Noggyisms

Somehow each city has got itself connected in my mind with an animal. If it was the bovine variety in Baroda, it is a four legged humped one in Ahmadabad too, except it has no horns, is tall and is bloody arrogant. Well the last part is a figment of my imagination. AM talking abt the camel. It’s as common as the bloody cow (err I mean holy cow) in Baroda. Oh yes the arrogant part. U see the funny little (well not so little) has got its nose high up in the air (maybe bcoz it’s tall) and is always sniffing something up there. Gives it a very haughty look. SNOOTY FELLOW! Not nice to be looked down upon by a CAMEL. Hey I’m the two legged one with BIGGER brains (assure u its true I do have brains an do walk on two legs ... shut up all those sniggering) Oh yeah gave me grt pleasure to see them pulling carts with people in them. (Sorry PETA i.e. the ethical treatment ppl not the ones calling themselves People for Eating Tasty Animals and no was not thinking abt eating camels in the firs...

Bulls!!! Bulls! No I am not talking about our senior, my namesake (although imagining so many of him in this world I scary EEEKS!!) nor am I chatting about the variety that the crazy fin guys like to chat about (Sheesh talk to any fin guy abt a bull and he will start a monologue abt "bulls an beers". the nuts need to be told that "beer" is something great to drink, a "bear" (pronon bare) is the frizzy huge grizzly thingie which is not something u want to be holding in ur hand at a pub and the same thing that they relate to in some financial sort of way.) Anyway the bulls I am referring to are the four legged, two horned variety. With a hump. Are they oxen or just plain cows? (Love the term Gaays. Gaays and gals) hehhehe sorry bad joke. Anyway back to the bully thingie. Oh yeah so many of them on the streets of Baroda. U find them everywhere in all postures. This city just seems to love them. And they hang around (not literally of course) nonchalantly...

It’s been a very long time. and much water has flowed under bridges, cities and (into) houses (no offence meant but just couldn’t resist the water pun.) Anyway, been touring all parts of the country namely - Dehradun, Ankleshwar, Mumbai (the last 2 places in between the respective floods there; have been blamed for the same but give u my word haven’t got the least bit to do with rain gods or demons) and will be in the following places too - Baroda, Ankleshwar, Ahmedabad, Surat, Assam, Rajahmundry (AP for the uninitiated), Mangalore (not the B place), Delhi, Dehradun all in the next two months or less, basically a new place every week. That’s the story morning glory (to quote a famous line) For a change dont have anything much to write ... that is if u discount all that has been written so far. Regards from ONGC Me P.S. promise that next mail will have juicy titbits (u see been hearing stories and keeping them all compartmentalised in some part of the brain so that it all gushes ...