Friday, November 8, 2019

How do you know you are a fanatic?

I'll tell you how. I am a golf fanatic, and these are the top 10 signs.

(10) 500 km drive to primarily play golf (plus few casual trips to nearby tourist spots so that people do not think I'm crazy) is nothing abnormal.
(9) Casual cloth shopping, say a pair Levi's trousers, has to be more suitable for golf-wear than casual-wear.
(8) 2 hours in a golf shop with feel of  being there for just 15 minutes is not eccentric.
(7) Best buy of the day is always golf balls.
(6) Empty iron swing is the daily physical exercise.
(5) $1,500 (Nu 1 lakh) for a golf set looks reasonable.
(4) One more latest golf set to help reduce golf handicap (presumably) in addition to 2 existing sets is not outrageous.
(3) Disply of golf set in a prominent place is not embarrasing.
(2) No harm in thinking  "300 yard drive in your 70s is not impossible".
(1) Time to get-out of Gelephu because there's neither golf course here nor any where near 200 km.

Draw your own parallels ... you will know what I'm talking about!

Saturday, July 20, 2019

Top 10 reasons why it was great to be a teenager in 1960s


10. Butter didn't have a taste of banana

9. Avocados grew in jungles and only monkeys ate them

8. Ironed clothes, polished shoes, puffed-up hair with simco (kinda jelly) to go for a Dev Anand movie, a whole day event

7. Fashion: long hair, bell-bottom pant, and tucked-in shirt

6. Music: The Beatles

5. Chat was always real, face-to-face

4. No one paid extra for organic

3. Drinking water was not something to be paid money for

2. Weather: rain in rainy season, sun on sunny days, wind in windy places, but never a hodgepodge of all

1. Men made money, not money made men

I wish the world (I mean "duniya" दुनिया)
was feeling as good as I feel, not proud (which has shades of disparagement of others), to leave behind my 60s and step into big "7" "0" today, 21 July 2019, because of, to begin with, the Reasons! Cheers!!!

Thursday, July 4, 2019

Top 10 signs you're 2019 dated if you:

(10) don't mBoB (mobile Bank of Bhutan)

(9)  don't know what QR Code is

(8)  ask, "WeChat? what kinda chat?"

(7)  don't like "likes"

(6)  say, "what's # for?"

(5)  don't understand abbreviations like gr8, Tq, w/r/t, tkcr, omg, RT ...

(4)  don't upload often your selfie with piles of food in front

(3)  do not complain about mobile data packages being too expensive

(2)  ask, "what the hell is Pinned Tweet?"

(1)  find people telling you that your mobile and tv remote look same