Monday, April 23, 2007

Water , water eveywhere!!!

It was one of those saturday evenings..and as usual all of us were at home...recovering from the hangover of the nightout the previous day and the heavy lunch from Rice Bowl. We all settled down for the Man United- Middlesbrough match...which was a disappointing draw...(but this disappointment was mitigated when Chelsea too drew their match the next day...)....tense moments !!!..for us Man Utd fans. Also add to it the constant blabberings of Unnikkuttan (Haynes)-die-hard anti-Man Utd and a not-so-die-hard Arsenal fan - about how Chelsea would narrow down the lead to a point. Fortunately enough that did not happen..:)

The match over, we were all left with nothing much to do. This was when Denzil was browsing through one of his harddisks (he has a lot of them..laptop, PC..you name it...he's got it!!!). Someone noticed that there were lots of good old college photos in it. Some solace for all of us. So all of us (with the exception of Karikk) joined...and we were looking at some of those not-so-often seen photos . Our discussions about these were way too wild and full of chalis (PJs). We were so engrossed in it that we did not notice that it was raining outside. This went on for sometime.After an hour or so... in the adjacent room, Karikk feels a bite of cold at his feet (we would admit later that it was he who had saved the day). He got up and looked around...and then he came to us shouting 'Water' . We found that there was water all around the place and had seeped in through the balcony door into his room and the hall...and it was heading to the other rooms. Instinctively we made some small dams with the newspapers to prevent the other rooms from getting wet. We headed straight to the balcony to see if there was some outlet for the water to go. Can you imagine???..there was none... (In fact, this was only one of the many shortcomings of an apartment constructed by some corrupted construction company...viz Slanting doorsill,sockets without any wiring,geysers with no heating and last but not the least..bathrooms with no water supply... and we are paying 16.5k to live there!!!). So we used our legs to remove the water from the balcony. The apartments right in front of us would have got the feel of it had it not been raining.

We spread papers all over the floor and got bucketfuls of water mopped from the floor. And all those who were against buying newspaper did admit that they did come to our help. (Our home is split on the issue of which newspaper to buy. Three of us vouching for The Hindu for the quality of the news there and the other four for TOI for the masala that it would bring home every morning...its either TOI or no newspaper for them!!!) .









Mission Accomplished !!!







By the time all this was over, we had lost our enthusiasm for what we had been doing before...and it was back to the miniscreen again. Some time whiled away in front of it...and as time went by...we settled into deep slumber with the satisfaction that the rain had infact made our home cleaner...

5 comments:

Naveen Francis said...

kollam kollam....

rakesh said...

water was really evrywher ;) nice pic to show that :D

sajid said...

@naveen and @ rakesh..[:)]..

kochi chick said...

this blog n pic really shows bachlorhood is really fun!!

sajid said...

@vijitha : u bet it is...:)