Jowka’s first visit to harihar!!!

Describing an NID in the middle was disturbing the flow of my post so I reshuffled the flow and decided to do the assignment at the very start. Well NID is another exaggerated concept from the pandora box of KIAMS. It is the abbreviation for non instructional day and it seems to be the scientific name of mine and your's chutti. Well this makes me remember my  childhood when I was eating a mango and I came to know from my biology book that I was not abhishek but homo sapien sapiens and what I was eating was actually mangifera indica.WTF!!!

Anyways this being my first NID at KIAMS I thought I'd better have a feel of the world outside the campus. Harihar visit was an obvious choice as it was my ville natale( my French exaggeration for hometown)  and hence like a resident of delhi is called delhite, that of Mumbai is a mumbaikaar similarly I being A resident of Harihar, was a Hariharan now(not the singer like him though :-p. In reality I'm as good a singer as my roomie "gujju" ;-) but the difference is he enjoys this fact and I donot).

There were many first times that day and many first and last times too, one of the last times being my walk on foot to the Harihar circle (until and unless it is with my reprography girl ofcourse :-)). Well harihar circle has a fact attached to it, I don't know whether it's right or wrong but somebody told me that you take the right turn there and then look towards the circle, and you call it shimoga circle!!!).

  Well about the market I must say it was looking like one big sweet shop with its speciality being  "jalebis" which they had hung outside their shop on their info boards with each jalebi hiding a puzzle behind itself for me to solve. I knew my limitations and abilities with puzzles so what I had to do now was to look into each and every shop and make out whether it was a general store or a ladies beauty parlour!!!. The beauty parlour part might look cool to many testosterone freaked guys suffering from estrogen deficiency  until and unless you come here and check that the customers there were all Oprah Winfrey's without her aura and style, who had lost their youth way before I was born. For your info I must say the real beauties here can be found at the nariyal pani shops ( it is the natural beauty booster I suppose) ;-)

Suddenly I had a look at the mirror at a shop. God my hair was really crappy and was going all over the place in whichever way it wished, I felt really bad and so impulsively went inside the shop and asked for a comb and guess what they do sold combs!!( my first lesson on selling was learnt i.e. first create the need in the mind of the customer and then sell). The shopkeeper dived into a fevicol carton which he was using to store the combs as if trying to convey the message that my type of hairs would need a Fevicol to keep it intact at a place. Well as always, the comb could do little to help the wild grass upstairs and a fevicol tube option was a very bad P.J. so I had to settle for the last option "a hair cut".

  Well searching a good barber shop in harihar was as tough as finding the reference book you need in KIAMS library at the time of a test. I started wandering at all places trying to decipher what the next hanging jalebi was trying to convey and then suddenly I came across a shop where a kannada hero's caricature in sort of nice hairdo was displayed so I had finally got my reference book through my experience in north india which says such paintings are there at only two places first one is a barber shop and the second one is a local juice shop where you can find a Salman or a Shahrukh sipping sugarcane juice and in this case it was definitely not a juice shop as the juice  glass was missing from the hero's hands.

 I went inside and much to my disappointment the edward scissorhands didn't knew either of english and hindi. Still holding on my nerves I tried sign language mixed with occasional hindi and english to tell him what exactly I wanted and I was happy enough to see that he understood my needs. So off with my specs I was at the barber's mercy now. Scissors started working and after around fifteen minutes or so the scissors stopped and the barber asked me something in kannada which according to my experience was whether I needed a shave or a massage or not. I symbolically said no and put on my specs to see how I looked.

 I looked at my hair again and again and then at the three other heads also having a haircut there and GOD all four of us had the same haircut!!! the difference was in the expression where the other three were very happy and satisfied, while I was filled with melancholy and deep sorrow. I only needed a lungi and a happy face now to become one of them. Sad and stooped I came out of the "barba(e)ric" shop looking for something to hide my face(hair). Outside the shop the actor seemed to smile at me saying "come back soon buddy!!!". I smirked saying "Definitely boss" which meant yavagalu illa or never. Suddenly my mobile phone rang with the ringtone "never say never- justin bieber" and I smirked again(my cellphone plays pranks on me too). It was gujju calling me for lunch but my visit to Harihar had been full of problems so to overcome it I desperately needed an icecream before going back so I asked for the location of an icecream parlour again using sign language(can't tell you how i imitated a softy .;-)). There I asked for the best icecream they offered and guess what, its name was "gadbad" or the problem icecream. I could smell something vicious but still I ordered it and guys it was the first thing in Harihar which was actually good and I didn't had any problems with. While having it one thing  struck my mind that if I'm ever gonna take her on a date to Harihar it would be a gadbad date ofcourse followed by a nariyal pani to keep her beautiful as ever. But its a very tough job I know coz the repro gal is just like one of the jalebis always hanging infront of me. Its the toughest puzzle I have ever faced but the reward of solving it is much higher than an A+ grade in an exam or even a positive comment for the stupid things I write, so I'm definitely gonna give my best towards solving it. 

Finally I took an auto back to kiams happy and content. Well guys another important fact and I finish off "you go anywhere in harihar they will charge you fifteen bucks for that unless and until you're drunk when you can even give a five hundred for the same job".

Back at KIAMS I quickly pinned my placard and went to the mess.

P.S.- today the jowka was happy even after seeing his kannadised face in the mirror coz he was sitting on the table just opposite her and could see the repro girl whole time while having his lunch.:-)