ThePanda

I have read stories featuring lone houses, dark alleys, ammo shops, toy shops, dark factories, computer stores, colleges, high schools and a billion other locations, however never one abt shops selling firewood and charcoal (they r called depots or something if I am not wrong), and umm recent experiences have convinced me that these would provide lovely locations for murder mysteries and horror stories, specially the ones which involve dark damp nights followed by cold days or arson (lots of things to burn)........ That’s not to say that these shops are bad or useless, on the contrary they provide an essential service to society, but like morgues and hospital incinerators you seem to form very bad connections with these places (or maybe I just visited a wrong shop, you know one of those rotten apples which destroy the reputation of the scenic beauty which wood depots r supposed to have, but then again maybe not)........ Me and dad, we decided to get something photocopied, and it turned out zere was no electricity at zis particular market, now the reasonable thing 2 do is 2 walk on and window shop, but neh my dad remembers zat ze angithi he built yesterday would probably work better with charcoal, and he drags me to zis nice little corner of ze market which has a board which says ‘Taneja Coal Store’ (somewhat like Goel Groceries, Pesto Besto General Merchants, Maya Toys, Midland Book Store and the like) and a huge arrow pointing into what looks like a huge alley filled with lots and lots of wood and one hugggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggge pile of coal, and covered with this huge sheet of plastic…. Zis store is dark, dingy (probably becoz this is winter and sun wasn’t really up, which is why I wasn’t moving ‘round with a camera in ze first place) and all its walls have uniformly black coat of coal dust…. What makes it rather more interesting is zat this guy has one of those ioce ratelist boards ud find in railway stations, and small restaurants all over India, and in a uniform two tone blue over white he’s listed out prices of three kinds of charcoal and six kinds of wood…... Ze six kindda woods r understandable mainly becoz here ppl care abt the woods tree of origin, in fact zey care more abt ze tree of origin than abt ze money which buys the woods place of origin, but ze three kinds of charcoal looked and were original…... Ze cheapest was supposedly unsorted and had some amt of dirt in it, ze one slightly more pricier than zis was sorted to include only small pieces of charcoal, and ze most expensive had reallllllllllllllllly big pcs of charcoal….. Ze owner of zis entire shop was a huge guy, with a don’t mess around with me look and he had two equally huge workers working with him, carrying ze kind of shovel u frequently get 2 c in movies abt steam engines…...... While we bought the cheapest variety of charcoal and exited as soon as humanly (and pandaly) possible, me got enuf of a look around ze shop (sorry alley) to know that it’d be a good spot for one of Hitchcock’s movies….......

Oh and what abt ze photocopies u ask, well we kindda came home and got it done closer to home, paying double of what we wud have had to pay, had ze electricity not decided to play spoilsport….. Just another one of the chimps conspiracies, me know all abt it, but now I ain’t gonna let it affect me ‘coz zese chimps don’t play fairrrr….... I’ll come up with someway to pay zese chimps bak in zeir own coin but until then me shall sit and wait for me opportunity, and somehow ignore all of ze chimps doings…............

My SPE was done yesterday, thanx to zis friend in Queen’s who provided me with a lot of help abt wat each of those fields meant…. Turns out zat the commitment to an activity thingee was abt things done outside skool while extracurricular was abt things done inside skool, not something zat I can easily understand ‘coz zis is a crappy way to put things…... If only ppl in all these big universities did some research on user friendliness specially ze user friendliness of zeir apps, though despite all of ze user unfriendliness if I am eventually supposed to end up in canada (rather than the US as I want to) I’d much rather go to Queens and McGill than newhere else, though until I get more decisions zis is all just wistful thinking…......

Neways a lot of ppl have been complaining abt the length of my Blog entries and well I’d like evals on zis length (though I won’t necessarily reduce sizes).....

Ze Panda
Waiting to know wat ppl think abt blog entries of zis length…......

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