#AFGHAN JALEBI QAZI TOUQEER - I AM A ROCKSTAR BAEEEYBYYY!!! BIGG BOSS 20

Couple of months ago, I found myself typing 'afghan jalebi' song in youtube several times. It was little weird, but, I kept watching it. The song is famous for Katrina Kaif...but, it was someone else that had caught my eye. I had seen that song many times in the past...but for some mysterious reasons...I kept searching that song in youtube, not because I liked the song or anything like that. It was the male actor ( that features in the video ) who caught my attention big time. I kept wondering who he was - if he had sung that song. That song reminded me of 'Ya Ali' by Zubeen Garg, where he had featured too. But I got no answer. However...quite eerily...I got my answer during Bigg Boss 20 launch. Coincidence??? Intuition?? Sixth sense???? I dunno...but, I felt really creeped out that just some months ago I was searching that song wondering who that person was - and, lo and behold...Bigg Boss 20 decided to answer my querry! And he was as I discovered Qazi Touqqer of Fame Gurukul!!!


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This year, I watched Bigg Boss 20, from first day itself, and like rest of the world got hooked on to it - mainly because of Qazi Touqeer and his antics!!! But it is his life and career graph that is quite interesting if not humbling. I hadn't watched Fame Gurukul 2005, but of and on came across it - how Arijit Singh was also part of it and who lost ( 6th ) but went on to become India's biggest singer. Whereas, the winner then 20 yr old Qazi from kashmir faded away eventually. Until, Bigg Boss 20, I didn't know of his existence....but, after watching the reality show...I did search him up. He was not a trained singer, but, won the show with record breaking votes in an era when SMSes were costly and there was no social media. After watching some fame gurukul clips, I can understand why people loved him. He was from Kashmir - a place generally associated with violence and disturbance - more so during that time when it was season of stone pelting every few days in the valley. And here was a boy, who instead of picking stones, picked up a microphone instead and with starry dreams decided to merge into mainstream India and mesmerise all with his talent, no matter how much opposition he must've faced. So, a touching story indeed. Some accident punctured his dreams and even after reaching such incredible heights, he was shown extreme lows as well. Now, even at 41, the energy he has shown....its really amazing how he hasn't let those lows discourage him; instead, he has faced them head on - thus, turning the tide!!!


can these two be the same person?

I'm loving the Bigg boss 20 mostly because of this dude...will review the show in details soon ;-)

SIMPLE CURE FOR RAT BITE

Sometimes most unexpected things happen turning your world upside down. Who would've thought a rat would bite me one day - but yet, it did. And in most strangest of ways. It so happened, every couple of months I go to my native house. So, the house I currently live in is all locked up and bolted during that duration. In my many visits, I've discovered that rats and mice love living in my house, when i'm away. They also are surprised when they see me back. While they enjoy when I'm gone, same is not the case when I'm back. I use all kinds of baits and weapons to anihilate them for good. So far I've been successful using a combo of rat-cakes and rat glue boards. And this was when the mishap happened.

A rat ended up eating the cake and landed lazily in the glue trap that I had set up. It wasn't dead yet and was struggling to get off that pad. At that moment, just to prevent him, I struck another glue-pad over it. I know its cruel, but, its really a nuisance to have rats around. I so so wish they don't come, but, they do - so, I end up having to terminate them. Maybe, that day was my 'karma' day for having butchered so many rats. So, as I put the pad over him, my attention got diverted a bit; thats when I yelled out in pain. It had turned its head and punctured deep into my right hand's middle finger, behind the nail and the fleshy part ( two deep holes ). It was nearly stuck into my finger ( with its sharp teeth ) and I had difficulty shaking it off. I felt a very sharp piercing pain and blood came out oozing instantly. I let the blood flow a bit, before washing with dettol liquid. The pain was really stingy-kinda and bad - with my hand nearly shivering. I was told by my neighbour to get a tetanus shot. So evening, I got one. I never go to any doctors, but, it was several years since I had a tetanus shot, so, I decided to get it done. However, the doctor gave me a combination of few other medicines which I skipped. I didn't want to take anything orally - I'm petrified to take pills of any sort. The nurse put some ointment and dressed the wound saying it'll heal in a few days. But it didn't.

The finger pained so much that after few days I decided to remove the dressing myself. After I removed the bandage, the wound dried out - only, it didn't heal as I soon discovered. The outer skin had come back, but, inside the wound was still raw. I'd feel pain if my finger brushed against something or accidently got tapped. I didn't want to visit any doctor, but since the pain was persistant I went to a local nursing clinic. I asked the doctor there if she could prescribe any topical lotion or ointment. Instead, she started scribbing a list of medicines that I had to take orally. One antibiotic, another painkiller capsule along with a vitamin tablet. She told me to take the three together ( twice after meals every day ) and observe upto two-three days; then, continue for seven days if my condition improved. I was like, if conditions improved why I needed to continue it. She replied, that antibiotics had to be taken full course ( 7 days or 14 days ), else, the germs/bacteria could go rogue and multiply and attack more intensely. I heard enough for that day. I paid for the medicines and came back home. But, would I take them as instructed? Hell...no! There was certainly no way I was going to take any antibiotic - she said it'd heal the wound from within. I was not convinced. I heard all types of stories that anti-biotic damages the kidneys. So, it was time to get matters into my own hands eerrr...my finger in this case. I pushed away the medicines into some remote corner of my drawer.

I turned to my old friend 'dettol' instead. But this would not be an ordinary dettol wash. My wound was under the already dried skin. So I had to burn the skin to reach that infected area. It'd get messy. No, I'd not put my finger under the fire. Dettol would burn it. I used a stronger measure of dettol mixed with little water. Here the ration was almost 8:2, the dettol was that strong. And I started keeping my finger submerged in that liquid. Within few hours, I could see my skin scalding and shrinking at parts and the area was little open and sore. The dettol had reached those bacteria atlast. I dipped my finger few more times, till I was satisfied that the job was done. In two-three days, my finger was back to normal and new skin came in place of the damaged burnt skin. Till date, I have no pain in that finger anymore. Dettol, didn't fail me. And to think how that doctor had scared me to take those antibiotic and painkillers and stuff. So, glad, I listened to my own conscience. I felt like throwing those medicines at that doctor's face. Anyhow, I don't disrespect the medical fraternity. They are just not my thing and I hope to stay away from them forever. Maybe, someone else would've taken those medicines instead of being experimental like me. They are not wrong either. To each their own. I'm just glad, I avoided those medicines and healed myself with good ol' dettol.




Rats have those incissors that are ever growing, so, they have to keep chewing on things to control the growth. So, its not always for food that they chew, its something they have to keep doing - thus, they chew through everything - concrete, wires, pipes etc. Except hard metal, rats can chew almost anything. They end up destroying lots of things so an infestaion is scary, added to the various diseases they carry ( rat bite fever, plague etc ).

QUICK FIX FOR YOUR GREYS

When we were young, when we spotted anyone with grey hair - it instantly meant that the person is a 'bujurg' or 'old'. Ignorant were we that even young people sometimes have grey hair - some even in their twenties. There could be multiple reasons for those greys and silvers in your head - health, disorders, genetic, age etc. We are paranoid to call them 'white' even, @duh! All is hunky dory until we start spotting them in our own heads. Then, all hell breaks loose. We panic! We try to remember all the grandma remedies we'd ignore grandly till now, try to rub furiously into our hair various and sometimes bizzare concoctions of beet-root juice, coffee, tea etc ( every fruit and vegetable that has a dark colour/pigment ), pulping and making a paste or hair-mask out of anything and everything almost, hoping the greys cannot be spotted. We search one youtube video after another - how to control, prevent, banish those annoying greys altogether for good. We are almost scared to look into the mirror without an urge to burst into tears like a child at our 'lost crowning glory' of those luscious blacks, only to be replaced by the depressing 'grey cloud' that sits on our head. Taking 'selfie' becomes a 'horror' unimaginable, we try to hide from even being spotted remotedly in the background of someone else's picture - for the fear of the greys being spotted. We start chewing curry leaves or some falana-dhimkana like a maniac, because, someone suggested so. But nothing works. We just can't fight nature. What has to happen will happen. Another grey pops out in our head in the mean time.

Recently, a socielite Shalini Passi of ( FLOBW fame ) in her late forties, claimed that she had only two ( yes, she counted ) strands of white hair. Smoke went out of my ears hearing that. NOOO! I wanted to scream. How can it be? She must surely be lying. No one can really get to the truth, unless, we start spying her vanity. So, what to do when grey hair comes knocking. And they will, whether you accept it or not. Thats the karma for enjoying black hair in your youth. Its time to face the action of having grey hair at old age. And I'm blabbering a lot, right? lol. Well, I'm spotting couple of them myself and I've tried every trick in the book to defeat them. But, nothing has worked so far. No amount of plucking out or colouring stops them from coming back. And with time, its spreading like an epidemic all over my head. What started as few strands are spreading into groups or new clumps. And, soon, I'll be an old woman with a head full grey hairs. Thats a future I'm destined to accept. And my dear fellow country men/women - it happens to everyone. So, try not to laugh - 'greys' gonna get you someday too. Watchout!

Okay, so since I've blurted out as much as I could - whats the quick fix really that the title of my post suggests? No, I'm not going to advise hair colours or henna which are the usual go-tos, I find them time-consuming, messy and also damaging to the scalp. Instead, I've found the really short-cut to hiding those greys. Yes, 'only hide' mind you. I'm not claiming to cure them. Even God can't. ERR...so! And it applies only to short hair or the 'new growths', if you've already got coloured hair - near the roots to be very specific. This is best fix, if you are in a hurry and donot have time for an elaborate hair colouring ritual. So, lets get on to it. Take your kajal pencil - any black or dark brown kajal. We women always have a kajal pencil with us, so, its a very handy tip...applied at short notice. Swatch it in your index finger ( or any finger you're comfortable with ), and just rub it in the greys. As simple as that. Swatch, rub...swatch rub. And, presto---- your greys get covered in a jiffy, within seconds. And the colour stays too, at least the whole day So, simple haan...try it! You can thank me later :-)


take kajal pencil, swatch on finger and rub in the greys - repeat, and be happy!