Twisted angles
life is never straight .......
Sunday, September 2, 2012
A page for Parashar(my dear friend)
After the 10th std we all scattered and went away.Life's twists and turns took us far and wide and away from each other.And then the Facebook happened.Hooked on to the social networking after 34 years I started my journey of searching out all my classmates.Yours was the first name I began with.I really don't know why but I had this weird idea that being a Doctor's son you too would have become a doctor and I searched for days for Dr.Parashar Arwari,but it was all for nought.Then one day I got a call out of the blue and I knew it was you right away.You too were surprised(that you told me later) that I recognised your voice at the first go.
You also told me that you were surprised that I remembered you.How could I ever forget the quite gentle classmate of mine.Iam so glad that we met again a year back for the first time and 2 weeks ago for the second time,when we shared our thoughts,experiences and jokes.I was so proud of the fact that you led our forces in many important operations.We heard your love and passion for our country through your stories.You kept us spell bound with all your anecdotes.Cannot forget the night before we parted where we sat around singing old hindi songs with the sea behind us and the moon in the sky.It was around 2 am in the morning when we retired.Were we trying to make the time stand still??
Let me thank you once again dear Friend for bringing into fray many of our classmates,some of the most elusive ones too!!You bought us together only to leave us so soon.
Good Bye Dear Friend,you may be out of sight but never will you be out of our minds and one day we will join you!!!
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Toilets ...today...tomorrow
the sky light saga
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
The Architrave and I
"Hmmm ....so ...hmmmm...OK now ," his tone thoughtful and contemplating .He drew a couple of lines on the already scribbled plane and looked up ."That will be an architrave of 18 mm thickness."and there I was beside him ...trying to look reasonably intelligent nodding wisely peering at the paper which sported lines and squiggles which to me resembled hieroglyphics. An Architrave ...Oh alright (Gosh was that English, Greek or latin ?) Help .Google !.
And then the trail of the Architrave began ....Google said it was a frame for the door ( Was that it? ..Did it have to be called an architrave ?Couldn't it have been called a frame in simple English .Well....work was work and architrave it had to be . I drafted the architrave as I thought it should be .He (my team leader ) goggled at the drawing and was silent for a couple of suspense filled moments. Then in an almost mournful tone he drawled (if you could drawl in a mournful tone ...),"Madam,How do you plan to fix this on the wall ? Where are the working details ?,I need a working drawing Madam ."
(Fix it ? wasn’t that the carpenters job?Iwas told that all an interior designer had to do was visualise the designs and feel smug .The nitty gritty of bolting and riveting was for the mortals who called themselves carpenters and fabricators .Hmmmm...Guess i was wrong)
With a sigh he picked up a sheet and drew some lines across and some parallel and marked out some dimensions.With a pencil he pointed to the lines and said in a resigned voice ,"See this is the wall and this line here is the plaster line ,then you have the frame work and then the architrave ."
(For the life of me I could n't relate it to any thing that resembled the picture of an architrave shown in the search engine .Well, never one to give up ..I faithfully copied the lines on to the screen and gave it some final touches of some extra lines and took a print out .
His reaction was almost painful to watch,"Madam ...he sounded as if in some agony ...where are the spacers ,why havent you shown the 12mm ply backing and what is the thickness of the veneer and what is the veneer that you are proposing to use "
Spacers?,veneer?ply backing ?..wasnt it supposed to be just an architrave ?Well deciding to take the bull by its horns ...I expressed my ignorance on constructing an Architrave..... and it started all over again
This time I knew i had got it right .(It was my seventh attempt ...).With a sigh of an achievement I pushed the printed sheeted towards him .An expression of pure agony crossed his face ...,."Madam ...how can you see the architrave when i am cutting a section in the wall like this ."
I saw my career as an interior designer crumbling like the wall he had just cut . I wanted to shout ",Who would cut a wall of his own house to check how it was made ?"
And this was just a beginning ,....suffice to say that I conquered the architrave in my 12 th attempt .and now...... its an ss finished Handrail of 50 mm dia fixed to ss uprights with 10mm glass.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Feline attraction
She fixed her feline gaze on him and softly purred …"whisker" …her tones seductive. She watched his whiskers twitch…. in fascination …his muscles rippling under the pelt of brown hair .Her own muscles twitched in response .She threw bac k her hair in readiness .her medium length of black fur swung back …ready to act .She advanced slowly so as not to scare him .He turned as if sensing her presence and fixed her with an unnerving stare and then looked around for an escape …..but by the time he spied an outlet he felt her claws run on his arm in a light caress……sending shivers down his spine .He arched his back and twisted away from her and then leapt down lightly to the ground and then broke into a run to scale the nearest wall .he could sense rather than hear her anger .He heard her bounding after him in an attempt to stop him .But his training in life now stood in good stead .Even as she reached the bottom step he was over the wall .He could hear her plaintive call, “Whisker come back here right now …or else I’ ll shut this door and never let you in” .
“Hah ..big deal”, ….he grinned as he rubbed himself against the post eyeing the new chick perched on the wall next door …….
“lady you don’t have a whiskers chance of catching me ….thank meaow.”