Maid in Delhi!!

Reporting Base: Home
Time: 07.00 hrs
Status Report: One soldier down!

Off goes the alarm and I force myself out of bed with a sense of urgency and rush to the kitchen. Find the kettle, fill water in it and switch on the burner. As I move to draw all the curtains and open the windows of the house I notice a groggy Shweta making the bed. Hardly do I reach half way at the chore at hand and I hear the whistle of the kettle on the stove. I rush back to the kitchen and switch the burner off. As I pour the hot water into the cups and make coffee for the two of us, from the corner of my eye I see Mowgli (my pet) standing at the entrance looking as if trying to communicate something. Oh…yeah, I gather… I need to take him down for a walk. I hand Shweta her coffee, take mine and head for the lift with Mowgli for his morning walk. I suddenly realize I have not taken a paper for Mowgli’s poo, I rush back inside to get it. In the fraction of these five seconds, my pet is missing… damn… perhaps he decided to take the elevator by himself… I take the stairs to chase him and spill some coffee on my pajamas … ouch… it’s still hot!! And this chaos spills from the morning to the noon and way down into the night.

That’s like a regular day in the month that Amma, our house help, takes an off as her annual vacation. She is gone for a month now and as anticipated, Shweta and I are struggling to keep the home and shoots, rehearsals, Mowgli and meals… all of that in order. It’s quite an ordeal. This one month I am 4804758 times more domesticated as compared to the rest of the 11 months. My close friends in the US would be very happy to see this as they always feel that we, in India, enjoy the luxuries of having drivers, house help and the other help we get here….Grrr.

Ha… I feel lighten now that I have vented out. Actually it’s not that bad after all. It’s a trip, Shweta and I love to take together. It’s like taking full responsibility of your own home and it sure is fulfilling. We mostly divide our duties under such crisis and we do pretty well. What Shweta expects out of me on the domestic front is very little, so once in a while I love to surprise her by doing something she would absolutely not expect.

At such times I am often reminded of my childhood when we were trained to be ’self sufficient’. Don’t have the fondest memories of those days, but today, it sure is coming handy. Everyone can be self sufficient. It’s the way we pamper ourselves and spoil ourselves that makes life so incomplete without a lot of cushion around our backside. While growing up, even when it was 42 degrees I never felt the need of an air conditioner. It’s only now that my endurance and threshold have shrunken, making life more complicated.

Today, I thank Amma profusely for keeping me in check. Reminding me that you could buy all the luxury, but being enslaved by it would be a folly. I feel immense appreciation for all the help I have around. I realize that all the articles of luxury I am surrounded with are only objects and not me, myself! Thanks Amma but that’s it…enough… now get back quickly… need my morning coffee by the bed ;)

Yours Lazily :)

Manav

Just in good faith…

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Char Saal Baad…

I have always been a family man, and the most cherished memories of my life still remain the one with my lovely family. And recently, after four long years, my brother Niketu and sis-in-law flew from Melbourne to my home town!

I also made sure to take time out from my busy schedule to spend time with my loved ones. And what a reunion it was! They say that distance makes us love more, and I finally realised the truth behind it.

Everyone was there; my mom, dad, bro and sis-in-law. Me and my brother have come a long way in life, from traveling to school on bicycles to now travelingin beautiful cars with our beautiful wives :)

Times have changed .. yet my brother is still the same. The love has stayed; along with our fondness for cricket :)

And of course we played cricket in the gully with our old friends, which made me nostalgic. After all, how many times we get to re-live our childhood? “It’s great to see my little brother grow” I thought with fondness, realising that even I have grown. We both may have matured, but we still argue over silly things like kids. We drove around the city and ate at our favourite restaurants.

On hindsight, I realise how lucky I am to be able to have such times with my family. I will treasure these moments close to my heart for the rest of my life!

Loads of love,

Manav

Mowgli Ka Swayamwar!

The word is out in tinsel town that the super hot hunk of animal kingdom, Mr. Mowgli is out on the streets looking for a soul mate. The shy and handsome NRI dog (he’s a proud Lhasa breed) has finally decided to settle down with a homely wife. In h

is true bindaas style Mowgli has chosen to search for his life-time partner via the ancient tradition of Swayamwar. And helping him out in this search is his daddy Manav Gohil! The Kal Tak news team finds out more.

“He was a gift from me to Shweta“, says Manav. “Mowgli is almost 8 years old now, that means 50 in human years. Least did I know that our Jungle ka King Mowgli will turn out to be a brahamachari” he adds with obvious sadness.

According to Manav, Mowgli has always been more of a football player than interested in worldly affairs like settling down. “Mowgli had been shunning the advances of the colony babes Sweetu and Ivana and this is what got me worried!” informs Manav. He expects a horde of participants for the reality show as thousands of p

otential candidates have already started barking around the Gohil household. The entire animal kingdom is eagerly waiting to see what kind of she-dogs apply and are shortlisted by the heartthrob.

Apart from the stardom that will be showered upon the lucky winner, she would also walk away with a grand prize of 5 nights and 6 days of travel to the park; and not to forget the lifetime supply of pampering and fur scratching! Will the new ‘groom-in-waiting’ avatar of Mowgli turn out to be a success? Will the brides match upto Mowgli’s high standards? And can Mowgli finally learn to not pee on the sofa? Only time will tell.

Tune into bow-bow network every Friday at 9 PM to watch your favourite Mowgli decide his future, breaking the hearts of millions of bitches in the process!

The daddy Manav has sincerely requested the readers to send in the pictures of their own pet dogs for the show at manav@superchooha.com. And please don’t take Article 377 seriously, Mowgli is very straight.

Regards,
The Admin team

PS – The events and characters depicted in this article are entirely fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Message from the admin team-

We were at Manav’s place last week working on a new design for the blog as it will soon celebrate its first anniversary. Mowgli however did not like all our attention to be on Manav’s Mac. He was very restless. That’s when we were informed that he is still to find a lovely homely mate. So we thought, as a gesture of gratitude towards the Gohil family we would assist them in finding a Bahu. Hence this post.