the after effects of the annual party....

It happened again last night. I locked my keys inside the car. Usually (yes this is a common occurence) that doesn't make me panic because I know I can go home and get the spare set. Well this time I made sure that I locked my house keys inside the car as well.
Even that wouldn't have made me panic because even though it was 1 am, my cousin would've had to suffer a little and wake up to open the door for me. Well this time it just so happened that my cousin was out of town.
Even that would've been fine because my landlord lives in the apartment across from ours. So apart from raising hell for waking him up at 1 am no damage done really. Well this weekend my landlord had decided to go to Bombay for a few days. ....
So my options were:

• smash car window - get keys - voila!
• leave the car - go back home - break into my house (how?) - get spare set - voila!
• leave car - go to mugdha's house - come back next morning with mechanic - pacify pissed off restaurant owner whose parking I'd usurped - pray he hasn't damaged the car - force the lock - get car keys - voila! oh and miss my 9 am class in the process.
• chase down maruti owners - pray their keys work (they don't) - give up

Anyway thanks to a combination of pure luck, a maruti owner whose keys were no use but whose lock breaking skills were brilliant, a plastic ruler, a steel ruler, a knife and some perseverance the keys were retrieved.

At least if someone asks me why there is half a plastic ruler stuck inside my car front door I'll have a pretty good story to tell.

think, thinking, thunk!

This is my third attemp at learning french...somebody would think I'd get the hint by now. But to all ye of little faith out there.. I've learned the magic mantra this time - the secret of it all, the elixir of life, the fountain of youth, el dorado, the answer to life, the universe and everything.
It is.....
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ready for it.... ?
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......drummmmmm rooollllll........
"THINK in French"!!!!!!
TAAADAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
So now the tough part is over - discovering the big secret. Now the rest is simple. I'm going to start thinking in French. Easy-peazy!
p.s. There's a slight hitch in this plan - if I don't know French in the first place, how will I think in French? If I don't think in French, how will I ever learn French?