The World of Choclates

The World of Choclates​

Pushpa arrived today from Mumbai, after her two month Stint with a company. The job was good, hard, and fun for her. She has received her two cheques for the work done , and she is over the moon. We are so happy to see the cheques, her first earnings ever.

What do parents feel when their child earns his or her first pay cheque ? We were very very happy that day.That the sapling has gone from diapers to a full fledged Tree, now on her own feet, the protective covers coming off, and roots getting deeper and stronger.

Tomm we put the cheques in her account after making photocopies of them, for these are precious. I am not that rich enough to frame the original cheques, as Pran had done , when Raj Kapoor gave him a cheque for Bobby for Rs. 1,11,000 which he found very less , and which Pran framed and kept, as I read in some magazine then.

The flat available then for 1 lakh in the early seventies is worth 3 crores today !!!

Pushpa pestered us from Mumbai , that I want to buy u both some gifts from my first salary, I told her, we want nothing, but well she bought a shirt for me, a purse for her mama, and then for me, lots of chocolates, which took me back to those days of the seventies.

I have a craving for sweets, I just love chocolates.And after lunch, I need a small Cadbury 5/- Diarly milk one .I am a simple man, and 5 bucks take me to heaven. And I have around 7 cups of tea everyday, with the normal sugar. Harsha is after my life, to cut down on this or that. So when I gave in, for a few days I did not have sugar in my tea, and no chocolates. While walking in the Garden, my Doctor friend asked me , kamal why are u so quiet and listless today, and when I told him about this, he said, I will speak to yr wife, Sweets don’t cause Diabeties, but if u have diabeties, then sweets are taboo for u.

So till then have a ball, and immediately I started to eat sugar and chocolates. Chocs are the best thing that man has invented. I just love them in any form.Andi can eat any quantity, but I control myself, when imported chocolates come, I just gobble them up fast. No wonder I talk sweet, so to those who talk rough and crude, gift them chocolates, to change their behaviour.

Have u tried the whiskey chocolates, the imported ones that have whiskey, vodka inside? We must have been around 10 or so, when we got to eat those, my uncles used to bring them from abroad, and now u know how I got a taste for liquor ! And those oval ones from a tin , which had a nut coated with choclate, and I don’t find them anymore.

In the nineties when I went to spain, for business, my buyer had a travel agent who could allow us anyweight on a particular airline, so we would book our tickets from here on that one.You were allowed 20 kgs, but he could allow us upto 60 and above, without paying anything. And I would go and shop for chocolates from the supermarkets there.

And the packing is so good, that I fall for them. One bar had 5 flavours and I would pick up all 5, and in the end I would end up buying at least 20 kgs of chocolates, half of which I would give my nephew and neice in Mumbai, and the rest came over to jaipur.And it was just great to see my daughters face when I would open the bags, and see their excitement, and I would make them part with a few to the maids, and to my staff upstair, which they would do reluctantly. And within a month all the 10 kgs were polished off, 2 kgs me, and the rest by the kids. And u had to see harsha’s face, the glare, but that was nothing to seeing my daughter’s face, u can imagine .

In the sixties we had Ravalgoan Toffees , named after a village in Maharashtra I think from where they started. Eclairs are the expensive ones, but good. Someone I know here in Jaipur has minted money from making local toffees, and I get those for the kids who come and play with Tuffy and Bingo in the evenings, they are 90 a kg, and I have kept them in a bottle in my office, and I too steal a few every evening. They are equally good.

I just checked the net, and Lindt, and other Swiss chocolates are almost 2000 to 3000 per kg, too expensive really, at least for me. So the local variety is good for my tongue, and pocket, When I die and go up, God will not ask me which brand of chocolates u ate, to qualify for heaven or hell, so what the hell, when Indian chocs give me the same satisfaction, why go for the imported ones, unless my cousins get them for me for free.

I have told them, it is either Whiskey or chocolates, so ones that have turned veg , as is the fad these days, they bring chocolates.!!!

Then we had the Tobler, in the sixties , which every guest would bring for us from abroad, but which I don’t see these days. Germany has some great ones, as does Spain but I think they are mostly Swiss chocolates.

Harsha thinks there are nonveg chocolates too, for she checks the backside, not mine but of the chocos wrappers , to see if they have egg, and if so, she leaves them for me !!! And I make it a point to see it myself and I tell her don’t eat, for I need more for myself. She likes Kit Kat most.

I sued to dream about chocolates when I was young, drool over them for money was short. And as they showed in that movie “ Willie Wonka and the Choclate Factory, the buy jumping in the choclate tank, to swim, and eating and licking chocolates, houses made of chocolates, I would dream and dream.

God , keep diabeties away from me, dear friend, if u want me to be as sweet as ever. And given a choice between a choclate and a Rakhee Sawant, u know what I will go in for !!!
KAMAL MAHTANI

An idea can change your life,
But a woman can change your idea,
So always change women to get new ideas !!!

Wife – Do u see that Drunkard opposite our house
Ten years back I had refused to marry him
Husband – Wow, such a long celelbration !!!

 

Dear Aruna,

Yes we ar so happy with Pushpa's first earnings.god bless her.

Well the nedt time, i come over to yr place, all u need to please me , as a host, is a cup of tea or coffee, papad if u have at home, and a few peices of choclates.:biglaughWhat say !

and why dont i see any of yr blogs here? Dont the spinx telll u stories in yr sleep ?:drowning

Regards

kamal

 

Dear Balaji,

thanks u agreed with me on Rakhee Sawant.She will sue me , if she reads this blog, for her market will go down.HAHA

Well touch wood, i am sugar normal, not diabetic, and we have a fellow , whocmes once a fortnight,lays his table outside the garden, and for 25/- checks ur BP and sugar, and my levels aer normal lime 90 and 120.

Thanks.kamal