I had joy, I had fun.........

It was last week that the Boss had suddenly decided that all his researchers should start their day at work after a half an hour session of jogging in the lawns. Yesterday I had also realized the importance of a checklist and decided to make one for myself in order to arrest the derailing of my own research program. It went as per the script save for the 11^th hour and I was satisfied. The day being TGIF, I wanted to catch an extra hour of sleep and was humming an old melody as I opened my wardrobe in the change room.

The satisfactory day at office echoed through the streets on the walk home through short bursts of old favorites with no one around to faint or frown save for that ever smiling friend on the sky. The pitch was subdued by the time I stood in front of the house door and ......

And suddenly it dawned upon me....

.... the vital metal piece that will let me in to hit the showers and throw myself onto the mat......

It was missing! I had left it in my coat pocket…and I had not changed my coat!!

Tired… exhausted….and another hour of singing in the streets…..to fetch the key L

The city buses rush through the middle of the road to the comfort of their garages at that hour in the night, there was very little chance of a bus stopping for me …

but why not give it a try?

The bus came soon and stopped, for a passenger had to get down….another one remained and the driver was already asking her where she’s to get down and she muttered something without bothering to take her eye off the game she was playing on her hand phone.

English songs!….in a Korean bus!!

Kabhee Nahin!!!

But yes……it was NIRVANA singing ……definitely not for the driver and the lady gamer…..

“We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun

But the hills that we climbed were just seasons out of time

We had joy, we had fun, and we had seasons in the sun

But the stars that we reached where just starfish on the beach”

Back in the change room I was still singing along as I stood again in front of my wardrobe…and then...

And then suddenly I realized that I had not even checked my coat pocket back in front of the house!…..

what if it's indeed there inside my coat pocket?!

Fortunately for me, to my great relief!….. the key wasn’t there….. J

Back home, it was already the next day by the time I could hit the mat….singing;

I had joy I had fun…..I had sessions with the moon…..

Life is fun, not waste of time; when I laugh at my own self…

I had joy I had fun…..I had sessions with the moon…..

and the stars?!

And I had sent the stars on a laugh riot.