Adventures of Rim, Jim, Sim – Quest to identify the inhibition to talk to a Girl! – Part II

Adventures of Rim, Jim, Sim – Quest to identify the inhibition to talk to a Girl!: Part I: here

The atmosphere was grim… The three of us sat facing each other. The only difference in the sitting styles was that I was looking down, Jim sat looking up and Sim sat with his face nodding in an oblique angle. One could say that our pose was reflective of our predicaments. I had just returned back from office and was really tired as I had a hectic day. But due to Jim’s insistence for coming up with a solution to the problem he faced, I was more or less forced to sit down with him. We had a 3 hour discussion about why he hadn’t been able to speak with the girl, but we hadn’t arrived at any solution yet. So I was wondering about his problem and about how long would this so called meeting would go on. Jim on the other hand was looking upwards, as if asking God for an answer. You might wonder about Sim’s pose that of an oblique angle, that’s coz he has a unique knack of sleeping while appearing to be hearing. You might ask how one could do that, that’s one of Sim’s special ability. He will make it seem as if he is listening to your conversation while at the same time doze off. His head will be nodding continuously more so coz he is asleep rather coz he is listening to you, but making the speaker think that he is intently engaged in the conversation. Only when you have spent a major amount of time with him that you would realize what he is actually doing. Few things that give him away would be things like his answer to your statements. No matter whatever you say, you will get the same reply. You might exclaim to him that you got to speak with a girl who you had been planning to talk to, and his reply would be ‘Ummmm’. And the same ‘Ummmm’ will appear when you tell to him that your boss shouted at you. Anyhow, presently Jim was too pre-occupied to think about Sim’s sleeping. The poor guy was lost in his own thoughts as to why only he had the inability to talk to the girl who he liked. And one would really sympathize with him. Finally when the clock ticked 1’O clock, we decided to call it off and retired to our beds.

The next few days went by with very less remarks about the girl from Jim. We assumed that the matter has died down with him. But unknown to us, the whole thing had been troubling the poor guy. It was at this context when the fate decided to play its dice. We had just returned from dinner when Sim rushed in with a paper in his hand. And he pointed to a column in the paper indicating some fashion show which was to happen this weekend.

‘We have got to go for it, guys’, remarked Sim… ‘See it’s also written that only limited seats. Let’s call the guy and book our tickets’

Jim remained mum. Not that he was an eager, talkative person normally but due to this particular enigma troubling him, he was more quiet.

‘Leave it, Sim. It’s better to hang out at some other place’ I said while indicating to him with my eye not to speak about this as this will remind Jim about the girl.

‘Hey come-on, this is a good chance for Jim to forget the girl and see few more attractive girls. Who knows he might end up liking someone and he can go talk to her’, remarked Sim, completely ignoring my signal.

None of us replied and remained silent.

‘You guys are bore, I think I will ask the new girl who had joined my team’ Sim said, flung the newspaper near us and went out of the room.

I was wondering what to do to engage Jim in a conversation, when he replied, ‘Let’s go for it’.

I didn’t get what he was talking about. Then I saw that he was holding the newspaper in his hand and was looking intently at it. I was surprised that Jim could change his mind about going to fashion show so soon when I realized that he was looking at a column at the corner of the paper. It was a tiny column about some seminar and went on to say about something called ‘Emotional Intelligence’. It said that if you are suffering from the following – “Not able to interact with people well, not able to express your emotions well, not able to utilize the best of your potential’, you had to attend this seminar.

I found it surprising that it had mentioned all the ‘NOTS’ in our life. After reading the ad, one might think that a human was not capable of doing anything on his own other than eating & sleeping. Nevertheless, Jim was completely enthused about this and decided to call up the guy and book 3 tickets. It was to happen on Saturday. I wasn’t sure if Sim would join us for the seminar coz he was pretty enthusiastic about the fashion show and had planned to go there with his friends. Anyway, I told Sim about the plan to go to a seminar on Saturday and invited him. ‘Ha ha, you old people go for this kind of seminars. I need to live my youth… Hope you will have a good time listening to some old greybeard deliver some lecture’, ‘ saying so, he left.

On the day, we were supposed to go for the seminar, Sim left the home pretty early to go and pick up his colleague before going to the fashion show. I and Jim were about to leave the home, when he came and parked the bike. He had a sullen face.

‘What happened. Did they cancel the fashion show. Or was it a male fashion show,’? I asked

‘Nope. She got stomach ache and couldn’t come. What fun is there by going alone. So I thought why not come along and take you guys to the fashion show’

‘Come on, Sim. You know how serious Jim is taking this. We can’t come with you today’, I said.

‘Guys, think about it. Haven’t you spent your college days listening to college professors. Why do you have to make yourself undergo this torturous experience again?’

We didn’t say anything, started our bike and left for the seminar. After sometime, we found Sim following us. We reached the venue well in advance. The only problem was that Sim started sulking too coz of the missed opportunity and for making us drag him here. Even I thought that the seminar would be boring. But as soon as we entered the inner hall, we found around 4 pretty girls clad in saree and welcoming people to the hall. Probably they were checking if people had the entry tickets and were guiding them inside. Sim’s joy knew no bounds. He dragged us towards the girls as if he was the man in charge, he told them about our booking and went on to talk about his job, how busy he was etc. The girl checked the tickets while patiently listening to him. She then asked us to go inside the hall. We came and settled in our seats. Hardly a minute would have passed, when Sim excused himself and went outside… I went outside to stroll for some-time when I saw Sim talking to the girl. I dragged him back to the hall and made him sit. Shortly thereafter the seminar began and a young man started the session.

During the course of the seminar, the guy wanted a volunteer for some activity. And as fate would have it, he ended up selecting Sim as the volunteer. Sim was asked to reminisce an incident from his childhood where he was bullied or he saw someone being bullied. He then went onto show how people mature & become emotionally intelligent at a young age. The audience gave him a warm applause. A thing to note about Sim is that he always wishes others to recognize him and tries real hard for that. In that sense, I think the speaker inviting him onto the stage really made an impact on him. His engagement for the whole duration of the seminar amazed the speaker itself. I guess he hadn’t ever seen a more enthusiastic volunteer involved in his talk before. What we eventually learned about emotional intelligence is the fact that EI is a self-perceived ability to identify, assess, and control the emotions of oneself, of others, and of groups, this in turn leads to an increased self-awareness, self-management, social awareness & better relationship management. It seemed as if the speaker was addressing Jim’s problem. Jim too was hinged onto every word of the speaker. The speaker also mentioned a main point about Daniel Goleman being the one to introduce Emotional Intelligence to the world. And the session went on. The lecture finally concluded and we left for our home. Sim’s scrambled at the last moment to get the autograph of the speaker as a souvenir, really moved the speaker to a great extent. The next day being Sunday, I was surprised to see Sim waking me up. This surely had to be miracle as he doesn’t gets up soon. I told him that I had to sleep more and asked him to leave him undisturbed. I could only hear his voice trailing off saying ‘Iam missing a big goldmine’. ‘Whatever, who cares about it now.’

I slept peacefully for 7-8 hours and woke up relaxed. I opened my eyes to smell a strong scent emanating from the scented sticks with my room thick and completely dense. It got me wondering if I had being teleported to Heaven… while I was contemplating about it, Sim entered and gave me a smile. I followed him to the living room to see lines written on the wall ‘Jai Gole, Jai Gole’. I got confused that Sim would have adopted Sanyasi living and ‘Gole’ must be some god in the vast list of Indian gods. It was when I saw the photo of Daniel Goleman kept in the center of the room and decorated as that of a deity, when I realized that the Gole was an abridged version of Goleman. Near the photo were stacked Goleman aka Gole’s various books on Emotional Intelligence… I asked Sim what was all of this. He replied that he and Jim had decided to follow Goleman’s teachings in their day-today life and one way they could integrate it in their daily life was to see him daily… Certainly few gods would have wished their devotees to pray to them like Goleman was being revered. The next few days saw Jim savor 3-4 books of Gole in rapid succession. He seemed to learn something from it, at-least it seemed so. Sim on the other hand restricted himself to saying bhajans of ‘Jai Gole’ and hoping that it would rub off the Gole’s magic on him. Sometimes during the night, Jim would sit and share few learning from the book. One interesting thing about it was the fact that Jim realized why he was facing inhibition while interacting with her. There is something called Amygdala effect which is nothing but the response of a gland called Amygdala (an almond shaped structure in the brain) which determines the significance of the external stimulus and triggers emotional responses like freezing or fleeing. The amygdala is specialized for reacting to stimuli and triggering a physiological response that’s described as the "emotion" of fear. Amygdala being the storehouse for the memory of fear, misinterprets signals from the body and cause inappropriate actions such as panic, increased breathing, increased temperature, localized sweating, freezing etc. This certainly made sense why people acted in a weird way. Sim reasoned here why not remove Amygdala gland itself as it was causing so much nuisance in the brain. Jim said it doesn’t work that way and said that Amygdala is beneficial for humans in certain critical times. Emotional Intelligence certainly seemed to be important in one’s life.

As the saying goes, ‘If you desire something truly, the whole universe conspires to help you achieve it’. That was very true in this case. Somehow, after a week, Jim returned from office excitedly and remarked that she has been put in his project. The management had decided to shift her into his team for a new project which he was about to work on. Now, because of the close proximity, Jim got to try out his new EI skills with her. Sometimes he failed miserably. Once he was sitting in his cabin, when she came to a cabin next to him. He looked up and to his joy/misery, realized she was there. Joy coz he generally gets excited when he sees her, miserable coz he suffers from Amygdala effect due to high anxiety. When she looked at him, he smiled and in return she smiled back. She asked him ‘Howz work going on’. Poor Jim, he wanted to talk a lot, except that like the kid in ‘Taare Jameen Par’, his mind was full of colorful images of what to reply, but his mouth was completely shut. Thankfully, one grey cell in his mind was still functioning and he picked up his phone and acted as if he had received a call, while at the same time, managing a smile on his face. Somehow, he escaped the situation without embarrassing himself. By constantly re-affirming the fact that he is in control of himself and by undertaking few activities like breathing slowly etc, he was able to relax himself back to normal self.

Things started improving gradually. He was able to have small conversations with the girl now. As far the updates goes, he had taken her out for a dinner… To top it, Jim came home once and happily remarked that he will be going to the fashion show. The girl had always wanted to go to a fashion show and when Jim offered to take her, she readily agreed. Imagine what surprised us the most… Sim instead of fighting with Jim to go to fashion show smiled. When we asked him what was his plan, imagine our surprise, when he took out a ticket of the EI seminar and waved it at us… Irrespective of who had wanted a solution to a problem, it was heartening to see Sim on a quest to conquer Emotional Intelligence. His plans were to do a research on EI and put forth the concept of EI for animals. Who know which animal he may help in overcoming it’s inhibitions… nevertheless, it was good to see a good ending for Jim as well as Sim regarding his new conquest for knowledge…

Adventures of Rim, Jim, Sim – Quest to identify the inhibition to talk to a Girl!: Part I

Napoleon had said that ‘Nothing is impossible’. Well, it seems to be quite true as long as one is saying it to the other person. Even I believed it until we came across one unsolvable problem. Well, the problem got solved in the long run, but that’s not the important thing. When we first encountered it, it seemed as if there was no solution to it. Jim was ready to face Napoleon (if necessary) to ask him to substantiate his statement about the ‘Impossible’ thing. I guess you would be wondering what Iam talking about. Let me fill you with the details of the incident and you will see for yourself the intricacies we found ourselves in.

It’s not quite often one would find Jim in a ‘colory’ outfit. The word colory is a creation of Sim’s ingenuity. You know the kind of dress which goes off tangent in every aspect. Yellow shirt + Red pant + Jazzy over coat + a thick buckled belt… I shiver just at the thought of this… Yet, it was Sim’s who introduced these outfits in our mundane lives, which until now had been restricted to the usage of the Bolly & Kollywood’s heroes. Someone said it somewhat right - “Behind every man success, there is a woman”. I say somewhat because, it should have been ideally ‘Behind every guy’s insanity, there is always a girl’. What happened is as follows. Sim had met a girl in a friend’s party. As always to impress her, Sim got the hint that she is a hardcore fan of these Bolly/Kolly heroes. But he couldn’t get to impress her much then. She was wooed by a guy who was in a jazzy outfit. I can’t imagine how he decided that jazzy outfits of the guy was the only reason to impress her,(his view was that he was better than the guy in every aspect, Intelligence, Attractiveness etc etc. Since we weren’t present there, we decided not to comment) but that’s what he did. What then followed was a pitiful story of how he launched a ‘Find the BK dress’ (read Bolly/Kollywood’s dress) campaign. What was more pitiful was the fact that being his roommates, we were compelled to be the campaign managers. Sim put it more wonderfully to us. I & Jim had returned early from office and were watching TV peacefully.

Suddenly, Sim rushes in and says,

Sim: Hey guys, I have wonderful news for you…

Jim: Are you moving to some other place?

Sim: Ha, not yet. The wonderful news is that iam launching a campaign called ‘Find the BK dress’ campaign. Then he briefed us on the details of it.

We were then forced to visit each Mall in the city and look for a flashy, jazzy outfit for him. I and Jim had taken a vow that this is the last time we will ever be doing anything with anything that is jazzy. As well for what happened to Sim with his Jazzy dress & the girl he was trying to impress, though iam eager to tell the story, Sim forbade me from noting any of this in the Chronicles of Rim, Jim & Sim (No surprises that the mere mention of the jazzy dress embarrasses him)

Having said that it was to our greatest surprise that we saw Jim in that outfit. What’s more interesting was Sim’s reaction to this. Iam not sure what shocked him the most ; Jim’s foray into Sim’s closely guarded territory of using jazzy outfits or the nostalgia of the experience with the girl or the less probable chance that Jim might be doing this for, how do I put it, well for a, a, a girl… Iam sure you folks are wondering what’s so great about Jim getting interested in a girl. For us, it is. It’s as if North Korea initiating a peace treaty with South Korea or China agreeing to a floating exchange currency system on its own. You get the point right? These things could never be conceived, same with Jim. It’s not that Jim wasn’t attracted to girls, (I hope you don’t think he was attracted to someone else), it’s just that he never wasn’t interested in impressing girls. He was concerned about his own work, his health, his friends that’ it. Neither Sim’s repetitious girl chase marathon or my fantastical notion of a dream girl had any effect on him. So it’s with great horror and shock, that both I and Sim looked at Jim & his jazzy outfit.

Not able to control himself anymore, Sim blurted out: ‘Why Jim, why…’

Jim said coolly ‘There is someone who I will be meeting this weekend. So I thought this dress would be interesting enough’.

I said ‘Tell us more about it’

He briefed us that his company has hosted some party this weekend. Blah blah blha.
‘Not about that. About someone who you had planned to meet’ I said.

Again, it was surprising to see Jim blush. He said ‘She has recently joined my team. Man, you should look at her.. She is so so awesome…’

Well, if Jim says the girl is awesome, she has to be.

‘So how did you get to know her? Tell us about her’, we said.

‘I haven’t spoken with her yet’, Jim said.

‘You what’, Sim shouted… ‘You haven’t what…’ Sim shouted again…

It seemed that she (Deepa) had joined the team just 1 week before. And Jim had got smitten with her at the first glance itself…

‘You sure, she isn’t a witch. She must be quite adept to have woken her magic over you so fast! To impenetrate the impenetrable will fortress of Jim… Who would have thought that we will be alive to see this day, Sim exclaimed.

Jim just growled at him.

‘If you are going to speak to her for the first time, dont you think you should wear something nice’, I said to Jim indirectly alluding to the jazzy outfit of his.
‘Well, I thought that this would be apt for the situation. Haven’t you said once that simple girls like guys who are flashy’..

Jim, Rim’s reference was in a different context, Sim said. He meant simple girls like guys who are quite bold and proactive in their approach. Right Rim?

I was kinda surprised that Sim could be wise too. So we spent the next 30 minutes trying to make Jim choose some other outfit, something better suited for the occasion. Finally, we convinced him to wear a formal black suit. Jim invited us to the party, as every employee could bring two of the family members. Since, I and Sim hadn’t planned anything for the weekend, we readily agreed.

On the day of the party, we got ready 3 hours before the party thanks to Jim’s insistence of not arriving late at the party. We reached the place a bit early. Jim made us sit in a place and went ahead to meet his company colleagues.

After sometime Jim came to us….

‘Shhh, shhh’, he said.

We weren’t talking loudly, hence the ‘shhh shhh’ didn’t make any sense.

Jim said, ‘She has come’. We understood that Jim’s shhh, shhh was a attention signal code.

‘Where is she’, Sim said.

‘Wait. She was here. Then after looking here and there, he pointed at a girl who was talking with another girl’

‘So how is she’, Jim said.

Well, what could we say. She was nice and good. But not the kind of girl who would make you fall over your feet. Jim certainly had a unique taste. ‘She is kinda cute and good’

‘Yea, I know’. Jim exclaimed.

‘So you spoke with her yet’, I asked him.

‘No, not yet. Not sure what to talk to her about’. Jim said. ‘I have to go. Saying that, Jim went off in one direction’

We saw Jim approach the girl. We expected him to talk to her. All he did was walk towards her, give her a smile, stand there like a dumb for 5 seconds and then walk away. We were surprised after seeing what happened.

Jim came to us after sometime.

‘Dude, what did you just do. I asked Jim’

‘I tried talking to her. But I couldn’t speak’, Jim said… My throat just went numb. It kinda wrung itself. I couldn’t get any word from my mouth.’

Well, this isn’t like Jim. He was acting strangely… Like I said, behind every guy’s insanity, there has to be a girl.

‘What the heck. Talk about anything, man. Her dress, the company, the cool drink, even the food to be served’, And if you are not gonna speak to her soon, Iam going to approach her’ Sim said…

We forbade Sim to do anything and to avoid hitting on a girl whom Jim was interested. We saw Jim walk by the girl few times, but again the same result. The girl did seemed to be interested in talking with him, but for reasons unknown he repeated the same sequence again and again. Go past her, turn around, look at her, smile for some-time, and then continue walking. Sim was so pissed off, that he was ready to flung the glass at Jim…

The party got over and everybody started leaving. Jim was clueless about the happening. While on our way back to home, we kept on berating him for behaving like an ass. Still being our friend, we decided to figure out the problem and help him out. So began our quest to identify the root cause of the problem of being mute when approaching a girl.

To be contd...

Adventures of Rim,Jim and Sim - Sim brings Home a Dog - Part II

Part I: Read here


Samuel Johnson rightly said that "Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement" And the innocuous viewer who believes in the advertisement takes it for granted that he will achieve what he wants by simply imitating whats been shown in the television.Marketing is all about making your customers believe in your product and marketing companies resort to various strategies to make that possible. The average Indian takes it for granted that whatever is shown is reality. But alas,it couldn't be far from truth.

Something similar happened with Sim. Sim was particularly impressed with the Sprite ad which shows a Girl bringing a dog and 2 guys who try to charm her. The ad shows one guy trying to impress the girl by caressing the dog which the girl brings along with her. Then the 2nd guy has a Sprite in his hand and he easily charms the girl because Sprite made the difference.



As Sim had noticed that the girl came for the evening walk with her dog, he decided to use the "Seedhi baat" concept with the girl. He got himself a Sprite and waited at the entrance of the park. When she entered the park he entered the 'besot' zone. I still dont know how he manages to get besotten by the view of 'n' number of girls 'n' number of times. And the heartening fact is that he says its special every time. Never mind mysteries are meant to exist. Anyhow after entering the 'besotten' influence Sim dazedly walked towards her and said "Coming for a walk". She replied "No. My doggie isnt interested now". Sim to this day couldnt decipher as to how the girl took his question "if being addressed to the dog" ,where as in the ad the one drinking Sprite asks a question and the girl answers it favourably. But what got him thinking is the fact that another guy came along with a dog and it changed the whole perception of Sim. The girl's dog started barking at the guy's dog and the other dog retaliated by barking in turn. As each of the owners started controlling their dog's they smiled at each other and began conversing with each other. It ended in them walking together and Sim was left drinking the Sprite. Not only this changed Sim's dislike of 5 sensed dogs ,it also changed his perception of pet dogs. He understood the real meaning of 'leveraging'. Thus he took the inconceivable idea of adopting a dog as a pet.

Soon afterwards, he brought home a pomeranian pup. We had imposed few conditions on Sim for allowing him to bring home the dog. It was agreed that he will alone be responsible for taking care of the dog and its requirement. As any dog owner will know to discipline a dog is no small feat. The owner of the dog has to put in huge effort initially to train the dog and this burden was comfortably passed to Sim.Sim was eager to take the dog to park and check if his investment bears him fruit. But then Gym chipped in with his views that it would be better if Sim trained the dog and then display the dog proudly to the girl. The girl would surely be impressed with the dogs feats and might induce her to talk with Sim. I had a doubt as to whether our objective was making Sim impress the girl or the dog impress the girl but i didnt want to sound pessimistic so I didnt voice my views.

For reasons unknown Sim named the pup 'Rocky'. He felt it gave the pup the macho image of Sylvester Stallone... People say that sometimes their behaviour is co-related with their name. In some way, the Pup too lived up to its name. and Sim came to realize it a bit late. The puppy was very courageous and openly daring. For instance,once Sim was alone at home with pup. I and Jim had gone to our respective home towns. Sim had come home late after a tough day at work... As it was too late to prepare food, he had brought home dinner from a hotel. He kept the food in the hall along with the plate and then took 1 morsel of food before changing himself into more relaxing dress. He came back and found the Pup busy eating the packed dinner. I wonder how Sim's face would have looked at that moment. What was more interesting is Sim's description of the Pup. He said that even though he glared at the Pup, the Pup looked non-chalantly and looked at Sim as if challenging him to a fight if necessary. Fortunately,Sim's childhood experience with the dog helped him avoid getting any extra scar.

Meanwhile,Sim's agenda of bringing home the Pup was bearing fruit. He had taken the Pup for a walk and had seen the girl with her dog. As expected the two dog barked (or) signaled to each other,thus bringing the attention of the girl to Sim and hence started Sim's conversation with her. Sim's joy knew no bounds and he patted his dog lovingly. He introduced himself as working at her office and thus began the friendship of the girl with Sim. For one week, they were in constant conversation. SMS,chat,Mail,Phone, you name the gadget, they were in touch using that.

Whoever has said that "Life is unfair" had a point.And Sim got to know it the hard way. The girl had come once to our home to see Sim. It was in the evening time around 5pm. She rang the door bell and our Pup gave its own barking signal that someone was at the door.Sim went to open the door and was took by surprise on seeing the girl. The girl smiled and came in.She stroked the pup's hair. Sim looked jealously at the dog wishing if he could be in its place.She then handed him a invitation saying that he should definitely come for her engagement next month. You should have seen Sim at the moment. Though the news was disturbing to Sim, I and Jim had a difficult time controlling our laughter on seeing his face.

We excused ourself and went outside lest we should laugh before the girl and make a fool of ourselves. Sim later thanked us for sharing his sadness. he had assumed that we too were highly dejected on hearing the news and hence had gone outside so to let go of our frustration. I wonder how Sim managed to talk to the girl. Anyhow,from what we heard he proceeded to make Tea for her (The girl was risking her life by drinking it) and then after a small chit-chat, she went back home. Its not as if he was dating the girl so the shock was not that damaging. Yet we felt that Sim's shock was quite profound. The reason for it (which we came to know later) was that when the girl had told him the news, his immediate concern was regarding the future of the Pup. The very reason he had bought the Pup had gone awry hence he was in a quandary as to what to be done with it.

He shared this concern with us 2 days later. We told him since the Pup is small, it is his responsibility to take care of it till it grows up.
The most difficult job was to take the Pup for a walk in the morning. Jim had found out that the dog during its initial days should be trained properly and that daily morning walk is a must for it. It served dual purpose -
1) It helps the dog to relieve itself in the morning.
2) It sharpens the dog inherent guarding senses.

Sim had to get up early in the morning so as to take the Pup for walk. Sometimes the dog woke up earlier and will began to bark so to signal the morning time. He got so relied on the dog that he wont look at the watch but just assume that its the time for the walk.

Once Jim returned home around 2:30am in the morning after a late night work. While coming in, he mistakenly kept his leg on the Dog's tail and it gave a short bark. Jim usually sleeps immediately after coming home,so he just lay on his bed and within 5 mins was sleeping off peacefully. Meanwhile hearing the dog's bark, Sim got up and readied himself to take the dog out. The dog which was being taken out earlier than usual was unhappy and it emitted short barks to show its disapproval. Usually when we take the dog out, we usually see few people jogging or running. But since it was a bit earlier,Sim found no one in the streets. He rather commented to himself that its strange that people have become quite lazy now. Sim had to withdraw money from ATM. He went into one and took some money. While he was coming out, A night security person saw him and he got curious as to what a person was doing in the ATM at that time. He asked Sim what he was doing to which Sim said that he was taking the dog for a walk. He asked the security guard if he had come for walking himself as he was seeing him for the first time.

Saying so,he went on in his way. But the guard suspicion levels were on high, he started stalking behind Sim to find where he is going.Sim thought that maybe some Psychopath was stalking him and he started running back to home. The guard came behind Sim till our flats, till our flat security person confirmed that Sim was living in the flats and was no danger to anyone. Thus Sim came home after a 1 hr walk and retired to his bed immediately. The dog started barking around 4:30 indicating the time for walk. Sim couldnt believe his ears. He shoo-shooed the dog away yet couldnt withstand the dog's Rocky like persistence. Grudgingly he took the dog outside for one more round, leaving our flat security guard little confused. The dog definitely enjoyed its morning walk, yet Sim grudge against the dog remained and he resolved to give the dog away to Blue Cross.



Well, i feel happy atleast for the dog so that it didnt have to test its perseverance against that of Sim. We do go to see the Pup sometimes in the weekend and the last we heard it was adopted by a married couple. So that was a happy ending for the Pup.As for Sim, he was able to sleep peacefully with no disturbances. He used to remark sometimes that his intuition had told him that beings with less than 6 sense shouldnt be trusted on a long relationship and asked us for our comments.

All we could say was - No comments !!! ;)

Adventures of Rim,Jim and Sim - Sim brings Home a Dog

Before you start wondering with why Sim bringing home a Dog has to occupy a chapter in our evergreen memoirs of life,a bit of history will be of much use in shedding light on the incident which was unthinkable in our lives.It would be wrong to say that Sim hated Dogs; To tell that Sim repulsed Dogs with every cell of his body would come somewhat nearer in describing his attitude towards dogs. Knowing this i feel you could understand the magnanimous of Sim when he adopted a dog as his pet.

It all started with Sim 3rd grade Science class and his attempts to understand the difference between 5 sense and 6 sense species. When we was in his 3rd grade, his Science teacher when talking on some topic struck upon this topic of difference between humans and animals. I know talking about these kind of topics in 3rd grade is somewhat strange,yet maybe the Science teacher wanted her students to be advanced in their thinking... Anyhow,when all the basic differences had been told by the students(Sim claims he had also made his own contribution. His point - Animals have 4 legs whereas Humans have 2 legs), the teacher elaborated further saying that Humans have 6 senses whereas animals have 5 senses.



Sim was bowled over by the thought that 1 sense can make that big difference. Anyhow, before Sim let his imagination go flying, the teacher explained how the 6th sense mattered. She went on to explain that other than the five basic senses, seeing, feeling, smelling, hearing and tasting every human has sixth sense, that sense of other-worldliness, a connection to something more and greater than their physical senses are able to perceive.I assume it would have impacted Sim profoundly to know that he is in possession of an extra sense, which the poor animals haven't been bestowed upon.

And guess what he did... As curious he ever was he decided to test if really the other animals possessed this extra-sense or not. He reached this conclusion after 2 weeks of deep thinking. To think that a 3rd grade child can think for 2 week on a single topic is unheard of, yet that's what makes Sim different. He was a prodigy in is own way.He decided to go ahead with his experiment plan. The only mistake little Sim made was with regards to the timing and the 'object' on which he experimented.

Sim's neighbor had a dog, a German Shepherd a little bigger than a pup size. Sim plan was to enter his neighbors house when the dog would be sleeping. I think the word 'perceive' in his Science teacher's explanation of 6th sense was taken as such by Sim and he reasoned that if he enters the house successfully it would mean the dog has no 6th sense and his teachers theory would be proved. He was so confident of the theory of the 5 senses of the dog that he overlooked the fact that dogs are meant to guard homes and have a special sense for that.Anyhow,our Child prodigy Sim silently tiptoed to his neighbors home in the afternoon when he was sure that everyone inside the home will be asleep and the dog would also be having his afternoon nap. His plan was to go in the house and come out silently without the Dog finding it out. He tiptoed silently till the open veranda before the house and climbed the stairs and would have had just touched the door, when disaster struck. The dog's mighty sense sensed an intruder and it leapt on Sim.



Fortunately for Sim the dog had been tied and the rope size restriction saved the day for Sim. He escaped with 3 dog bites and barking sounds very close to his ears which left him in a dazed state. I think the dog would have been happier to gift Sim few more of its juicy bites but for the house-owner who rushed down and saved Sim. Sim's explanation that he came there looking for a ball satisfied everyone. But
since that day, Sim got a suspicion that Dog also possess 6th sense. My reasoning to him that if the Dog had possessed 6th sense, then it would have bite its own rope binding him and would have taken few extra bites of him failed to convince him.

And from then on,Sim developed a revulsion against dogs that would have prompted the Dog's community to sign a peace-treaty with him, had it known this. But as in all cases, Sim had a weakness. His desire to impress girls ensured he signed a new peace treaty with the dog's species. It all started when a girl joined his company as a new employee. Sim considered her the most beautiful girl(which he considers every girl on a routine basis) and began to trouble us with his pathetic odes to the girl back in our room.

Someone had said that Life is like a chess game and it plays an unexpected move which would leave you dazed. Destiny had similar plans for Sim. That girl turned out to be living in the same locality as ours. The brilliant destiny move was that she loved dog's and she owned one which she took for walking daily to the nearby park. A cute Pomeranian. Sim's revulsion of dogs had to take a back seat and his decision to do the unthinkable - adopting a pet dog was influenced by an single incident which changed his life and the poor dogs' life for ever.

To be contd...


First Part of Rim,Jim,Sim - here

The Adventures of Rim,Jim and Sim - Sim goes Gyming - Part I : here

The Adventures of Rim,Jim & Sim - Sim goes Gyming !! - Part II : here

The Adventures of Rim,Jim & Sim - Sim goes Gyming !! - Part II

P.S: First part of The Adventures of RJS - Sym goes Gyming can be read here.

We went out for a our dinner and once we came back, we were had to be content by hearing about Sim's theories on loosing weight. The unique thing about Sim is that you never know when his brain decides to come out of its dormancy and decides to do something. It is at these times that Sim comes up with some theories which makes me think as if he had a blood relation to Leonarda Vinci. One of his ideas was about body reduction. He was of the view that 60-90 days were a long time. He said 3-5 days should be sufficient. According to him, take the joiners and desert them in a lone island where there are plenty of cocunut trees.,.The food and other related stuff can be kept at the top of the cocunut trees, and whoever wants to have food, they can climb the tree up and down,. According to Sim, if this routine continued for a week, the participants will be guaranteed to lose weights.,. Jim was concerned about 2 things.,.One was about law suits which could be charged against the organizers for intentionally deserting the people and similar charges.,. Secondly was Sim's obsession with coconut trees,.,. As far as we know, he didnt know any Keralite girls, yet who knows.,. He has so many friends ;).,.

So went Sim, giving us ideas on how he is going to reduce his body and make himself a sort of Greek God.,. Iam an ardent follower of Gandhigiri and believe firmly in Gandhian principles, yet Sim's speeches was testing my resolve,., The thing is he wont allow you to sleep.,.if you close your eyes, he will come nearer to you and will look so closely at you as if you have dropped dead.,. And the more scarier thing is when you open your eyes while he is looking at you.,. His eyes will be so close to your face that you will get the biggest shock of your life.,. When asked why he does that he just remarks that he was analzysing whether we had slept or not.,. So similarly, on that day, he successfully kept us awake till 12pm(Our usual sleeping time is 10:30 pm), after which he rushed to sleep saying that he needed to go to Gym early next day and that we people had delayed him by making him speak !! Its when things like this happen, when you feel that Life is really unfair.


I usually get up at 7:30.,. Yet i was woken up at 6:00 on that day.,. Jim's usual waking time is 6:00.,. He wakes up and then after refreshing goes for his morning jogs.,. On that day, it was a mixture of sounds which woke me up.,. There was a yelp sound and then there was sound of astonishment.,. Hurriedly i woke up, assuming that there had been some bomb blasts,so i got up from my bed and went out.,. In the Main hall, i saw a strange scene.,. Sim was sitting hunched down, holding his legs and angrily glaring at Jim, who stood near him, equally frustrated.,. I couldnt understand what happened.,. Sim complained that Jim had stumped on his legs., Jim accusation was why the hell Sim lying there in the hall instead of his bed.,. It seems that Sim who had been told that one has to do a warm-up before taking up Gym activities had woke up at 5 pm and had been exercising from then.,. He did some stretching exercises and then some push ups.,. Iam sure he pushed himself very hard because while doing push ups, he had felt a bit exhausted and streched across the floor itself and within no time fell asleep. It was then Jim who had woken up, stumbled upon him and in the darkness, stumped on Sim's leg.,. Then Jim and Sim went on their own ways getting ready to go to Gym, while i retired back to my bed. Sim looked as if he would drop dead again, yet his valiant knight in him made him go on.,.


At the end of the day,when i came back to home in the evening,Jim was rolling on the floor laughing and Sim face looked so fallen as if he had aspired for an Olympic medal and missed it by quite closely. On asking i got a summarized version of the day happenings.,. It seems after going to Gym, Sim saw other people doing some stretching exercises., Since Sim had taken the effort to stretch quite early,he presumed he could go on with advanced level of exercising... He went on to lift heavy dumb-bells.,. His adversary,the Trainer came and told him to join the warm-ups group before he could go on to do advanced exercises.Sim said he had already done the stretch-up's., The trainer said to him to do a few more stretch-up, so that he will be in a right condition to exercise and asked him to do some push-up's. Push-up's being the Achilles heal of Sim, nevertheless decided to give it a shot.,. He did 2 push-up and that was the end of push-ups. It was down from then onwards.,.

Sim later wondered why he was not able to do Push-up's then, because he had just taken 70 push-up's half an hour before in the home.,. Well thats Sim for you !! Because of the inadequacy in doing the push-up's the trainer assumiing that Sim might faint, asked him to sit aside for sometime, relax for sometime and then come back to exercise. He should have known better.., Sim,who usually wakes late, was waiting for this opportunity. Both his mind and body decided to unite against his so called will to exercise and then when he went to sit down for sometime, it got changed to lay down for sometime,. He slept solidly for 2 hours,(he would have slept for more time), with anxious people around him.,. The Gym trainer had forgot about Sim's presence and it was the cleaner who found him craddled in a corner and then called up the administration to see more on it.



It was then the trainer remembered that there was a person who had gone to rest. The other people had a hearty laugh and then Sim came home red-faced and then went about his daily work.,. I didnt know if i had to pity Sim or laugh at him.,. Yet being a good room-mate i could just give him a decent smile, before retiring to my bed and then laughing on it when-ever i recall the incidents.,. It seemed the next day,he had an appointment with the Gym dietician to decide on his eating habits.,.

PLATE OF DIET

Later next day, though didnt wake up early, he went promptly by 6 to meet the dietician.,. There the dietician had prescribed a food schedule and asked him if he had any doubts. Sim, looked at the schedule and asked him if he was supposed to eat that before or having his normal diet.... the diet included fresh juice,vegetables and Adequate fluid.,. The dietician then went ahead explaining the food course and explained No oily items and Fat drinks.,. I suppose Sim had imagined Water just as water, but to have "Adequate Fluid" as his main staple diet, came down quite heavy on his confidence., The two things which Sim can never let go is Friends(you should know which type) and Food.,. Now since he was in a dilemma to choose one over the other, to put it in his way "Losing one eye for the other". Still his reaction surprised me.,. He continued to went on for the Gym classes, though i couldnt see any noticable changes in his physique. (He had no intention of paying heed to what the dietician had said).

Later after a week, it was revealed to us that he has been seeing a girl who had being coming to Gym.,. Actually, the second day when he had gone to meet the dietician, before meeting the dietician, he had been waiting outside and it was at that time when the girl had come along.,. He made friends with her, and instead of going to Gym, he had been taking her around the park early morning,. (Gosh, i never knew the usefulness of parks ).,.


So that had been Sim's inspiration to go to Gym early morning, inspite of the dietician foreboding of having Foods he loved. When i ask him why he left going to Gym , didnt he stand to lose out the money, he said just:

"Every exit is an entry somewhere."

Well, thats the end of Sim tryst with the Gym.,. Though he didnt get a six pack as he wanted, he wound up by thinking that its what his attitude which mattered more than his thoughts. To put it simply
"Its what you want others to see and perceive you which matters more than how you really are".

I tell you, Sim sometimes defies logic !!