ACT 5-ACTUALLY SPEAKING,THE ACT BEGINS
Step 1: Settle in after fried mushrooms for the actual presentation.
Step 2: Smile and nod at regular intervals.
Steps 3.1 to 3.9:
Listen to Jay Bourgeois speech on Darden "High touch, high tone, high octane". Pop peanut. Understand that its a small and young school. Known for high standard of ethics. No specializations. Listen to gyan about how school truly helped out an Indian applicant who lost his father. Pop peanut.
Listen to the prof's challenge about whether any other school's dean would reply in person to a mail. Seems like a nice small school in a nice small town. Not bad. Pop peanut-miss mouth. Dirty looks from Neha,Ishita,Anu and Mehgna. Decide to be careful....wonly for Ishita's sake ;-) Immediately decide to apply.
Sigh when Jay announces a case study-RIGHT HERE,RIGHT NOW! Yeah,wow! ;-( Case on Latino banana plantation which brings in workers and provides acco. A socially responsible move to get local prostitutes involved as workers backfires when man leaves wife+kids and shacks up with one of the new women. In South American jungle. House goes to woman and kids? Man does what? Keep him? Sack him? Kids?Sob,sob.... Almost an Oliver Stone movie.Pop peanut.
The knives are out...Listen to Northie chap questioning morality of the move and establishing an ethical culture; Jay does a nice war dance over his arguments and stamps them out. Am very happy for my unhappy Northie friend-practice a double peanut pop.
Listen to women arguing for commitment. Wonder how this relates to business. Finally someone realizes its not about ethics and its about business. Jay closes the case by bringing in a priest into the picture and khallaas! The problem stands solved-priest decides whats right and whats wrong. Case over. Ultra-kuwik decision and resolution to pop in last mushroom for the day.
ACT 6-BYE BYE ISHI DAHLING.
Step 1: A last sip of wine,a long and lasting look at Ishi Dahling and out we go...train at 9.45, Ganja at hotel at 9.35. Will he make it? Thanks to a decent Citrix employed Mallu former entrepreneur (who ofcourse wants build a company and become an employer), Ganja gets a lift...quick exchange of thoughts on admission process and entreprenuership as we zoom down in a Corsa. Leave calling card and vaguely exchange promises of getting in touch etc etc. Indian Railways saves the day and brings the train home late.
ACT 7-HORROR IN THE ORIENT EXPRESS
Step 1: Funny looking Mallu guy says "Hellllluuuu" to snotty looking lady.
Step 2: Both exhange the usual "weather, naadu evude" etc etc in sadly practiced English accents-Ganja entreats the powers of the universe that they dont become kilose and friendly.
Step 3: Bury head into Man's World mag and stare at Claudia Schiffer,I-pods, Azzaro Silver Black and the Graham Chronofighter. Ah, the fates...two born again X'ians with fake accents.Why? Why? Why in S1?
Step 4: Man spots opportunity and asks the dreaded question "Are you Xian?" naheeeeeeeeeennnn...why me?!!?
Step 5: Denominations exchanged-Protestant/CSI. World views exchanged-Born again/Always was.The guy gently lets loose a whopper of a statement "Yaactually I gawt a Maasters in Theoology and now am eentu sochal serveez"-Go dude!
Step 6: BOOM-that statement does it! Bibles brought out-Arguments exhanged-Interpretations cast about-David the sinner/Thomas the doubter/Mary the mother. Ganja cringes and hopes they dont spot his rosary. Thankfully they dont.
Step 7: Louder and louder arguments continue till 1am. A pissed off Ganja considers giving his version of Xianity by example and then asking to shut them up, but decides to get aggro and snaps off light. Silence observed for 10 seconds. 5-5 man decides not to confront 5-11 Ganja. Softer interpretations sally forth.
There you go-that was a fine step by step description of sequential events. Logic in my blood and water in my tie...tch tch...just so like me! Gut nacht!
Disclaimer: For all the yak yak that he did, its very likely that he is actually a social worker running an orphanage or old age home somewhere in Kerala. Its just that I personally have a problem with action over words...esp when its this "my God's bigger" business. If a religion is as nice/deep/profound or true as it claims to be, it should show in the practitioners' behaviour and not in their words. With such a smug homily on religious values, GT gets back to work.
Foodspitality
2 weeks ago
9 comments:
:)))
Peanuts it is.
PS:I am downloading 'The Doors' otherwise i wouldn't have recognized Oliver Stone.
"Riders on the storm" and "The End" is what I turn on in my head when I hop onto my bike....go dude!
I love 'The crystal ship' too. I like all of their songs. :)
Ever listened to Patti Smith??
thanks for the comment and i feel that if you have the passion, you could do anything you want. My next post is on that. Though society might not celebrate your achievements. :)
Cheers bro!
"Listen to gyan about how school truly helped out an Indian applicant who lost his father. Pop peanut." - :O u really have been listenin to too many lectures!
I know,Di..even your reknowned boredom killing techniques are only so much potent u knw ;-0
Thanks for the wishes GT.it sure feels good and real sweet !! Good luck to u too!
lol yeah dude the 'naadu evade' stuff is killing!but even worse is the ques - 'enne ormindo (do u rememeber me)??' posed by old aunties during a wedding...while u r thinkin - 'jeez u think id b smilin in this silly manner if i knew u??' lol
oh btw liked ur blog so much im addin ur blog link to my blog :)
@sush-hey tk u! am honoured!
next time you come to bangalore and run away without making a call, you are going to get stuck in a coupe with a member of Opus-Dei (with the customary thorny chain set of course).
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