A HORRIFYING CALCULATION AND A SWITCH TO LULLABY..

It’s one of my fond habit to go through my list of ‘MUST-DO’ (eg.1.DUSTING;2.SENDING MAILS TO…..;3.MAKING PHONECALLS TO….;4.VISITING….UNCLE;5.TRIMMING THE PLANTS IN THE POTS;…etc.) for the following day ,before I go to sleep.It sometimes acts as a sedative,specially when I find the list getting too long!

Yesterday, I started  it  as  usual. The very first one on  my  list happened  to  be  my ‘ACTIVITIES  TO  BE  DONE  ON  MY  ibibo POST’. But, to my  surprise, I found  that I’d  been totally entangled with the first ‘MUST-DO’…so  badly…as  if….’NARROWED  BY  CATEGORY’ in ibibo language!  The  more  I  thought, the more possibilities regarding improvement of score croped up! I got so excited which I’m  sure  even Mr.Tenjing  wasn’t after setting his foot on Mt. Everest!….

But….after sometimes, I realised that things were not so easy if one wanted to follow it.

My planning was following this track:

1.One has to score a total of 10,000 points to be eligible for a paid post;

2.Five good  Blogs help one earn 1500 points;

3.Remaining 8500 points have to be scored through SAWAAL and OPINION;

4.That means  4250 points each for SAWAAL and OPINION;

5.Now,if one wants to get this in one month,the daily required score is 4250/30=141.66—–say 150,to be on the safe side (for, it’s not certain that a post would bring +10 or -10)

6.That means, 150 marks per day from each post;15 answers and 15 opinions daily….!

7.As in my case, my only possible category in Opinion is BOOKS and I can’t give any comment on any book without going through it afresh–which needs a minimum span of 4 to 5 days. That means , the monthly target of my score should be Opinion:250 and Sawaal;8250. Daily target from Sawaal resulting to 275….say290 (again, to be on the safe side).

8.Twentynine Answers a day….!!! Some of those may be to questions like….(please don’t take personally.)…HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU SNEEZE A DAY?, MY FIRST PIMPLE HAS LEFT A SCAR..WILL THE SECOND ONE ALSO DO THE SAME?,ARE YOU IN LOVE?……and so on.

I was so scared that I closed my eyes tightly and tried for some sleep, humming this lullaby to myself…….

NINNI BOUAA  NINNI, ROTI MAKHAN CHINI,

SO JAA BOUAA, SO JAA, KHAAT  PALANG-PAR SO JAA.

AAM-JANTA YAANI  CITIZEN-HAMESHA TU HAI, SADAA RAHEGAA.

AAKHIR TERAA HI  BOL-BAALAA HAI-WAHAAN-SE  NA KOI HATAA  SAKEGAA!

Translation:

After a meal of bread and butter,sleep Dear,on ur cozy bed!

Be happy in being CITIZEN, don’t desire more instead…..!