The Great Weekend.

...so after a hectic week, filled with analysis , reports , maket ups , market downs,client meetings and even more client meetings.... what one would look ahead for is a calm and peaceful weekend. So there would be no worry about the 7:04ST train which i need to catch, no worry to push a million people to get a little leg room, no worry to keep the three news papers nicely folded and held at various possible places a body can accomodate, no fear of somone picking my cellphone or purse while boarding the train and many such things.

So practically by the word "peaceful" i would mean this:
I wake up at around 9 or 10 in the morning. Have a nice cup of hot tea.
while having tea read all the hopeless things which were shortlisted to become the days news.
Read about why India lost again in the cricket, football, hockey and world literacy games.

Read a review of some pathetic movie eg Pyar impossible or Dulha Mil gaya..which got a highest of 2 stars from among the 4 newspapers i usually read, and feel happy about reading the review.If you see each review for such movies is excellently worded to help the general public understand that the 100 odd bucks spent in buying air bubble solution would be more worth more than the same money spent seeing the movie.

Then have a nice breakfast and burn the time doing just nothing.

There are times in life when you feel happy about doing just nothing.

Take a nice afternoon nap and take an evening stroll to meet old friends who are always happy and have more knowledge about "Fun-filled life" and "cricket" ....always.( All my friends have)

Then in the night see some movie , have dinner and off to bed.

This was what i had visualised till Friday. However this was what happened

I had to work over the weekend as well. So woke up at 6 as usual. Went to take bath and the electricity went off. So had to take bath in the cold water , which reduced the time i would have otherwise spent in taking bath ( old science funda- cold contracts, heat expands)

Gulped my break-fast,very fast and ran to catch the train. Now as usual you have this pathetic service of Central Railways which will sting you when you want it the least.
So it found Saturday to be the perfect day to play with commuters and my 7:04 was cancelled. I caught the next train which came overflowing with human beings and their sweat odour.
i was compelled to board this train and for no reason had to pick up fights with people whom i dont know.
The most striking thing was that i managed to get a place (For standing that is) and the person who was sitting in my nearby seat would in constant interval , see around in quick succession and tighten his grip over his bag. This would give an average person a feeling that this chap is going to get up now and you will get the seat. This he did till he reached CST station.(bloody pig)

Then i got into a more-than-capacity filled taxi as the 6th person.( no it was not a six seater- it was the usual Premeier Padmini model which was used as a SUV by the driver). These are time times when you feel, Is Raj correct?? ( i mean Thackrey)

Then i will skip many details in between but would like to say that i returned home at 4 in the afternoon, after which i was already too tired to even read the review of a hit movie. Review of Pyar impossible was really impossible to read.

Then came a relative of mine at 5, who was explaining how merrily he spent the morning cruising in his new Bajaj Pulsar 180CC bike. And how he saw 3 idiots again (4 time, he confessed) just to spend time with his friends.
By the time he had left, i had to rush for my music class and then i came back at 9.
All i remember after that was i had again gulped my dinner and rushed to bed so that i can wake up early to check and gather the Income tax declaration documents which was to be submitted on Monday.

Happy weekend to me.
Someone suggested the title to be put as "New year,,,new weekend" when i protested this was not a new weekend, this was kinda usual.