Lace and all…

Sometimes when I go back and think about why I started to blog there are lot of things that come to mind… but the first and foremost always is ‘the want to express…’ and others were pretty interesting too… ‘World domination…’, ‘to start an interstellar war…’, see I told you the intent of this blog was definitely ‘good’ at heart… but over a period of time the intent of this blog became… umm… more honest… Now, I wanted to ‘earn inordinate riches and subsequently control the world economy…’

So I looked around at what people were doing to earn the ‘jam’. No particular preference, any flavor would do as long as it is ‘jam’. I looked around and I found that everybody had something that they had sort of cornered… a blog on computers, everything about electronics, talking about movies, sharing unoriginal jokes, all things related to hair, the universe, the hot & steamy-stuff, clay, and believe it or not even shoe laces… Yes, it’s true… The ‘shoelace’ site is pretty detailed too and incase any of you face problems tying shoelaces… don’t ask your friends… they will just make you the best-selling laughing stock… (I know because I did that to someone once…) Instead just visit Ian’s shoelace site and tada… you can learn how to tie shoelace… standing up, sitting down, with one hand, with two hands, without hands… whatever you like…

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My Umbrella…

Everyone remembers their first… the first time you flew in an airplane, the first time you saw the sea, the first time you kissed a girl, the first time you fell in love, the first time you cried (strictly in case of guys), the first time you sang a song, the first time you won a prize… the list is endless… I too, like others, had a ‘first time’… I remember my first umbrella… No, it’s not a metaphor… Stop laughing… It was a Saturday, I remember because I had an off at school and mommy did not… She only had an off on Sunday unlike me and that really made me feel like a King… We were well-off at that time but not enough to afford a house-sitter ever week and hence here I was with mommy at hospital. No, I was not a bad boy… hospital was where Mommy worked and she took me along… every Saturday…

It was 5pm and it was already as dark at night… I saw the bright flashes of light coursing thru the sky accompanied with thunderous clap-like sound… I receded to the shadows cowering, closer to mommy where I felt safe… She looked at the watch and announced it was time to leave; I did not want to… I did not want to venture out in the rain lest the bright flash of light strike me or mom… the distance between the hospital and the bus-stand was a good 100 meters… the rain was coming down hard… Just before leaving the expansive courtyard of the hospital mommy stopped to open her brown bag… I was thinking to myself, “This is an odd time to hand out a chocolate…I was trying very hard to recollect what I had done that deserved a chocolate… but nothing notable came to my mind”

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What a day that was…

Recently I went to Thor… “What is that” you ask… Well it’s a bird sanctuary some 25 odd kilometers away from Ahmedabad (now don’t ask what this is… else we will be playing this game endlessly…) So, now you ask what was so different since I did this (visited Thor) in August last year too… well this year I went with a friend fully armed with two things… Firstly I had with me a Nikon D40 and secondly (hold your breath) 50~300mm lens with Macro (now gasp…) both of these courtesy of my friend… my close best friend since he bought the spanking new Nikon D40… (Who says I was taught nothing at the Stalin school of business management…)

This trip was good for me because of several reasons, one of them being able to pursue a pure interest without having to worry about the aftermath… Ornithology… an interest which is practiced by our sex (the ‘man’kind) throughout their life… After I shared the photographs a friend actually pointed out that she never thought that “…this was not the kind of bird watching you kept mentioning (in your blog)…” I almost never realized that I have never once mentioned ornithology in its true light… The article where ‘Ornithology’ previously appeared was in the post titled “of perseverance…”

This was the day that so many things happened…

• I fell in love with ‘pinky’ – (a curious bird, the real kind complete with wings and all, with a  deadly combination of pink, black and white)
• Came close to encounters of the third kind – at one point while shooting the friend abruptly stops and says, “…lay down on the grass…” I don’t know how to react because I am shocked… I mustered up my courage and said “No way…”he retorts “Dumbo, you are missing the shot… the pelican is flying away…” I have never been more relieved… of course, I thanked God, who would not in this kind of situation?
• I saw a ‘helicopter’ using streax (hair color advertised by the oh so… Malaika Arora Khan)
• I found one more reason to love India. I am not talking about the smart-ass reasons that we give to the phoren junta (foreigners) like…

 

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