Oh!! It turned again.. A week end, a
normal week end. I won't be celebrating on a high as I'll be alone on
most of
the weekends. Woke up around 12 30 pm. That's a bad way to start any week day
but really good to start a week end waking up at noon. I bet you all agree with
me. :-)
Hmmm.. That's fine. I had tea, freshen
up and sat before TV. Damn, that's ridiculous. They play the same movies again
and again on all the TV channels#1.
Switched off the TV and started to
hotel for my brunch, in fact, it's my lunch as the time is now 01 45 pm. The
same hotel, same dishes and the same feel that I can't eat more than two serves.
Obviously I will have only two serves, neither going for the third nor stopping
with first however worst the taste would be or however best the taste is#2.
So now lunch is done. What next?
Back home? Obviously. God damn, it's too hot to be out. India has a large
variation in climate from region to region, due to its vast size. In deed it's
very vast. Well, Tamilnadu falls under the category of Dry Climate group where
the group consists of regions where the rate of evaporation of water is higher
than the rate of moisture received through precipitation. In simple words#3, the coldest month is December but
even in this month the temperature remains between 20°C and 24°C. The months of
March to May are hot and dry with mean monthly temperatures of around 32°C and
now a days, due to global warming the temperature goes to even 40°C. So think
of the situation I'm in. :-)
Clock is ticking. I'm waiting.
Waiting for what? I don't know but I'm waiting. Anyhow time has to pass by any
means. So I'm waiting for nothing. This is the situation to understand the depth
of the boredom you are in#4.
Suddenly the room temperature started
to raise high. Nothing to be panic as this is a normal routine. Time is 04 00
pm and it's time for power outage till 06 00 pm. I'm too lucky to be in
Chennai, a metropolitan where power outage lasts only for 2 hours unlike other
regions of Tamilnadu. I sometime wonder how people live without electricity as
the humidity level raises once the power outage starts, leading to increased
sweating, alteration of the rate and depth of blood circulation, and increased
respiration and these are the measures the body takes in an effort to cool
itself down. This is the reason we feel we are not in the comfort zone. Here
are some more effects of humidity increase. Heat cramps, Heat syncope or
fainting, Heat exhaustion, Heatstroke, etc.,. Still wondering how people
practiced to be at this uncomfortable situation? It's easy according to Fact
#2.
So don't be at home sitting idle.
Drink a lot of water and get out of the house to get yourself rid of all the
above said effects. I did so, took a bath, and dressed up well and out of home.
Great!! Out of home, but to where?
The answer is "I don't know." Ok, I started walking after securing
the house with a lock. I always remember one thing when I lock the house.
People know the lock is used to secure the house, but still they pull the lock
twice or thrice after locking it. This seems funny, but yet it all deals with
the mentality of people in trusting something. Back to our journey, I started
walking first and foremost to the tea shop nearby as I always love to have tea
at regular intervals. The tea in Chennai shops will be pathetic, which just
tastes like colored and flavored hot water but yet, I have it at regular
intervals to make myself refreshed. It was that subconscious thought which is
memorized in my mind that drinking a cup of tea makes me refreshed even if it
wouldn't. So I ordered my cup of tea, looked all around the places to see
beautiful girls walking towards temple. It is some sort of benefit to stay near
a temple where many people keep the place busy walking to and from temple. Now
the cup of tea is over and started walking. Step after a step, walking slowly
just to kill some time. Finally, I reached Vadapalani bus depot.
"Let me
sit here for some time and watch all these people", I thought to myself, saw the watch which
shows 04 35 pm and sat on the seating arrangement available in the shelter. I
was counting the buses that pass the depot and looking all around the place for
people and their actions. Some were busy running behind buses, some were
staring at other buses as they are new and hence they don't know whether the
bus goes to their desired place, some were sitting just like me and some were
talking with their mates. When you observe people when you are really bored,
they all tend to be bored#5.
The evening sun that hits it’s rays directly on my face tell me "Don't
sit here dude, I'm gonna hit your a** in sometime. Get out of it soon". So I felt nothing is gonna
work out as I sat there for around 5~6 hours but when I looked at my watch tied
on my wrist, the time still shows 05 45 pm. Man! This is insane. I had a lot of
memories running inside my mind, where I just reached Jupiter and returned back
but all this happened in just 1 hour and 10 minutes. Bore again!!
So I still have a lot of time to
kill. I started walking again. Walked on the platforms, walked on the middle of
the road, jumped over the drainage opening where it was let open for cleaning
works and then finally reached a road side park near the bus depot which was a
government initiative to open many road side parks that adds beauty to the
metropolitan Chennai and actually it does. You can see a lot of parks roadside
in all the areas in and out of Chennai which were maintained by Chennai Corporation.
It was a small park which might cover around 20~30 cents of land, consisting of
beautiful flower plantations, walking area which forms the perimeter of the
park and playing arrangements made for small kids to enjoy their time with
their parents. I again walked in the park through the walking space provided so
that I can go through all the people who have come there to spend their time
and even to see people like me who turned there to kill the so called
"precious" time. Once I feel some ache in my leg due to continuous walking,
I took a seat nearby the playing arrangements so as to see the kids playing in
the lawn#6.
I was trying to make myself busy. So
I thought of making a dinner plan with any of my friends. So who to call? All
my close friends and best ones are out of city as they work in different place
and deputed in other regions. I took out my phone, well it's a smartphone. It's
called smart and I agree as most of the work it does for me like waking me up,
reminding me about meetings/to do's and much more than what I would think. I
then checked the contacts on my phone in the alphabetical order#7. Everybody in my contacts is a bit
far from my place so they won't turn up towards this "dinner" plan
against my short notice. Finally caught hold of my office mate (it's a girlJ) over messaging feature of the phone for which I
received a terrible reply.
"It's
already 7 and you are calling me for dinner at 8. It's not a good idea", the message read. Girl!! Dinner
is meant to be taken at around 8. So I don’t think you find problem with it.
Maybe she didn't trust me as I’m a just friend and not a boyfriend. Well, so
the plan of dinner is dropped after this conversation.
While I was in the conversation and
waiting for the reply text in return, I was watching 2 kids playing "see
saw" and a third one sitting beside the "see saw" board watching
the kids playing like I did. After a few minutes, the kid stood up and started to
walk with her shoes on, which gave "kwik.. kwak..
kwik.. kwak.."
sound which grabbed the attention of one of the kid on the see saw. The boy got
down from the see saw and followed the girl, actually followed her shoes. The
boy is too much attracted to the sound. Unfortunately the boy didn't wear any
footwear and also the boy looked like he is from a poor family. The two kids
now started to play running here and there where the concentration of the boy
the whole time was on the shoes the girl is wearing. Suddenly the girl sat down
on the floor and tried to remove her shoes. When the girl’s mother tried to
carry her from ground, the girl refused to go with her mother and the boy
keenly watching her as I did all these time. The girl again tried to open her
shoe buckles and this time she succeeded in unbuckling and offered her shoes to
the boy, for which the boy blushed in extreme happiness#8. Meanwhile, the girl’s mother too
succeeded this time grabbing the girl to her waist and started walking towards
the exit when the girl still looks at the boy offering her shoe holding it on
her left hand. Even though the offer couldn't be accepted by the boy, he was
filled with happiness and waved his hands towards the girl to bid a farewell.
Now it's time for me to leave as I
have been here for a long time and I started to walk home. I took my dinner at
around 08 30 pm on the same hotel which I used to take dinner and reached home
with some sweat on my forehead and body, in fact a lot. I refreshed myself and
turned on the TV and opened the window to let fresh air come in. The TV
telecasted some serial which I hate to watch and searched for the remote.
Struggling to find where the remote is, I opened the fridge placed right
opposite to the TV inside the room to take some ice water and when I turned
back, I find two men discussing seriously about something. So my boring day has
come to an end, at least I have something to watch out for. I seriously
followed both the men on their discussion. Actually this act is nothing but
eavesdropping which is the act of secretly listening to the private
conversation of others without their consent. This shouldn't be preached/followed
as it is not a good practice#9.
"I never
thought you will betray me, Sam", man 1 shouted at man 2.
"Raj,
never ever think like that. I have been loyal to you and our friendship. I
don't know even you are interested in her", man 2 tried to decrease the rage of man 1.
"Sam,
whatever. You tried to fool me and I'm no more gonna believe you", Raj's eyes turned red in
anger and shouted "You just get the hell out of here before I slap you
hard. That idiot Maya...."
he continued.
"Stop it
right there Raj. Don't talk about Maya and you don't have anything to talk
about her", Sam
interrupted Raj with high pitch tone.
"Wow..
wow.. wow... See the anger you have my boy. That girl.. that sl*t has changed
you against me",
Raj raised his eye brows and smiled sarcastically, which looked cruel too.
By hearing those harsh words from
Raj, Sam slapped Raj hardly#10
and there prevails a minute of silence. This act of Sam grew the anger of Raj
and he now looked like a ferocious wolf with blood red eyes has find its prey
and ready to hunt. Raj gave a hard blow on Sam's stomach to which he rolled
down the roadside. They both started to yell at each other and fight like enemies
forgetting they had been friends for years. The fight continued and now with a
hard kick on the spines from Sam, Raj fell down on his knees which he wasn't
able to get up. Meanwhile, Sam has grabbed a shovel lying beside the road.
"You
idiot, you are trying to kill me ... I won't allow you to leave this place
alive...", Sam
raised the shovel above his head and took the position to hit Raj.
"I'm
going to kill both of you Sam. I won't leave you have a happy life", Raj struggled a bit to get
up on his feet and now stood up with a crowbar on his right hand whereas his
left hand is bleeding with a sharp cut near the wrist.
Watching these things, I was not
able to move from where I'm standing which increased the adrenalin rush within
me on expecting what these guys will do next? This expectation stopped the
urine that is at the verge of bursting the kidney; probably burst the stomach a
few minutes before. So what's next? I'm eagerly, also in fear watching those
guys which increased the heart beat by twice every second that advanced.
"If you
don't let your friend live a happy life, then I too will never think about the
friendship that we had till now", Sam shouted "Come on you b******, die on my feet".
Meanwhile both with their weapons
swung their arms backwards to gather power to kill each other.
Now everything is blank. I don't
know what happened. Everything before me is blank. Then I realized that the
power at house is off #11.
Damn this Electricity board...!! The only entertainment I had from the time I
woke is interrupted with the power cut and I'm back again to the boring feeling.
No way to be entertained for the whole day. I slept sweating as I don't have
any other choice because of the power cut. It's a bad ending for the day, again!!
Yes, it’s a boring day, boring story!!!
Facts:
#1 - When people
come across same things again and again, they get bored at them whatever it may
be.
#2 - When people
practice things in continuation for 3 weeks (21 days), they become habituated
for it.
#3 - When things are
explained in simple words, it reaches people of all category.
#4 - When you don't
know what to do to kill time, waiting to do nothing helps.
#5 - Your mindset
shows the surrounding accordingly. If you are happy, surrounding seems to be
happy and if you are sad, surrounding too is sad.
#6 - One can find
immense pleasure when they see kids playing which brings out the best memories
out of their sub conscious mind.
#7 - Mobile phone is
an interesting invention, but I would say "contacts" feature is much
needed for today's generation people as we don't tend to remind anything.
#8 - Good things,
bad things; both are cultivated within at our childhood. Sow good thoughts
whenever possible and reap a good citizen when children grow.
#9 - People have
tendency to do things opposite to what is taught to experiment themselves. I'm
not an exception :-)
#10 - There are
certain things like money, ego, etc., that will break friendship in men and top
of the list comes Girl.
#11 - Most people
never give attention to minute details such as like "fridge placed right
opposite to the TV inside the room to take some ice water and when I turned
back". If this is read carefully, you might have got the story is about the
serial on TV on before I bring the power cut.
