Adventures of an High Elf Sorcerer

The Sunday morning football game is something I never miss. And I didn't miss it this time round even though it was pouring. Unfortunately the others decided to miss it. The only idiots to turn up on the ground were the two Sams, Ranjit and your's truly. So we came, we had tea at a tapri in Sakalnagar and we left. So much for the much awaited Sunday game.

Had been to a place called Shisha Cafe in ABC farms. Great ambiance with great food and pretty good taste of music as well. And if you want a 'hukka', you get to sit on a very comfortable diwan. One of us wanted the hukka, so we had dinner on the diwan, and I settled into a nice cozy corner. This phenomenon happens frequently with me and has been described before as 'The Settling of Aditya' by some friends. I had a shot at the hukka ... but I didn't see what was so great about it. I sucked on a pipe, something went in through the mouth (though I didn't realise it) and I blew out smoke through the nose (that I realised). So in effect, you suck on something and smoke comes out of your nose - those are the only sensations you are aware of. If that sounds very exciting, hukka is for you. Just be sure that you dont try one in any village. Authentic hukkas have tobacco. The one I tried was just flavoured (?) smoke. Other than the hukka, the food was really good. I had...

Sam Mehta's shower is one of the most wonderful gizmos I've come across. Well, how I ended up under Sam's shower is a long story and it's got to do with addiction to football and food. Anyway, when you look at it for the first time, it looks like something built out of spare hardware left over from some plumbing job in the seventees. To put it simply, its a shower combined with a water heater and perhaps the most efficient way of heating water for a bath. Only water that you use for the bath gets heated, so there is no wastage of electricity. Invariable in all modern geyzers and boilers, you heat up more water than you use. And unless you have spent a fortune in insulation of the boiler and the piping, the rest of the heated water becomes cold and power is wasted. Hats off to Sam ... or rather his shower.