When i looked back my old
times, it was one of my best hobby. 'Throwing pebbles to blow out bubbles'. I
used to sit on top of the steep rock that we had near my house and the water
that used to form during the month of jun, july was my destination on the off
times from my home studies. The water was surrounded by steep rocks that had a
hight of two story building on one side was very slippery those times. But i
used to try to climb on the sides of the rock on all the sides. Jumping from
one rock to the other one was the best time pass i used to while i got bored
sitting on one place. There was a kind of tree that grown on one side of the
rock that was grown near to the side of the rock. So if we climb the rock, we
will be able to touch the top of the tree. Sometimes i used to climb it to see
the top f the tree, then i used to sleep for sometime on the top as it was
slightly plain surface on the top. I could close my eyes and could watch the
sky. This place was once filled with so much of hard rocks one time. Then
people who interested in the rock, used to crack it using bombs/crackers
whatever it called. I never used to go to that side where this happened, as it
happened only for a short duration. When the sound of the cracker comes to my
ears, i used to hear for any other sound that may follow it. Because one day
while i was walking through that side, i saw a rock in a good size is on the
air in the impact of the bomb and it fallen near one of neighbours house. So i
was expecting a rock on top of my house any time. Then when time has passed by,
people made that as a cricket ground. So many matches by paying few bucks like
10, 20 etc. I was not interested in a hard time cricket plays. I rather
interested in watching the games rather playing it. Then again year has passed
by and the top of the rock was the best place i used to find as my shelter on
my boring times. On a month of rainy time, i saw some movement in the water.
When the water get fills in the ground, the forgs and the small water snakes to
eat the frogs were common in that place. So i was curiously watching the
movement in water from the top of the rock. It was a fish. OOoops..!! A fish in
that water. I find that very interesting. In my father's place called
'Thripunithura', i used to fish and there were so many water fields and small
ponds etc. But in my place, i was seeing a place were i can fish for the first
time. I planned for fish and tried to get this bait to fish and also needed
equipments etc. In one day or two day, when i was all set to fish, i marched to
the place. When i was about reach that place, it was like 200 meters from my
house. There is a big courtyard in front of my house and i had to walk through
that to reach this pond kind of ground. I was hearing some buggy noises from
there by some kiddy people. One guy was claiming that he planted the first fish
in pond, so all the fish is owned by him. The other set of people claiming that
'this is not something owned by your family, so everybody can fish'. I waited
on the concerete block that we had near to the pond as few big shots in our
place also came here to see what is happening. They took the control of
situation and gave permission to everybody to fish. The other guy who was on
bicycle, shouted at everybody that he will put poison in the water and cycled
away. Then somebody was shouting, then we all will kill you. So my calculating
mind formulated one solution, today is the best and last day i can fish from
this pond, as i was afraid of getting poisoned. And that day i caught a
reasonable amount of fish like in a count of ten to fifteen as there were so
much of fish. I got them and went back to my house, i got an idea. My father was
constantly checking out to see if any well can be digged near my house. So he
gave contract to some people to dig the pond, but as it gone down few feets,
they saw rock that made it impossible to dig down deep. Next idea was to go
with borewell. Borewell people came and digged for two days, but water was not
seen. Finally when my father understood that if we are not stopping, these
people will find a shortcut to USA, father told to STOP. So to be precise and
to my interest of that time, we had a small pond near my house digged out for
the well. And during rainy season, it was all filled with water. I put the fish
in the pond. I dont know how many could survive, though few dead and get on top
of the water, i could catch almost the same count after the rainy season and
the water emptied in the well.
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