Commemorating 50 days of Bird-Flu!!

February 19, 2006: A day which every ardent non-vegetarian food bhakt would want to forget.
Today is April 11, 2006: So, that marks the successful completion of 50 days of the atrocious Bird Flu hoo-hah!! Yippee… Golden Jubilee!!

Its horrendous repercussion is still live and running across every house-hold in Maharashtra. Ladies and gentleman, let us hear a loud round of applause for the great warrior viz. BirdFlu, which has made its existence felt all across the nation in such short span of time, and impoverished thousands of poor souls like me of their biggest charm and only appeal in food-life viz. The saporous Chicken!
[Caution for all those who are trying to count the actual number of days: Please don’t count the exact number of days now… This post is written by an engineer… So, you should know that I had Mathematics only for the first five semesters, which was almost eons ago… So, you see a little deviation from the actual value is a forgivable offence! ;) ]

Ever since this hue and cry over bird-flu started, I felt deprived of the all pleasances of this entire world. From being a person for whom feasting out meant a whole list of chicken specialties, to being a stringent orderer of vegetarian food (which also included checking out if the restaurant was a 'pure-veg' one…) Phew… the metamorphosis a.k.a transition was incredible!!

For once, I actually considered doing my MS in the US of A, and gave it serious thoughts… leastways; I could devour my delicious chicken delicacies out there without fearing mom! But shelling out a humungous 10+ lakhs as tuition fees, for ambrosia, didn’t seem a sound option! (Aaakhir Yeh Dil Hain Hindustaani… we should pay due respect to our miserly mentalities!! Save money!! Find out easier and cheaper ways!!) Since, there’s no way that you can convince your mom about how immune you are to the H5N1 virus, one easy way includes, frolicking out with friends and gobbling down the much-longed-for-chicken-n-egg-finenesses, and later act like a innocent lady and claim you had mutter paneer, and dal tadka with friends… and to add some glamour, talk about the veg-crispy you ordered as the starter and how delicious it was… ;)

Ahem… Ahem…I marked my end to this hiatus from my dearie spelt 'my dear chicken' yesterday, courtesy Chicken Mc.Grill at McDonald’s… For all those chicken-hearted people (defined: chicken lovers but mom fearers!) like me, this whole bird-flu saga was indeed the most grueling experience of a lifetime… The sight of Chicken Mc.Grill at McDonald’s, the boundless insistence of my buddy, and the humane tendency of giving in, combined together, finally marked an end to this hiatus. Hurrah!

I have all the guts to write about it in this post as I’m confident that my mom won’t be reading my blog at least for the next few years… and even if she manages to do so, the news would have become stale and moldering by then!!

So friends, time for the moral of the story: Always listen to your mom, and... follow your heart! ;)

-Ships.