Dinner Debacle!

Me and my friends had gone to a hotel for a round of dinner. This is apparently a treat from my side for getting a job in their home-town. Normally, I would have expected them to gimme treat as I am the guest & they are the host in the town. But the world does not work that way! :-)

We entered this hotel, which was pretty busy. There was only 1 table left and we (3 of us) jumped on it lest somebody will occupy it! We gave a good list of order, starting from soup to appetizers/starters nd stuff. The description of the items' we ordered were yummy and we were waiting to gobble them. We were hungry like a starving lion.

The food was good but the service was pathetic... Lemme explain -

1. The starters came even before the soup! I was surprised. Normally the items come together or @least the soup is brought 1st. Or thats what I have learnt from the zillion times I have had outside!!

2. 10mins aft the starter, soup was got it. The soup tasted as though it has been kept burning for like hours. Yuuks! It tasted nasty. We returned the soup. The waiter questions our judgement!! He insisted the soup is good. He even said "Sir, I tasted it and it tastes good" Wow! He tasted the soup he got for me!!! And he wants to gimme the same soup!!!! Boy, from which village they got him??

3. After about 20mins, the waiter returns empty handed with a news that "Sir, your second starter is not available" What!!! Dude, its 40mins since we gave our orders. 30mins since you got our 1st starter. And, now ye say, the item order is out of stock!!!! Did it suddenly vanish?

4. With frustration, we give him our main course order. Surprisingly, with 20mins he returns with the order. He is about to serve us and suddenly we realized that this is not what we ordered!!! The order was sent to a wrong table! No wonder he got it within 20mins. And after another 20mins, he got the order.

5. But, again, a mistake! He reversed the order of serving. We had order roti-basket (roti is indian bread) and some rice item with a side-dish. The waiter serves us the side-dish and starts with the rice!!! Dude, in my country, which is exactly were we are right now, we serve roti before rice!!! "Oh! Sorry Sir. I shall get the roti now"

6. He gets the roti-basket & leaves the rice right next to us to get cold! It will take us @least 10-15min to finish roti's (which is anyway the stardard roti time). This means by the time we move to rice, the rice is as cold as anartica would be!!! Dude, cant you keep it inside & warm it again???

7. Finally, still hope in our hearts, we order dessert. 2 ice-creams + 1 fruit salad without icecream. This guy gets 3 ice-creams + fruit-salad!! 3 ice-creams?!! "Sir, thats for the fruit salad!" What!! No energy in us to fight. Though our order was without ice-cream, fruit-salad with ice-cream (@least in my country) is served in the same bowl. NOT SEPERATELY!!!!!! **God! Remind me about this incident next time i meet you**

We paid him without keeping tips. Why should I? For what service he did, he should be giving away somr money to get rid of me, if i create ruckus!
On a after-thought, we realized the food was tasty. Some items were very tasty. But the service was so pathetic, we left the place with a very bad feeling & a vow "NEVER AGAIN HERE!" The management should take a notice of such important aspect if they ever want to grow big.
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Company of Women

This is my opinion of khush's book titled same as my heading. i wanna warn the readers of this blog that the following contains some (apparently) un-acceptable words (very few though) and might not be a very impressive article. I somehow felt that i should dispel the wrong notion/misconception about this book so this article.

I read this book this week. I was at Shopper Stop last weekend & picked this book out of impulse. ;-) Started the book almost immediately. Found the book little different. To start with this book has very little story. One can say the story in one sentence: story of a divorced man whose libido is high & dies out of AIDS, which he contacts having various fling-affairs! :-) And regarding the plot or characters, nothing to boast about. The very interesting part of the book is the 1st page! Here you see a very profound statement by the author - I quote: "as a man gets older, his sex instincts travel from his middle to his head." And, he goes upon stating that, i quote, "I started writting this when i was 83 and finished as i turned 85. This more a book of fantasies of an octogenarian" But i believe this book contains more than sexual fantasy. It is actually the struggle of a man to find woman's love.

Ok! Here are my impressions & personal opinions about the book. Read On...

I do not regret having taken this book. or read, for that matter. I found the unsaid portion of the book very interesting. The book never says the following explicitly but thats the crux - "The protagonist Mr. Mohan Kumar is depraved of love of a woman."
      1. He had lost his mother @ the time of birth. was raised by his father.(So no motherly love.)
      2. Never had a steady gal-friend @ his college; only erotic sexually-satisfying affairs.(So no love of a gf.)
      3. Had a pathetic marriage. Where his wife was too immatured @ the time of marriage & her pregnancy immediately after their honeymoon, did not make their relationship any stronger or better.(So no love of a wife.)

All he was lookin for was a good companion. Having started associating female gender with sex early on in his life, he was looking for a companion who can share bed with him. But, unlike how certain reviews have put it, this book is not a soft porn or a book of sex. Its a book about how a man gets frustrated in his life without love of a women.

A man needs it every time of his life:
      1. as a child, needs love his mother.
      2. as a teenager or youth, needs love of his gal-friend.
      3. as a husband, needs love of his wife.
      4. as a old-man, needs love of his wife, again.
But, none of these did Mohan Kumar get in his life. And, so he started getting confused between sex & love yet deep inside him he wants a companion who will like/love him for what he his.

The book is a not a very good book for anything.
      If you are looking for an interesting plot...
            ...no this is not the book.
      If you are looking for descriptive erotic sex stuff...
            ...no this is not the book.
      If you are looking for collectors item...
            ...no this is not the book.
But, if you are looking to fill ur time with something (anything) to read then may be this is not a bad choice. So, if you are okay with some mediocre book then this tops the list. :-)



Reviews about this book that are useful:
Mouthshut
More reviews....
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Ghost Busters (1984)

I visited my friend last night & we both watched this movie on Sony-pix. Boy, we were not able to stop laughing. Every scene was interesting & comical. Every dialogue is so situational & the timing was awesome. So i decided to blog about it

3 scientist, Peter Venkman(Bill Murray), Ray Stantz(Dan Aykroyd), and Egon Spengler(Harold Ramis),gets their grant @ Columbia University revoked (or expired, not sure). They suddenly find themselves job-less. They decide to fight against the world & set up their own business. The business of Ghostbusting - trapping pesky ghosts! They become extremly successful after a dull initial period. And, soon they are a celeb and are also joined by Winston Zeddmore(Ernie Hudson), who is looking for a job with good pay. The story develops further on how famous they become & towards the end of the movie, how they save the entire New York from ghosts. Thats it!! Thats all the story is!! :-)

But the movie has got more to it than this. :-) Read on...

If you read the story, you would wonder - STORY?? WHERE?? Might even come as a silly one. But, you gotta watch the movie. The screen play is good and the dialogues are fab. Esp the acting & dialogue delivery of Dr. Peter Venkman. Boy. Boy. Bill Murray has excelled. He has an amazing attitude & has a very cool demeanour. Fab. His acting prowess has overpowered almost every other actor on screen. His flirtatious moves toward his client Dana Barrett(Sigourney Weaver) is one to be admired. The movie overall is a very good experience. You would not regret watchin it. Every scene is well knitted with the dialogue as funny as it can be. A movie worth spending time on.


As always, I did not want to be a spoiler so not giving the full story. But, unable to resist my tempation, here are some of the qoutable qoutes (actually dialogues but i like to quote) from the 1984 classic.

Quotable Quotes
**For benefit of those who do understand subtle jokes, i shal highlight them. :-)**
1. Winston Zeddemore: Ray. If someone asks if you are a god, you say, "yes!"

2. Dr. Peter Venkman: [surrounded by excited reporters during the montate sequence, which shows the Ghostbusters as a sudden popular culture craze] Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, no job is too big, no fee is too big!

3. Dr. Peter Venkman: I don't have to take this abuse from you, I've got hundreds of people dying to abuse me.

4. Dr Ray Stantz: Where do these stairs go?
Dr. Peter Venkman: They go up.

5. Dana Barrett: That's the bedroom, but nothing ever happened in there.
Dr. Peter Venkman: What a crime.

6. Dana Barrett: [possessed by Zuul] Do you want this body?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Is this a trick question?

7. [Dana is possessed]
Dr. Peter Venkman: I make it a rule never to get involved with possessed people.
[Dana starts passionately making out with him]
Dr. Peter Venkman: Actually, it's more of a guideline than a rule...

8. Dana Barrett: [as the gate keeper] I want you inside me.
Dr. Peter Venkman: [referring to the voice alternating between human and demon] It sounds like you've got at least two or three people in there already.

9. Dr. Peter Venkman: Yes sir, it's true. This man is some kind of rodent, I don't know which.

Interesting facts
1. Before the release of Home Alone (1990), this was the highest-grossing comedy of all time.
2. Voted number 28 in channel 4's (UK) "Greatest Family Films".
3. Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 6 nominations (imdb)
4. It was followed by a sequel, Ghostbusters II (1989), and two animated television series, The Real Ghostbusters (later Slimer! And the Real Ghostbusters) and Extreme Ghostbusters.
5. Mozilla's user interface language, XUL, and its JavaScript debugger, Venkman, are named after Ghostbusters characters.

Courtesy: imdb


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