When I was busy writing “What the hell”, my Honda Shine celebrated its first birthday, courtesy of me filling his stomach up – yep, that was his treat! When I now pause and take a look at him, I feel like he feels violated. During this journey of over 13300 kilometers, he never let me down – even literally! But, every morning when I take him to office – with the one stop at “Hotel Raja”, I see he has the knack to attract all kinds of mud and dust. No matter how many times I clean him [for the sake of an argument]; he’s like a kid who, when let out to play, comes back with dirty clothes and muddy feet!
There was a cubicle decoration contest held at Walgreens offshore (don’t remember why, but who wants a reason) and out of the 6 bay here, 3 themes were given. It was a country theme – Egypt, Paris and China – one country for every two cubicles. You’ve to decorate your cubicle with things that’ll resemble the country assigned to you. Our theme was Egypt and I don’t know why, but the contest was postponed for multiple times after the announcement. Nevertheless, we were born ready and soon our cubicle mates came up with ideas (we even had a meeting held up in one of the conference rooms available). Until the D-Day, I was only involved in buying things like color paper or scissor or something-like-that. In the last moment, I don’t know whose idea it was, but the team decided to pose me as a live ‘Mummy’. I’d never been interested in any of these things throughout my career – whenever there’s such a contest, you can see me as one of the ‘Gethu’ [கெத்து] people who wouldn’t get involved in any of the activities. But this time, people were so good to me and the fact that I contributed very less in the theme, made me guilty. So, I accepted to pose as a live Mummy and as if they knew I would accept, they brought the tissues ready with them. They then wrapped and wrapped and wrapped me until I couldn’t see a damn thing and only hear naggings.
When the chief guest came and asked about the live ‘Mummy’, I said “Hello Sir, I can offer you my hand, but I’m a bit tied”. I don’t know if he was able to hear what I said because the area was filled with laughter most of the times. In the end it was “China” who won the contest and we finished as a runner up. People took quite some snaps around me, my honest thought was – when I wasn’t a ‘Mummy’ no one was willing to take a snap with me, but when I became a ‘Mummy’, people just rushed in! It’s a Crazy world, huh?
PS: After the contest, people started calling me – “Hey Mummy”… I told them – “Don’t call a future-to-be-daddy as a Mummy!”
There was a cubicle decoration contest held at Walgreens offshore (don’t remember why, but who wants a reason) and out of the 6 bay here, 3 themes were given. It was a country theme – Egypt, Paris and China – one country for every two cubicles. You’ve to decorate your cubicle with things that’ll resemble the country assigned to you. Our theme was Egypt and I don’t know why, but the contest was postponed for multiple times after the announcement. Nevertheless, we were born ready and soon our cubicle mates came up with ideas (we even had a meeting held up in one of the conference rooms available). Until the D-Day, I was only involved in buying things like color paper or scissor or something-like-that. In the last moment, I don’t know whose idea it was, but the team decided to pose me as a live ‘Mummy’. I’d never been interested in any of these things throughout my career – whenever there’s such a contest, you can see me as one of the ‘Gethu’ [கெத்து] people who wouldn’t get involved in any of the activities. But this time, people were so good to me and the fact that I contributed very less in the theme, made me guilty. So, I accepted to pose as a live Mummy and as if they knew I would accept, they brought the tissues ready with them. They then wrapped and wrapped and wrapped me until I couldn’t see a damn thing and only hear naggings.
When the chief guest came and asked about the live ‘Mummy’, I said “Hello Sir, I can offer you my hand, but I’m a bit tied”. I don’t know if he was able to hear what I said because the area was filled with laughter most of the times. In the end it was “China” who won the contest and we finished as a runner up. People took quite some snaps around me, my honest thought was – when I wasn’t a ‘Mummy’ no one was willing to take a snap with me, but when I became a ‘Mummy’, people just rushed in! It’s a Crazy world, huh?
PS: After the contest, people started calling me – “Hey Mummy”… I told them – “Don’t call a future-to-be-daddy as a Mummy!”
