While cyclone Alia continues to wreck havoc across the Bay of Bengal border, taking hundreds of lives in the last week, Mumbai and the rest of Maharashtra is left in waiting for a monsoon that was supposed to start about a fortnight ago.
Because, seriously, the heat is freaking KILLING ME.
The Meteorological Department of India (which is never right, by the way) claims this extended summer will last till mid-June or so, and we should all just accept it and be cool about it.
Be cool about it? Really? Is this the appropriate time for word-play jokes?
Let's review how my last three weeks have gone by with the personification of my inner voice, yeah?
May 10th - Damn, it's hot. Time to rev up the air conditioner for a couple of hours.
May 12th - Whoa! A Rs.10,000 electricity bill... Either the board is playing a cruel joke, or global warming is.
May 15th - A couple of week left... A couple of weeks left...
May 17th - Looking up rain dances online.
May 18th - Application of said rain dance.
May 18th (a little later) - EPIC FAIL.
May 19th - Tending to blisters on feet caused by dancing like a lunatic on the concrete flooring of my colony's parking lot, at noon.
May 22th - The onset of pre-monsoon showers. And by that I mean a sprinkling of water that give us immense hope but is actually a big middle finger by Earth in response to human-triggered increased carbon emissions.
May 24th - Meteorological Dept. asks us to wait till June...........................
May 26th - The elections are done with, right? Who cares if civilians don't get 24/7 electricity supply anymore?
May 27th - Apparently it's raining in Bangalore... *books tickets*
May 28th - Hanging out in malls in sheer desperation.
May 28th - (fifteen minutes later) Barely survived the 10 minute autorickshaw ride from home to the mall.
May 29th - The sun shines with a new vengeance (could also be the name of a Jackie Chan movie).
May 30th - Parched throats. Dry tongues. Burning eyes (contact lens don't help). An anvil on my head. Every pore on my body on fire (and not in a good way). This sucks.
Today - OMFG I NEED RAIN!!!!1!!
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Saturday, May 30, 2009
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3 comments:
i know. can't it just rain already??????
fuck global warming
The Met Dept. is potentially unscrewable. Millions have tried, over many damn years, yet they continue to feed us with absolutely crappy predictions. :)
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