3 hours. 3 HOURS. 3 hours of mind-numbing boredom, on Thursday evening. Why? 'cause some moron (No offense Hobbes)"accidentally" cut the power supply to the whole block where I live, coupled with the heaviest rains to hit us in over a year. Can't go outside, nothing to do inside. Except play on my trusty keyboard... with very, very low powered batteries, enough to run for 10 minutes. I learnt a valuable lesson - 10 minutes of excellent(:D) music is nowhere near enough to overpower 3 hours of heavy rains and electricity.
There was no electricity for 5 hours. But I was bored only for 3. I discovered a new method of venting my boredom. The almighty mobile phone. A Nokia 6610 is not great, but it's good enough. I had never played any game on the 6610 for more than 5 minutes, and yesterday was no better. Maybe it's time I bought a Nokia N-gage. But, no matter what the model, SMS is ever present. Being an RPG Prepaid customer also gave me the privilege of free SMSes. In those 2 hours, I achieved notoriety amongst cell phone spammers. I forwarded nearly every funny/irritating message I had received to everyone on my phone book. I have only one regret... not being able to see the look on the face of the guy I spammed most.
Now that we have full power and dry lands, I have to convince my neighbour to give me his copy of Splinter Cell... that game is phenomenal!
Wow. You slept through the everyday sweltering hot Chennai night without electricity. I'm flabbergasted.
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