After a month of visit in chennai, our servant returned last week back. It was like a onsite visit for her. she is enrolled in the BSNL sweeper position, took two months leave and planned to take a two months onsite vacation at our house.. but due to the extreme hot conditions in chennai she cut short her vacation to chennai. so i am in hunt for another malayalam knowing servant to look after lachu..
last week was tough.. it really showed my lack of common sense and how i respond to situations.. i dropped our ex-servant to Chennai Central Railway station.. and i was dreaming ( means planning) on how to live life without servant.. my speed went down below 35km/hr and still i was in 5th gear with full A/C.. I heard jerking. I lowered the gears, switched off the A/C. The jerking continued. I stopped the vehicle. I wanted to go oustide and check what is happening ? why is my vehicle jerking ? I was worried.. Matiz these many years have not produced much problems for me.. and now.. which new vehicle shuld i buy ? has the engine troubles started ? what will happen if this was happening when i was moving with my family.. shek.. i continued driving slowly for another 1 km slowly hoping to reach home.. The jerking sound increased.. i was fed up.. I got aggressive.. i thought the whole world was against me, and i was fighting it lonely. That made my adrenaline rise. I started driving in 60km/hr with all the jerking.. i may have drived more than a km or two. Then i had to stop at a signal where an auto driver shouted at me. He said in tamil, which i understood perfectly. He asked me why i am driving with punctured tyres. Bless me. Stupid me. I was driving with punctured tyre, not realising, and i was speeding up. How could i ?
Tamura san used to say "Better late, than never".. My new tyre and tube is almost finished as i drove all the way with punctured tyre.. but better late than never.. only my tube and tyre is gone.. i did not even look at the tyre and tube. what is lost is lost. i shuld build upon what i have .. i looked at the steel rim - seems it is still intact. i looked for steppini and jacky.. fortunately they were there. I never fill air in steppini, but still it is not empty. I looked at my mobile, as usual battery charge is at peak low. I thought for a while how to remove the tyres - whether its clockwise or anticlockwise. after rewinding the numerous times i have changed tyres in matiz, i finally got the direction - its anticlockwise. But i could not unbolt as it was super-tight. i was feeling tired. i called shameer and requested him to come. Then i saw a police man coming to me - i realized i have not put on the park lights. i did that immedaitely and walked to him. he said, he came to ask me to put on the lights, he was very friendly. We chatted there. Meanwhile i was calling shameer every 5 minutes asking their status.. luckily my mobile charge survived.. Finally shameer and binoj arrived and we changed tyres. but i was really ashamed of myself..
The next day... lachu was eager to go out. i asked her to wear her shoes.. but i could get only a pair of chappals which could not be tied properly.. sreedevi asked me to tigh i properly.. i ignored.. then she went down the stairs.. i was looking for my woodlands chappel so that i can follow her.. but in the meantime we heard a sound and her cry.. she fell down from the stairs.. perhaps she may have fallen from the height of three or four steps.. anyway that helped me to leave the tyre issue and focus on more important issue..
and next day in office.. i had a very important assignment.. i had to load a new image and test and give results back within hours.. customer has put a zip file and tgz file ( same contents).. i decided to take the tgz fle.. instead of "get"ting.., i did a "put" to the ftp server and rewrote the file.. so i got a file with zero bytes.. then i took the zip file, but unfortunately poor me - the zip was corrupted, i am not able to unzip it. beng honest helps me. i said what i did to my customer. Poor customer- he said he will upload it again. he just added - "it will take another 11 hours for uploading". The worst part is - next day i realized , the zip was not corrupt.. i need more space in my disk for unzipping a 1GB file. my machine had 4GB which enough for holding the zip and the extracted contents.. but not enough for holding the swapping contents also.. perhaps wnzip should start giving more "respondible error messages"..
Somebody has told me - "all is well, that ends well".. i just need to know when is the end ?
NB: My troubles with passport continues. That in another post.. how can i cry all the things in one post ?
