There has been a cyclone formed in the southern state of Tamil Nadu in a particularly interesting country among the other many countries in the world called India. The cyclone, named Nisha (or is it Sabala?), created 5 days of complete havoc in the state. And on all these days one or more districts had their schools and colleges closed. The first two days of it, the city of Chennai didn’t have a holiday. And on the third day, or rather, the second day, the third day was declared a holiday for Chennai; I don’t know about you guys but honestly, I was very happy. It’s just too typical of me to be happy if school was called off even if it meant I would become really jobless and bored to an extent of, say hit myself or bang my head on the wall. Though such a trying situation has never had the guts to face me, I had not quite a problem.
Now, as the third day passed and the dreaded feeling of going to the school the next day struck me, I felt depressed extremely depressed. I was easily more depressed than Marvin. At least Marvin got to go all over the space and help the group of people consisting of earthman Arthur Dent, Trillion, President of the Universe and the intelligent hitchhiker Ford Prefect who came in handy at all times, I was left to sit in one bench all day long with another bored organism of the same species as me beside me and in fact all around me and not to forget the other organism of the same species as the all of us shouting his/her lung out explaining to us some very complicated thing in very simple language. This is what we, the people on earth, would call a classroom with children and a teacher. Yeah so coming back to whatever I started off this paragraph with, I was depressed that we might have school the fourth day. And guess what surprised me? Yup! The government had been fair enough to us by announcing the next day as a holiday too!
As the fourth day was drawing to an end, again I felt depressed! The very thought of this week being the monthly test week and that I had to write a test the next day on portions I completely disliked was like asking me to read a clever pun of some unearthly language without any former knowledge of the existence of the language! Now again I prayed and hoped and sweated and sat in front of the TV without going to study because of the increased trust on the rains. It was mid afternoon. I had got sick of watching the same TV that spoke about the same news over and over and over and over again. And so I decided to go online and discuss why the next day should be a holiday with the other people who were jobless enough to come online too. I was doing the above mentioned task when suddenly I got this message from a friend of mine that said:
“Go check out the TV”
“Why? Anything important?”
“Just go check it out!”
“’Okay. Wait till I’m back”
And this creature, as usual, was very lazy and this time more so because the weather was a very laziness inducing type of weather. And so grumbling I made attempts to get out of the highly comfortable chair I was sitting on. But not long after I decided to do so and made the first ever attempts, I got a text message that read: “no school tomorrow also. The TV says so!”. And so the other obvious reactions such as expressing your happiness about the decision to the other friends you were discussing about this and to your Mom because she had always regretted your company when you troubled her instead of letting her take her afternoon nap. And so the soul was happy. Little did it know about the next major surprise that awaited it in not more than half an hour.
Exactly half an hour after the above mentioned incident took place, the happy soul got another text message that read: “no school tomorrow AND on Saturday. So the tests that were supposed to be on Saturday are also postponed indefinitely!”. ‘Now that is news I could rejoice about!’ thought the soul and did so; she rejoiced calling a few of her friends sharing with them this happiness and singing and dancing and doing all the fun things in life and.. in a nutshell, having a frolicking time all together!
Then the soul decided it should also use the time a little usefully. She sat down to read, not the text books again for she had already done that for quite some time earlier but a very good book by a very good author called Douglas Adams. The book, as most of you would have now guessed was not “The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy” but the fourth book of the series “So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish”. I must say, it was absolutely marvelous! And so the soul had a frolicking time reading a wonderful book and having 5 days of holidays from her classes. And when the same soul got bored of the wonderful book and of discussing to her friends who are online about the various new topics they made up together, she decided to spend, or rather waste, the time of hers and the poor people who chanced upon her blog on that day with this blog she decided to call…
