Memory Loss:
This happened when I was in college. From the place we stayed the nearest town was an hour's ride, there was a gap of 3 km to the state highway from where I could get regular bus.
When a Lorry passed near by I waved my hands,hopped on happily as that gave me the extra pocket money savings.
As we drove on to state highways, the roads had these huge sections of gravel and rocks dumped alongside for road repair.
The cleaner ,driver were having small talks ,from their discussion I could make out the cleaner was bit challenged on his mental faculties,not dementia but something amiss.The talk was in Tamil, at one point as we drove the Sky was getting beautiful, I was admiring that through the large windows from the Lorry cabin. And suddenly cleaner expressed his admiration aloud with 'Wow Beautiful', his pronounciation was top notch,a complete contrasting vocabulary skills from a Man who was just talking aloof with his colleague a minute ago.
And after admiring for few minutes he went back to the mode that I was familiar with.
Later at one point the gravel had got messy and instead of being in a group it had spread over few metres onto the main road. The driver asked this cleaner to get it squared up as the Lorry was loaded up and he wasn't too comfy to ride over sharp rocks that might puncture his tyres.
As we saw the cleaner square up the rocks; the driver told me briefly that that man was once a well educated son of a wealthy family; his current condition is a well repeated story in history of squandering his wealth with people who called themselves friends just for his money and left him in the street after his use was over.
This was my first introduction to a character that we usually are introduced in stories to bring up our moral values.I would always remember that Man and that knocks my head down whenever something gets over me say stupid gadgets for which I have a week knee for.
Drunk on books:
Many years ago I was on a train ride, think it was on Chennai -Mangalore mail. I had taken a short
open ticket and was returning home to Kozhikode after few days stay at my Sister's place.
It was a Sleeper ticket, so found a family which was pretty much awake and had a free slot in their section.After few minutes opened up a book, immediately the man who was beside me in a grabbing action took a look at my cover page. It was a non fiction , he then himself talked about his interesting books he read ;Showed me bunch of books and discussed on them with no input from me, he was literally drunk on the need to read. Out of few books he showed I could see some were from a Library.
And after he had finished his long, fast talk on his books and on his discover I don't share his same interest in the category of books he just discussed he abruptly became quiet.
Strange Lady:
This happened 2 months back, me and my colleague were on a walk in Singapore Orchard street.We were savouring our walk as in the present industry we are in; there is no such thing as shore leave granted for us during our 1 month's stay on the Drill Ship.
This off time that we got only happened because some one screwed up in handling an operational issue in Logistics and we had broken AC in our Ship. And with no AC even QueenMary 2 will be Oven box in a day.
First few minutes were spent drooling over Leica camera when Leica was having an Open platform outside a Mall. I was a bit hungry and was taking my colleague to a eating outlet to have some Vegie or Seafood for Dinner.
As we walked suddenly a Lady literally thrusted herself between us with a question/ Rapport style that a person would have in a long standing friends.
In next 10minutes she had discussed valid points of Belgium flag with my Belgium colleague after she guess his origin from his accent. With me, it turned to CASTE ! issues of India, her hatred towards
higher castes etc.,
and when we came close to a bus stop she just left off saying a bye i got to go.
She was well dressed ,aged in 30s.
Well these are the ones that I remember now..
This happened when I was in college. From the place we stayed the nearest town was an hour's ride, there was a gap of 3 km to the state highway from where I could get regular bus.
When a Lorry passed near by I waved my hands,hopped on happily as that gave me the extra pocket money savings.
As we drove on to state highways, the roads had these huge sections of gravel and rocks dumped alongside for road repair.
The cleaner ,driver were having small talks ,from their discussion I could make out the cleaner was bit challenged on his mental faculties,not dementia but something amiss.The talk was in Tamil, at one point as we drove the Sky was getting beautiful, I was admiring that through the large windows from the Lorry cabin. And suddenly cleaner expressed his admiration aloud with 'Wow Beautiful', his pronounciation was top notch,a complete contrasting vocabulary skills from a Man who was just talking aloof with his colleague a minute ago.
And after admiring for few minutes he went back to the mode that I was familiar with.
Later at one point the gravel had got messy and instead of being in a group it had spread over few metres onto the main road. The driver asked this cleaner to get it squared up as the Lorry was loaded up and he wasn't too comfy to ride over sharp rocks that might puncture his tyres.
As we saw the cleaner square up the rocks; the driver told me briefly that that man was once a well educated son of a wealthy family; his current condition is a well repeated story in history of squandering his wealth with people who called themselves friends just for his money and left him in the street after his use was over.
This was my first introduction to a character that we usually are introduced in stories to bring up our moral values.I would always remember that Man and that knocks my head down whenever something gets over me say stupid gadgets for which I have a week knee for.
Drunk on books:
Many years ago I was on a train ride, think it was on Chennai -Mangalore mail. I had taken a short
open ticket and was returning home to Kozhikode after few days stay at my Sister's place.
It was a Sleeper ticket, so found a family which was pretty much awake and had a free slot in their section.After few minutes opened up a book, immediately the man who was beside me in a grabbing action took a look at my cover page. It was a non fiction , he then himself talked about his interesting books he read ;Showed me bunch of books and discussed on them with no input from me, he was literally drunk on the need to read. Out of few books he showed I could see some were from a Library.
And after he had finished his long, fast talk on his books and on his discover I don't share his same interest in the category of books he just discussed he abruptly became quiet.
Strange Lady:
This happened 2 months back, me and my colleague were on a walk in Singapore Orchard street.We were savouring our walk as in the present industry we are in; there is no such thing as shore leave granted for us during our 1 month's stay on the Drill Ship.
This off time that we got only happened because some one screwed up in handling an operational issue in Logistics and we had broken AC in our Ship. And with no AC even QueenMary 2 will be Oven box in a day.
First few minutes were spent drooling over Leica camera when Leica was having an Open platform outside a Mall. I was a bit hungry and was taking my colleague to a eating outlet to have some Vegie or Seafood for Dinner.
As we walked suddenly a Lady literally thrusted herself between us with a question/ Rapport style that a person would have in a long standing friends.
In next 10minutes she had discussed valid points of Belgium flag with my Belgium colleague after she guess his origin from his accent. With me, it turned to CASTE ! issues of India, her hatred towards
higher castes etc.,
and when we came close to a bus stop she just left off saying a bye i got to go.
She was well dressed ,aged in 30s.
Well these are the ones that I remember now..
