At the Fish Market

I like shopping. Be it for clothes at a fancy mall or for fish at the local market. I really enjoy shopping. I went to the fish market this morning and had the funniest conversation ever wit a fish seller. The deal is that I have been going to this market for a long time n the ppl generally know me. I went to buy fish from a fellow who had last time enquired abt where i work n stuff. N since i dont particularly like carrying ahead useless conversations, I must have told him that i work at an office to get rid of his questions! so this time he started enquiring further:

Fish seller - aaj ophish nei? (dont hav office today?)

me - [realising it'll take him a while to cut the fish n there's no way i can escape] na, ami school e chakri kori, r ekhon chhuti cholche (i work in a school n vacations r on)

FS - acha....kon school? (ok which school?)

me - Cambridge [its an international school, affiliated to the university of Cambridge]

FS - gives a look which kinda says...huh? wat...where....why?!!

FS - acha...HS na delhi board?

me - [to desparately avoid further conversation!] HS (west bengal board)

FS - [refusing to shut up!!!] oh...puro baro class obdi ache? (its there till class 12?)

me - [another attempt to cut it short] na, 10 obdi (no, only till class 1o)

FS - govt. ra toh aaj kal teacher diche na, tai tomader moto chhoto school gulo boro hote parche na (the govt is not recruiting good teachers n so small schools like urs r not being able to expand)

me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FS - chinta koro na....thik hoe jabe (dont worry, it wl soon expand)

me - tumi maach ta bari te pouche diyo, amake ekhon jete hobe (pls deliver the fish to my house, i really have to go now)!

LOL!!! i think i was more amused than disguisted by the end of it!!! i laughed all the way back home! was really funny....the colourful bengalis n their even more colourful remarks n advices wl always remain!

not that i mind...it was a lot of fun, really. but i still hid in the bathroom when he came to deliver the fish later at home. I just cudnt handle another round of Q&A!

for want of a daab

the weather's killing me. literally. i hate it...just simply hate it!! the only thing i like is the fact that mangoes are available. ahh...mangoes - the only reason summer can b tolerated. n mayb daab...though daab is available the whole year, nothings really as pleasurable as sipping a cool daab on a hot, sunny day.

but thats only if daabs r available.

they bloody dont seem to b found anywhere. ki chaap! ur all hot n sweaty n dehydrated n u go looking for a mere daab n u cant find one! n that too in one of the city's biggest markets...how weird is that?!?!

was roaming around new market the other day wit a friend (who strangely doesnt like daab or mangoes :-O ) n desparately wanted a daab. bloody travelled half the city n still cudnt find one! ufffff...was really pissed...pissed enough to write this rather meaningless post abt a daab, n that too two days later!!!

actually i have nothing better to do....school vacations r on n i am basically jobless. one good thing tho is that i'm getting to meet a lot of friends. n since i'm a natural faakibaaj, a paid leave doesnt really bother me too much!! :D


ps - for all those reading this who dont understand bangla (i doubt there wud b anyone....no one reads my blog anyway!!), daab is nothing but tender coconut!