Knife

That thng waz inside me for 2 hrs n 10 kms..c d blood stains!!:-D

Watch

If I were to name a single material possession, I can't live without, it's got to be my wrist watch(es).

My love for watches goes down to my class prep, when I was around 6. Yeah thats when I got my first watch. And not just any other watch. It was a Titan. I was the proud owner of a Titan at the age of six, when most kids of my age were trying to draw clocks in their maths workbook or practicing telling time with their teachers, I sported a Titan wrist watch. That one was gifted to my by Papa because he had promised me that I'll get one if I was able to secure admission in SHS( he still keeps doing that- promising me rewards for significant and insignificant achievements, and he has never failed to keep his promises). I barely managed to do that and got this watch. I remember it clearly, a small, round white dial with green minute and hour hands and a red second hand.

Well that lasted with me till class 8th. I got my 2nd one in class 9th on my 14th birthday- a gift by mom and dad. A maxima "waterproof" with a metallic chain strap and a round dial. Though i never realized it at that point of time, it was a poorly constructed replica of the classic Rolex Oyester perpetual.

The Oyster perpetual still remains my all time favourite. Maybe thats why this replica thing is still my favourite.

My latest is the one I got on my 19th birthday, again by my parents. A timex with a black rectangular dial. A classic piece which i save to be worn on special and formal occasions.

Then there is this Mont Blanc one, gifted by my dear friends on my 21st Birthday.
Big Round white dial, with crocodile print leather strap. I've received quite a few compliments whenever i sport this one, and coming from design faculties in the college, they must be genuine ones.

I have heard people saying, the mobile has omitted the need for the wrist watch. Are people going nuts. I mean, how can a silly mobile phone replace the aura and style associated with a wrist watch. The style that is associated with the act of raising your wrist, pulling back the sleeve and glancing at the watch whenever somebody asks for the time, cant be replaced by the whipping out of a mobile phone.

I just cant step out of home, without my watch. It has been one of my best companions. Glancing at it almost every moment when i had to meet a deadline or constantly staring at the movement of the second hand when waiting for a boring class to get over. I used to count the seconds to while away the time or even set up an imaginary countdown timer in my mind, doing all sort of silly calculations in my mind for the class to get over. I still do that.

Now you know, what would my first salary would be chanalized towards, of course a rolex oyster perpetual, but first, let this time of recession pass away.
I've already set up a virtual countdown timer.....