damn you DLS !!!

Last sunday when we went to church for mass, we were a bit late. The father gave a pretty nasty lecture on the sense of punctuality and not disturbing others in their prayers. Quite abashed, I decided to make it before time, this time i.e. today.

So last night before going to bed I made a schedule for a Sunday morning(yeah..the same day when a lot of you prefer to relax and stretch for an extra hour and two inside the sheets.) It went something like this.

1. Get up at 6.30 am and be on the table by 7.
2. Finish 2 hours of studies. Apply oil to thy hair. Yeah, we Indian girls, still do that. This weekly massage keeps the gray matter inside my head younger :P
3. 9.00 to 10.00 - finish breakfast, with an episode or two of any crappy series, videos or news and blogs.
4. Finally take a shower. Yeah the long, sunday special !! Before that don't forget to call up the church buddy, to make sure of the plan.

And there's the catch, crux and stupidity of today's extremely how-I-got-pissed-off story.

As I call up this friend and tell her I will be there at her apartment by 11. She tells me 'But, its already 11.05!!'

I am like, get moving you bugger. Rub your eyes. Its 10.05.

Then I get that wholehearted chuckle, 'Oh!! Day light saving started since last night. You must have missed it.'

I am like 'What crap !!!'

And then I google and get to know that, indeed DSL has started. It starts on the 2nd Sunday of March !!!
That explains the mismatch between my lappy and mobile watch.

Earlier this morning...
thinking that 3 manual watches in my room cannot be wrong, I had very cleverly changed the time settings of my lappy. And I had also laughed at it, thinking how stupid the machine was. Whereas a sensible person (read intelligent and not presumptuous) would have appreciated the fact, that it auto updates itself on every start up and network detection (thus a very clever machine). She would have also found out about why that had happened, rather than just plainly believing her cleverness :P

Anyways, things do fall into place for me, after a good 15 minutes.

But sadly I have missed the mass. (I cannot go late and that too with oil dripping off my hair!!!)

And you know what, it's all because of DSL. DSL sucks!!! Why do you need to move ahead and behind 'time' every 4-5 months. We Indians don't have it and we are still productive. We do have an IST (Indian standard time) for timing our schedules. And you know what it works for us in a randomly chaotic way. At least we don't feel the pain of facing a well planned and equally well implemented schedule getting totally ruined.

Instead of feeling like a total fool, I take pleasure in cursing others!! Yes, I am pissed off.

You can take 'me' out of India, but you cannot take the 'India' out of me :P

~nightflier :D