Tea Party

It was a tea party with a difference. For the first time, a post-exercise treat was given with the spoils of what started as an insider joke in the Club. Shekhawat took it a step further (see post of September 27) and happily paid the price for his impishness. And so it fell upon Bhaswati Bose to organize tea and biscuits (lead pic) this morning with the prize money.
The fun part was however, reserved for the last as an ayurveda camp was held in the Chinese Hut. The vaid-ji was a little late, by which time most of the members had left. Dr Jaswant Chauhan, it turned out, was a practitioner of acupressure (but prescribes ayurvedic medicines) and did his diagnosis with a battery-operated laptop-like machine (bottom left) that gives a sharp shock the moment he touches anyone's finger tip with an electrode.
Shekhawat was his first willing victim. All that this brave ex-military man wanted to know was the damage his drinking had caused to the liver and kidneys. But the machine did a detailed ‘Body Composition Analysis’ for 15 minutes and finally, threw up a report mentioning a minor issue of the liver. On all other parameters, Shekhawat was fit as a fiddle.
By the time Bose Babu’s turn came, the machine’s behaviour had become fairly predictable. But Dr Chauhan made up by asking some probing questions,eventually concluding: “Aapke mastishq mein kharaabi hai” (You have a brain defect). With a vengeance the wise doctor shot off a prescription making three big crosses against ‘Right Brain’ and one small cross against ‘Left Brain’ and handed a bill of Rs5390 for treatment.
Q.E.D.: We have a certified nutcase running loose in the Club. Harish Wadhwa:
* Stupid analysis by the machine. We know the nutcases and don't need a battery-wali shock machine to give weird replies. Eh, who is footing in this bill of Rs5390? Anyone who has some extra paise can remember us friends.
* The biscuits were yummy and so were the three categories: Bhoodon ke liye fibre-waley, Jawano ke liye badam waley and Bachchon ke liye chocolate waley! As I know, everyone tried a mix of two!
* Big kudos to our Blog Monster, the Big Laaf blog and the club behind it. We have crossed the viewership mark of 150,000 hits. Good work!
Bhaswati Bose:
Wasn't it already evident that there's golmaal in his mastishk? Surely, we don't need a machine to tell us that!
Harish Wadhwa adds: Mrs Bose, there is golmaal, even bhoosa-maal in many heads I know of, but not in 'his' mastishk. Apun ke dost be barey mein kuchh nahin bolne kaa, kya... Bhai logon ko bulana padega!