Of Swimming tales

Its been almost 3 yrs , since I blogged last but I kept on promising myself that one day I will wake up from my slumber and start blogging again. so here we go! again.

There are many ways to learn swimming . some take classes , some buy floaters or some like me , are just not into it. we went last week to myrtle beach (imagine...in a february), we had a highly enthusiastic driver (more about the gambling habits in a later post), lets call him "sachin"who drove us all the way and back. The conversation between me , him and Arby went like this:

Me : you swim great man, where did you learn it?

Sachin : Funny that you ask. I took some classes at infy, but i learned it during my college days.

Me: thats nice, you had pool in the campus?

Sachin: nope. actually we went to a river nearby and learnt it ourselves.
We learnt it the old fashioned traditional way. we would go to a river then one of the guys would go to one end and the rest would be on the other. Then the first guy would remove his undy and show it to the rest and the rest of the folks have to catch him before he wears his undy back. it was awesome fun

Arby: dude, thats almost a sexual harrasment case in this country and definitely not old fashioned or traditional. by the way how many times did you get caught without the undies. going by the way you swim...

Sachin: err.....no....whatever.

Arby: Were any girls involved in this game of yours? please say yes!


Sachin: Why are you guys always talking about me..........lets change the subject and talk about rehman......Masakali.......Masakali.............

Me: so If you played this game on land, then what happens? do you hide behind huge bushes...this way you could have become an athelete.
I wonder if Michael phelps is aware of this training regime, he could have got couple of more gold medals.


Sachin: Aye Masakali Masakali , Ud Matakalli MatakKalli Masakali Masakali , Ud Matakalli Matakalli

Zara Pankh Zhatak, Gayi Dhool Atak aur Lachak Machak ke Door bhatak

Ud Dagar Dagar Kasbe Khooche Nukkad Basti Mein yeaaiyeee yaaiyeee

Atri se Mud, Ada se Ud.. Kar Le Poori Dil ki Tamanna, Hawa se Jud, Ada se Ud, Ud burr burrrr tu Heera Panna Re..

Masakali Masakali , Ud Matakalli Matakalli