Ding-dong the bells were gonna chime
When in walked her mother; and created such a bother
That there simply aint no way; for pete's sake there simply aint no way
They're gettin' to the temple on time!
(for those who remember, this is to the tune of 'I'm gettin married in the mawnin' - Poppa Doolittle in 'My Fair Lady')
Hey ho, way to go - Papa Sethis's out of his semi-somnolent state! So it's only right that someone else's head be in a daze (probably in sync with the Delhi winter fog) ... nothing that a good shake wouldn't help dissipate ... Wake up Simi!!!! Wake up will ya!!!! Over the last 2 weeks, between the collective tears shed on KB, I wonder if there's enough liquid to help with Delhi's perpetual water shortage? Even poor Abhi's caught the infection!!
I love the part where a child is shown to be completely incapable of understanding a parents' motives ... such poor powers of clairvoyance these days!! 'Mili ... you cannot understand me ... not today, not tomorrow, not ever!!' Gee whiz, Pappa-ji, how about giving it a try? I mean, your baby was smart enough to have been one of 9 Delhi kids to be accepted for a special 10 week program at a 'London University', but you're such an Einstein that anything inside your head is beyond her ken?!! And someone's gotta help me with that bit of tortured logic where he avers that had he intervened, Simi would not have found her 'inner strength'?!! Eh?!! Wha?!! Good thing there was a spare iron rod loitering around in the 'operation theater', otherwise her goose was pretty much cooked!! Inner strength, outer strength, sideways strength - all out the window!
Say Sunshiners, could you please do something about the costumes? I don't know of anyone who wears the same style day in day out ... poor Mili has nothing but harem pants (?), sweaters, and scarves and even in the dead of winter when everyone else has socks she's walking around in open-toed shoes!!
Potholes du jour
Slumped in front of the bonfire, cryin' her eyes out ... not a sign of cell phones slummin' around ... but there it was ... in all its glory ... glued to her hand while she ran looking for an escape route at the hospital ... did it do a 'Beam me up Scotty' a la Star Trek?!
Not a single solitary hospital employee within earshot to hear her screams ... and then ... voila ... there's a whole slew of them (say do the nurses actually wear those white hoses?). Then Abhi comes tearing in at break-neck speed (thank goodness he's at the hospital in case he falls and cracks his skull) and runs smack into the one and only attending physician, bypassing reception, and then homes straight to the one and only room where lies his very own Simi ... knocked out ... lost to the world ... I must say that his powers to plot and then follow the right trajectory to locate his beloved rivals any self-guided missile in the possession of the US DoD!! Maybe the trace of pheromones that she left like bread crumbs helped ... y'suppose?
So there he is ... pleading, crying, begging, screaming hoping it will all help rouse her ... she has no problem hearing ... not a single hospital employee does tho' ... are they all out to lunch? No instrumentation to monitor her vital signs ... no nothing ... just a white comforter ... amazing ...