Simply Me
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Wedding bells...
Almost an year after my last appearance on my blog, this time I return with an announcement... 'I'M GETTING MARRIED.'
So today, 16 days to the wedding, while I sit at home with huge piles of clothes towering all around me on my bed and on the floor, I decided to write about 'him.'
My fiancé, Raghavendra, is just the sort of guy I was looking for - the exact opposite of me. I keep saying, when God made him, all the qualities He had left in the other box went into making me... He is sensible... I am a nut-case; I am a chatterbox... he will listen to every nonsensical comment of mine; he is a romantic... I am... well... clueless; I love to read... he has promised all my books are going to gather dust sitting in the book shelf he is going to buy for me 'cause he says he wants me to give him company in not-reading!!! In another life, I would have probably been a psycho-rocker... he keeps me grounded...
The question my school friends started with was... 'Tell us everything... Start right at the beginning.' So I did...
Teen saal pehle ki baat hai... (They go: Teen saal???!!!), amma decided to start looking for a prospective groom for me. (Oh accha, wahaan se start kar rahi tu...)... So I continued, saying, we met in Bangalore at my mhanthu's (my dad's older brother's) home. We had a very practical discussion about the typical must-have questions... job, friends and jealousies, clothes - restrictions, how religious is his family, how family oriented everyone is. We moved on to things like hobbies, friends, general stuff... We met up again the next day - Friendship Day. I said I needed time to think and probably talk to him a bit more before coming to a decision. We had received a 'Yes' from his side that morning.
Monday morning, we took a flight back to Pune. My cell pinged with a message as soon as I turned it on... Hope you reached safely... I replied, Yes, reached Pune. Could I call you later around 11 P.M. after I get back from office? He said, 'Sure.'
I called him up at night. We said hi to each other... Then I said, 'Actually, the reason I wanted to talk was to say - Yes.' His reply - OK. You are not saying that because you are being pressurized by your family, are you? I am like!!!??? Ye kaisa reply hai? 'No, I thought about it and came to the decision. How about you? You aren't being pressurized by your family, right?' (I mean, no excitement, no pressure na... itna practical question??? :( Gharwaalon ne to nahi haan bulwaaya usse) 'No-no, nothing like that.' We spoke for a while more and then cut the call.
What I missed telling them was, since then, I have already teased him endlessly about the lack of emotion when I said yes. And he has since told me that that monday was the worst of life in between the time he read my message and I gave my assent. He said he couldn't concentrate on his work and worried incessantly about what I would say. I said, ‘Of course, what else could I say? You ticked all the check boxes in my list of what I wanted...’
Since that first time we met, I have visited Bangalore, he has visited me in Pune, we have each surprised the other on birthdays, we have gotten engaged, we have fallen in love... (though he claims he fell in love with me after talking to me the very first time).
What I didn't tell my friends was R and I were probably destined to be together from a long time. We had been sent each others' horoscopes 3 years ago - right at the beginning of our respective searches but while according to their pandit, our horoscopes matched, not according to our pandit. 3 years down the line and after receiving his horoscope about 5 times from different sources, my mamama ( amma's mum) finally said, 'You know what, lets check again.' Well, needless to say, the rest is history. This time the horoscopes matched and quite well I might add. Apparently, relative positions of the stars makes a difference from time to time... Ohhhh...kkkkay.
Whichever way I look at it though I'd say smart catch on the horoscopes. So as we soon embark on a new journey, we both keep our minds positive about the future and look forward to writing a new chapter of our lives - this time together.
P.S. Archana was wondering if I have known R for 3 years... so maybe my post is confusing... We met august of this year... 2011... So amma of course keeps teasing me... Yeah yeah, and before you used to say... 6 months of engagement... Now from the time you first met him to the wedding, just over 4 months... What changed?
So today, 16 days to the wedding, while I sit at home with huge piles of clothes towering all around me on my bed and on the floor, I decided to write about 'him.'
My fiancé, Raghavendra, is just the sort of guy I was looking for - the exact opposite of me. I keep saying, when God made him, all the qualities He had left in the other box went into making me... He is sensible... I am a nut-case; I am a chatterbox... he will listen to every nonsensical comment of mine; he is a romantic... I am... well... clueless; I love to read... he has promised all my books are going to gather dust sitting in the book shelf he is going to buy for me 'cause he says he wants me to give him company in not-reading!!! In another life, I would have probably been a psycho-rocker... he keeps me grounded...
The question my school friends started with was... 'Tell us everything... Start right at the beginning.' So I did...
Teen saal pehle ki baat hai... (They go: Teen saal???!!!), amma decided to start looking for a prospective groom for me. (Oh accha, wahaan se start kar rahi tu...)... So I continued, saying, we met in Bangalore at my mhanthu's (my dad's older brother's) home. We had a very practical discussion about the typical must-have questions... job, friends and jealousies, clothes - restrictions, how religious is his family, how family oriented everyone is. We moved on to things like hobbies, friends, general stuff... We met up again the next day - Friendship Day. I said I needed time to think and probably talk to him a bit more before coming to a decision. We had received a 'Yes' from his side that morning.
Monday morning, we took a flight back to Pune. My cell pinged with a message as soon as I turned it on... Hope you reached safely... I replied, Yes, reached Pune. Could I call you later around 11 P.M. after I get back from office? He said, 'Sure.'
I called him up at night. We said hi to each other... Then I said, 'Actually, the reason I wanted to talk was to say - Yes.' His reply - OK. You are not saying that because you are being pressurized by your family, are you? I am like!!!??? Ye kaisa reply hai? 'No, I thought about it and came to the decision. How about you? You aren't being pressurized by your family, right?' (I mean, no excitement, no pressure na... itna practical question??? :( Gharwaalon ne to nahi haan bulwaaya usse) 'No-no, nothing like that.' We spoke for a while more and then cut the call.
What I missed telling them was, since then, I have already teased him endlessly about the lack of emotion when I said yes. And he has since told me that that monday was the worst of life in between the time he read my message and I gave my assent. He said he couldn't concentrate on his work and worried incessantly about what I would say. I said, ‘Of course, what else could I say? You ticked all the check boxes in my list of what I wanted...’
Since that first time we met, I have visited Bangalore, he has visited me in Pune, we have each surprised the other on birthdays, we have gotten engaged, we have fallen in love... (though he claims he fell in love with me after talking to me the very first time).
What I didn't tell my friends was R and I were probably destined to be together from a long time. We had been sent each others' horoscopes 3 years ago - right at the beginning of our respective searches but while according to their pandit, our horoscopes matched, not according to our pandit. 3 years down the line and after receiving his horoscope about 5 times from different sources, my mamama ( amma's mum) finally said, 'You know what, lets check again.' Well, needless to say, the rest is history. This time the horoscopes matched and quite well I might add. Apparently, relative positions of the stars makes a difference from time to time... Ohhhh...kkkkay.
Whichever way I look at it though I'd say smart catch on the horoscopes. So as we soon embark on a new journey, we both keep our minds positive about the future and look forward to writing a new chapter of our lives - this time together.
P.S. Archana was wondering if I have known R for 3 years... so maybe my post is confusing... We met august of this year... 2011... So amma of course keeps teasing me... Yeah yeah, and before you used to say... 6 months of engagement... Now from the time you first met him to the wedding, just over 4 months... What changed?
Labels: Band Baajaa Baraat, Yaadein reh jaati hain..., Yaaron Dosti badi hi haseen hai...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Saying goodbye...
Some people just touch your life and become a part of it. And when they leave, you miss them terribly. Some of them you miss when you don't see them at their desk or when your realize that when you turn around to talk to them, they just aren't there... But there are others, who make you feel you are going to burst into tears as soon as they start off on their 'Goodbye... I'm gonna miss you... And this is what I think of you and what I want to say to you' pre-cake-cutting speech.
The last time this happened to me was when Anjali had left. My fellow gossip, mostly I was a sounding-box when she complained but she has done her share of extending the sympathetic ear when I cribbed about how much I miss my grandparents or cribbed regarding how moms never understand you. Standing on the BOBJ floor and trying to wipe off tears unobtrusively was really difficult as we said goodbye especially considering she was off to Singapore... definitely not as close as a call or chat or a weekend meet away.
Today when Pulkit was about to leave, I could feel my eyes fill up and my throat choke; I knew I had to shut up if I didn't want to start crying then and there. I'm sure I sounded callous when all I said is bye. He said we shouldn't miss him since we'd keep meeting and it won't be Goodbye. It's true but the fact is I won't see him in office; I'll miss his enthusiasm, spirit, sincerity towards work, his friendship... I don't know.. just way too many things. Probably more so because we were in the same group and have shared tiffins as often as gossips.
I'm sure we'll keep meeting Pulkit and Saumya even though he has left but I'll still miss sending out the ping for lunch with his name not there in the list. It's one thing knowing someone is on leave and entirely different when you know they aren't coming back.
Well Pulkit, considering you said we'll all keep meeting, trust me this time you have no way around us coming to your place to eat Saumya ke haath ka khaana. Lunch is still pending. All the best buddy for your new job. Hope you reach as many lives and people as you did here. Take care.
The last time this happened to me was when Anjali had left. My fellow gossip, mostly I was a sounding-box when she complained but she has done her share of extending the sympathetic ear when I cribbed about how much I miss my grandparents or cribbed regarding how moms never understand you. Standing on the BOBJ floor and trying to wipe off tears unobtrusively was really difficult as we said goodbye especially considering she was off to Singapore... definitely not as close as a call or chat or a weekend meet away.
Today when Pulkit was about to leave, I could feel my eyes fill up and my throat choke; I knew I had to shut up if I didn't want to start crying then and there. I'm sure I sounded callous when all I said is bye. He said we shouldn't miss him since we'd keep meeting and it won't be Goodbye. It's true but the fact is I won't see him in office; I'll miss his enthusiasm, spirit, sincerity towards work, his friendship... I don't know.. just way too many things. Probably more so because we were in the same group and have shared tiffins as often as gossips.
I'm sure we'll keep meeting Pulkit and Saumya even though he has left but I'll still miss sending out the ping for lunch with his name not there in the list. It's one thing knowing someone is on leave and entirely different when you know they aren't coming back.
Well Pulkit, considering you said we'll all keep meeting, trust me this time you have no way around us coming to your place to eat Saumya ke haath ka khaana. Lunch is still pending. All the best buddy for your new job. Hope you reach as many lives and people as you did here. Take care.
Labels: Yaadein reh jaati hain..., Yaaron Dosti badi hi haseen hai...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
I wonder....
If someone is my best friend and if I am 'apparently' their best friend as well, why won't that person listen to me when I tell them to do something... and that too for their own safety??? :(
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Just a forward... Battle of sexes
I was on my clean-up drive and was clearing up an old account... Here's a silly e-mail chain my friends and I kept adding to for (wow!!!) 22 whole days... Here's unleashing some of the madness... (This was literally a colourful e-mail but blogspot doesn't seem to accept it.. And not in the mood to fiddle with the colours all that much)... One of the silier episodes that I remember of my KPIT training team
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: chetashri
Date: Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: Just for giggles....
To:
Hurray!! That was superb Tejaswini!!!
On 8/25/07, Tejaswini wrote:
OK Parag... let me continue with your story...
Now one thing you can never blame girls for is learning from their mistake. Now on their way back from Lonavala to Pune, they decide to take a local... The guys now confident of their so-called superiority, decide to repeat their previous plan of buying no tickets... The girls smart as they are, realise the guys' folly and all buy tickets. When the TC comes in the gals are safe and sound and guys are kicked out not to mention the penalty they had to pay... They in their over confidence had forgotten locals don't have toilets. :P
On 8/20/07, chetashri wrote:
my god!!! Somebody please take initiative to and keep counting no of replies and we can celebrate the century!!!!!!! :-)
On 8/19/07, parag wrote:
=================================================
Hey dear, i don know @ others, however i couldn't understand what is the meaning of ur story.......
Hehe.. seriously good one Parag.
Feminist Fairytale
As u know I'm poor in English. mere liye alag se simple english me likha karo.......
==============================================
Here is one story for u all from my side......... Enjoy....
Boys v/s Girls
who is brilliant a Girl or a Boy ??
7 Girls and 7 Boys are going from PUNE to
Mumbai. So they both gather at Pune Station. Both
groups are desperately trying to prove their
superiority.
SCENE 1 (PUNE- MUMBAI) :
7 Boys take only 1 Ticket and 7 Girls buy all 7
tickets..Girls are desperately waiting for TC to
come...... When TC arrives, All 7 Boys get in one
toilet SO when TC knocks , one hand come out with the
ticket and the TC goes away....Girls say "Dekh
lenge"
SCENE 2 (MUMBAI - LONAVALA) :
Girls decided, "this time we will prove that we too
are equally SHAANE"....All 7 Girls take 1 Ticket. Boys
don't buy any ticket at all!!!!!..TC
arrives....
ALL GIRLS IN ONE TOILET.ALL BOYS IN THE
OPPOSITE ONE..
One Boy gets out and knocks the door of Girls
toilet, One hand comes with the tickets, he takes the
ticket and comes in Boys Bathroom... TC DRIVES out
hey! Boys r always smart.....donn u agree boys!!
parag.........................................
=========================================
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tejaswini
Date: Aug 18, 2007 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: Just for giggles....
To:
Oye Naveen!!!!! Come on do u honestly think either of us believes in this sexist nonsense? Its just that this kind of bashing is fun.. I seriously smile at some of the things the guys come up with... and don't worry no ones fighting.. chill Naveen.. neither are we gals after u guys' blood nor the other way 'round... continue this thread and have a good laugh reading all the things everyone writes..
Thandh rakh Naveen.
-Tejaswini
On 8/18/07, Naveen wrote:
hey peope what is this keep on fighting on a single topic
what ever it is i believe both are equal as not one exists with out the other
this is fact every one knows abut that then y this contraversies
be cool we have much more thngs to do in life rather than fighting
enough of baashan
uday told us to be profestionals not people in fish market
naveen
On 8/18/07, Tejaswini wrote:
Hehe.. seriously good one Parag.
Feminist Fairytale
Once upon a time, in a land far away, a beautiful independent self-assured princess happened upon a frog as she sat contemplating ecological issues on the shores of an unpolluted pond in a verdant meadow near her castle. The frog hopped into the princess's lap
And said: Elegant Lady, I was once a handsome prince, until an evil witch cast a spell upon me. One kiss from you, however, and I will turn back into a dapper, young prince that I am and then, my sweet, we can marry and setup housekeeping in yon castle with my mother, where you can prepare my meals, clean my clothes, bear my children and forever feel grateful and happy doing so.
That night, on a repast of lightly sauteed frogs' legs seasoned in a white wine and onion cream sauce, she chuckled to herself and thought: I don't think so!
:P
-Tejaswini
On 8/18/07, Indian !!! wrote:
That's Really nice Parag.. hahaha......
On 8/18/07, parag wrote:
======================================
WOMAN has MAN in it .
SHE has HE in it.
Mrs . has Mr. in it.
LADY has LAD in it.
MISTERESS has MISTER in it.
MADAM has ADAM in it.
HOSTESS has HOST in it.
FEMALE has MALE in it
and so on the list is never ending
SO NO need to be proud ....Girls
YOU are always incomplete without
Boys....ha ha ha
Parag..........
====================================
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sumeet
Date: Aug 13, 2007 12:07 AM
Subject: Re: Just for giggles....
To:
i guess only we five (Tejaswini, Parag, Nikhil, Chetashri and Me) are there to add on to this mail. no one in this group are interested to add or speak on the topic... :)
Ok then, we can stop speaking on the topic now... its a high time now... :)
~Sumeet...
On 8/12/07, Tejaswini wrote:
WOW!!! This mail is being added to for 10 days now :D.. go on ppl.. anymore PJs? Bashing guys or gals to add to this mail?
-Tejaswini
On 8/10/07, chetashri wrote:
Me too. felt like I dont understand english anymore...............
On 8/10/07, Tejaswini wrote:
Is it just me or is everyone confused after reading Sumeet's comment? No offense, but wat u trying to say here? No further comments..
-Tejaswini
On 8/8/07, Sumeet wrote:
well, i guess in that case its again man how succedded in confusing the ladies and hence the ladies went on with a wrong conclusion... :)
thats y its said if a girl have buty in her, she dont have brains, and if she have brains, she is not beautiful... :)
buty n brains are like the 2 pollar region for them that can never meet.
he he he he...!!!
~Sumeet...
On 8/7/07, Tejaswini wrote:
u know Parag... thats ok.. ican understand u r confused.. u meant to say cows and gals as in 'GAI's and gals.. no probs.. chal tujhe maaf kiya
-Tejaswini
On 8/7/07, parag wrote:
==============================================
Well Chetashri.......... I think u r correct.
I was wrong........ as i'm always confused between cows and Buffaloes 4m my childhood.
Could u please help me 2 decide ?
parag
=================================
---- Forwarded message ----------
From: chetashri
Date: Aug 7, 2007 3:04 AM
Subject: Re: Just for giggles....
To:
may b he means guys n gals.................now tht shows a woman how confused a man is when he does something on his own!!!!!
this series is going to b a interesting one !!
On 8/7/07, Tejaswini wrote:
@Chetashri: Hey ur just for giggles has proceeded to become an all out Battle of sexes :P
@Parag: Boys and COWS!!!!??????
On 8/6/07, Nikhil wrote:
man this is real funny :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
--
Nikhil
On 8/4/07, parag wrote:
Well boys and cows,
what i wana say is.......
Behind every successful man there is a women (many women) because women always run after a successful man.
and now a days
@Behind every successful women....... there is a women*. @
*Also applicable in India.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Nikhil
Date: Aug 3, 2007 7:08 AM
Subject: Re: Just for giggles....
To:
Dear Mam, i want to re correct the sentence
Well Sumeet... maybe wat u mean to say is... Behind every successful man, there is an even MORE SURPRISED WOMAN
--
Nikhil
On 8/3/07, Tejaswini wrote:
Well Sumeet... maybe wat u mean to say is... Behind every successful man, there is an even MORE successful WOMAN
-Tejaswini
On 8/2/07, Sumeet wrote:
I guess this may be a reason why it is said that:
Behind every successfully MAN, there is a women - To take away all the incomes and spend them... And behind every successfully WOMEN, there is an exhausting man to accomplish her work. :)
~Sumeet...
On 8/2/07, chetashri wrote:
Time for some male bashing..... (For a change)
>
>
> Q: What is the difference between men and puppies?
> A: Puppies grow up.
>
>
> Q: Why do men always have a stupid look on their
> faces?
> A: Because they are...
>
>
> Q: What do men have in common with ceramic tiles?
> A: Fix them properly once and you can walk all over
> them forever.
>
>
> Q: If you drop a man and a brick out of a plane,
> which one would hit the ground first?
> A: Who cares?????.....(both are equally dense!!)
>
>
> Q: What did God say after he created man?
> A: I can do better than this! And then he created
> woman!!!! (Yea)
>
>
> Q: What's the difference between an intelligent man
> & a UFO?
> A: I don't know, I've never seen either.
>
>
> Q: What are two reasons why men don't mind their own
> business?
> A: i) no mind ii) no business
>
>
> Q: Why did Moses wander in the desert for 40 years?
> A:! Because even back then men wouldn't ask for
> directions ..LOL!!!
>
>
> Q: What is the difference between men and pigs?
> A: Pigs don't turn into men when they drink...
>
>
> Q: What do you do with a man who thinks he's God's
> gift?
> A: Exchange him!!
>
>
> Q: Why do men like smart women?
> A: Opposites attract.
>
>
>
> Pass this on to some women who need a laugh..
> And to men who can handle it!
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: chetashri
Date: Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: Just for giggles....
To:
Hurray!! That was superb Tejaswini!!!
On 8/25/07, Tejaswini wrote:
OK Parag... let me continue with your story...
Now one thing you can never blame girls for is learning from their mistake. Now on their way back from Lonavala to Pune, they decide to take a local... The guys now confident of their so-called superiority, decide to repeat their previous plan of buying no tickets... The girls smart as they are, realise the guys' folly and all buy tickets. When the TC comes in the gals are safe and sound and guys are kicked out not to mention the penalty they had to pay... They in their over confidence had forgotten locals don't have toilets. :P
On 8/20/07, chetashri wrote:
my god!!! Somebody please take initiative to and keep counting no of replies and we can celebrate the century!!!!!!! :-)
On 8/19/07, parag wrote:
=================================================
Hey dear, i don know @ others, however i couldn't understand what is the meaning of ur story.......
Hehe.. seriously good one Parag.
Feminist Fairytale
As u know I'm poor in English. mere liye alag se simple english me likha karo.......
==============================================
Here is one story for u all from my side......... Enjoy....
Boys v/s Girls
who is brilliant a Girl or a Boy ??
7 Girls and 7 Boys are going from PUNE to
Mumbai. So they both gather at Pune Station. Both
groups are desperately trying to prove their
superiority.
SCENE 1 (PUNE- MUMBAI) :
7 Boys take only 1 Ticket and 7 Girls buy all 7
tickets..Girls are desperately waiting for TC to
come...... When TC arrives, All 7 Boys get in one
toilet SO when TC knocks , one hand come out with the
ticket and the TC goes away....Girls say "Dekh
lenge"
SCENE 2 (MUMBAI - LONAVALA) :
Girls decided, "this time we will prove that we too
are equally SHAANE"....All 7 Girls take 1 Ticket. Boys
don't buy any ticket at all!!!!!..TC
arrives....
ALL GIRLS IN ONE TOILET.ALL BOYS IN THE
OPPOSITE ONE..
One Boy gets out and knocks the door of Girls
toilet, One hand comes with the tickets, he takes the
ticket and comes in Boys Bathroom... TC DRIVES out
hey! Boys r always smart.....donn u agree boys!!
parag.........................................
=========================================
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tejaswini
Date: Aug 18, 2007 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: Just for giggles....
To:
Oye Naveen!!!!! Come on do u honestly think either of us believes in this sexist nonsense? Its just that this kind of bashing is fun.. I seriously smile at some of the things the guys come up with... and don't worry no ones fighting.. chill Naveen.. neither are we gals after u guys' blood nor the other way 'round... continue this thread and have a good laugh reading all the things everyone writes..
Thandh rakh Naveen.
-Tejaswini
On 8/18/07, Naveen wrote:
hey peope what is this keep on fighting on a single topic
what ever it is i believe both are equal as not one exists with out the other
this is fact every one knows abut that then y this contraversies
be cool we have much more thngs to do in life rather than fighting
enough of baashan
uday told us to be profestionals not people in fish market
naveen
On 8/18/07, Tejaswini wrote:
Hehe.. seriously good one Parag.
Feminist Fairytale
Once upon a time, in a land far away, a beautiful independent self-assured princess happened upon a frog as she sat contemplating ecological issues on the shores of an unpolluted pond in a verdant meadow near her castle. The frog hopped into the princess's lap
And said: Elegant Lady, I was once a handsome prince, until an evil witch cast a spell upon me. One kiss from you, however, and I will turn back into a dapper, young prince that I am and then, my sweet, we can marry and setup housekeeping in yon castle with my mother, where you can prepare my meals, clean my clothes, bear my children and forever feel grateful and happy doing so.
That night, on a repast of lightly sauteed frogs' legs seasoned in a white wine and onion cream sauce, she chuckled to herself and thought: I don't think so!
:P
-Tejaswini
On 8/18/07, Indian !!! wrote:
That's Really nice Parag.. hahaha......
On 8/18/07, parag wrote:
======================================
WOMAN has MAN in it .
SHE has HE in it.
Mrs . has Mr. in it.
LADY has LAD in it.
MISTERESS has MISTER in it.
MADAM has ADAM in it.
HOSTESS has HOST in it.
FEMALE has MALE in it
and so on the list is never ending
SO NO need to be proud ....Girls
YOU are always incomplete without
Boys....ha ha ha
Parag..........
====================================
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sumeet
Date: Aug 13, 2007 12:07 AM
Subject: Re: Just for giggles....
To:
i guess only we five (Tejaswini, Parag, Nikhil, Chetashri and Me) are there to add on to this mail. no one in this group are interested to add or speak on the topic... :)
Ok then, we can stop speaking on the topic now... its a high time now... :)
~Sumeet...
On 8/12/07, Tejaswini wrote:
WOW!!! This mail is being added to for 10 days now :D.. go on ppl.. anymore PJs? Bashing guys or gals to add to this mail?
-Tejaswini
On 8/10/07, chetashri wrote:
Me too. felt like I dont understand english anymore...............
On 8/10/07, Tejaswini wrote:
Is it just me or is everyone confused after reading Sumeet's comment? No offense, but wat u trying to say here? No further comments..
-Tejaswini
On 8/8/07, Sumeet wrote:
well, i guess in that case its again man how succedded in confusing the ladies and hence the ladies went on with a wrong conclusion... :)
thats y its said if a girl have buty in her, she dont have brains, and if she have brains, she is not beautiful... :)
buty n brains are like the 2 pollar region for them that can never meet.
he he he he...!!!
~Sumeet...
On 8/7/07, Tejaswini wrote:
u know Parag... thats ok.. ican understand u r confused.. u meant to say cows and gals as in 'GAI's and gals.. no probs.. chal tujhe maaf kiya
-Tejaswini
On 8/7/07, parag wrote:
==============================================
Well Chetashri.......... I think u r correct.
I was wrong........ as i'm always confused between cows and Buffaloes 4m my childhood.
Could u please help me 2 decide ?
parag
=================================
---- Forwarded message ----------
From: chetashri
Date: Aug 7, 2007 3:04 AM
Subject: Re: Just for giggles....
To:
may b he means guys n gals.................now tht shows a woman how confused a man is when he does something on his own!!!!!
this series is going to b a interesting one !!
On 8/7/07, Tejaswini wrote:
@Chetashri: Hey ur just for giggles has proceeded to become an all out Battle of sexes :P
@Parag: Boys and COWS!!!!??????
On 8/6/07, Nikhil wrote:
man this is real funny :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
--
Nikhil
On 8/4/07, parag wrote:
Well boys and cows,
what i wana say is.......
Behind every successful man there is a women (many women) because women always run after a successful man.
and now a days
@Behind every successful women....... there is a women*. @
*Also applicable in India.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Nikhil
Date: Aug 3, 2007 7:08 AM
Subject: Re: Just for giggles....
To:
Dear Mam, i want to re correct the sentence
Well Sumeet... maybe wat u mean to say is... Behind every successful man, there is an even MORE SURPRISED WOMAN
--
Nikhil
On 8/3/07, Tejaswini wrote:
Well Sumeet... maybe wat u mean to say is... Behind every successful man, there is an even MORE successful WOMAN
-Tejaswini
On 8/2/07, Sumeet wrote:
I guess this may be a reason why it is said that:
Behind every successfully MAN, there is a women - To take away all the incomes and spend them... And behind every successfully WOMEN, there is an exhausting man to accomplish her work. :)
~Sumeet...
On 8/2/07, chetashri wrote:
Time for some male bashing..... (For a change)
>
>
> Q: What is the difference between men and puppies?
> A: Puppies grow up.
>
>
> Q: Why do men always have a stupid look on their
> faces?
> A: Because they are...
>
>
> Q: What do men have in common with ceramic tiles?
> A: Fix them properly once and you can walk all over
> them forever.
>
>
> Q: If you drop a man and a brick out of a plane,
> which one would hit the ground first?
> A: Who cares?????.....(both are equally dense!!)
>
>
> Q: What did God say after he created man?
> A: I can do better than this! And then he created
> woman!!!! (Yea)
>
>
> Q: What's the difference between an intelligent man
> & a UFO?
> A: I don't know, I've never seen either.
>
>
> Q: What are two reasons why men don't mind their own
> business?
> A: i) no mind ii) no business
>
>
> Q: Why did Moses wander in the desert for 40 years?
> A:! Because even back then men wouldn't ask for
> directions ..LOL!!!
>
>
> Q: What is the difference between men and pigs?
> A: Pigs don't turn into men when they drink...
>
>
> Q: What do you do with a man who thinks he's God's
> gift?
> A: Exchange him!!
>
>
> Q: Why do men like smart women?
> A: Opposites attract.
>
>
>
> Pass this on to some women who need a laugh..
> And to men who can handle it!
Labels: Chitthi aayi hai..., Yaadein reh jaati hain..., Yaaron Dosti badi hi haseen hai...
Monday, August 31, 2009
Have you ever wondered....
...How fast you get to used to the people around you
...How when love knocks on the door everything else flies out the window
...How life's a bitch on the people left behind to collect the pieces
....How parents seem to know what you want before you even tell them
...How before you know it an era ends and you take a huge breath and go on
...How life seems like a fairytale and your prince charming suddenly comes into your life
...How you get so excited about a good news your friend you want to tell everyone you know about it
...How you don't realise how much you missed your friends until you meet them after 9 years
Dedicated to all my friends who recently found their prince charming, all wonderful parents and all the friends I miss when they are not around... i'm sure you know who you are
Sunday, July 5, 2009
...And then there were three...
So Pri, Versa and I took Sup out for her kelwan yesterday... She is getting married next week.
In college, it was the six of us here in Pune... now there are four... Sujata's married and in Mumbai... We haven't met her since she got married... Anagha's in the US, almost done with her MS; though I'm not sure when or whether she plans on coming back... Now Supriya will go to Bangalore...
I do sometimes feel lost... I miss my friends and I miss talking to them and playing dumb charades... I do miss that life...
While I do understand, that life goes on, we make new friends, I feel sometimes if I am not losing old ones...
In college, it was the six of us here in Pune... now there are four... Sujata's married and in Mumbai... We haven't met her since she got married... Anagha's in the US, almost done with her MS; though I'm not sure when or whether she plans on coming back... Now Supriya will go to Bangalore...
I do sometimes feel lost... I miss my friends and I miss talking to them and playing dumb charades... I do miss that life...
While I do understand, that life goes on, we make new friends, I feel sometimes if I am not losing old ones...
Labels: Yaadein reh jaati hain..., Yaaron Dosti badi hi haseen hai...
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Musing Memories...
Ye weekend friends ke naam and revisiting an old time zone and memories and well... Just getting back in touch with old friends... Yesterday met friends during our alumni function, today met up with friends from my old building.
Tina had sent a mail around to us long ago to ask if we could meet... unfortunately, that meet didn't materialise. So this time when Shradha asked if we could meet up, all four of us said YES!!! So when... Definitely a weekend... OK no probs... I'm staying at my friend's this weekend... I have to go for a reception next week... I have my alumni next sat... I'm going to Bangalore for Ganapati Festival... So Sunday the 9th it is... Cutting a loooooooooooooong story (and a long chain of reply to all mails) short, we decided to meet up at Chinese Room, East Street, Camp for lunch... The four of us... Mansi, Shradha, Tina and I... Last I had met Mansi was like for 5 minutes during a Verve competition during engineering... Shradha a few months ago during a KIP meet and Tina? Well loooooooong ago when she was going somewhere on her bike and amma and I were going for a walk... And again this was for just a few minutes. So we all had a lot of catching up to do. One thing as Tina observed was we all still look the same but as Shradha said just older and as Mansi said prettier (sure I'll accept that complment for myself too...)
To be honest what we ate doesn't make a difference... what we are doing, well everyone has pretty much started to get settled with their lives... everyone knows what direction they want to go in in life. But what we enjoyed most was talking about all the fun things we did together... How every year during Ganapati festival, we would dance at the four building common Ganesh Festival competitions... The huge hits like Morani Bagama or Humma and the big time flop Gori nal ishq mita (ok my knowledge of Punjabi sucks so... hope u can jhepofy which song that was...) or we had acted during a Ganapati festival play... the naughty kids who had grown up to become geniuses... the silly games we used to play like Bhoot or Dabda-is-spice (OK thats a version of hide and seek where someone who throw a dabda that is an empty can or an old coconut shell from the first floor, the denner would go fetch it... the rest would hide and then to spy anyone, you had to keep a foot on the dabda and shout XYZ out or the ones who had hidden had to kick off the dabda and then re-den :D) or Red Letter or Mother-May-I or.... OK that would be a long list in itself...
Maybe since it was just us girls then, we missed out on all those games we would have played if there were guys around like Cricket but there are really no regrets.. We had a really fun childhood... We thought of some of the other kids who were our neighbours... I was a brat... Being the youngest, the others quite spoiled me... I would quarrel each day and come home in a huff... Of course, I knew that the others would come to pamper me... Finally one day amma said to the others... don't bother... she'll come out... if you keep pampering her she'll just take advantage of it... 'course needless to say, I was back out playing with them after a while.
We have played, we have fought, but either ways, we have made some really cool memories that I'll cherish for a lifetime...
P.S. Can't believe I just got back half an hour ago and I wanted to put all this down on my blog... Just the adrenaline I guess :D
Tina had sent a mail around to us long ago to ask if we could meet... unfortunately, that meet didn't materialise. So this time when Shradha asked if we could meet up, all four of us said YES!!! So when... Definitely a weekend... OK no probs... I'm staying at my friend's this weekend... I have to go for a reception next week... I have my alumni next sat... I'm going to Bangalore for Ganapati Festival... So Sunday the 9th it is... Cutting a loooooooooooooong story (and a long chain of reply to all mails) short, we decided to meet up at Chinese Room, East Street, Camp for lunch... The four of us... Mansi, Shradha, Tina and I... Last I had met Mansi was like for 5 minutes during a Verve competition during engineering... Shradha a few months ago during a KIP meet and Tina? Well loooooooong ago when she was going somewhere on her bike and amma and I were going for a walk... And again this was for just a few minutes. So we all had a lot of catching up to do. One thing as Tina observed was we all still look the same but as Shradha said just older and as Mansi said prettier (sure I'll accept that complment for myself too...)
To be honest what we ate doesn't make a difference... what we are doing, well everyone has pretty much started to get settled with their lives... everyone knows what direction they want to go in in life. But what we enjoyed most was talking about all the fun things we did together... How every year during Ganapati festival, we would dance at the four building common Ganesh Festival competitions... The huge hits like Morani Bagama or Humma and the big time flop Gori nal ishq mita (ok my knowledge of Punjabi sucks so... hope u can jhepofy which song that was...) or we had acted during a Ganapati festival play... the naughty kids who had grown up to become geniuses... the silly games we used to play like Bhoot or Dabda-is-spice (OK thats a version of hide and seek where someone who throw a dabda that is an empty can or an old coconut shell from the first floor, the denner would go fetch it... the rest would hide and then to spy anyone, you had to keep a foot on the dabda and shout XYZ out or the ones who had hidden had to kick off the dabda and then re-den :D) or Red Letter or Mother-May-I or.... OK that would be a long list in itself...
Maybe since it was just us girls then, we missed out on all those games we would have played if there were guys around like Cricket but there are really no regrets.. We had a really fun childhood... We thought of some of the other kids who were our neighbours... I was a brat... Being the youngest, the others quite spoiled me... I would quarrel each day and come home in a huff... Of course, I knew that the others would come to pamper me... Finally one day amma said to the others... don't bother... she'll come out... if you keep pampering her she'll just take advantage of it... 'course needless to say, I was back out playing with them after a while.
We have played, we have fought, but either ways, we have made some really cool memories that I'll cherish for a lifetime...
P.S. Can't believe I just got back half an hour ago and I wanted to put all this down on my blog... Just the adrenaline I guess :D
Labels: If only I could turn back time, Yaaron Dosti badi hi haseen hai...
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Alumni
We had our alumni function today. Second alumni function of SKNCOE.. in fact the second this year. The first was in January... no one wanted to wait till September for the very first Alumni function... Of course we had a pre-alumni function too...
Our first alumni function was held in college... Theme... Hawaii... It was pretty cool.. Everyone.. well 'most everyone in skirts and wearing jerberras in their hair... No other class can ever beat the girls in my class when it comes to dressing up for themes... especially Sravya or Priyanka Batra... Sravya had dressed up like Anarkali during our send-off for the Bollywood theme... Priyanka had worn a nice paper tassel skirt over her own skirt for the Hawaiian theme with flowers in her hair and around her head and around her wrist... Needless to say I have always been rather hopeless when it comes to dressing up for a theme... Well anyway, our college and our juniors had arranged it really well... It was arranged in the college lawns (Normally we weren't even allowed to step into the well manicured lawns.. that day we actually had a party there... how cool is that... OK fine... when we got home mosquito bites on our legs and our arms we didn't think THAT was all that great.. but we were blissfully ignorant rite? Annnnnyway....) We were welcomed with those plastic flower garlands and tender coconuts... there were Beach background cutouts for snapping photos... They had thought of everything... We danced... ate.. had fun... Of course when t comes to dancing definitely have to mention Priyanka, Anagha and Sujata... They don't like to dance.. they don't dance unless we drag them to the dance floor and make them dance and even then they find the smallest window of opportunity to slip away and just clap... So we were trying to teach them how to dance... OK I said... Lift right foot and place it about a foot away... Lift left foot and let it join the right foot.. OK now the other way... OK now move your hands a little... OK that's good... Now the waist and finally the shoulders .. There you go easy as pie... And just when they have learnt that one step.. gaana change.. next is RDB... Ab Bhangda... And again next song... They were switching songs so fast, were we to be playing musical chairs we would have got dizzy... Anyway had fun... And most because all 6 of us were together.. Anagha, Priyanka, Sujata, Supriya, Varsha and I....
And that's what we kept thinking of today... We missed Anagha and Sujata and trying to get them to dance... Missed Varsha... Missed Priyanka Batra who has returned to Delhi... Missed so many of our classmates who had come last time but still had lots of fun with some classmates we hadn't seen since the last alumni function or since after our finals last year... This time the party was at Abhiruchi Farms.. The theme.. Village... Dear Lord!!! Fine... I'm gonna dress up as a visitor from the city... How in the world would I find anything appropriate? God!!! You can't imagine how nice it feels to meet all your old classmates... More wonderful than the invitation to the function is actually being there... Can't believe so many of my classmates are either getting engaged soon or are already engaged or even married!!! One had brought her fiance along and he played the keyboards amazingly well and sang 2 songs... The juniors had arranged it really well again... As usual, most of the alumni from our batch... Felt nostalgic meeting old friends and old teachers...
Alumni functions... a way to look back into the past... In this busy... Bhaagambhaag life, one of those rare times we meet our old classmates... Thanks a lot to SKNCOE, all our teachers, the Principal and our HODs and most importantly our juniors for giving us such a beautiful gift...
Our first alumni function was held in college... Theme... Hawaii... It was pretty cool.. Everyone.. well 'most everyone in skirts and wearing jerberras in their hair... No other class can ever beat the girls in my class when it comes to dressing up for themes... especially Sravya or Priyanka Batra... Sravya had dressed up like Anarkali during our send-off for the Bollywood theme... Priyanka had worn a nice paper tassel skirt over her own skirt for the Hawaiian theme with flowers in her hair and around her head and around her wrist... Needless to say I have always been rather hopeless when it comes to dressing up for a theme... Well anyway, our college and our juniors had arranged it really well... It was arranged in the college lawns (Normally we weren't even allowed to step into the well manicured lawns.. that day we actually had a party there... how cool is that... OK fine... when we got home mosquito bites on our legs and our arms we didn't think THAT was all that great.. but we were blissfully ignorant rite? Annnnnyway....) We were welcomed with those plastic flower garlands and tender coconuts... there were Beach background cutouts for snapping photos... They had thought of everything... We danced... ate.. had fun... Of course when t comes to dancing definitely have to mention Priyanka, Anagha and Sujata... They don't like to dance.. they don't dance unless we drag them to the dance floor and make them dance and even then they find the smallest window of opportunity to slip away and just clap... So we were trying to teach them how to dance... OK I said... Lift right foot and place it about a foot away... Lift left foot and let it join the right foot.. OK now the other way... OK now move your hands a little... OK that's good... Now the waist and finally the shoulders .. There you go easy as pie... And just when they have learnt that one step.. gaana change.. next is RDB... Ab Bhangda... And again next song... They were switching songs so fast, were we to be playing musical chairs we would have got dizzy... Anyway had fun... And most because all 6 of us were together.. Anagha, Priyanka, Sujata, Supriya, Varsha and I....
And that's what we kept thinking of today... We missed Anagha and Sujata and trying to get them to dance... Missed Varsha... Missed Priyanka Batra who has returned to Delhi... Missed so many of our classmates who had come last time but still had lots of fun with some classmates we hadn't seen since the last alumni function or since after our finals last year... This time the party was at Abhiruchi Farms.. The theme.. Village... Dear Lord!!! Fine... I'm gonna dress up as a visitor from the city... How in the world would I find anything appropriate? God!!! You can't imagine how nice it feels to meet all your old classmates... More wonderful than the invitation to the function is actually being there... Can't believe so many of my classmates are either getting engaged soon or are already engaged or even married!!! One had brought her fiance along and he played the keyboards amazingly well and sang 2 songs... The juniors had arranged it really well again... As usual, most of the alumni from our batch... Felt nostalgic meeting old friends and old teachers...
Alumni functions... a way to look back into the past... In this busy... Bhaagambhaag life, one of those rare times we meet our old classmates... Thanks a lot to SKNCOE, all our teachers, the Principal and our HODs and most importantly our juniors for giving us such a beautiful gift...
Labels: If only I could turn back time, Yaaron Dosti badi hi haseen hai...
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Childhood
At sudden unpredictable times you relive your childhood... just something you see, some kids playing, some songs, whatever... just trigger off certain memories.
Well today that happened when amma and I had gone out... We had gone to Bhandarkar road and then were coming back walking via
OK stupid memory I know but just something I remembered today. Sometime maybe I’ll share a childhood memory pertaining to my best friend and cousin, Ashwini:)
Labels: If only I could turn back time, Yaaron Dosti badi hi haseen hai...
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
.... And continued
Well this is like a Post Script to the Friendship Day post. This year spent Friendship Day with two of my friends... Priyanka and Varsha... Suchitra was supposed to join too but she couldn't come :(((... It was Supriya's mom's b'day so she couldn't come either :'( So anyway... We had decided to go to Horn OK Please. We had planned on reaching early and booking a table.. No probs said the guy who was minding the door.. Waiting only after 7.30... So now what? We had reached at about 6.30... So we decided to roam around FC road... But the biggest no-no for all of us is crowds... and on that day FC road just resembled some 'Kumbh ka mela.' Lord!!! Seemed everyone was on FC road... So after a small walk, we went to Venus book store.. well window shopping... Even that place holds some memories for Priyanka and me...
So finally there we were outside HOP at 7.30...Oh Oh... What's this? A crowd right outside and the threatening clouds didn't seem to make matters any easier for us.. Well we somehow slipped to the front and as soon as the doors opened... ATTTTTACCCCCK.... Phew just in time... if we had had to wait, we would have got totally wet... It was pouring out there...
So once in, reminisced a bit... thought of the others who weren't there with us that day :( ... As usual the food was great... but the waiter was awful.. service sucked big-time... OK OK me not gonna crib here.. See I am gonna just think of the interesting fun parts of that day (But seriously that waiter!!!!! Hmffff Chod kabhi aur likhoongi... Aaj tak to aisa kabhi nahi hua tha wahaan so will give the place the benefit of the doubt)
Basically had a nice time... As I said, just another reason to get together with friends.... Here we come to end of this blog... Aloha.. ciao... adieu.. Auf Wiedersehn... Au Revoir.. Toodles....
So finally there we were outside HOP at 7.30...Oh Oh... What's this? A crowd right outside and the threatening clouds didn't seem to make matters any easier for us.. Well we somehow slipped to the front and as soon as the doors opened... ATTTTTACCCCCK.... Phew just in time... if we had had to wait, we would have got totally wet... It was pouring out there...
So once in, reminisced a bit... thought of the others who weren't there with us that day :( ... As usual the food was great... but the waiter was awful.. service sucked big-time... OK OK me not gonna crib here.. See I am gonna just think of the interesting fun parts of that day (But seriously that waiter!!!!! Hmffff Chod kabhi aur likhoongi... Aaj tak to aisa kabhi nahi hua tha wahaan so will give the place the benefit of the doubt)
Basically had a nice time... As I said, just another reason to get together with friends.... Here we come to end of this blog... Aloha.. ciao... adieu.. Auf Wiedersehn... Au Revoir.. Toodles....
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Friendship Day
OK I'm just completely sure every blogger will write about friendship day.. Well I hadn't thought of writing until I started humming 'Yaaron..dosti badi hi haseen hai' out of the blue that I realised I too have been bit by the 'Friendship Day' bug... Well to be honest, I spend every friendship day with some of my friends, this year being no exception, I guess this was inevitable.
Its not that I think Friendship Day is worth the huge hype... But just one more reason to get together...
Some of my oldest memories of friendship day are from school days... when Priyanka, Sharvari, Gauri and I had met at Sharvari's to spend Friendship Day together... Nothing special... Just time spent away from school and together with close friends.
Once Anagha, Priyanka, Supriya and I decided to go watch a movie on Friendship Day... Well, to be realistic, the tickets of which movie would we actually get on a Sunday and Friendship Day to be precise and that when we haven't got tickets booked in advance.. well we had always done that, well at least until Sujata advised us to buy tickets in advance that is... So which movie do we watch? Saade Saat Phere.. Juhi Chawla and Irffan... Well I personally liked it.. but the others... they came out with a headache... Well in case of Priyanka, it probably had something else to do with it.
We decided to have a computerised sketch done for us... Now Anagha is really tall and with my high heels, I definitely looked taller than Supriya, Priyanka is the shortest among the four of us.. So we decided to stand with me and Anagha in the back and Supriya and Priyanka in front of us... but noooooooo.. the guy who manned the machine wanted us to stand in a line... OK.. But how do we fit in front of the machine? The guy just squeezed our heads together in front of the machine screen and said... Give me a biiiiiiiig smile.. Well the gentleman wasn't quite happy with that... fine he moves the machine, again squeezes our heads together and says...
Give me a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig smile and that's how the pic came out.. a poster for some toothpaste company... Anagha's was the biggest grin among us and in fact I doubt either of us has ever smiled that wide ever before or after :D... Now coming to Priyanka's headache: When they make this sketch, they keep a white screen behind us... Pic taken, the gentleman started to roll up the screen... Poor Priyanka's hair got entangled in the screen and she ended up with her hair getting pulled and a headache to show for that incident... :( :P...
One of the most fun memories though is from last year.. As usual, we couldn't come up with a single idea as to how to spend friendship day and after a late night confy where nothing was decided and again as usual, Anagha and I were still chatting away to glory, trying to come up with some idea... Hey, came the idea... I don't remember who thought it up, maybe Anagha, why don't we all go to Supriya's early tomorrow morning and give her a surprise?
A flurry of messages to Suchitra and Gandhali.. Sujata wasn't here.. Varsha was unreachable... (I still hate her BSNL connection.. it sucks big time) and Priyanka had gone home for the weekend.. so fine.. hum chaar.. no issues... the biggest worry however was.. what if Supriya gives US a surprise by going on a morning walk? We knew she sometimes went out on Sunday mornings to climb the 'tekdi' close to her house... Well.. chance maarte socha.. So early Sunday morning we land up outside Supriya's house...
The door opens and Supriya's mom is like totally shocked... (I mean who wouldn't be.. if u see 4 of your daughter's friends outside your door at what 7-8 in the morning?)... The commotion woke Supriya and her sister but we were already in her room before she came out to investigate... Surprise!!!! Happy Friendship Day... Supriya's mom made yummy idli and sambhar for us.. (That was too cool... I mean seriously.. we had just landed there without notice, and she makes this... Theekh hai she is a Tamilian, but to feed 4 of us? That was like simply amazing) So after tying friendship bands and eating, we called up Priyanka and went on and on about the fun she was missing...
Suchitra had to go out somewhere though, so she had to leave early... So now Anagha, Gandhali, Supriya and I decided to go to Anagha's and watch a movie there... We watched an absurdly absurd marathi comedy 'Khabardaar'.. Gandhali was hell-bent against watching any horror flicks.. last time we had watched a movie together, it was Sshhh koi hai (or whichever Tushar Kapoor, Esha Deol movie that was.. 'I know what u did last summer' hindi remake) and the dumb horror scenes didn't scare us half as much as Gandhali's screams.. seriously that girl is awefully scared off horrors... So anyway.. had a gala time... And I sure won't forget that Friendship Day for a loooooong time to come.
So tomorrow as another Friendship Day comes, some plans have been made.. Let's see how they work out.. maybe will update that in the comments... But in the mean time,
Its not that I think Friendship Day is worth the huge hype... But just one more reason to get together...
Some of my oldest memories of friendship day are from school days... when Priyanka, Sharvari, Gauri and I had met at Sharvari's to spend Friendship Day together... Nothing special... Just time spent away from school and together with close friends.
Once Anagha, Priyanka, Supriya and I decided to go watch a movie on Friendship Day... Well, to be realistic, the tickets of which movie would we actually get on a Sunday and Friendship Day to be precise and that when we haven't got tickets booked in advance.. well we had always done that, well at least until Sujata advised us to buy tickets in advance that is... So which movie do we watch? Saade Saat Phere.. Juhi Chawla and Irffan... Well I personally liked it.. but the others... they came out with a headache... Well in case of Priyanka, it probably had something else to do with it.
We decided to have a computerised sketch done for us... Now Anagha is really tall and with my high heels, I definitely looked taller than Supriya, Priyanka is the shortest among the four of us.. So we decided to stand with me and Anagha in the back and Supriya and Priyanka in front of us... but noooooooo.. the guy who manned the machine wanted us to stand in a line... OK.. But how do we fit in front of the machine? The guy just squeezed our heads together in front of the machine screen and said... Give me a biiiiiiiig smile.. Well the gentleman wasn't quite happy with that... fine he moves the machine, again squeezes our heads together and says...
Give me a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig smile and that's how the pic came out.. a poster for some toothpaste company... Anagha's was the biggest grin among us and in fact I doubt either of us has ever smiled that wide ever before or after :D... Now coming to Priyanka's headache: When they make this sketch, they keep a white screen behind us... Pic taken, the gentleman started to roll up the screen... Poor Priyanka's hair got entangled in the screen and she ended up with her hair getting pulled and a headache to show for that incident... :( :P...
One of the most fun memories though is from last year.. As usual, we couldn't come up with a single idea as to how to spend friendship day and after a late night confy where nothing was decided and again as usual, Anagha and I were still chatting away to glory, trying to come up with some idea... Hey, came the idea... I don't remember who thought it up, maybe Anagha, why don't we all go to Supriya's early tomorrow morning and give her a surprise?
A flurry of messages to Suchitra and Gandhali.. Sujata wasn't here.. Varsha was unreachable... (I still hate her BSNL connection.. it sucks big time) and Priyanka had gone home for the weekend.. so fine.. hum chaar.. no issues... the biggest worry however was.. what if Supriya gives US a surprise by going on a morning walk? We knew she sometimes went out on Sunday mornings to climb the 'tekdi' close to her house... Well.. chance maarte socha.. So early Sunday morning we land up outside Supriya's house...
The door opens and Supriya's mom is like totally shocked... (I mean who wouldn't be.. if u see 4 of your daughter's friends outside your door at what 7-8 in the morning?)... The commotion woke Supriya and her sister but we were already in her room before she came out to investigate... Surprise!!!! Happy Friendship Day... Supriya's mom made yummy idli and sambhar for us.. (That was too cool... I mean seriously.. we had just landed there without notice, and she makes this... Theekh hai she is a Tamilian, but to feed 4 of us? That was like simply amazing) So after tying friendship bands and eating, we called up Priyanka and went on and on about the fun she was missing...
Suchitra had to go out somewhere though, so she had to leave early... So now Anagha, Gandhali, Supriya and I decided to go to Anagha's and watch a movie there... We watched an absurdly absurd marathi comedy 'Khabardaar'.. Gandhali was hell-bent against watching any horror flicks.. last time we had watched a movie together, it was Sshhh koi hai (or whichever Tushar Kapoor, Esha Deol movie that was.. 'I know what u did last summer' hindi remake) and the dumb horror scenes didn't scare us half as much as Gandhali's screams.. seriously that girl is awefully scared off horrors... So anyway.. had a gala time... And I sure won't forget that Friendship Day for a loooooong time to come.
So tomorrow as another Friendship Day comes, some plans have been made.. Let's see how they work out.. maybe will update that in the comments... But in the mean time,
HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY
Friday, July 27, 2007
Friends..
In college we were an inseparable group... Anagha, Priyanka, Sujata, Supriya, Varsha and I.. always together in college... watching movies together.. going to college together.. calling up each other when we got back from college and then talking for hours on end.. conference chatting late into the night on weekends... An year after engineering has ended, I find that we are slowly drifting apart. When we do meet, we just keep on talking, like we did back then.. all at the same time.. But the times when we actually meet are few and far between.. Studies, work, marriage and life in general seem to have torn us apart... We call each other up once in a few weeks or meet up once in a few months and though there is that link, it just seems strained.. last time we met my friends kept on saying how quiet I had become... I guess it was just enough to see them again after so long and listening to them that I couldn't get out the words to actually say something..
Last time we met, we met at my home as we had many times before... For almost an hour, we just sat and talked about what was new in our lives... We didn't even want to decide where we would go out to eat... Just sitting in the hall and talking was enough.. When, at last, we decided we would go to Marzorin, I don't think any of us was too hungry, talking together had filled up our appetites... We missed one of our really good friends, though, who is now married and has left Pune..
As soon as we finished engineering, Anagha and Supriya started on their jobs, Priyanka joined MBA, Varsha started preparing for MBA, Sujata started with a course which pretty much kept her longer at the institute than I was awake during the day(OK thats a hyperbole, but come on.. her classes went on from about 9 in the morning to 10-11 in the night.. and add to that 30-45 minutes travel time each way... and that on all 7 days of the week), who soon got engaged and is now married.. and I started with a course myself(and no.. I wasn't that busy). So now with just 5 of us still in Pune, Anagha leaves for the
Will this mean that we will be further apart from now on or does this mean that we will grow closer? What will prove to be truer... Out of sight, Out of mind or Absence makes the heart grow fonder????
In the final year of graduation, I had written a poem for the college magazine.. Priyanka had thought, she told me later, that this would never actually happen with us... but even though in my heart I had never wanted to believe this to be the truth, the future, I find myself thinking that when you are apart, that when you don't meet each day, you DO sort of grow apart...
Well here's the poem, the reality of life... life after college.. Starting off with a new chapter of life..
Ringing in the New Year
As an old year ends,
In comes the new,
Old fancies, old mistakes,
All this we are through.
We step into the new year,
Resolution in our heart,
Of a new beginning,
To become a part.
New places, new faces,
Everything brand new,
A whole new world,
Of which nothing we knew.
Soon we settle in the new life,
The new us, that we are,
But we can’t shake off the past,
Which suddenly seems so far.
Gone are the times,
When carefree were the days,
When we still hated the present,
But still had fun in many ways.
The SMSes, the phone calls,
Chatting late at night,
Journals, submissions, VIVAs,
Now seem alright.
‘What about a movie?’
And we’d suddenly decide,
‘Why not go eat bhel’,
Or ‘Together go for a ride.’
Did really we think then,
Nothing would keep us apart,
Every month we will meet,
We’ll be together in our heart.
We start off well,
Phone calls every week,
‘Sure, why not?
At Vaishali we will meet.’
Slowly the meetings trickle off,
The calls, they do too,
We become caught in our lives,
In various things to do.
‘I have an exam next week,’
‘My PM is breathing down my back,’
‘My project is due soon,
God! I’m becoming a nervous wreck.’
Then, ‘I’m being transferred,’
‘I’ll be married soon,’
‘I’m going abroad to study,’
For each other we have no room.
It was not like this before,
We never thought it would be,
It just happened a day at a time,
What was WE turned into ME.
Then one day it arrives,
A window into the past,
A moment of joy,
A Reunion Invitation at last.
Some have come, some have not,
We laugh and dance and sing,
‘Of course now that we have met,
Next week I’ll give you a ring.’
Labels: If only I could turn back time, Yaaron Dosti badi hi haseen hai...
