Posts Tagged ‘old hound’
Earn it
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009Looks like i found him
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
This came in the mail recently. I am going from being red in rage to
blue in the face from thinking how and where to find Mark and this bloke has the nerve to suggest i’m not doing enough!! not looking hard enough!!!
update: somehow this joker got my hotel telephone number (spoke in a husky Bollywood baddie tone) and wants me to meet him at the Volga in Connaught Place in New Delhi at 3PM today. Obviously, HE knows exactly ‘where’ i should be looking for Mark.
Once i get my hands oaround his collars i’m gonna @#*%& him up, will post pics of his mangled
mug soon. Till then, please keep those stories coming in. Looks like my work is nearly done here..
Collecting 100 Indian stories on ‘Earning it’..
Monday, July 20th, 2009I’m in the middle of something i don’t fully understand yet.
My childhood friend Mark is missing. I’m in India to search for him.
He went missing somewhere near Leh. I connected with some long lost
folks in Delhi and the bylanes of Chandni Chowk and have picked up a
clue. and now..get this..i need 100 stories of people who’ve ‘earned
it’ (to know more about what earning it means go here). So if you know of someone / something that has ‘earned it in your opinion – pls post your story in the comments or mail me on theoldhound AT gmail.com (if your story/episode/mail works for me, trust me i’ll repay your effort and of course i’ll feature it here with your name – nearly 2000 people read this everyday!) Don’t ask me why but it seems like the beginning of this sort of madness!
These guys have earned it
Thursday, July 9th, 2009I’m humbled by the response to my request for help in tracing Mark.
Ever so often we declare our lack of faith in the world. Strangers scare us.
We take shelter in the coccoons we’ve spun around ourselves. Considering
Mark’s gone missing while discovering the big bad world one does feel that the best course would’ve been to stick it at home! I mean one only needs to pick up the paper to understand how dangerous our world is! Terror, Bombs, riots, assault on women and children, genocides in darfur and hunger in Africa..i could go on.. but then that’s not all there is to the world..to our lives
I’m not given to emotion easily but the mails and messages that i’ve recieved have genuinely moved me.
I now know that Mark disappeared around a place called Magnetic Hill which is on the Leh-Kargil-Baltik national highway, about 30 km from Leh (Thanks Bhakti & Kaushal, You guys have earned my respect, i’ve posted your helpful comments below) I’m rushing to the airport now, will post as often as i can. Need to trace the German dame since she’s the last one who saw Mark. Please check my Facebook page for updates in the interim.
Earning it..
Monday, June 29th, 2009While I’m waiting for Sham, my fishing assistant to buy fuel and stock up the tub, my thoughts go to something i’d heard in connection with the dark chocolate Bournville.. ‘Earning it’, and what it means..
Back in the day, if a chap had pulled his weight, done the right thing and truly deserved the accolades that came his way, he was deemed to have ‘earned it’. It was how gentlemen won the ladies – they earned their love! It also signaled the inclusion of a particular chap into a sorority, into a brotherhood of sorts. If one had to earn the friendship / respect of one’s peers, one had to work hard, there was no easy way around it. The Mafia have a sinister term for it, it’s called ‘making your bones’.
Now why would you have to ‘earn it’ to have a chocolate? How do you ‘earn it’. Sham is here so i’m going to ponder this while sinking some worms into the cold lake, write in if you know how to tell when someone’s earned it
