Chillies And Pepper - The Wooden Smile

The English country to define it in words is quite intriguing. From being a sleepers paradise in winters when the sun sets at around 4 in the evening to being late night awakers paradise when the sun doesn’t even sets up at around 10 at night. Me being nocturnal as well as anytime anywhere kind of sleeper it suits me the most.

Till last week, it was as cold as cold can be, so that some of us were contemplating exporting some of the scorching heat from India, which as reports came in was boiling in the Sunny Indian Summer, forcing some to return to their native places for some reasons and enjoy the Indian summer in water coolers which they found quite a delight to bask in.

But then there was this sudden change in climate that one morning suddenly I woke up to find that I had nothing to wear that suits the climate that day and the days to follow. Suddenly the warm Primark jacket that has been my skin for so long was ripped apart from my body. And it took me no time to realise why people would not come around me especially during the last few months. It wasn’t just the smell but an identity I had to shed, who would believe a Superman if he was wearing an underwear inside his pants. Hey! Now you know why he always takes the aerial route and why wouldn’t Lois Lane spend so much more time with him.

Excited with the possibility of an English Summer, I am drying my cloths in our backyard garden and reading the story of Tom Butcher odyssey more so to increase my count of books on goodreads.com than because of any academic reasons.

And just to recap what people else where are doing. Here a quick recap, people here around me are engrossed in valleys of bugs, love and whisky. People in US are buying cars and camcorders. People are going to Amsterdam to see the Tulips bloom and shouting at the world to where they have been on their orkut profiles. Hmm in India, that’s a vibrant country, some people are getting married, some are preparing for their marriage in October, some have decided to take control of their lives and get going in their life and in the mean time they are going on adventure camps and having well some adrenalin rushing adventure, climbing trees like monkeys, going to Burma doing cyclones and doing more dangerous stuff like being eaten by dangerous fishes from the Arabian seas, chased by wild crabs and last but not the least having a sleep-over in a deserted dangerous beach from where civilisation is far away even the Martians are closer than humans from there. And for some reason they don’t have time for me, their hard luck. Anyways, not to forget the cool dudes in North, visiting every village of Rajasthan this time of the year and climbing every communication pole they can. And off course, people in Delhi adding more and more storey to their houses anticipating a family expansion.

And what’s happening in the Akhouri family, they have got a cute new toy to play with and to get themselves engaged in. And our baby is also having a great time growing up with so many people looking after her and her creating life for each one of them. And off course, somebody never thought that life would be so tough on him that after MBA he will have to start working each day of the year, even Saturdays included. Who cares if he is getting free lunch and a cab to pick and drive him home? He is obviously not getting the 2 hrs lunch breaks he enjoyed which have been miserably cut to 20 minutes. And the fact that he is confined to small room not allowed to move out and people call it his office. Hard luck! And some cute couples are doing rounds of Vijayawada and back to Jaipur, and about them I have no clue. And I have to write about somebody, for almost 5 months now her only aim in life it seems has been to get the ISD enabled on her cell so that she could ring on the 16th. Now that she achieved it I don’t know what her new target is. Really love her!!

And what am I doing these days… All smiles….