Went to a pub last night - probably only the second time since I came back to York for my PhD (yea, I know its a bit pathetic in a city which boasts of having 365 pubs - one for each day of the year!) - but I had good reasons, before July last year, being a non-smoker, I hated going to pubs because of the smoke. I couldn’t risk going to pub for a drink and puking all over the smokers in there! And then the disgusting smoky smell you get on your clothes when you come back from the smoke-filled-pub afterwards would make me puke again!! Yuck!
Then for the second half of last year after the smoking ban in England (in public spaces!) I was in Ghana, again most of the time trying to dodge smokes coming my way - everybody seemed to smoke there!! Having been to a smoke-free pub now, I quite liked it! So may be I should get a bit adventurous and census the York pubs - one a day!! Seriously? NO. Especially when I have already noticed quite a few pubs shut down - may be due to smoking ban!?! - I would imagine this 365 pubs thing to be just a myth now.
Continue reading ‘Non-smokers delight…’
He wasn’t going to notice her, knowingly. The truth was he hadn’t noticed her until he was within a few metres of her. She was coming towards him with her friends from the opposite direction. As soon as he realised it was her, he knew it would be wise to not notice her or pretend that way in any case.
He is quite good at that now - at, knowingly, “failing to notice” somebody. He was always good at unknowingly failing to notice people - known people that is. He has got into trouble numerous times in the past for not noticing people he should have noticed, or expected to have noticed, and greeted. The fact is walking alone is such a personal act for him, he reserves such moment for himself and no one else. And even after the troubles, he hasn’t been deterred from reserving this personal moment to himself and blocking out everything else in his path, except the path itself. You could say he walks in auto-pilot, with only his physical self walking the walk. Mentally and spiritually (although he says he’s not entirely sure he has a spiritual self!) though, he’s usually somewhere else during those moments.
Continue reading ‘Fear of recognition’
Hey AA, I couldn’t find any other picture of you except this one - so here it goes. Should remind you of your beautiful hometown. For me it reminds of having to stay hungry. I know, I should have just ordered Daal-Bhat-Tarkari (Gundruk) for lunch rather than asking for the “fancy alien” pasta on cheese sauce!! 
A couple more pictures of that area follows.
Continue reading ’some images from the past…’
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