Greetings from Planet Muddle-D-Up

Phew… The journey back to Planet Gaia from Planet Muddle-D -Up has been rather bumpy, with a dozen obsolete broken-down worm-holes and multiple-eyed green globs having considerably slowed down the progress of my cyber-space swallowing spaceship “The Star Writer”…

A not-so-auspicious kick-off to the journey, with writer’s block, followed up by lethargy, a bedridden Mom, a tired me, some more lethargy, lack of internet access, MSRTC † and TMT †† buses †††, strenuous (!yes!) guitar sessions, a false alarm for approaching exams, playing musical rickshaws* at Vasant Vihar, lethargy again, not having access to a PC when I want to blog (a real nightmare!), a particularly nasty Math problem, more lethargy, remaining as drenched as a fish in a fishbowl kept in the shower in the rainforests of Congo, the Central Railways experience, lack of sound sleep**, cutting the red tape at the Exam Section***, topped off with lecturers who demand homework (gasp!). What a lovely bumpy ride. Competition for the rides offered by the “Imported from Mars” roads installed throughout Thane city. Enough to up-end any plans of blogging.

Anyway, enough excuses, for there is a task at hand… Call the nurse, pronto! This blog requires emergency CPR. Don’t give up, pump harder. Fresh oxygen required! Medical records of the blog show marked deterioration of its pulse and freshness. Bring on the shock-pad thingies. BZZT! BZZT! Pump more! BZZT! ………………………….

Phew… Blog revived! A gentle pulse is visible. Now that a little neural juice, free time and internet access are available, it should be fine. Check back for more soon!

NOTES:

† MSRTC: Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation

†† TMT: Thane Municipal Transport

††† Bus: Random tin-can on wheels. Engine compulsory.

* Musical Rickshaws: A quaint little addictive game fashioned b
y the residents on Gladys Alvares Road, wherein 50 people fall over each other to get into 1 rarely appearing rickety rick at the bus-stop. No rules, for the people, for rick-wallahs or for bus-drivers. Join the fun-filled action between 7 am and 10am, every single morning at any bus stop on the said road.

**Sound Sleep: (noun) (imaginary concept, except during summer vacations) Uninterrupted sleep with dreams in Technicolor lasting for more than 10 hours at one go). No alarm. No mosquitoes. No mom.

*** Also codenamed “Torture Chamber”.