Sit Down man, You're a bloody tragedy!!

It was Raksha Bandhan on 16th aug, but since Lunar eclipse fell on that day, the occassion was celebrated on the followin monday.
Its a nice occassion honourin the brothers & sisters. I have celebrated the traditional way only twice or thrice, but I have always tied, mailed the rakhis to my cousin brothers no matter what. Although, this year its all still pending, even though my brother is in town!!

My 1st Lunar eclipse experience...
It should be said that, Lunar eclipse will start by 10:30 pm, not that it will occur at 10:30pm.
Shock followed when I found out that you arent supposed to eat or store food during this period.
Horror followed when mom told me that beggars line up the mumbai streets at night,beggin.
Despair followed when my baby refused to drink the milk I wanted him to finish before the eclipse.
Scared when I was the only one awake to witness this event with all those scary images chasing my mind(plus they were showin "Hollow man' on tv). Woke up my man friday to accompany me to the kitchen...
Back to shock when I realized that it took 2 hrs for the moon to b hidden, 2 seconds for it to appear again, which means I just missed it after all that drama!!
Turns out, only a sliver of the moon remained & it didnt vanish completely!!
Aug 27th - was a day of the two moons - my man friday tried tellin me that one was venus, but seeing that continuing the topic would send him to pluto, he kept quiet!! Now, the scheduled time for this rare occassion was 12:40am. As usual I stayed awake, until I realised I couldnt see even a single moon from my side of the apartment!! So, I slept off by 12:40am!! & missed the 6.5 richter scale earthquake which hit the place at 1am!!
Maybe my luck will change with the Solar eclipse ...

Moony Lupin - your spirits shall live on!!