Finally umbrellas are off!!

Finally umbrellas are off!!

Well, I had been waiting long to write this up, but the super overwhelming monsoons this year in Mumbai made me wait for ages, I mean it's almost one step for winters to embrace the rest of the country!!.

If we draw a parallel between Mumbai and most of other cities subjected to the monsoon showers received annually, I guess mumbai wins it hands down. And even if it did lose , the margin would be as thin as a rake. Anything that is too mainstream never touches the city, while the other cities just have couple of months of monsoon, Mumbai goes on to have a pre-monsoon , monsoon and finally the retreating monsoon. And these rains make sure they made some news and keep the IMD officers on their toes everytime. These rains often gets playful with the IMDs , going on mass bunks on a red flgged day and coming out all guns blazing on less warned day. I guess they might have an eavesdropper in the IMD !!

When the pre-rains start coming in with a little drizzle, spreading the petrichor up and above, a sense of rejuvenation instills local mumbikars, they get drenched in the rains, kids on roads even dance (I ve seen this literally) welcoming the rains, the once with good slowmo camera sensors in their idiot sets rush on Face-insta-app to show their love for the pre-monsoon.Nobody seems to have any issue, so much love around, and why should we have a problem..we follow vasudhaiva kutumbakam , the rain is our guest and we have to take its best care. But the problem arises, when that guest seem to have no urgency to leave!!
Yes there have been movies making all others aware what the fundamental duties and responsibilities of a guest is, and the most important duty is to leave as early as possible, but the rains seem to have no DTH connection neither a Netflix subscription to watch them!!

Now as well the netizens are uploading stuffs on the Face-insta-app, but now it's a bit on the practical side not the emotional one. Roads transforming into rivers, trains getting stuck, shoes getting replaced by crocs, schools colleges getting closed , teasing a new office goer, who once studied in the same college.He doesn't have any option. Even his  sick leaves are scrutinized now.
And this goes on for MONTHS...all the love affection care rejuvenation fades off, leaving the Mumbaikars with local train rushes, traffic jam, water floating into homes in some areas ,trees going down, sun nowhere to be seen around, and with only umbrellas and raincoats to be the trusted friends and not the BMC!! Would have been better the other way around!!

But all said and done. I finally saw sunshine today, seemed to me like an old friend I only come across when I go home after 7-8 months! The site was ecstatic. I looked up said hi, it smiled back , we were gelling well in each others company, I went down to get hold of my idiot set and click a selfie with this old but much awaited friend of mine...
I went up stairs gleefully and as I was about to pose for the selfie, tiny little drops fell on my hands and shoulders. SHIT!!!

It started raining again!!

Monday's are awesome... If....

People working in shifts in 24*7 support projects would relate to this better.

Now if your case is similar to mine, then I suppose your life too is a monotonous one, where you struggle 29 days, just to be overwhelmed by a promising 5 digit on your salary slip on the 30th. You are working 5 days a week with 2 offs*(and these "offs" are subjected to market risks, please read the offer documents before your surrendering yourselves to any project). :-p

And if you happen to be one, contributing majorly in India's fall in the happiness index section. Then this one's for you.

Sometimes it so happens that the universe along with your project lead and team lead conspires against you to put you in shift on a Sunday, and in turn grants you an off on Monday.

No, there's not all the reason to be sad about it.. If you wanna be happy, if you wanna make up for you Sunday, follow this.

On this very Monday morning, go to the nearest bus stop, local station or auto stop, you ll see people running out of their lives while you just have to chill and see them getting late:-p

Men with half shirt tucked in half out, young guys running and cursing their job, some licking lemons just to get over the Sunday night hangover and ladies putting on heavy mascaras just to make sure eyes doesn't seem popping out of socket. All this happening while you are just sitting back on a becnh in the railway station, (obviously take a 5rs platform ticket) with a packet of Lays and Frooti making the world around you seem terribly confused and getting them a taste of jealousy.
Some might even ask you, bro hurry up train in coming, just reply them, "apun ka chutti hai aj" a striking shock wave will certainly hit that person, and it would take him two missed trains to get over what you just uttered!!

Some school kids mugging their notes as Monday's are always Class tests days. You just look at them, smile, think of your school days, when an old uncle would offer a smile at your tensed face increase your nervousness a level far,tables turned now, you have all the right and more importantly time, to smile at them with the same look of that old uncle..

Mondays are not as dreadful as they are doomed to be, just take an off, sacrifice a Sunday and enjoy the gloomy, tired, nervous faces of the world around running to fulfill the deadline, while you just sit back, relax, as dead-as-a-line!!