Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Over an ingenuous cup of tea


There are times , when you write just to know if you can , then there are times, when you write because you're expected to . Finally, there are times when you write , not really knowing why. If I say I'm writing this just for the sake of it , in lieu of passing time ,while my usual ten 'o' clock tea gives off some off its heat to the environment , and makes itself a little more bearable for my tongue, then I'm saying , what is commonly referred to as the "truth". In short, this is going to be random gibberish , which I can assume , any sane soul would/should not only ignore but also ridicule.

I've already talked about the nose here , the nose part-I , if you might recall. Why the Nose Part-II never came by ? Well, I really don't want to tell this , but I guess I need to loyal to my audience :-P. Now , I'm already anticipating the usual " What does he think of himself ?".  I know the word "audience" irks you, doesn't it ? You'd be wondering at my audacity at an assumption of such humongous self vanity. Nowadays, I just can't help my humour going all cold , I think I've been sitting in the AC for too long . Bad one ! Agreed.

Coming back to the reason. Coincidentally , the very day I announced the nose to be an inevitable part of one's personality, I was gunned with a rather rude remark about my own nose , which I should confess, at the least forced me to check its validity in the mirror. With a sensation of sporadic disappointment, I consoled myself , sulked officially for two minutes and thirty seven seconds,  finally stood back in my chair , and wondered at the inevitability of other physical features detrimental in determining one's personality. Eventually, I zeroed upon the tongue.

Why the tongue? Because it expels me to my blissful yesteryears and brings to my memory a certain incidence. I must have been eight , when I was forcefully admitted to the "British School of Table Manners" . The name of the school was rather ironic. The very first day , I went to the school with an expectation of finding teachers only of English origin , and with this malicious desire of making fun of their hindi, if at all they tried their hand at it in front me. Disappointingly , I couldn't find a single Brit , hence the irony. I never really got what they were trying to convey , because then , I stood perpetually confused between right and left. So, no matter how much they tried, they could never convey their point across.   

to be cont..

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