24 February, 2007

Mere Do Do Appa

Hi, I am a 67 year old father of two children, the older of the two isn’t of much consequence here and so the subject of what I write will be my son bakwas, as you’d probably know he’s a 22 year old KID, who believes that trough his childhood he didn’t get all the attention he needed. So now he squanders his life trying to get back every ounce of what he lost. Yes people, bakwas is your everyday attention monger. Barely hidden behind his I don’t give a shit attitude there is a “ Thoda, atenshun deo shayt” (literally translate into “Little attention give businessman”) guy.

People make themselves heard mostly when they have some thing to flaunt or when they have some grievance, now bakwas isn’t a sexy butt or a gorgeous face!! And yeah, I come to you to make myself heard. Bakwas is out of line, he hardly has any sense of responsibility, you can’t rely on him, and he believes that daddy dear will get him out of every ditch he falls into. Bakwas’ guide, The Man Who Wanted To Place ‘Em All once sensibly said “iska to father jyada aate he college ko” literally translated to “his father comes more often to college”….people I am that father…I have to frequent his college for those lame ass, non productive and non interactive parent teacher interactions or for bakwas’ melees with his teachers especially those artificially intelligent ones (who you see nah, invested 324 crores way back in 1886!!..in MIT) or arranging industrial visits for them….lemme tell you something, his bleeding department expects me to ask some Babu for permission for an industrial visit, subject to cancellation!!! You morons….that babu is a Chief Engineer who is amongst my prime customers…you want me to ask him for a PROBABLE visit to one of HIS dams!!! One thing is for sure Angels isn’t gonna do much good for my son bakwas.

Over the years bakwas’ antics have changed…from burning beds (minus people, fortunately) to the latest when he came back home stinking of 5 bottles of beer and a stick of chewing gum, you might wonder how I knew of the 5 bottles of beer and a stick of gum…believe you me, a moron would’ve known. Hell you want attention, you’ll get it loud and clear!!

Like this wasn’t plain daft, he sneaked the car out even more recently…do I dare ask why he sneaked it out?? The cockiest part is that although like a million people, from his house-keeper to the watchman are ready to testify against this jack ass, he has the audacity to say it’s all a big mistake, obviously not on his part!! Now, being his father I aint gonna deny my sonny some attention, so more…”scream and shout, shake your body and move the ground!!!”

I’m not sure what the norm about booze and fast cars is around here, but in my defense I am a 67 year old person, bakwas has cousins whose children who are as old as him…evidently I’m from a generation where, a son is a son and not a friend. Booze, fast cars and chicks are not the a-b-c’s of Bakwas’ bringing up. But neither I nor bakwas are ready to accept that! In my gritty generation, showing affection to a son ends when the child is 10!

Four years ago I brought bakwas to Mumbai with the thought that, before bakwas ventures out on his own, I’d spend some time with the lad…lemme tell you bakwas adds a new dimension to “some time”, he makes “some time” a Quasi Static process. I didn’t get bakwas into Angels because I have the money, it’s because I believe this bum can: a. do some justice to the course and b. benefit from it! Bakwas is a smart bloke, there is this nice creative streak in him and I mean it when I say this, he can be SENSIBLE.

See I live with this notion that kids of his age are busy studying 12 hours a day, this guy does almost that much a couple of days before his exam…..I mean how smart is he?? I see that he spends a lot (of everything) on this hot-shot project of his…but if a little of that fervor went into his acads..he would definitely NOT get to the stars nor the moon, but his GREat aspirations would seem a little less far fetched. But all he wants to do is go for these industrial visits, I mean all credit goes to Angels for organizing a whooping 3 industrial visits each SEMESTER, one which he goes with his friends out of personal interest, latest of which was to industry laden Lonavala and the other two with his class…he he if industry laden Lonavala was asinine, ever hear about the mechatronics exhibition where attendees had to sleep over!!! Guess Angels does something for their students after all.

I hope he understands what I’m getting at…but I still believe that he shouldn’t watch vulgar serials like “Friends”, I mean the kissing and the groping uuurrgghhhh and yes, I believe his wife will give birth to the new and improved Christ.

Sr. Bakwas

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

respect to u old man !!! really how many can handle a kid like this. heheheh.

sale dj kabhi to rehem khaya kar apne dad par. if ur dad had really written sumthin like this it wud hav a much more frustrated tone to it. i guarantee.

i m sure this is exactly wat ur dad thinks.(except the part dat he believes u hav 3 industrial visits per sem. common now nobody wud believe dat!)

cheers to the pair of the dad and his son........