Desi Train

Lots of catching up to do. The last two-three weeks of sickness left me way… way back on tons of things, thoughts and thongs I’ve to write about in my diary.

To begin with my sickness… it started as a sore throat - which is always the case in my life. It’s as if God’s given me the most sensitive of throats… damn it. Wonder what would happen if HE gave me a sensitive penis? Umm… still thinking…

Now the sore throat was followed by - yep - a cold. And fever. Body aches etc. etc. The whole enchilada. So what does one do? Get up and go to the store to buy some cold medication…

So you are standing in the aisle marked “Cough, Cold, Sore Throat” - AVOID THIS AISLE IF YOU DON’T HAVE A COLD…. There are like 10 people in the aisle all looking through those hundreds of brands cold medication, all coughing, all sneezing, all blowing their runny nose - I believe the people in the next aisle must have caught the germs overflowing in this “Cold, Cough…” aisle.

Isn’t it strange that the thing you are suffering from, never has the medication on the shelves when you search for it. I have a sore throat no cough… slight cold no runny nose… slight body ached no headaches…

Medications on the shelves - Have COLD? RUNNY NOSE? FEVER? TRY XYZ… move to next shelf… Sore throat, Cough, Cold, watery eyes Try ABC… move to next shelf… Cough? Extreme Coughing? Try Jackass… by the time I’m done with the last shelf I’m standing next to the Beer and Alcohol aisle.

The total on the checkout counter was 19 dollars some odd cents for the Brandy.

A Happy New Years to all of you dear readers… and as the ritual is the first thing one does on New Years is… go to Astrology Predictions for the New Year. Get a trailer of your life in this year… is it gonna be happy happy or continue being shitty shitty. No luck here too. While one site says it’s gonna be a good year for me where I will have tons of money and poonani… the other site says I’m in for some bad times, lots of struggle… to ease the pressure call Pundit Dumbass at +001 123 456…

For those still not in the loop… here’s a link to a new beauty contest… and before you go What The F..? Wait… it’s interesting cause you get to judge it… and it’s India’s Hottest College Chick Contest being organized by bunkd.com … (link via Patrix)

Now that’s what I’m talking about… every college chamiya and basanti will be online… I know this is gonna be an eye opener to all thakelas and hatelas in college… and I was one of them… Eye Opener? Yep… In my engineering college there were a handful of girls… and the whole college used to fight, shag, cry over them… they were our college beauty queens… The fact was our college was so far away in a remote area that we hardly got to see any girls all week long, leave the sole weekend trips to Pune Camp area. So for the entire week we had to kam chalao with the Ugh crowd that existed in our college… pushing them to the status of beauty queens… And horror of horrors some real uglies among them would really think of themselves as beauty queens AND BEHAVE LIKE IT… all snobbish, snotty, uppity et. all…

I have heard countless stories during my college days of friends and collegeas writing names of any of those girls in college, on their forearms… with a blade!

Talk about being at the right place at the right time…

So what’s new on the personal front…

One word Confusion. Office politics is in full swing. My ex-boss (good guy) resigned. I’m next in the line. But the problem is I don’t know what next? I know what I don’t want to do.. but I don’t know what I would like to do… Darn!

Problem is everyone is advising me to move to cinema… yet I’m not sure what I would like to do there… and more importantly I wouldn’t know where to start… Should I turn independent? Should I join a film company? a studio? Or should I continue in doing some other stuff?

Thing is I’m sure that unless and until there’s a good opportunity I won’t go back to the corporate environment. I think being a consultant is just fine for me… but again confusion… what do I wanna consult it? I know I’m dead tired of programming and shit… Management is where I need to go? But where?

Confusion confusion and more confusion…

Milking the Friday half days at work as usual… Gonna go to Artesia (the little India street) and have some chole bhature at Ambala sweets and spices…. incidentally they are different from Ambala dhaba. AS&S serve real good fast food, but never go for their lassi… it’s always sour…

Have an appointment with Dr. Patel at 2.

Oh forgot to mention this… The Smoking…. been a Non Smoker since the 1st of this month… Don’t know if it’s the fever that made cigarettes taste really ugh or Dr. Patel’s new prescription Chantix - the new med on the block that is not a nicotine replacement but directly goes and kills the nicotine receptors in your brain… or perhaps its a mix of all that and all that I’ve paid money in the last 7 years in learning on how to convert to a Non smoker.

Darn now that I look at all I’ve written above… I’m really sick…

Time to shut my mouth… All of you Be Good, Stay Safe and Have a Rocking Weekend!!!

This entry was posted on Friday, January 5th, 2007 at 10:58 am and is filed under Friday Masala.
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