Sunday, February 26, 2012

Holy dip in Manchow Soup!


Most of us must have read 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' .. but this is about 'Manchow for Pixar's Glasses'

Some of you know how Pixar took a Chashni Bath last Sunday!

Well basically we were in Dharamshala and decided to go Paragliding before taking a pit-stop at Baijnath's famous Prachin Shiv Mandir built by Pandavas ..



So it was Shivratri the very next day and the preparations were in full swing. We couldn't resist the temptation of having pakoras and jalebis there. While my 'oh-so-in-a-hurry' friends devoured on the snacks, I was busy clicking hills that surrounded us.

Right before they decided they leave me there and move on, I jumped in the car and exercised my right on the lip-smacking food, stored in a rumble of newspapers used as the bowl. While I honestly loved the crispy pakoras and juicy jalebis, I failed to realize how the chasni found its way out of shanty and drop and drop gave Pixar a royale bath! :(

Not before it had spread to my jeans and t-shirt too, awakening struck and I dictated immediate stopping of the vehicle in the centre of the market road!

I went berserk finding a bottle of mineral water but howsoever funny city Baijnath is, I couldn't fetch one with atleast 6 confectioneries. Another 10 mins of torment!! arrgh..

Anyway, I found water and using my handkerchief wiped Pixie inside out. After a thorough scrutiny which lasted over 30mins, I was convinced that no damage has been done! Yay! ^_^

But well.. before I could forget this incident, came up the 'Soupy Fiasco'

So the other day, I was enjoying a plate of steamed Momos and Manchow Soup at the Big Chef when out of habit, I pulled up Pixar and ordered to put the glass to work!

Well Momos are not liquid, so I could click this without blinking an eyelash:



But I wanted to single out the soup bowl too and when I did that, I wanted to click the steam coming out of it too. Too much of anything is bad, eh?

I blew into the soup to generate extra steam, resting the Pixar adjacent to the bowl.

But nothing happened.

I blew harder.. But again, nothing!

Arrghh.. I pull a deep breadth and go for it full force.

Well, to this day me and Kaustabh have a difference of opinion over what happened next!

I still maintain that a US drone dropped a bomb in my soup which splashed its contents all over the place, including the innocent and helpless, Pixar!

Nonetheless, we had some serious cleaning to do again! *sigh*

Eventually, I bought the CleaningPro25 cleaning kit for DSLRs the same day! Something I'd have not done had this not happened!

Now I can proudly say .. Agar daag lagne se kuch acha hota hai, toh daag ache hain ^_^

2 comments:

Shavy Malhotra said...

Amazing! You describe really well!

Aashish said...

Thank you