Random Thoughts

it seems my bride has really come with bad luck. ever since i have bought my bicycle, something always keeps happening and i have to postpone my trip to Gandhinagar. its gears got jammed on the very night i bought it, and i had to wait for 2 hours of rainfall and 7 days for the mechanic to come. the previous weekend i had really planned to go on the trip with my friend. we had planned that we will leave by 6 (in the morning, mind you) and return within 2 hours. now it does seem a very convenient schedule, if you don't know that we both have basically been converted into nocturnal animals by living 6 years of hostel life. our day starts with 5 in the evening and evening comes at 10. night "really" comes only at 4 in the morning, the time when other animals of the homo sapiens species (except some lucky ones like us, of course) wake up to a new day. so no wonder, we both kept sleeping on saturday and woke up only at 10 when the sun was shining with its full merciless strength.

we then decided to go on sunday morning, and this time we both decided that we both will sleep by 12 so that we could wake up at 6. but alas !!! again fate had planned something else for us. we had a daaru party in our dorm on that day with our fachchas. we had bought "Fuel", the premium version of Smirnoff, for this day. though it costs over 700 bucks a bottle, we somehow managed to get it for 550 bucks only. now vodka is something that I can't resist. i sincerely believe that there are only 2 things in life to die for: U2 and Smirnoff. so that day there was no question at all for me to refrain from that. more so, when we had bought it at a discount of more than 25%. my friend doesn't drink so much, but that day he also liked the new brand, and had some 3-4 pegs which usually is more than enough for him. finally we both went to sleep, but only at 4.

but i got the biggest shock when the next day, or rather after 2 hours, he came to room and woke me up. it was 6 in the morning, and he was there in full mood to go on the trip. i also was sober at that time, but wasn't active enough to ride for 30 kms. so i declined and went back to sleep. so, in effect, once again our weekend plain were unfulfilled.

a few days later i found that my friend is suffering with fever. why ? because he had actually went for cycling that day and cycled for 8-9 kms.

it may seem very trivial, no major incident. but think about it. when you have alcohol, it is there is ur liver for as much as 12 hours and there is no way you can do any intense physical activity even if you are completely sober. i myself have been running for 3 yrs now and even then i have difficulty in running if i had taken vodka the previous day. the cycling must have put a lot of strain on him. also, less sleep was another reason. though i am sure 1 yr of gruelling IIMA education has tought him how to live without sleep, but still lack of sleep is harmful.

so no wonder, he caught fever. now he is better, but still in no condition to ride a cycle. i don't think even on this weekend we will be able to go on the trip, but then, hope is the opium of life.....isn't it ?....