The nephew is in town. With parents in tow. Going with them to Udvada over the weekend.
Yeah you heard that right!
I am off for my annual religious pilgrimage.
Over the years I have realized that while I may not believe in "religion" per se I still have no problems with taking this annual trip. (Perhaps the detour on the way back when I manage to restock my bar with cheap Daman booze may have something to do with it).
While the parents were around they made it a point every year to take this trip and at-least once a year make a trip to a whole bunch of the agiarys in the city.
This is a tradition that was started by my grand-mother after she first moved to Bombay. She would do this trip with about 14 stops by BEST Bus taking the kids along with her.
Atheist though I am, I still take time off to carry on this tradition. Not by bus though! I tend to zip through on a Sunday morning in the car and finish off within 3 hours.
Stepping out of the Flora Fountain Agiary at 8 am on a Sunday morning on to a deserted D. N. Road you begin to question the absence of a god when you suddenly realize that the calm tranquility of the inner chambers of the Agiary have magically permeated beyond the walls of that forbidden fortress.
Someday I would love to do this thing in the traditional way, by bus (or if I can muster the energy levels on foot).
The computer is still behaving like a bitch. All of a sudden the printer refuses to work and all the "Classic" Horses and all the "Lenovo" Men have not been able to put this Humpty Dumpty together again.
They are now talking of taking such drastic action as "Hard-drive Replacement Surgery". I am more scared right now than when I was in hospital.
I am so looking forward to Dashera this year so that I can "phoodo a narial" at the machine and make all the evil demons that have infested it go away.
Yeah you heard that right!
I am off for my annual religious pilgrimage.
Over the years I have realized that while I may not believe in "religion" per se I still have no problems with taking this annual trip. (Perhaps the detour on the way back when I manage to restock my bar with cheap Daman booze may have something to do with it).
While the parents were around they made it a point every year to take this trip and at-least once a year make a trip to a whole bunch of the agiarys in the city.
This is a tradition that was started by my grand-mother after she first moved to Bombay. She would do this trip with about 14 stops by BEST Bus taking the kids along with her.
Atheist though I am, I still take time off to carry on this tradition. Not by bus though! I tend to zip through on a Sunday morning in the car and finish off within 3 hours.
Stepping out of the Flora Fountain Agiary at 8 am on a Sunday morning on to a deserted D. N. Road you begin to question the absence of a god when you suddenly realize that the calm tranquility of the inner chambers of the Agiary have magically permeated beyond the walls of that forbidden fortress.
Someday I would love to do this thing in the traditional way, by bus (or if I can muster the energy levels on foot).
The computer is still behaving like a bitch. All of a sudden the printer refuses to work and all the "Classic" Horses and all the "Lenovo" Men have not been able to put this Humpty Dumpty together again.
They are now talking of taking such drastic action as "Hard-drive Replacement Surgery". I am more scared right now than when I was in hospital.
I am so looking forward to Dashera this year so that I can "phoodo a narial" at the machine and make all the evil demons that have infested it go away.
6 comments:
Lovely to visualise you on the agiary trip. I'm always fascinated by the Parsi-well at the junction of Veer Nariman road near Flora Fountain. At night they light up the stained glass from inside, looks so beautiful.
Rather "phoodo a narial" on the machine and get yourself a new bitch on Dasehra!!
Jerry Hi!
This is a spanking new machine which refused to work with my old printer. Finally managed to sort out the issues on Friday after a week of experimenting.
The narials of the world can relax. They will not have to be sacrifised at the altar of my machine.
Viraf
Good for you. AOL offers a free antivirus (called Active Virus Shield), that is just Kaspersky rebranded. It catches 99.6% of viruses, compared to 83% for Norton Pro.
Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 is out. So the beta series is over.
I found out about Udvada from the website parsiqueen.tripod.com. Not you, is it?
well, hey. have a nice trip.
i passed by the agiary at Fountain the other day - nice.
;-)
Udvada mein sava rupye ka chandan mere liye bhi chada dena..
(Isn't that Pearl Padamsee's line in Khatta Meetha?)
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