Finally I had a mail from Sidharth with a word file attached. In no
time I had downloaded the document and stored it in the folder named ‘Personal’,
in which I keep images of closed ones, some of the word documents I have made
by cut- copy- pasting while chatting with friends and closed ones just to
relive in those memories and some very little porn. It is so amazing how a lazy
Monday morning at office would bring some inexplicable energy in you from nowhere
which you would wish last long forever. In one word I was ‘Thrilled’ after
receiving that mail from Sidharth.
Being Monday there was a lot of calls to manage. Some nice, rude,
gentle and majority of them would fall under the category ‘SIT calls’ (Sadly I
Took:(). If a guy or a girl had just finished a ‘SIT’ call he or she would
literally SIT for awhile on his or hers chair or would go for a smoke or a Coffee
break or in worst case damage the headset after smashing it on the table
mistakenly assuming the table for the client’s head with whom he or she had
just conversed. It was surprising for me that even though it was a Monday
morning no calls are been put into SIT category from my side. It might be the
impact of that mail from Sidharth with the word file attached, which I decided
to open only when I am at home (Precisely in my room) I had never ever rushed
home in that hurry!
Usually I catch a bus which would take 30 minutes to my area. But it
was unbelievable for me to pay the Autowala Rs150 without stepping into any
bargaining drama so that I can be home very soon. (These autowalas in town are
the experts in skipping traffic) I had my shower in 5 minutes and asked mom not
to disturb me even for dinner before bolting the room from the inside. No
Indian mom would think too much about it unless and until her son had been
caught watching porn by her red handed! Luckily I had never been caught by her!
(Yes it does mean that we (I and my friend) were caught by someone else while
watching a b-grade movie in our boyhood days. But I don’t think that it should
be narrated here) Hence I was pretty sure that I would get a serene atmosphere
to go through the file sent by Sidharth.
I thought about Mom and my
younger sister Keerthana as potential disturbance sources. Mom would never take
her eyes off from the serials, which seems to have been invented exclusively
for Indian homemakers. I had no worries about Keerthana. She became very quiet
ever since she had joined for her CAT entrance coaching classes. I wonder what
techniques these professors in TIMEs and other well rated competitive entrance
coaching centers are successfully implementing to make these girls to shut their
mouth. It was strange for me to watch Keerthana without scribbling ferociously on
the keyboard of her Blackberry. She seemed to forget her BB pet forever!
I was all set and switched on my laptop. There are two things about my
laptop that should be noted here;
One: it would take 5-6 minutes
to get booted.
Two: if it is unplugged from
the power socket, my system would get shut downed in a flash of a second. Finally
after full five minutes desktop appeared!
It was the third longest five minutes I have ever experienced in my
life so far. First was when we were caught by my ex- girlfriend’s uncle in the
early hours of the day while we were ‘trying to make’ some love at her place
and the second was when we were exhausted after a love making session at my
place by my mom, years back. Both red handed!
Now all I had to do was that to open the folder named ‘Personal’ and
double click on the word file sent by Sidharth. The moment I double clicked on
the word file the power went off!
I could only curse my laptop for not having enough back up and the
State Electricity Board for not letting the moment to come that I have been
waiting for a long time.
Guys probably we would get something interesting to read after the power cut.
Sharath Muthirakkal
