I turned on the machine and I was sucked in. It made me a spectator of my own life, I could see myself crying, dancing and playing cricket and doing many many more things.
Few scenes from what i was taken through -
[Scene1 : Your oldest memory]
[Location: Kasturibai Street, Udumalpet (Forgot door no.)]
[Day: 1988 or so! (I am getting older everyday :( )]
Vivek must be younger than 3 years. He wakes up slowly and calls “Amma”. No response. He raises his head and finds no one in the room. No voices, no noise of the cooker or the rolling vessels in the house. He starts running and checks every single room in house. No one is there. He comes out. Pakkathathu maami notices him and says “Amma anna, akkava kondu vida poirukka da, vandhuduva. Nammathla irukkiya?”
“Maatttenn”.. He goes wild, runs and escapes from the trying maami’s and her husband’s grips and runs all the way to the road end where the school bus comes and hugs his startled mom!
(Maami still remembers this incident and goes nostalgic about it even today when we meet)
[Scene 2 : What were you doing 10 years ago?]
[Location: Suburban, Ramnagar, Coimbatore]
[Day : August 29, 1998]
It could be either of the two:
The game had just started, Vivek opened the innings. It was a Green house vs Yellow house match. Green house had won the toss and elected to bat. Vivek, bats and bats and bats, before he finally runs himself out. He scores 26 runs (yep, many were from edges) and earns himself a place in the school team :)
He was sitting in the last bench and made sure he is well hidden from the “miss” (he wouldn’t have cared about what she was teaching).
Picks the page number from his friend and starts dozing with book kept opened.
[Scene3 : Your first thought today morning]
[Location: 404, Silpa Emerald, Kondapur, Hyderabad]
[Day: August 29, 2008]
It was 7.30 when I pushed myself up in extreme slow motion from the cozy bed of mine. When I opened my eyes and started slowly settling into the real world, ….
Gawd.. What should I tell them tomo when they ask my decision?
I haven’t completed that work yet. Have to complete atleast today.
It’s high time I speak about it to ____. I feel like a loser now!
Ah.. Should I eat the same sick food today too..?
Damn.. I have to wait for another two months for Diwali..
Oh no.. I have to catch the shuttle in 30 mins :(
(It has to be one of these thoughts, but I don't remember which one exactly)
Out of practice, I desperately try to swipe the non-existent card and get out of the room and now starts
“Duniya ka naara jame raho” (Taare Zameen Par)
[Scene 4 : If you built a time capsule today what would it contain?]
[Day: August 29, 2008]
[Sub-scene 4.1]
[Location: I leave it to you to decide]
I pick up my mobile, my id card (I believe, my company will be there forever ;) ) and loads of food!
[Sub-scene 4.2]
[Day: August 29, 2408]
X: Wow! Look at this, a Nokia - 6600. How did you get this man?
Y: Hey, what is that?
X: That was a device used by the computer age man. He used to talk with that.
Y: Talk with that??? Ha ha ha.. That looks bigger than our transport device!!
X: Vivek, tell me who you are?
Vivek: I wonder if I could ask you a silly question. Will you believe that a man from the computer age, made a time travel to end up here some 200 years ago and, never grew up after that?
(For those who couldn’t get the context of the dialog please watch The Man From Earth ;) )
[This year : Well, Scene 4 and my previous blog should answer this :) ]
[Scene5 : What do you see yourself doing 14 years from now?]
[Location: The camera focuses on the moon, a graphical satellite, shifts now to earth and starts zooming in. Zooms on till it reaches somewhere near arctic (no more glaciers, its water water everywhere) and settles on the private yacht named ____ ]
[Day: August 29, 2018]
Vivek, holds his hat from the breeze and picks up the purple colored drink and sinks in his thoughts. “Dad what are you thinking?”, his kids in the pool, wake him up with their curiosity.
He smiles, and says “Nothing”.
“Nothing??”. Voice is morphing now!!
“Yes, Nothing”
“Vivek… vivek!!”
The voice has changed completely!!
Vivek wakes up to see his manager right there in front of him..
“Hey hi.. When did you come?” , Vivek tries to recover
“When you were thinking about nothing”
“Ha ha ha” (asadu vazhiyaran.. ;) )
“So what do you think we are good to go beta next month”
“Yes sure. We are just perfect”
“That’s great Vivek.”
Vivek turns around to his, slowly comes to his senses and starts mumbling now,
“Hey but … hmm.. May be.. I think I need one more day.. to see the cost of fixing the bugs assigned to me……… eh... Is that fine?”
