camilla the cat

for nilesh, my kid brother. something he can read and hopefully enjoy, unlike the loads of inanities elsewhere on the page :) he'll be back from school next week.

camilla the cat woke up with flies on her whiskers and anger on her crimson ears. it was an unusually hot late Delhi afternoon, perfect for a nap. Camilla's life moved from nap to nap rather than otherwise and these unexpected shuffling of priorities did her already foul mood little good.

she looked at the WWF calendar hanging above her head on kumar's courtyard. 20th the Friday. tomorrow, she told herself she'll go to the WWF India near habitat centre to check on her petition for endangered species status for amber striped cats in urban settings.

the status, ahh...would mean so much. attention, funds and freebies.

today, like every Friday she'll go for a movie.

the movie though reminded her of last weeks "penguins in love". it kept giving her delicious day dreams for a week to follow.


her mind drifted to the latest political crisis in her life. her president ship of the football field nagar canine, vermine , feline and ursine creatures association(CVFUA) was under threat.
taking a cue from the results of latest MCD elections certain saffron cats were trying to bring a no confidence motion against her paw mark party's government.

if only she can turn the clock a little bit. only last month she had successfully lobbied for the reduction in duties in pet foods with the finance minister. budget 2007 was the most successful budget in the entire CVFUA's history. in fact national feline organizations invited her to take up positions in their organizations.

but being the true secularist she cannot serve in parochial organizations and fritter away the gains made by rainbow coalitions like hers across the country. their slogans like " every dog has already had his day" and "mouse meat for every cat" disgusted her.

she looked at kumar's window. he sat gazing into his unkempt garden, transfixed at an unknown point. Camilla sighed!!

kumar in her view was the laziest, most useless creature of any calling that she ever encountered. twice her 12 years in age, he stayed in a single person household enjoying every moment of it.

though Camilla suspected that it was a grand ploy and he was actually unhappy inside. three years she had watched him curiously. hoping for the mask to fall. but kumar stayed the same.


he was so non descript that even in a one person household he was hardly visible. she half suspected that he melted into the walls using some occult powers. but she wouldn't really let have kumar anything special, even in imagination. so she put down his normalcy to some kind of extreme dumbness.

to top it all , his taste in music was pathetic. he was forever lost in old, romantic numbers. she hoped he'll wisen up some day and buy a stack of latest cat hop or dog lop songs. in fact, she may even consider being friends with him if he did that.

her cager rang. horrified she realized that she has spent 10 minutes of premium Camilla time on wondering about someone like kumar.

she looked at the message from rotu rat. "hey cattie". 2 words absolutely devoid of meaning. she pitied the person who may take an IQ test of rotu rat. before she met rotu she thought only humans were stupid enough to go through hie, bye motions without purpose.

she felt like breaking rotu's nose. only he didn't have a proper one. plus he was a nice guy and despite his stupidity pretty useful.

she looked around to find the sun turning scarlet. she turned and picked up her favourite Garfield skateboard.

after 5 minutes of skating down she reached the nearest multiplex. her heart sank as she realized their were no animal flicks. she'll have to settle for one of those non funny human types.

3 out of 4 were the mandatory mushy romances(eeeeeks!!). her choice became clearer.

stepping into the controlled air conditioned environment she realized the difference.

she made a mental note to read the article about global warming in the "cat chronicles". she had missed reading it initially because she didn't like the photograph next to it. it was of a professor with dirty green eyes that all old and unglamourous cats have.bah!! old cat.



to be continued..lol :)