It was yet another
exhausting day in office. Why does management keeps these boring meeting just
when you are about to leave for home. But I wasn’t keen on going home either as
my wife wasn’t there in Town. As expected it was a Boring, Loooooong &
Non-fruitful (one of the many corporate words I recently learned)
meeting.
I was out for home at 9:00
pm from office. Actually
I like when it’s late as the roads are Lonely, which are totally pack house in
the “Office time”. Getting ready procedure for home is like: Mobile-Check,
Jacket-Check, I-pod check (Favorite play
list-Check). And the journey begins.
It’s really amazing,
the ride on empty road with your favorite songs, this is the time when you
actually hear the lyrics. When you are at peace we feel time flies by &
other way round. The fact is Time always maintains its pace; it’s just the
dilemma heart over head.
As it was late &
assuming that my “Mess” in my apartment won’t entertain me, I choose to have
Chinese stuff for take-away on the journey home.
First thing I do as I
reach home was to call my family back home. It’s a daily routine since the day
I am away from home for Studies or Job (Frankly speaking this is the best time
of the day just to hear the voice of your dear ones).
Finished with the call
& lunch, the next thing I always tend to do is to surf all the channels (So many of them these days).
After a while I remembered that it was an EPL (English premier league)
night & how can I miss it. Manchester
My irony was, I always
plan to sleep early so that I can wake up early for some exercise but it never
happens as planned (That’s
Life) and here I was sleeping
yet again late credits to office meeting & Football.
Even though there was
a Bed in hall, I always use to sleep in bedroom on the floor as I had a spare
mattress. Just lie down & surrender yourself to the worlds of dream but the
happening thing “Whatsapp”, just when you are about to sleep, messages start to
hamper your night. (From
N number of groups, so many of them; School mates, College mates, Batch mates,
Class mates, Colony friends, Company colleagues etc etc etc.)
My day usually ends
with a Long good night chat with my Wife & Friends.Mobile
That was the end as I
activate the alarms. A good night Sleep.
I have habit
to wake up just 2-3 minutes before the alarms ruin my sleep; but
this wasn't the case that day.
I was little awake by
the sound of Water. I was back to normal position (I searched for my mobile
near the pillow, but it wasn’t there. I again went to sleep.
After a while when I
was just rolling on the Bed, my hand went over the bed & I felt Cold so Cold;
I was awake in a Shock. I couldn’t believe my senses. “THERE WAS WATER ALL OVER THE PLACE.”
Unable to believe what
has happened I rubbed my eyes twice but the scene dint changed. I was expecting
it’s just a Bad dream but had already arrived in my home.
Sweet & Simple : Not a Smart Phone Enthusiastic
Again to my weirdest imagination I thought is
there a flood and half the city has drowned as I was on the 3rd Floor of the building. I opened the
bedroom door & the water spilled inside. Just imagine the scene where
is handcuffed in a room & unlocks the door, remember the water pouring
inside, it was a similar case. I saw my mobile just beside my mattress
totally drowned in water. I grabbed it in a rush but it was all messed up.
First thing I did was removed the battery, SIM & placed it in window safe from water.
The scene in Hall was
horrifying. Water was upto the threshold of Flat. I opened the main entrance
door in fear that water was pouring from outside But it was total dry outside
not a single drop of water. I closed the door immediately as someone might pop
inside.
I Wonder where the
water came from I went inside. In the bathroom I saw and to my surprise this
was the place which was making the room a lake.
There is a 500 liter overhead water tank in Bathroom which also has a
Overflow arrangement through a pipe directly over the nhani trap. Society
watchman usually starts the water flow, early morning just for half an hour. So
I used to wake up early alternate days to start the valve to fill up the
overhead tank.
All I can do was to
curse myself to have kept the valve open last night (Why to spoil
morning sleep for filling up the tank philosophy).
I closed the valve
& went outside for flood management. I had a smile when in hall because the
“floaters” which we use in home were actually “floating” on the exact opposite
corner than the place where they belong. They had made there first “floating
journey” from one to other corner of hall.
Kitchen was no
different scene but credits goes to my wife as nothing was lying on floor;
everything was either on Kitchen platform or in the shelves.
I remembered my
mattress & rushed inside. It was almost submerged under water & the
place where I was sleeping was the only dry place on it. I lifted it & went
outside embarrassingly, to keep in the common stair area for soaking. But as it
was early morning it was quite with no one in the vicinity. I went inside to
check the time; it was 6:30
AM in the morning.
I thought of calling
my sister but my mobile was totally messed up. I sat on the bed in hall
thinking what to do next. After a moment I had a solution which looked feasible
right now. I went in bathroom to grab the water bucket. I was unable to find a
bigger cloth in kitchen so that I can use is to collect water on the floor
& rinse it in bucket. Wondering what to do I went in the bedroom to see if
I can find something here. I saw my cloths hanging on the back of the door. I
had to sacrifice my 2 T-shirts for rinsing the water in bucket. It was
difficult thing. But I managed to find 2 such T-shirts for the flood management
purpose.
Now here I was at 6:45
AM with 2 t-shirts &
a water bucket and 3 rooms filled with water.
I was just putting 1
t-shirt on the left picking it up rinsing water in bucket then picking other
wet t-shirt on the right picking it up rinsing water in bucket.
All I was doing for
the next 2+ hours was:
Left-Right-
Left-Right- Left-Right- Left-Right- empty Bucket in Toilet- Repeat
Exactly at 9:00
am I was finally done
with the flood rescue mission. I put the ceiling fans in both rooms on full
speed & had a sigh of relief.
For the first time I
dint enjoyed my bath as I was in water for more than 2 hours. I got ready &
first person I visited out from home was the “Barber”. I went & used his
hair dryer to get rid of the water from my mobile. It was total dry in 2-3
minutes. My mobile spent its whole day in the window in office for a Sun bath.
It was an exhausted
day and I dint had energy to walk around because of the sit-up exercise I did
in the morning.
Back home early from
office as I opened the Door I was very happy coz rooms looked extremely fresh
& clean. I checked each & every room for wet areas but the Ceiling fans
had done there work. The only thing which was wet was the Mattress lying
outside. Looking at it I knew it will spend at least a week outside the flat.
Informing my family
how the day started made them laugh. The only thing I heard lot was its good
that this happened so my wife doesn’t have to clean the home at least for a
month from now.
It was an experience
which I would never like to have again. From then onwards, I sincerely check
all the water taps (Just in
case).
Just the thing I learned was “The treasure of life,
learning.”
It was yet another
exhausting day in office. Why does management keeps these boring meeting just
when you are about to leave for home. But I wasn’t keen on going home either as
my wife wasn’t there in Town. As expected it was a Boring, Loooooong &
Non-fruitful (one of the many corporate words I recently learned)
meeting.
I was out for home at 9:00
pm from office. Actually
I like when it’s late as the roads are Lonely, which are totally pack house in
the “Office time”. Getting ready procedure for home is like: Mobile-Check,
Jacket-Check, I-pod check (Favorite play
list-Check). And the journey begins.
It’s really amazing,
the ride on empty road with your favorite songs, this is the time when you
actually hear the lyrics. When you are at peace we feel time flies by &
other way round. The fact is Time always maintains its pace; it’s just the
dilemma heart over head.
As it was late &
assuming that my “Mess” in my apartment won’t entertain me, I choose to have
Chinese stuff for take-away on the journey home.
First thing I do as I
reach home was to call my family back home. It’s a daily routine since the day
I am away from home for Studies or Job (Frankly speaking this is the best time
of the day just to hear the voice of your dear ones).
Finished with the call
& lunch, the next thing I always tend to do is to surf all the channels (So many of them these days).
After a while I remembered that it was an EPL (English premier league)
night & how can I miss it. Manchester
My irony was, I always
plan to sleep early so that I can wake up early for some exercise but it never
happens as planned (That’s
Life) and here I was sleeping
yet again late credits to office meeting & Football.
Even though there was
a Bed in hall, I always use to sleep in bedroom on the floor as I had a spare
mattress. Just lie down & surrender yourself to the worlds of dream but the
happening thing “Whatsapp”, just when you are about to sleep, messages start to
hamper your night. (From
N number of groups, so many of them; School mates, College mates, Batch mates,
Class mates, Colony friends, Company colleagues etc etc etc.)
My day usually ends
with a Long good night chat with my Wife & Friends.
ALARM: It’s the most
important & frequently used application in my Mobile
That was the end as I
activate the alarms. A good night Sleep.
I have habit
to wake up just 2-3 minutes before the alarms ruin my sleep; but
this wasn't the case that day.
I was on the mattress sleeping on my stomach.
I was little awake by
the sound of Water. I was back to normal position (I searched for my mobile
near the pillow, but it wasn’t there. I again went to sleep.
After a while when I
was just rolling on the Bed, my hand went over the bed & I felt Cold so Cold;
I was awake in a Shock. I couldn’t believe my senses. “THERE WAS WATER ALL OVER THE PLACE.”
Unable to believe what
has happened I rubbed my eyes twice but the scene dint changed. I was expecting
it’s just a Bad dream but had already arrived in my home.
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| Sweet & Simple : Not a Smart Phone Enthusiastic |
The scene in Hall was horrifying. Water was upto the threshold of Flat. I opened the main entrance door in fear that water was pouring from outside But it was total dry outside not a single drop of water. I closed the door immediately as someone might pop inside.
I Wonder where the water came from I went inside. In the bathroom I saw and to my surprise this was the place which was making the room a lake.
There is a 500 liter overhead water tank in Bathroom which also has a Overflow arrangement through a pipe directly over the nhani trap. Society watchman usually starts the water flow, early morning just for half an hour. So I used to wake up early alternate days to start the valve to fill up the overhead tank.
All I can do was to
curse myself to have kept the valve open last night (Why to spoil
morning sleep for filling up the tank philosophy).
Somehow water bucket
had skid over the Nhani trap & water from the overhead tank kept on
pouring. The overflow was unable to dispense, so it was pouring all the way out
from Bathroom to corridor, to bedroom, to kitchen, to hall up to the threshold
level of hall.
I closed the valve
& went outside for flood management. I had a smile when in hall because the
“floaters” which we use in home were actually “floating” on the exact opposite
corner than the place where they belong. They had made there first “floating
journey” from one to other corner of hall.
Kitchen was no
different scene but credits goes to my wife as nothing was lying on floor;
everything was either on Kitchen platform or in the shelves.
I remembered my
mattress & rushed inside. It was almost submerged under water & the
place where I was sleeping was the only dry place on it. I lifted it & went
outside embarrassingly, to keep in the common stair area for soaking. But as it
was early morning it was quite with no one in the vicinity. I went inside to
check the time; it was 6:30
AM in the morning.
I thought of calling
my sister but my mobile was totally messed up. I sat on the bed in hall
thinking what to do next. After a moment I had a solution which looked feasible
right now. I went in bathroom to grab the water bucket. I was unable to find a
bigger cloth in kitchen so that I can use is to collect water on the floor
& rinse it in bucket. Wondering what to do I went in the bedroom to see if
I can find something here. I saw my cloths hanging on the back of the door. I
had to sacrifice my 2 T-shirts for rinsing the water in bucket. It was
difficult thing. But I managed to find 2 such T-shirts for the flood management
purpose.
Now here I was at 6:45
AM with 2 t-shirts &
a water bucket and 3 rooms filled with water.
I was just putting 1
t-shirt on the left picking it up rinsing water in bucket then picking other
wet t-shirt on the right picking it up rinsing water in bucket.
All I was doing for
the next 2+ hours was:
Left-Right-
Left-Right- Left-Right- Left-Right- empty Bucket in Toilet- Repeat
Left-Right-
Left-Right- Left-Right- Left-Right- empty Bucket in Toilet- Repeat
Left-Right-
Left-Right- Left-Right- Left-Right- empty Bucket in Toilet- Repeat
Exactly at 9:00
am I was finally done
with the flood rescue mission. I put the ceiling fans in both rooms on full
speed & had a sigh of relief.
My hands were wrinkled
as if they were of 80 year old man.
For the first time I
dint enjoyed my bath as I was in water for more than 2 hours. I got ready &
first person I visited out from home was the “Barber”. I went & used his
hair dryer to get rid of the water from my mobile. It was total dry in 2-3
minutes. My mobile spent its whole day in the window in office for a Sun bath.
It was an exhausted
day and I dint had energy to walk around because of the sit-up exercise I did
in the morning.
I switched ON my
mobile while leaving the office in the evening. The Nokia startup sound gave me
such a relief. I checked all the buttons & all the functions & to the
surprise they were sound & working properly One of the good things about
not using a Smart phone “its user & damage friendly”.
Back home early from
office as I opened the Door I was very happy coz rooms looked extremely fresh
& clean. I checked each & every room for wet areas but the Ceiling fans
had done there work. The only thing which was wet was the Mattress lying
outside. Looking at it I knew it will spend at least a week outside the flat.
Informing my family
how the day started made them laugh. The only thing I heard lot was its good
that this happened so my wife doesn’t have to clean the home at least for a
month from now.
It was an experience
which I would never like to have again. From then onwards, I sincerely check
all the water taps (Just in
case).
Just the thing I learned was “The treasure of life,
learning.”
