Rudimentary Ramblings

In my opinion Murphy (whoever he was) was one of the wisest of men. His law regarding everything that can go wrong going wrong cannot be truer. I see it everyday in my life, the lives of those around me and the lives of everybody else. Here are some of my takes :

• The cable goes at precisely the climax of a great movie which you, surprisingly, haven't seen earlier. It shall return not a moment before the start of the ending credits.

• Corollary: The cable works fine when you are watching some really shitty movie and conks out only AFTER the credits start rolling.

• The phone is usually on low battery whenever a charger or power outlet is unavailable.
• The most anticipated movies are somehow released the weekend before some crucial work/academic deadline.
• Corollary: On those rare weekends you do happen to be free there will be no good movies to watch or tickets shall be unavailable.
• Your pet shall wake you from your slumber only when you are dreaming of the girl you've had a crush on for the longest of times (and unlike real life, in the dream you were about to get her too)
• The rare important messages that you get on the phone will only come when you are eating, driving, attending a call of nature, in an important meeting, sleeping or otherwise engaged.
  
• Corollary: The messages that you receive when you are relatively free are always spam or some useless forward.
  
• Your computer hard drive shall fail the day before you planned to back up all your important data.
• Corollary: Computer hard drives tend not to fail as long as they don't contain any important data.
• Your software will have a critical update available for it only a week after it has already crashed.
• The RJ never announces the name of a really nice song at its end if you happen to catch it on the radio whilst flipping through stations.
• The power company always cuts the power when you walk back home from work at night and its a moonless night. The power will return only after you reach home.
• The apparel/car/electronics company shall give heavy discounts only after you have already emptied your wallet buying their most desirable product.
• The stock market only goes down when you invest in it. (This isn't that true these days thanks to the economic boom and all)
• Your gadget will conk off only after the warranty expires.
• Your friends are always in town either when you aren't or you just don't have the time.
• Corollary: When you come to town your friends choose precisely that time to make that long delayed trip somewhere out of town.
• The day you plan to get drunk is a dry day or the liquor store doesn't have the liquor of your choice or you can't find a drinking buddy.
• Auto-drivers, rickshaw walas, taxi drivers are always around to pester you when you already have your own car.
• Corollary: Those unfortunate days when you don't have personal transport are the days when the aforementioned pests are nowhere in visual range.
• The day you finally have the time to read the newspaper at leisure is the day that the journalists have nothing to report about.
  
• The girl your really like is always dating the guy you really hate.
• Corollary: The girl who really likes you is usually the one you hate the most.
  
• The only people who do better than you in life are the ones who you hate the most or would like to make jealous the most.
• The only people who read this blog are the ones who don't appreciate it!!