I had Mazgooth Laham Haashi (Mazgooth Camel) with Syed this afternoon. It was just like beef and this was the first time I was eating camel meat.
On the way back came Syed's joke... One person was replying to an email to a friend who recently sent him an email. He wrote, "I am well, and hope that you are also in the same well"!
Oops! Do you think I should have jumped out of the car and run! :)
Syed and I were waiting for our order to be delivered on our table in Taj Mahal Restaurant in Sultana Street. We had already washed our hands and were eagerly waiting to start attacking the Veg Fried Rice of that Hyderabadi Restaurant.
As were sitting, Syed reminded me of the interesting joke that he had told me earlier. Certain jokes are like that! How many times we may hear, still they cause us to burst out into laughter. This was one of them.
An Islami scholar was sitting to have food with another person. There came the fod plate, with rice on one side and chicken on the other. It happened to be that rice was on the scholars side and chicken was on the other person's side. After thinking for a moment, the scholar turned the plate to make chicken on his side!
Seeing this unexpected behavior from the scholar, the other man obviously asked, "Scholar, why did you do that?". To his surprise, the answer came instantly. "You know, the legs of the chicken was facing the Qibla, that's why I turned it towards the opposite side!". Ha ha ha!
Note: For those who don't understand what is Qibla, it is the direction facing which Muslims pray (towards Ka'ba in Makkah), and it is advised that the believers should not place their foot facing the Qibla.
As usual, Syed was in good mood yesterday. PSS project for Madinah is nearing completion and we have a demo to client users this Sunday, so he came to MDA office by Magrib and I also joined him by Isha paryer time.
After spending some time on the demo scenarios sent us by the development and design teams, we went to have something from outside. My lunch with the Farhan Store Supermarket team was heavy and the hangover of the beef biriyani was not over yet. He also told that he had nice lunch. Still we wanted to have something before it is too late and hotels are closed.
On the way to the search for hotel, I happened to see some Ad or so of Baskin Robins ice cream and I just remembered that this is among the brands I boycott. I explained that there may always be a reason for boycotting, rather if I feel like some brand is a multi national and is against the interest of common man, then I boycott.
By the time I finished completing this, Syed Wa almost ready with his instant kick. He simply said, it is bad that you are always doing boycott, once in a while do girlcott also!
Uh! I couldn't really express anything other than just bursting out into laughter!
He reminded me that what I wrote in an earlier post is wrong and I too agreed, because it is not just when the stomach is full that these instant shots come out of his mouth, rather it is like that always!
May be, I was just thinking about his wife and especially daughter, Juwairiya. What fault did they make in this life to bear all his wits! (Just kidding)... Ha ha ha!
