Big Boss8 Poem :23rd Jan 2015

My poem about Big Boss8

Never miss Big Boss at 9!

With the contestants Sonali, Karisma, Pritam and Upen

Sometimes they make u laugh and sometimes cry!

With their quarrels , and jokes and safai!

‘Where’s my makeup?’, shouts Karishma

Losing it leaves the big boss house in a shakeup!

Pritam is a nice and funny guy!

You can feel from far he has constipation!

Dimpy with her dimpled smile

Beware others she will make u cry

Ali Quli is the confused guy

Sometimes his actions are just not right!

Upen was the ideal brother

Till he decided to become the eternal lover!

With Salman the weekends were fun

Till Farah came & now I want to get my gun!

So farewell till the finale

Fifty lacs will be the winner’s kitty

So give it your best shot my pretties!

22nd Jan 2015

Another Saraswati puja day approaches. Yesterday Koni from our complex came to give the card for Saraswati puja and collect the money. I was thinking that maybe this time they were not coming to collect the puja subscription at all .Paranoia attack! All of us like to think that the world revolves around us.
Big Boss8 has become quite boring now with the predictable fights and flare ups between the contestents. Yesterday they were given a task where the contestents were asked to keep a button pressed while standing. The contestent who was able to keep the button pressed for the longest time would be declared the winner and would get 25lakhs as prize money. Pritam won the task in the end as he could keep standing for nearly 36 hours straight without sleep or food. I was wondering if i had been given the task how long could i have kept standing. Maybe only 5 or 6 hours at the most and that too with great difficulty.
It really is a test of endurance more than anything else.
So many things come to my mind and I keep thinking that I should write this down in this diary. But when the time comes to pen the thoughts i forget about it. Yesterday i suddenly wanted to pen a poem. But i forget what the lines were. It went something like this

What a strange story this life of mine is!

When i got what i wanted! Alas! I realised it was not

What i was looking for all along!

Money, a little bit of it, Respect and love

All are things, a bit of which i have sampled

In this life of mine!

What am i looking for then ?

What am i still thirsty for?

Why do i yearn with a hopeless longing

And dream of impossible things!

There can never be true satiety

When i drink from this cup of mortal sins

7th of Jan

 The morning was the most hectic one ever. I had a hard time deciding between office and home priorities. I tried to do both and as it was a super lucky day managed to handle both fronts. Today was already scheduled to be the day when we would demo the final trial of CTC to D. Yesterday there was a call from Jhuma di that Rishikesh wanted to talk to S. R told him that to get the Dom ,S would have to come and submit the school leaving certificate at 10.00am in the morning. D’s demo was also at 10.00. Luckily only S was required to go and not both of us. So morning I left early for the office and reached before 9.00am. Firm (AJ) wanted to know at what time they were supposed to come and immediately after reaching office I contacted Vkp to get the time of demo. It was scheduled for 10.00am, and so I relayed the message to firm to be present by then. The fun started when S called up to tell me that Rishikesh had asked him to get xerox attested copies of the certificates at 10.30. I was in a fix as Vkp had already called me and asked me to come to the site. Still i called S and told him to come to the office gate with the xeroxes, I would try to get the certificates attested. So instead of walking down to the trial site which was 5mins walk from my room I decided to walk to the gate , which was a 10mins walk from my room to collect the papers. Unfortunately I had not bought my scooter but had come in my car , so I had to trudge the entire distance. After waiting for a few mins S came and handed me the papers. It was already 5 mins past ten. He said he would wait till 10.30 and then go if I had still not got the papers attested by then. I then walked to the trial site to see that they had started the trials with load. Nk was there and after seeing that everything was working well he said that he would just get D. Seizing the opportunity , after he went I walked to the group and requested Ak to attest the papers. He said he was busy and would give it to me later, but did it anyway at my insistence. He muttered about people waiting at the gate and I muttered about D and trials. After getting it done and thanking him hurriedly, I walked to the trial site to see whether D had arrived yet. Meanwhile S called on my mobile and said that he would leave by 10.30. It was almost 10.25. I told him I would try. D had not come yet. I looked around to see if there was anyone i could send to the gate with the papers , but there was no likely candidate. Since D was still not on the horizon i decided to take the chance. I walked as fast as possible to the gate andhurriedly handed over the papers to S. I walked back as fast as possible. When I came to the trial site I had almost expected D to be there, but thankfully he had not yet arrived. I had to wait for another 30mins more before he came and the trials were shown successfully to him. What a hectic day! I walked almost 2km too and fro. Now we wil have to work on new  system. Hope S gets the dom too.

2nd Jan 2014

Today was a bit unnerving day for me. I went to office and then I realised that I had got to submit a medical certificate from the doctor to avail of medical leave for 4 days. First in the afternoon after lunchtime I went to doctor A's clinic. She had closed for the day but was still in the clinic so I just popped in to ask her if she would give me the certificate. She refused saying that as I had not taken treatment from her and she kept all records she could not give me the certificate. I was disappointed but left saying Ok.In the office too I kept on mulling on where could I get the certificate from? The whole afternoon was pretty wasted as I tried to read some technical papers for the article I was hoping to write. From beyond the partition I could hear the 2 colleagues talking and chatting away through the afternoon having a technical discussion(?) with others. There were no calls on my phone!
Most times it goes on like this only unless when I have a new project and then it is interesting and absorbing! Anyway then I came by Dr G's clinic while coming back from office and found she was on leave till 3rd (Sat) & I wanted to submit the certificate on Monday. I decided to visit Dr S. So after having tea I set off again for her clinic. I inquired for Dr D's on the way but he too was out till Feb! At Dr S's I was the twelfth patient when I came in and she was only on her 2nd at that point. So I sat down on the narrow bench outside her clinic and began the long wait. Everything seems to take extra time when you are waiting and that too something as distasteful as outside a doctor's clinic. There were six or seven patients besides me in the clinic while some others had cleverly entered their names on the receptionist's  (if I can call her that as she was a chit of a girl not more than 17yrs of age) sheet of white paper. The agonising wait became even more painful when the patient did not materialise even after ten, fifteen and then forty minutes. An elderly lady had gone in accompanied by her son and fat daughterinlaw probably and the three of them just wouldn't come out even after three quarters of an hour. Us patients outside started giving each other nervous and shifty looks and muttering under our breaths. I tried to shcool myself to the stretch by thinking that she must be ill, and it would probably be only five minutes more. Sometime I just felt like walking off! After nearly fifty minutes they came out! In the meantime ten other patients had materialised, all looking sick and anxious. One lady looked in obvious pain - she had a stomach ache and kept making pained faces and pressing her lips together ever so often. After the trio the girl had assured me that after two more patients it would be my turn at last! In the meanwhile a young spectacled man came and started convincing the girl that he wanted a health certificate and so should be let in out of the queue. First the girl let him in and he came out a few moments later and asked the girl for some directions. Later he came with a form in his hand and asked to be let in to the doctor's chamber again to get it filled. This time the doctor herself told the guy to come in queue and when the guy asked the girl to write his name she told him that he would now be last as he had not enrolled his name earlier. I was relieved by this and mentally congratulated myself for not having tried to evade the queue by using the ploy of health certificate. I was feeling guilty too of being well while sick ones were around me. I was let into the chamber at last. The doctor smiled and took my name. She then asked to see the lady with the stomach ache before me and I was relieved that she did. When my turn came I related my symptom of loose motions . She checked my pressure and it came as 90/140. I was shocked as I had never had a pressure of 70/120 and always had low pressure. She checked it twice more on the electronic dial and it too came as 85/135. She prescribed some antibiotics and when I asked for medical certificate she gave it a bit puzzled that I had attended office that day on a upset stomach. I guess she must have caught on! But I was seriously upset! A high pressure which I had never believed possible. I immediately had depressing thoughts of dying and death and spent at least one hour in agony trying to think of the fate of my family after me ! After watching Big Boss - no halfway through I decided to go for a walk and so S and I did. Decided to eat healthy and exercise this new year. Enjoy as much as possible one never knows what horrors lurk around the next corner.

1st Jan 2014

Another year has passed by rapidly - 2014. The past year was a good one for us in many ways. Sona’s imp class 10 result, getting admission in a good place for 11th 12th. My work in the office went well with a new development & S’s office peaceful. 31st Dec we went to Lonavla for the purpose of trekking to Lohagad fort. But we could go only halfway up as theroad was very bad & looked risky to climb by car.
      1st Jan was gloomy and dull. I had taken medical leave from Mon - Thurs (1st), so it was a holiday for us all. Sona was studying chem in the morning - chemical bonding with me and its quite tough & conceptual. S went off cycling and came quite late past lunchtime. Sona wanted lunch and when I asked her to wait for S, she quarreled with me. Afternoon I slept and evening went to Kali mandir for divine blessings, also to ganesh mandir. Evening I made Sona’s favourite manchurian for dinner and mongini cake. The balls were breaking and i had a bit of struggle making it, but the dish turned out ok.After watching big boss we did some more chemistry. Called everyone to wish hny, dada also called in the afternoon. Hope the tenor of 2014 continues this year also with studies and office and specially health. 2nd Jan came to office - same old same old place.