The Beginning of an Asinine Morning!

All alone at home the main pastime for me is pastime, rather timepass as it's better known! I have nothing much to do but eat food(if any), drink milk(if any) and all i am left with is one job...Sleep! Last night was no different, had some nice Maharashtrian food (thanks to sid), loads of milk, and i was off to repose. The problem started when i was on my bed and staring at my fan, i started to get bored and in no time i realized the fact that i was not much used to...I WASN'T SLEEPING!! I looked in to the clock but that just made things worse; it was already 2 in the morning and i was simply staring at the fan! I got up, went downstairs, drank whatever milk that was remaining, looked at my books with guilt, and went back up to have another shot at sleeping, fortunately this time i was on target. I must have fallen asleep, coz i don't remember much then. All i remember was what happened after i woke up...

The first shocker came when i was up and looking for my mobile. It was nowhere around me and i had to search like a loony around my bed, throwing away all the blankets which had somehow managed to become terribly huge just at the nick of time. After all those efforts i found my small little darling lying on the floor like a loyal dog near its owner's legs.! I picked it up and went downstairs as i heard some noise. As i went down i heard some voices i had never heard before, saying things that frightened the hell out of me."Arey yaar ab kya karneka.? Ek kaam kartey me peeche ke pipe ko tod deta aur tuu usko saamne ke side se pakkadke tab tak baandh dena" My god almighty where was I..!!!!!
I felt a chill through my spine as i heard that. I felt like a flabbergasted loner who knew he was about to be looted by robbers. And to make things worse, i heard the sound of a wooden lathi hitting our gate. My heart was literally in my mouth.

I collected all the courage i had and walked towards my door. Tried to open it but wasn't opening!! I prayed that must be stupid dream, coz i wasn't able to sleep.But it wasn't so. With a heavily and terribly frightened mind i looked around the door and found that my heavily and terribly frightened body had not yet unclamped the stupid door clamp.!! I unhooked the stupid door clamp, and there was the shocker of them all.!!! I never expected a sight like that next morning when i was finding it difficult to sleep.
On the door were two dark men in not so tidy dresses who looked more like poor laborers than robbers. And it was then i realized that i knew one of them. HE WAS THE PLUMBERRR..!!! "Arey Bhaiyya wo saamne ke ghar ki chaabi do na..wahaa ka pipe theek karna hai", he said. That was exactly the moment i felt i knew him. My god i was relieved..!!!! The watchman was also around with his trademark lathi ( i never even thought of him minutes back). Along with the plumbers were the owners of that house who had given me the keys last night.
They said they had been ringing the bell for half an hour and were about to go!! All that i could afford was the worst embarrassed smile that i could have on my face, and i said sorry with that smile still on my face. They went with the keys, i closed the door, and the clock said it was nine.!!! I ran for my brush...looked at the mirror...and for the next ten minutes, i laughed the hell out of me all alone....

Finally the rain dance....

' Heat wave kills 3 in city' , ' Scorching heat grips city ' , ' Heat wave across Maharashtra, farmers worst struck'.....all this is past news now. Finally, after a long break it rained today...and its still raining as i type this. Just a look outside and you feel as if mother nature just had a bath...everything seems to be so clean, so orderly, so peaceful. All that anger seems to have gone, all that frustration...all those sweaty shirts...all those dusty winds...n finally all that summer heat seems to have gone. The Rains just washed them away.

It's such a great relief to see the clouds cover the entire sky as if its a blanket mom made and someone has poured cold water on it to make it rain. Am all alone at home, resting on my couch, listening to some calm music, and i hear the sound that made me turn my head instantly...through the slightly open door, i saw sparrows...chirping flying dancing in the rain. As i looked further up, i saw a full flock dancing in the rain, flying around so fast...so many...with so much energy. It reminded me of my childhood when we used to play 'out-out'. Indeed the birds were flying around doing just that.

That view was mesmerizing...i kept on gazing at them for long. I don't know if the birds transferred that energy to me, coz then i too wanted to dance...i jumped up, threw away my ipod, and ran out to dance in the rain. I was a child again...dancing jumping in the rain..my hairs wet, my hands wet...n it was then i realized that i was entirely wet in seconds...not coz of heavy rains...my god i wasn't even wearin a full pant...jst a half lil pant!!! But never mind, i still jumped n danced in the rain, forgetting that my neighbours were watching me.! " Jumping in the rain...without clothes..i l tell this to ur mom wen she comes", Thats all i could hear. And moments later those neighbours were along with me....dancing in the rain ( ofcourse with more clothes than me) .
May be that is how all those birds started dancing one after the other...then almost all of them. Whatever that was, the birds had transferred all their energy to me...may be through the tiny drops of rain we all shared. My god the rains are back....n please dont take them back!

The King has died...R.I.P MJ

The King of Pop...the legend on stage...the elastic rubberband man who could move any joint u wanted him to...the master dancer....my idol...Michael jackson is no more...

It took a long time time for that news to sink in...am still not able to believe it. I first felt that it was just a rumor like the one spread long back which said Michael died in an operation (along with a foto).! But now, when the news was aired on BBC, CNN, NDTV...i realized that this time it wasn't any rumor... indeed the moonwalker had walked his way to the heavens.

Really sad...but that has put an end to a life that rose like the phoenix, and was beginning to wither away...A life that seemed at some stage as a cornucopia of success,fame and stardom had began to wane...of course am talking of the troubles he faced in stupid cases framed against him....but yesterday the moonwalker walked past all those troubles with the same ease he used to do the moonwalk with.

He was my idol...but now he's gone...gone with him are those controversies...gone with him are those " AAOOOOOHHHH"s ...gone with him are those jam packed concerts...gone with him those dance steps. Am left with just his music...not just me...the whole world has just his music n his videos to cherish....the aooooooohhhs will only be heard on computer speakers...those dance steps in archive videos...those concerts in record books.
I was always a fan of his from the very first day i saw one of his songs on MTV...it was Beat It...n he did beat everyone with that song. I was definitely one of them. I grew mad about dancing...all i wanted to do in my life was to dance along side him some day...of course those dreams were just dreams...They say,'childhood dreams are never meant to be true', may be that's why...
But then, i was not the only young boy to have dreamt such a dream, for there were millions of people...young boys n girls...big boys n girls, who wanted to see him dance...who wanted to at some time of their lives be able to dance like him...to moonwalk like him with him...all those dreams got washed away with tears that people couldn't control...tears that said it all...

All alone at home....am left with just his music...justtt his music...music that would never die...

i cant express my grief more...
coz i may just not stop....
The King has died, let him Rest in Peace...