A bottle of water.

June 1st! Everyone is trying to avoid the sun as much as they can unless its quite urgent to go out into it and embrace it all the while cursing it.

Look around and the ladies are out with French manicured toe tips, legs and hands stripped down with hot wax , fancy flip- flops , Bermuda – shorts, capris, summer dresses, sunscreens , fancy hats , umbrellas and everything else related to summer.
Now the fashion is to carry a bottle of water wherever you go – a sign of ‘I take good care of my skin and my health’.
A leading mineral water company has taken advantage of this situation to beat competitors by running a competition for its users where you have to just do a simple thing. Collect the letters of its name . The one who manages to collect all the letters win gold coins.
As of now I have collected just two letters. All the bottles seem to carry just these two letters.
Now when I get the bottle, I first look at it sarcastically all the while a voice crying inside of me to open it, what if this time, the letters are different? I take the bottle and peel of its plastic cover beneath which the letters are hidden within a small square covering. And before I open the covering, I pray for it to be something different.
Slowly, slowly I open it all the while two voices inside of me arguing with each other.One telling me that am a fool and the other one telling me that there is no harm in checking , you might not know when luck strikes!
I go forward and open it and then crumble it in disgust and throw it into the garbage.

It’s never going to change! And I promise myself to never check it again!

Yet, I continue to peel the cover, hoping and hoping that maybe I might just come across all of those damned letters!!

Just did one this morning too.

May

May – the summer is back.

It isn’t yet completely humid in Dubai however it’s just around the corner and you can already feel it. I guess everyone is already making plans to hibernate during the coming July – august months.

Not me.

May – the month of the Taurean. I was with a Taurean friend at the bookstore today – a lady who can make me laugh at even the silliest jokes. Today she even made the guard at the bookstore snicker while she was happily criticizing John Grisham – a well know author. I don’t know how does she manage to do that and when I turned back I saw him chuckling looking at us. He doesn’t have to eaves drop – she was loud enough for him to hear. Infact, during days when am really low, she can really put me in to good spirits with her sarcasm and wittiness.

Some people don’t have to try – they are designed naturally to bring a smile to your face – with their clever remarks and wittiness. Then there are people who make you laugh with their stupidity. Not that they are stupid, just that they tend to act like one.

And certain times we ourselves can tend to be laughing stock for people. It happened to me when I was at the swimming pool one day with two Piscean friends. Now I seem to have a lot of ‘Fishes’ in my life.
Since we haven’t yet reached the stage of ‘expert swimmers’ or ‘good swimmers’, especially my Piscean friend number one, she kind of lost balance while doing her back stroke and called out for help.
Now suddenly I was the friend trying to help the friend in need - I jumped into the water like am some professional swimmer and swam towards her. Unfortunately when I reached her, I did not know what to do next and so in the process of catching her, I almost drowned her and myself. We had a bunch of old ladies around us in the pool and Piscean friend number 2 who was still at the other end of the pool watching the whole scene with a dumb look - to laugh at what happened. Since I laugh more than I swim when am in the swimming pool due to which I drink a lot of water, I too did the same.

Oh well, I guess I wrote a lot for this post.

Cheerio.