rain rain go away

Varuna bhagavan is working overtime here. It’s been raining cats and dogs – no, gundarici here in Kochi. Someone ask him to stop this nuisance. We get drenched no matter whether we use an umbrella or not. Riding a bike in the rain is dangerous, with numerous potholes decorating the roads, not to mention the friendly bus driver :-) who is ready to send us lords abode everytime we step on to the roads. Walking on the roads here in Kochi requires pin point accuracy in jumping over potholes, alertness, eyes on the back of your head, ability to forecast one’s future and decide whether to venture into roads or not? Since I am bad in most of this it is difficult time for me. I have to keep looking backwards while being clear that there is no speeding lorry coming on the wrong side towards me. With such precautions we disappoint the drivers of Kochi every single time. As a further improvement we propose to use safety helmets for walking on the road and microcontroller based safety shoes which transport us to a safe location if a oncoming vehicle is too close for comfort by giving us the jump of our lives – jump to save our lives rather.


My umbrella is broken. The umbrella is the most important thing a person needs in kerala throughout the year—the more important if you don’t have a spare set of clothes for tomorrow. You wouldn’t realize how important an umbrella is unless you are stuck in kerala rain with no spare clothes at home, no umbrella and you are waiting for a bus which wont stop unless the driver sees you at the stop (where there is no shelter nearby from the rain, the only shelter is some 50 meters away from the direct sight of the road).. hows that for a curse. My umbrella got broken two weeks back, and normally I should have got it repaired by now, but these are not normal situations, since my umbrella is broken I couldn’t travel the 100 meters to the umbrella repair shop across the road on weekends since it rained heavily throughout the day ( atleast when I was awake). And on weekdays, the shop is closed when I reach the place at 6:45pm according to the strict rules and regulations of the region (when medical shops close at 8 why cant umbrella shops close at 6:30 ?? ). So even after two weeks when I have tried to get the umbrella repaired a number of times (it is once) it is still not in a working state. Even today morning when it was raining heavily, I had to manually hold my umbrella in a umbrella like position to keep away the rain. I have a long distance to travel today …. Bon voyage to me ..