Abundance, goodness, indulgence and now unrestrained joy all in a Good Day.
There are times when you wished that the glory days lasted forever, that summer of 2009 was a summer to be remembered. We were all crazy little dumb-asses wasting away our lives. I always have wondered why haven't I put this up on the blog, that summer of 2009.
It all started with Sadism, Orion and Mental having no place to stay for the summer. I had already made sure I had a place, I was staying with Astala. Mental being the most enterprising between the three made sure he got a place to stay at Diablo's place. What were we to know that Diablo's place would end up being "THE PLACE". The days were good, attending classes and praying to the lord Shiva, nights involved DoTA and more prayers and so on and so forth. We always did have difficulty finding enough players for a proper 5x5 game, but this summer was different. We had the right amount of people and the right kind of them. All of us crazy to play as much DoTA throughout the night as possible. Lets take a roll call now, Diablo, Astala, Desolator, Sadism, Norulz, Mental, Orion, Kau, Virgil & Myself. Often visited by Merlyn. All of us had laptops except Astala and norulz, well that was taken care of, we got their desktops to Diablo's place and set up a LAN, and we were ready to go. The nights were crazy, we started playing more than just DoTA, things like tower defense maps and deathmatch arena's became vastly popular among us procrastinators.
We played every night, harder than the previous, prayed even harder. But this summer was here to stay. But the only thing that made this summer memorable was a fine sunday morning. After a really long night of DoTA and prayer, in the early hours of the sunday, we had planned to go to river-view ( a restaurant here in hellore) for breakfast. But nobody had the strength to get up and do anything. Astala was irritating everybody to go for breakfast. I was lying half dead in the hall, and couldn't care less. Everyone else in the small bed-room, half dead and half way to passing out. Astala was sure he wanted to go, so he started packing his desktop, and asking Diablo to drop him and his desktop off at home. Orion was beside him trying to unplug his laptop from the spike too. Astala reached for the spike, halfway through a dialogue to unplug his computer, when all of a sudden he started screaming "HELP! HELP!", and all of us were just looking at him in shock, well more in surprise because we had no clue what had happened. What seemed to me was that, the spike had somehow attached itself to his hands and wasn't coming off. Orion was the closest, he tried to beat the spike off him with his laptop, but in vain. Astala was still shouting "Help! Help!" and none of us did really get up to help him, and he got rid of the spike by himself and ran out of the bedroom, and into the kitchen. I was still lying in the hall watching this, being in the hall meant I could see both the kitchen and the bedroom.
Astala ran into the kitchen, and fell down on the floor. Orion followed him and tried to see what was up. Everybody else was still in the bedroom lying on the beds, and me still lying in the hall. Orion then goes back to the bedroom and announces " Dude, smoke is coming out of his mouth! Come see! *Chuckle*" and we all burst out in laughter in unison. Suddenly I see Diablo, Kau and Mental getting out of the room and Diablo heads straight towards the main door, while Kau follows him and Mental runs into the kitchen. Everybody else follows suite outside and slowly Astala is given water to drink and then he starts explaining what happened. Before he can, Kau exclaims "One Life Gaan! Macha One Life Gaaaan!", everybody bursts into laughter once again and this time it's Diablo in a very priestly voice " Today, we have almost lost a very dear and near friend, Astala" and once again we burst into laughter. Astala himself is laughing the episode off, he tells us he was getting electrocuted back there and he didn't know what to do and hence started shouting "HELP! HELP!" the weirdest part in the whole thing was, he didn't start shouting as soon as he held the plug or his hands got glued to the spike, he started shouting it awhile later, which made it look really funny, and the part where Orion ran back into the bed room saying 'Smoke is coming out of his mouth, Come see!" was just a cherry on top to give us the energy we needed to get up and start making fun of everything around us once again.
We did finally go for the breakfast in River-view that morning. Never really enjoyed a breakfast there like that and a couple of more incidents where we could have lost Astala occurred, like slipping on the ramp for the disabled, pointing his butter knife towards himself and almost spilling hot coffee. To add to the whole episode, we reached back home and weren't feeling sleepy at all. A small prayer and ritual was performed and we started playing tower defense to better our time and wait for that ever awesome message at the end "You have won". Although it might seem like a very ordinary episode in anyone's life. That summer was the glory days. When all we cared about was DoTA and nothing else, ofcourse a little bit about the rituals we still perform. But DoTA none the less. 10 people living together because of their will to play DoTA was a crazy idea and that summer was nothing short of crazy. However small it seemed, it was a good 2 months of our lives. One that none of us who were there would ever forget.
There are times when you wished that the glory days lasted forever, that summer of 2009 was a summer to be remembered. We were all crazy little dumb-asses wasting away our lives. I always have wondered why haven't I put this up on the blog, that summer of 2009.
It all started with Sadism, Orion and Mental having no place to stay for the summer. I had already made sure I had a place, I was staying with Astala. Mental being the most enterprising between the three made sure he got a place to stay at Diablo's place. What were we to know that Diablo's place would end up being "THE PLACE". The days were good, attending classes and praying to the lord Shiva, nights involved DoTA and more prayers and so on and so forth. We always did have difficulty finding enough players for a proper 5x5 game, but this summer was different. We had the right amount of people and the right kind of them. All of us crazy to play as much DoTA throughout the night as possible. Lets take a roll call now, Diablo, Astala, Desolator, Sadism, Norulz, Mental, Orion, Kau, Virgil & Myself. Often visited by Merlyn. All of us had laptops except Astala and norulz, well that was taken care of, we got their desktops to Diablo's place and set up a LAN, and we were ready to go. The nights were crazy, we started playing more than just DoTA, things like tower defense maps and deathmatch arena's became vastly popular among us procrastinators.
We played every night, harder than the previous, prayed even harder. But this summer was here to stay. But the only thing that made this summer memorable was a fine sunday morning. After a really long night of DoTA and prayer, in the early hours of the sunday, we had planned to go to river-view ( a restaurant here in hellore) for breakfast. But nobody had the strength to get up and do anything. Astala was irritating everybody to go for breakfast. I was lying half dead in the hall, and couldn't care less. Everyone else in the small bed-room, half dead and half way to passing out. Astala was sure he wanted to go, so he started packing his desktop, and asking Diablo to drop him and his desktop off at home. Orion was beside him trying to unplug his laptop from the spike too. Astala reached for the spike, halfway through a dialogue to unplug his computer, when all of a sudden he started screaming "HELP! HELP!", and all of us were just looking at him in shock, well more in surprise because we had no clue what had happened. What seemed to me was that, the spike had somehow attached itself to his hands and wasn't coming off. Orion was the closest, he tried to beat the spike off him with his laptop, but in vain. Astala was still shouting "Help! Help!" and none of us did really get up to help him, and he got rid of the spike by himself and ran out of the bedroom, and into the kitchen. I was still lying in the hall watching this, being in the hall meant I could see both the kitchen and the bedroom.
Astala ran into the kitchen, and fell down on the floor. Orion followed him and tried to see what was up. Everybody else was still in the bedroom lying on the beds, and me still lying in the hall. Orion then goes back to the bedroom and announces " Dude, smoke is coming out of his mouth! Come see! *Chuckle*" and we all burst out in laughter in unison. Suddenly I see Diablo, Kau and Mental getting out of the room and Diablo heads straight towards the main door, while Kau follows him and Mental runs into the kitchen. Everybody else follows suite outside and slowly Astala is given water to drink and then he starts explaining what happened. Before he can, Kau exclaims "One Life Gaan! Macha One Life Gaaaan!", everybody bursts into laughter once again and this time it's Diablo in a very priestly voice " Today, we have almost lost a very dear and near friend, Astala" and once again we burst into laughter. Astala himself is laughing the episode off, he tells us he was getting electrocuted back there and he didn't know what to do and hence started shouting "HELP! HELP!" the weirdest part in the whole thing was, he didn't start shouting as soon as he held the plug or his hands got glued to the spike, he started shouting it awhile later, which made it look really funny, and the part where Orion ran back into the bed room saying 'Smoke is coming out of his mouth, Come see!" was just a cherry on top to give us the energy we needed to get up and start making fun of everything around us once again.
We did finally go for the breakfast in River-view that morning. Never really enjoyed a breakfast there like that and a couple of more incidents where we could have lost Astala occurred, like slipping on the ramp for the disabled, pointing his butter knife towards himself and almost spilling hot coffee. To add to the whole episode, we reached back home and weren't feeling sleepy at all. A small prayer and ritual was performed and we started playing tower defense to better our time and wait for that ever awesome message at the end "You have won". Although it might seem like a very ordinary episode in anyone's life. That summer was the glory days. When all we cared about was DoTA and nothing else, ofcourse a little bit about the rituals we still perform. But DoTA none the less. 10 people living together because of their will to play DoTA was a crazy idea and that summer was nothing short of crazy. However small it seemed, it was a good 2 months of our lives. One that none of us who were there would ever forget.
