Maidfull of woes & DK Bose! What a Combo!!!

Let me shoot a question to you guys. 

Do you pray when you wake up? If you do then what is the one thing that you pray consistently about? I am sure well being of your family, near & dear ones, a good day at work & home would be something which everyone prays about and not to forget the abundance of health & wealth.

My prayers used to be the same but for last 10 days things have changed. I begin my prayer with “Hey God! Please give the maid (the one who cleans the home & utensils?) a good sense to be disciplined. May she come on time regularly. Also may, the other maid (which comes to take care of the l’lle one?) never take leaves.” Amen!!  

But God has left my prayers unanswered. When my maid “M” (she comes to do the cleaning) took a leave for 7 days I was OK with it because the backup maid “M2” was there so there. The day M was supposed to resume back was the day when M2 was leaving for a fortnight's leave & our fingers were crossed. We were hoping against hope that M resumes on time but my darkest nightmare turned alive when M decided to not stick to her words. It is more than 10 days now and she is missing!!!

The 3rd maid which comes to take care of the L’lle one; thankfully is a good soul and is ready to do all the work but the fact is that I can not leave the jhadoo pocha till she comes as the l’lle one’s activities are increasing day by day and the latest that he does is sitting on his fours and licking the floor. Yes, you read it right, he licks the floor.

I dunno where he has picked that from but I am sure this was not be passed on through me because all that I had done was eating the mitti & plaster, I had never licked the floor may be it is the Hubby’s genes which are popping out there.

But I regress, so the cleaning & all is taking a toll on me but people are saying that I have lost weight. That is the only silver lining that I can see in the whole maid fiasco. My hubby who has an opinion on everything has one for this as well, he feels that M will not come back; his logic is that we had given some advance to her and she has run away with it. I however do not believe it, my positive vibes tell me she will come back & I hope she does! To add to our woes, the only maid that is coming these days wants to attend a marriage & needed 3 days leaves. We bargained & settled for 1 day but I am prepared with the thought that she will be gone for at least 2 days.

Some days I wonder that why are maids the way they are. They know that in a way they are the backbones of any household and we are dependent on them. They use the knowledge for their advantage. We pay them what they ask, we give them advance when they want, we even carefully ignore all their silly excuses, we offer them tea/ food etc. with a belief that if we treat them well they will be good in their work and will be regular. But alas! We expect too much from them.

In another unrelated news, my hubby came yesterday and said,

Him: A new movie called Delhi something is coming na?
Me: Ya, Delhi Belly, why?
Him: There is a song in it, bad lyrics.
Me: I think it is Bhaag D.K.Bose.
Him: Yes that’s the one.
Me: Is the lyrics bad?
Him: What is D.K. Bose?
Me: Must be Imran Khan’s name in the movie.
Him: *with a strange expression on his face* say D.K. Bose in reverse.
Me: Bose DK?
Him: What’s that?
Me: What?
Him: What is Bose DK?
Me: *with a perplexed look* what is wrong with it?
Him: You don’t know? It is an abuse, a horrible gaali!
Me: Errr! I have never heard of it.
Him: You don’t know any abuses?
Me: I do but never heard of this one.
Him: You haven't heard them in movies like Monsoon Wedding or Bandit Queen?
Me: No!!!

What happened next was a little session of educating me but yes the conversation answered my questions about what’s so great about the damn song that it is being talked about so much. I wonder what has happened to the current lot of lyricists, can they not write something decent? Thank God I was told in time nahin to on a later date I might have been humming the song & getting strange looks from people around me :D

Last but not the least, another unrelated incident, this Monday was bad for me. Professionally one of the worst days I could ever had, anything that was coming out of my computer had an error. Such was my plight that my confidence nosedived & I decided not to publish anything that day. In fact the wonders it did to my confidence was that yesterday when I released a file I was worried that I might have done some mistake in it. I was so worried that I kept thinking about it even at home. So today, I rushed to my seat, checked my mails and when I saw there were no reactions whatsoever I heaved a sigh of relief. What one bad day can do to you no?

So how have u guys been? I guess most of you are busy with NaBloPoMo. I am happy that it has at least brought some bloggers like Smitha out of hibernation though I can not say the same thing for people like Vimmuuu who have a bagful of excuses for not blogging but are present in Facebook! I think it is time we declare him absconding & ban him from blogosphere, what say guys? It would be good riddance no?