The weekend that was not meant to be eventful
Stress at work has gone exponentially higher. And I hardly find time to notice anything to update my journal. And this weekend, I decided to cool it off by not venturing out. I somehow manged to keep myself indoors whole of saturday except when Bro and I decided to get some hardware for my laptop from Computer Warehouse. After some coffee at Indian Coffee House, we headed back straight home. Surprisingly, Coffee is good for headache, but everytime I have Coffee at ICH, I end up getting a headache. The place has poor ventilation.
So I wake up early Sunday morning, and decide to make chutney for the Idlis. What happens is that the power goes ON and OFF every 5 mins. This continues for 1 hour, when I give up on the mixer for the chutney, and decide to take a cold water bath. Oh yes, Murphy wins, the moment I step out of the bathroom, the power returns. Meanwhile Bro is up and he notices that somebody has hacked into the home network.
So when I login to my laptop, I realized that somebody has got into the configuration and I had lost the whole system control. Well, I was late to church, so I entrust the laptop to my brother's care and head to church. At church, its the prize distribution for kids for their participation at the events which were part of the sunday classes. Well, I was drained, but being their teacher, I thought, I had to be present when my kids receive their prizes. What followed was a boring address lecture by the old priest to the kids. He began saying by how we were poor because we didnt have the infrastructure for sunday class rooms, and the kids were not very pleased by being called poor, so they corrected him that it was the church which was poor and not them. Then he went on with something I hated, He was advocating the kids to join ministry and nobody volunteered, not even to be polite ! And when he picked out a 3rd class gal and asked her, why she wouldnt want to become a nun, she replied " Nah, I want to get married to this guy in my school " :) Well, I guess, I want to write a separate post on this with my thoughts.
I return home and I get the news from my brother that it was something serious with the laptop. I however had the newly purchased hardware to take the backup before my laptop hit coma. At 3 pm, things got a little better. And i realized, I had not got the lunch ready, and there was no water either. However the water problem was restored, and we had lunch by 4 pm and decided to format the system later. Though things look safe and normal, I dont feel like using my laptop, its like living in a house with a killer !! I better get the format thing done soon. By evening, I get calls from my friends asking me what I was upto. I realized it was 2 days, I was away from my world of friends. What a loafer I might have been, people get worried when they dont see me on weekends !!