Blog 2001: Home Alone

Have been living alone for the last three days at home.
Hmm...

First night
2 am
Start comp hoping to play some good loud music.
Spot ants in modem.
Red ants.
Crap.

Check 1: Can use insecticide... I know there's Pepsi in the fridge.
Check 2: Can use ant-killer-chalk... I know not where it is.
Check 3: Can use cockroack spray... I know it'll cause a fire.
Check 4: Can use kerosene.
:)

Bang modem a quarter million times to drop off the ants.
Use Johnsons ear buds dipped in kerosene to zap them.
Statutory Warning: be sure to use only one hand for kerosene; the other one's for changing radio channels.
Clean hand after an hour.
Wipe kerosene off radio remote's cover.
Clean hand again.
Housekeeping for dummies.
Go to sleep.
Wake up at 8.30 next morning.
Ants are back.
Crap.


Lunch time
Take out a cooked and frozen veg from the freezer.
Ice crystals formed all over it.
Put the container in a bowl of water.
Observe the ice melt.
Spot fungi-type shapes on the surface.
Green colored.
Yellow colored.
Ugh.
Throw veg.
Call up mom to deliver the bad news.
Statutory Warning: Be sure to call up mom before throwing the veg.
It wasnt fungi.
Just unmelted ice crystals taking the color of the underlying veg.
Crap.

Today
5.30 am
Ting tong
Ting tong
I'll spare you the dozen more.
One eye opens.
One ear too.
Ting tong.
Still processing sound in bheja.
Ting tong.
Oh crap!

Pick specs.
Peep into main gate's eye hole.
Eyes open by 1 mm.
Mouth open by 1 m.
Peeping.
Still peeping.
Face seems recognisable.
Open door.
"Yeh auntyji aisa so rahi hain ki... ghanti baja baja ke thak gaye. Phone kar dete hain ghar pe."
'Twas the next door neighbour.
I check watch.
No watch.
Check cell.
5.30 am.
Auntyji is probalbly justified in sleeping at this hour.
Probably.

Screw mornin walks.
He tempowalks to telephone.
I zombiewalk to sofa.
Scene ends.


5.30 pm.

Decide to have the second shower of the day.
:-)
In suspense thrillers, actors often go to bathe.
*hmmm*
Then they use a perfectly lathering soap.
*yawn*
Then they start humming.
*yawwwwwwwn*
Then just when they have soap all over then, there's a power cut.
*hmmmmmm*
Then the water supply is cut.
*interesting*
Then there's suspense music.
*Bloody interesting*
And then they hear footsteps.
*Ohhh...*
And then...
*Amen*

I too experienced it today.
Except the perfectly lathering soap part of it.
And the humming part.
And the cut water supply part.
And the suspense music.
And the footsteps.

Thrilling.
*Hmmm*
Err...
*Yawn*

Blogging after aeons.
Happens.