Tk. 12!

Yesterday, after quite a while I had credit on my phone, yet it wasn't much, merely 100Tk, which by today morning was 86.

The one reason why I don't usually get much credit for my phone is because I have a pretty little habbit of calling up old friends or teachers and using up all my credit, totally oblivious of the money I'm spending. Today that happened again. I was early for my maths class, so I called up my friend Nabil on his cell phone, who lives in the US now.
'The caller you have called, does not have a voicemail box' said the flirtacious female voice from the other end, with a light accent. I admit I was confused, who wouldn't be? But then I realised his cell phone must be turned off, so i dialled his room number. There was no reply. Fun for me! I was surrounded by a bunch of insanely disturbing individuals whom I detest, who lack in civil manners, and fail to engage in a normal conversation let alone speak properly. It wasn't exactly my idea of a fun classroom.

So I go through my phone book again and Atif's name came up. He is another lameass friend of mine who had left for the US last year and I called him up. The godd thing was he picked up, the bad thing was all he kept on saying was 'hello hello?' It would have been ok for me to keep on sayin 'Atif, its me!' but I had called halfway across the globe and it was costing me around Tk.20 a minute. After 10 seconds of 'hello' I hung up and dialled again. This time, the wonderful magic of technology didn't fail me, and he could hear me and we had a 3 minute conversation. It was fun but how much could you share in just 3 mintues with an old friend? I got back to class and told my only friend in the class, sadia, about how I had called atif, and she thought I was insane to be calling up people in America when I hardly ever have credit. She did have a point, but hell the rest of humaity think I'm insane anyway so all I can do is just be insane!

As i checked my a/c I realised I had only Tk.12 left. It did come as quite a surprise, I assumed i would have atleast Tk.30 or 40 but well what do you know? Life is always full of surprises! It wasn't great for someone who is completely broke at the end of the month. So as much as i hated it, I had to ask sadia to lend me Tk.50 for my phone credit and assured her I would pay her back on the 8th of next month, the day I would get paid. So much to pay for, so much to buy, and all to be done within a mere Tk.4000...sighh..the only thing I can afford is an occasional coke, the rest is all spent on my rickshaw fare and buying birthday gifts for friends or family. Which reminds me that Aumiya's birthday is coming up next month, mine the month after that and Imtiaz's the month after that! hahaha...another 3 months of borrowing more money from my mummy! life officially SUCKS! when did it stop sucking anyway?

Good Phase

Today the sun is up.

It's a Monday

Yesterday was fun, but not until 9pm.
All I did the entire day was wander around the apartment, occasionally yelling at my father, who has a charm for indulgence in all kinds of activities that hardly make sense and often gets everyone at home annoyed. Like the other day when we had a few guests coming over for dinner, instead of helping my mother and us with the cooking and the cleaning, he had the brilliant idea of getting tomato plants!..yes you've read that right, and so he did.

I had woken up at around midday and tried watching TV for a while but there wasn't anything worth watching. Heres the thing, weekends are supposed to be relaxing and people are meant to turn into couch potatoes with a mug of coffee, but ironically the worst shows are always aired during the weekends..something I'll never understand. My internet connection was messed up and so going online wasn't an option either. The breakthrough finally came for me at 9 in the evening when flipping through the channels I suddenly saw Bush amidst several little middle eastern girls dancing (No he wasn't dancing, the little girls were). As inquisitive as I am, I continued watching the clip that honestly, was kind of hilarious. Anyway the clip ends and I discover it's the Today Show with John Stewart. For the next half an hour or so I found it quite difficult to stop laughing. Heres the best of what I had seen. Bush was giving a speech in front of the american troops in Iran (Or maybe some other middle eastern country, I am not sure) and he says 'When history was written, the final page will say that the United States have fought for peace' (or something along the lines, I do not recall the exact words) if you still haven't figured out why I put so much emphasis on this particular sentence, read it again. Yes Mr. George W. Bush is actually combining both the future and the past in some insanse universe which goes beyond my apprehension. This coming from the President of the United States. Sadly enough, even me, a person from a third world country could acknowlege the simple mistake in enligsh..

After the show ended, I found one of my dearest friends online and we had a real fun conversation after a while at the end of which she called me. (the reason why it's significant is because she lives in Candana and I live in Bangladesh). I had another two hours of laughter!

However, coming to think of it, tomorrow is not going to be the least bit fun. I'll have to go back to college and my classes begin at 8 in the damn morning. After which I have to go to work and finish a 1500 word assignment, which is not really the main problem. What concerns me is working at the office because I just can't concentrate as much as I can when I work at home, which again is not possible for my computer is messed up and having much fun in ruining my life!

Its 9:15 pm now and even though today wasn't quite eventful, it wasn't a total bust either . Work was fun and I had my daily dose of 'Friends' and 'Seinfeld'. Now I am waiting for the clock to strike 10:30 and I can finally watch 'The Last Comic Standing' a show that I wait for every week. Yes you have guessed it right. I do have a thing for laughter! ;)

Do you?

Do you ever wonder what it takes to go through each day?
Do you ponder about days to come or contemplate about days gone by?
Or do you take each day as it comes?