Sunday, June 5, 2011

The Curious Case of Nathaniel Bérubé-Mimeault






So the day is coming closer when we bid farewell to one of the most interesting personality in the last past year. He gained reputation as one of the hard core drinkers the illusion though however was broken for a short time in Budapest. A modern day messiah and one of the founding members of the Team Joy and also one of the starting figure heads of the La Revoluzion of Genesism. Yesterday Sperling asked "Prady I havent read anything much from your blog " and funny thing is that she never asks she orders so here is something to fulfill her desire.

It is kind of recap something for the past year in one single blog and with the French Canadian its even more difficult. I kind of met him through another friend Serena. Initially FC as i remember was homeless as its very common here.  The first meeting was in a dinner where i invited him with Serena, its one of my very wierd habits that i just invite random people but nonetheless i take it as a good habit. FC had a very heavy dose of french accent in his English and the first time I just said "yes" to everything he said and occasionally i put a "no" just to make him feel I was really following him. I think it was Ironic when he got an apartment in SSKK and then we thought how will he survive there but now to think of it, I think the script was pre written and if there was no FC , there would have been no confession, no Karaoke and no Drinking Wednesday! Its funny thing that one has to be in the right moment and right place to get into these things and even more funnier is that in situation like these you dont even have a choice , you are just there or something like you are meant to be there.
The initial autumn semester was not much of interaction except for the Norway trip and some other events. We came to know about the FC much more in the Bergen trip where he performed the insane Choclate - salami-coffee act in his famous mug.
The Mug is like a myth here. The Mug contained everything food alcohol occasionally water tea etc etc. One cannot imagine FC without his mug. Its impossible, without the mug he is kind of let me say nude !
The coming semester me and FC decided to play in the local league to field a team. The first thing was to find girls which was done by me in a very ackward manner by me which i still remember when i asked Merve and Secil " Hi you play good. Do you want to play with us in the league & btw I am Prady" Thus started the team Shovel Handle. The main motive behind us to play together was just to have fun and when we meant fun it was to keep shouting and talking all the time and to play with ENTHUSIASM which i think is very much lacking here.
And it was very nice of him to make the team slogan "PRADYUMNA" that was well i must say quite touching.

Well another thing which i quite forgot to mention was our love to Genesis. I dont know how it came up but when we came to know that we both kind of follow religiously it was like "hey have you heard this ? did you listen to that tour "  Talking about Genesis 24 *7 annoyed some people but what can we do its so cool.


According to me true friends are those who stand my you in times of adversity. And FC was just one of the many (I am grateful to all & if i start writing names it would be quite a long list). There was times just recently where i had completely lost myself & the personality completely changed & when i wanted out from every thing came a text from FC " Hey i see that you have lost enthusiasm and smile want to join for alcohol"  As i said everything is kind of written in script. It was the start of confession nights. The first one was just me ,FC, piotr & lot of alcohol. But the forth coming sessions included the Sperling , Peter. Like a good host FC provided alcohol which he scouted to get it from border shop in Germany. The transition from confession night to Karaoke is kind of unclear to me as I dont remember how it happened but then for last two months on every Wednesday it was like " ohhh hell its 7 need to finish work and go drinking " This wednesday routine would be greatly missed. Also the Sperling Birthday wish  was also sssssssoooo epic .
Saying this one has also to mention the Canadian Elections where the conservatives won and as a result it bothered our FC and that resulted in notions like FC marrying the german sperling or taking political asylum which according to me and others is a safe wise choice. The episode with the sperling is a funny one with FC needing to marry the sperling Just to get a visa and escape the conservatives but nevertheless its  in good humour.
This short but amazing one year with FC , drinking nights ,Karaoke & shovel handle would be so remembered and yeah every one will miss FC , I am sure of that . But then again we still have the back to the future meeting where we meet again and hopefully on a Wednesday and just mock , talk and it will be epic.
PS Nathaniel I will keep spreading Genesism though it will be tough without you !

And one more thing JESUS HE KNOWS US HE KNOWS THE WE ARE RIGHT!




1 comment:

  1. Hi, his sister here, I'd just like to tell you I love your article =)

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