How a normal being gets irritated with their life and day to day dealings once the person have to deal with day with no smiles. Here is an email I got from one of my friend's memoir is just that irritation how he felt and beautifully described.
One of the most disturbing and mind reckoning audio clip or
music we call it, is the alarm tone and mine one strikes at 5 o clock every
morning since past 8 days, even in Saturdays and Sunday. So I wake up all
sleepy and tired my joints hurting because of the last days cycling and again I
have to go to work. I try switching on the lights of the bathroom but again I
find no switch, damned switched is broken and I have to connect the wires to
switch it on. Oh yes, this is Nepal sweetheart no lights, load shedding in the
morning is a normal case. I struggle to find my toothbrush and I start brushing
my teeth, I open the tap and yes of course the water runs dry, and I m left
with a mouth full of toothpaste foam. This is very normal in my house as water
is a problem everywhere in Kathmandu. I rush to another bathroom wash my face
and since I have no time to bath because I have to be in the hotel at sharp 6
or my boss will make my day very hard. I start to shave and we all have pimples
and when we cut one pimple it starts to bleed like a river, and we all can
imagine the amount of pain we get when we put on that aftershave, oh god!! I
don’t want to remember that. That is the part I hate whenever I shave. Now the
hairs, it doesn’t get in the way we want, does it now? So I put on my uniform, now
time for breakfast. my mom gets up early to make me breakfast and today she
made bhuteko maam and I have to eat that with neuro ko saag, I know its her
care for me but seriously bhuteko maaam in this early morning, I eat up half of
the plate and I pedal all way long to my workplace.
So its early morning and I reach my workplace. I get ready
quickly and rush to the attendance machine to find a very long queue of people
waiting for their turn to do their attendance since its time for morning duty
to start and night duty to get over. It has just been 8 days of work in here
and I haven’t got any day off. I enter
inside report to my senior and start doing my normal job that is of a trainee
in a 4 star hotel and the jobs I do are the odds one out, like counting the
spoiled napkins and get it replaced, refuel the burners, serve tea and pickups
from the rooms, this day started with the napkins counting and getting it
replaced, I carried all the 68 cloth napkins and few dusters and went to the
laundry. The supervisor in the laundry is a good guy with a smiling face but
again I had to wait for about 15 minutes with the load of those cloth napkins
and dusters as he was busy with other staffs that were in the laundry to get
their uniform cleaned. So finally my
turn came to exchange the laundry and then the supervisor started counting the
napkins and stopped at 60. He said they only have the stock of 60 napkins. Then
I returned with the incomplete set of napkins. I got back to my department to
find the boss, owner of the hotel shouting in my department, at the top of his
voice, scolding a senior captain of the restaurant for not filling the leave
form correctly. I seriously needed a leave because I hadn’t slept properly in
few days and I was starting to feel weak. I couldn’t ask him to give me a leave
for the next day.
Then I quietly went to fill up the fuel in the box, and when
I reached there, I reached for the rubber gloves and as I was wearing the
rubber gloves, that stupid thing tore off, I was wearing it so lightly but that
thing tore off and I had to refill the fuel with bare hands. as the fuel has
acid in it we are told to use gloves but since my dear glove friend tore off
when I needed him, I couldn’t say anything to it nor do anything and as those
were a new pair of gloves, I couldn’t ask for a new one. I finished up filling
up the fuel for the buffet and then I got time to go and eat the breakfast. I
rushed to the staff canteen and I found out that I was late and the breakfast
just got over. I got a cup of tea that’s all and I was starving as I didn’t eat
much. Then with my hungry stomach I came back to my department. Then it was my
turn to pour tea and coffee to the entire guest. I was so hungry and the entire
guest were eating a lavish breakfast and I had to watch them eat and give them
tea and coffee. I was getting restless with hunger and I told the manager that
I am very hungry. He ordered me some tea and biscuits and told me to eat those
and work in the back area. I went to the back area with the few biscuits and
tea to find my friend who studies with me in Bangalore. He is a bit lazy, bit
greedy type of guy. He eats those few biscuits that were for me and drank half
of the tea. I couldn't and didn’t say anything to him. Then I started wiping
plate and glasses which we needed in for breakfast. I wiped the glasses and
placed them in the hall and then I had to fold the napkins and make a bishops hat,
60 napkins and 60 bishops hats were made in a short time but then again 8
napkins were missing and I had to cover for that too, my seniors started
shouting at me for the missing napkins and I had to explain them the whole
story at the laundry.
Finally I went for lunch and had some plenty of food. The
food sucks but I ate it anyways. then I came back to the department it was 12
by that time and my duty is till 2 o clock, there was no work to do just some
pickups and some welcome drinks to be served, the most boring part is when we
get nothing to do, not even wiping. Then slowly as I watched the wall clock
strike till 2, I stared at the every second the second hand ticked. Finally
when it was 2 I ran out to the dressing room and I started to pedal. I was so
happy that my duty is over so I was pedaling in super speed and I was
overtaking any slow vehicles and in a particular turning I came across a ford
figo, it was going slow so I over took it and went ahead, and the driver got pissed off that a
cycle passed by him, he accelerated to his full and came close me and bonked
his horn and showed me a middle finger, I was so pissed off with the driver
that I pedaled to my fullest and gave him a good chase, thanks to the traffic
in Nepal, I caught him in the red light and passed him and showed him who is
the boss as cycles don’t have any rules in Nepal and don’t have to stop at red
lights. I reached home and was trying to sleep but then a bulldozer came beside
my house to fill the landsite and after an hour of its noise I caught my sleep
and suddenly I felt something was moving, that was the bulldozer caught the
telephone wire of my house, it had only been a day since my telephone was
repaired and again this happened, irritated by the people around me I m writing
this of how irritating a day can be yet we still survive and live ahead and
hope that we don’t have to live the same day tomorrow
:(((((
