Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Listless without Lists!!
Well , more than 12 days since I last updated mah blog and I dunno what to update it with….Not that there’s nothing happening in life anymore.. In fact had quite a Weekend this time ,what with all that getogethers with old friends,trips to Nariman Point and the 6 of us chatting away on the boulders like we did all those years in college (including the 2 packs of Ciggs which always does a miracle of a vanishing act when we get to it!),the shopping ourselves till we almost tired ourselves dead …ah , ok now I know exactly what I wanna write...the good moments were there to cherish and the one harrowing experience too.... (Edited the swear on females since it's women's day ...My present to all females of this world! :-D )
Well, Sat afternoon , while I was still not aware of the beginnings of another day , a friend calls up and says she wanna go shopping….
“Oh drat” I thought… “I am still not thru with last night!” … “Sure” I heard myself say…”What time is it right now…3:00 PM!!! In about 15 minutes?..no I need some time…lets keep it an hour ..ok with you… that’s fine” .And back to the cozy comforts of my dear bed!
Anyway , take to Inorbit , Malad.
“So, What do u wanna buy?” I asks…
“Nothing specific ”, she says….I look at her like crazy…but u said u wanna go shopping?
Yeah , she says…
“But shop what ?” I ask….”We’ll find something”!!!
Now I have never shopped when I don’t have to shop , so am a little confused about the whole mission….WTF , I say….let her search around while I enjoy the crowd…J
And so we move around aimlessly ….Before I know it ,we’re in some store looking at all sort of apparels…gals,guys,…unisex…Seesh!!! White pants with laced pockets…meant to be worn by guys!!? I’m sure some customer had been doing mischief swapping clothes meant for one category into another :-{
Suddenly she lifts a half-kurta half-shirt sort of thing and says how’d ya like it? I figured it might be just about enough for her longitudinal drape….and after some imaginative analysis “Ah well…looks kinds nice..” ….”I knew u’d like it” she says. “Dunno why u never bought trendy stuff like that?”. “For whom”,I ask with a sneer! “For urself” she says nonchalantly!
Me? No me’s a lil conservative on the flowers….nothing to do with the political motivations of Nelson Mandela’s ,but Mandela shirts just don’t go well on me…no thanks….Not until I’m in Goa!
“But u said u liked it”,she says….Stumped ! “It’s feminine I protest…good for ya…”
Silence
“But I got this for u”,she says. What!!! But whaay! I mean ok to get gifts ,but this horrible flowery stuff …I …with my kinda image….
“Hey , I really dun wanna shirt , u know” .
“But u do! Aren’t u tired of the same ol’ boring colors that u always were!”
“I never knew there’s something wrong with the colors of my shirts??!…I always thought they were pretty decent!!”
“But that’s exactly what’s the problem!!”
Flashback to the dinner table all those years ago when pops told me about the time-tested ABCD formula that managers apply for any entry on their “In” tray :
A: “A”void the work like plague.Its no good story to accept work!
B: Bypass it. There are always 10% of the workforce who do 90% of the work !! Find them.
C: Confuse the work….That never fails to help when faced to the wall in accepting a task!
And if nothing works ,then ,and only then , …
D : do it!
Flashback to reality Formula “A” : “Hmm..ok …lets move around..we’ll come back here and pick this up!” Some protests… “We’ll see if we find something better!” …This time it worked …and we moved ….
Enthusiastic inspections of an American Diamond locket, some useless show pieces, a chamcha with a wooden handle, a soft toy lizard or sth ( “This is so cute!!!”…”Yeah, what’s it?” scowls all around), half a dozen of difficultly pronounced French perfumes with the most audacious scents later we were still roaming about ….me listlessly (with legs paining more than they did during marathon day… which incidentally I did not run but did some real tuff practice, from my standards, along with some participating friends!) , she with some secret purpose that wasn’t revealed.
And I made the most important observation of my life…. My own concise shopping lists are so much better. Armed with those lists in hand, u know where to go, what to get and “tick” the ones done…before u know – one more mission accomplished!
More than I cud take …. Managed to talk her to grab a bite, kill some time so that it became suitably late and rush back to home sweet home , where I continued with religious zeal my interrupted dozzzz…..
Well, Sat afternoon , while I was still not aware of the beginnings of another day , a friend calls up and says she wanna go shopping….
“Oh drat” I thought… “I am still not thru with last night!” … “Sure” I heard myself say…”What time is it right now…3:00 PM!!! In about 15 minutes?..no I need some time…lets keep it an hour ..ok with you… that’s fine” .And back to the cozy comforts of my dear bed!
Anyway , take to Inorbit , Malad.
“So, What do u wanna buy?” I asks…
“Nothing specific ”, she says….I look at her like crazy…but u said u wanna go shopping?
Yeah , she says…
“But shop what ?” I ask….”We’ll find something”!!!
Now I have never shopped when I don’t have to shop , so am a little confused about the whole mission….WTF , I say….let her search around while I enjoy the crowd…J
And so we move around aimlessly ….Before I know it ,we’re in some store looking at all sort of apparels…gals,guys,…unisex…Seesh!!! White pants with laced pockets…meant to be worn by guys!!? I’m sure some customer had been doing mischief swapping clothes meant for one category into another :-{
Suddenly she lifts a half-kurta half-shirt sort of thing and says how’d ya like it? I figured it might be just about enough for her longitudinal drape….and after some imaginative analysis “Ah well…looks kinds nice..” ….”I knew u’d like it” she says. “Dunno why u never bought trendy stuff like that?”. “For whom”,I ask with a sneer! “For urself” she says nonchalantly!
Me? No me’s a lil conservative on the flowers….nothing to do with the political motivations of Nelson Mandela’s ,but Mandela shirts just don’t go well on me…no thanks….Not until I’m in Goa!
“But u said u liked it”,she says….Stumped ! “It’s feminine I protest…good for ya…”
Silence
“But I got this for u”,she says. What!!! But whaay! I mean ok to get gifts ,but this horrible flowery stuff …I …with my kinda image….
“Hey , I really dun wanna shirt , u know” .
“But u do! Aren’t u tired of the same ol’ boring colors that u always were!”
“I never knew there’s something wrong with the colors of my shirts??!…I always thought they were pretty decent!!”
“But that’s exactly what’s the problem!!”
Flashback to the dinner table all those years ago when pops told me about the time-tested ABCD formula that managers apply for any entry on their “In” tray :
A: “A”void the work like plague.Its no good story to accept work!
B: Bypass it. There are always 10% of the workforce who do 90% of the work !! Find them.
C: Confuse the work….That never fails to help when faced to the wall in accepting a task!
And if nothing works ,then ,and only then , …
D : do it!
Flashback to reality Formula “A” : “Hmm..ok …lets move around..we’ll come back here and pick this up!” Some protests… “We’ll see if we find something better!” …This time it worked …and we moved ….
Enthusiastic inspections of an American Diamond locket, some useless show pieces, a chamcha with a wooden handle, a soft toy lizard or sth ( “This is so cute!!!”…”Yeah, what’s it?” scowls all around), half a dozen of difficultly pronounced French perfumes with the most audacious scents later we were still roaming about ….me listlessly (with legs paining more than they did during marathon day… which incidentally I did not run but did some real tuff practice, from my standards, along with some participating friends!) , she with some secret purpose that wasn’t revealed.
And I made the most important observation of my life…. My own concise shopping lists are so much better. Armed with those lists in hand, u know where to go, what to get and “tick” the ones done…before u know – one more mission accomplished!
More than I cud take …. Managed to talk her to grab a bite, kill some time so that it became suitably late and rush back to home sweet home , where I continued with religious zeal my interrupted dozzzz…..
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