Friday, January 28, 2005

Back to Cairo

After India and Basata, I've come back home finally. (come and home don't rhyme eh?) (imagine if they did, then come would sound like comb - digressions digressions).



Anyhow, I'm just very restless, as always happens when I have nothing to do, I'm filled with supernervous energy as if I have some really important task at hand, and writing is the last thing I should be doing. On the contrary, writing is the most relaxing thing hehe.



So, well, good things seem to be coming my way. Darn, I was supposed to call this person and I totally forgot, but I have a few job prospects - in teaching and publishing and possibly even NGO work, which would be great. I have tons of stories about India and a few memories of Basata I want to put up on the web.



These days I'm just taking a bit of time to be in my own mental land I guess. But I'll be back with the stories. I will share one for now: its called "Paanwala kidhar hai?"(where is the paanwala? ie the person that sells paan - nice stuff to eat in india)



So one fine day in Mumbai i decided i wanted to eat some paan. I confirmed with Jayu that the place was opposite this restaurant Trafalgar Chowk. I expected it to be some tiny affair, and I saw one of the sort closed, so I went up to this other shop and asked "Where is the paanwala?" in Hindi. The guy just looked at me and went, "Its here". Figuring it was nearby, I peered, "Here where?". The guy looked even more befuddled, and just didn't say anything... so after like a few long seconds, I saw all the paan-making paraphernalia right there, all the leaves and tins. and I was like "OH! Oh hahaha, sorry, I just didn't see". And the guy went, "No matter, (mai bhi confuse ho gaya tha) Even I got confused!"



So, smartass that I am, I went home all laughing and told the story to Jaya, and it hasn't stopped spreading I suspect. And gave people all the more reason to persist in calling me vaaydi (absent-minded in Sindhi).



Not that it stopped there. When I visited Hyderabad, and I took my poor cousin along to net center ... well, to be continued...

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