a mouse! a mouse! and this isn't just the fevered imaginings of a hysterical victorian maiden looking for whatever little attention she is allowed to claim. This is the true-blue reaction of a little girl who is alone in her flat and sometime sinisterly close to midnight, has a big fat rat calmly waltz into her room, its uplifted nose twitching inquisitively in the air, as if sniffing out her fear. Well, our redoubtable heroin, being the modern-day capable woman of the world that she is, does not so easily relinquish her territory to the invading vermin. With her rousing battle cry (or as close as she can come to it at the moment) leading her into the attack, she springs into unpremeditated and instinctive action. Crouching back into the farthest corner of her bad (which thankfully meant her legs were already off the floor, and no unseemly hopping up had to be resorted to) our heroine utters a real, live, heat of the moment 'EEK' of her own, at a frequency high enough for the mouse to register, thereby proving that fiction is seldom stranger than truth, or too far from it. Well, what can I say, I refuse to be ashamed: it actually worked. It sent the mouse scurrying away out of the door, leaving me free to (once I had control of my limbs again) bolt across the room and quickly shut my door. Yeah, I admit I'm too cowardly to care what it does to the rest of the house on its recce (looks like it was examining the place preliminary to moving in), at least till the sober light of day that encourages the putting on of a mask of calm bravado that will allow me to deal with the problem with perhaps some shreds of my dignity intact. Well, one can hope, and tomorrow is, to quote just one of those corseted, cosseted yet cunning and capable precursors, another day. Also, put it down to the heavy darkness and solitary quiet of midnight that seems to encourage this sort of paranoia, but it seemed like a trained mouse sent here to do just that: do a recce and freak out the lone female inhabitant of the place to have her run out in all her skimpy underdressed glory for the enteertainment and eternal delight of boorish burly bastards who have nothing better to do with their time than feel good about themselves because a girl shrieks when she comes across a rat. Hmphh.
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oh gawd puneet...I am so bored!!
I miss my comp, and I miss the clamness of sector16 ..... and I feel like I am completely out of my element.... I can only hope it gets better....really it couldn't get ne worse. I can feel my descent into the lower middle class, worse I feel like something like mediocrity, an extremely tacky oozeis seeping into my pores, something like cheap living, something like eating mathis with chai for breakfast, something like eating dinner at a dhaba full of ppl, the kind I never wanted to associate, its strange I feel like I have been set back by 15 years, worse I have gone into the universe I was happy knowing didn't concern me. You know its not about living poor, I can live poor, but Delhi a young culture of kids trying to break into newer ground, now Mohali is like they (the youth) actually believe they've made it! They feel this is the best they can ask for and that they're totally living it up....now that shakes me to the core, could I start believing this myself? I could be converted, its gives me a pain in my chest to think it, wonder if its my chakra reacting to a vortex of confusion within me.....oh boy I feel my roots disappearing somewhere, and I have no choice but to forget, completely. My entire identity is being questioned, you can imagine when a guy who works with me was correcting my english.....its just a little bizzarre, now that have no reference, no assertion from my roots, I terrifically insecure, terrifyingly doubtful, and yes I feel I could just remain here in Mohali, marry have kids, have a lower middle class home and look for solace which I couldn't find, it is so easy, it was more of a struggle to survive that family, now peace of mind can come so easy.....I have no idea what motivation they assumed to impart...I am out of my depth and I have no moral responsibity left only financial....so out of my depth....terrifying!
sorry, my previous comment wasn't really a "comment", but yes I sympathise etc, also sorry about the missing words, on the brighter side you read it like a mesage that you have to decode- hours of fun...yay!
i'm guessing this means you can't check mail at work or something coz i sent you a reply. not everyone is up to posting marathon comments that don't actually say anything about the post in question. glad to see you're feeling saner already - I suppose it could have been a pre-breakfast/post-breakfast thing. or is that being too optimistic?
p.s. you scare me when you give up on the sarcasm
and this is what happens when you give up a car, comp, phone, digicam, microwave and a.c. just to make a point about independence and personal space. bravo! hang in there, you're my hero.
New Post!!
ummm...are you declaring war or simply bemoaning my determined attempts at disappearing?
Hey... I was just flipping through my old posts and saw your comment on the skirt-and-toe thing. Took me a scroll down to the photographs to figure out it wasn't just some random stranger. And of all the coincidences, I recently acquired a mouse for a (unwanted) roomie.
Would you mind very much if I added you to my blogroll?
Happy Birthday! I think I'm a little late with it, but it is around this time of the month, right?
yeah it is, and since they show no dates, you can always pretend it was the right one. Thanks.
Post, please? Soon?
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
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