well just the other day at nakul's & khullar's birthday party most of us ordered pizzas and lara & kams ordered pastas...
there were like 6 different types of pizzas and as i mentioned 2 different pastas
there was a bottle of Heinz tomato ketchup on our side of the table and another side where karan, purva etc were sittin'
As it is the food took around 30 minutes to be served to us and besides we were really hungry.....
the pastas arrived first..lara's was with the mushroom sauce and kams's was somethin' red.(i dont remember the name)...
in about 5 more minutes the pizzas were on the table too....swati,mukky etc having non-veg and others like me n priyanka had veg. and yes how cud i forget there were Garlic breads too...
As everyone gulped in huge chunks of the pizzas & some like kams slurped in the pasta while saurabh , jatin , n I decided to feast upon the garlic breads first,, i couldn't help but notice the movement of the ketchup bottles throughout the table.
If my observation was correct almost no one did ever had a bite without the ketchup with it.
It was like the ketchup had the most of the importance,,sometimes more than the pizza itself.
I wasn't able to analyze myself as in what the hell was i thinking...
i decided to put to rest my nonsensical thoughts and gulped in a thick piece of the double cheese pizza with some ketchup
Then don't know what got into brain i decide to give ketchup a miss for the next bite.
hmm....the next bite didn't taste bad...well it wasn't bad at all...infact it felt pretty ok..
then i decided to repeat this for the next bite too..this time also it didn't feel bad..it was pretty much ok but somewhere i felt the need of the ketchup
now i decided to repeat this again with the third consecutive bite...
NOW,,,,,this time the pizza tasted pretty much ordinary and it was like no..i didn't order this...so i then decided to end my sans-ketchup movements and ate the rest of the pizza with all the ketchup i wanted.
Another interesting thing i noticed was that whether it was the double cheese pizza or the chilly onion or whatever..once i applied ketchup to them and took them inside my mouth they pretty much tasted the same,,,ya mushrooms on one and capsicum on the other did make a difference but then u can get whatever toppings u want...on whatever pizza u want.
Also another day the same kinda thing happened when i was trying to eat samosas at a nearby shop...i realized that the samosas weren't as good without the chutney(another kinda ketchup).
same with noodles and burgers and macronies and whatever junk food you can think of.
one thing was very common--these all needed ketchup and that too in the right amount..as in as much as you want...sometimes too much ketchup or sometimes too less of it spoilt the item's taste.
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To be less Shakespearean and more Chekhov i would like to 'elucidate' now the above text of mine.
Jack always had the fear that someday or the other he would get fired by his boss for arriving late at the office daily...how much he could try ..still he would be late daily by about 10 minutes....poor soul what could he do....his home was like a parade away and he had this old cycle to cover that distance. he always planned to save to get a new scooter or maybe a new motorcycle or even thought of shifting his place to some place near the printing press where he worked..but unfortunately all this was too out of his pocket...moreover all such overheads in his mind didnt allow him to concentrate properly on his work
and every day he went straight to the boss's room for the day's apology--although the boss liked him personally but he was a man of strict discipline so no apologies would move him...
same story -every day
one fine day--jack got fired
he was really sad,,,as he was packing his items from the desk to leave the office he cleared the table from various extra copies of pamphlets which had been published by him as part of his job that were circulated with the daily magazine.
he stood thunderstruck as he read the topmost pamphlet...he had never bothered to read or pay attention to it before
It said about a job of a licensed driver/delivery man who could deliver the evening newspaper to the out town....
that meant he could have left the press at regular time,,deliver the papers,, kept the delivery wan with himself at night and return with it in the morning to the press without getting late..
as he presumed the advertisement was a week old and the job had been taken up by someone else........
Priya never knew which time was the right time...she always made various excuses whenever Sam got too close to her and always seemed to get away with the situation.
She loved Sam but didn't want to make any physical relation with him as of now....instead she wanted Sam to pop up the question to her and then she would be ready for all of it....in her mind she was so ready to get married..but she didn't tell that to Sam.. instead she would always ask Sam to take her to the most pinkish of places where romance was the fragrance of the air...but to her disappointment Sam would again wanna get too cozy and too much into her..and again the same old parry the blow stuff..
It had been 6 months of this stupid game of hers...and she wasn't able to make Sam propose her for marriage....
she sat down in her chair and thought about Sam.....
then she got up and phoned Sam...
within 15 minutes Sam was at her place...
they closed the lights and finally Sam's wish did come true......they made love...like the way Sam has always wanted...and Priya..well she was really happy and shy at the same time...but a smile though being there on her face still she felt that she was lacking something..the feeling she always wanted to feel...just then...she saw Sam reaching his wallet---wow,,,he took the ring out,,and symphony played through her heart and mind..........Sam had been planning this for long...he wanted to pop up the question just after they 1st make love................
well not even close to Chekhov but i think i made an effort to make my point even the exaggerated Shakespearean way......
The thing is,,,we all in our lives try different pizzas the thick
,,thin,,extra,,deep.....whatever and still end up searching for a new type
while the solution of all the problems lie in just one golden Rule:
'just get the ketchup right'
