I pity will smith… I can’t spend a short weekend alone despite having a television filled with millions of live programs involving live people and he spends 3 years in a world that has no other fellow human being. It is a real scary movie. No I am not talking about the stupid screaming zombies who are always asleep during the day… the whole idea that you are the last man on earth is what is extremely scary…
If I had been him in that world, I would not have lasted 3 minutes, let alone 3 years. I would not have wasted so many bullets trying to kill all those virus infected zombies. Just one bullet would have been enough. (Here I have a small question, when people bite the bullet, do they get time to chew? Probably I should write a letter to that organization in switzerland. But what is the point when I am the last human on earth… nobody would be there to answer back.
Scary thought. When almost 30% of your batchmates are in the same city you are living in and quite a few of them are in the same area, you should say “how can you say that you are feeling lonely ?”… yeah rite… it actually goes like this.
Me: hey dude1… wanna go to that movie “abc”?
Dude1: hey why do you want to go to abc da? And it is a stupid movie. The actors in it are all commercial stars. Lets go to some slow boring play where we will have lots of time to appreciate the individual performances.
Me: er… actually at that reminds me. There is a K-serial I want to watch. Maybe we will catch up for dinner sometime after u finish the play eh?
Dude1: ummm… ok… but then I will actually be some 200kms away in another city because the play is running only there.
Me: huh ok, how abt lunch at a place near your house tomorrow?
Dude1: you mean I have to move 10 meters away from my place… how could you be so cruel?
Me: ok ok… fine… chalo… enjoy your play… maybe we will catch up some other time.
After sometime:
Me: hey dude2… wanna go to that movie “abc”?
Dude2: hey, no man… actually I have some work at office today. Hey lets do one thing… why don’t we wake up around say 4am in the morning go for a short jog for about 10kms, play football with a few guys and jog back home. And all this on an empty stomach. And once you reach home you will get one nice juicy tiny cute orange!!! Exciting no ?
Me: huh… yeah… actually I was planning to get sloshed tonite, so I won’t be able to wake up that early tomorrow morning.
Dude2: Hey no probs man… I will wake you up…
Me: er… actually I would be too disoriented after that party… moreover my physio has said that running after drinking alcohol causes cramps in the muscles due to the anaerobic respiration cycle…
Dude2: How about next weekend?
Me: yes man!!! That sounds good… chalo will call u next Friday.
Dude2: ok ciao bbye!!!
Me: bbye (phew!!!)
After some more time
Me: Hey dude3… wotsup da… wotcha doing ? (see I learn fast… no “want to go to that movie abc” line)
Dude3: nothing da… am feeling damn bored. Just donno wot the hell to do… am so vella and I don’t feel like watching a movie on my laptop… or tv… or even sleeping…
Me: same here da… hey say how about we catch a movie… heard that there is a cool movie abc running in a nearby theater…
Dude3: yeah I know… but will you get tickets for this weekend? There is no point going to all the trouble and finding that there are no tickets.
Me: yeah, but no harm trying rite… I will chk on the fone booking… or the internet…
Dude3: they never pick up the phone da… or else it is always engaged… and the net never has more than 2 or 3 tickets at a time…
Me: ok, then how about going to that arcade and play some pool and bowling and some video games…
Dude3: I don’t play video games da… they never interest me… and the bowling ball is so heavy and you have to do all sorts of gymnastics to play pool… sounds like too much work…
Me: yeah da… there is nothing to do… this is one useless city… we are so bored to death…
Dude3: yeah… we can do nothing but crib about it…
You know it is very difficult being the bored one in a group of bored ones. And it gets so boring that I get hungry and I have to order some food – I hate eating out alone. Thanks to these friends I know who to blame when I get that bulge in my midsection – I don’t get any exercise yaar!!!
So what do we do about it? We blog !!!
PS. “I am legend” made me really appreciate the crowded Ranganathan Street of chennai.
6 comments:
I'd be really interested to know who those three guys were :) .. I have this feeling I know for sure who the second guy was ..lol
Nice write-up
-Avi
aah monk back in rollicking form...
after the scary story, this is a Dada-like comeback...
time u got a gf da... u will die to be left alone after tht ;)
-avi
fiction is inspired from real life. but since it is my blog it is not entirely fiction too.
-srk
glad u liked it da (as if we had a choice)...
and if only all these "get yourself a girlfriend" wishes could be traded like credit card points, i might have a harem of girlfriends... i feel like tcs... everyone i know wants a share of the company's profits, but no one wants to work there...
good post da...err...did I ever ask u to come for a play ? ;))
hirok - why the guilt? ;)
Gud one Monk...now i know why u said the movie was that scary...but finally u found someone to acompany u 4 the movie atleast from the group of Bored...
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