More entertainment from friends

One of my dear friends, CSM continues to amaze me with new completely unexpected faux pas almost on a daily basis.
I know that sounds quite difficult to achieve, but our man believes in aiming-to-amaze, frequently.

The latest two which he managed to pull off:

A colleague - BDD from Delhi was asking him about aquariums 'cos our man CSM knows quite a bit about them. Now, the reason this guy was asking CSM was that he, BDD wanted to gift it to his wife (also a colleague) and it was supposed to be a surprise.
What does CSM do right after the call? You guessed it ! He has called the wife for a few reports, and manages to blabber this nugget of information.

Scene post the story: CSM is holding his head, the rest of us are laughing our heads off. I don't really know what poor BDD is doing, though images of him gashing his teeth and pulling out his hair do spring to mind.

Scene II
Now this is something which is a classic even by his standards, so I may not be able to post anything to beat this. When I say not, I mean at least in the near future, give him time and he will come up with something to top this too.

Setting: CSM is staying over at his in-laws place, with his wife and her mom, generally chatting about life. At this point he decides to pack-up for the next day and proceeds to carry his clothes from living-room to bedroom.
After packing the clothes, he comes out and sees that both the ladies are in splits, which obviously stumps him (a fairly common occurrence, trust me).

Some time later
EXIT mom-in-law ear door right, with a stitch in her side from laughing so hard.

Next scene: focus on couch, where we see the poor wife and her dear hubby.
After moms exit, the wife reveals the cause of merriment. The man, while carting out the clothes inside has managed to drop a packet of rubber (with a very graphic picture on top), almost right at his mom-in-laws feet, which had led to the merriment.

Next scene: CSM has hit the bed in a rush, while clamorous laughter continues to emanate from the living-room.

Fade-out.
Breakfast the next day was not exactly a very comfortable affair for the lady and her son-in-law.

I will be continuing the saga as and when such interesting tit-bits have to be shared.

How does somebody justify this ?

Today, a slightly serious topic which has been bothering me for a couple of days.

During a "peaceful procession" in Amravati, to protest the killing of a family, the protestors indulged in arson.

So far it sounds bad, but get this :
"Incidents of arson were reported from all parts of Amravati city, with the mob torching a water tanker and a police jeep, and smashing the fire brigade tenders " .

Do the leaders of this protest realise the kind of risk they are exposing the entire city to? Especially with the kind of time the Indian administration takes to replace those tenders?

The best part of the entire drama was actually played out the next day.. with the right Hon. Home minister of Maharashtra Mr. R R Patil saying "prepared to consider the proposal to provide arms and weapons to Dalits for self-defence"
Complete article:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/459383.cms

How exactly Mr Patil plans to prevent them being mis-used is completely beside the point , I guess.

The issue may seem trivialised, as I'm not exactly helping by making any constructive suggestions, but arming some people who have gone and burnt public-property seems oh-so-not-the-right-way.

Last Saturday Night at SOHO

Hulo People,

Went to SOHO's on saturday night. It definitely is one of the best places to hang around in Pune during the weekend, except for the music part which can really suck !

But for the oeople who dont really have too much to do, imagine this: Its been a long week, with tedious work, you catch up with friends.

After all that, how is a person supposed to resist the temptation of this.......mmmmm !

Back after a Looooooong Break........

hulo people,

its good to back after a very long time, though am sure that a lot of people will disagree with that.

have been generally busy doing absolutely nothing of value.

Changed jobs, attented my friends wedding in the Garden city, (Banguluru for the uninitiated)

The only excitement in the past three months took place at aforementioned friends reception, when he managed to contract chicken-pox ON the day of his reception. All this time we thought such stuff happens only in books and movies based on those books. But, no !!!

Apparently fact is stranger than fiction.

The best part was the fact that we had been partying with the man, just the previous night.
So, the entire bunch of twenty was making frantic calls to doctors and treating any minor itch as the harbinger of a plague. Only after second and third opinions, of doctors telling us that nothing could be done AFTER the contact, everybody got completely fatalistic and settled down to hoping for atleast a ten day break with a valid (honest) excuse. But then, LIFE, the lady with a terrific sense of humour decided, "nah, not now !" forcing all of us to get our respective backsides to office.

The dude did have a reception at Banglore, but managed to stay clear of any communicable diseases. (He's a bawa, but since thats also non-contagious...)

Besides this, have been reading a bit, but will leave that for a later date.