An E-mail To Pimples…

I first thought I will send a letter…but I was sure that the letter would reach after the pimple has gone…so I zeroed in on an email…

And here it goes…

To: pimple@myface.com

CC/BCC: No one else troubles me.

Subject: Thank You Note + Warning

Message: Dear, pimple on my face, first of all I want to thank you because without you this blog post wasn’t possible. Thank you for your esteemed presence on my forehead. Your company has delighted me but I do not think we are going to meet ever again. So I send this email to you.

I first spotted you when I cut my hair. I pushed those long black hair backwards and saw you. Disgusting little you! That red thing on my head is extremely beautiful and is a one of its kind creation, but please I do not like you on my head. Not because I already have so much stuff in it already (like chess, blogging and Rubik’s cube) but because I cannot tolerate you. Even you cannot tolerate me for a day, I bet that…that too on your forehead!

I have seen you on many other places…like the heads and cheeks of my friends…at this age, when we are rough and tough and don’t care a damn, it is amazing…we can accommodate you anywhere... but very soon we (I and my friends) have to do something. That’s because now we are cricket playing, sweaty, stinking and chirpy teenagers…and truly we give a damn! And I think the time has come…too many problems although I have had you for less than six months from now…

*I can’t bear myself in the mirror when I have little old you on my head… or cheek or nose.

*I run my fingers through my head, which used to be (and is going to be) smooth and nothing on them…but today I felt you…yuck…how can I have you???

*The worst part is you spread faster than my blog posts do on social media…and you make up a home for yourself somewhere else on my face…

*You are not paying me…will anyone in this city allow me to stay at their home? No…and for free… of course not!

* You do not look good on others’ face and so you definitely don’t on mine! And I do not want to go about with such a face…just imagine! Who would like an open garbage dump on Beverly Hills???

(yeah I quote my face Beverly hills…so what???)

But now no more of these problems! That is because I have found a solution…to all of these…pimple problems…boils and spreading of pimples on my face…

Although people say “True beauty lies in the heart or in the character of the person, the clothes and face area the first thing that a person sees in me...that person before being my friends sees my appearance…sometimes it becomes important…no one is going to get into the best of villas if s/he first sees flies and mosquitoes breeding at the entrance!

So pack up your bags dear because not only me but the world has discovered something that will not let you be there for more time on this planet…so apna boriya bistar bandh lo…”

Yours handsomely,

Shahen.

And then I got the reply…

In reply to: Thank You Note + Warning

to me

Hey…I won’t leave…tell me who you have found?

And I told him something…

ME: Garnier Pure Active Neem Face Wash.

After that I couldn’t find Pimple anywhere on the net…

So imagine if the name of it can drive pimples off net…imagine what The face wash can actually do…

So you too send an email to pimple on your forehead and tell them to shoo off…

And get the Garnier Pure Active Neem Face Wash now!

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Let em Fly, Let em Flow...

I did not write for the sake of it...

I did not write for money...

I did not write for attention seeking...

But just for the purpose of expressing...

When I wrote the first few words... 

They flew from the pen like free open birds...

But today as I stare at the blank document,I feel like a hopeless patient...

But I know the words will come again...

And fly like birds in the open again...

Let those birds be trapped for a while...

Coz when they'll be free they'll be worthwhile!!!!

I want the words to be my friend...

And help me write start to end...

But today those words just won't come And probe me to delete and wait some time...

But to write again I gotta dissolve that block...But I need some inspiration..Or some kind of motivation! Let the birds fly..Let the words flow...And let them and reach the world Oh! oh!

I will face the blank page...

But will fight it out...

And to the words I shout...

Just get out there, And Dissolve the block!

Dissolved by Shahen Pardiwala.

Thank you Aspi Uncle for the image of the bird. 

Image Courtesy: Aspi Patel.

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When the Journey Becomes a Destination...

continued from:

                                 We Homeschool, Yes. We Homeschool Not.

“You are a child only once.”

It’s enough, I am home-schooling.

Waking up early in  the morning, standing in assembly, being a part of futile and stupid annual days, travelling in jam-packed buses, giving useless exams, lifting heavy bags and all such things came to an end once we began home-schooling. Talking about beginning to home-school, it wasn’t tough. To be out of the system was enough to give us a lot of freedom. Till now we talked about the things that we managed to avoid and how there are lesser occurrences that otherwise I would face at school and had faced. Now, it is time to discuss the same but all together, and also what new experiences we are now exposed to and what more we are able to do as homeschoolers!!!

First of all, no more getting up early in the morning! Getting up at whatever time you like. 7, 9 11, 12 or any time that we want to wake up at. No haste to reach the school or worry to miss a bus. But what is surprising is that although we tend to wake up at 10 or sometimes even eleven or eleven thirty, we manage to learn and do so much more than what we could do when we went to school. Lots of other things along with completing the studies! And why this happens is…

THE SCHOOL STORY

Wake up at six thirty. Reach school by 7:50. Attend the assembly. Be at school till 2:45. Come back at home. Have lunch. This ends by four. Then, complete assignments and do homework….study for EXAAAMS (the capital stands for the sarcasm attached to it) and then after being completely stressed out, we’d play for an hour or two. Sometimes not! And then there were times when for the entire day, I would have to study. There would be no time for rest, leave alone exploring new things or doing something different. And in all of this, learning never happened. But that’s entirely something else. Here, we are talking about the time. The time that we actually never got…The entire day would be wasted over homework or completing assignments.

 also read...How I Learnt Learning...

THE HOMESCHOOL STORY.

We get so much time to do so much now. (It is either this one liner or a long article. Let me not STRESS you out! At least not now! ;)

Yes, so we get to wake up at anytime! But even if we (for example) wake up at 11, we manage to do a lot throughout the day. You know why??? That’s because 9 hours of school plus the extra 4 for the extra assignments are totally removed. So even if we deduct four hours for the extra morning sleep, it leaves us with 9 hours! And of course the evening time!

So the day is divided into many parts. The earlier part of the day is devoted to the formal syllabus, i.e. studying the textbook matter. That is for some 4 hours or maybe some time less or more. What surprised me too was that I and my brother were able to complete a substantial amount of our formal portion, way earlier than any school would. Before the first term ended, I had finished Physics, Chemistry and Biology. And by December of the year 2014, I had already finished 25 out of the 40 long chapters of Math. Shahaan (introduction needed?) had also finished his math and science by mid-term.

And languages? Well, when mom asked us if we had to read any more English chapters, I said, “I have read all of them.” then there was a little questioning. What is the point in writing those brief answers and factual answers and all that stuff when I had understood, and read the chapter? Why do I need to write the notes once then read it again, revise them, and practise them by writing them again; then writing them again for a test??? Is there any need at all for a test? Don’t I know that I know and have understood what I had to? So why get into this circle of writing and re writing. When my blogs are being read and I am able to give a message through them, do I need to do this?

 Do I need to do grammar that is actually not playing any role in my life? For example, Synthesis and expansion of idea!

 I want to convey a message to the world. Say, Time and tide wait for none…How do I expand it? Okay, I write long lectures. How do I simplify the expansion? Okay, I cut it down to the proverb! Now, how does the message reach the world????

No, the message I have written on a sheet of paper lays crumpled in a drawer. Now the same message if it has to be sent out to the world, what do I do? On Twitter, I synthesise it into 140 characters and on other places like Facebook and Blogger, where I can write more, I expand it. Then, what is the need to simplify or expand or do anything to a phrase or a sentence or paragraph how many ever times on a sheet of paper???

As far as Hindi is concerned, as long as one knows to write it well and read it properly, there is absolutely no need to write answers or give uncountable exams!

We end up doing so much! And then it may be a problem too. There are so many things we have done, now what new challenging thing shall we do???? That question persists always! What’s more? What’s new? What’s challenging?

It is such a wonderful learning cycle. Every time we do something and accomplish it, we want to do something else that holds our attention and something we can accomplish! But no, it’s not a bit boring!!!

Good Morning continues…

The good morning for us continues throughout the day! Now, let me remember….what did I write for Good Morning continues…Ok! Now I do! Bags! No more bags to carry daily once you homeschool. We do not need to carry any bags!!! We need to but not heavy ones that remind you of… of yourself from every day!

But there are some things we carry, when we go to our parents’ work place in the afternoon…and don’t regret to…a tennis racquet, whenever we have our tennis class and badminton racquets to play (guess what? Yet there is no racket created!!!). I carry my Rubik’s cube, a book,  some study material (fortunately one at a time)….Shahaan carries his toys…apart from all this, we carry smiles, some pride balanced with humility, sense of freedom in our minds and smiles again…these ain’t no heavy...believe me!