My trip to the ...

Innocent and studious, I sit at my comp browsing at harmless sites when all of a sudden there is that nefarious ring of a cow-bell…. a long live, die hard buddy who has this sweetest of thoughts to catch up with matters of greater importance on that devilish thing called Google talk. “bum…. Where are the US pics? Why the bloody hell haven’t you uploaded your holiday snaps yet?” …. “HOLIDAY” … just imagine, the company’s most sincere employee was sent to the parent org in the US to WORK … mind you to work…. And here are these people asking for pics of my US holiday …. Atrocious. Well…. Of course there were those Saturdays and Sundays.

Oh!... ok here it is …. a) I was lazy and b) Some how I wanted to break away from the usual stupid and dumb habits of a nerd who goes abroad …. To list a few:

- take a few pics wearing the thickest and heaviest of overcoats, sunglasses and standing by the snow and grinning like a jackass. Upload the same pic on ur orkut profile and update ur status to “Now in US” …. Can’t believe that there are so many out there who do this.

- Keep mailing all close friends news items of better interest in the US, as if these ever mattered to anyone anywhere.

- Call up every number on your contacts and ask a stupid question – “Hi, its been a long time. How are u and WHERE ARE U?” and keep your fingers crossed for them to ask you the same question in return so that you could beam and tell them with puffed up chest that your abroad.

- Ask friends, relatives and country men how the weather is back at home; and fuzz about saying how cold it is in US and how well you adapted to the climate change. As if you were an African penguin relocated to the South pole!!!

- Wait till the entire world begs on bent knees for snaps you have so languidly clicked away on lazy afternoons of well maintained US. (God! .. and you bloody feel off as if NASA is asking their Mars probe machine for those prized pictures for the surface snaps.)

And now … here I am forced to do all those that I have listed above as things I detest most ;-). Anyway …. If my fan clubs all across India would find joy herein … I see no harm in giving in ….