Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Of cats and monkeys

Well the other day sumetha came to me and asked me to help her write a story . She even had an interesting topic for the story –a cat and a monkey (ya the same old cat and monkey from my 1st standard ,yuck !)and anyway I was too drowsy to think of anything about a story esp with such a GRUESOME title .But I dint wanna disappoint her ,so I started anyway.

I began with the traditional opening -once upon a time to get the blessings of all those millions of storytellers across the centuries who came up with so many fables and stories but somehow never managed to come up with a different opening other than the boring –once upon a time.i mean how many the times will they use the same opening .wont they get bored of it or something ?(yaaaawn I am really drowsy man ) . then named the cat MONKEY and named the monkey CAT ?(quirky right ). I was about to set a romantic scene complete with a thundering waterfalls ,a nascent rain and a scintillatin background score where the monkey cat catches a glimpse of the cat monkey and falls head over heels in love with the monkey cat and was even about to compose a duet for them.. (uh oh this story is making me even more drowsier even though I m the one narrating it )But the minute I said the monkey fell in love sumetha refused to continue ?(you see she is a good gal but all of them all are good when 5 yrs old )It takes 12 yrs of schooling to get ruined u know .and then another four years of engineering education to become completely worthless . anyway back to the story being forced to throw romance out of the equation I had to be satisfied in having the cat monkey eat up the monkey cat (funny na monkey called cat eating up a cat called monkey .I had all but given up in my struggle against my sleep but sumetha was unrelenting .she still wanted two more lines to complete the story . I stretched my brain to come up with something to complete the story but all I managed were a couple of yawns .finally ping!like a light bulb suddenly glowing an idea came out of nowhere .and so the monkey cat started purring like a cat monkey as a result of having eaten the cat monkey. Still one more line uh-oh yaaawn ?.and then inspiration struck .so for the rest of his life the moneky cat was nicknamed by the animals in the forest as….
Pussy cat ?:d .It was then she told me that she needed to show it to her teacher!!!.You kno I really petty those guys . they end up havin sleepless nights all because some of their tiny tot students have really insane brothers and sisters .(btw sumethas teacher will probably not sleep for a week after hearing this story ,but she really deserved it u kno for havin spoilt my sleep by askin her students to do something as stupid as story writing esp a story with such a GRUESOME title .

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