Monday, September 14, 2009

Athelete from Azerbaijan..

I last remember myself finishing at podium in a 100m dash was when I was 3.. May be this is the reason why atheletes are ppl with superhuman power to me.. And that too ppl with disabilities performing this "superhuman" stuff are really the heroes of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.. BTW if these names sound strange to you they are the "Creators of Superman"..
Being inside Taipei's Intl., airport waiting lounge I was figuring out a way to kill some time.. n across the world there is one symbol which always helps to do so.. A symbol of a maiden with fish body in green.. You must have figured it out.. Yeah StarBucks.. The usually overpriced coffee shop gave me a one+one free offer that day when I was alone and not much hungry !! Believe me its really embarrassing to sit alone with one coffee in each hand :) Next target is to look for a place nearby someone so that I don't look wierd with 2 coffees in hand !!

Surprisingly my attempt placed me near a Superman.. Now would you believe I met superman in the waiting lounge ?? Yeah I did.. Muqaffa (The only part I ustood in his name) is definitely one with the standards we were jus discussing.. I'm not a very good conversation starter.. But the looks of Muqaffa (An Eurasian face) convinced me to speak English with him ( May be frust of 15 days)..

Embarrasment is when you "Hi" someone and it just fly away in thin air !! No replies.. "May be he is not interested" I told myself and drowned into my first blogging attempt.. A couple of mins and I felt a gentle hands.. yea u guessed right.. This time my neighbor "Hi-ed" me.. I was remembering myself for the past few days in his sign language..

Coming back to senses where in this world "atheletes - starbucks - a hi to a stranger" these are connected ?? Lemme tell u.. Im so lucky n more than being proud to share a coffee and hi with a stranger who is a olympic athelete - for tat matter even better a deaflympic athelete.. Never really ustood his signs in the short conversation we had.. but this Super-man really left an impression that "Nothing stops u when u r willing to take a high jump to keep ur country's pride high.."

Left the place with the confidence that oozed out from his eyes I saw thru his "Fingers around his eyes" sign !!




1 comment:

  1. Hey nice experience! Its true at the end of the day what matters is your will power and attitude to deal with the issues in order to outperform in such condition.
    Keep posting nice job.

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