Colour of poverty is Red !!

As you people all know i am still a student and towards the fag end of my course. so as is the case with all students i too am cash strapped !! despite such limitations i still like to live life king size...

me and my roommates decided to go to a restaurant and the budget per person was the smallest 3 digit number . we brainstormed for half an hour and finalised on a set of three hotels. then based on lucky dip we decided to goto wang's kitchen. But as luck would have it all the jobless buggers in the city lined up in wang's kitchen and the queue extended to a length which could be compared to that of the "jarugandi" tirupathi queue.

Still undeterred by the outcome we decided to explore unchartered territories. Boarded our street hawks and vroomed and zoomed across the streets of adyar and besant nagar. Then suddenly we saw a shoddy building with peeled paint and a board hung below that. it read " shangri la " - chinese restaurant. my ingenious roommate the future mckinsey consultant - harshil shah figured out that this would be the cheapest chinese restaurant on planet cons . and considering all (me and my other 3 roomies) our intelligent quotients we immediately accepted his analysis and marched towards the first floor where the hotel was located. as soon as we entered the corridor , one chinese guard saluted us. we were amazed that even the cheapest chinese hotels were trying to provide highest levels of customer satisfaction.( yeah, we are so dumb that we still did not figure out the real picture)

then reality dawned us as we entered the restaurant wherein it looked like a posh 3 star hotel. filled fully with chinese frescoes, chinese incense sticks, what not else.. we wanted to run away but unfortunately one of our professors was dining there and he saw us. so we were forced to get in.

the fated moment arrived. we got the menu card. prices ranged from 270,300, 350,400....!@#$@!#$

we did a sort algorithm searching for the cheapest price and there it was soup -- bingo 130 rs...what????

Me to the waiter --- can we get a 1/4 soup......

waiter...#$#@$%#$# ( looking damn red..) ( the reaction on his face --- priceless !!)

yeah..its true colour of poverty is red..