(May 10, 3:17pm)

Okay, about my limping..

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It was a violent windstorm last Saturday...hitting the apartment walls from across the Gangetic plains..in tumults, and recoiling...nothing could be heard but the rustling of leaves..and it was dark and eerie suddenly..

Then somebody bangs my doors, crying aloud for help...

"S****** Aunty?"

But before I could make out anything, she literally drags me...to her house downstairs.. where the older son waited in despair..and frenzied..

Aiman had not been opening the door..for half an hour..and the ladies there seemed to silently approve the mother's foreboding..which concluded he was dead..

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Somebody made a clucking sound..another comforted her.. yet another called out at the guards..but the lift wasnt functioning...the generator neither..the guards were all missing..

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And then she shoots breathlessly.."break it" "break it" "break it"..

And break what..a double wooded designer door with centralised locking..and with just Samar to help...four years my junior..

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And then you see im mostly the reader type, rather than the rambo type...and i havent ever been to gyms either...or done weights..

but a mother's caprice wouldnt realise that..and so there people, there it went...relentless kicking..the two of us..then full body throws...with the zest of athletes...kicking again..harder...and faster....

And then..

finally,

there it broke..

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She hadnt even allowed me to put on slippers.. but anything for them..she's just as supportive too...

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But im still limping..it was a double wooded designer one you see..and with centralised locking..and i havent been to gym either..

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Couldnt make it to the salon yesterday..have fixed an appointment again..later id be dressing my hair in Delhi..in the Laxmi Nagar mall..the stylist there is really good..

I want to change the pattern now...shortly before ACJ i had chopped it all..my hairs..but i guess im bored with the crew cut..i want sth different now...

Lets see..

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Before that i'll get the scrub and bleach done..i dont want the anxiety lines showing..and then i had been hardly caring about my looks for long..

I guess i looked my worst in *angalore..

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(May 9, 4:50pm)

What a sweet arrangement, that i got the money on mother's day!

"It's blessings...her blessings," said Aunt S******...

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Getting scrubs and facials done today...
oh i had been looking so unkempt!

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(May 8, 11:31am)

Im limping...very badly..
i'll tell you the story later..

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(May 8, 11:30am)

110 page views????

and all in a day??

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(May 7, 10:31am)

Mr Wrong Number, there's a letter for you...check the comments beneath the previous post..

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Huh...it was a tiring day yesterday... and im still listless after the fast.. I hope the money comes soon..I have even made a wish-list..you see, one needs to balm after a hard day's work..

In my case it's weeks, anyway!

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Well I'd be holidaying...in Noida perhaps..i know the location misfits the season..but there are too many good malls there...and i know the city too..and after all my travails, i guess i'd be more delighted to shop and hang-out, than go around seeing locales..

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lets have some clarification now...before they slaughter the "clever girl" in ambiguity...

It seems the duke & co believe she got the names of the two girls and told me.. you know what..the false duke, the other day, tells her two girls have been selected for *angalore..and then, after some time, comes banging on her chair and asks "So what's the name of the girls?"

Heights, you know..
He really needs treatment!

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Your Lowness...i mean your Hihgness...it was i who got the names...it is i who have the names..and it is obviously i who may or may not have shared the names.. with the "clever girl"..

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Anyway one is DS;
The other is EP..

And please..don't expect me to solve abbreviations now...

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(May 5, 11:45am)

[Samaritan, if you're reading this read the lasT few paras too]

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Can you believe this....ACJ dint host dinner for the graduates this time?

People actually went to eat out in groups!!!

And despite last year's ample embarrassment, guests once more outnumbered chairs! But Holmes says Nishat Sir's vote of thanks was a big hit..we understand!

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Okay..lets call him perennial annoyance.. So last night just as i had taken my bath and plugged on the FM, PA calls me to tell he's caught driving without licence...and i have to gulp out some 2k bucks now..

what the hell...here i have no money to pay my bills even..and 2 thousands??

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Im totally, you know what...screwed...may be thats how you call it..Anyway, Rohan bailed him out...i thanked and told him, id return him the trash soon...but he was onto other calculations...

"If you don't have 2k, how about the house...?"

"Just borrowed from A***, the engineer friend in Surat, and paid the rent....and then there's this Samaritan, who told me about the 7000 bucks over my blog..that shall be enuf for other things.."

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Seems he was upset I asked A*** and not him..he made this apparent too...with a child's impulse, actually...

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Anyway, with A's help the rent is cleared...and i rung up Chennai for the 7k too...so, it's like although i'd be broke, it won't be apparent..this month at least..

And so long it's behind the curtains, i guess i wouldn't mind that..unless, of-course, i have a choice..You see, even the Goddess had to live in the demon's garden..

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Okay, so the advice num is actually not come....Mr M never gave mum wrong information..what with me then?

swayed by compassion perhaps..even before he saw it for himself, he called up and said "done"..

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Not done...it still is pending, and who knows this might just take some more time..."some"..ah, i love the word...it's so preferable to "much!"

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Okay..about the "samaritan" now...who's he...if he's the same man who earlier bailed us against the duke's false plans, i must be so ungrateful..

First i didn't even tell him before i left.. and second..i never cared to tell him that the duke has ample false plans against him too...

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Not that i didn't bother, but i guess im habitually more bothered about myself maintaining decorums..for me it's difficult to open up unless there's rightful platform to do so..

And so long i was there, who knows the samaritan could have thought i myself had been scheming..

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But it's time i reflected the magnanimity..
here it goes..

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The duke is tired of dukedom..and aspires to be the king now...and for that he plans to annihilate worthier contenders...the samaritan being one..

So more than being concerned about his own employees, duke takes interest in the samaritan's employees..

And know what, he's found a human-shield...a person who shares the same designation as the samaritan, and with whom duke plans to replace the samaritan..as the h.o.d of-course..

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Duke keeps thinking of ways to malign the samaritan...Last heard when the human-shield (HS) went to the duke asking who's cut his/her *tory..the duke promptly named the samaritan..and before the HS could respond, duke (mal)advised HS to lodge a complaint in Bangalore..

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Even the day when the samaritan fell out with a certain somebody, the duke and the bandit (after the samaritan was gone) went to the "somebody" and kept provoking him...and sympathising with him..and with every move, making sure the rancour intensified..

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The duke is often heard telling others over the phone, he's the *ews *ditor..but that certainly he is not..

May be he hopes to..but spoiling samaritan's chances with characteristic inequity, is not the best way to progress!

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Long live, Samaritan..

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(May 2, 11:01am)

The electricity bills have come...the paper bills too...the cable too..even maintenance...and it's also time i paid the rent..and the servants..

Okay, it's usually the 5th or 6th of the month when payments are done..so i still have few days left..

After it what?

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At least the Gods would know, it was not in abundance alone that i believed them!

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Mr M called yet again..to tell me the advice no. is come...thats the number through which grants are transferred from the uni to the bank..and then payments done...

So?

Is that relief??

Im not gonna believe anything unless i have it for real!
Remember i told you about de-constructive optimism??

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Osama is dead..

I know you know...and im really not the type who post breaking news statuses on FB...for i know others are just as much alive and vigilant..

But i mean, is that good?
That Osama is dead?

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Of-course die he must..but what about the time-tested postulate of checks and balances..America, save our obsession for its universities, is no monk either..Right?

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