I am still a bit shaken as I write this…
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ZAF GYM. That’s the name of my office.
Nah, I am not working at the Gym helping Bollywood starlets and heroines lose fat that is protruding from weird places (yeah the place is crawling with celebrities, supposedly). My office simply happened to be on this building.
We occupy the 2nd and 5th floor of this highly coveted and renowned Mumbai Gym.
One of the perks of working in an Advertisement Agency is the extremely informal and relaxed work culture. Office timing is not such a big issue as long as we deliver what we’re supposed to. The office is open even on Saturdays and Sundays, and people walk in all the time to complete their respective projects any time of the day.
Today being a Sunday, and with the rain making it impossible for me to go to Colaba for the Mizo Church Service, I decided to go to office…
It took me 7 hours to complete a tiny project.
Around 8:30pm when I had completed my work and about to pack up and leave, I suddenly decided to update the “Latest Mizo Blog Posts” section at misual.com. By then I was already all alone on the 5th floor of our office, and the Gym downstairs had already closed, and its very dark outside…
Silence… eerie silence… filled the entire office…
I decided to update that section at misual.com quickly because I haven’t touched it in a long time due to heavy work schedule. I haven’t even written the second part of my previous post or even replied to all the insightful comments left by my dear visitors, because I need time to think and absorb what everybody wrote, so that I can write back a worthy reply.
As of now, time is something I cannot afford…
Anyway, I opened my Bloglines Feed quickly to look at all the Mizo Blogs that were updated or edited in the past one week, so that I could add the good ones and the ones with permission, at the misual.com side-bar link section.
As I browsed through all the new posts and edited posts, my sight fell on one particular feed that really spooked me out.
On July 5th 2008, a dear blog friend of mine Azaia (chabetkaia) passed away. He drowned at Lake Lanier, Atlanta, while boating with friends and family members. It was indeed a tragic day for his family, and for the entire Mizo community.
Pictures of his funeral are available here.
I am still trying to get accustomed to his absence… All those jokes and comments we used to share on each other’s blogs are still there… May he truly rest in Peace.
What I found really spooky just a few minutes ago, was when I was going through the complete Mizo blog list, looking at the ones that were updated or edited so that I could add them to misual.com…
And my eyes fell on this!
Quite spooky indeed…
That is Azaia’s Blog feed… with two posts recently edited... way after his demise!
I don’t believe in hauntings or the supernatural… I am sure it is just some technical glitch from bloglines.com’s part… I sure do hope it is just a freaking glitch …
Or maybe Azaia’s siblings or friends who know his password edited those posts…
But the fact that I am all alone at office 5th floor, with the only light in the entire office coming from the tube right above me while the rest of the large room is pitch-dark, aggravated by the fact that there is heavy rain, thunder and lightning right outside my very window… really seemed to put the chills through me.
Not a very good night to be all alone in office… neither is it a very comforting thought to realize that I am not as brave as I thought I was… But writing this out as a post in one go definitely seemed to brush the uneasiness away…
I will leave office now… I never planned to blog from here but circumstances changed my course… Goodnight, y’all.
…
ZAF GYM. That’s the name of my office.
Nah, I am not working at the Gym helping Bollywood starlets and heroines lose fat that is protruding from weird places (yeah the place is crawling with celebrities, supposedly). My office simply happened to be on this building.
We occupy the 2nd and 5th floor of this highly coveted and renowned Mumbai Gym.
One of the perks of working in an Advertisement Agency is the extremely informal and relaxed work culture. Office timing is not such a big issue as long as we deliver what we’re supposed to. The office is open even on Saturdays and Sundays, and people walk in all the time to complete their respective projects any time of the day.
Today being a Sunday, and with the rain making it impossible for me to go to Colaba for the Mizo Church Service, I decided to go to office…
It took me 7 hours to complete a tiny project.
Around 8:30pm when I had completed my work and about to pack up and leave, I suddenly decided to update the “Latest Mizo Blog Posts” section at misual.com. By then I was already all alone on the 5th floor of our office, and the Gym downstairs had already closed, and its very dark outside…
Silence… eerie silence… filled the entire office…
I decided to update that section at misual.com quickly because I haven’t touched it in a long time due to heavy work schedule. I haven’t even written the second part of my previous post or even replied to all the insightful comments left by my dear visitors, because I need time to think and absorb what everybody wrote, so that I can write back a worthy reply.
As of now, time is something I cannot afford…
Anyway, I opened my Bloglines Feed quickly to look at all the Mizo Blogs that were updated or edited in the past one week, so that I could add the good ones and the ones with permission, at the misual.com side-bar link section.
As I browsed through all the new posts and edited posts, my sight fell on one particular feed that really spooked me out.
On July 5th 2008, a dear blog friend of mine Azaia (chabetkaia) passed away. He drowned at Lake Lanier, Atlanta, while boating with friends and family members. It was indeed a tragic day for his family, and for the entire Mizo community.
Pictures of his funeral are available here.
I am still trying to get accustomed to his absence… All those jokes and comments we used to share on each other’s blogs are still there… May he truly rest in Peace.
What I found really spooky just a few minutes ago, was when I was going through the complete Mizo blog list, looking at the ones that were updated or edited so that I could add them to misual.com…
And my eyes fell on this!
Quite spooky indeed…
That is Azaia’s Blog feed… with two posts recently edited... way after his demise!
I don’t believe in hauntings or the supernatural… I am sure it is just some technical glitch from bloglines.com’s part… I sure do hope it is just a freaking glitch …
Or maybe Azaia’s siblings or friends who know his password edited those posts…
But the fact that I am all alone at office 5th floor, with the only light in the entire office coming from the tube right above me while the rest of the large room is pitch-dark, aggravated by the fact that there is heavy rain, thunder and lightning right outside my very window… really seemed to put the chills through me.
Not a very good night to be all alone in office… neither is it a very comforting thought to realize that I am not as brave as I thought I was… But writing this out as a post in one go definitely seemed to brush the uneasiness away…
I will leave office now… I never planned to blog from here but circumstances changed my course… Goodnight, y’all.
