Sunday, August 22, 2004

DHOOL !!!

At the end of our recent florida trip Yak rightly said "Don't be cool, be Dhool", Sukumar's punch line was "Dhool happens", while I went with the cliched "Just Dhool it". I know what you are thinking right now - what the heck is Dhool? . Dhool is a very complex phenomenon, but I'll try to explain it to you.
Dhool: (ver) have uninterrupted heartful fun independent of one's surroundings

However, this is not the only meaning of Dhool. It has developed sevaral meanings over time. Dhool can mean country and dhool can mean pseud since country is sometimes pseud and the viceversa. If you did not understand the previous sentence ignore it.

What we realized during the trip was that every one has a dhool alter, just that it is very active in some while ohter dhool alters require conducive dhool environment to get activated. I usually fall in the latter category and have a high dhool threshold. But this time a couple of us had predecided that we would dhool the whole trip rain or shine. This is one of the many dhool incidents.


Location: Earthquake simulator, Universal Studios, Orlando.
We were waiting in the queue, watching the people ahead of us taken in a rail carriage to experience a richter 8 earthquake. We guessed that the ride was nothing great since it was just round the corner and people were dead silent (of course there was no soundproofing to subdue any shrieks). Finally our turn came. We sat in the rail carriage. The carriage shook to simulate tremors. The special effects included bursting water lines and things flying around. Now we realized why we could not hear any of those "roller-coaster screams" - the ride was not very thrilling. But since we were determined to dhool, a couple of us generally started screaming. A kid sitting beside us started screaming since she got scared of our screams. A few dhool people around realized that we were generally creating some rumpus and they too joined us. At this point almost a third of the carriage was making different kinds of noise - screeches, hisses, squeals, squeaks, howls, yells and what not. The entropy increased and the dhool level in the carriage increased till everyone was engulfed. The cacophony slowly turned into a cresencdo. Everyone started screaming their lungs out ... just for the heck of it. The best part was that people did not stop screaming even after the ride was over. The chilled only after they got out of the carriage. We could see the excitement on the faces on the next set of riders, who seemed to expect real thrills from the ride which we had just dhooled. However be the ride, I'm sure everyone in our group had a great time.
After this experience and many similar others now I can confidently say - We don't rock, we dhool !!!
Do you have the DHOOL in you?

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

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1:25 PM  

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