World Cup of last dances

 In my earliest memory 1998 and 2002 world cups were the best hosting handful of legends at their best and great footballing teams

It can't get any worse than this when a handful of old men who should have retired long ago arrived with a supposedly emotional, warm story of how they wanted a last dance. Instead they made mockery out of their game, cut a sorry figure and exited ,unceremoniously.

Cult creation and 'making of legend' is natural. But not when you make a story out of nothing and forget that your team and sport matters. Then you go ahead to use short reels and 'stories' to make a crowd believe that you are going to work out a magic when you don't have that left in you.

മറവിയിലേക്ക്

 കഴിഞ്ഞ ദിവസം പള്ളി ഗ്രൂപ്പിൽ ഒരു അനുശോചനം കിടക്കുന്ന കണ്ടൂ. പ്രായമുള്ള മനുഷ്യൻ ആണ് . പണ്ട് കണ്ട പരിചയം തോന്നുന്നു

വീട്ടിൽ അപ്പനോട് ചോദിച്ചപ്പോ പരറഞ്ഞത്. ഉന്നത ഉദ്യോഗത്തിൽ നിന്ന് retire ചെയ്ത ആണ്

COVID ന് ശേഷം വീട്ടിൽ നിന്ന് വെള്ളിയിൽ ഇറങ്ങിയിട്ടില്ല

ഒന്ന് ആലോചിച്ച് നോക്കിയാൽ COVID തീർത്തു കളഞ്ഞ എത്ര ജീവിതങ്ങൾ ഇപ്പോളും കാണാം

Toughest Illness

 Everyone will answer to this question that they have the toughest illness in the world

For the past few months I am going through this indigestion which comes in a cycle every week. You feel tired, disoriented and wondering if you will die

Yesterday I kept thinking this is the badass of all illnesses in the world

Happy Retirement

 I went to a 'retirement' function yesterday. A place where you wish someone ridiculous things like 'happy second innings'

His wife was giving a small talk where she said, in a light vein, that she too is retiring from the duty of preparing 'tiffin'

I was wondering if I happen to survive another two decades, will I be sane enough to live a happy second innings

A frank Dad son conversation

 So my Dad, like most of the retired elder people are hooked to YouTube and particularly into the conspiracy behind religion, food , politics and what not

So yesterday he sends me a youtube link and I don't even acknowledges there messages

But I thought I should amuse myself with the headline and I was surprised and shocked to see that video was sermon on how 'Sexual immorality draws people from God'

I was stupified. I remember when I was young and I saw word in the Bible 'semen' and I asked him what it was and he drove me away. So what is this frankness when I am forty and the libido is on a decline

Well I decided to watch the video in the evening and I realized what he wanted to say was another 'retired' uncle who is into spreading word among the youths decided to start a YouTube channel and came up with this topic

Oh my creepy creepy uncles

A scene I wish I never witnessed

 So my next  door Neighbour, who I know is not very well off, lives by cooking tiffins for nearby offices. And I have seen bank officials coming in for loan recovery

So today I went to get my daily morning grocery, and I happened to see the shopkeeper arguing and abusing him. He seems to have asked for a rebate in the Atta flour. Both os us looked embarrassed seeing each other out there

Bottom line is it is not easy to make a living

To buy or not to buy

 The earliest reference in Bible to temptation is when Satan tempts Jesus with al the wealth of the world

In my other life my struggle with temptation was not to buy something and today I have to struggle with the temptation is to buy something

So after realising that my stock of ‘non usable shirts’ are going up , I decided to buy a new pair.. It was not easy and I have to waive off the last minute temptation to postpone it for a couple of months

And now I realise I need a good pair of shows too. The problem is if you start searching online, all your instagram reels are interrupted with advertisement of more and more varieties. All coming with a significant price tag

WIth every passing day I am resembling my Dad, he kept saving and wearing very normal outfit while his brothers and sister wore premium dressing. I always wanted to look premium someday, but guess that might not happen.

Or buy on EMI and just forget about it