bing bong and coconut oyl

calcutta was the city for bonefisheii and me.weeks of planning(not the organised sort,darlings,castles in the air hold up the best) and more importantly a hell of a lot of cajoling(please?PLEASE?@*$@%`# then..) and we were off.
clambered into that dutty,dutty little carriage and tried not to make friends with the lovely,earnest strangers on the upper berths.ate squashed mangoes and said "we'll never forget this".
typing this more than two weeks later i agree.so did the roaches and that little ant which crawled into my pants and nibbled on some skin.not quite the closure i wanted.fishielady takes lots of photos and we swing our feet out of the train,talkin about life and those many gossippy thingies and those even more pressing issues such as when the hell we were going to get there.karnataka,andhra(boy that was huge) orissa(the script i deem as rawther cool) and lets not forget,drenched in layers of sweat.for gods sake the water bottles were melting!not really,but the water seemed pretty steamy anyways.
calcutta!across the howrah on the ferry.out again by taxi.then the metro.tram.oldfashioned matchbox buses.auto once(yaaaah bengaluru beat that)
bignosedboy hosted us through all the modes of transport,including our feet.aaaach.acres across the freaking maidan.101 temperature.sunstroke?ill never know.it made for a highly dramatic night though.we shall not get into the ways,one must have a privacy policy you know.*sly smile*.
oh and guess how our fishy friend was dropped off?in style no less.bong-land has never seen(undue credit,here)the sight of three scruffy youths squashed into a cycle rickshaw.the things people will do for a buck....and the things one will endure for a ride in the heat.needless to say,i sacrificed a little more than my dignity that day.
revisiting ones childhood-water park??oh well,it made bignose happy.polkameow tries not to drown in wavepool.theres a LIMIT to standing on your toes,after a while god stands back to laugh at the 5 foot something struggling to beat the odds.
and froots!galore!!talsa?say what?these things taste like coconut but look like flat lichis.then furry purple seeds which taste like velcro,deemed 'dilchious'.slurp.then gooseberry flesh-like,capsicum-shaped ones which remind one of....nothing.
if i was mrs moore(old lady,deluded,nice philosophizing though despite being trapped in a cave and hearing echos..)id say:
"from everything comes nothing,and nothing everything."
love and peace.