Friday, August 11, 2006
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears
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Hello, howdy, hola and other assorted greetings. Having abandoned this blog for a month, I know it is a bit much to expect that any of you are around, reading it. But since when have I let reality come in the way of what I do here? Plus what is the point of having imaginary friends in one’s kidhood if one cannot parlay the skill into conversations with my non-existent readers? So I shall continue.
Yes, the me is back. And the me is sick. Of course, my disappearance had nothing to do with being sick, but I am naturally going to milk it for its worth. So instead of giving me grief for vanishing, please to be all sweet and sympathetic. Thankoo.
So, about being sick. No I don’t have a nice cough and cold that allows me to speak funkily. I was looking forward to the I god a gold, snibble, thangoo routine, but nopes, no ah-choos for me. I also haven’t broken an arm or a leg so I can proudly show off my cast and elicit sympathy and perhaps some celebrity autographs. Instead I am stuck with something that hurts like hell but has no grandeur associated with it. An ear infection. Now, the last two people I mentioned that to, have reacted with a Really? I thought only kids got ear infections? Aww, that explains how you got one, snigger snigger. Not funny the first time. Not funny the fortieth time. So stuff it.
And then there was the doctor’s visit. First, the nurse who moonlights as a jackhammer operator —
Nurse: *cheerily* Hello!
Me: *gloomily* Hi..
Nurse: So how are we doing today?
Me: Not too well .. *holding left ear in pain* .. my ear hurts like hell.
Nurse: Aww, do you have a fever too?
Me: Yep.
Nurse: Let me see your temperature ..*pulls out an ear thermometer and *wham* into my left ear*
Me: Owwwww! (okay, so there were a few unprintables too.)
Nurse: Aww, that’s the painful ear, isn’t it?
Me: Duh?
Nurse: Aww, did that hurt a lot?
Me: Um .. er .. well .. now that you mention it .. HELL YEAH!
Nurse: Aww, you must think I’m some sort of an idiot, eh?
Me: *weak smile and stifling my urge to be honest* Er .. heh.
After the idiot nurse, came the medical resident who couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me, who called the senior resident who then called the attending doc who called the senior attending, who finally called the chief of medicine. Well okay, maybe not the last part, but the rest pretty much happened. (I was meanwhile trying to figure out which actors on ER play each of those roles. Is a fun exercise, if one if ever stuck in a hoppital.) Soon a bunch of identical looking docs in identical looking coats were tugging at my ear and shining a light into it, while I furiously made shadow puppets against the wall on the other side.
Doc: What do you think you are doing?
Me: Making shadow puppets with my fingers? See? *making a dog to demonstrate*
Doc: *looking at me wondering just how extensive this infection is* Huh?
Me: You’re shining a light here? Head empty? Light emerges at other end, yes?
Doc: *weak smile* Could you please put your hand down?
Tchah. No sense of humor only, these boring lab coats have.
Anyway after some conversation that involved highfalutin lines like ‘that is indeed an unusual manifestation of a <insert fancy medical term here>, but I concur with your initial diagnosis that this is an inflammation of the <insert fancy medical term for some part of my ear>’, several test-tubes of blood were drawn and I was sent home to live in a drug-induced haze for the next ten days. And the worst of it all — with a warning to not be around loud noises and music. So, if I murjhaofy like a phulwa that has been denied water, because of the lack of music in my life, you know whom to blame. Dr Song, that’s who. Yep, that’s my doc. Talk about cosmic irony.
Ironic, indeed. Glad you survived the brutal nurses, and are back to spread some cheer! :)
Friday, August 11, 2006 @ 1:33 AM
hear hear :-)
Friday, August 11, 2006 @ 1:45 AM
Hi!
We, the loyal readers of thy blog, salute you.
We always knew you were sic(k). Still no light at the end of the ear canal?
I am glad you are back. Now I don’t have to get up in the middle of the night to check if you are back on the blog. NEVER do that to us again. Next time, write the blog from your drug-induced haze. Might give interesting results.
yours as always,
Amol
Friday, August 11, 2006 @ 2:10 AM
So much for non-existent readers.
Friday, August 11, 2006 @ 2:20 AM
Really? I thought only kids got ear infections? - Forty first time :)
Must give it to you to play with shadows in hospitals. I mean that should prove that you are kid, if the infection did not prove :)
What else happened in your silent world ?
Friday, August 11, 2006 @ 2:28 AM
ear infection haan?
do you need someone to YELL these comments for you, if that could make things easier… and what kind of doctors insert thermometers into ears? i’ve heard about other openings… but EAR… KAAN…
and now since you let out the secret that only kids have ear infections, i can trace back the source of Bachha samajh ke kandhe pe bithaya to kaan mein… thankoo thankoo
*formality serious note* i hope u are better now… good to see u back :)
Friday, August 11, 2006 @ 3:58 AM
yay! you’re back.. oh and don’t think that because you’ve abandoned your blog, we abandon reading it. your posts are funny even the fortieth time we read it. sick and drug induced or not, its good to see you back. and tell us if you are alright now..
Friday, August 11, 2006 @ 5:03 AM
Aww… I’m sowwy… But you know what’s funny about ear infections… C’mere, lemme tell ya a secret… The real funny part is… WHEN I YELL INTO YOUR EAR LIKE THIS AND YOU CONTORT YOUR FACE LIKE YOU’RE HAVING A HEART ATTACK!!!
Friday, August 11, 2006 @ 5:25 AM
* Special Sound Effects Starts *
Welcome Back!!!
* Special Sound Effects Ends *
Hope with your ear, you hear with no fear.. :-)
Cheers,
HP
Friday, August 11, 2006 @ 6:25 AM
Did somebody read out one of your posts to your own ear?
Jus kidding..get well soon.
Friday, August 11, 2006 @ 7:33 AM
*drum roll*
the megha is back!
let the mania begin!
Friday, August 11, 2006 @ 7:39 AM
Welcome back! your post is like a Californian spring in the Texan summer. Funny you wrote about an ear infection as I get the feeling of having one while trying to figure out the southern accent.
Hope you are doing well now and are not going to abandon your readers again.
Friday, August 11, 2006 @ 9:11 AM
Awwww….
Not to mistake the “awww” for me saying “awww” for you being sick. That “awwww” was for you not wearing a cast which means that there is one less place to imprint my famous signature on. :(..
On second thought, can I sign your ear?
On third thought, can i sign inside your ear?
On *insert any number here* thought, notice how a typo can make “sign” into “sing”? Imagine how singing your ear would be!
“Oh there was this year
she had something in her ear
it wasn’t a pitcher of beer
but an infection of the innnnnnerrrrrr earrrrrrrrrr…..”
On an unrelated note, any ear problems? Consult Dr “Iron” Mike Tyson to have it “removed”. :P
Friday, August 11, 2006 @ 12:37 PM
Look’s like even nature is happy with your getting better! We heard that it is jab jab phool kile type day in the East coast, now that you are better. Though one does hear that it is stinks too, which is the irony, cos a painful ear stinks too, in a different way.
Friday, August 11, 2006 @ 12:51 PM
jab jab phool KILE, eh? Oh well, we are talking about a corpse flower here..
Friday, August 11, 2006 @ 2:57 PM
Hahaha!! You are hilarious. Itne pain mein bhi you took the pain to write. Hope you are feeling better.
Friday, August 11, 2006 @ 3:40 PM
[Heh Heh] Very phunny Saar!
[Megha] : So, if I murjhaofy like a phulwa that has been denied water, because of the lack of music in my life, you know whom to blame.
I knew you were talking about phulwa somewhere. And I kept wondering why I was reminded of the other phulwa in the morning!
Friday, August 11, 2006 @ 4:27 PM
If you do two-step, 27 times, then suffer eased.
You want ah-choos ? Why ? I thought Jimmy was tres chic.
(OK, rambling).
Glad to see you back, and bouncing away too.
:)
Friday, August 11, 2006 @ 8:56 PM
OK.. koshteen!
You say friends, romans and countrymen.. does that mean you are not friends with Romans???
Saturday, August 12, 2006 @ 12:40 AM
Ah! This blog is back! Ladies and Gentlemen, let the err.. ‘ear’ drums roll!
Saturday, August 12, 2006 @ 4:40 AM
So, you planning ear-transplant then? I mean, with so many people lending you their ears, any self-respecting doctor in any bollywood movie will perform that operation.
I guess next post will be a red lamp outside operation theatre, and relatives pacing the corridor asking each medical person, “kya hua?” ;)
And how many of “you” were victims of this operation? It was unnerving to read “I” instead of the usual “we” given the talk of infections and diseases in the post.
Saturday, August 12, 2006 @ 8:43 AM
Aha… ear we go!
back with a BANG! (ouch, did that hurt?!) :-)
Saturday, August 12, 2006 @ 10:09 AM
ROTFL….you are amazing..:-))
feeling better?
Saturday, August 12, 2006 @ 11:10 AM
Hehehe..Welcome back and Enjoy the drugs. As far as music goes, you can sing some very nice ones to yourself (of course that invites some other problems).
Saturday, August 12, 2006 @ 5:01 PM
Laff Laff :D I’ve never got an ear infection ! Owner’s envy, neigbor’s pride. Gee, so I can lis-ten to Mu-Si-Hic Hic ! all te tie-m :DD ! More :D :D :D Love ya blog. Me-Ghal-O ! man-IAh ! And when you don’t write new blog, You&Me reads ol’ blogs.
Sunday, August 13, 2006 @ 2:47 AM
hope you are doing fine by now!!..would have referred you to me dad…he is a top knotch ENT surgeon :)…i have never had an ear infection but several painful examinations :)….
since your I hadnt visited your blog for a hwile i decided to look arounda bit….collected all the avtars in which i have commented….:)
sanky, chunxia weng, kallu mama, tidda the grasshopper, dakoo of dharbhanga, P K Dubey, hero hiralal..and may there be many more…
later!
Sunday, August 13, 2006 @ 12:40 PM
how come “this” doesn’t work ?
Sunday, August 13, 2006 @ 12:52 PM
The picture in my head as I read your post … Denzel Washington (from Man on Fire?) asking, “Can you hear me now?” Anyway, that was not very nice … I’m sorry. Hope you feel better … it’s all that earwax man, I’m telling ya. :), no seriously, hear better soon.
Sunday, August 13, 2006 @ 1:50 PM
arey! Kanpur mein stirke? sympathies.
Monday, August 14, 2006 @ 5:03 AM
know what, the comments to ur post are as hilarious as ur post itself. not hilarios is ur ear pain. would it hv stopped by now?!
Monday, August 14, 2006 @ 2:03 PM
Hey, you’re back! ENT surgeons, eh? Tell me about it. The one I keep going to (no, not for my ear, my sinuses) keeps wanting to put me into an alcohol-induced daze… get thee well soon.
Monday, August 14, 2006 @ 2:13 PM
You thought you would have “lost” your readers in a month? Hah! 31 comments does not say that :)
Welcome back. Have been a reader from a long time but hadn’t commented much…
By the way were the doctors atleast handsome? ;-)
Monday, August 14, 2006 @ 11:02 PM
awww!! tht hurts!! hope ur feeling better now! Get Well Soon! All da bloggers out here r here wid u… as ur left ear :D n who in the world cud make an encounter wid the doc an interesting blog like u did ;) kudos! and hey, I really mean it when i say, Get Well Soon :P
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 @ 5:10 AM
C’mon girl! It’s Tuesday and not a peep out of you. It’s our independence day….no remembering days gone by or how you used to sing the national anthem to your fav uncle? Atleast give us your comments on our comments!
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 @ 11:48 AM
You better reply to comments, or we shall start talking in Hindi. (And to be fair, what normally happens is that everyone plugs their ears to stop the bleeding and runs as far away from us as possible!)
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 @ 6:42 PM
[qs.gemini] It is good to be back too. And thankoo for un-ditching me :)
[iii] You mean ‘ear ‘ear, right? :)
[amol] As some wise man once said - the light at the end of the tunnel could be that of an approaching train. But yes, light is shining right through ears once again, the shadow puppet farm is alive and kicking, and all is well in my world once again :) Thanks for checking in!
[Andy E.] *sheepish grin* You are all nicer than I gave you credit for, I guess :)
[Rk] Now now, we didn’t need ear infections and shadow puppets to prove that I am a kid. Pretty much most of the things I say and do stand testimony to that, these days. And yay! My world is no longer silent! The music and dhinkichikis are back in full force! :)
[Rumpy] Well, to be fair, ear thermometers are far nicer than some other kinds. Plus they take the temperature in less than five seconds, which makes it a blessing when you’re already feeling crappy with fever. As long as they are not shoved into my painful ear, they are pretty much my best friend. *formal tone* I am much better now, thanks much for asking! :)
[general specific] Thankoo thankoo! Gratifying to know that the nonsense has repeat value also! Wasn’t particularly alright at the time of writing this post but am doing much better now. The drug-induced haze continues till Thursday though, so beware :)
[witnwisdumb] Ah is that so? The next time you have a godawful ugly image of a sepia-tinted steel-wool wheeled cart on a bathroom tiled floor that you want to convert into a Malgudi Days reminiscing bit of art, you try yelling your requirements into our painful ear, and we’ll see what we can come up with, for you. Howzat? Real funny, no? :)
[HP] :)
Thanks to your wishes sincere,
My ears can hear loud and clear!
[aniyan] That wouldn’t explain why only one of my ears went bad, would it now? Is important to use fool-proof logic when being nasty. And thanks for the wishes :)
[sudha] Oh yesh, Am sick of being sick, I tell ya. Time for some good wholesome nonsense, I say!
[Richa] Thankoo! No no, I never meant to abandon my readers the first time either. Just that life bonked me on the head and left me in a daze for a bit. Very sorry and all that. *hangs head in shame* And wotcha doing around Southern accents and all? Moved there for good from sunny Calif?
[Sriram] Celebrity autographs, I said. Just cos you moved you ass to fancypants Hollywood doesn’t mean you are one. A celebrity, I mean. Not an ass. Well .. okay, never mind. Deadly pome, by the way. Killed the ear infection in an instant, it did.
And yes, I am friends with some Romans. But not every Roman is a friend. Why? You see, as some wise man said once (Javed Jaffrey, in case you wonder) - When in Rome, do Romans. And we firmly believe in not mixing friendship and romance, especially when we are visiting Italy. So there.
[anantha] Aww, sweet of you to have associated that with this. Although a blooming phulwa that stinks being likened to my getting better? Are you trying to tell me something here, that I am blissfully ignoring? And Anti-type spellings reminded me of the TV show Quile Ka Rahasya, that I used to insist on pronouncing as ‘Kwyle Ka Rahasya’. Anyone remember this delicious horror-fest on DD?
[heh] heh :)
[RS] Yesh I am much better now, thankoo for asking. Hope to be back soon with the usual :)
[Unphoney] Yesudas’s broken toys? Choos are good but I prefer the dude with a very blah nickname who has a thing for manholes.
(for all other readers who wonder just what the hell I am babbling, put it aside to the aforementioned drug-induced haze)
[Arun] What is with people insisting on pounding drums around my poor ear? You really wish for my sanity to go away, don’t you? Oh and thankoo :)
[Fleiger] Ooh perfect! The doctor will emerge (with mask on face) to say - operation to successful hai, magar hum abhi se kuchh nahin keh sakte. The next 24 hours are the most critical. Sab uuparwale pe nirbhar karta hai. Ab dawaa nahin, sirf dua hi kaam karegi. (Making you wonder exactly how much was the doctor’s contribution really.) At which point, scene will cut to a Nirupa Roy type aunty mannat mangofying for me. Yes, I am liking this very much. And not to worry, the we-s and the wheee-s will both be back :)
[Vasu] Sigh. Yet another bang. What is with you people anyway? Have I wronged you all in some previous birth or something? Glad to be back :)
[Kranthi] Yes, feeling much better, as is probably apparent by all this babbling I’m doing in the commentspace. And thankoo :)
[Paddy] Other people can deal with those other problems then :)
[You&Me] Ah goodie! Some purpose the archives are serving, it seems :)
[sanky] Yes, am much better now although ENT docs currently make me a little nervous. And how DID you find all your avtaars, anyway? Post by post? And dakoo of dharbhanga? When did this one make an appearance, pliss tell?
[OnSecondThoughts] Because this blog, contrary to you turning it into your personal circus, is not a clown’s multicolor outfit, that’s why :)
[Jay] ’someone who loves dogs’ - you’ve used that one on THIS blog? Hmm .. wonder when? And thanks!
[Australopithecus] Yes, a strike in Kanpur is far worse than a strike in Nagpur :(
[uday] Its almost gone, thankoo for asking. And yes, my commenters so admirably make up for my lack of writing, that I am tempted to go back to bed and let them take over the blog :)
[Senthil] Yesh, we is back. And nice to see you back as well!
[shark] Hello lurker, glad you unlurked! We are wont to assuming the worst, but we are happy that our readers prove us wrong :) And docs were theek-thaak types, nothing worth writing about. Now if even one of them could have looked like this, the ear infection would have been worth all the trouble. Tchah.
[raj da 2nd] Thankoo for the wishes! And glad my misery was of some use and entertainment to you all :)
[amol] Hmm, so I have to generate a tender tale from my childhood that’ll make you all warm and fuzzy? Okie, here’s a jingle-inspired ditty then -
Jab main chhoti bachchi thhi,
badi shararat karti thhi,
meri chori pakdi jaati,
tab uncle hota Bajaj!
I actually had a Bajaj-uncle as a family friend, so that worked out very conveniently for me there.
[Sriram] If it is anything like Anantha’s Hindi, this blog will be a more entertaining place because of it, so bring it on, I say! (Pliss to not miss how I shamelessly stereotyped you and Anantha, just cos you have another language in common! I am so proud.)
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 @ 8:16 PM
tschah! these dog-haters. You should have tried the cat, you know using the stethoscope as the tail! I admit being one of the culprit involved in the whole “only kids gets ear infections” mocking saga of yours. Not funny when you get one of those infections of your own.
Get well shoon!
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 @ 8:30 PM
tcha@ Toy Story. But OK, you were on meds, probably slow reactions@ reply after a week. Now that you are back on the treetops with monkey tricks, let me ask you, what to dos, Jenny, the Ass hasn’t come ?
(Love that song, BTW.) ==> is now singing ( Viewers not in desh may get transliterated version)
Bore, brother and sun set dully too, some yen yawned n stretched.
Oh well, we are Blahse about Choos n Chocks.
And typo, typo, tsk tsk. Not *clown*, it is spelt *clone*. So personal wonly no, circus ?
:-)
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 @ 9:23 PM
Well, we can even put a song, sung by a Nirupa-Roy-type mother and a sister in front of conviniently situated god statue in the hospital at the point after The Doctor declares the bit about dava and duva… And then when the song approaches its end, the eyelids (can’t say ear now, can I?) will flutter open and the nurse will give the good news to the singing relatives. And then, all’s well that ends well.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 @ 10:10 PM
[gvenum] Er? I should have made a cat (instead of a dog) so I could use the stethoscope for a tail? And what freak animal farm did you grow up on that had dogs with no tails? Tsk tsk.
[UnP / OST] Yay! I thought you might be the same!
what to dos, Jenny, the Ass hasn’t come?
Bore, brother and sun set dully too, some yen yawned n stretched.
Ka karoon sajani, aaye na balam
Bhor bhayi aur saanjh dhali re, samay ne li angdaai
Surely you insult us, if you thought we wouldn’t know this song backwards. But before you get too happy - Balaam was not the ass, Balaam HAD an ass. So pliss to get your obscure references right. And we might be a little crazy and a little Yana Gupta (now get THAT ref, hah!), but we ain’t no clown-clone. So there.
[Fleiger] Perfect. I now know who I can count on, to script my especially-made-for-Bollywood life-story :)
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 @ 12:47 AM
elloooo!!! Goodie good to hear from you!..wel Entertainment it is, but not at the cost of ur ear. well, wt I meant ws, to be ur left ear and…. hmm..may b borrow ur ipod till ur ear gets better…sounds music to my ears already [:P]
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 @ 1:47 AM
I thought the doc didn’t seem to like your dog shadow act, may be a cat would have made him happy using his stethoscope to good effect, so he feels involved in the fun too. Just a chotu suggestion. BTW, what did you use as tail for the dog!
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 @ 9:08 AM
Life has dumped me in the mighty city of Houston for 2.5 months a.k.a. Internship. So having fun time trying to figure out the language they speak in this state in the name of English!
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 @ 9:45 AM
Thankoo… and if you want further incentives, we will get Annu Malik, Bappi Lahiri and Himmesh (The Evil Trinity) for music part of the movie. [So that nobody places the blame of flop film on me for bad screenplay] Karan Johar will direct it, fresh from the success of KANK… Please decide the actors you will like to play you and your dear ones (including your readers).
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 @ 10:47 AM
==> Having made ass of hisself, slinks away.
(UnP :Background muttering “pretended ill n all, tcha. Else woulda really given a tough un”)
(OST: Background whining ” 17 against 2, noffair, noffair”)
Well enough, sez I. Get posting already!
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 @ 12:26 PM
[raj da 2nd] Sigh. First the loud bangs and drums to attack my ears. Now when I finally start to feel better, they want to ‘borrow’ my iPod. Why is it that nobody has kind, sweet and happy thoughts when I am sick? I must surely be doing something terribly wrong, no?
[gvenum] As any self-respecting shadow-puppeteer will tell you, we do not believe in using external props when our fingers can do the job. (Some other people in some other .. *cough* .. professions could also use the same line to talk about their work, but we shall be polite and not elaborate on that topic right now .. *cough*)
[Richa] Aha! I’m in a dilemma if I should say congratulations for the internship or behave like a damn Yankee and offer sympathies for the location, instead. I kid I kid :) Am sure Houston is a lovely place, the accent-adjustment notwithstanding. So are you quite ready to do a paper on the differences between - you, y’all, all y’all, y’alls and yernses yet? :)
[Fleiger] Au contraire, no matter how bad the movie is, if you get any one of the evil trinity to compose music for it, you are sure to have a sleeper hit on your hands. You can make the screenplay as bad as you want it and will still be guaranteed success. As for who should play me, ooh, now THAT is an excellent question. Who indeed? Ideas anyone? :)
[Asstonished] Heh. I might not be my usual self when sick, but I’m still plenty enough to deal with your obscurisms, thank you very much. Two? TWO? The last time I counted, you were at least forty-seven. And amidst all the chatter between UnP and OST, you thought I wouldn’t notice that you didn’t get the Yana Gupta reference? Hah!
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 @ 4:40 PM
Well, one shouldn’t mind using external props if its a live one (read as human)….you know extra pair of fingers is extra help:-) . .. you know to get more eloberate images!
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 @ 7:26 PM
[gvenum] What is this world coming to? I did say I would not elaborate futher on that topic, out of politeness, didn’t I? And that became an invitation to continue on this trip? Tchah. I am talking about shadow-puppets here. Innocent shadow puppets. Any other ‘eloberate’ images that you would like to dwell on, are best left within the confines of your pondy-brain. For all you know, some young impressionable kid is going to do a Google search for shadow puppets and show up on my blog. Do you really want to scar that poor sod for life? *shakes head at the ghor kalyug around her and walks away*
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 @ 9:34 PM
Always a woman to her …
err.. a naari we meant.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 @ 9:35 PM
[2F] Muh?
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 @ 9:36 PM
2F –> 47
Tcha.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 @ 10:41 PM
[A Hex on you!] Eesh. Not the 2F part. We’re a geek, remember. That much we get. The Anari bit, we were asking. Babuji and all, we would have understood. But Anari? Or some Lakme funda? (Also notice that he still hasn’t gotten ref. Three strikes and you’re out.)
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 @ 10:56 PM
Then we have a formula for a superhit on our hands, I can see us laughing our way to bank, our pockets stuffed with dollars (yes, I am going to sell overseas rights too)
So, found any actors yet? Let’s see… any gult actresses for playing lead?
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 @ 11:42 PM
Hey Garuda…(why only Ram all the time, others should get a chance no!)…I agree Ghor Kaliyug this is! The only pondy I know is Pondicherry! Total innocent hand puppet images I am talking about, and she throws pondi connotations on me. I said 2 pairs of hands gives more eloberate pictures. That’s all! This kid who can read so much out of such innocuous messages is maligned anyway even before he makes this search. If any this should serve as knowledge base in shadow puppetry! Tshcah!
* Mein Bekasoor hun Ji !* in a perenial innocent Raj kapoor voice. See only sounds no fingers!
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 @ 11:55 PM
Houston is an interesting place but then “interesting” is an interesting word! And I rest my case..
I started with my ‘research paper’ on the differences only to discover there have been volumes written on the subject so ended up buying a ‘translation book’ instead. Life’s little pleasure depends on that book now!
Thursday, August 17, 2006 @ 9:16 AM
Ok, so out.
Samajhne waale samajh gaye hain, na samjhe, woh anaari hain … already admitted defeat n all.
anaari–> a naari –> …. but always a woman to her n all. (Always a woman to me whatisname song)
Thursday, August 17, 2006 @ 9:07 PM
You have been tagged! *diabolical laugh*
Read this post and then dazzle us all with your witty n creative answers to at least 25 of those questions - any 25 of ‘em. Pliss to do this, pliss pliss. [Note: you are the first person I have ever tagged. Ever. Since I ever started blogging. So taking this to being special honour bestowing upon you :P]
Thursday, August 17, 2006 @ 11:43 PM
ah..aah…well i wish id say u r rite, but I aint got a cold heart for u ;) ..blame the fan in me :D; A saint and a Sinner I am, uh..oh..may be a little bit more Sinner than a Saint :P Get well Soon…
Friday, August 18, 2006 @ 2:50 AM
NIce to have you back after such a long time doing one of the many things you do well. I just hope I dont think of your post when I go to work . Making fun of doctors, eh? “Allari chesthey injection isthaaru jagratha.”
Friday, August 18, 2006 @ 1:33 PM
You can laugh about a pain in the ear, good for you. But you know what, you stay so determinedly cheerful, one day you’ll come across a sad-ass grunt like me and get wasted.
STOP smiling sometimes, it feels GOOD to be grumpy now and then.
Saturday, August 19, 2006 @ 9:32 AM
Eesh@ last commenter couch-case. Pliss to wake up n smell coffee. The world is fulla ppl who are whining away (anytime ya wanta, ask. No dearth of supply). We visit this blog to see wonly unrestrained cheer and will chastise any damn idjit who sobers up for mere ear ache. (dya hear, all 17 of ya ? When you are lying on bed and asking “yeh roshni kyun dheemi ho rahi hai” and assorted hangers-on are gently saying ” yeh roshni nahin, aapke aankhon ki roshni jaa rahi hai” and camera man focuses on flat-lining with keeeenk sound…. at THAT point of time we expect that the haath that drops lifeless would be making shadow puppets. Wokkay ?)
Take care ?
Hell ya better stop whining abt ear ache n start posting … thrice a day after each meal. Is what doctor ordered.
Saturday, August 19, 2006 @ 3:37 PM
I guess there are already 2 tags to be picked up by you (if you pliss to do, that is). However that shall not stop me from tagging you. You are the only one to be tagged , so pliss be taking it up. (See what reasons we give to pliss you. witnwisdumb says you are the first person to be tagged and I also attempt to woo you). And before you even bother not to look at it, I tempt you by saying that the tag is about weirdness. 6 weird things about you.
Sunday, August 20, 2006 @ 6:54 AM
ha ha ha ha….ultra cool…but musta been pretty painful (*gritting my teeth while contorting my face*)
Monday, August 21, 2006 @ 8:22 AM
That was “yum” serial on DD, used to follow it like crazy. Along with Barristor Vinod, Karam Chand, Nukkad, my alltime fav Yeh jo Hai Zindagi, Neev, Indradhanush, Buniyaad, Giant Robot and so on… unforgettable memories!
*tschach! can’t help humming the stupid “yaadien” title song from that mediocore Anu malik.*
Monday, August 21, 2006 @ 5:42 PM
[Fleiger] No no. See, Gult actresses aren’t doing too well in Bollywood nowadays. Gone are the days when southie babes ruled the roost. And you’re looking to stuff your pockets with dollars, aren’t you? Then think internationally, will ya? Tchah. Gult actresses he says, typecasting me. No value only I have out here.
[gvenum] Yes, Raj Kapoor - a person who, in my opinion, had the huliya of a lafanga but continued the hurt-puppy ‘look at me, i’m so bhola, don’t you want to hug me’ act ad nauseam. The mooh mein raam raam, bagal mein chhuri types personified. Don’t worry, I am still talking about Raj Kapoor here. Did you think otherwise?
[Richa] Oh yes! I’ve started to use ‘fascinating’ instead of ‘interesting’ cos too many people are starting to realize that ‘interesting’ is what you use when you have nothing nice to say. Oops, I probably shouldn’t have announced that here. Ah well. Hope the book helps some :)
[Outre] Tchah, tsk tsk and other assorted sounds.
A little crazy and a little Yana Gupta
Thoda sa pagla, thoda sayaana :)
[witnwisdumb] Ugh. Those weird Google/Blogger questions. I never much cared for them. Heck, I refused to answer them on my own profile. And you want me to attempt 25? How can you do this to me? Have you no shame? Have you no concern for someone sick? (See how I conveniently fall sick all over again when needed?)
[raj da 2nd] Thanks! Will do :)
[dominique] Thankoo. And no no. Just one idiot nurse and a couple of doctors. Not every single one of you :)
[AQC] Wokay, here’s a visual for you. The year, 1970. The movie Anand. You be grumpy Amitabh. I’ll be the annoyingly chirpy Kaka Khanna. Without the dying-of-terminal-illness part and definitely minus the headshake bit. Now, if you could be nice and understand what this blog is about instead of expecting my blogging personality to be what it fundamentally is not, I shall, being the sweet, cheerful soul that I am, try to not to leave you an audio recording of me spouting ‘babu moshaay, ye duniya ek ..’ that’ll unexpectedly sneak up on you while you’re grouching around some day. Deal?
[Toddy] Thank you for chiming in. Couldn’t have said it better myself :) And yessir, will try to listen to the doc!
[Rk] Arrey? Why am I such a tag-magnet lately? Do I have ‘gullible idiot’ written on my head that I don’t know about? And six weird things? Isn’t this blog enough? Is there anyone out there who actually wants more?
[Siri] Unfortunately it was very painful. Which is precisely why we distract ourselves with our own silliness :)
[gvenum] Okay, this is the second time now, so I am compelled to ask. Have you ever tried to read out the words you type in my commentspace? If not, you should seriously try it. Much entertainment. First you came up with the ‘Tshcah!’ and now we have a ‘Tschach!’ on our hands. Just exactly how does one make these sounds? I have heard of tchah. I say tchah a lot so am very familiar with it. But tshcah? (Tishhhh-kaaa) And now tschach? (Tishhh-chach, which sounds like a fashionable chachi named Tisca) I seriously think you deserve the Yaadein that is playing in your head.
Nice TV serials all. They deserve a post of their own.
Monday, August 21, 2006 @ 7:12 PM
No, No, I was thinking about RK too. ( Note to self : No more fluorescent items in pockets no matter how much you like them)
There is perfectly logical explanation to all this. Hmm! err! well! Let me think! yess! 3 sisters of aunt Tisca who were seperated at mela from their mother tchah! *get head phones on to my ears and maxing the volume of the yaadein song ..and whispering fast death.. fast death*
I think I will die laughing before that!
Monday, August 21, 2006 @ 9:41 PM
Oh yes… I forgot that. I was going by GAQ post.
Anyways, if we want dollars, we will get Karan Johar… so the entire cast is already decided. Just tell us whether you would like to be Kajol or Rani (ok, something in that sentence is wrong)
On the other hand, one more option is Ashutosh Gowarikar, in which case you can select any actress (even a gult one)
Tuesday, August 22, 2006 @ 9:39 AM
Greetings Madame Phulwa!
Tuesday, August 22, 2006 @ 10:59 PM
Hmm…I thought you’d finally tired of responding to your gazillion comments. But, hope floats still :P
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 @ 12:03 AM
[gvenum]
If only your willingness to correct your typos matched your willingness to give your life up, we would all read easier, sleep better and have more hair on our head. If only.
[Fleiger] Hmm.. anyone is fine just as long as we don’t have to cry. We just cannot do tears. Hmm, maybe K-Jo won’t work so well after all. I was actually thinking of someone like T L V Prasad (with some Mithun type aye saala dialogues thrown in) or better still, someone like Kanti Shah, the maker of heroine-oriented movies like Basanti Tangewali (1992) and Phoolan Hasina Ramkali (1993). Now those are some fine moviemakers in whose hands, my life-story would take a life of its own.
[Moonie] Yellow! Yesh, the blooming phulwa is back :)
[Dev] Hah. You skeptic, you! Hum unmein se nahin hai jo comment ka line dekh kar dar jaate hain. Hum voh hain jo comments ko line mein le aate hain! You know that sounded much cooler when I said in my Amitabh impersonating voice. Typed, it just sounds wimpy. Tchah.
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 @ 12:39 AM
Ha!
That’s where you are going wrong.You should have imagined Shatrughan Sinha’s voice. Or you could always try the Raj Kapoor voice from Awara. :D
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 @ 12:21 PM
Do you want to tell me that SRK can “do tears”? That’s a first…
I like your idea of T L V Prasad or Kanti Shah, though the name of the movie should be fitting to their prowess… Like “Kanpur Ki Kanya” maybe… And we will have Mithunda as hero, a doctor who cures the aforem. kanya’s kanpur from dakus, while she fights kandhe se kandha mila ke…
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 @ 7:41 PM
I went through ayahs the last few months who were actually worse than your idiot nurse. I can totally sympathise :)
Thursday, August 24, 2006 @ 8:50 AM
test
Thursday, August 24, 2006 @ 4:43 PM
Raam Raam Megha ji..
ee narasiyaa to sasuri badi baahiyaat type ki nikli…thermaameter ko bhalaa koi kaan mein ghusaata hai? bujhaata hai ki kaansience ekdamme se dead ho gaya hai..par aap bhi naa…aapko ghooma ke denaa chaahiye thha uske kaan ke neeche aoor thermaameterwaa ghusaana thaa seedha uski naak mein…
hum to abhi tak bidesi narasiyan ko bada ijjat se dekhte the..akele mein..bheeceedee miltaa hai bees bees rupiya kaa….usmein ee narasiya sab bada badhiya badhiya jaali paheen kar aati hain…oohaan bides mein machhar bahoot hote hain kaa?…jo ee sab hamesaa machhardaani paheen kar taiyar rahti hain..khair to ee jaali naras jo hoti hain..bada achha achha ilaaj karti hain…par ee sasuri ne unkaa naam poooraaaa kaan mein ghusaa diyaa!
waise humko lagtaa hai ki bidesi logan ka kaan ko lekar kuch phetis hotaa hai..oo maaikal boltonwaa ek thho gaana gaaya rahaa..kaan i touch you there? arrey?? itna bada sareer…usmein itna sundar sundar jagaah…aoor sasur tumko kaane chhonaa hai?
khair humko is baat ka bahoot-A khusi hai ki ab aapka kaan theek ho gaya hai..aoor ee to bada hi naainsaafi hai ki aapka post ka phreqeuncy itna decreasiyaa gaya hai…bhai ise ear ly pheeture naa banaayein….beekley rakhein to meherbaani hoga..
-Ears Phaarebher
Ram Khelavan Yaadav
Thursday, August 24, 2006 @ 4:45 PM
still testing
Thursday, August 24, 2006 @ 4:48 PM
your blog doesnt like me:(
Thursday, August 24, 2006 @ 4:50 PM
Hey. Am a regular to your blog. Never posted a comment. Not even on those girlie-girlie stuff I loved reading. Saw a lovely short film titled “Me,Meera” about Hyderabad the other day at Alliance Francaise. The narration by Meera and her language so reminded me of you!!! Please tell me you wrote it!!! Or, are you just related to www.subhakar.com in collge or something??!!
Friday, August 25, 2006 @ 4:43 PM
Good news… we are going to save some money, in fact a lot of money…
I am going to be next Karan johar… So that’s our bottom line just going a notch up. And I actually love coffee…
Monday, August 28, 2006 @ 9:19 PM
i came here thinking i’d grab a few loud laughs and go back (at a time when i am not particularly feeling like laughing at my own state) but could not get over the co-incidence. i too posted after a month y’day on my blog thanks to a more glamorous but still undeciphered knee condition. hope you recover soon and as for DR. Song goes - pl go and scream in his ear once you’re feeling better
Tuesday, August 29, 2006 @ 11:46 PM
Hey, good to know that you are back!
Take care…
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 @ 12:28 PM
[Amol] Tch tch. It is a sacrilege to suggest anything less than an Amitabh impersonation for a line that has been inspired from Kallu himself. And the Raj Kapoor bit shall not even be dignified with a retort. So there.
[Fleiger] I thought a couple of the furrowed brows and eyelash flutters, followed by a sheepish grin were attempts to ‘do tears’. Par khair, koi baat nahin. I am very pleased with your selection of movie title though. Kanpur ki Kanya is most excellent. Especially since I have a bachpan ka Kanpur connection (not just my bad ear, even otherwise) and hence will have some interest in saving the town, with Mithun’s able help of course. Oh and by the way - when do classes begin? :)
[Sue] Always a glutton for sympathy. Thankoo :)
[Ram Khelawan Yadav-ji] Vaise to aapka comment padh kar hum zara speechless ho gaye, to ear-ly aur beek-ly bak bak karne ka to pataa nahin. But questions have been pouring in about the availability of these bees-rupaiyya bheeceedees. Word on the street is that it is quite a bargain (they usually cost about fifty, I am told) and people want to know more about the supplier.
[Akhila] Hello, glad you decided to stop by and comment this time and hopefully it’ll be a more regular feature from now on :) And nah, I had no clue about the existence of the film until you mentioned about it nor do I have anything to do with its makers. But it sounds interesting. I’ll check it out some time.
[reshma anand] Now that is a coincidence I would rather not have :( I hope your knee feels better soon! And yes, shall soon pay a visit to Dr Song, preferably armed with a boombox. Thanks much for the idea :)
[loverBoy] Will do. Thanks :)
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 @ 10:47 PM
I’m all growed up, and I still have earaches. And they never come with a sense of humour.
Ow ow ouch
:’(
Saturday, March 10, 2007 @ 2:32 AM