Worshipping the Shoeshopping

Today I went to shoe-shopping. I am not a very dressup savvy person, but times come when one needs to purchase the bare necessities in order to get rid of embarrassment. I've been going to office in GP with a very miserable pair of shoes for the last 6 months or so. Well the shoe was not miserable when I first bought it just a few days before my final interview. But the shoe has worn out due to the heavy usage it had to undertake.

Now I am a very lazy person. My friends, family, and lately my colleagues have also found that out. I've always been an 11th hour guy. Things just don't get exciting unless they're done at the eleventh hour. Don't you get double pleasure out of doing something when it's done in a very stressful condition? Now that I've just written this, I think it's like a death wish. Kinda like walking down to a rival gangs territory, bare handed and barefooted, only to be hopeful enough to pick up an SMG residing on the roof of a house, very much near a hood of rival gangsters. Thanks for ignoring the gangster bit and getting the true essence of the story! Recently I've been playing a game involving gangsters, a lot. The game's so enchanting!

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/gta4/review.html

So me being the lazy guy, I kept on pushing the shoeshopping date for quite some time. But today I went there. So how it happened? My choto mama appeared as a catalyst. He came here yesterday night, and stayed over. I think I have written this before. Me and this mama of mine (who's getting married next mama) are really close. Although he's 3 years older than me, we were really close. Together we share a lot of sweet memories. Today morning my mom (his elder sister) was complaining that I don't go shopping and buy the things that I should. So he momentarily proposed to take me out shopping.

Yeah, shopping alone is definitely a boring thing to do. No matter how confident one is, it's always good to have a companion to verify the justification of a decision to be made. We first went to Rifles Square, only to know that it's closed on Saturdays. And then we had to experience an unbelievable rickshaw ride from rifles square to Elephant road! Due to the dumb rickshaw rout limitation program of Dhaka Municipal Corporation, we had to take an alternate route around Dhanmondi, Kolabagan and Greenroad, which eventually brought us near the Bata Signal. This is crazy, insane, and extremely inconvenient. Neither there's a good bus link for this route, nor there are any other convenient vehicle to avail. The CNGs and Taxi Cabs will never go such a short distance, and walking is not a feasible option with scorching heat and "not-unlimited time" on hand.

So after 20 mins or so, we arrived near the shoe market in Elephant road. I am not a fussy shopper. I made up my mind after visiting 5 shops. Lol...I applied a process of elimination thingy with a shop, where someguy from the shop was loudly saying "Noakhalir manush bhalo na". There wasn't many good shoes in that shop, nor which could appeal to me, but this was a big blog (lol). Well, I am not a pure Noakhali soul...my family comes from Feni, part of the greater Noakhali district, and hence I always feel a nearness to the infamous Noakhali clan. Hehe, I passed the joke to my mama and we shared a good laugh.

My pre-IBA days taught me the thing called process of elimination. A good tool, that can be used for almost any cases with multiple options. Some of the more useful things that I've learnt from the whole IBA phase of my life.

The guy who sold shoes to me had a George Harrison like moustache. Kinda like the moustache George has in this pic:

The right most guy is George. From left to right:

Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison--The Beatles.

I was planning to buy one pair, but I ended up exceeding my 3500 Taka budget by a hundred and getting back home with two pairs. One is a casual wear, while the other looks fully official. Anyways, after getting done with the shoes, we went to the ancient Elephant Road computer market from where mama bought a box of blank CDs and I pried my eyes on a gamepad and a joystick. I was broke, and it started raining heavily.

We took a rickshaw and went to Eastern Plaza, without using the cover that was offered to us by the rickshawpuller. Hey am I using too much passive voice today?

Eastern Plaza looked and felt crowded. Especially the mobile plus cd market was flowing with people of all ages and sizes. It shows how mobile savvy the people of Bangladesh has become. But we were discussing that it's all about showing off. People are ready to spend a lot on a nice handset, but they are not willing to spend money for making calls. Complains aside, there are more expensive call rates in other places, but they are smart enough to depict a rosy picture which we can't (or maybe BD people are too smart for these deceptions).

I grabbed an x-box CD for my Australia living cousin, and got back home safely. Stayed home up to 6:45 PM. During this period, I had lunch, and played GTA: SA. This happened after msn acted weirdly with me! Later on, I had a nice and interesting conversation with a rare-to-get-hold-of person :-) and then I headed off to a friends home, along with another friend who joined me soon after I got out. This rendezvous was not pre-planned, but I loved it.

Three of us went to a driving school, for taking the first driving lesson of our lives. All of us were excited, but we didn't express the excitement directly. The instructor was funny, and whimsical. But as we three were the only learners today, we had a good time. Today was a theoretical class day, where we learnt the usage of gear, the different tools that are available to a driver, the clutch, the break, the handbreak, the ignition button, etc. I am really looking forward to driving the real thing! I only have 1 hours kart racing and hundred or more hours of NFS and other car racing game's driving experience, but not the real thing!

I am so friggin' excited! Not much less excited than joining Banglalink. By the way, I'll be joining there on 27th, and hence I found this idle time for utilization. The other pals had this venture pre-planned, and I just decided to join in.

Life's looking good at this moment...hope this phase lasts.