Pee Pee Post

Something rather funny happened in the morning.

A person approached me while I was walking towards my department, through a small ‘forest’ area and asked, if he could pee there. I was perplexed. I mumbled 'Gothilla' ('I don't know' in Kannada) and went on. I did not turn back  

But then it got me thinking. What is the right answer if someone asks, if he could pee there? Should I say ‘No No’ but then he would ask ‘ where else?” and then I would have no answer, by the time he would have peed in his pants.

I realized that lack of toilets is not only an issue in public places, but also in institutions (which sprawls in acres). Where does the cab guy pee when he waits for his 'passenger'? Where does the delivery guy from the online store or restaurant pee, when he waits for the consignee/customer to pick up the parcel? 

Melancholy in Bang-a-lore

I response to a friend's query about me:

I’m just fine

I’m just fine

I’m here still in ‘lore’ with a ‘bang’

I’ve been here

For too long

Now I need to kick me out

When? I donno

To where? I donno

I just know that I am glum

I’m still here

I’m still here

Walking, talking but lost feeling

Time stands still

Thoughts too still

Filled to the brim with blue at heart

But glum am I?

Donno too

Ran out of tears to cry my soul

Some climb high

Some reach stars

I’m jus’ so doomed in apathy

But…

I’m alive

I’m alive

Count on me to share your sobs

In a few seconds

They say when one dies, the person could see the moments of their life as if in a filmstrip; in a few seconds, their entire life being unrolled.

I experienced that. But the reverse. Not the past events, the future events.

Events which would happen in the future neatly unfurled inside my mind while I sat with my closed eyes, in front of the labour room. Inside the labour room was my wife delivering our second child. I could see a little girl in some school uniform, playing splashing water around, hanging out with friends, getting a deserving job, getting married, occasionally visiting us.. and that’s when the nurse came out holding a new born baby and called out my wife’s name. We rushed to the nurse who said it was a girl child! How did I know.  Ofcourse there are only two possibilities, but still how in the last minute (or is it the first few minutes) I could dream so vividly about the life of my (yet unborn) daughter. The journey from the dark chamber of womb to bright spacious world was so momentous to me and to my daughter and ofcourse for my wife.

Welcome to the world, little one.

Now and Then

Sonny : Did you play snooker in computer when you were small?

Me: No, I didn’t have a computer when I was small

Sonny: Did you have a TV?

Me: No (recollecting that we bought a TV when I was 8 years old)

Sonny: Did you have something to eat?

Me : ROFL

AAP cake

Me to my 5 year old: What do you think of the Aam Aadmi Party?

5 year old: Hmm.. Good, but will the party have a cake?

Me : !!