Hey listen, I have news

In what has otherwise been a rather slow week, punctuated by elongated moments of phenomenal boredom, I have come to realise a pattern that is slowly, and frighteningly, emerging.

Been trying to keep track of who's been calling me and for what reason.

I have discounted my friends in town who call to share their boredom and in the process not feel bored. I have also discounted my friends from out of town who call, only to make sure that I am as miserable as them.

The only calls I have been keeping track of are from people whom I least expected to call. Now, there have been a few such incidents in the past few days. This pattern hit me when I was still recovering from the shock of receiving calls from such people.

The pattern is quite interesting and like I said earlier, quite frightening.

The first fifteen seconds of the call is dedicated to exchanging completely redundant and useless pleasantries. Once the formality is out of the way, the real reason behind the call starts to surface.

It pretty much always starts with, "Hey listen, I have news." My conversations so far have ended with "November 24th", "June 6th", "By the end of this year", "April 30th", "At the latest by September" and "May 24th" while being punctuated with "Oh my god", "Thats unbelievable", "Congratulations", "I didn't know people are that dumb" and so on and so forth.

Before I type anything more, I need a couple of minutes to get my head straight.

I didn't take notice of my play list that's been playing since I started typing this post. The following is the list of songs I have been listening to:

1. Unarugil Varugayil - Kalloori
2. Un Siripinil - Pachai Kili Muthu Charam
3. Para Para Pattaampoochi - Tamizh M.A
4. Sun is shining - Bob Marley

When I hit Track 4, I had to stop and let that song pass. There is no recovering from the Marley effect. Which reminds me. Watched this movie called 10,000 B.C with couple of friends of mine. Ten minutes into the movie and this friend of mine is like, "Enna da edhu, ellarum Bob Marley machan mathere erukkaanga". No direct relevance here, but just came into my head.

Luckily the fifth song in my play list is Anomaly by BT. The Marley effect has passed.

From the manner in which the sub-conversation started and the manner in which it ended I am sure I don't need to really spell out what happened in between.

The news, I can handle. It's the number that has me a little off guard.

Enna kodumai Saravana edhu.