Thursday, January 26, 2006

On Onions & Root Vegetables.

I was eating a quick dinner [jilly jiken bonlass and flied lice from Beijing Express. It could have been worse.] at the Food Court in Garuda Mall when two boys, slightly the worse for drink, sat down next to me with a plate of pav bhaji and had a conversation in Hindi that went like this:

“Arre, will you eat onions tonight?”

“Yaar, we put alcohol na, might as well eat onions too!”

And off they went, digging in to the onions. I'm trying hard not to picture their mother lying in wait for them:

“Son, how could you? Onions?!”

I gathered they must be Jain. I wonder if there is an clandestine (underground?!) market for root vegetables in these communities...

Aleph, Recluse and I then sat through “Doom: The Movie.” We're suckers for bad movies and have made some memorable screw-ups but this was one for the record books. The video game was better. By miles.

Disclaimer: Recluse and Aleph had some role to play in my characterization of the mother and the root-vegetable-gray-market...

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

hahaha...Doom eh...what with a tongue thats smart enough to sense evil in dna...that movie was a gem...

Anonymous said...

Ha ha ha...this brings back memories of school. There was once a pandemic episode of Conjunctivitis. Or so Charlie told us. Anyone who had vaguely red looking eyes was sent home. So two of my classmates went to Abu's canteen, got some onions from him, rubbed there eyes and under arms and god knows what, and marched into Charlie's office. If you know who Charlie is, you can only imagine his reaction. "Ehh...get out man, get out of my office. I dont want your disease. Go home man". So the two of them, chuckling under their breaths, left school.......and probably went to golden rose or ching luung. Ahhh, the good ol' days.

Dilettante said...

The Rock was the only one who could act in that movie. So imagine how the rest of the actors were.

chamique said...

Oh but have you watched Rudraksh? I think it was the first Hindi sci-fi movie?
The special effects were like screensavers.
So bad, it was brilliant.

Anonymous said...

vikram.....or baytaal....vikram vikram vikram......baytaaal baytaal baytaal!!!!

Dilettante said...

Provo: Excellent!!

Now you've given yourself a new nickname on this blog.

Thou shalt be known as Baytaal henceforth in this realm.