................................................All ye be of good cheer..im bacckkkk!!!!....................................................
A Happy Mongolian New Year to all....
Now,i dont claim to be a writer of much prowess for the very simple reason that,well,i suck.However should you have reasoned that i haven't been posting regularly, for lack of content to write on,may i take this opputunity to tell you to,"shut the dickens up,you presumptious pest and listen".
But today my point of diatribe is not my return from sabbatical.NO.The point of my incessant raving today is this-..........
Okay fine!!!! I dont have a point,cry me a river!....
Recently i have been spending a considerable amount of time critically evaluating the expertise of Mother dairy and pitting it against its worthy foes Vadilal and Kwality Walls.The fact that this review has had unnegligible side effects on my girth,has been waved aside,for i am willing to make that sacrifice in the service of my nation.
Furthermore whilst i have been engaged in the all consuming task of determining whether chocochip is ready to take on choco-cookie cream(my verdict?..nay)..a no of disturbing things have been moving right along unbeknownst to me.For example i was quietly minding my own business trying to figure out which one was a funnier sounding mineral...potash or feldspar..when i received the first inkling of disaster lurking about sinisterly,if sinisterly is the word im groping for,on the horizon.For you see in the Khan house hold when you hear the master of the house(my mum) say to anyone and noone,"Good idea.."you can be sure that some thing unpleasant in the vicinity of public humiliation, bloodshed,market losses and assorted rashes are sure to follow..
The other day i was in the tub scrubbing a thouroughly wrinkled foot(i had been sitting in there for an hour) singing,if memory serves,"Inky pinky ponkey..father had a donkey" when i was suddenly aware of the presence of the dear ol' coot of the Khan family,my grandfather, oozing about my room..no doubt in hot pursuit of his brandy flask i had previously pilfered..
I ,"ki haal chaal"-ed the ol fiend from the bathroom and asked him his business in my habitat at which he informed me that my grandmothers sisters were in town and would be paying us a visit,therefore he was looking for some marijuana i might have stashed in my socks.
At receiving this little nugget of information the soap shot of my hand.Im not fond of my grand aunts and from what i hear neither is the rest of the Free World.
Now here they were all prepared to infest the household with their tongue clicking and knuckle cracking and "aahaaa...kitna bada ho gaya hai Phahad"-ing,and their snide comments about my obvious lack of facial hair...
I try to be a tolerant man ,i do,but there are three things i hold in the lowest esteem-
1)grand aunts
2)slugs
3)Foodstuffs starting with the word Diet-.....
To get back to my point,if there ever existed such a thing...i had to take evasive action and quick for should these prime specimens of the scum of the gene pool corner me,no doubt questions pertaining to my "edoocasun" and "laedyfrends" were sure to follow..
"i suppose i can get drunk and spend the next few days snoozing ",said the aged relative.
I nodded my head,not much good considering he couldnt see me.
"Were going to have to do something about the annual reunion this year.",declared the ol hoot and followed teh comment up with a few choicy abuses i thought he only reserved for the CPI(Marxist)
I oscillated the noggin once more.I would be lying if i said that at this moment in time i was worried silly
A word about the Khan family reunion....
Its annoying.its irritating and above all...the fucking thing is periodic in nature..i ve never like the damned thing because many if not all of my nastiest memories have happened within 100 meters of this annoying congregation of annoying people who at the time were annoying the dingalings outta me ....
You cant delay bad weather,you cant make gay men go straight and you cant shut humanities students up...very much in the same vein you cant avoid family reunions and believe me i tried...oh lord knows i tried...i remember this one time when i was a kid i told my mom i couldnt attend the festivities because my ovaries were hurting and i promptly clutched my stomach...my mom shoved me off to say the prerequisite "Assalam Alaikum" to the elders..
So there it stood...a young child of 10 forced to bend my pride in front of a host of aunties of varying orders who looked like a bunch of prunes(u do know wat prunes are right??)..very wrinkly gossiply prunes..
I spent the day running around doing errands(fetching dentures,getting hankies that had been left about,sneaking my grandpa hs rum...),basically acting cute...While i heard about some "beta" of some ones who had done a Masters from Harvard or sumthing..(turned out it was Hamdard University...Aunty jee was just showing off)..or some husband who had bought his fat adoring wife a diamond necklace( they were zircons)..or some member of the family who was getting married this weekend and what the groom did("I heard he was serving The United Kingdom and Her Majesty"...he WAS...he was assistant vice-butler)..all these shenanigans ensued ...the lies persisted("ohhh..youve lost so much weight...i just bought a Rolls Royce..he's MY son..you know..)...and the pestilential cousins descencded on my room("FAAHaaaaaaD..."barked me mum..."entertain them ")..
"Entertain them ..entertain them??wat in teh hell do you think i am ..a godammned clown..i wont do it woman and theres nothing you can fucking well do about it!!!!""
My exact wordings were,"Yes mum"..A word to the wise...never..EVER deny a woman who has power of attorney over your bank account.
The cousins came ..they saw..they cracked fart jokes.And i was left wondering how these migits had evaded teh talent scouts of Drexler Home For The Weird ...or some other such institution...
When i came a across a real cutie sitting across me in MY bedroom...17 years of age,all style and elegance ...and hot as hel...but i turned my face way and proceeded to play yet another round of pull my finger with a gaggle of stupid 8 year olds...
"But Fahad..i am shocked and disappointed...why dint yu put teh moves on this chick ..she was obviously as bored as you and who knows ..this could be a good thing.."..
You make a good point..but you forget ,you dumbass,that this was a FAMILY reunion..a place where people you are RELATED to congregate...
Its a strange thing..but much like animals(which my fmaily does to a shicking extent resemble) the entire content of my house were divided into cliques...and had accordingly occupied tehir rooms..
YOu had your..
-Aunties(saree and salwar kameez talking about maids and weddings..two very popular subjects among their age bracket
-Uncles..who downing whiskey liek fish..to numb teh pain presumably..
-The menopausal middle aged women
-The balding middle aged men
-Me
-The Bacha Brigade
When all the pain had passed and the cretin had left the Khan household to crawl back in tehir respective homes..i went back to my room to find Grandpa dearest sitting in my recliner with his eyes glazed over...i deduced he had found teh pot he was looking for....
I went to sleep that night a brokena bruised man..hoping for some renumeration in the form of
Toblerones..etc..i dropped hints and called those less compliant "selfish maggots" to make a point...
so that night i slept with 12boxes of burfi and 3.96 megatonnes of dry fruit(teh cheap bastards) safely tucked ayway in my fridge...
Ah death where is thy sting....
Baron
