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The Gas Vineet's the name. Fart's the game. Wanna play and lose? The average human being farts 6 times a day. My brother is way over average. But then, Vineet was never the average kind of person. There was a time when I used to rue the fact that he was six years younger than me... not anymore. He's got a brain thats far older than he is. A computer addict for a couple of years now, he can teach me a thing or two. The gas man (dont you love being called that bro?) took to the water like the sharks and has come out much darker for the experience. Beware of the chlorine! The runt's got the power of a full grown man. A bull, thats what I call him. He has this talent of coming up with the wittiest and funniest of one-liners. The kinda ones that make you laugh every time you think about it. |
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Mom People think she's my little sister. Can't blame them for that. She's pushing fifty (ye Gods! you're ancient mom!), but just doesn't look. No wonder she wants a streak of white hair a la Indira Gandhi. Keep at it mom, you're getting there. She's a writer, my mom. (hey! Where do you think we picked up our writing skills from?) A knack for humour (which of course runs in the family) and an empathy towards teens make her work great reading for them. You might want to check them out yourself. Here it is. She's worked for the Sunday editions of Free Press Journal(Mumbai) and National Herald(Delhi) and then for The Weekly Sun. But I guess she's made for what she's doing now - teen stuff. Mom's the woman for all occasions! Friend, mom, sis... you name it. Heck! My girl friends are more pally with her than me! And she loves girls. The one wish of hers that The Gas & I cannot fulfill is for us to reborn as girls! She loves to be the agony aunt and takes every chance to urge girls to break the shackles of society. That's mom for u. If there ever was one who believed that Thats what little girls are made of" its mom. Well ma, I kinda disagree. |
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Dad Like Chief VitalStatistix says, "We have nothing to fear except the sky falling on our heads", dad has his own version. Lots of them actually. Each more bizarre than the other. "Don't sleep under the fan. It might fall on you!" "Don't let kids lock themselves inside their rooms. What if the room catches fire?" The list goes on.... The original farter in the family although bro has left him far behind. He is obssessed with the "umbagava"(which means 'shit' in some language spoken somewhere in the universe) jokes which he shares with all his colleagues irrespective of nationality. Also the original techie. Singularly responsible for putting The Gas and me onto communications technology. He did Electronics Engineering way back in 1972 and specialized in semi-conductors - something that I could never figure out. But I specialize in computers and you can never figure them out, so we are even dad! One hell of an athlete in his younger days (yes...he is growing old), he is still strong enough to fight The Gas. Way to go dad! By the way, if you are wondering about the Lord and Master bit... check this out. |
