Monday, April 5, 2010

Physics

After the movie ‘Daybreakers’, I still wasn’t sleepy, though it was 12.30 in the night. So I started watching an episode of Bones, the one that started with a devil burning on the table in a church n all. The episode went on with the usual cool gross stuff and a psychiatric ward full of weirdoes. I wasn’t sleepy even after the episode, but decided to close the laptop nevertheless and tried to shut my eyes and brains. The AC was making such a noise and it was pretty cold already, so I switched it off and lay down in the dark silence, trying my best to go into my very own Pandora, when I heard a sound. It was a small hissing-squeaking sort of a noise. I got up to check if there was some insect in the room, but found nothing. So I switched the light off and rolled on into the bed, when the noise started again. It was growing bigger and was not continuous. I kind of got a little freaked, with my mind considering all sorts of possibilities from squeaky rats to snakes and switched on the lights to give a thorough inspection of the room, with the door open in case I needed to run out (;P), and yet I still found nothing.

I switched everything off again and cuddled back into my sheets, but the hissing sound kept bothering me. I decided to ignore it, filter it out and stop my bloody imagination from running miles. A few minutes later, it struck me. The darn sound was coming neither from some cricket nor from a rat. It was simply from the water bottle’s cap that was squeezed too tight, and was generating air bubbles at the cap rim. Damn you physics!! I simply got up again, opened the cap a little and the sound just vanished, and I finally drowned into deep deep sleep. :)

8 comments:

  1. it was probably a genie in the bottle that went away when u rubbed it the right way... ;-)

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  2. ithukku thaan seekram padukanumgrathu. Mind vela pannum. :D

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  3. @eye-in-sty-in: hehehe...good one!
    @AV: when people don't have the inclination (nor the courage) to get up and investigate is when 'ghosts' take birth ;)

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  4. @ eye-in-sty-in: yeah right! i just missed the three wishes.. :P

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  5. @ harini: lol!! a five-year habit does take time to wear off darling!

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  6. @ scorpia: wtf?!? i never.. not even for a sec even remotely thot it was a ghost!! so nothing really 'took birth' that night in my room. :P

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  7. @scorpria: Thank you.

    @ Av: its recession.... you'd be lucky if you get one... and there'd be a time limit to ask for it too... do you know what you wanna wish for...??? ;-)

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  8. @ eye-in-sty-in: aah.. i just have too many things to wish for.. so with just one wish, well, i woould probably ask for say- ten more wishes! and may be the tenth wish would be for ten more. nice idea huh?

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