Once again, I kick off the New Year at the blog on a very special day! Special indeed because today is Mr. Punju’s birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY sweety and here’s wishing you many many more birthdays filled with lots of love, laughter and happiness. I wish I was there to celebrate today with you, but I promise next year we shall be together on your birthday. By hook or by crook >:D<
As usual I have been late in sending the gift (some things never change) and it is on its way across the seven seas reaching you soon, the contents of which shall not be revealed to you! Have a blast today! Love you loads. Muah!

Because its B’s birthday, I thought I’d let him have all the glory today and reveal some things very few people know about him. And because he likes to make everyone around him laugh, I have rummaged through many joke sites to compile a few jokes! B is my ultimate joke encyclopedia. He is probably nodding as he is reading this. We will be talking about something really serious and out of nowhere, I sometimes will say, “tell me some joke.” The flustered guy will quickly scoot through the loads of old SMS’s and will always come up with something new! He calls it “B’s on site joke service” I utilize it for free ofcourse J Well here goes…

A few things you didn’t know about B

- His grandfather was originally from Lahore and moved to Delhi during the partition. He thinks the ancestral “kothi” might still be there.

- B does not like Shah Rukh Khan at all!!!!!! (Now to someone like me who is an SRK fan, this is just appalling!)

- He is a die-hard Amitabh Bachchan fan and loves all the good ol’ Dev Anand songs (favourite: gaata rahe mera dil)

- He fasts every Saturday, goes to the local temple, and only eats dinner after reading the Hanuman Chalisa ( did it in his teens and started again a couple of years ago)

- He wants to own a vacation home in Dubai someday.

- When we first met, he did not think I was Gujju at all! He thought I was probably from south india! (I never figured this one out)

- He worked at his uncle’s chocolate factory in his teens. Probably did not do much work but consumed a lot of the factory’s production. No wonder he picked a future dentist! Sigh.

- He’s had some mean looking cavities! Buahaha!

On to the jokes:

A man who was really behind in paying his bills finally recieved the following note from one of his creditors:
“Dear Sir, your account has been on our books for over a year. We want to remind you that we have carried you longer than your mother did.”

A young man asked an old rich man how he made his fortune.
The old guy fingered his worsted wool vest and said, “Well, son, it was 1932, the depth of the Great Depression. I was down to my last nickel.
“I invested that nickel in an apple. I spent the entire day polishing the apple and, at the end of the day, I sold the apple for ten cents.

“The next morning, I invested those ten cents in two apples. I spent the entire day polishing them and sold them at 5:00 pm for 20 cents. I continued this system for a month, by the end of which I’d accumulated a fortune of $1.37.

“Then my wife’s father died and left us two million dollars.”

A man was walking along a California beach and stumbled across an old lamp. He picked it up and rubbed it and out popped a genie.

The genie said, “OK, OK. You released me from the lamp, blah blah blah. This is the fourth time this month and I’m getting a little sick of these wishes so you can forget about getting three. You only get one wish!”

The man sat and thought about it for a while. Finally, he said, “I’ve always wanted to go to Hawaii but I’m scared to fly and I get very seasick. Could you build me a bridge to Hawaii so I can drive over there to visit?”

The genie laughed loudly and said, “That’s impossible. Think of the monumental logistics! How would the supports ever reach the bottom of the Pacific? Think of all the concrete! Think of all the steel! No, think of another wish.”

The man said OK, sat back down and tried to think of a really good wish.

Finally, he said, “I’ve been married and divorced four times. My wives always said that I don’t care and that I’m insensitive. So, I wish that I could understand women. I want to know how they feel inside. I want to know what they’re thinking when they give me the silent treatment. I want to know why they’re crying and know what they really want when they say ‘nothing’. Most of all, I want to know how to make them truly happy.”

The genie said, “SOOOOOOOO You want that bridge two lanes or four?”

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The lady at the post office whilst packaging and marking my gifts to B was making small talk : where is this going? Someone special? How long has it been? Blah blah..At the end of it all she said “Hopefully this will be the last birthday away.” Amen to that I say!