For all those who are in utter state of depression, you haven't had a good laugh in ages, all your neighborhood kids have started calling you Uncle and Aunty, may i recommend a solution. All you have to do is enter into Bachelor's kitchen and rest assured you will have a laugh of your life. They don't even have to cook, just their presence in the kitchen is a source of entertainment. If some millionaire is reading this blog, please sponsor me and I will direct a 100 episode series on the Bachelors and their war room. Forget cooking even making tea is a laugh a riot episode. Here is a sample-
Now on the weekends we need regular supply of tea, and at least 3 to 4 times in the morning it needs to be made at home, because we are too lazy to go to Mamu(he runs the Irani cafe near our house). So the first one to wake up is Dr( Why, when and by whom he was nicknamed doctor no one knows, I can only assume that it was because of his handwriting) and shouts- " Abe doodh kaha hai?" some one replies from some room " Phat Gaya". Dr- " Milk Powder?", that some one again- "Jam Gaya"(its frozen). Dr-" Abe chai kya beer mein banagi".
Now its time for Colonel Dr to take charge of the command. He comes into my room and kicks my non- existent butt( Iam so thin that the only reason I carry a cell phone in my pocket is so that I don't get blown away by wind)
Dr-" J, get milk"
Me-" In a while"
Dr- " We are also out of cigs"
Me - " I'll go right now!"( that bugger, he knows exactly how to get me out of the bed)
For the uninitiated, bachelor's have clear segregation of duties based on their skill sets. Since I cannot cook to save my life , Iam in charge of refueling the supplies. Once the milk is there, Dr gets to work. Its time for "N" to chip in with his demand.He shouts from the bed-" Dr, yaar adraak(ginger) dal dena"
Dr-" Crush it and give it to me".
N-" Chal chod yaar, kya karna"
So finally the after much hard work, the first tea of the day is ready. So is it all over, naahhhhhhhhh!. You see our maid comes once in the morning( by her definition, for us its still midnight)and washes all the utensils. Now, chai wala utensil is all dirty after the first tea. So for the second session of tea its quite obvious that none of us are gonna wash it. Hence the second tea of the day is made in large utensil that is generally used to make rice for 4 people. So what about the third session you would ask. Well, we use the Pressure Cooker !!! As they say, Majboori ka Naam Mahatma Gandhi!
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
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Your post is awesome. U remind me of my 'younger' days when my guy friends who used to stay in the mess or on rent and behaved just the way u guys do. And guess what? Even if we girls went and cleaned up their mess, the next time we visited, it wud be even messier than before. And don't even ask me about the stink of empty alchohol bottles mixed with overflowing cigarette butts in the ashtrays, the blocked sinks and the left-overs in the dirty utensils. But your 'pressure-cooker' used for tea-making tea is just too much. Way to go, dude!
Priyanka: All corrections done! Thanks for pointing them out, I'll try to proof read in future. Yeah, the girls have declared our place war zone area and refuse to enter it. But there was actually a gal who wanted to move in with us. Watch out for that story!!!
So yours faithfully made a long-ish list of household items for her guy to buy when he moved to Pune for (entirely) work reasons. Even hard-to-impress she was impressed by the comprehensiveness of it all(or so she thought).
Cut to next morning, when he found that a certain Mr. strainer had been excluded from that (all-inclusive) list. Aaaargh!
And the tea was already made.
Eventually, it was consumed too; a milk-white handkerchief (which would never gain entry into any respectable pocket thereon) having served the function of the MIA strainer.
Improvising bachelors!
They do get my vote ;-)
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