Night Shift

Here is a heads up on how I feel pulling off Night Shifts.

Before starting about it want to share briefly about my sleep patterns during school/college days & professional days.

All throughout school/college, I was always early to bed and early to rise. It wouldn’t matter even if I had the crankiest exam the next morning. I had to dwell into the world of dreams as soon as possible on any given day.
Moving over to my professional life, I suddenly am a nocturnal person, rather animal.
My night starts only after 1 or 2 AM and the sun rises at around 9 AM during the weekdays and at around 11 AM or 12 PM during the weekends. I have no clue about the reason for this transformation.

Now hitting the topic of this blog “Night Shift”. Two weeks of regular shift followed by night shift for another two weeks in a month can really confuse the most loved & cared about aspect (sub consciously) of a human being “ SLEEP”.

I very strongly feel, sleep has its own personality with loads of attitude. No matter how much we love it (or) are committed to it, it occasionally heeds to our needs. It can shock us by bothering us at the least expected time and can evade us when we need it the most. Boy, I bet!!!! Priyanka Chopra could be an easier personality to woo.;-)
This turns into belief when I vividly experience all my feelings related to sleep during night shifts.

It is a Herculean task to keep my eyes open from 4 AM – 7 AM and when the shift ends sudden excitement of having accomplished one more night on the mission (mission here is not the work, it is to be awake) offsets my sleep and I just cant fall asleep before 9 AM. Impulsively as if I had a nightmare my eyes are wide open by 1 PM. Then all throughout the day I keep hoping sooner or later sleep would embrace me so that I can carry out the mission effectively, but in vain.

To pass 9 hours in office during regular shifts demands lot of patience & alertness, now imagine a single being in a night shift for 9 hours with no soul on the entire floor!!!!!!!!!!

Night shifts make me feel I am a victim of split personality disorder (lol :-D) because two weeks I am trying to drift into the sea of relaxation at a particular time and the next two weeks at the same time I am trying to fight off very human urge to sleep. I am always preoccupied with “SLEEP” during night shifts hence the need for this post.

Enough ranting on sleep!!!!

Signing off for now, PEACE!!!

Saturday Night

There is lot that one can do on a Saturday night. But I had a refreshing experience previous night or early morning.

I had spent some good amount of time around 3am in the morning on an isolated beach(thankfully there was no police patrolling party )with my friends in our high spirits ;-) .It was absolutely peaceful with no hustle bustle. We could only hear the waves roar in all their might. To top it off, it was a full moon night!!! Trust me it was fabulous. With your friends around you, pink floyd being played, cool breeze blowing and to compliment the breeze, cig smoke. What else could one ask for??? I felt --

THIS IS LIFE !!!!

The serenity was really pleasurable. This made me wonder would I feel so good if I were in a night club with loud noise being played. Ofcourse not and a night in the club would come along with a price-tag which I am sure would burn a hole in my pocket.

This exact moment reminded me of “Master Cards” advt which says “Somethings that money cant buy , for rest there is master card”.

Indeed true(am not sure abt master card) few experiences cant have any value and can never be bought.

My First Clubbing Experience in Chennai !!!!

It was night before diwali and we were a group of 8 friends of which I had met 6 of them for the first time. Two had come from hyd and bnglr to celebrate diwali.We wanted to show them around and ensure they have a good time in Chennai. We all were in high spirits to start celebrations for diwali and were wondering how? Then it was unanimously decided we go clubbing as it was a long weekend and night before diwali. We knew that these reasons would draw many people to the clubs to party and we were surely going to have fun.

So off we were in our party clothes to one of the happening clubs in Chennai –Club Pasha (we were recommended to party there by our local friends).We reached Pasha and peeked inside the club and find no one there except the bartenders, floor manager and d.j. My first reaction was “Oh cow!! Nobody in a night club for diwali party!!??? “.Then we instantly checked out the time, it was around 10 pm and we were glad , assuming the party starts late in Chennai and goes on late (the way we like it).We did want to check out other clubs ,but we were not aware of the party scene in Chennai. So, after lot of discussion we get in, to party. We settle down and start going through the menu to order our complimentary drinks and guess who goes out of the club? It’s the D.J!!! Good 15 mins pass by and neither do we have a crowd(except us) nor the D.J. Finally we demanded the management to get us a D.J or we would walk out and in another 15 mins a different D.J was at the console. It was 10:30 pm now and we still had no crowd, we enquired with the bartender what time would the crowd pour in and he replied, post 11pm.That was a respite to hear. Once again, assuming we would shortly be joined by some crowd on the dance floor, we all 8 of us got into the groove. Whenever the club door would open and if ,someone would walk in, our energy levels would go up and we all would be happy thinking finally we got to see new faces and dance with different people. Unfortunately that didn’t happen often and the club had around 15 people by the end of the night. In the meantime we 8 of us were having a ball, we were in possession of the entire dance floor and danced to glory with our killer moves(lol :-D) !!! When we were actually enjoying the party having stopped bothering about the count of people in the club,at around 12am the lights were switched on and d.j killed the music. Upon enquiring as to why the party was ending so early ,we were informed the cops were at the door and were demanding the club be closed for the day/night .

My first clubbing experience in Chennai couldn’t have been better than this!!!!
In spite of all the hitches faced, we all had a good time and thoroughly enjoyed the night in the club. It felt as if we had booked the entire place to host our personal party for our special friends who had come from hyd and bnglr .

The party couldn’t die so young and in the true spirit of party we had continued rocking at our friends place……

Moral of the story was :Assumptions can prove to be costly.

Hoping and looking forward to good party times in Chennai in the future,( lol :-D)

Peace !!!!