EARTHQUAKES AND GULAB JAMUNS




In short I could write a precise of the following saying “I slept through an earthquake, woke up and had 8 gulab jamuns for lunch."
But then, that wouldn’t do justice to the whole issue would it? Also it wouldn’t help me in time passing. The difference between writing a story which is a one liner and one page is not being bored for an hour. (CONFESSIONS OF A MIND DEMENTED BY BOREDOM)
The thing about boredom is that it doesn’t kill you, although u wish it did and sometimes think it does. You just go into a different time zone what with sleeping through the day and watching TV, reading and surfing the net through the night. (When comps are limited and users many the best time to use them is when ordinary mortals sleep.)
and as is normal nowadays after battling with boredom throughout the night, I had a huge breakfast (complete with 5 glasses of juice) and went off to sleep (for the uninitiated I don’t work in a call centre although employees there would empathise with the hours I keep. it’s just that THE COMPANY is paying to get me trained and one of the qualities that is being imbibed by urs truly is laziness).
Anyway picture this. There are three people in a room (on separate beds of course), sleeping peacefully at 9:30 in the morning.
There is an earthquake.
the one in the middle wakes up cursing one of the other two for shaking his bed, looks at other two sleeping peacefully and thinking it’s a dream promptly falls back to sleep. Some of the others in the hostel, run out of rooms seeing their TV stands, hangars in cupboards shake etc and after the whole SHAKY SHAKY thing is over, come back wake us up and say something about earthquakes.
Well in great sleep induced stupor, I wake up listen to the guy ... tell him to SHOVE IT and promptly drop back to bliss world again.
When I finally do wake up (somewhere close to 12:30) I switch on the TV and hear abt this earth shattering earthquake (bad adjectives but let that be) and how it also affected good old dun city.
Hmm then it shines (chamakta hai, something like bulb shining in TOM & JERRY cartoons) ... that’s what the guy was talking about when he woke me up.....
Well the eerie thing is that National Geographic Channel just then had a program about earthquakes ... great timing or something supernatural ...decide for yourself.
oh the bit about the gulab jamuns ... actually thought it wud be fun to put in gulab jamun with the earthquake ... anyway what happened was woke up at 12:30 and was present for lunch by 1 and proceeded to hog and gobble up 8 gulab jamuns also as the dessert. Now that aint anything great nowadays ... become quite normal actually. Also the result of that has been that I have become centre forward (I MEAN I HAVE A BLOODY PAUNCH)
SHIT!!!!!!

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