A Day In Life

A number of things happened today. These are things that don't happen often. Firstly, I had a successful day at office—some complicated problems regarding a new service got solved easily, and both of the training sessions ran smoothly. I am on the verge of one of the biggest launches of my life, and I am damn excited. I have decided to take a break from the extremely hectic life that I've been living for the last 6 months or so.

Thanks to the opposition party, we have a hartal tomorrow. What better reason to not show up at office? Especially when the boss is out of country! Although it's a critical time for me, I think I deserve this break. Or else, I might breakdown one of these days. Things have been really hectic lately; it's totally a different experience to work with hundred percent responsibilities on my own shoulder. Previously, I'd have bosses above me, who'd direct me and show me the way of doing things. Nowadays I have to figure out my own ways; it's tough, but fun indeed!

Anyways, that'd be enough talking about office for the time being. I came home at 6:30 PM today. I really didn't thought that I could get back that early; in fact I was planning to hang out at a friend's. Instead, I ended up landing at home and a friend came to visit me instead. We played LAN games till 10 PM. A cousin of mine also joined. I won two games straight, which is quite unusual. I consider myself as the worst player among my friends, and it made me feel great. Especially the victory over cousin Shomi was really sweet, as he's really a veteran player. However, in both occasions, I had the better character.

So exactly at 10 PM, the electricity went off. This is a regular routine now; as soon as the clock strikes 10, the electricity will take a break and immerse us in to darkness. Usually I am just at home when the current goes off, and it worsens my already bad mood. I attended regular chit chat sessions with my pals on the first three days of this week, and every time I felt irritated whilst coming back home. This is not only because of leaving an interesting session, but more of due to exhaustion and for not being prepared to live in an electricity-less environment. Although loadshedding is pretty much a normal phenomenon, I still can't get used to it. Perhaps I never will. It's just the fact that I can't run my PC and listen to songs just kills me. Moreover, the absence of electricity also means that the AC or the Fan cannot be operated, and the hot weather will make me swat heavily. All this annoys me a lot, and I'm usually in a very bad mood during these loadshedding incidents.

However, today was different. As soon as the electricity escaped, Shomi and Tushar went away, and mom called for dinner shortly. I had my dinner, took my brand new iPod Nano and went to the roof. The pleasant wind and the cloudy 10:30 PM sky really amazed me. Within the first 10 minutes of my arrival, I realized how much I missed walking on the roof. When I was younger, I used to spend a lot of time in the roof. During afternoons, we'd play cricket, football and other silly boyish games. Once all of my cousins were living in BD, and we'd play together. Sigh, now most of them are living abroad. I really miss them, I grew up with these folks and they will always have a special place in my heart.

It is so unfortunate that my beloved motherland can't provide enough jobs or study opportunities for its talented children.

I was listening to "Always With Me, Always With You" by Joe Satriani. It's a nice instrumental. I listened to that track countless times before, but today it sounded totally different. Maybe it was due to the nice and quiet environment, or maybe because I was in a good mood—the guitar plucking of Joe sounded absolutely divine. This track, along with "Rubina's Blue Sky Happiness" and Cryin' always brings me peace of mind. There's something peaceful and serene about these tunes; they always make me feel better. Then started "Motorcycle Driver" and I increased my pace of walking.

It was a great 40 minutes of walking on the roof. I killed two birds in one hit, I walked and my body felt better, and I also spent the boring time of loadshedding in a useful way. I am so delighted that It's 2:13 AM and I am still not going to bed.

I will go to the swimming pool early in the morning; in a bout 6 hours from now. So I better head off to bed.

I am not going to office in the morning, hell no!