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bored..sleepy..tired..exhausted..cant even tpywwee..zzzzzzzzzzzz..

Saying NO

is tough, doing so without hurting the other party is tougher, especially if the other party is your boss. Today out of the blue my lead came to me and asked me to be part of campus recruitment scheduled for tommorow. I was totally taken by surprise, I had no idea that innvo is going for campus recruitment, let alone the schedule for it. This put me in a fix as I had made some other plans for tommorow, besides I really hate to work on weekends. Now the problem was how to deny his request (yes, it was a request, which made the task more difficult), and how did I handle this?? ughhhh..forget it..

Guddu guddu guddu guddu guddu..

That is how the 'hukka' is supposed to sound, when a veteran smoker smokes it..but when i tried to take in some of the cheery flavoured tobbaco through the intricate system of pipes and water of a hukka, it was silent as though it had died of suffocation. Yeah, yesterday I smoked for the first time in my life and I would say it was a disappointing experience. All I could feel was the cherry essence, it was like having a cherry bubble gum. In a hukka the smoke that you inhale will be light and smooth to such an extent that you dont even feel the smoke in your mouth. According to 'the experts' in the gang the reason for the smoke to be soooo light is that it is 'filtered' through water, unlike the normal cloth filters of ciggarettes and non existent filters of beedi. I wanted to try smoking once, to experience how it feels, and I thought what better way to do it than a traditional hukka? but now I know I was wrong.

EDIT: My throat has developed irritations!!! Almost twenty four hours after the attempt to smoke!!!

Amazing

Yesterday I was watching Massive Engines with Chris xxxxxx on Discovery, and the topic was pumps. The kind of things that were done using steam engines in late 19th century England is really amazing. Whether it was pumping out water from 300 feet deep mines at a rate of 200 buckets a minute or fighting fire, steam engine was the answer. In my view the most extraordinary achievement was using two huge steam engines in London's Tower Bridge to make it a movable bridge. Each steam engine lifts a 'bascule' weighing over 1000 tons!!!Its definetly an engineering marvel.

SSSSSSSMOKIN

On my way to office I saw a man, a mason, smoking a 'beedi'. Yeah there is nothing strange about that, but what amazed me was the look of satisfaction on his face. He was one happy man, really enjoying his beedi. This made me wonder do all people get same amount of satisfaction from smoking? I dont think so, because I have seen so many grumpy faces with dangling cigarettes in their mouth. So if you dont really enjoy it, why smoke at all? May be for the same reason people drink coffee? There is one difference between these two habits. Being a 'Filter coffee' fan I can certainly say that I cannot savour a cup of hot coffee on a hot, sweaty , sunny summer day, but the mason I saw was truly taking great pleasure from his beedi in the same weather, and that too he was hanging on to a lorry carrying construction material. Amazing.

regulars blogs

I have made a decision that I am going to blog regularly, whether i have something to say or not. This hopefully should help to improve my writing skills. While I am writing about my writing abilities, I shall write about something that I have observed. When I am typing something I tend to forget spellings of most common words. For example today while posting this blog I could not recollect the spelling for 'whether', so I typed my version of the word on thesaurus, hoping to find the correct spelling in 'did you mean? ', and interestingly I found that thesaurus.com does not list the word 'whether'. Hmmm..guess no system is perfect after all