The two hours of my life that felt like 20 were the distressful moments when I dislocated my shoulder playing racquet ball. Going nuts over burning calories by putting myself to rigorous exercise via playing racquet ball wasn't such a good idea after all. I would be blogging this agonizing experience pretty soon that occurred at the gym in my work campus.
After the doc fixed my shoulder I was advised to immobilize my arm by curbing in the sling for about 3 weeks. That means no work for 3 weeks?? Yeah right! you dream about it my friend. After resting for about 4 days and getting the nerves back to type again I was back to work. I met all my colleagues and well-wishers and everyone had the same question: What happened?
Like a sincere 5 year old school going kid, I did narrate the entire incident couple of times. I am not sure about them, but it was a boring monotonous affair for me. I decided to come up with at least 8 other (fake) reasons for how I dislocated my shoulder and add some spice to my saga.
My favorite ones are lined up in ascending order:
1. I was coding (programming) too hard for the release.
While telling the reason to Jonathan (my colleague).... 2. Someone asked me, do you know Jonathan, I said yes and next thing he broke my shoulder. 3. My shoulder said "I rather pop out than having to have shake hands with this guy" 4. I was trying to sell CA backup product. 5. I am married, you know. 6. I was driving on I-495 and the sign said "No Shoulder" . 7. This is my Boss's way of communication. 8. My wife asked me to give a helping hand, and I took it literally....
For the first blog title is a bit cryptic. Well, I think I will get better once I learn the ropes of blogging. The tussle for pronunciation has been my childhood buddy. This one for sure I need to think louder. I could deal with the situation when my wife pointed out that I don't pronounce "Queens" properly. It's said as "Kweeeens" and not Quins, the stress has to be on the 'eeee'. I never before thought about this, it didn't really matter or shall I say people around never noticed the subtlety. My wife's virtue of keen observation has been a double-edged sword for me. I have to say "Fo" and not my usual "Four" :-), more than accent its the technicality that I have to agree to. My double checks on www.webster.com for pronunciation have never been to what I would want it to be.
What aggravated the agitation was when I heard my friend say "phi de lity" when trying to say Fidelity investments. Root is Raaoute, Iraq is Eye-Raq or Iran is Eye-ran and multi is mul-tie, I can see the trend. Dude, in US they spell the alphabet AS IS. Coming from a country that Brits ruled for 200 yrs and having lived (survived?) there for almost 22 yrs, it's not very easy to comprehend these differences and even harder it is to fluent the American accent. [An expecting Mom in India even sneezes in British English! Bro it's colour and not color for us.] Well, coming back to the spelling-the-alphabet-as-is game, I wonder is it Philadelphia or fyla-delphia. If Iowa is Eye-O-Waa, then Florida must be flo-ryda, or Indiana must be Eye-in-Diana?? wait... you mean India is Eye-inDia.??? Whoaaaaa... Wherez the rope that can squeeze my throat :-)
And this one is a winner (w-eye-ner?) -
M-eye-chael Jordan of Un-eye-ted States of Amer-eye-caeye-s a basketball w-eye-zard
OR
M-ee-chael Jordan of Un-ee-ted States of Amer-ee-ca ee-s a basketball w-ee-zard.
