October 19th, 2008 — Uncategorized
My Love Life - Part IV
For those of you who have not read the first 3 parts:
Part1
Part2
Part3
After reading the first 3 parts I am sure many of you felt “there goes another script for a hit movie“. But the truth that stuck me is that - that is a real life story and is happening every day with youth all over the world - both boys and girls. And the worst part being that a lot of these kids loose their way in life after such an incident.
My Mom does a lot of counseling - I hear about a lot of such stories from her. And another thing that stuck me is how the children suddenly go against the parents and feel as if the parents have become the enemies. Of course it is your life - but don’t you think these human beings(that you call parents) who are at least 20 years older than you would have had more experience than you? Moreover one thing that I still have not been able to understand is - no amount of reasoning seems to help - they seem to be completely blinded by their emotion and feelings.
Do you have a similar story? Share it with us. Tell us how you got out of that gloomy world to move on and meet better people in life.
So what do you think went wrong? Why was this person not able to accept the break in relationship? How come people are not able to think more practically in life?
Finally what do you think should be done - since it seems like my friend here is falling into the same trap again and again.
For sure Love seems to be blind!
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October 9th, 2008 — Relationships
My Love Life – Part III
Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here.
Well Like I told you my friend has never spoken to this “Vath” girl. His colleagues come to know about her and him from the college days. They tease him and make him talk to her. And they became friends…
Till a month back – when I had this conversation with him:
[19:24] ME: hi
[19:24] ME: how are you
[19:24] ME: you are sitting up so late?
[19:25] My Friend: fine da.. Life is still going on
[19:25] My Friend: Just logged in to check mails.. Will have dinner and sleep. Have office tomorrow at 7
[19:25] ME: so what did you do on the 15th aug
[19:25] ME: 
[19:27] ME: so how is every one at home?
[19:27] My Friend: All are doing great. What about you? When are you planning to come to India?
[19:28] ME: I will be coming in Dec to write my exam
[19:28] ME: I am doing fine otherwise…
[19:28] My Friend: hmmm.
[19:29] ME: how is your new GF
[19:29] ME: Vath - thyre sadam…
[19:29] My Friend: what new girlfriend?
[19:29] My Friend: Come on. she is just a friend
[19:29] My Friend: Wont repeat the same mistake again and again
[19:29] ME: Girl + friend = girl friend….
[19:30] ME: any way just kidding - pulling your leg
[19:30] My Friend: Just a friend
[19:30] ME: did you watch dark night?
[19:30] ME: I saw 2 times
[19:30] My Friend: No da.
[19:30] ME: in theater
[19:30] ME: beautiful movie
[19:31] My Friend: so how was the movie? Could not get the tickets here for the weekend shows.
[19:34] ME: Too good
[19:34] ME: the performance of Joker is too good
[19:41] ME: I have posted some nwe pictures on jmjjohn.vox.com
[19:41] My Friend: saw them just today.
[19:43] ME: all 5mp pictures direct from the phone
[19:43] My Friend: I am planning to buy a DSLR camera
[19:44] ME: you still cannot beat my mobile
[19:44] ME: 
[19:44] ME: I just got myself a Dark night theme for the mobile
[19:44] ME: beautiful
[19:45] ME: bye the way give me a sensational title - for a blog with a write up on corruption
[19:46] ME: on a satire
[19:46] ME: something that does not directly link to corruption…
[19:46] ME: think of something man
[19:46] ME: u sleeping?
[19:47] ME: last 6 lines I am typing…
[19:47] ME: that is 7 and 8
[19:47] ME:
[19:49] My Friend: No da. Had a call from one of my collegues
[19:50] ME: think up somehing - I need a title to an article I am writing…
[19:57] ME: anything hit your head?
[19:58] ME: I am thinking of using names with no relation to the article
[19:58] ME: what do yousay
[19:58] My Friend: yes thats a better thing to do.
[19:58] ME: ok then - give me some good titles…
[19:59] My Friend: I am too confused to think now yar
[19:59] ME: “Hasena man jayeagi” - what do you say?
[20:00] ME: or “dil whale dhulahia le jayangi”
[20:00] ME: confused about what?
[20:01] ME: too much in your head that is why…
[20:01] ME: you started drinking or what..?
[20:01] ME: too much in your head?
[20:01] ME: I mean you are high or what?
[20:02] ME: you better take some coffee or butter milk
[20:02] ME: should bring you down to earth
[20:02] ME: ok now what is this “I”
[20:03] My Friend: dont know. I am confused with life. I dont know where it is taking me. Anyway, i will go and have dinner before it gets spoilt
[20:03] ME: Oh! O! that is one finger
[20:03] ME: not 2
[20:03] ME: confused with life.
[20:03] ME: I was a few month’s back
[20:03] ME: I still am…
[20:03] My Friend: What are you confused with?
[20:04] ME: you seem to be having too much free time like me to think about nothing…
[20:04] ME: I started writing blog …
[20:04] ME: 1 article already published
[20:04] ME: 3 more articles sheduled to be published
[20:04] My Friend: I am just trying to keep myself busy. But when the trouble is in the office I caont help it. Just trying out for some other company
[20:04] ME: plans to write another 2- 3 articles already on my brain
[20:05] ME: What trouble in company?
[20:05] ME: I thought you were happy with ML
[20:05] ME: especially since ur GF is also working there
[20:06] ME: you dont need to leave office early like Raju and sit with your GF - you get to meet and sit with her in the office itself - How lucky - Raju must be fuming
[20:06] My Friend: The company is too good. The atmosphere is too cool. I can never expect somthing that is better than this. But there are some other reasons as to why I want to quit this one.
[20:06] ME: Ha! Ha! Ha!
[20:06] My Friend: Come on da.. Now she is the problem
[20:07] ME: some other reasons?
[20:07] ME: what reasons?
[20:07] My Friend: “Now she is the problem”
[20:07] ME: is she the problem?
[20:07] ME: you should have told me earlier when I was there - I could have taken care of her…now you will have to wait till Dec…
[20:08] ME:
[20:08] ME: just kidding…
[20:08] ME: what problem is she brewing up for our thala
[20:09] ME: what she is sending you love letters?
[20:09] ME: should I have her hands cut off…
[20:09] ME: talking too much - we will cut off her tng…
[20:10] My Friend: no. she is not. But the way she is treating me is very special. I am getting attached to her, which I never wanted to happen. No I just want to avoid her.
[20:11] ME: now that is a big problem…what can we cut off….Hmmm
[20:12] My Friend: I just want to run away somewhere. Life has become a big burden.
[20:13] ME: you will meet some one else there and the same thing will happen…then you will run again and the same thing will happen…
[20:13] My Friend: I am just looking out for oppertunities. I have got a call letter from Wipro. But that is for some IT infrastructure project.
[20:13] My Friend: I dont think that this will happen with someone else.
[20:13] ME: why dont we find you a girl and get you all married - then you can be all sentimental to you wife…
[20:14] My Friend: ha ha ha.. Nice joke
[20:14] ME: seriously man
[20:14] My Friend: Podango.
[20:14] ME: and guess what free food at Your house everyday! He!he!heeeee
[20:15] ME: by the way I want to teach you how to make chicken curry…
[20:15] ME: so that when your wife is sick you can cook for me….
[20:15] ME: Ha!Ha!Haaaaaaaaa
[20:16] ME: I am having serious fun man….
[20:16] ME: so coming back to this girl
[20:16] ME: why dont you try and talk to her and tell her the truth…
[20:17] ME: that you are falling in love with her - but you dont want to - cause you dont want it to happen again -bla bla bla…
[20:18] My Friend: I told her that I wont talk to her anymore. I told her that I dont want to get attached to her.
[20:18] ME: can I have her mobile number
[20:18] ME: let me also give it a shot…
[20:18] My Friend: I had told Arvind that I will never talk to her when we had joined the office. But her forced me into this. I knew something like this would happen
[20:18] ME: no not to tell her about you- try and pick her up….
[20:19] ME: never talking to her is not going to improve the situation…
[20:20] ME: you have to consistently change the way you think…
[20:20] My Friend: yes I can feel that. I am becoming restless. I am just trying to get some negatives about her but not able to convince myself
[20:20] ME: trying to find something bad about a good person is not going to work
[20:21] ME: you have to find something that is better
[20:21] ME: I dont mean another girl
[20:21] ME: I mean you might find blogging to be better
[20:21] ME: you might find sports better
[20:21] ME: keep trying something different
[20:21] My Friend: I have lost all the interest..
[20:22] ME: well a few months ago - I had also lost interest in business…
[20:22] My Friend: Just trying to keep myself busy with work. Spending almost 16-18 hrs in the office daily. Even this is not working out
[20:23] ME: well this is a bigger problem than I thought
[20:23] My Friend: yes it is..
[20:23] ME: why dont you just propose to her and get married - every thing solved
[20:23] ME: no wonder they call me solution master
[20:23] ME:
[20:24] My Friend: this is not going to workout, this will be history repeating itself again.
[20:24] ME: let us re-wind the tape…
[20:24] ME: 0000OOOOooooooo
[20:24] ME: tape re-winding….
[20:25] ME: well does the girl have any objection?
[20:25] ME: I dont think so
[20:25] ME: Does the girls parents have any objection? well we can convince them after you have your first child…
[20:26] ME: your parents have any objections? - no problem we can play the sentiment line with aunty…
[20:26] ME: she will fall for it
[20:26] ME: problem solved again
[20:27] ME: well well what did I do - found a happy ending to the Davedas movie…they should give me an oscar…
[20:27] ME: Hmmm thankyou thankyou…
[20:27] My Friend: the girl too realizes that this wont work out. end of story
[20:28] ME: oh! ho! you guys have gone toomuch into the story…
[20:28] ME: which film now….rajni, kamal…,captain….
[20:29] ME: google error - no match!!!
[20:29] ME: introduce new heroin…
[20:30] ME: let us talk from the begning…
[20:30] ME: What did you like about Moumitha?
[20:30] ME: her hair? sweet talk? charecter?….
[20:31] ME: and what did you like about vath? hair, sweet talk, beauty…charecter, cooking…
[20:31] ME: I am trying to analize your relationships…
[20:32] ME: what did we miss in the story?
[20:32] ME: you know what the best solution is - start going to church…
[20:32] ME: you are heart broken now…
[20:33] ME: a beautiful catholic girl finds you in the church - you guys fall in love - Kahani katham
[20:33] ME: that was clasic
[20:33] My Friend: i will never ever do that. religion has been the cause for all the problems..
[20:34] ME: Oh Ho now the hero has become atheist! new problem….
[20:34] ME: hmmm
[20:34] ME: difficult problem…
[20:34] ME: you should watch the movie “stranger than fiction” if you get a chance
[20:35] ME: not that it has anything to do with what we are discussion…
[20:36] ME: the best solution to all problems is supposed to be google search
[20:36] ME: did you try that?
[20:36] ME: Ha!HaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaa
[20:37] ME: seriously what are you planing now?
[20:37] ME: why dont you try and get into modeling? or acting?
[20:38] ME: again not that it will improve your current situation - just asking…
[20:38] ME: u run away?
[20:38] ME: where are you?
[20:39] ME: let me try the crystal ball
[20:39] My Friend: want to run away some where.
[20:39] ME: aH! there you are…
[20:39] ME: found you…
[20:39] ME: want to come over here?
[20:40] My Friend: dont really know what i want
[20:40] ME: let me try to bring you here thru the crystal ball - abrakadabra sfshisfghidfuhgidsfbisduhglbdisjldfvlkdjnvlkjxn
[20:40] ME: oops that was a too powerful spell
[20:40] ME: it broke my crystal ball
[20:41] ME: [20:40] My Friend: dont really know what i want>>>well maybe I should recommend Farex and Johnsons baby soap…
[20:42] ME: it will not burn your eyes…
[20:43] ME: take 2 weeks leave - go to amblapurzha
[20:43] ME: stay for a few days
[20:43] ME: go to trivandrum
[20:43] ME: stay for a few days
[20:43] ME: go to blore stay for a few days
[20:44] ME: your leave is over - go back to work…
[20:44] ME: what do you say?
[20:45] My Friend: i just came back from ooty this morning. it has made me all the more depressed.
[20:45] ME: OOty
[20:45] ME: who me did you go with?
[20:45] ME: your depressing friends?
[20:45] My Friend: collegues
[20:45] ME: I thought so!!!
[20:46] ME: why dont you tell this whole story to your litl sis and seek her advice?
[20:47] My Friend: i dont want to think about this anymore. just will keep myself busy with work at the office.
[20:49] ME: well it is not solving the problem…
[20:49] ME: is it…
[20:52] My Friend: Well at least for that much time I wont have time to think about all this.
[20:54] ME: u are still thinking about this….
[20:54] ME: no escape
[20:56] My Friend: at least for sometime its out of my head. At least for the time when I work
[20:58] ME: well how long will you go into denial mode
[20:58] ME: I am adding new batman pictures
[20:58] ME: check out jmjjohn.vox.com
[20:59] My Friend: what denial mode are you talking about?
[20:59] ME: check out my pictures
[21:00] ME: did you have dinner?
[21:00] ME: what did you eat?
[21:01] My Friend: yes.
[21:01] ME: I am going home - it is 9 here
[21:01] ME: I have to cook
[21:01] ME: what do you think I should make
[21:01] My Friend: ok.. i will catch up with some sleep.
[21:02] ME: I need to seriously brain wash you
[21:02] ME: in the mean time think of some title for my article
[21:02] ME: I am keeping it a mistry
[21:02] ME: you can read it when I publish it
[21:02] My Friend: ok
[21:03] ME: may be it will inspire you also…
[21:03] ME: and make a plan
[21:03] ME: get married - it is good for you
[21:03] ME: and it is good for me
[21:04] ME: free food - make sure she knows how to cook nice food
[21:04] My Friend: no more expectations from life.
[21:04] My Friend: Had enough
[21:05] ME: oops! who is bothered about you - I just want the free food…
[21:05] ME:
[21:06] ME: have fun bro! it is not yet that bad - it could be worse - just think about it …
[21:06] ME: I am going to register you on Bharath matromony
[21:07] ME: look at some nice girls…then we will fix your marriage…
[21:07] ME: this is the problem if you dont get married at the right age…people dont understand at all
[21:08] ME: chalo - I am getting late - come for chat tomorrow - we can have some fun
[21:08] ME: and next time you also have to do a lot of typing…
[21:08] ME: did you see my new picture - leave a comment
[21:08] My Friend: me too logging off. will go and sleep now
[21:08] ME: cool - good night and sweeeeeeeeeeet dreams…
[21:09] ME: bye
[21:09] My Friend: Good night da. take care.. bye
That was along chat.…Last I checked he still works almost 16 hours, and just comes home to sleep…meanwhile leave your comments
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October 2nd, 2008 — Relationships, Uncategorized
My Love Life – Part II
For those who have not read part 1: click here!
Where did I leave you guys? Oh yea! My friends love life was going smooth. And this other girl was after him too. Well his parents were not too happy about this. Nor where her parents. But they were both taking it easy and spending time with each other.
Finally when the girl finished her UG, she had to go back to Bengal. They thought everything will go smooth and they will get married. When she went back home, her parents asked her to pull out of the relationship. I am not really sure how they put it to her. But she called up my Friend and told him that she was ending the relationship cause of pressure from her parents. My friend was heartbroken. He called up her parents and pleaded with them. They did not want to listen. They decided to call up his father and warn him. His father promised them that my friend would no longer bother them, and advised my friend of the same.
My friend was devastated. His parents had also let him down. He stopped talking to everyone at home. He started blaming them for all his miseries. He was going to write his exams for the second last year of his PG. He flunked in most of the exams. He would not listen to any of us. He would not eat properly. It was really a very sad and difficult time. No amount to advice seemed to help him. But we all persisted and kept talking to him.
We made him realize that he should to at least spoil his Professional life. He seemed to realize it and started working harder on his studies. But he was still in Denial about the whole issue. He still blamed himself and his parents for all that had happen. No amount of talking would make him understand that. He wrote his exams again and passed out with good marks.
I was in India briefly at that time. He took me around town showed me all the development – he was trying to convince me to come back to India. We had a very long chat about his dead relationship. He was not ready to let it go. And he swore there will be no other girl in his life.
Well I went back to my job after a month in India. After that I spoke to him a few times – and I felt that he was going from bad to worse. I spoke to his mother. She also confirmed this. He had virtually stopped eating. He would hardly speak to anyone. The only people he would talk to was me and my brother, and some of his close friends. I spoke to my brother and told him to make sure that my friend comes regularly to my house and make sure that he eats something at our house. I used to regularly call him and check if everything was OK. I can tell you all of us had a really hard time. Especially my friend.
Fortunately before long, he got a good job offer in a Financial MNC, in their IT department. It took his mind off the matter. And guess who was already working there – “Vath” – the girl from his college.
I know I am sounding like Indian TV Serials. But read the next part for the interesting twists and turns.
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September 29th, 2008 — Uncategorized
My Love Life – Part I
Today I want to talk about my close friend’s love life. He is actually 3 months older than me but I am 1 year elder to him (Please don’t ask me to explain that – you need to know advanced quantum physics to understand it – and if there is anyone who has done PHD is quantum physics – they also need to know molecular biology) Both of us are 24 years old and pretty much followed the same path when it came to studies (computer science stream – and yes he did score better marks than me most of the time)
Well all in all he a very nice guy. A little afraid of girls, Loves spending time watching movies and doing anything on the computer. And by the way is working too…Any way all this started when he was doing his UG. The management was very strict at his college. Though it was a co-ed, they were not supposed to talk to the opposite sex, each sex had their own staircase, and basically there was no freedom.
We were all brought up with a lot of freedom, though we had boundaries. Our parents never put pressure on us to do this or do that not even on our studies. And we were thought to do our stuff on our own – even studies, we never really went for tuition’s (may be once or twice for a month or two)
Anyway – going back to his college day – he used to be always very upset about the way his teachers and the authorities acted at college. One day he and his mates were having fun chatting outside the college (the usual tea shop outside the college). Any way there was an incident where someone tried to tease a girl and it was brought to the attention of the college authorities. The college authorities decided to suspend all the students who were standing by the tea shop for one week as punishment.
My friend – though pissed off with the authorities, was happy to get the one week off. He sat at home watching movies, went to his friends place…he was enjoying himself. By the way at that time my friend had managed to convince his dad to buy him a Mobile phone (a Sony Erickson model) and he had this Airtel connection where he had to pay Rs30/- every month and he could send any number of SMS free for that month. And believe me – he used to abuse that service. Now he can type out an SMS Message without even looking at the screen or keypad – though I have not measured his word per minute speed, I can tell you he is pretty fast and accurate.
Since he was not doing anything – one day he decided to do a small experiment. He started to send out SMS’s to numbers that preceded his number. His msg was introducing himself and asking the opposite number if they were interested in chatting. Just like what you do on yahoo chat rooms. So he was sending this msg to random numbers. Most of the numbers he never got a reply. Other numbers he got negative reply. But there was this number – a girl who called herself Sanitha; SMS’ed back. That was the first positive SMS he had got. Any way he got busy chatting with the girl on SMS and she also used to regularly send back messages.
This went along for a long time. They exchanged personal details. She was from West Bengal, and was studying at a premier intuition. She was the only child in her family. Finally my friend and she decided to meet each other. So the date and time were fixed. They were supposed to meet at a very famous mall in the city in the afternoon on the 15th of AUG. My friend was very excited. At last he was going to meet an SMS Pal. He decided that he was going alone.
In the evening he came back beaming. I asked him “What happen?” He replied “You know what? She lied to me.” I said “What?”
“Yea! Her name is not Sanitha; her name is Moumitha” and he went on to tell me about her, her friends, the fun they had at the restaurant. Though I was a bit apprehensive, I was happy for him. He had at last decided to move into the bigger world and make friends. Any way he started, visiting her and her friends regularly, to restaurants, to the beach…He was enjoying the new found friendship. All his friends used to try and woo him, to try and get him to introduce them to some of her friends. He used to always say “no, she is just my friend and I will not take advantage”
I think this friendship went along for a few months before she decided to propose to him. She had started to love him – she confessed. He told her that frankly he was not in it for the “Love”. Any way she convinced him about it and he also agreed – though he never said the words “I LOVE YOU”, he later told me. I also did not take it seriously, and left it alone. He started spending more time with her. He used to spend the weekend going for shopping with her, or going to the beach, going for movies. He even started talking to her for the whole night on the cell phone….
And before I realized it “Holly Shit” this guy was serious about this relationship. He even called up her parents and introduced himself and told them about his intention of marrying her. This went on for I think 3 years or so. By that time I was out of the country with a good job, and he had signed up for his PG in a better college. Whenever I used to call him, he used to talk about her also, and tell me all the fun they had.
By the way I forgot to tell you about this other girl at his new college. They used to call her “Vath” (Duck). She was studying for and UG engineering course. My friend’s class mate’s told him that this girl was watching him and following him everywhere. That was cool eh? Any way, he was deep into his other relationship, and as I had mentioned earlier, he was afraid of girls – so he never had the courage to go and directly speak to the girl. Any way he had fun with the girl following him around. But he made it a point to let her know through “orkut” that he was already in a relationship and was unavailable.
Read Part II of My Love Life to understand the whole story. I know “Falling in Love” is a common thing in India. Though I have liked some of the girls who studied with me; I never had the privilege of “Falling in Love”. Please leave your comments – and let me know what you think of this little story and your own experiences.
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September 25th, 2008 — Uncategorized
Part III: You Would not believe this…
For those who have not read part 1 & 2; here are the Links:
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We finally changed out subject and started talking about Botswana. Botswana is the only African country that has a very strong currency (That is after 2 devaluations of the currency by a total of 25% in 2 years) and has been politically stable for the last 40 years or so…and probably the only country on this planet that has lend money to the World Bank. Botswana is a very small country with 1.6Million people. Their main source of income is export of Diamonds and Export of Beef. Apparently the government of Botswana can continue to feed their people for the next 20 years without even another cent as income.
People in Botswana have been traditionally Nomadic Cattle farmers. They have a very relaxed attitude – there is no hurry in Botswana. (You can have a child by the time they process something… )Last 10 to 20 years have seen Botswana grow at a very fast phase. This fast development has been fueled by the money coming in through diamonds. Botswana has a higher percentage of SUV’s that South Africa. All looks so rosy…
Any way my customer started talking about his neighbor. This guy applied for a loan to CIEDA (Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency) to start a business. CEDA is an arm of the Ministry of Trade. Their job is to review proposals from Citizen Entrepreneurs for different ideas, and if the Idea is good – finance the proposal. Very convenient ah? That to at very low interest rates, or even no interest rates and in some cases it is converted into a grant. Any way this guy got approval for finance for setting up a plastic molding factory. They brought in the machinery from somewhere in Europe and set up the operations.
They had only 2 molds – one for plastic spoons and the other for forks. Any way this gentleman starts production and piling it up in his warehouse. My customer happens to visit him at that time. He asked him why he was piling up the stock. The gentleman responded “have not yet received any orders”. Oops! And he was still manufacturing more…
In the international calendar December holidays are considered to be the most important holiday of the year. In Botswana also these holidays start from the mid of December and end by the 3rd of January. By the way, in Botswana they have this custom of having an extra day holiday after a public holiday. And if the public holiday happens to be on a Saturday or Sunday, the following Monday will also be a holiday. Though the holidays are finished by the 3rd of Jan, people start returning only by the mid of Jan.
My customer’s neighbor also went for a holiday. But he left his 4 big air conditions working. Being a good neighbor, my customer tried to call him on his cell phone. He would not pick up the call – he would just cut it off. My customer tried sending him SMS’s. No reply. So as usual he returned by the mid of Jan and came straight to my customers office – and asked him why he was fanatically trying to call him. My customer in turn asked him why he was not picking up the call – to which the gentleman replied “I was on Holiday” and my customer replied “well your aircons were running, I wanted to inform you about it…”
The gentleman’s business did not last very long. He closed down after 6 months of operations. He even gave his 4 air conditioners to the landlord as payment towards 3 month’s airier in rentals. And CEDA took all the machinery and was trying to auction it all to try to recover its money.
There was another similar incident. This guy received a loan for almost BWP 800,000=00 (that is around USD 130,000) from CEDA for setting up some business. He walked straight into the Nisan Showroom, looked at the car’s, choose the car that had the maximum speed printed on the speedometer and gave them the cheque from CEDA. The manager there explained to him that they could not take the cheque, as it was in his name, and that he should go to the bank, deposit it in his account, then withdraw the money required for the car. The gentleman was very upset, He told them that was a very long process and he could not wait.
Two weeks later he was at my customers place. He wanted 100 bucks for petrol in his new merc. My customer was surprised and asked him how he managed to get that car. The gentleman told him the story at Nisan Motors. After that he went to the Merc showroom and the guy’s there took the cheque, and delivered the car within 2 days. (they did all the bank work for him also and since it was a government cheque, there is no way the bank will dishonor it) My customer borrowed him the money, and the guy was gone.
After a few weeks my customer happen to meet him again. This time, he was not driving his merc. So my customer asked him “what happen to your new car?” He told him that he was coming back from this other town with his two girlfriends, and they had an accident and the car was a write off. Also he had forgotten to take any insurance. My customer was shocked and asked him, what he did with the rest of the money, he said he had paid off his girl friend’s home loan. I don’t know what CEDA sold to recover their money…
My customer was telling me – “we are here and making money, cause there are so many of these people here, who don’t know what to do and how to do….”
Am I happy to be in Botswana? Maybe yes…
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