Wednesday, December 24, 2008

My Long Hairs

It happened one fine eve, with me, Satvik and AmolB sitting in Symphony, Pune sipping beer and discussing AmolB's life in Singapore. Talking about so many interesting aspects of life, and AmolB's new look, we happen to bet that from that day, whoever of the 3 of us, has his hair cut done first, is going to treat others the next time we meet. This was sometimes in Feb-Mar 2006.

For me it was already around 2 months, that I had not had a hair cut. So I began calculating how much would be the combined cost of hair cuts if I keep doing it over the next few months on a regular basis Vs how much would be the bill for the treat. Baniye jo thehre - hisaab to chalta rahega na. Well, who cares for the cost; I am living my life for the adventure of it, so let me take the risk of people criticising me. Its always fun to do weird things.

So, I did not cut my hairs for the next 6 months until Oct 2006 first week. Meanwhile, whenever myself, Nalin, Anand, Anjali, Komaljee, Amu, Nehudi, Shraddha, Shweta, Shailendraji, Gunjan all used to meet up at my flat in Pune, most of the time, the group used to get divided into two - one in favour of my long hairs, and other criticising it. The discussion/debate/argument used to really last long. I used to love the fight - My favourite hobby to make people fight and I keep enjoying. Ha ha ha.

Reactions during my visit home were really cool -

Mom - Anand (my elder bro), give him some money so that he has his hairs cut. (But its always cool to keep getting pocket money from a elder bro - its my right on his money)
Dad - just gave a silent look indicating that - "nalayak, kab sudhrega?" (When will you grow up)
Granny - Tu akela hi aise hai, ya aur log bhi hote hai? (Are you the only weirdo, or there are people doing things like this)
Brother - Kya hai ye? (What is this?)
Bhabhi - Hmmmm.
Hriday - Didnt say anything; was too young to understand a bit, but I bet he must have been happy to see something new to keep snatching.

Now after trying different looks on my hair lengths, am waiting for some incidence like this to start coloring my hairs. And I dont want this incidence to be 'aging'. I am an eternal teenager! (Ek aur dialogue)

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Sushi - Ek khoj


Sushi se pehle sat nahi tha
Asat bhi nai
Antariksh bhi nai
Akaash bhi nahi tha
Chipa tha kya, Kahan
kisne dhaka tha
Us pal toAtam atal jal bhi kaha tha!!!

The moment I made my mind to travel for US, I was excited to be able to eat Sushi (yeah yeah - the routine Japanese rice meal). The Tesco Vegan sushi used to be my routine lunch most of the weekdays in London.
Let me explain - rice rolls, with a piece of vegetable (cucumber, carrot), some slices of ginger, soy sauce, and some other Japanese sauce. O M G, muh mein fir se paani aa gaya! Its been 4 long years that I haven't got chance to have sushi. (Pune and Chennai doesn't have a single Japanese restaurant - this might be a lucrative business idea - great mind at work)

So in San Jose, Whenever I was out in the shops, I was looking for vegie sushi as frozen packets; I looked at Walmarts, safeways, costco, the food store at the gas station opp my hotel, the Kamal spice (just in case)! But it looks like, its not the case as in London.

I happen to see some Japanese restaurants on North First street. But WTF! These restaurant has some timetables - And How the hell can they remain closed on sundays? And on other days, they are closed between 230 pm to 5 pm. Inko zara dhanda karna sikhana padega :P

Now, with only 2 weeks in hand, I have an aggressive plan. I am all prepared to take a day off, so that I can do my findings about vegan sushi. Another day off - to visit and eat sushi. And one more day, as a buffer. He he he!

Saturday, December 13, 2008

The Doing nothing!

So, don't ask me questions! But this is the only week of my life so far, when I absolutely did nothing. Yess. Its so fulfilling. I don't have words, but still I am trying to blog - "How I did nothing over this week".

It happened with me biting my own tongue too hard on sunday eve, and as a result not able to eat/drink/speak/scream/smoke/whistle/whisper/sing for almost a week. Am just on liquid food like milkshakes, juices, glucose, milk, etc. (Thanks to Victor, Kalyan, Krishna, Don). One of the unique milkshakes I tried my own hands at is - dissolving sweet biscuits in lukewarm milk.

This incidence made me realize how 'people live life under restrictions' in jails or in marriages.

Well, so the medication I am undergoing made me sleep long hours (Wow); and anyways with my boss giving me total freedom to be off for a week, nothing can be better than 'doing nothing'. No work. No much of TV. No sketches. No blogs. No poems. No talks. Nothing. Nothing at all. It feels so good.

With my empty mind, I tried another pathetic veg recipe - mashing boiled potatoes with a spoon of oil and a pinch of salt n some masala, and adding some more water. Its better than just having sweet food; but its so bad that a 'Good Cook' like me should die of shame. Mil gaya mauka, maar diya chouka. Kar lee khud ki taarif. He he he!

I think, I should be biting my tongue this way atleast once a year, and create a good hype - so that I get a week off just for myself - doing nothing; revisiting myself; rejuvenating.

Towards the end of 5 th day, I was so bored, I called my home and talked with everyone for around an hour, asking everyone to keep speaking and me just doing 'Hmmmm', Hmmmm', 'Hmmmm'. Little Hriday was so bored with this 'Hmmm' - he didn't talk to me the next time I was able to talk. Life is so funny!!!