After ranting on a serious topic such as the Indian politics, I feel the necessity to bring to your notice a much more grave situation. This time it's the resident Cuckoo that flocks around our apartment. As we all are aware the Cuckoo a.k.a. Song Bird a.k.a. Koyal is a delight to hear in its best mood. I would've agreed to that but for the past few days... It turns out that this cuckoo has either had some serious family problems or might be under medication.
Our woes began when our beloved bird(apple of everyone's eyes, Rahman of everyone's ears) started giving high-pitch messages in the middle of the night. God knows what got into this bird that it gave out kuuuoooooooo's at 3 a.m. Suddenly our Rahman turned into Altaf Raja.. and got all the residents burying their heads under their pillows. Its a well known fact in my family that even a Marriage procession can't have the might to wake me up, but this secretive bird hiding among all branches dared to do the unthinkable. Sadly it did, it woke me up with its 8th call(yes 7 in my sleep was part of a dream) and I couldnt handle it going on and on. I grabbed hold of a stick, opened the net and gave a whack at the branches. This got it silent, leaving me with a victorious smile(for a moment I waved at the imaginary crowd cheering for me).
The next night was even more testing. I was having the strangest dream ever. Playing against Man United we were leading 3-1. To the shock of my eyes my team mates were a bunch of pirates and bloody sporty one's. I could not imagine what the outcome of my dream would be when I heard 'kuuuuuuuuuuoooooooooooooooooo'... It was 4 a.m. and madame had jus started her vocal excercise. I repeated the same routine to drive it away but this time she was in no mood to negotiate. It went like 'kuuuoooooooo kuuuooooo aye aye aye.. kuoooo kuooooo' .Yours truly waved his white flag and suggested the bird to go on while he caught on some not-so-sweet slumber.
A dear friend of mine suggests me not to curse the poor bird for the reasons mentioned above..My response to her is that I wish this Koyal gets deported to the branch right across her bedroom! I wont be surprised to see 'Lunatic resident shoots lyrical Koyal' in the papers the next day. Anyways I am done with my 'Memoirs of the Cuckoo' chapter here and am desperately trying to find out its Birthday. I've decided to gift it a Fossil for reasons that are obvious to one and all.
Siddharth
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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