Mumbai Chronicle 27 May 2012

“Di, tomorrow we are planning to visit Thakurli to ani di and family.” I informed

“Tomorrow? Sunday? Well if you are planning then I guess you need to leave by 9 to avoid Megablock.”

“Megablock?”

“Yes Mega block...”

“Aaargh!! After Megatron, now Megablock...? How did this Megablock came on earth. Where will I find Sam Witwiky and Optimus Prime now?” I mocked.

My sister unlike me is not so filmy so she didn’t get the joke. She plainly replied “Megablock means that Local train service will be disrupted for general maintenance on Sunday. It happens regularly and this time it will big in wake of coming monsoon.”

“Ok... Noted.” I was upset that joke didn’t work. Grrr..!!

So Sunday morning, me and Bhai woke up early, yeah unusual but true and that too on a Sunday, and by 9 am we were out on our way to Thakurli which is like 1 hours journey even in a local train. Well the journey was quite comfy as people avoided to leave home in wake of megablock. By 10.30, we were at our cousin’s place, where we were welcomed with refreshments, followed by tea, followed by lunch, followed by evening snack. If I had anything more to eat I would have jumped off the building but luckily that didn’t happen as I thought about my Mumbai chronicle readers.

Whole while, my sister ani di was worried about my nephew (her son) who for the first time in life went alone with his friends for movies, and she was like, I hope he is fine, I hope is not stuck at station because of megablock. While my nephew, a young lad who is 16 now, was enjoying good times with friends. 


How can I say that he was enjoying? Well generally a movie ends in 2 hours; well our chap went at 10 in morning and came back at 5 in evening. Well it was a long long movie and like a good uncle I didn’t ask him why he was late. Instead, I gave him advice that when you have plans like this, tell home that it is someone’s birthday and you will be out full day. What a good uncle am I? Hehehe...

Well we returned home by 7 and whole day, megablock was lucky to avoid me, because I would have been more worse that Sam Witwiky and Optimus Prime. :P