Random Thoughts.

Pondering on my next topic for this space, I hovered on many different pieces, wrote some & threw some. Before you think anything, am against wastage of paper. Some things are so small that they don’t make up a topic but so big that they can never be forgotten. Some things can never be written down ‘to the T’; at least by me.


• Jokes, they lose their kick when tried to be put in black and white.

• Tears, they no more remain wet, in the quest for the right words, I lose my thoughts. Sometimes underplay it or exaggerate it. One reason, I couldn’t write about my loved and lost, father.

• Little smiles which my kid gives me every day. Topics which are huge and important for her,” Mumma! You know, my teacher is a living thing!” This is after her first lesson on living and non-living things. “Why Jesus is shame-shame on the cross?” I still can’t pray to him without thinking about the remark.

• Ghanaian speaking fluent Hindi. I was dumbstruck, kept looking at his mouth, how the words were rolling down. He stayed in India for 3 years, Sh**! I also completed three with almost nil knowledge in Twi.

• Embarrassing moments. I have no qualms to write but am not sure if you will get the right picture once I finish. Masahaari-shaakahari has been 'the' favourite with many who know me.

• Facts without sarcasm. I am an honest person and people tend to take my facts as sarcasm and laugh. I am pretty serious most of the times but think they understand the double meaning better. Yes, it does apply to my last piece of crap on this blog about sex and salvation.

• Mistaken identities. I can’t describe how it feels when you are misunderstood for a doctor after interviewing a resident doctor for a magazine’s beauty section. I think, flabbergasted is how I felt, after hearing the medical jargons thrown at me, just because she took me as her supervisor! Another one is rather emotional, when I was showered with blessings for taking down blood pressure for an old village woman. She also thought am her doctor.

• My mathematical prowess in school days. It also comes under the category of embarrassing/ emotional/ weakness/horror. It is one reason; I am who I am today. I could have outwitted the board with my own version of Pythagoras theorem and beta theta, think I messed somewhere and passed. I simply can’t write that here.. as I told; its beyond words!

• Beginning and ending. Once I get an inspiration to write, I am more than happy that half the things are off my brain but it takes me longer than expected to finish a piece. Either it becomes too long or too short. Think it’s the right note to end.
Take care. Will try to write better next time.

COMEDY OF ERRORS: Sex and Salvation

Two living legends, at prime ages, leading invisible empires, millions of followers, two ultimate goals: Sex and Salvation.


I don’t know if I will be spared for this crime; my audacity to write about these two personalities on a single spread. The underlying comedy amuses me. It hit me sometime yesterday that how these two people are characteristic of their age-groups. With time, they have shown utmost perseverance to follow their philosophy and have been successful in getting mass acceptance and come out as icons of contemporary living. With all my guts, I disclose Dalai Lama and Hugh Hefner.

I know you gave a chuckle there. It’s like calling out for your own murder but hey! Did u ever notice that these two men both at eighties are ruling the two invisible empires; the lost Tibet and the d(b)aring Playboys. Both are Kings, both started their journey towards the unconquered dream at a young age. They share one philosophy, what you say is what you preach. My goal is not to put them under one category, bottle them and sell my pickle. It is pure comedy which amuses me and inspires me to tell you about it, and I think I have done that.

No, I am not running away! We all know that the modern gurus tell of nirvana and the new age living. And the instances of sex and salvation being clubbed are more than once. They are the ideal retail mix. Both, sell well. The job is not mine to ridicule one and hype another, because both are poles apart, standing strong in their own ways, but the comedy of errors is not be missed!