The rain is working wonders on my mood. I feel alive, something I haven’t felt in a while though I’m in Pune and enjoying life per se.

Was to meet Rohan Dsa and catch up on how things are as well as review some Mithun movies (hehehehe). But since the rains are still going strong, my aunt has asked me to come back to her place and not go home ( I live near the river, and it just might flood). Maybe Hemir will also come this weekend, and then we will have a blast.

Man am missing Atlanta and GATech, thanks to Nammy. She called today morning, and we spoke for all of 4 minutes. But it was enough (for now… so don’t stop calling, Nammy *wink*). I was singing “Dil dooba, dil dooba, teri akhon mein meri mehbooba..” (translates to “I lost my heart as it drowned in your beautiful eyes“) after the call *wicked grin*. Nammy is leaving Atlanta and moving to Chicago for good. Now I will have to rope in Chicago on my visit to the US. New places, more fun!

That apart, today has been a long day. My uncle’s house in Mumbai (which was under very heavy rain for two days) was under 5 feet of water, and he lost almost everything he owned. He was close to tears on the phone. He is 60 years old, and an ex-army man. I’m glad everyone is safe though. And I’m proud of him, because though it took him 8 hours to walk from Santacruz to Andheri (usually a 10 minute ride), he did it without a hitch and also managed to save two children from being sucked into an open man hole (while being in 4 feet of water) and almost lost his own life in the process. He personifies courage in my eyes.

I too had a small loss in the incident, losing all my collected books which I had kept at his house. Hopefully one day I shall manage to get them all back one by one. But that’s a story for another day.

All in all I’m exhausted, both physically and mentally.

Today was amazing. It started with me getting a nice wake up call from Deepa at 8:00 in the morning, and we discussing the craziest of things including plunging… oh forget it. I don’t want to get into all that right now

Then I got cracking on trying to get to work on time (9:00 a.m.). Alas, it was not to be. I walk out of the flat to realise that it’s pouring cows and buffalos, and not a single rickshaw (a three wheeled taxi) was willing to take me to work! I waited for half an hour in the rain and got drenched to the bone. Finally out of desperation, I called up a colleague who promised to come get me.

We had no idea what we were in for, and actually took a multitude of roads in the hope that we would reach the office. But all the roads were flooded, and it was getting worse by the minute. A fifteen minute ride took us an hour and a half to make!

So we get to work around 11:30, and at 3:00 a warning is issued that there is a chance of flood! The offices were to be vacated and people were asked to go home. We got back home around 4:20.

And since then have been doing some really stupid things, which I will enlighten you about in the next post.

As Jess (ca_va_sans_dire), Jaro and others might be curious, I am putting up a photograph here, and will take some more tomorrow.

Raindrops