1970s Reloaded

1. Though you may not publicly own up to this, at the age of 12-17 years,you were very proud of your first "Bellbottom" or your first "Maxi"or your first Apache jeans.
2. Phantom Mandrake were your only true
heroes. The brainy ones read"Competition Success Review". (Absolutely true!)
3. Your "Camlin" geometry box Natraj/Flora pencil was your prized possession.
4. The only "Holidays" you took were to go to your grandparents' or your cousins' houses.
5. Ice-cream meant only - either an orange stick, a vanilla stick – or a Choco Bar if you were better off than most.
6. You gave your neighbour’s phone number to others with a ‘c/o’ written against it because you had booked yours only 7 years ago and were still waiting for your number to come.
7. Your first family car (and the only one) was a Fiat or an Ambassador. This often had to be pushed by the entire family to get going.
8. The glass windows in the back seats used to get stuck at the two-thirds down level and used to irk the shit out of you! The window went down only if your puny arm could manage the tacky rotary handle to pull it down. Locking the door was easy. You just whacked the other tacky, non-rotary handle downwards.
9. Your mom had stitched the weirdest lace curtains for all the windows of the car. They were tied in the middle and if your dad was the comfort-oriented kinds, you had a magnificent small fan upfront.
10. Your parents were proud owners of HMT watches. You "earned" yours after SSC exams.
11. You have been to "Jumbo Circus"; have held your breath while the pretty young thing in the glittery skirt did acrobatics, quite enjoyed the
elephants hitting football, the motorcyclist vrooming in the "Mauthka Gola" and it was politically okay to laugh your guts out at dwarfs hitting each other's bottoms!
12. You at least once heard "Hawa Mahal" on the radio.
13. If you had a TV, it was normal to expect the neighborhood to gather around to watch the Chitrahaar or the Sunday movie. If you didn't have a TV, you just went to a house that did. It mattered little if you knew the owners or not.
14. Sometimes the owners of these TVs got very creative and got a bi or even a tri-coloured anti-glare screen which they attached with two side clips onto their Weston TVs. That confused the hell out of you!
15. Black White TVs weren't so bad after all because cricket was played in whites.
16. You thought your Dad rocked because you got your own (the family's; not your own own!) colour TV when the Asian Games started. Everyone else got the same idea as well and ever since, no one came over to your house and you didn't go to anyone else's.
17. You dreaded the death of any political leader because of the mourning they would announce on the TV. After all how much "Shashtriya Sangeet" can a kid take? Salma Sultana also didn't smile during the mourning.
18. You knew that "Indira Gandhi" was somebody really powerful and terribly important. And that's all you needed to know.
19. The only "Gadgets" in the house were the TV, the Fridge and possibly a mixer.
20. All the gadgets had to be duly covered with a crochet covers and sometimes even with ingenious, custom-fit plastic covers.
21. Movies meant Rajesh Khanna or Amitabh Bachchan. Before the start of the movie you always had to watch the obligatory "Newsreel".
22. You thought you were so rocking because you knew almost all the songs of Abba and Boney M.
23. Your hormones went crazy when you heard "Disco Deewane" by Naziya Hassan Zoheb Hassan.
24. School teachers, your parents and even your neighbours could whack you and it was all okay.
25. Photograph taking was a big thing. You were lucky if your family owned a camera. A reel of 36 exposures was valuable hence it justified the half hour preparation "setting" the "posing" for each picture. Therefore, you have atleast one family picture where everyone is holding their breath and standing at attention! 

26. During Diwali /idd celebaration it was family clothes tailored from our favourite tailor down the road with all shirt pant and  and sister's clothes with same cloth design.. it was common...

27. We walked to school or took a bus..the ones who got dropped by car were always RICH ones.

  

28. Our outdoor games were gully danda, marbles, stick in the mud , langdi, lagoori , abba dubhi , Dog and the bone, chupa chupi ( my favourite) ....

29. Going out to eat in a restaurant was an occasion maybe once /twice in a year.

30. Mostly we managed with one pair of shoes for the whole year at school, our elder brother/sisters clothes  , books were passed to us for school...

31. " Duckback " raincoats were premium what we could get starting the school in rainy season every year...

Did you hear anyone say, OLD IS GOLD?

NEW EVENING CLASSES FOR MEN!!!

Evening classes for men. Starting this month! 
Note: due to the complexity and level of difficulty of their contents, each course will accept a maximum of eight participants each. 

Topic 1. How to fill ice-cube trays. 
Step by step with slide presentation. 

Topic 2. Toilet paper rolls: do they grow on the holders?
Round-table discussion. 

Topic 3. Differences between the laundry basket and the floor. 
Pictures and explanatory graphics. 

Topic 4. Learning how to find things, starting with looking in the right place instead of turning the house upside down while screaming. 
Open forum. 

Topic 5. Health watch: bringing her flowers is not harmful to your health.
Graphics and audio tape. 

Topic 6. Real men ask for directions when lost. 
Real-life testimonials. 

Topic 7. Is it genetically impossible to sit quietly as she parallel parks? 
Driving simulation. 

Topic 8. Learning to live: basic differences between mother and wife. 
Online class and role playing. 

Topic 9. How to be the ideal shopping companion.
Relaxation exercises, meditation and breathing techniques. 

Topic 10. How to fight cerebral atrophy: remembering birthdays, anniversaries, other important dates and calling when you're going to be late. 
Cerebral shock therapy sessions.

CLASSES FOR WOMEN....

Training courses are now available for women on the
following subjects: 

Topic 1. Silence, the Final Frontier:
Where No Woman Has Gone Before

Topic 2. The Undiscovered Side of Banking:
Making Deposits

Topic 3. Parties:
Going Without New Outfits

Topic 4. Bathroom Etiquette:
Men Need Space in the Bathroom Cabinet Too

Topic 5. Communication Skills I:
Tears - The Last Resort, not the First

Topic 6. Communication Skills II:
Getting What you Want Without Nagging

Topic 7. Driving a Car Safely:
A Skill You CAN Acquire

Topic 8. Telephone Skills:
How to Hang Up

Topic 9. Classic Footwear:
Wearing Shoes You Already Have

Topic 10. Oil and Petrol:
Your Car Needs Both 

THE TEACUP

There was a couple that used to go to shop in the beautiful stores. They both liked antiques and pottery and especially teacups. One day in this beautiful shop they saw a beautiful teacup. They said, "May we see that? We've never seen one quite so beautiful." As the lady handed it to them, suddenly the teacup spoke.


 "You don't understand," it said. "I haven't always been a teacup. There was a time when I was red and I was clay." My master took me and rolled me and patted me over and over and I yelled out, "let me alone", but he only smiled and said, "Not yet."


"Then I was placed on a spinning wheel," the teacup said, "and suddenly I was spun around and around and around. Stop it! I'm getting dizzy!" I screamed. But the master only nodded and said ‘Not yet, not yet’.

Then he put me in the oven. I had never felt such heat. I wondered why he wanted to burn me, and I yelled and knocked at the door. I could see him through the opening and I could read his lips, as he shook his head, “Not yet”.

Finally the door opened, he put me on the shelf, and I began to cool. "There, that's better," I said. And he brushed and painted me all over. The fumes were horrible. I thought I would gag. "Stop it, stop it!" I cried. He only nodded, "Not yet."


 Then suddenly he put me back into the oven, not like the first one. This was twice as hot and I knew I would suffocate. I begged. I pleaded. I screamed. I cried. All the time I could see him through the opening nodding his head saying, "Not yet."


Then I knew there wasn't any hope. I would never make it. I was ready to give up. But the door opened and he took me out and placed me on the shelf. One hour later he handed me a mirror and said, "Look at yourself." And I did. I said, "That's not me; that couldn’t be me. It’s beautiful. I’m beautiful.”

Then, he said: 

"I want you to remember - I know it hurts to be rolled and patted, but if I had left you alone, you'd have dried up. I know it made you dizzy to spin around on the wheel, but if I had stopped, you would have crumbled.  

“I knew it hurt and was hot and disagreeable in the oven, but if I hadn't put you there, you would have cracked. I know the fumes were bad when I brushed and painted you all over, but if I hadn't done that, you never would have hardened; you would not have had any color in your life.

“And if I hadn't put you back in that second oven, you wouldn't survive for very long because the hardness would not have held. Now you are a finished product. You are what I had in mind when I first began with you.”

 God knows what He's doing (for all of us). He is the Potter, and we are His clay.

He will mould us and make us, so that we may be made into a flawless piece of work to fulfill His good, pleasing, and perfect will. 

Hindi Quotes...

Intention kitna bhi achha ho.
Duniya presentation dekhti hai...
Aur
Presentation kitana bhi accha ho,
Uparwala Intention dekhta hai.. !!! "Choice is urs" !!!



"Patthar Sirf ek bar Mandir Jaata hai aur Bhagwan Ban Jaata hai.

Hum Roz Mandir Jakar bhi Patthar hi Rehte hain."

Lion and Santa Singh

Santa Singh and his friend were in a forest, when a lion came roaring towards them.  One of them throws sand into its eyes, and runs. Second one stays unmoved.  When asked why he is not running, another Santa Singh tells: "Why should I be  running? It is you who has thrown the sand "