Drive to drive

Sometime back, a person close to me, gave me this title, "Jadam"!

Jadam means a person or a creature that does not have feelings or emotions!

Well, certain incidents in my life makes me believe that the title is worth it!

I joined a driving school almost 2 years ago and,I am still nowhere near getting a driving licence.

I this institute after doing a quick evaluation of various institutes. For some reason I chose this "Blessed Driving" Institute, may be I got besotted by its name, really not knowing what was in store for me.


The manager who took the advance fee for the entire course,telling me that he will do "Compileet job", vanished from the sceen after my clearing my reverse parking test and taking only a few driving classes.

Thereafter, it was "hide and seek' with him for over 2 years. With my "jadam" behaviour, or can I say my perseverance?, I could complete the required training.

Today, I just came back from one un-successful attempt of "Kachcha" test!

The RTA inspector told me that I needed 5 more classes of training as I was too fast on the wheels and needed more concentration!

My 'Blessed Instructor' told me that I should be fast on main roads, which, I apparently followed during the test!

Now I am only hoping that I will have enough drive to take another test.

But, being a 'Jadam', I am sure I will have enough "Drive to drive"!

Expect the unexpected

There was this deaf young man who was visiting his old and ailing uncle in his home town. Being deaf himself, he plans the conversation that he would make by guessing the responses to each dialogue that he would engage with his uncle.

Thus he rehearsed: first I will ask him, "uncle! how is your health?" when the uncle would reply "it is improving", now I will say "Oh that is very good.. what medicine you are taking"? Now the uncle will tell the name of the drug...I can say "yes that is the best medicine" and so on.

When he arrives at his uncle's place and asks the rehearsed questions,the story brings out how the replies make the whole conversation turns out to be ridiculous!

You want to get certain job done, and go with all documents you think are necessary. The person at the other side of the counter asks the one which you have thought irrelevant and did not carry along! The whole day is wasted as you have to visit again with the required document.

Life is like that!

It is full of twist and turns. The other day, one of my colleagues narrated his experience at the emigration counter. First he submitted all the documents and apparently all documents were okayed. But he wanted to know how soon he can collect the document and, went to enquire about it.

At this point of time, the person at the counter verified the whole set of documents again and wanted some additional information!

I was particularly worried about the lack of business enquiry one day. Unexpectedly, I received enquiries for business from 4 new contacts who were referred by existing clients.

It is needless to say, even good things can happen suddenly. So be prepared to expect the unexpected!

Persevere to preserve

I bought a tube of new tooth paste as the one I was using neared completion. When you are alone you have to even plan little things, like replacing the tooth paste in washroom ready for use, the next day morning.

When I didn't find the new tooth paste readily available in the wash room, I squeezed the old one to find enough paste available for use. It happened again and again almost for a week ! I remembered my uncle, who used to squeeze out the tooth paste by crushing it agaist the door hinges so as to leave no trace!

My mobile phone track ball was giving trouble, to the extent that people who observe me would think that I am obsessed with my mobile phone, as I kept on fidgeting the instrument. I was dithering the idea of buying a brand new mobile, just because the track ball was giving problem.

Finally I made up my mind to replace the troublesome mobile when I visited a famous mall recently. With little hope of salvaging my mobile, I enquired a dealer if he can replace the track ball. He referred me to another shop who are repairing mobiles. By paying AED50/- I could bring back my mobile phone to active life again!

The other day I had a visitor from Mumbai. Whilst wearing his shoes, as he was leaving,made this comment that the shoes needed replacement but he could not find a comfortable pair for long! He was wearing the shoes for over 10 years now! Even I have a few old collections such as my wrist watch, which has clocked over 20 years!


On hindsight, I feel that one should take a choice between repair or renew. In otherwords you persevere to preserve!