Continuing with Orissa...
I remember the place used to be packed with monkeys during summer... Come summer you dont see human beings.. only monkeys.. well whats the difference anyways..
We dint have this problem in the first house but in the second what with us being on the second floor.. in proximity to tree tops.. we always found some or the other monkey on guard at our doors..
Our television was placed in my parents room.. which had the famous balcony mentioned in the previous blog..
Monkeys found haven in our balcony.. and i m sure if we hadnt been careful we would have had to give up our beds to the monkeys too...

One day at lunch which as always i was first to gobble up and finish.. i picked up a 'pappad' and an 'Orange' for dessert and made my way to the bedroom.. and planted myself in front of the TV.. something or the other was on.. but i dont remember anything that had happened before nor after this...
I had settled in bed.. and there were a group of chattering monkeys at our balcony as always.. nothing new..
Well by now you would have guessed what happened..
well I had no clue then... so there i was watching TV innocently.. a little girl of 4 munching on pappad.. waiting to finish it to peel the orange when a HUGE SUPER SIZED MONKEY comes bounding into the bedroom.... i watch it in slow motion... my brain processes the affair... I scream.. i throw the Orange over my head and run to the other room and hide my head under the pillows..... My family still at lunch dont understand a thing... they just hear my small muffled scream.. see me running outta the room.. and watch me bewildered..They rush to the room and see the monkey happily strut away with the Ripe Juicy Big Orange... and get the whole episode right..
That was my first brush with my kind... and it still feels super..
My family says i was brilliant to have thrown the Orange at the monkey.. but little do they know it had accidently dropped outta my hands in fear..???
Cant guess what would have happened otherwise... unlike what others say the monkey would have attacked me.. i think it would have been a classic moment where the monkey would have come bounding over to me.. and would have held out its hand and i would have shook it understanding the unspoken and we would have had a jam sharing the BEEEEG ORANGE....
Shit.. Opportunity lost....