Those 3 tiresome months..."Wake up Pradeep, its already 10", it was my mom's voice from the kitchen. Immediately grabbed my mobile from de bed to chk de time, ya she was rite, it was 5 mins passed 10 in de morning. Pulled out a towel nd ran to de bathroom to take a quick bath to get ready for de company(internship). It striked me very late dat my internship had already ended de day before. So, I was free till I get a call from de company to officially be in a corporate world. Immediately I quit de idea of taking a bath, came out took de newspaper nd started browsing it. "Cum, drop me in de college", a voice disturbed me, it was my sister who was getting ready for her college. "Wat, me dropping you in college??" I sounded quite harsh, "yes ofcourse! you dont hav any other work, rite??" her counter was acceptable nd I was unanswerable. Silently put-on a shirt nd took her to de college in my bike. The college road was flocked with colourful girls with salwar, jeans, skirts, shirts, sleeveless nd to be honest I hardly found any bad looking female in those gangs. Actually, not a bad idea of dropping her to college daily. I wondered why werent girls dis pretty in my coll, atleast I wuld hav been regular to college. Thinking of my curse, I almost hit a car infront of me. "are u alrite?" asked my sister from behind, "yea absolutely!!!" I said, even though I was not. I dropped her nd returned home, halfheartedly.
Came back home nd switched on my PC to check my mail, nd asusual found it empty. Browsed for a couple of hrs. "have your lunch" mom called, sat for a mid day meal at home, just thought when was de last time I had my mid day meal on a week day at home, anyway my database failed to retrieve any match for my query. Once again, was back with my PC, nd whiled away the entire day with nothin to do constructive. Days passes, nd suddenly wen I luked back it was end of june nd 1 month gone at home. Enjoyed de initial days, but as days passed by de joblessness accumulated hell a lot of pain in me.
Watching movies turned from fantasy to compulsion for me during these days. I had to watch all gud for nothin movies from de internet nd few amazingly stupendous movies. Few of them in the positive list are The dark knight, donnie brasco, babel, the happening, dejavu, jaane tu ya jaanena, dasavatharam, eastern promises nd good fellas. I never thought in my life dat books wuld turn me towards them, again started them with mere compulsion but soon was obsessed by them.
It was my tenth standard, wen I last read a book. De fantasy world books which I chose those young days never fascinated me, nd from there-on I was against books. May be dis time the books dat I picked up were too gud nd carried me away. Sidney Sheldon was one
author whom I had been hearing from childhood, so selected his books. His narrations in
Tell me your dreams,
are you afraid of the dark,
if tomorrow comes and
memories of midnight were
agile nd totally ingenious, inspite of being quite lengthy. Reading those books made me loss sleep nd adding to my books list were the
five point someone nd
3 mistakes of my life by Chetan Bhagat. I had to close down novels of Robert deLudlum nd Poul Anderson half way through, they tend to increase my boredom to de greatest extend.
All of a sudden after college days, 24 hrs seems to be too long for me. I had to do all sorts of things to burn my time untill I got an official call from my company. Was very eagerly waiting for the call till mid-july but lost all hopes of getting it any sooner. Couple of trips to bangalore might hav eaten a weeks time, but dat too didnt help me much. Chennai has always been my place of joy from my mid-teenage yrs, but these days I didnt find much places to roam or any company to roam with. Had very few friends in chn, who wuld call up to roam to de usual hang outs, enjoyed their company. Going for films in solitude had becum an habit. Although I didnt enjoy roaming about lonely in de past, dat was not a pain for me anymore. Considering my lack of Vitamin M
;) I had to stay home for de most of my time. Thanks for de telecast of the Olympic games nd cricket matches which favoured me for few days.
Days passed very slowly, pushed it hard nd it was mid-August. After a long time I had been at home for all auspicious days, mom was quite happy. To be candid enough dis was de most longest vacation for me in my life. Actually "most longest" wuld be a normal superlative description for dis vacation of mine. People around me always said de time between end of coll nd joining a company needs to be enjoyed to de core, yet 3 months was too big a time span. I know I wont get any more of such hols, but dat was not a reasonable answer to enjoy it.
Finally my prayers were answered, de day arrived nd I was quite happy nd cheered to receive a call letter from my company on de 1st of september nd I had to join de firm by mid-sep. Now my prayers start for gaining a base branch of my wish.
hehe :D :D Prayers of human never end nd I am obviously not an exception.
