The adventures of Sam, D’silva and Gopi Part-I
Characters:
Sam – Chega
D’silva – Surd (now Super Surd)
Gopi – Mouse
Supported by:
Lavin
Mandar
Nilesh
We all were tired of our earlier business of going to far away places to watch the same old things like trees, flowers etc. In such places if it’s raining cats and dogs and if you stand under a tree, it rains droppings of crows and sparrows. So it was decided that this time we would go to a place where it doesn’t rain.
Gopi however said, ‘I have heard that crows are found all over the world, so where do we go?’ D’silva replied, ‘crows are found only over trees, in the sky and at the most on the earth’s surface. So why don’t we travel below the earth? Let’s explore the earth’s core.’
Hearing this Mandar fainted since could not bear the thought of losing Nilesh in the dark. As if to console Mandar, Lavin threw light on the fact that the gravitational pull of the earth is at its maximum at the core so all the crow droppings would be directed there with maximum velocity. Hearing this explanation, the idea of going to the earth’s core was dropped.
I suggested going to the moon and Nilesh asked the way in which we were to reach the moon. We had Mandar in our squad who had answers for everything. Mandar said, ‘first of all we need to find out the rising time of the moon from a local news paper. Then well before the rising time we would reach the nearest horizon by means of a launch or something similar. Then as the moon would appear on the horizon, we should one by one jump on it.’
This looked very logical and quite feasible. But D’silva had a doubt. He asked, ‘as the moon rises so also it sets. So what do we do when it sets?’ Lavin answered, ‘when we would reach on the moon, then according to Geography, the earth would rise or set on the moon!’ ‘Oh Yes!’ said D’silva, ‘I had forgotten a bit of History’. Hearing this we all laughed heartily. But D’silva seemed annoyed and asked us the reason. Not finding any, he tried to justify his statement by saying, ‘you all might be knowing that history repeats itself and the setting of earth and the moon with respect to each other is a periodically repeating process so I had said that I had forgotten a bit of History.’
Finally, the day of our departure arrived and we began our voyage. Very soon we reached the horizon and were eagerly waiting for the moon. Watching the moon arrive from below we all got set to jump. The first to jump was Mandar, so that the moon would rise up slowly. One by one we all got over the moon except D’silva. When D’silva was about to jump, a cloud engulfed the moon. And by the time the cloud passed, the moon had significantly risen, making it impossible for D’silva to jump on the moon. But fortunately enough, a large wave took D’silva sufficiently above sea level to be able to jump on the moon. Thus every one of us had reached our destination.
For our basic necessities such as water, air, and food we had a solution suggested by Mandar. For water, we had carried a long rope and a bucket which could be lowered in any of earth’s fresh water lakes. For air and food we had carried with some plants. These were to be our source of food as well as oxygen.
As we landed on the moon we were quite excited about it. So Mandar suggested we move inwards lest someone falls off the edge in excitement. We went inwards a bit and kept the plants, our luggage etc and sat down to rest. Soon we fell asleep. When we woke up, Mandar read us a poem that he had written while we were asleep. Here’s the poem:
Today for the first time I have lost my weight
And only due to the trio such a chance I could get
Today with them I traveled on the moon
And lost 1/6th of my weight in a single noon
Everything here’s so strange
Absolutely nothing in range
And here if I sit on a bench
I will not break the bench
Its surface is like the transverse wave
With all crests and troughs
And while walking over it
I say, ‘puff-puff’
Hearing Mandar’s poem, we again fell asleep.
(guess I never woke up after this; the story was left incomplete at this stage)
(written ~ 1995)
Sam – Chega
D’silva – Surd (now Super Surd)
Gopi – Mouse
Supported by:
Lavin
Mandar
Nilesh
We all were tired of our earlier business of going to far away places to watch the same old things like trees, flowers etc. In such places if it’s raining cats and dogs and if you stand under a tree, it rains droppings of crows and sparrows. So it was decided that this time we would go to a place where it doesn’t rain.
Gopi however said, ‘I have heard that crows are found all over the world, so where do we go?’ D’silva replied, ‘crows are found only over trees, in the sky and at the most on the earth’s surface. So why don’t we travel below the earth? Let’s explore the earth’s core.’
Hearing this Mandar fainted since could not bear the thought of losing Nilesh in the dark. As if to console Mandar, Lavin threw light on the fact that the gravitational pull of the earth is at its maximum at the core so all the crow droppings would be directed there with maximum velocity. Hearing this explanation, the idea of going to the earth’s core was dropped.
I suggested going to the moon and Nilesh asked the way in which we were to reach the moon. We had Mandar in our squad who had answers for everything. Mandar said, ‘first of all we need to find out the rising time of the moon from a local news paper. Then well before the rising time we would reach the nearest horizon by means of a launch or something similar. Then as the moon would appear on the horizon, we should one by one jump on it.’
This looked very logical and quite feasible. But D’silva had a doubt. He asked, ‘as the moon rises so also it sets. So what do we do when it sets?’ Lavin answered, ‘when we would reach on the moon, then according to Geography, the earth would rise or set on the moon!’ ‘Oh Yes!’ said D’silva, ‘I had forgotten a bit of History’. Hearing this we all laughed heartily. But D’silva seemed annoyed and asked us the reason. Not finding any, he tried to justify his statement by saying, ‘you all might be knowing that history repeats itself and the setting of earth and the moon with respect to each other is a periodically repeating process so I had said that I had forgotten a bit of History.’
Finally, the day of our departure arrived and we began our voyage. Very soon we reached the horizon and were eagerly waiting for the moon. Watching the moon arrive from below we all got set to jump. The first to jump was Mandar, so that the moon would rise up slowly. One by one we all got over the moon except D’silva. When D’silva was about to jump, a cloud engulfed the moon. And by the time the cloud passed, the moon had significantly risen, making it impossible for D’silva to jump on the moon. But fortunately enough, a large wave took D’silva sufficiently above sea level to be able to jump on the moon. Thus every one of us had reached our destination.
For our basic necessities such as water, air, and food we had a solution suggested by Mandar. For water, we had carried a long rope and a bucket which could be lowered in any of earth’s fresh water lakes. For air and food we had carried with some plants. These were to be our source of food as well as oxygen.
As we landed on the moon we were quite excited about it. So Mandar suggested we move inwards lest someone falls off the edge in excitement. We went inwards a bit and kept the plants, our luggage etc and sat down to rest. Soon we fell asleep. When we woke up, Mandar read us a poem that he had written while we were asleep. Here’s the poem:
Today for the first time I have lost my weight
And only due to the trio such a chance I could get
Today with them I traveled on the moon
And lost 1/6th of my weight in a single noon
Everything here’s so strange
Absolutely nothing in range
And here if I sit on a bench
I will not break the bench
Its surface is like the transverse wave
With all crests and troughs
And while walking over it
I say, ‘puff-puff’
Hearing Mandar’s poem, we again fell asleep.
(guess I never woke up after this; the story was left incomplete at this stage)
(written ~ 1995)
posted by chega at 5:56 am
2 Comments:
I knew I'd read this stuff before !
It was written just after or may be during our 10th so there's every chance that you could have read it before.
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