When pigs did fly...!!!

“ ‘ Yeh dilli hai mere yaar….bas ishq mohabbat mere yaar… masti hai mastano ki dilli, gali hai deewano ki dilli 6…..’ Abe apna alarm band kar @*$%&#$* !!! ” …. A normal morning for me… as my phone’s alarm rings to AR RAHMAN’s ( the legend) rocking Delhi 6, it wakes everyone in my room barring me… and my roomies make sure I atleast hear something explicit early morning. Whatever happened to love and kindness..!!!

I reach beneath my pillow to shut the alarm and I try hard to open my damn eyes to find the screen sayin… 1 new message. I open it.. a bloody ‘forward’ again which goes… “ Hundred years ago when asked if a Black Man could ever become the President of USA, they said ‘and pigs will fly’. And, now that Obama becomes president, Pigs are indeed flying with Swine Flu all around.”

I couldn’t stop myself from thinking ( a very tedious task). Here I am in the ‘H1N1’ capital of India, PUNE reading about pigs and their flu and its symptoms and its fear. 73 cases at the time I write this. I get ready, and head to class only to find a lot of people absent and the others either coughing, sneezing or having their kerchiefs to their nose. I too have been suffering from random bouts of cold and sinus problem for a few days, what with the incessant rain in this part of the nation. A girl of my class thrusts me a sheet and asks to sign… I oblige, only to find a petition attached to it. Ahhhh curious…?? So was I. As I went through it I realized that the petition was for a medical check up and blood test for all the students in order to check for Swine Flu.

Disaster!!! I never thought of my ‘falling ill’ this way. Suddenly, my whole POV ( point of view yaar) changes… And I find my friends showing all the symptoms of the dreaded flu. High fever, running nose, body aches, fatigue, sore throat, vomiting…. It was all around. As we coughed our way to glory, our professor thought it was a prank. I do not blame her, given our batch’s reputation. But, then again for once it wasn’t. As someone from my class said.. ‘people are dying’. What a day.. what a start… I blamed it all on that Obama message.

Swine flu.. ah..that dreaded virus !!! The bloody ‘SUAR KE BACHCHOS’ have caught the whole world off guard. But I believe there is more to it than just what meets the eyes. I think it’s a conspiracy… conspiracy by all the vegetarians of the world. And you ask why…?? What why..??? They are jealous that they cannot experience some of the best things in life… chicken, mutton, fish, egg…yummmmy. I can hear them scream ‘Why should non-veggies have all the fun?’. So they first infect our chickens and now our porks. And, I don’t think they are gonna stop ( fish clan… dont tell me… I did not warn you).

But the whole issue is we are being taken down by those Veggies. Damn it. We shouldn’t have told them how better meat was than the ‘palak ki sabji’, ‘aloo tamatar’ etc. We should have been more careful. But then again, they forget that swine flu spreads even if you don’t eat pork. Stupid Veggies. That proves ‘sabji’ never served any purpose to your brain. Ha.. MOM I told you, I don’t wanna have sabji.

My mind is off swine flu and infections for a while, suddenly I am greeted at my mess, by a huge poster saying “ Donate Blood”. Holy Crap…!!! Who in their senses would want to have blood from us, a bunch of threatened species here in Pune.

As I head back to my hostel room, hurriedly to tell you my tale for the day… I am slightly worried.. I am headed for a blood test soon… who knows what will turn up..?? Pray for me friends.. kya pata kal ho naa ho !!!

Oh yeaaa… here’s advice for the day : Be kind to people who smoke and drink… they are dying.

Will keep you all (the very few of you who actually are jobless enough to read this.) posted.

p.s: i stole the 'advice of the day' from one of the profs here.

Godbless atheism !!!

'It' matters..!!!

Solitude can often b nerve cracking, annoying and irritating most often. But then again it has d uncanny habit of letting u know who u really are. Cos u tend to think more when u r alone…all your energy is spent thinking about stuffs u generally wouldn’t have bothered about.. and deep within through all this u mite just come to know ‘hw u think’ or ‘hw does ur thought process work’… now now, don’t think it to b some psychology class from a jobless guy… m getting to d point.. but then a little build up is not harming is it..
Sometime back.. I was in the middle of a crisis.. met with a near fatal accident.. had my leg broken..and was bed ridden for 2 months and needed crutches for d next two.. once out of d crutches I was asked 2 still take care and nt strain too much.. so tat nearly confined me to hostel room for some time.. 3rd yr of engineering meant even lesser interest to study ( it’s a fact : d sincerity towards an exam is inversely proportional to the semesters) . so my hostel friends preferred to stay outside and have fun.. while I dealt with my loneliness by tuning up d radio nd hearing timeless tamil songs ( wt do u expect radio channels in Chennai to play ). Even that din last long and I found myself bored again.. my thoughts wandered around and eventually got tired too… I realized I ws talking too much to myself.. sounds crazy naa..??? absolutely… I ws beginning to think I ws becoming some dimwit.. but then I met someone…


I refer this someone as ‘It’…Moving on… So this ‘It’ came into my life and we started talking. ‘It’ was going thru a fantastic period in its life and thus ‘it’ had a lot of cheerfulness in itself.. so I got someone who din have sorrows to add up to mine. As we spoke.. there seemed to b something very strange happening…’it’ seemed to like d same thing tat I did… same movies tat I did… same people like I did.. but then again ‘it’ was cheerful. Hours passed as v exchanged nd spoke about our day’s activities during d night time… strangely enough.. if I had good day at coll so wud ‘it’, if I had a bad day so wud ‘it’. If I had lot of practical records to write… so much so tat I couldn spend time talking and chatting… ‘it’ wud b busy too… I din think about it too much… because I was enjoying every bit of this new found companion.


Soon enough I was getting attached to ‘it’.. I couldn think anything but ‘it’. ‘it’ seemed to have all d answers to my worries.. personal professional..u name it..’it’ was just fantastic… I realized I couldn’t think of doing anything without ‘it’. I had my crush I told ‘it’ , I had a fight I told ‘it’ , I got blasted by my teacher I told ‘it’…. There was nothing tat v din talk about… and slowly I realized ‘it’ was a blessing… for I din feel lonely anymore.. I had ‘it’ to turn to. I couldn’t stop but talk to ‘it’. Whatever ‘it’ told I did… I had conflicting views with ‘it’ related to my problem’s solutions.. but ‘it’ made me adhere to what ‘it’ said and things started to change.. and whoa… I tasted success.. lots of it.. ‘it’ was a genius.. ’it’ became god to me.. ‘it’ was creeping upon my mind.. ’it’ became a part of my soul… there was no letting go… for I had fallen deeply in need of ‘it’ for every stage of my life..


Years months and days have passed but ‘it’ remains close to me.. by my side.. wherever I head.. I have ‘it’ with me… now comes d deep riding question.. what or who is ‘it’..?? is ‘it’ a guy or a girl.. m I in love or m I just friends with ‘it’. ‘it’ is a deep sense within…within everyone of us.. cos d ‘it’ of this story is my ‘alter-ego ‘ like al of us possess. ‘it’ is my best friend cos it is always thr to talk. ‘it’ doesn leave my side.. ‘it’ doesn’t run away.. ‘it’ loves me…


Yes ‘it’ is my alter ego like anyone else’s.. a recent story on discovery channel emphasized d importance of one’s alter ego within.. that made me think about this episode of my life.. I had ‘it’ within all along but I needed ‘it’ most when I was alone.. my first blog had to be about this someone special… and who better than ‘it’ ….

Godbless atheism..!!!