I used to wonder what beer must taste like when I was a teenager. I knew it must taste great cos everyone loves beer but how great exactly. My curiosity only grew with time but I never tried drinking beer cos I just didn’t want to try any form of alcohol cos I didn’t want to lose control over myself which is something that alcohol does.
But few months back, one of my friends decided that I should try beer after all and I also decided that there was no harm in doing so. I mean, I was with a friend who I could trust to take care of me if I get drunk (I know you cant get drunk by drinking beer but it was my first time so I was scared).
So my friend got me a bottle of Kingfisher, which I then poured into a glass (I couldn’t possibly have drank directly from the bottle). But even before I could take my first sip, a strange smell hit me …and it was the beer. God, it smelled awful. So I was expected to drink that smelly thing? My friend and his friend started laughing and said it smelled great. I thought they were completely crazy but decided to drink it anyways. I almost vomited after I took it in. It tasted like soap water, but worse. I tried drinking it again thinking I might have missed something the first time but no, it really did taste like soap water gone bad the second time too.
I never tried drinking beer ever again and have not been able to stop wondering why then people drink beer.
I couldn’t post anything new today so here’s some of my favorite Stewie Griffin quotes.
Taken from various episodes of Family Guy:
Stewie Griffin: [after Lois tries to feed Stewie his broccoli “airplane style”] Damn you, damn the broccoli, and damn the Wright Brothers.
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Stewie: Well, I’d love to stay and chat, but you’re a total bitch.
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Stewie: Let me guess, you picked out yet another colorful box with a crank that I’m expected to turn and turn until OOPS! Big shock, a jack pops out and you laugh and the kids laugh and the dog laughs and I die a little inside.
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Stewie: I was under the impression the name of the show was “Kids Say the Darndest Things,” not “Old Black Comedians Never Shut the Hell Up.”
I neither completely believe in Gandhian philosophy nor have any idea what relevance it has in today’s world but I really like the song, “Vaishnav Jan To”, that was a favorite of Gandhi too.
You can download various versions of the song here. The lyrics taken from the same site are:
Vaishnav Jan to tene kahiye
Jay peerh paraaye janneyray
Par dukkhey upkar karey teeyey, man abhiman na anney ray
Sakal lokma Sahuney bandhey,
Ninda Na karye kainee ray
Baach kaachh, Man nischal Raakhey, dhan-dhan jananee tainee ray
Samdrishi nay trishna tyagee, par-stree jaynay mat ray
Vivihva thaki asatya na bolay, par-dhan nav jhaley haath ray
Moh maaya vyaayey nahin Jeynay, dridth vairagya jana manma ray
Ram-nam-shoom taalee laagee,
Sakal teerth seyna tanma ray
Vanloohee nay kapat rahit chhay,
Kaam, Krodh nivarya ray
Bhane Narsinhyo tainoo darshan karta kul ekotair taarya re.
English Translation:
Speak only as godlike of the man who feels another’s pain
Who shares another’s sorrow and pride does disdain
Who regards himself lowliest of the low
Speaks not a word of evil against anyone
Blessed is the mother who gave birth to such a son
Who looks upon everyone as his equal,
Lust he has renounced
Who honors women like he honors his mother
Whose tongue knows not the taste of falsehood
Nor covets another’s worldly goods
Who longs not for worldly wealth (or fame)
For he treads the path of renunciation
Ever on his lips is Ram’s holy name
All places of pilgrimage are within him
He has conquered greed, is free of deceit, lust and anger
Through him Narsinh has godly vision
And his generation to come will attain salvation.
Watching the Paolo family on TAR: Family Edition last week, I realized what a nightmare it would be to go on a reality show with my mom. I would totally come across as a jerk like the Paolo boys. The thing is that I have an inbuilt zero tolerance policy towards any questions that my mom might ask or any suggestions she might give. So I usually bark at her immediately for asking a stupid/irrelevant question or giving unnecessary suggestions and then she randomly chooses to either start crying and complaining that I never listen to her or shouts back at me and then we start arguing which ends with she stopping to talk to me. Now that we live about 1900 km away, we still have such arguments on the phone and the only difference is that now it’s easier for my mom to stop talking to me. She just hangs up on me.
Raj
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