Thursday, January 11, 2007

Story time...

Few days back, one of my friend called up and said..theres a story writing competition happening in my office, i need your help ...100 words...the story should start with "The donkey brayed loud in my ear.." and end with "That ‘s all I want in my life.", .....And me being a natural story writer( all these skills were used to clear university exams) decided to help him out..and here goes the story...

The donkey brayed loud in my ear……………
and i suddenly realised that i am lying somewhere near a river...
when i opened my eyes, all i could see is, dhobies washing clothes and drying it on the riverbed...

wondering how i reached and all the events started to unfold one after another like a ppt....
being a captain of the Chemical cargo ship, the entire reponsibilty of transporting the 1000 billion worth of toxic chemicals and the safety of the crew was on my shoulders...It happened on a Saturday evening,after getting heavily drunk I was standing on the board,suddenly a heavy wave hit me and I fell into the cold sea.

I felt like thousand needles piercing my body, with all my ability I struggled to stay on the sea surface, within few minutes my ship moved out of my sight, darkness surrounded me.Within few metres I saw something moving swiftly towards me, inspite of swimming I kept my fingers crossed, praying it shouldnt be a shark or whale.

Luck was on my side even at that point of time, it turned out to be a Dolphin, I got hold of its fin and it started to move fastly away from the place. After few minutes I lost my consciousness and now I find myself on this riverbed.

I walked towards the dhobi and asked him “Which place is this”
He looked at me astonished.
He repled “th ist hecon fer en cero omwa keup”
I thought I was lost in someother planet.

But he repeated shaking my body, “This is the conference room,wake up ” .
I was relieved to find I am still in the conference room and the donkey braying was none other than the trainer. Had a nice nap during the training and That ‘s all I want in my life.