Once an FB update on my friend’s wall read – What’s so big about weekend? They come fast and so as Mondays too. Well, it’s been always exciting to have a weekend, but on the other hand we have Mondays approaching fast as well. The pain for Monday blues starts as early as Sunday noon. And one of the most painful things is to get up early morning on Monday. The most irritating thing will be the alarm which I usually keep at 5.45 am and put the geyser on and again take a nap till 6 am. Sometimes I feel the alarm should not ring, but unlike other malfunctioning items, this has been quite loyal to ring at correct time. Looking at the dipping temperatures in Bangalore, it’s really a pain in a**. After getting ready, walking barely less than 100 mts to catch our office bus is kind of a longest walk I take. Right from my Geometric days, this has been the routine, not much is changed over a period of time except the pickup point (Earlier it was Vijaynagar and now it is changed to Bangalore International Public School). Well, though this mood will be till I get to office and catch up with pals there, but still that timing is like awful. And to get in full working mood it almost takes half a day…
Like the any other early Monday morning, I had just finished my breakfast and about to get back to my seat I heard my colleague calling me from back. There was a kind of surprise fear on his face.
He pointed at one of the lights in our lab and said “Dinesh, can u see that overhang light?”
I had a close look at that and said “Yeah, why what happened?” (Though I am keen observer sometimes, this was a kind of a formal stuff)
“Just see carefully, that light is oscillating a bit and the remaining lights are stationary”
This made me to take a look at that light once again within a second. And gosh, it was oscillating and oscillating well compared to other overhang lights.
What the hell..?
All the other lights, some of them were ON and others were OFF are stationary, but this light was just giving a kind of a simple pendulum motion. “This I have been observing from 7.30 in the morning. I was thinking it could be due to breeze or may be someone has accidentally touched it or something similar. But nope, this is not stopping at all. I mean I am really scared man” was his explanation without removing his sight from the lamp.
I had heard from colleagues who were working as technicians there before the new lab was built about some strange stuff. May not be paranormal, but they used to get frightened sometime too. No one knew exactly what was there earlier as the entire electronic city was far from the city.
Tiny layouts are popping up all over the places and the city is witnessing unprecedented growth. There are many layouts built nearer to burial grounds or even some may have been vanished making ways to layouts/apartments. I was forced to think if there is any other negative energy over there which is abnormal and affecting our lamps.
On a lighter side, sometimes our deadlines too get going further and further delaying. Well, is that the same force which is creating problems for that lamp also? This could also generate some negative energy to our suppliers who, come what may don’t send the things on time. Without any reason our systems become hell slow and don’t let us work at normal pace at all (It happened to Harry, me and sunny many times).
I had heard and seen people getting affected from the paranormal things, but lamp…!!! This was the first time. Except in movies, where the doll or lifeless objects get processed, this was a kind of personal experience to me.
I tried to get closer to the lamp to check if something I could find (Though I was trying to be brave, but this was really getting scary). Below that lamp there were two control units (kind of a server). They could not affect the lamp as they were stationary. And if they affect, then the entire lamps should oscillate, but nothing, this is the only lamp which is just moving to and fro.
By that time few more of my colleagues had come and they were also curiously watching what’s going on there. Everyone saw from different angles… but none could come out with exact reason why the lamp is oscillating. Finally I decided I won’t go to that side and came and sat on my seat.
The lamp still oscillates to date and no one could make out why?
The secret unveiled:
The lamp oscillates due to air coming from a small fan located exactly below it put up on the server.
The night shift incidents are mere a chatting events and nothing more than that. These are the most interesting topics discussed on a cup of tea for a kind of Time pass.
The systems slow down abruptly due to scheduled antivirus scans.
(Edited by: Amitha)
The real world.. 