It was my birthday earlier this week. Thanks to all of you guys who sent in birthday wishes and left comments. Apologies to those who tried to call me and couldn’t reach me. I was out in the middle of the Jungle somewhere in interior Kerala fighting bloodsucking monsters (leeches). Really. And for those of you that forgot - Don’t worry. I’m going to forget your birthday too, so we’re even.

And, it seems I got some 100 Happy birthday scraps on Orkut! I didn’t even know I knew so many people :)

Anyway, this Birthday was not-so-happy for me.

Weeks before my birthday, I was wondering what gift the wife will get me. I was really scared that she’ll get me tickets to some movie like Aaja Nachle and say “Surprise!“, and I’ll have to sit through 3 hours of torture again.

So instead, I told her that there was this nice cute little phone that I wanted, and she could gift it to me. I saved her all the effort and thought of thinking up a nice gift for me, so I was really happy. She seemed to be OK with it too.

Unfortunately, I forgot to tell her how much that phone cost.

As planned, I went to the Nokia store and picked up my favorite phone - The latest Nokia N95! I returned home excited, eager to show the wife the present she got me

Me: “Hey Look! My new phone!”
Wife: “That’s nice. What all can it do?”
Me: “It has a GPS, 5MP camera, video recording, text-to-speech…..”
Wife: “Sounds fancy. How much does it cost?”
Me: “Rs 33,000.00″
Wife: “WHAT?!?!?!?”
Me: “Oh, did I forget to tell you that?”
Wife: “You spend 33 thousand on a phone?”
Me: “But it has video games on it!”
Wife: “Is that thing more expensive than my wedding ring?”
Me: “Ah! But does your wedding ring come with stereo-sound with MP3 ringtones? I don’t THINK SO! Muhahahahahahaha“

As you can imagine, the conversation went all downhill from there. My phone survived a near-death experience that the wife handed out, and then I survived another one. Anyway, the summary is that the wife refused to pay for the phone.

Now I’m in a weird situation: I have a birthday gift that no one has bought me.

And so, I’ve come up with an idea. I will sell advertising space on my phone to whoever pays up some money. You can have your custom logo stuck on the phone, or send me a 10×10 image that I will put together with other sponsors and put it as my wallpaper. Charming Chitradeep has already committed Rs. 350. Send me a mail at gift@pointlesswanderings.com to take up this wonderful advertising opportunity.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Don’t miss it. Send me a mail NOW!

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