The Old Man of Hyderabad (OMOH) gets up early fretfully, thinking it is 8 to discover it is only 5.....BTDT....
Switches on the Pre-Loaded Washing Machine and listens to its grudging gurgle...BTDT...
Opens his Brushing-Shaving Kit and finds the tooth-brush long past its prime and decides that he will get a new one today, come what may,.....BTDT.....
Looking at it, he muses...the wear-out is so evenly uneven....maybe by taking its Fast Fourier Transform he can get his Dental Profile...Fourier Transform?...KGP...BTDT...
Makes some Tea and sits down to sip and finds he forgot sugar...BTDT...
Post-Ablutions and Feed, he relaxes on his cot, wife still asleep...BTDT...
Sonoo's door opens, he comes out with li'l Ishani, stands her on the threshold and whispers: Thatha Po! (GO Play with OMOH!)...BTDT..
Ishani has all the Joy in the Morning on her lovely face....BTDT..
She takes two steps, halts, adopts her Dad's Risk Management Policy, gets down on all fours and crawls fast to OMOH's open arms and says.."Ta-ta...Ta-ta...".....BTDT....
What tender warmth in the biting cold!!!...Both go out to look at the routine couple of pigeons on the sill of the Opposite Apartment Complex...and OMOH recalls having taught her father the lovely rhyme with finger-play....
Two little dickie birds,
Sitting on a wall;
One named Peter,
One named Paul.
Fly away Peter!
Fly away Paul!
Come Back Peter!
Come Back Paul!
.........BTDT.......
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Sitting on a wall;
One named Peter,
One named Paul.
Fly away Peter!
Fly away Paul!
Come Back Peter!
Come Back Paul!
.........BTDT.......
Finds the Young Man of Hyderabad (YMOH) running and panting in his white half-pant, white kets, white muffler and white T- Shirt with the bold Message:
Been There....Done That
Suddenly it dawns on OMOH that YMOH's Entire Life has been one of Vrishanayasam...
......in case you can't figure the Sanskrit out, here is the pithy & bawdy translation:
I first learned BTDT from Ashish Bhardwaj's gps autograph: Been There...Done That
...or is it someone else's?...... I forget...BTDT....
......in case you can't figure the Sanskrit out, here is the pithy & bawdy translation:
Ball Fatigue
I first learned BTDT from Ashish Bhardwaj's gps autograph: Been There...Done That
...or is it someone else's?...... I forget...BTDT....
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