Phew.. Long gap. I would say I have been keeping busy, most wont believe that! I mean this is the place where I force apparently ‘funny’ posts almost daily! That is enough evidence.

5 days and I leave India back to Arizona. I remember that ‘eye-sobber’ post when I left Arizona for India. This is nothing of that sorts. This is much worse. But lets not make it a pity-me-party fest! Now that my sister is gone, and time to go is much nearer, all I needed was a bad birthday. Top that with a loss of another friend from my ‘count on the fingers of one hand’ number. Gee, that sounds really pathetic! Soon I will lose all my fingers (Hey I mean the count not my fingers really!) and will be a lonely soul left to fend for himself (erm., don’t imagine me on the streets!)

Well it is always entertaining to read such stories because they seem funny always! So yesterday I learn I lose this person. (Probably there is some problem with me, that I have always known! What that is , don’t ask me!) and so I plan to go to bed early, but sleep doesn’t come so easy. So I sleep at 5 a.m (or sometime later,’ coz that was the time I last saw the clock). But blundering me had asked mom to wake me up at 10 a.m (that is pretty early if you wake up at 2 p.m!) today. But it was 2 a.m when I told her this ( No I didn’t wake her up to tell this, she jus happened to be coughing in sleep when I squeezed in the request!). ( Re read this part, mighty confusing with a lot of times!). The last thought when I dozed off was, I hope mom’s  ’waking-my-dozing-son- in -vain’ attempts fail like they always do.

Next day 10 a.m. Mom was on the dot. Today she is commited to the request made by me, with ultimate determination. The usual wake up call (That’s just calling two times ‘XYZ get up. You told me to wake you up!’  in the sweetest of motherly voices) It didn’t work like always. Curtains thrown open, bringing in annoying chirps of thousands of birds, flodding sunlight and shouting vegetable vendors. And she forgets to close the door. The television with extra bass and surround on feature (both of which are turned on by her today forgetfully and regrettably!) blares outside and the bump-thump-thumpety thump of some irritating tamil film music from a 24 hour music channel fills my ears. The noise is much more irritating when you try to sleep. Soon my mind is uncontrollably trying to figure out what song it is.

I discovered that pillows covering your ears just enhance the bass sound, and also filter in the much reduced vocal audio. So I finally guess the song, and my mind plays it along. Then miraculously power fails. Ah! Then I hear swich swash, the annoyingly loud filling of water from the bathroom where mother is cleaning it.

This is it! I cleanch my teeth, switch off the fan and start the day!