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Sayesha's checklist before going to the gym:

Keys?
Check.

Mobile phone?
Check.

Gym card?
Check.

Bottle of water?
Check.

Gym towel?
Check.

Bread?
Check.

Yep, that's right. I said 'bread'.

On my way to the gym, I pass by a dirty pond with gazillions of fish and turtles in it. And these guys know my aahat. Each time I pass by, they come running towards me. (I'm not kidding, it is not a swimming action - it is a running action! You gotta see it to believe it.)

The first time I saw them, I wondered if anyone ever fed them. They looked really hungry. After gym, I went to the little mini-mart below the gym and bought myself bread for the next day's breakfast. And I decided to donate the top and bottom slices (which I don't like anyway) to the hungry fish and turtles.

Now it's become a weekly routine. I carry the bread with me on the way to the gym, feed the fish and the turtles, and then go for my workout.


It's quite fun to watch them push and shove each other to get to the bread. Once I took videos of them eating. (I'm sure they hated it as much I hate it when annoying shaadi wala cameraman videos people eating, as if there is nothing better to video in the shaadi.)

Most of the time, it's the agile fish that get most of the bread, while the turtles are left hungry and helpless. Once in a while, one of the turtles will come very close and in a eeriely humanlike manner, lift its head up and look at me with its mouth open, and I will carefully drop the piece of bread in its mouth.

Sometimes little curious kids will come to watch me feed them. But they're too scared to feed the jumpy animals themselves. So they watch till they get bored and then go back to playing. I never get bored.





Sometimes I pretend that they are my pets. Cos they give me special treatment. Like I said before, whenever I pass by, even if I am far away from them, they start running towards me. But they completely ignore other people. Ha!

Maybe they have a sixth sense for food.

Or maybe they just like me.

But there's one thing about me I'm sure they don't like.

I only buy brown bread. :|