Monday, January 22, 2007

To catch the match

I recently visited Banglore as a volunteer for Match Pia, which is creating a USADR (United South Asian Donor Registry) in India to help find match for Cancer patients. But with Social motive came along a lot of fun. We were 4 guys from IITM, me kallu kishor and panda. And the least expected Kishore was the cynosure of all eyes, he really didnt try too much to make us laugh .. but it just happened all the time. Prime features of the trip included stay in a super delux guest house on MG road, and parties late night in finest hotels of Banglore, and there was beer, lot of beer! Parties started the day we checked in, there was tim, aaron, aditi, prank, raghu, doctor, we four and few more! place was charcoal, regalis. on the platter we had them serve veg nonveg starters and some beer....umm no.. a lot of beer as my glass was still full when we left. Kallu got his rum partener aditi and kishore found solace with doctor. I was relishing almost everything from wines to Tim's lines. And we headed back to guesthouse some high on booze others on food. But a strange thing about banglore, One way traffic rules apply even after 12 pm. implication of this revealation as you might have guessed is... we were "caught red handed" breaking the rules. We paid 200, not fine but for his wine, a novel way to escape fine.

The next morning was quite eventful kicking off with Kishore in his half sweater and half pants (his logic works half too) coming to my room looking for Indian style pot, which we unfortunately didnt have, to which Kishore repented and said "Shit man today also ill have to go "there."" No points for guessing where. Panda must have been relishing to have become the sole owner of the toilet which panda and kishore shared other than the bed.

The drive started at Oracle delayed by one and a half hours, courtesy banglore traffic. Though not many people came for registry that day, we were constantly entertained by KK's obvious one-two-or three liners..(we stopped him before he went to fourth). Kishore's larynx is a unique product, fine tuned with a "Sine wave" and he never loses the rythm when he speaks. He ends all his sentences with "know" and i really doubt if he knows everything he claims of ..eg. fagging.. which he claimed he can do but "demonstration" depicted otherwise. Almost all his remarks or comments or statements, lets say his gamut of vocal production comprises of obvious observations. To prove which, he would "discover" which coloured t-shirt you are wearing in a typical KK nasal tone with his head tilted at an angle of 12.5 degrees. From posture to preposterous presumptions our man has it all, enough to drive one mad.

Inside the rooms where we were swap testing people (a process where we used a swap, a long johnson bud structure with cotton at one end to collect saliva) amazing was behaviour of girls. Most of them closed their eyes...we absolutely had no romantic intentions, atleast we didnt show them. In a more general sense, when a donor was asked to open his/her mouth some wud take their tongue out making "aaaaaa"...come on man.. im not here to treat your tonsels, others would close the mouth assuming we wanted to brush their teeth.

All's good that ends good, we made a whooping >1000 registeries in the city to complement our efforts and i hope we get to see more of such lavish social drives.

1 comment:

Nemesis said...

I am proud of the work you did as a volunteer....