The good, the bad, and the noxious

Righto!

The good:

Nice duds Isha ... nice duds Rohan ... nice duds Hofez (?) ... cute, smart dog ... the little Rahul ... good guy Atul ... Fur Elise piping thru the phone (although the damn thing has now commandeered my brain and will play itself endlessly ... all night long) ... Sukreet dressing down Rohan (strange venue tho') ... Rohan's 'dang, drat' moment realizing that he ought to practice what he's preaching ('let her move on old chap' ... unhunh ...) ... Atul fessing up to a deep & lingering sense of deracination resulting from being banished to boarding school at much too tender an age ...

The bad:

An overly adagio pace ... weird duds Ruchika (ample chests should not do fitted tops) ... the laptop blinking out in the twinkling of an eye (have never seen that happen ... I mean ... not even the 'Blue Screen of Death' ... duh ... it was a Mac variant ... sorry) ... but how did he resurrect it? Charge up the battery and then power cycle (although batteries discharge incrementally, so still confused about the black-out)? ... Rohan's unshaved look (how does he keep it so short? Shave every other day?) ... Sukreet's dressing down not forceful enough ... Rohan suggesting that 'they be normal' ... eh? Normal?! It's pretty normal to ask a fella to make himself scarce when there is only a black-out in their future ... the 'stray' at the bar asking if a fella she doesn't know would be dying to buy her a gin & tonic (now there's self-esteem for ya) ... the woman considering the resurrection of a relationship with a fella who has just assaulted her prospective beau and put him in the hospital (Yikes!) ... interested parties convening at the office and discussing details of a marital life right off the bat (they might at least go to a bar where he'd happily buy her a gin & tonic) ... Isha & Rohan providing marriage counseling (are they seasoned professionals in the field?) ... Ruchika training a dog to 'shake hands' ... dogs have paws ... and teaching canines (felines can never be trained) is a time intensive process (so calling the dog dumb was uncalled for ... and anthropomorphic to boot) ... dog eating the paper then puking only a fraction of it on the carpet (the shreds floating in the effluvia were awfully uniform in shape ... dogs not usually known to swallow paper ... tear it to shreds ... yes) ... Nikhil arriving at the R.com offices and pleading his case (what happened to the slumbering Naani? Shouldn't she be consulted?) then passively accepting the dressing down (judgment generally withheld until both sides of story are known ... not sufficient impartiality here ... decided client bias) ...

The noxious:

The whole concept and voicing of how unthinkable it would be for a man to accept 'someone else's child'!! Uh ... he's willing to accept the child's mother ... right? Well ... half that kid's genome came from his Mommy so he's not exclusively 'someone else's child' ... Isha's tacit acceptance of this fact ... hunh?!

Aaaargh! I just typed up a long reply and lost it....so until the chamomile kicks in...here's the abridged version.

My additions/deletions to the above list (Dipa - excellent post as always, lots to think about!)

Good:
Rohan persistently calling Sukrit despite knowing that she's deliberately avoiding him. Nice to know that she's not just another notch on his bedpost.
Hozeifa's comment about women and technology struck a chord. I'm a confirmed techno-phobe. Give me a pen and paper over Word any day!

Bad:
Had to laugh over the comment on the laptop blacking out...I seriously thought that it had slumbered into power saving mode. Hozeifa appeared more interested in showing off the laptop than putting it to any use. A little mousing around should've revived it.

The girl at the bar - I don't know what to make of (bad form to end a sentence with a preposition, apologies!). Are Indian women really that forward or is it just my middle class upbringing rearing its conservative head?

The client considering taking back her husband was more sad than bad in my book. I know at least one such girl - well-educated and self-sufficient - who would've done exactly the same thing for the sake of the offspring.

The dog throwing up nice even little squares of paper - unreal! But I'll overlook it in the interest of dramatic license. Need I even mention the cutest little puppy face ever!

Isha and Rohan providing marriage counselling - this one I had an issue with. I can understand where they were coming from, but in the interest of professionalism they should've refrained from passing judgement. If it were the U.S, Rishta.com has just exposed itself to a giant lawsuit.

Noxious:
I had a different take on Isha's reaction to Ruchika's comment about 'being a father to someone else's child'. I felt that Isha actually thought differently. More so when she saw how attached Ruch was to the pug she had picked up just a day(s) earlier. Her pensive look at the end suggested to me that she was cautiously optimistic that things would work out. Maybe I read it wrong?!!!

(bad form to end a sentence with a preposition, apologies!).

This absolutely deserves a retelling of this hysterically funny joke:

Scene: 2 guys at the Stanford Quad

Guy 1 (not a Stanford snot): Excuse me, could you tell me where the cafeteria's at?

Guy 2 (obvious Stanford snot): At Stanford, we never end our sentences with a preposition!!

Guy 1: Oh, I'm sorry ... could you tell me where the cafeteria's at ... ar_ehole?!!

😆😆

......Hunh?!! I mean, why is he not outside her door begging to be let in ... to explain ... to express his contrition

Ouch! Harsh! I guess in his view, given his own fickle-mindedness, he did the right thing by letting her go...And to be fair, he did try to get her to meet him at the bar to talk....

......we women are not techno-phobes! We're just not techno-GEEKS

You ain't seen no techno-phobe until you've seen moi. Although, I admit, hasty of me to generalize. Oh! and I do deserve some credit for owning up to this fact (since you know where my bread and butter came from all these yrs)!

......what I thought 'distasteful' was her not taking Ruchika to task for her arcane repugnant statement

You know as much as we'd like to believe that it's arcane, sadly there are people out there who share her doubts/views.....we've got a long way to go still!

And lastly, would you please add these to your URLs.
Bio-low-gy, Psycho-low-gy - In fact any form of 'ology'. Or soon we'll have to start eu-low-gizing the need for phonetic lessons in school. So let's use this op-awwr-chu-nity to work on our pro-noun-ciation!

And to be fair, he did try to get her to meet him at the bar to talk....

Anita - that's hardly an ideal place to be discussing personal matters ... besides ... if the going got rough, he could very well have had a drink poured all over his head 😆 but ... my assumption is that his relationship had been in place for a fair amount of time ... and the girlfriend couldn't tell that wedding bells were not going to happen with this guy?!

I do deserve some credit for owning up to this fact

OK ... kudos for being so open 😆

we've got a long way to go still!

Yeah ... which is why I rail about squandering opportunities (sorry ... op-awwr-chu-nity 😆) to air 'controversial' issues ... any communication medium can be an avenue for a myriad of things ... so, I would have preferred that the holder of such outdated notions (Ruchika) was appropriately 'chastised' ... being progressive should not just entail the wearing of modish clothes!!

Now for the lesson in phonetics ... please to browse yourself (whosoever that may be) to this site:

http://dictionary.reference.com/?&o=0&l=dir&path=/