the khoj for makhan - lessons learned

Posted by mansoor on 07 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: lifes anomaly's

Sometimes, even the most mundane things end up being interesting. That’s the story of my life. Yesterday, while at the hospital with my chachi, there was a request (order?) for some makhan. Being the facilitator that i am in these situations, it naturally came upon me to acquire it.

  • I learned that day that something as common as makhan can also be difficult to acquire.

The places near ziauddin hospital have no access to butter of any sort!! Which is strange since it is inhabited by phatans and butter is very much part of their diet.

  • I also learned that i have forgotten the art of walking!

First i went to the general stores in the vicinity, feeling awkwardly out of place in (mostly) phatan dominated area, where violence is supposed to be the order of the day. The first place i came to had only some local brand margarine. No go.. so i turn back and goto the next one, which was over half a kilometer away. When i got there, i was informed that they only had blue band margarine as well as no other distributor came to that area. Imagine! Five general stores, and not one of them had butter.

So eventually, i did what i usually do in the first place, and for some unimaginative reason did not at this particular instance (i actually wanted to walk), took the car out, went to a place i knew 3 kilometers away, got 15 rupee worth of butter and then came back.

  • Lesson: Such is the price of living in the big city. A 15 rupee butter stick ends up costing rs. 30 if u factor in fuel.

But in the end, the look on chachi’s face when she got to have the butter was worth every kilometer.

  • And on a completely irrelevant note, I also learned my chachi and chacha love pineapple milkshake from hyder juice spot on sindhi muslim :p

5 Responses to “the khoj for makhan - lessons learned”

  1. on 08 Apr 2007 at 1:53 am   Fariha Akhtar

    forget abt the Rs. 30 fuel…the good thing is that “makhan” served is purpose quite well…bhaee…chachi chacha ko bhi tu makhan lag gaya na :P U must hav become their most favorite nephew by now

  2. on 09 Apr 2007 at 10:45 am   mansoor

    fariha: even though it was so obvious :p i never really thought of it as ‘makkhan lagana’ lolzzzz! and i hope so :p

    lately, i’ve been hanging out till late with their kids a lot :p so this was my way of absolving myself from all of the badvibes :P haha

  3. on 09 Apr 2007 at 4:12 pm   everythingiseventual

    whats wrong with blue band makhan? i dont remember it being bad when I was there….

  4. on 10 Apr 2007 at 4:22 pm   mansoor

    everythingiseventual: nothing wrong yaar. some people just have their particular tastes. In this case, my chachi is not a fan of margarine. I on the other hand, like it just fine.

  5. on 10 Apr 2007 at 9:40 pm   UD

    me luvs blue and too yummmz :D oh also the hyder juice stuff hehehe ;)

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