Saturday, April 29, 2006

Chennai, My Love!

Temperatures are soaring and humidity is unspeakable. You cannot go out for fear of sunstroke. you cannot stay in for humidity takes care of it in the shade. They say the sea breeze has set in and whatever breeze it is, is burning the skin off your bones.Time is moving as s l o w as thick molasses... so slow in fact that you want to scream. Its weekend and there is nothing much to do. you don't want to go to office coz this is the first day of rest after a long week, except there is no rest to be found. You are dripping and the water coming out of the tap ranges from HOT to lukewarm. There is nothing good in TV. The movies just don't seem to entice. You are too restless for magazines or books and your friends are not online or around.

Suddenly the office with its 24 hours AC seems like a good idea. But you look out of the window and the heat waves make you gulp and settle back down. There is no where to go and nothing to do. You feel cooped up and tempers rise. You are almost desperate to find some one to vent your temper, except they are also in the same boat as you.

You know you love this place, but suddenly can't think of why? You just want to run and maybe hide inside the fridge, ahh! but EB has cut off the electricity for maintenance work.

Sigh!!! Welcome to Summer in Chennai!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

ah! dont say that! i want to look forward to my trip there!
-P

Sanjana said...

hehehe!!! u mean u don't know what happens here year after year :-)...Anyways don't worry i am told this heat is coz of some depression somewhere in the bay of bengal :-)

Hazel said...

Yeah depression.. either brings a flood or a heatwave... *sigh* if it makes u feel any better./.. that boat yu were takling abt is heavily overloaded....

Mark IV S'nathan said...

Wish u would have been here!!! hehehe ;););)

Sanjana said...

Is the weather any better there, Mark? We are actually enjoying rain here for the last coupla days ... yessss!!!!