Living in G-World....

This one is dedicated to the most hilarious personality I've ever come across in my life so far (and I believe you as well), - Hemalkumar Shankarlal Golwala urf Golu and lately Gohu. I expect you to know the first two names, and the last one you will know in a while, if you already don't know.

As I said earlier - 'the most hilarious personality', undoubtedly he is, and if you know him closely, you couldn't disagree on this. Every action/reaction of him could make you burst into laughs. His honesty and naiveness could kill you sometimes, and his confessions make you go insane. His shopping style could once again drive you crazy - sometimes we wonder due to Golu only some online deal sites run. He could be the only source of income for many websites. Just to mention, he believes in buying all types of memory cards even before he buys a camera :).

No person in the world has the guts to admit what he does and he can - and those things I can't even write here;) but imagine as far as you can and the wildest & weirdest you could and you would get the answer, what stuff he is made of. I think Purvin's testimony (with some masala) about him sums up quite a lot - 'If any point in your life if you are very depressed, feel so lonely and if you feel like killing yourself, please call up Golu before jumping off the cliff, you will change your plans for sure'. There are millions of things that I can write here, but it won't make enough justice to Golu's talent. You have to be with him to experience the charisma of G-World...

Anyways, the prime motivation (however, I always wanted to write a story on him :)) for writing this post was his recent change in hairstyle - now-a-days he keeps long 'sideburns' (prolonged haircut in front of ears ;)). Due to this change, and his physical features (precisely height ;)) he resembles to a Mexican (no offence meant here). So, I thought of aliasing him as Gohu from Mexico. The reason for making Gohu from Golu goes like this - in Mexican, if I am not wrong they pronounce (or at least we call) 'L' as 'H'. So the name Gohu...and that's all...Gohu was riding altogether in a Mexican world then onwards. He started speaking Mexican since then, or at least he thinks that ;)...

So, in this Meximania, we were roaming around the Washington monument in DC, and he was still under the great influence of Viva La Mexica... and started speaking in Mexican there. And the one and only sentence he was uttering was 'Ke Paso Amigo'..so he was speaking that and I was standing besides him... 2 people were just walking by, they heard this and stopped and were starring at Gohu...and Gohu ki to phat gayi...needless to say they were 'Mexicans'...I just couldn't stop laughing out loud..poor Golu...:D

And the G-World stories go on forever....

Kaushal

From the Restrooms...

This one is going to be a bit gross..;), so please bear with it. Last weekend, when we went to Monroe (somewhere close to New York City) to drop Kavin (he got job there), we had this 'tea time' sort of discussion. Here who were involved in the discussion is not important..;) so names shouldn't matter to you.

We all were having pizza in a Pizza Hut and Purvin got a call from nature, so while he was attending the call we were discussing this - 'Our Behaviour in Public Restrooms'. Kavin revealed, generally he feels very uncomfortable when someone else is also there on the shit-pot next to him. All the noises coming out (obviously farts ;)) are the most pathetic thing. And, that fellow wouldn't even bother to care, all he does is keeps on farting again and again. So, Kavin makes sure he always keeps on flushing the toilet to get rid of those farts (believe me this really works, the noises always fade away in the flushing water noise). Wow, that was some true revelation from Kavin and Shantanu couldn't agree more on that. Same behaviour...!

Suddenly, I felt so good about it. I thought so I am not the only person in this world who does this, but I found 2 more right in front of me. And I told to myself I think I am normal :), everybody turns the flush on in rest rooms. As far as I am concerned, mine is somewhat wierd. I just don't use the restroom if someone else is already there in the next 'cubicle', unless its extremely urgent. The person next door always makes me nervous, and I just can't concentrate :D. And if somebody comes after
me, then my flush never turns off ;). The good thing about flush tanks in public restroom is they fill up pretty quickly (or may be instantly), so that you don't have to wait to fill them up like our home ones. Otherwise, it would be difficult to avoid the firecrackers next door...;), and we all would be in miserable open trap...

In general peeing and shitting in public restrooms in America is not always the heavenly experience. I wish they were more private. Even the worst 'Public Sauchalaya' in India would have at least stone/marble barriers to pee even though sometimes you won't find the PPs (those are Pee-Pots in my terms). And here, you hardly see such things, it's all 'open'.

Kaushal