Afterlife....

looong time... to busy to write... but finally life catches up with you... so here i am back in front of the computer to write the next episode of my life... and as always there is someone who is there to provide me the initial push and the memory.. well this time it was a call from a private number.. which by the way i thought was the CEO of GOOGLE calling me for some kind of business proposal.. but unfortunately and thankfully it was my old classmate Roshan.. no no no.. dont worry he is not the new CEO of GOOGLE.. he was calling me from Rome.. so the private number... thinking about him.. there are a lot of episodes we shared in our life.. there are a few which stands out exceptionally well... REALLY WELL.. heh heh heh....

it was when we were in out 12th grade.. we had a choice of 3 timings to go home after school.. at 3pm 4pm and 5pm.. being 'US' we would always opt for the 5pm bus.. even though this bus was meant for the company employees to go home, we never faced any issues.. mainly coz i think the employees could use some laughter and fun after their hard day at work.. and we were the ones to give them that...

so that fateful day (fateful coz i was destined to carry this memory for the rest of my life and this took away a few Kb of the memory i could have used to learn a new theory) we (me, aswin, aaron, roshan, graison, renu, divya etc etc) were sitting in the bus.. the bus was parked in front of the company medical center.. and it was slowly starting to get crowded with the company employees.. roshan was in the seat behind me narrating a film story.. well i should say that he is a darn good story teller.. with only a small flaw.. which being that even though the title of the stories are same the contents are never same... memory issues?? heh heh heh... he was telling the story of the film 'THE OMEN'.. unfortunately the content was not that of the film.. so since it was a new 'film' we all were fully into it.. even the employees... so he was telling..


ROSHAN: so one day morning they all got up... they went into the room to look for her.. but suddenly...... they found out that she was missine...

OTHERS: oooooohhh....... uh-huh...

ROSHAN: so they knew something was wrong.. so they all went looking for her to the nearby sanitary..... and...

OTHERS: huh???? (confusion sets in...)..

ME: errrr.. rosha.. what did you say right now???

ROSHAN: what?? they went to the sanitary...

OTHERS: (chattering with each other.. more confusion)... errr....

ME: what do you mean they went to the sanitary???

ROSHAN: why are you disturbing.. let me complete the story.. cant you understand anything...

now that is a offending remark (asking if i can understand anything... ) hey wanna have a bout on quantum physics?? on string theory??? huh??

ME: hey i am serious.. i.. err... we . did not understand what you just said...

ROSHAN: what is wrong with you all??? and you especially??? are you not a christian?? and still you dont know???

ok.. this was serious!!! now i should have studied the bible too.. where was sanitary mentioned there??? what has bathroom equipments to do with the bible and god??? hmmm.. this could be interesting...

ME: da i am sorry.. but you know na that i dont go to the church.. i am really sorry.. i will start going. but can you clarify this just this once?? please??

looks of genuine despair on everyone's face must have melted his heart.... so he decided to explain it us low-lives...

ROSHAN: da... i'll say.. but shame on you.. you being a christian.. anyway... let me ask you..

holding our breath....

ROSHAN:where do you bury your people when they die?? huh??


OH.... MY.... GOD.... suffocation kicked in... everyone one was so shocked that no one could even laugh or breath... or blink.. or think..... and roshan still had no idea whatsoever why we all had that look on our face..

and when we started laughing even the driver came over to ask us what was going on.. coz he had never seen such a sponataneous and huge outburst anywhere.. he knew it had to be good... we were laughing for like the next 30 minutes... it was contagious...

and since friends are meant to be supportive we did remain quite and observed a silent prayer at all the hardware stores on the way home... every single day....

and ya.. thanks to him we dont have pretty much any doubt on how afterlife is gonna be like...