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…when you start running around with a matchstick held above your head and expect applause each time you light the kitchen burner.
… when you attempt to set the WR for the 100m on the treadmill.
… when you, in fact, set it for the 10,000m because you couldn’t reach for the Stop button in time.
… when you start referring to your local league cricket team as the Dream Team and begin losing your games instantly.
… when your birthday bumps are executed in a clean, snatch and jerk motion and banged down with record force.
… when you lobby for hide-n-seek to be included in the Olympics (heck, if trampoline can be, then I see no reason why not)
… when your roommates give you a 9.5, 9.7, 9.75, 9.3, and 4.3 (the French friend) after you skid on the wet kitchen floor.
… when you don’t expect the Ek, Do, Teen song from Tezaab after chants of Mohini! Mohini! Mo! Mo! fill the air.
… when you yawn each morning with a gymnastics dismount pose.
… when you are not surprised why Paul Hamm has a squeaky voice after you see him do the things on the pommel horse.
… when you start betting on the score of the gymnastic routine down to the third decimal.
…. when you practice all the four Olympic strokes in the bathtub and nearly drown.
…. when you actually set the WR for a stroke you invented and there is no one around to take notice.
… when you realize, after a heavy loss of teeth that the bathtub is not the perfect place to practice your acrobatic dives.
… when it has been more than a week since you have seen Bush-Kerry squabble over some stupid issue.
… when you almost “shoot” yourself (and actually win a silver) and stop proclaiming that you are an Indian
by Patrix | on Sunday, August 22nd, 2004 at 11:05 pm | 
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August 23rd, 2004 at 3:58 am reply
good ones :) you really did some/all of those?
August 23rd, 2004 at 4:14 am reply
You’re really into this stuff aren’t you? :-)))) Quite a few posts on this topic already!!
August 23rd, 2004 at 8:26 am reply
When you start sporting greenery on your head, you know your brain is good fertiliser :-P
August 23rd, 2004 at 9:26 am reply
when my son starts jumping from sofa to sofa claiming he is doing long jumps- when he tumbles from the arm of the sofa claiming to compete against Paul Hamm………..i guess you have to be a boy to understand all this………i just get frustrated watching him nearly break his neck……..
August 23rd, 2004 at 12:06 pm reply
Pompy - LOL! I wish I had. just some glimpses of my fertile imagination :)
Wings - It will last while its interesting..but expect things to go back to the mundane old self soon.
Leela - oh yeah? or simply that your brain is full of dung.
M - Just wait till he breaks something, he will learn quicker..hopefully won’t break anything serious :)
August 23rd, 2004 at 12:22 pm reply
You invented one stroke too?:-)
August 23rd, 2004 at 12:40 pm reply
I hope u are at least good in hide-and-seek..so that we can send you from India.
August 23rd, 2004 at 1:18 pm reply
Aar: freestyle, back, butterfly, and breast stroke. Now you can imagine Patty doing all this in his bathtub and drowing too…till the whirlpool sucked him into the drain.
August 23rd, 2004 at 1:23 pm reply
Aar - Yeah!its called splish-splash panic stroke…sorta like slow cycling…last person to drown wins.
Alpha - lagoori, dodgeball, daaba-icespice, langadi, kho-kho, gilli-danda..all should be included if we have hope to win any medal. I will be starting an online campaign to included those in the Olympics. Enough of US-China dominance..here come the Indians.
August 23rd, 2004 at 1:35 pm reply
You are practising ‘last person to drown’ along with your roommates in a single bath tub? ;-)
August 23rd, 2004 at 1:36 pm reply
I have to define and patent my tummy stroke sometime…
August 23rd, 2004 at 2:29 pm reply
Aar - Whoa!keep you kinky fantasies to yourself. I just compete against myself in a time-trial…rest are too bad. But keep working on that tummy stroke…pick up a quarter next time while you are at it.
August 23rd, 2004 at 2:42 pm reply
pick up a quarter with your tummy? and you call Aar kinky? man o man! Boy o boy! I’m slowly getting more and more convinced about the two of you. maybe you shud get a room or a Stadium.
August 23rd, 2004 at 3:35 pm reply
Alpha - Bet u don’t possess such arty skills but I can see you are busy getting busted in airline restrooms by busty stewardesses :) maybe we can hear what really happened up there, now?
August 23rd, 2004 at 3:59 pm reply
reminds me of the time when I wrote to my boss. ‘I’m sorry, I couldn’t complete the memo. I am very busty these days.’
August 23rd, 2004 at 7:27 pm reply
Alpha - LOL! your boss must have said, “thanks for bringing it to my “attention”, I never noticed” :)
August 23rd, 2004 at 8:21 pm reply
grrrr…Patrix! Not funny one bit! Oh well, I hoped for a raise after that. And I didn’t trust the spell check anymore.
August 23rd, 2004 at 10:26 pm reply
Nice post… In the spirit of Olympics.
… when you start wondering if you could bribe one of your thesis committee members to get done with defense.
August 23rd, 2004 at 10:42 pm reply
Alpha - hehehehe..Guess I was a bit “over the top” there…but u r a sportive spirit, right? :)
Parag - Guess the thesis was frustrating for you :) and expect more Olympic posts..at least till it lasts.
August 24th, 2004 at 10:08 am reply
Way to go dude! Hail the Olympic mania ;)
August 24th, 2004 at 12:15 pm reply
Spaceman - Glad that at least someone is interested.