TAN

Blame the sun for this. And my desire too! But don’t blame me. Its not at all my fault that I’ve tanned so much in the last couple of weeks.How can I suppress the desire to play cricket with my college friends on Panchami? (sadly we had to go to college on that day too! Attended no classes however!) And surely I couldn’t get the Jonty Rhodes in me out in the field wearing that new puja T-shirt. It had a statement on it. I’ll mention about that later. But surely I couldn’t spoil my only statement T-shirt with sweat & sand. So I played ‘topless’. It was enough to encourage 2 of my friends to do the same. And then 5 hrs. of cricket(that included 1 hr. of lunch). Tan. Tan. Tan. (this is no clitter-clatter of kettles, but my body-tan).

From brown it turned black.
My face ,my belly,my back!

Booo,hoo,hoo.no that’s not me crying. Just an attempt to make the blog more dramatic. I seldom care about my looks. But people around me do. ET was the first person to ‘compliment’ me that ‘tui kalo hoye gechhis.’ Then I came home. Mom wore an inscrutable expression on her face impossible to fathom on seeing me. It took her some time to realize that it was me who had entered without ringing the bell! And when I looked at the mirror ‘Aw’ ‘Ooh’ ‘Who’s this?’& for the first time in my life I cared about my looks! It took me an instant to realize why so many people were looking at me with such awkward expressions on the road. All this while I was wearing a T-shirt which said

“IT TOOK ME YEARS TO LOOK THIS GOOD”