(I know it sounds more like the novel series for kids by Lemony Snicket-“A series of Unfortunate Events”. But from bottom of my heart I can say these incidents were not unfortunate but yes were very much unexpected)
Note: This post contains some not-to-be-discussed-openly things but wouldn't have been interesting without them.
You were sitting in front of your system in office stretching the rest time to fullest and eagerly waiting for the clock to tick 7 PM. You requested the timepiece to move the arms fast. But this disobedient chronometer was more comfortable with her egoistic walk, so rejected your so-called humble request. But after all you are an Indian software professional you know how to tackle difficult situation with wit and shortcuts, so here came the self satisfaction providing award winning Idea of changing the time in your system clock. “Hurry !!! at last I won !!”. Filled with the contentment and pleasure of completing the working hours (1 hour before), you picked your bag and left from the office.
Did You tell us that this all hassle-tassel with yourself was because of the reason that it was “TGIF” (We all know that it is Thank God Its Friday). Now after leaving from office, specially on Fridays, you used to go to your friends’ flat for get-together (It would be more appropriate if you can term it as Scheduled weekly meeting rather than get-together). These weekly get-togethers are more of a drunken yards chatterboxes sitting together for nothing. So you thought of a change in schedule this time and miss the meeting today, after all it will cost a lot attending that. So your flight landed directly from office to your flat. Hey missed the via-station, must tell, NIFT. No more details needed, you guessed, we will understand this. Yes we have.
At flat, you have only 3 things to do-watch TV, eat, sleep and one more thing talk unimportant things. So you started with first 2 things, watching TV and eating but this weekend without drink, naaaa. Thus came the 1001th Edison’s idea in your mind, to bring 2 beers at home only but as everybody knows you are the king of all lazy bees. Waited for your roomies to come but for no hope because they all are the badshahs of idle buffalos. Finally you made the effort to bring and to drink the potion of weekend, so that nobody else could die of drinking. We all appreciate your helping hand because you looked just like lord Siva drinking the potion of poison. And the much awaited Friday of your week ended with nobody to accompany you while drinking, without eating, without unimportant talks. And your slept for the dreams to come to you.
You were planning to go and see a theatre drama on saturday, had booked two tickets(don't know why, when you were not aware who will accompany you as people don't have commonly uncommon likes/hobbies). So since morning you were asking (pleading) people to join you to see theatre but finally got a kid (new roomie) who came to rescue and both of you went to see the theatre but for your much undelight, you didn't know the way to theatre, searched whole egmore and ended up coming back home without watching it.
In the evening that evil kid(new roomie) in your flat who asked you to visit some places in chennai in return of the favour he did accompanying you to unwatched theatre, crying in front of you, to take him to the Sathyam Cinema, or ECR or Mammallapuram (We know it is Mahabalipuram). You cheated with him and took him to your get-together friend saying that “we all will go to Mahabalipuram”. But as always happens, plans never work for you, you three (count one of the get-together friend too) went to see few beaches nearby. You acted as his guide to let(read as make) him visit Kottivakkam and Thiruvanmiyur beaches. Kid started crying because of your humanly deeds of imposing your likes/dislikes on him. He said that he came from Vizag and is very much fed up of beaches.
.........So finally after a long debate over the place to visit and consolation to the kid, they two took you to CCD (you don’t know why people abbreviate everything but still sometimes you let them do it). All of a sudden you felt like you were not in Chennai, guess might be Mumbai/Goa/Pune/Delhi. As being an smoker, you took table in the corridor of the Café. But to your shock, you saw girls/ladies smoking cigarettes and talking in some language, was similar to English but accent was unbearable (sorry un-hearable). You thought for a while about them and came to conclusion that exceptions are always there. But when you inspected whole CCD, not even a single girl came there to have coffee (or café whatever), all of them were having the Cappuccino without sugar with classic regular smoke sticks. And after telling us about all this, you don’t want to tell us about their dressing sense (or so called designer wears). So you were very much disappointed with the new so called “YO Generation”. And finally came to another conclusion that the tea-coffee shop at each nook and corner is far better than this. (N-number of reasons to prove it right, but you don’t want to waste our time in this unnecessary debate)
Finally the Saturday night fever started with a twilight ambience of your room. Yes, your guess is very near to reality, another thirst quencher ‘get-together’ party with just 2 people attending it. And nostalgic feelings filled your room just like the cigarette smoke all over the ceiling. So you emotionally told the other guy about family-school-college-professional-etc experiences and received the same. But in such situations you always feel like telling and narrating your best and worst moments of life rather than listening other person’s boring stories. Finally went to bed listening the very infamous gazals of Jagjit singh and Pankaj Udhas. But the major impacting gazals are ‘Aaina Mujhse Meri Pehli si Surat Maange’, ‘Chitthi Na Koi Sandesh’ which make your eyes liquid bathing (but tears never come). But if There is some song which can cast a decision making or breaking on you is the one from Swadesh Movie-‘Yeh Jo Desh Hai Tera’. So you always try not to listen to this song even it is your one of the favourites. At last you became dead to the world by snoozing and having siesta of dreams.
Other day started with the most common weekend adventure of your flat, Breakfast preparation, at exact 2:00PM. Any guesses what’s on the menu, Bread sandwich-24, chili sauce with option of tomato sauce. The best part of your restaurant at flat is watching TV airing Telugu channels (and those too nobody understands in your flat) while having any meal of the day. The worst thing one can ask for after a great breakfast in lunch time was to listen to the ‘evil kid’ again with another mind numbing plan to explore Chennai. And to his excitement and will power( as he pleaded for accompanying him for at least N- number of times), you bowed down and drearily went to another place called Besant Nagar Beach. You had once been to that place in last 2 years but it is always better to brush up visits in regular intervals. So at last that was the place which that kid appreciated because of the crowd and Juhu beach like vibes all around. But to add to your dislike, this is last thing you will cry for, A-Crowded-Place. So after measuring the length and breadth of the beach, you two sat at the footpath (just like beggars) and were there for about 2 more hour before the other guy came and suggested one more irritating idea of going to the same CCD. But majority wins (or cries win). So we went again there, the same Café Frappe and blue mint cool with smokes all around and so-called ‘YO generation’ surrounding you.
You decided to leave the place as early as possible but were not getting any idea to make them move out from there (as they were enjoying the enchantment there). So you prayed to God, ‘hey Lord, order somebody to call me and ask me to come to some other place’. And to your shocking moment, God heard your voice very quickly and your phone rang. It was from your getting-married-soon roomie, he asked kid and you to join him and bhabhiji at dinner in Rainforest (there is no rain or forest there except the beautiful artificial interior). Thus you quickly left DCC (Don’t Come for Coffee) and reached Rainforest. And what more can you ask from God when everything is going against your will, A Long Waiting queue, very small in number 45 people in wait. So you decided to listen to the talks of the couple, moreover, the new family chats. Nothing new, the old story of shopaholic people in which men is in tension of losing money and women want their home fully furnished with all unnecessary needs. So you took another short break which was not sponsored by any commercial product and had your pain-and-killer smoke. As you lit it, the call from the restaurant came; ‘you can occupy the table for 4’. Wastage of 5 rupees as you hadn’t had any pleasure out of it. But stomach wants food in the end, so you joined them on table and had dinner.
Came back to your flat and went to bed telling yourself, “Another boring and misused weekend. And why this Monday is coming in next 6 hrs. I don’t want to meet it.” So the Monday was there to devastate you. We wish, you will have some meaningful and fruit nurturing weekends ahead.