Its 3:00pm, sunday afternoon, it has stopped raining and the power supply shows some sign of stability. Iam studying for a certification I intend to get, when suddenly i get this craving for chocolate... Impulsive as Iam i want to get out and get some. But then i think... i've got a dump of more than 400 questions running into some 800 pages or so to go through, i cant just stop to get some chocolate... be rational... i've got to be serious about this, continue with the questions and may be later...On my way out as i walk towards my bike i think to myself....
its sunday + 3pm + goa= there's no way in hell shops are goin to be openi was right my regular supplier was closed... I on ride still hopeful that the shopping center would be openIm at Panjim... supposedly a city in Goa... the capital too... yet after 2pm everyday all shopkeepers will shut shop and hit the sack for a snooze... a city called panjimAs i swerve onto the main road i get hit by a few drops of rain... i think to myself "should i turn back... nah just a few dro...." Swooosh it feels as though someone has emptied a bucket of water on me... literally...in one sychronised motion all the bikes on the road including me ride onto the pavement and stop under the parapet of the adjacent building... ALL of us.. as though its an unwritten rule ...bikes allowed on pavements only if it rains... off the bike and i wait for the rain to stopi feel my tummy ...hmm... it has gone in... maybe if i don't eat the chocolate my on going efforts will bear fruit and it will go in further... but then, when i visit my aunt she'll look at me and say "U've lost so much weight... here... EAT!!".... it would be like removing a drop and adding a gallon...either ways an ocean will still remain relatively the same ... the rain stops and i continueI've been pretty depressed for the past two days... I wanted to go to my cousins place, but then decided not to.. i did not get much study done yesterday .... i need to complete these questions... now i've got to deal with the guilt of wasting yesterday and the depression while I continue studying... way to go...The certification is important.. people are counting on me for the benefit the certification brings.. what is it about me that makes people think they can count on me?
is it my not so broad shoulders..
my huge belly..
or the blank expression on my face when someone asks "could u do me a favour?"..i will never knowi reach the center... its open... maybe it is a city after alli find the chocolate counter to be unmanned ... i go behind the counter to get a better look at whats there and whats not....i hear a voice coming at me ...."could u tell me where i could find a shirt of my size" he says plucking at his shirt....
Im wearing a crumpled T-shirt..semi soaked jeans..with wet, messed up hair and my trademark ... a stubble u can spot from a mile.....what makes u think i will be able to find u ur shirt? do i look like i work here... look around the guys who work here look a whole lot decent..think...person...think... some people i tell u cannot be rational at all...i said i had no idea, he aplogises and walks on to the next unsuspecting customer..Damn "the one and only chocolate that i would want and eat" is not available.....thats me being pickyi walk out to my bike.. ride around the city ... nothing is open ... or "the one and only chocolate that i would want and eat" is not available... but i could buy some fancy pajamas or have a dosa....after a while i give up and settle for baskin robbin's chocolate mouse royale.... only the most yummiest and creamiest chocolate ice cream in the whole wide world.... but it will have to do ...tsk tskmoral of the story... im not sure ... not figured that one out yet.....its back to page 159 question 76.....
its sunday + 3pm + goa= there's no way in hell shops are goin to be openi was right my regular supplier was closed... I on ride still hopeful that the shopping center would be openIm at Panjim... supposedly a city in Goa... the capital too... yet after 2pm everyday all shopkeepers will shut shop and hit the sack for a snooze... a city called panjimAs i swerve onto the main road i get hit by a few drops of rain... i think to myself "should i turn back... nah just a few dro...." Swooosh it feels as though someone has emptied a bucket of water on me... literally...in one sychronised motion all the bikes on the road including me ride onto the pavement and stop under the parapet of the adjacent building... ALL of us.. as though its an unwritten rule ...bikes allowed on pavements only if it rains... off the bike and i wait for the rain to stopi feel my tummy ...hmm... it has gone in... maybe if i don't eat the chocolate my on going efforts will bear fruit and it will go in further... but then, when i visit my aunt she'll look at me and say "U've lost so much weight... here... EAT!!".... it would be like removing a drop and adding a gallon...either ways an ocean will still remain relatively the same ... the rain stops and i continueI've been pretty depressed for the past two days... I wanted to go to my cousins place, but then decided not to.. i did not get much study done yesterday .... i need to complete these questions... now i've got to deal with the guilt of wasting yesterday and the depression while I continue studying... way to go...The certification is important.. people are counting on me for the benefit the certification brings.. what is it about me that makes people think they can count on me?
is it my not so broad shoulders..
my huge belly..
or the blank expression on my face when someone asks "could u do me a favour?"..i will never knowi reach the center... its open... maybe it is a city after alli find the chocolate counter to be unmanned ... i go behind the counter to get a better look at whats there and whats not....i hear a voice coming at me ...."could u tell me where i could find a shirt of my size" he says plucking at his shirt....
Im wearing a crumpled T-shirt..semi soaked jeans..with wet, messed up hair and my trademark ... a stubble u can spot from a mile.....what makes u think i will be able to find u ur shirt? do i look like i work here... look around the guys who work here look a whole lot decent..think...person...think... some people i tell u cannot be rational at all...i said i had no idea, he aplogises and walks on to the next unsuspecting customer..Damn "the one and only chocolate that i would want and eat" is not available.....thats me being pickyi walk out to my bike.. ride around the city ... nothing is open ... or "the one and only chocolate that i would want and eat" is not available... but i could buy some fancy pajamas or have a dosa....after a while i give up and settle for baskin robbin's chocolate mouse royale.... only the most yummiest and creamiest chocolate ice cream in the whole wide world.... but it will have to do ...tsk tskmoral of the story... im not sure ... not figured that one out yet.....its back to page 159 question 76.....
