Once a Harami...always a Harami.....

The mother: Beta…Chachi has gone to get the forms for Saul’s (my cousin) application to Loyola High School (apna school)……Papa says you will be pretty happy to know that Sahil might become a Loyolite

Apun Bola: Yeah, I know Chacha told me about this the other day when I spoke to him. I also told him that think about it…..if you guys want someone like me in the house again…then go ahead and try getting him into Loyola….

The mother: Arre don’t worry beta…..that wont be a problem….we know how to deal with you……

Apun Bola: Ohhhh!!!! So now its come down to dealing with me huh!!!!!! See I did not say anything…..you are the one who said that I need to be dealt with……(sarcastic laughter)…..

The mother: (laughter…) Hmmmmmm…..

* which brings me to the point……in most cases you do need to know how to deal with me…..:)…but I usually have my own way….during engineering days…when the room used to be in a mess…..mom would come and shout at the brother and yours truly…” Room kitna ganda hain……conditions are better in jails and slums……you guys are least interested in cleaning….kuch kaam nahi karte…….”…to which we would reply…… “ Itna irritated hain na tu…..then why don’t you put an add in the news paper…..exchange offer….two son’s in exchange for an ideal daughter……who will listen to mom, help around the house…and be a pillar of support in every respect.”……then mom would get all senti....bas that was enough to let us keep our room the way we wanted it for the next few weeks......…and then when she would start shouting again....the whole drama was staged once more and that’s how it continued for the 4 years of engineering……we sure were harami’s to the core …..

Father Mario

The last 2 years that i was in Loyola High School, Pune we had this vice principal called Father Mario....i dont know what I should be calling him.....humorous, funny or sadistic....I think its a combination of all three...lets say he was funnily sadistic in a humorous kind of way....he would say the funniest of things with a straight face and mind you...even if you show anything that even resembles a smile...he would come running towards you shouting your name with a certain attachment to the end...something like......Puneri of the Gold House....you were laughing in class...and he would hold you down and hit you hard on the back...or then he would go to the blackboard and scribble something and wipe it off and then come running towards you with the same "Puneri of the Gold House....." and hit you on the head with that duster.....or then if there was nothing else he could do he would just fling his bunch of keys at you......but the funniest part of it....we never took offense..instead we would keep teasing him by laughing in class and that irritated him even more.....

He was strictly against any guys wearing any type of rings on their fingers....in 9th standard our football team lost agaist this ekdam sidey team in the first round because this guy called Samuel from our class hit a self goal.....now it was a big disgrace that Loyola lost to St Patrick's in the fisrt round and our cross town rivals St Vincents were having an awesome time teasing us about it and probably some Father from St. Vincents must have said that to him and he was mighty pissed....from then on he blamed our class for bringing disgrace to the school......so this one day.....while teaching us Moral Science...ya...thats what he taught us....he looks at Samuel and says...Samuel of the Blue House.....why are you wearing rings to school...so Samuel gets up and defiantly says......" No Father .....these are God's rings".....and Father Mario looks at him and shouts at the top of his voice...." God soes not help those people who hit self goals!!!".....and there was no way anyone could control the laughter ...and we had the whole class in tears while Father Mario stands there arguing with Samuel why he cant wear a ring to school

Another time while teaching Histroy...he was taking this quiz....so he goes..." Jai of the Green house"...when was the battle of Plassey fought....and Jai said..."Pardon Father"....and again in his thundering voice he looks at Jaideep and says "Wrong!!!!!" and asked him to sit down.....these are just some of the stay incidents which made life really awesome in school.....

But the best time we ever had troubling Father Mario was during exams....our examination hall was next to his office...and every morning...this guy Riot and me would gather a bunch of our friends and walk into Father Mario's office with a very sad and worried face....and start cribbing that this paper is very tough and we dont know anything and we dont even know if we are gonna pass....so he would have this expression which conveyed..."So what can I do????".....and we would say..." Father we have come to take your blessings so we may do well in our exams!!!"...and he would have this pleased look on his face and say "My blessings are always with you"....but it did not stop there...one by one all 10-15 of us would start going closer to his table and say "Father we want your blessings....we want to touch your feet so that we may do well!!!" and while saying this we would keep walking closer to his table....to the point where he would get up and stand behind his chair with one hand on the handle of his drawyer ...and he would threaten us that if we came any closer he would gives all a pink card.....now whats a pink card???...its this warning that you get from the faculty for misbehaving...and two pink cards is equaly to one grey card and two grey card amounts to rustication from school....and we would still continue going closer till he would get all agitated and then we would leave....and this continued for every exam we had.......and none of us ever got a pink card for this......but I would surely give anything to try this once again on Mario Man.....

Father Mario was this awesome guy who had left his brains somewhere though and would say the stupidest of things like ..." Raul , you are Sindhi...so tell me ...in which Swiss Bank have you hidden all your Hong Kong Dollars".....or then ..." Darpu..you have typical Marwadi nails...very dirty".......

I could go on and on.....its wierdos like him that schooling truly memorable.....maybe the next time I get drunk on MGD's I will write about Mr Contractor...or Math prof.....

Its been a year since I started blogging.....:)

Question of Purpose

Does everyone come into our life for a purpose?…….think about all the people who have come into our lives……some stick around longer than others….some leave almost immediately and there are some which from the way things seem, would stick around forever…..by this I don’t specifically mean a romantic type of relationship…this could mean anyone…a friend who at one time used to be a best friend…or some cousin who you were particularly close to….or then it could just be some person you dated for a while and then move on because of the usual …i.e. things not working out….I believe everyone surely does come into our life for a reason…and when there is no purpose that’s when u categorize the relationship under ‘acquaintances’…the kind of people with whom you just might share a “Whatsuppppp”, when you cross each other …

What do I mean exactly when I say purpose???……well I think we either have something to learn from that person or then that person has something to learn from them....that according to me is purpose.....and when that give-and-take is exhausted that’s when we start drifting apart…..it could manifest itself in the fact that you just don’t have much to talk with the other person…..but there are some relationships that I believe do last for a lifetime…...or maybe we just want them to......I am not talking about the ones shared between parents and children or the ones shared between siblings…..here I specifically talk about people who have come into our lives on their own accord or we have ventured into theirs…..and what makes them last for a lifetime…..its just that both people have a lot to learn from each other or then in some it’s a case of either give or then just take.......nothing wrong with that........

But finally according to me when the purpose is exhausted that’s when relationships cease to exist…..So coming down finally to what’s on my mind…..If we want relationships to last forever can we keep inventing purposes…..and if we do…then are these 'invented' purposes enough to make these relationships actually last forvever??????????

Another one bites the dust???

Vicky has been seduced by the dark side too!!!!!

and come to think of it....Confessions of a Puneri is soon gonna be a year old:)

When there is way too much snow you have school closing and many work establishments declare a holiday....i think the same must be done when its gets really cold even if there is no snow....have like a cut off temperature and when temperatures go below that then you declare a holiday because its too cold to work....

-11C with -18C windchill should be good enough....what say????????..its so darn cold inside that my coffee seems to cool down faster than it usually does....have already made a trip to the microwave to heat it and 5 minutes later i'm drinking luke warm stuff

so if i had the day off ...what would I do??????

Snuggle into bed...with some chai/coffee/hot chocolate and catch up on those short stories of Sherlock Holmes....

Some wisdom for 2004...thanks to 2003

The average woman prefers beauty over brains because the average man can see better than he can think...

The light at the end of the tunnel is that of the oncoming train....don't wait any longer to verify it.....i'mm telling you na....

I say this again....one man's choice is another's destiny......

When the going is good, you want to avoid sleep 'cause you dont want to miss a thing....when the going gets tough , sleep avoids you 'cause it don't want you to miss a thing.......bottom line....sleep well when the going is good.....and take solace from the fact that when the going gets tough the tough get going!!!!!!

Ever watched The Weakest Link????......take a clue from there....bank the good things in life and try hard not to be the weakest link....else elimination is inevitable....

some more later....maybe.....