have developed towards it, what can be more indulging than when the drink de coup is sold out at your own lawns! For a long time our hostels needed a place to chill out in the open and a cola-counter comes as a welcome alternative to rust-draped coolers or grave hours shift coffee-shops.

Speaking of fP takes me back to my school days, when notwithstanding an unconditionally low average allowance, kids used to crowd the fP counter waving tokens they just bought for five bucks each. And, on taking a closer look, the fP stall was a stamping ground for every kid during some part of the day. Considering the index of average expense per kid, the sensitivity goes by the festivity in the air. However, fP cost remains a sure share of the allowances pie and consequently the cash cow of every institutional canteen revenue.

The child is the father of the man! And now as we settle into this canteen-snacky-city spending schemes, lets get ready to accept a new lifestyle, dominated by the caffeine-vanilla concoction, requiring much revision in budget, yet so little effort. Not that each one of us wants to treasure a piggy-bank where we put our days savings and bury it deep for posterity to plunder! It’s a matter of personal discipline at the economic front to avoid ‘adding’ sips of cola to the list of expenditures without making ‘regulations’, surging our cost of living out here( Of course from a conservative economists point of view.) Managing the efflux from ones wallet is a scrupulous practice, regardless of what be in store to shell out. As we grow, at the end of our stay in this place, into jobs that load our purses heavily enough, we need to develop a nerve for managing whatever little or big we gather on our roll.

Cutting the long story short, fP is cool, but we don’t need an fP advent to reshape our credit balances, when all we need to do is look back and seal those leaky shell-outs from crippling us into a reverie of addiction, no! not of fP, but of spending!

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