Joy cometh in the mornings - Welcome.

Hi,

This is my first attempt at blogging. I read all about in one of the blog sites and thought even I could get this going. I was thinking about what to base it on, so that I could post on it regularly. And I thought of relating the "Edwardian" characters (PGW created these) and situations to our own lives.

I dont know if the name of PG Wodehouse is familiar to you, and if you were told about his rather remarkable style of writing. If not, you can visit the website PG Wodehouse Society and read for yourself.

Just when I was creating this blog, I was chatting with my brother-in-law, Rajesh Nair, telling about the blog idea, and how I want to write the close relations of our situations/conversations/quotes with those found in the PGW books, it happened. The conversation went something like this (not exactly like this, this my attempt at reproducing the situation and of course it was missing the punctuations without which English is a funnny language):

Vivek : Why dont you also start blogging!
Rajesh : Good idea, I need to think something as a theme.
Vivek : Ya choose one that you can write regularly and can share with most of the world.
Rajesh : Yes.
Rajesh : Like what, I dont know.
Vivek : Yes, you can write about things you dont know, regularly - for a long time - and most of the world will relate to it. :)
Rajesh: What?
Vivek : What What?
Rajesh : I meant "Theme! Like what?I dont seem to be able to think of a theme"
Vivek : Oh!

Now thats a sort of discussion you do not want to be getting into with your brother-in-laws who have had a bad weekend. Rajesh had a little accident this weekend and cracked one his toes. I mean not that he was over enjoying himself in Ganpathy Phule (beach, western India), just that he slipped in the bathroom in a hotel near Ganpathy Phule. Wonder how "slipped in the bathroom " is such a common accident. It sounds reasonablish kind of thing to happen to a person who is walking on a wet floor. Whats the probability of you walking on wet floors in bathrooms? 50%? It will be wet/dry. What the probabilty of you slipping? 50%? You will/wont. There were 25% chances of a person "slipping in a bathroom" and it happened. Most unfortunate, but it did. He is a nice character and all that sort of thing, but you still do not want to get into this discussion with him when he just had it in his toe. We chat till 2/3 AM his time, today he closed it out at 12:00 midnight.

There you see, you can correlate things that happen in PGW books to your everyday life if you have the, what I call "Woosterian Attitude". And why can I correlate things here in our lives to PGW? Because the characters around me are all genial and good tempered, friends of all the world. In these days when everybody hates everybody else (including self), anyone who is not snarling at something - or at everything - is an anachronism. Any character around me is never - "Angry Yound Man". He would get a little cross, but his normal outlook on life is sunny. He is humble, kindly soul, who knows he is silly at times, but hopes you would not mind. He likes everybody and most people like him. You can not help being fond of such characters. This little piece of composition not mine? Of course not. Some of it inspired from the great man himself. I am not dedicating this blog to him. Why? Like matrimonial ads - which we are looking for Rajesh - say about most of things (like hobbies/interest) - "Will tell you later". When will you tell me? After Rajesh has made the mistake of marrying somebody who watches "Saans bhi kabhi bahun thee" repeat telecast?

I dedicate this blog to my wife Roshni, who pushed me down a cliff one day by telling me to read a PGW. You see, till that point of time I had not read anything more than Tintins and Asterixes of the world. And I liked the Obelixes, Asterixes, Cuthberts, and the Brutus's of the world. On similar confusion came along in my life Bertram Wooster. This time not with brilliant sketches and cartoonistic skills, but with mightier pen. Thats why they say pen is mightier than the sword that sharpens the pencil for the cartoonist (except for the new-yorker).

Coming back to Roshni, I saw her point. Thanks honey. She tells me that some of her friends were doing research on PGW. You see, I am engineer by profession and thought process and attitude and life style and interests and dreams and all that sort of things. My heart as you know does bleed for people who have to do research, it bleeds even more for people who have to do it in PGW. It bleeds because, I imagine you are under pressure to finish off your thesis and what not. If I were to do this, I would not enjoy reading the books. I would be searching the web for already done research work and "re-using" it for my thesis. Engineer you see, and will loose interest in reading it. All the best to her friends who took this bold step to do it. I dont say it would have been made me into a dis-gruntled kind of man, but I would be far-far away from being a gruntled man. There I go again.

Some of the quotes from the man himself:

"Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well."

"She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when." "

"He had the look of a frustrated tiger whose personal physician had recommended a strict vegetarian diet"

"I don't owe a penny to a single soul--not counting tradesmen, of course."

"My Aunt Dahlia has a carrying voice... If all other sources of income failed, she could make a good living calling the cattle home across the Sands of Dee. "

"Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?"."

And one regular one from my wife - 'Honey will you stop reading that PGW and help me with these vegetables?"

Toodle-oo then. Rajesh, I mentioned it. One can not make an omlette without breaking the eggs you see.