The Legend of Pinocchio

The trek to Kille Rajgad (taken up by all but one regular Knights, plus one squire) is one of the memories we knights will remember till eternity. The torrential rains, the green countryside, great locations and greatest friends made this trek one of those places/times which are mentioned every time we meet.

This was also the trek where "The Legend of Pinocchio" was born...


The Distress

This being a 2 day-trek, we carried lunch for one time, and raw materials to cook for all other meals, with the help of stove we carried. Now those of you who have used (or at least tried to use) a kerosene stove, know that lighting it is an art, the most essential tool for that being a pin to clean the holes. Of course, since the tasks were distributed, we ended up carrying 3 pins, none of which fit the stove in question.

The Knight in Split Pants to The Rescue

Those of you who are "trekkies" will know that at the camp sites with at least semi-permanent dwellings (in this case a temple), people often leave things which fellow-travellers will find useful, like extra matchboxes, a packet of kerosene, stove-pins etc. So, it fell upon us to search the nooks and crannies of the (by that time) dark temple. It was in this quest, that out guest squire in his Split Pants (dubbed so because of a wardrobe malfunction, more about it later) proved his worth.


He never returned from a round of temple pin-less. In all his rounds, he found more than a dozen pins, (often in or near the places others had looked) leaving the rest three of us (combined) behind by at least half a dozen. His exploits prompted us to dub him on the spot as "Sir Pin-occhio, The Seeker of Pins", a name which he proudly carries to date (or at least, we persist in calling him that).

Of course, as all the followers of Saint Murphy would guess, none of those pins would fit the stove, and we had to cut our trip short, spending remaining time on milk-powder added to cold water and raw maggie noodles.



- For I am The Great Eagle...

P.S. For mre about "Knights of The Round Table", click on "Round Table" in the "Labels" links.

About Manners and Decorum

It's not just us Knights who make life easier for people around us. There are some of our friends who also hold honorary positions at The Table, because of their sense of humour...

11th std. We the friends had gone on a camp on an island with a group. On the island, the living arrangements consisted of one large tent for us boys (around 10), a large tent for girls (similar number), followed by the tents for families and instructors.

After some near misses on the first day, we had to tell the girls to ask if anybody is changing (there being no doors to knock on) before charging in inside our tent, all the while being aware that a large head-sized hole (at about chest height) near the curtain (which served as door) rendered this precaution something less than that. But then, there is such a thing as decorum...

On the second day, one of our friends sticks his head inside the tent through aforem. hole and asks loudly, "Is anybody changing?"

Before the astonished occupants of the tent could answer, he continues, "No? Then I won't come in" and walks off... leaving us spectators RITSL.


- For I am The Great Eagle...

Glossary:
RITSL = rolling in the sand, laughing

Random Things IV

• When we were in 12th std, we attended mathematics class at 8.30 pm. It was the last batch of the day, for one of the best teachers we have ever had. He taught us many things, not least of which was how to have fun while learning. That's why this video was a blast from the plast.
  
  The only problem in this video is that there are no students in front of him to recant the formula in usual singsong, or to call "jatana bhetun ja" ("meet me before you leave", when somebody got any problem wrong), so his style is bit cramped. But, whatever happens, Namya rules, and so does E3 (that's our batch)!!!


• I need a girlfriend, some might say desperately.


• I won't be surprised if my friends in Vegas (some lucky people are there for project) hear "Pehchan kaun?" when entering some club there, since I read this headline.

Memory Revamp?

Normally, I find myself associating various incidences/people with songs or sometimes entire movies. Like RHTDM is associated with the trip our class had in our BE, because the movie was too famous right then (people actually bought the figurines on the trip which were like the figurine in the movie I remember).

Similarly, DCH is connected with memories of all of the Knights of The Round Table, sitting and watching the movie on my friend's PC. I can still remember exactly where everybody was sitting/sleeping, and what jokes we passed around as we had the dialogs by heart, having watched that movie about 1000 times before.

Each time I hear the song from either of these movies, I am reminded of these incidences...

Today I was listening to a song on my iPod, and suddenly my mind created the whole picture of the road we used to take to get back to our rooms from the office in Hyderabad, during our training. I can still see the whole picture even now, after about 3-4 hours.

But, the movie the song belonged to was released at least an year before I went for training, there wasn't any particular incident which I would associate with the song (the song being a sad romantic one did not help matter either).

So, what cross connection took place? Or my mind is undergoing a revamp, and so just threw on a random scene it found in front of my eyes? I am still trying to understand...

Nostalgic....

Remember the days

• When watching a movie on VCR was a special event?


• When Aamir Khan was a chocolate Hero?


• When every boy dreamed of dancing in slow motion in tea farms?


• When cycle races were popular even though nobody had learned about Tour de France?

Yes, I recently got "Jo Jeeta Wahi Sikandar"...


And while we are nostalgic, does anybody remember the antics of a soldier (who didn't know the WWI was over for 20 years) and his buddy? Or what "hornophobia" or "hornmania" is? And how to milk a "G-O-Oat... Goat"?




P.S. If anybody got the references in last para, you are a person after my own heart...