There are some people in this world who are plain *#&(#&$#*($*& and they would not mend their ways come what may. What would you do if you see someone like that in trouble and you seem to be in a position to give a helping hand ? Would you help him/her ? Would it be a pre-decided thing that whether to help him/her or not or it would depend upon the state of mind at that time ? ...
Once more…coffee…oops…its getting too much probably ;) . This time we went to Barista :D . Getting seats was also a struggle. We had to get our name listed and he told us to wait for 15-20 mintues. The guy who was managing all this was almost a complete idiot, so the first impression was not so good ;) . We were three guys. After getting the seats, we ordered 2 hot and 1 cold Cappuccino (Oh yes, this time also i googled for spells ;) ). After some time he got 2 cups; in one cup something hot and cold in the other one. We were surprised to see the third cup missing but just waited. It was not Cappuccino actually, as we rightly guessed (What i was dead sure was that Cappuccino, at least contained some milk ;) ). By the time we were done with this, he got the actual order. So we started enjoying the coffee we had ordered :P. By the time we finished it, i decided to screw him up and ask for the feedback form if he added that wrong-order-on-our-table stuff in our bill. But but but…he charged only for the right order and we spared him from the not-so-good feedback ;) ...
Time flies; they say. Its so true. Day before yesterday i was exploring youtube and came across few videos of Lux style awards held in Karachi where Atif Aslam & Shehzad Roy paid tribute to the legendary singer Reshma. Given her age (she has turned 60+, i think), she was not able to sing properly. It made me recall my childhood days. We used to listen to Lahore radio station which frequently played Reshma’s songs. The most popular was haye o rabba naio lagda dil mera. Since childhood her voice has been so familiar and she has been a respected and “motherly” figure in my eyes. Then it was the articles in Punjabi newspapers about her, her life that how simple living she had, she will always keep dupatta on her head (she says jokingly that dressing style of Reshma & Sikhs has never changed and will never change) and will cook for all her guests at home. Also the stories that how hard it was for her to read and memorize his first Urdu song. It has been almost 14-15 years to all this. Still the memories are so fresh in my mind. And now when Reshma was on stage and looking old it reminds of how grown up i am; an “old” boy. Time flies…really ! ...
I almost count myself in the so called desi janta, not much aware of the ultra-modern lifestyle. But it has happened twice in a week that with friends, i went to CCD to have some coffee :D . First it was 2-3 days back and then today again. To avoid falling in much complexity, both the times i ordered Cappuccino (yes, i used Google for the spells ;) ). But due to some reason, both the times it was served cold not hot. So today i was just wondering, may be there is something i am not aware of and it is served cold only; not that hot as i expected ? Any clues ? :D ...
While dealing with anything remotely related to money, the last thing i like to do is going to bank. Most of the time, i try to do it online but some things are such that there is no other way out. One of my friend and his wife had to get their US visa stamped and he asked me to go to HDFC bank and get the receipts after paying the visa fees. I have done it before also. So it was not expected to be a big deal. Just go to HDFC bank, fill the form, submit the cash required and get it. But when God wants some adventure in your life ;) there pops out some way of making you have it. I went to HDFC bank and asked that lady about it. First she uttered something while giving those forms (Thanks to those beautiful looking glass windows with holes of size of the eye of a sparrow, you can hardly understand what they speak). Then she said that they have stopped taking cash for this and you have to pay through cheque or Demand Draft (DD). So i asked (on some different counter) if i can get DD made by paying cash ? He said NO; you need to have an account in HDFC bank. After all the beauty it was time to leave and postpone it to tomorrow. ...
I have almost always hated going to doctors, be it a small clinic or some big hospital. I always try to avoid it till last when there is no other option left. Then also, i would prefer to go to some clinic where a doctor sits and checks the patients rather then going to some multi-story hospital where there are more doctors and assistants than patients. Otherwise also, i am not very fond of royal lifestyle. But as i said when there is no option left, one has to take the call. Today was something like that only. I was having flu’ish, cough’ish and bit of fever’ish feeling since morning. Due to the viral attack these days, thought about going to some doctor in the evening. There is a good doctor in the locality. So i thought about going to him. Never knew it was a golden season for doctors, i reached there anddddd his clinic was full like an over-loaded train. I just got my name noted by his assistant and came back home to go after 1 hour or so. I went again after 1 and 1/2 hour but again had to wait for almost 30 minutes for my turn. Finally i got my turn. He asked few questions and started writing the medicines. Man he was going on and on and on. Finally after making 5 entries; few tablets, capsules and a syrup he stopped. Then he also asked to get a Blood & Urine test done tomorrow (one more worry to be taken care of :( ). So after all this game, here i am writing this post and medicines on my left side asking for attention :( . ...
It is a tough question to answer that whether cleaning your house would be tough if you are a bachelor or you were married as in first case you clean your room and might assist your roommate in cleaning his and in latter case you assist your better half in cleaning the whole house ;) . Anyways, i haven’t gone through the latter one but today was the day for experiencing the first one. It has been pending since long time and we had been planning it since pretty long. Everything was terribly screwed up and needed attention. Finally that fine Sunday came and now everything has been cleaned and set properly. As usual, what i liked the most is my books shelf which is just looking too good after arranging everything properly ;) ...
I have been tagged by Puja. The game is: Go into your photo archive,pick the 4th folder in the archive,select the 4th picture in the folder,and write about it.Then tag 4 other people to do the same. This is the 4th pic in 4th folder of my pics archive. It was taken on 17-Nov-2005 . I was working in Chandigarh those days. We went to Amritsar to attend the marriage of my roommate’s brother. We went to Golden Temple and this pic was taken there. It was taken with Nokia 6630 Cellphone camera so not even that much clear. ...
The way earth smells like when it has just started raining… The sound of rain… The sound…when you wake up from sound sleep in the middle of night and notice that it is raining outside… You go out just after it has stopped raining… Smell of the new book you purchased today… You are sleeping in the room…sound the pages of book lying aside make when wind from an open window turns some of them… ...
I had to write this post yesterday night but couldn’t. For “Why” just read on… Yesterday there was an official team cocktail cum dinner thing. So many interesting things. One being the dinner turning a “why the heck we are not able to do it ?” discussion ;) While this discussion was going on, people were also enjoying their drinks as it was supposed to be a drinks n dine thing ;) . After some time people started proceeding towards dinner and the big guys left. And here starts the second session, the after dinner thing. BTW out of those present till last, who all had their dinner, well, don’t know :D . Again there started some discussion. Till then 4-5 of them had got full talli and were enjoying to their fullest. One got stuck in “you bloody” (& yes thats why the title) and then everything he uttered started and ended with you know what ? “you bloody” ;) So finally we pushed everyone to leave for home and came out of the venue. One champ puked and threw everything out there itself. Ahhhh…relaxed ! One guy had a car and he had to drop us to home (oh yes he was also talli :) ). So somehow we managed to reach home (me, 3 others including that Puke master from the previous scene. Please note that me & another guy were non-drinkers so in control of everything :D ). We live on 3rd floor so reaching there was also a struggle. Anyhow they managed it. Now out of us four there was one left who was talli and hadn’t puked and perfectly as expected he just fell on the bed and OKAY ;) . The best, when we checked after some time, he had also thrown out everything on the bed itself and was sleeping in complete peace :P . It was dirty man, two others also vomited after that and i felt like vomiting. So finally it was 2 AM when we tried to sleep. Now its morning and they are stuck in hangover and i in sleepover :D ...