Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Rant


Aaaargh... I am so beyond pissed at the moment. I've come back from a long day at work, a long, long tiring day. Then as I'm riding back home with veggies for dinner, hanging in a plastic bag off my wrist, it hits me that the worst is yet to come. It hits me, yes at a 120 freaking decibels, louder than The Who, louder than anything you would want to imagine. It's Shaadi(wedding) season here and the one going on in the bleeding hall next to my place is blasting the most godawful racket and baby they are going for broke.
I have only myself to blame, when I decided to rent the place, I checked the orientation, exposure to the sun, rent, neighbors, square footage, hell I even inventoried the local dogs. Somehow I forgot to account for the Shaadi hall that shares a wall with our place.
They're playing an annoying mix of Hindi and Telegu songs and what makes it worse is that it's a bleeding live band playing fuckall electric noise machines. Everytime the octopad hits a bass note, my windows reverberate. Everytime the male singer hits a high note they coo lovingly in response. Everytime the female one hits one I feel like bringing out the old battle axe and going Friday the thirteenth on the thousand or so people I can see queuing up at the buffet (pronounced like buffet as in 'buffeted' by the wind). Honestly no-one's even listening all they are concentrating on is flicking enough grub to last them the fucking winter, I swear I can see people leaving with their cheeks bulging like goddamn squirrels.
I managed to get dinner cooked and eaten in the racket but now, I just want some peace, some quiet is that too much to ask for, honestly you tell me.
What's wrong with this country are there no zoning laws? Who in their right minds allows the construction of a bleeding open-air Shaadi Maidan (ground) in the middle of a residential neighborhood.
Aaaaaarrrrgh.....
The only thing that I get a little sadistic pleasure from is thinking about the people who complained one weekend when we got drunk and sang too loud too late. Who are they going to complain to now, the cops? Hehe, yeah right, I bet those motherfuckers are just waiting for a complaint so they can turn up sirens blaring and collect their two pieces of silver, if they haven't already, the bastards.
I need to relax, I need to work, I just need to be and I'm going insane. I'm listening to Amon Amarth at full volume and I don't care if I go deaf, anything to get me out of this misery.
I still remember the last one which was much worse, not only did they have their own troupe of off-key sirens, they had fire crackers too. Of all the buildings around the ground, ours is the lowest, so they carefully aimed the things at us. I remember running up to the roof, drunk, while the sky rained hell fire and brimstone, trying to get my clothes (which were up to dry) down before they caught fire.

6 comments:

See Bee said...

hee hee hee hee hee hee

funnnnnnnnnnny!

i have stayed in hyd so know EXACTLY what kind of music (n the volume levels) you had to endure :)))

well i dont know if ur them nri returned types - but zoning laws?? eh??? puleez!!

a lot of residential areas in india also have primary schools and mosques. n were talking about LOUD on a daily basis. be glad that u have to endure shaadi trauma only once in a while

as long as u have corrupt municipal officials, most residential areas will always have some secret headbangers ball hidden behind shady tress, for u to discover after u have paid your rent :)

Maire said...

grr - i hate when you have to use noise to drown out noise. I think we all should be entitled to a certain amount of silence!

I recently spent about 50 hours with a house alarm going off about 10 feet away from my bedroom window - it was quite upsetting!

Kartik said...

@Trauma, not an NRI but I'm from delhi and we recently had the the whole sealing drama, well not recently, a couple of years ago. It just made me think someone did care, even if only the supreme court! A friend of mine lives in Benson Town, in banglore an I know the mosque deal, it was funny waking up at 5-5.30 to some dude screaming at the top of his lungs, well funny for me, I only had one day of it.

@Aunty, my sentiments exactly, we should be entitled to our quota of silence. The most irritating thing i think is once something bugs me, I begin to focus on it and try as I might I can't bring myself to ignore it. An alarm would have just gotten louder and louder in my head till I wouldn't hear any thing else. I'd focus on it and work myself into a fury. An alarm i'm guessing is infinitely worse than someone singing, no matter how off-key they are.
It's something about the regularity of the beeping (or whatever you had to put up with), one can't help but be mesmerized, once i catch the rhythm (and that really isn't all that hard is it) my head just beeps along with it as i get angrier and angrier

Terra Shield said...

Yikes... not fun at all! Residential areas should be quiet and left alone... we don't have wedding halls in the neighbourhood where I live, but the retards think they own the world whenever they get married. The tent covers the whole road, that yo will need to take an alternative lane to leave/reach your house!

See Bee said...

hey kartik,

do submit ur blog for a review at the wbc (I got to know about it thru terra's blog)

then we could all celebrate our memberships with a night of drinking, quaffing and ping-pong

hee hee hee

btw depeche mode and beastie boys are two separate bands. DM are perhaps the best synthpop and new-wave act ever (their wikipedia entry proves it). BB's 'intergalactic' is an annoying song that can easily become anyone's earworm - but its one of those nice annoying songs that u can keep nodding your head to :)

the music gyan apart - i'm glad you like my playlist - if u like discovering new bands - check out www.last.fm

ok the publicising of other websites ends here :D

Pallav said...

dude dude dude, i have endured punjabi weddings that create enough ruckus to keep everyone in the 2 mile radius awake...

plus the all night bhajans here, full volume with dudes competing to sing louder...fuck.

be glad you are not in punjab!

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