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கவிதைகளோ... உளறல்களோ..

*தினமும் ஒரு தாளை இழக்கும் நாள் காட்டி,

திங்களன்று இரண்டு இழந்தது...

ஞாயிறு விடுமுறையாம்... 

*வாரத்தின் ஆறு நாட்களும் கழிகின்றன

ஞாயிறுக்கான ஏக்கத்துடன்...

ஞாயிறோ கழிகின்றது

"நாளை திங்கள்" என்ற அலுப்புடன்... 

A rendezvous with our ancestors...

    Today, myself and my friend Shobana had a very comic and thrilling experience with our tailed ancestors.  

    We had come to the university for our project work and were out for lunch. We had our lunches packed  in our tiffin boxes and decided to settle down @ the corridor near the Chemistry laboratory. A lady working in our department who went that way, cautioned us about the monkeys which frequented that place and asked us to finish eating as soon as possible. But, having not seen any monkey for a week in the campus, we were sloppy. We were simply chatting for a long time and finally made up our mind to eat. We would not have had even four gulps, 3 monkeys - 2 adults and 1 juvenile, flanked us. 

    The biggest one took control of my tiffin box and Shobana just jumped off the place to a nearby tree. Being an alert person(???!!!), i grasped Shobana's tiffin box in my hand and ran towards her. Both of us gained some courage and were shooing them away. Those tailed menaces did not heed us.  Instead, they were eating heartily from the tiffin box. The juvenile one started inspecting our bags and on seeing that, brave Shobana went near it and just pretended as if she was to beat it. But that courageous vagabond made a fierce cry and came towards her as if it was going to attack her. I shrieked, "Shobana!!!" and she started running.

  A staff @ the Chemistry lab tried to threaten them but was threatened by our tailed friends. He shut himself inside the lab. Many people were watching this from the first and second floors and were enjoying the scene. The lady who warned us was on her way back. At last, it was her and the other workers, who got us the tiffin box back from the monkeys, driving them away with a pole. We thanked her and the others from the bottom of our hearts and sped to the canteen.

   The most funny thing is that a student who was sitting just 2 or 3 feet away from us did not even bat an eyelid in spite of the hue and cry we raised and was busily engaged with his mobile and lap top. Some people reside in their own world, whatever happens around!!!

    After some time, we burst out of laughter thinking about this funny rendezvous.  Those monkeys made monkeys out of me and Shobana!!!