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Kamalji's Weekend Musings -Sept 27th 07
The Breakup Man - TOI dt 24/9/07 page 12
Padmanabhan Iyer,60, jots down daily expenses as a hobby.He is a retired Engineer who has kept track of every rupee earned and spent in the last 28 years.
According to him, In the last 28 years ,
1) Earned - 2.29 crores
2) Spent - 1.56 crore
3) Total Investment - 73.34 lakhs
He has 12 heads of expenditure, like Food, Travel,Clothes,Child ,Mother,Welfare,Income Tax,House ,Entertainment.His wife has to give him every Bill, and tell him what she purchased, and this guy spends half an hour every night,to account for every penny spent by himself and his wife.
Well, Well ,Well glad i am not like this.My wife would have divorced me long ago.But Mr.Iyer is a man, right.He must have bought condoms in the last 28 years, for sure.Under what head he must have put, I wonder.Must be under " Entertainment".What a Guy.
A Thirst for Milk bred by New Wealth boosts Rates - TOI dt. 25/9/07 page 15
Seems Milk is getting expensive abroad.In India 1 litre of petrol ( 45/-) can buy 3 litres of milk ( 15/-).But in some parts of USA, milk is more expensive than Petrol.
Wish they would compare Milk prices with prices of Whiskey.I would then drink Whiskey instead.Go off to sleep, and save on the food also.Great Article, a must read.
3) Of Rats and Toes - HT - dated 31/8/07 page 12
An interview of Laloo Prasad Yadav, by Kumkum Chadha.Laloo describes how to catch rats and eat them.Very Tasty he says.Woh Bhaga, hum pakda,he describes explaining how once the skin is pulled out,the poison is out.That done,the rat is marinated in salt and green chilli paste, with a burning coal stick stuck in it's navel all ready to roast like corn.
Calling it a delicacy,Lalloo says the delicious portions are the thigh and the skin.Hunting Female Rats was taboo lest they be pregnant.An Aide tries to salvage the situation,by saying that they ate rats in desperation at which Lalu snaps " What Desperation? If people can eat dog meat, what is wrong with Rat meat.
(Well now u guys and gals know,how lalu has become intelligent to turn the Railways around.Eat Rats dear friends,if u want to write well, and get into Blogprint.)
4) Gift your Spouse a treadmill - HT dt 25/9/07 page 8
Men are gifting their wives a treadmill at midnight, just after returning from the brithday at the restaurant of the wife.The gift is delivered by the shopkeeper at midnight, with ballons tied to the treadmill, so that the wife can now exercise, and be slim and trim for the next birthday.
Well, in my case the case will be reverse.As it is, I look like my wife's Grandfather right now, and she might gift me one.And i have warned her to ignore this article, as once i become slim, pretty ladies will start eyeing me, and fights will start, threatening our 28 year marriage,and at this age, who will be unfortunate to mother and smother me.And where will i get another lovely one as the one that i already have.
And she has forgotton, that i am a man, a human,not a saint, and even saints have given in under temptation.Look at Valmiki and Maneka.And i am not that strong willed u know.But she dosnt know what.
5) Young Couples in Surat seek help from Interior designers to rejuvenate their love life - TOI - dt 25/9/07,page 11
Young couples in Surat are ignoring psychiatrists, and seeking help of interior designers.One couple spent 50,000 to re do their Bedroom.the lightening of green and blue.They had huge mirrors placed at strategic locations so that we can notice each other's emotions (HAHAHAHAHAHAHA).
One couple have got done a tranparerent bathroom in his bedroom.
( I dont understand what fun can a partner get seeing his wife thru the transparent glass his wife in the loo/bathroom.He can see her int he bedroom itself.I sing in the bathroom, which will put the donkeys to shame, i pray, I talk to myself,and when i am ashamed ot looking at myself in the loo,what will the partner find fascinating.Yech !
Once i saw a bedroom of a 55 plus couple, and i was astounded by the mirror on the ceiling.Imagine watching yr parnters backside on the mirror on the ceiling.I still laugh at imagining the scene, around 30 yrs back, and now it has become so common eh .People have their wierd sense of humour and fun, which is so different from mine.And i thought i was wild and whacky.! )
6) It pays better in a prison than a school in Kerela - ET dt 14/9/07 page 3
The next time Sanjay Dutt is in prision,he might wish to be in a Kerala Prison,not for the scenery, but for better wages for the work done in the state prisons.
The wages are being raised from 9-23 per day to 23-69 per day, a three fold increase that has come about without any unions agitating for it.That would mean a monthly earning of a neat 2000 pm in a state where many school teachers are paid about 1000/- where migrant labourers from Bihar and UP toild the whole day for 75 per day.
( Well Even a teacher can be tempted to go to jail and save a cool 2000/- as food and housing and clothing is on the house, sorry i mean the Jail.And anjay Dutt does need ciggie money and booze too, so kerela may suit his temperament more.And if they have computers inside, and broadband, i too wouldnt mind being there, blogging from the jail in the company of pretty inmates there)
The End.
KAMAL MAHTANI
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