Ah! Just like any Friday – this one is still the same. With the same anticipation and wait of the glorious weekend wherein the two days seems like two heavenly pill which keeps you sedated until Monday morning when you wake up with a heavy and drowsy head.
During my weekend I generally end up meeting a good friend of mine - ‘Bulbhead’. We used to work together in a big US firm - where anything which involved some technology, processes, ‘quality work’, different techniques with Ctrl + C and Ctrl + P (‘Reports’ – which we proudly term) and everything minus my chads were outsourced to Aamchi Mumbai! Although the human resources which was deployed for such work were indeed quality ones – The jerks from NMIMS, the snobs from IIMs, the CFAs of the world – all breeds are found in this zoo. Bulbhead was one of the similar kinds – but a sober one and we have been good friends since then.
He had this big dream which forced him to come out of his secluded world in the streets of Nagpur where one find day he decided to cross few water bodies (vashi creek, mahim creek, etc.etc) and came to the city of dreams - Mumbai. Bulbhead is not only intellectual but has a great sense of humor - which I consider as a rare attribute.
Now, I don’t want to discuss much about dogs as I have already discussed about them in detail in my previous post – but then this one is worth a mention. I remember an instance where Bulbhead once told me that his friend had a dog and he used to give the dog a ‘Phenol – Bath’ and used to tie him to the pole next to the street to dry and one day the dog ultimately met his fate at the street – when his friend came back to see whether the dog is dry – but then he was dead this time! Being an animal lover myself I consider this one as an exception and a funny incident.
Bulbhead - wants do everything which the education system has to offers - CFA, FRM, GMAT…ABC, XYZ, blah blah... which is good in a way. I mean it is really encouraging but then the entire day revolves around office to book and from books to office. After a career progression and a hike in the new job from; Jay Prakash Murgan Services Pvt Ltd to ‘No –more- kaam’. He is living for the only dream job with ‘Gold Manus Sheikh’. With all the sacrifice and the pain involved – I wish he gets what he wants.
He suffers from a ‘psychological’ problem which has a direct influence on his bowels. He usually complains of stomach ache, a phobia that he may be suffering from some cancerous stuff and once he decided to go back to his home town to get it completely diagnosed. The doctor after administering the problem told him that, ‘Beta Aap ko koi problem nahi hai…problem dimaag main hai. To which he replied back, ‘iska ka matlab - Kya main pagaal hu??’ He had no problem - it was all in the mind which was making him think that way! Some kind of weird hallucination I guess.
I always ask him "Dude get a f****ng life, get out of books for a while, get a lady in your life".
To which he goes back to his hallucinating world and says, ”Yes! A Big Beautiful Lady...More to hold...More to Love!"
An interesting read :)
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