So, friends here again.. I, the favorite BAKRA of God was made a target of an unusual, unbelievable, unexpected and unfortunate (may be) event of my life. But, the best part is (or I should say the worst part is) that this time I was not alone ;-). This time I was luckily not the only Bakra but there were 6 other people along with me :-). So, lets start with the narration :-P
This all started around 3 months back ;-). We wer about 14 people who were supposed to appear for a Certification exam called "CSM Certification" - a term applicable mainly to Amdocs. CSM- Customer Service Management and is one of the major application of Amdocs with which I have been associated for the past 2 years :-). Prior to our batch there have been two more batches who have appeared for this exam and unfortunately the pass rate happens to be not so good :-(. actually the passing percentage required to clear this exam is 80%. [Ab jaha engineering ke exam mein 35% bhi pahad ki chadhai jitna mushkil lagta tha us he kisam k logon k samne agar ap 80% ka target rakh do to 50% moral down to waise he ho jata hai ;-)] Not that complicating as it sounds :-P.
Well, now the next batch was decided and the preparations were about to start :-). We were supposed to start with our so called training sessions on various topics from August '08 for about a period of 1 and half month. So the training schedule was planned and implemented. The final exam date was chosen to be 22 september '08.
Actually its not a big deal to pass or flunk in this exam, but its just that it is set as one of the goals for this financial year for me and now or later eventually it is necessary for each one to appear and get certified ;-). So, i thought why not this time :-).. Hey, the thought was innocent enough its just that i forgot ki.. mere sath kabhi kuch ek baar mein theek nahi hota... Ooops dont get any ideas yaaro.. abhi tak to exam date tak he pahuchi hoon result ko to abhi time hai :-)..
So, on 17 September 08 out training co-ordinator asked us if we were all comfortable with the exam date of 22 september.. :). Yes!!! I told nothing is right with me in first shot.. so within a day or two we were told that the exam is postpponed indefinitely. :-( bu hu hu hu.. Well, I am not sad because I had studied a lot and I was very prepared this time and again I will have to reprepare etc... its just that I was mentally prepared to give exam this time and since the date was changed I will again have to mentally prepare myself for the same ;-).
Finally the date was decided to be 16 October '08 and I actually ahd to work very hard to mentally prepare myself ;) by giving 4 mock exams prior to the final one and barely managing to pass few of them and the remaining.... [ mmm aaaaa...mmmm... understood na :-( ]. Newaz, then the day came finally and we had our lunch. Since the timings for exam were from 1:30 PM to 5:30 PM. So 11 of us who acctully registered themselves for exam appeared at the examination room. The instructore gave us the instructions and we logged in to the exam...
Hmm.. so now the clock ticked by and so did the time and we were looking and answering the questions with appropriate answers :-). Then checked and rechecked and rechecked and so on.. Meanwhile, we did not submit our session just navigated to different pages of questions. Ap soch rahe hoge ki ab tak kuch trajedy to hui he nahi.. this blog does not justify the title "MiSHaP" right?? Dont worry. I will tell you now. In this exam we were given a set of documents to refer to for finding correct exam. During the process of searching i came accross an XMl file and I opened it to find my answer. But... you know what.. inorder to open that XML file using internet explorer that examination session of mine was halted and this XML file got opened in same internet explorer :-(. I called upon the invigilator to look into it and hlep me. She was also shocked at such a weird situation and tried to call someone for technical help. :-P Meanwhile I tried to restore the session by choosing BACK option and hence I was successful and was able to restore the exam session. Trust me I was able to breath only after my session was restored :-). Newaz, by this time 2 hours had gone and 4 people had already left the room after finishing their exam and 7 of us had remained behind :-).
We were killing another 2 hours as none of us was interested to go back to our desk and continue with the work ;-). But then.. the actual tragedy happened. Suddenly one of us complained that she got an error message saying :"Session Expired". Later each one of us got same error as we tried to move between different pages. Now the invigilator was really tensed she asked us we had submitted our answers. But then none of us had done that as we thought that submit is to be done finally when we are done with answering. There were some calls to the technicians and it was decided that the technicians would try to retrieve answers from our session via backend and if it would be successful then we will be evaluated and results will be shown else... tha sad part is we will have to reappear for the exam :-(.
Trust me initially we didnot submit our answers just to make sure that we are scoring atleast 80%. But now we all prayed and wished that we should not have waited so long and clicked that submit button then even we would have made it on time and got the results :-). But wo kehte hai na "Ab pachtaye hot kya jab chidiya chug gayi khet..."
But one thing that the supervisor confirmed was that this particualr scenario had never occured before. This was the most weirdest exxam she had monitored :-P. Ha Ha ha.. She did not know me much and that I was appearing for the exam else she would have expected the most weirdest and unbelievable things to have happened :-). Well among the 7 unfortunate examinees was my room-mate Abhil;asha who said...ki "Neha tumhare sath hum bhi is kaand mein fas gaye... Tumhara to koi kaam ek baar mein theek hota nahi.. and tumhare chakkar mein hum sab bhi fas gaye.. [I should say latak gaye ;-)].
Well there were people waiting for us to hear out our results but when I told them about this MiSHaP they weren't very much surprised as they know when Neha is around there has to be something abnormal and unnatural ;-)!!! Surely not much surprising to my blog readers as well ;-) Ha Ha Ha :-D
Friday, October 17, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Ohh Ccc Dis !!! Has It Ever Happened To You???
Hey, its not Ohh Ccc Dis.. its called OCD - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder :-)!!!
This time I am not here to tell a story.. Infact these are all incidents based on facts :).
Incident 1:
Ishita is an 8 year old girl, who constantly performs low in her tests and flunks them. The reason here is not that she isn't smart at studies or has low IQ or is less intelligent, the actual reason is that she is overcautious while writing in exams. She writes, rubs and rewrites an alphabet or a word untill she feels that it is rightly written. (Mind you here, not CORRECTLY WRITTEN but RIGHTLY WRITTEN). She is definitely aware of all the correct answer but she doesnot proceed to answer next question untill she feels she has rightly written the current one. If you look at her answer sheet, you will notice that all her a's, b's and c's are exactly is same pattern as if printed there.. and why not she takes all the world's time to make them so and hence ends up without completing all the answers.
Incident 2:
Varun was 3 years old when his parents noticed that their son has a weird habit. He never steps on joining lines of different tiles on the floor of any room. He purposefully jumps over any crooked line that comes in his way while walking. He also showed his irritation if he had to step on any crooked line or joining lines of tiles while he took a walk. At a garden Varun selected a particular leaf lying in a park and used to walk on it only. He used to walk in the direction whereever he found that leaf. No matter how long he had to stretch himself to reach that leaf, in this process he ended up hurting himself even but still he did not change his habit. He also used to count his steps to any place he went. And this is not just it, he made sure that the number of steps he takes is an Even number. He simply hated Odd :). In case the number of Steps turned out to be Odd then he would take an extra long or an extra short step to make it Even number. This habit of his made him appear weird, but he couldnot help it and neither could his parents treat him inspite of various attempts from their side.
Incident 3:
Shubhra is now 24 years old. She has a habit of locking the door thrice each time she unlocked it. This made her feel safe. Though it may sound strange to you, but its true. If she unlocked the door and then locked it once she dint feel safe or did not believe that it was locked. So, she used to unlock it, lock it and do this thrice before she felt safe that the door is now locked properly. She also had a compulsive habit of washing every utensil she used. Washing every bucket every time she used it. She also used to wash every tap after washing her hands and before closing the tap. She said she did not feel her hands were clean if she washed hands and closed the tap with her hands without washing the tap before turning it off.
Incident 4:
This time I am not here to tell a story.. Infact these are all incidents based on facts :).
Incident 1:
Ishita is an 8 year old girl, who constantly performs low in her tests and flunks them. The reason here is not that she isn't smart at studies or has low IQ or is less intelligent, the actual reason is that she is overcautious while writing in exams. She writes, rubs and rewrites an alphabet or a word untill she feels that it is rightly written. (Mind you here, not CORRECTLY WRITTEN but RIGHTLY WRITTEN). She is definitely aware of all the correct answer but she doesnot proceed to answer next question untill she feels she has rightly written the current one. If you look at her answer sheet, you will notice that all her a's, b's and c's are exactly is same pattern as if printed there.. and why not she takes all the world's time to make them so and hence ends up without completing all the answers.
Incident 2:
Varun was 3 years old when his parents noticed that their son has a weird habit. He never steps on joining lines of different tiles on the floor of any room. He purposefully jumps over any crooked line that comes in his way while walking. He also showed his irritation if he had to step on any crooked line or joining lines of tiles while he took a walk. At a garden Varun selected a particular leaf lying in a park and used to walk on it only. He used to walk in the direction whereever he found that leaf. No matter how long he had to stretch himself to reach that leaf, in this process he ended up hurting himself even but still he did not change his habit. He also used to count his steps to any place he went. And this is not just it, he made sure that the number of steps he takes is an Even number. He simply hated Odd :). In case the number of Steps turned out to be Odd then he would take an extra long or an extra short step to make it Even number. This habit of his made him appear weird, but he couldnot help it and neither could his parents treat him inspite of various attempts from their side.
Incident 3:
Shubhra is now 24 years old. She has a habit of locking the door thrice each time she unlocked it. This made her feel safe. Though it may sound strange to you, but its true. If she unlocked the door and then locked it once she dint feel safe or did not believe that it was locked. So, she used to unlock it, lock it and do this thrice before she felt safe that the door is now locked properly. She also had a compulsive habit of washing every utensil she used. Washing every bucket every time she used it. She also used to wash every tap after washing her hands and before closing the tap. She said she did not feel her hands were clean if she washed hands and closed the tap with her hands without washing the tap before turning it off.
Incident 4:
Ramya was an intelligent girl. But she was a little superstitious :). How??? Well, she used to relate her happiness with Numbers... and not just any number. EVEN NUMBERS ;).. Yes again, early morning when she used to get up, she made sure she keeps both her feet down at the same time (2 feet, even number). While brushing she used to make sure she brushes her teeth even number of times in each direction. While combing there should be even number of brushing in each partition of head. If she heard someone sneeze, she used to wait for him/her to sneeze again. Why so? well she believed that Odd - Evil and Even - Go[o]d. There is BALANCE in each and everything and only Even stands for balance whereas Odd disbalances :). Weird isn't it?
QUESTION:
While reading these incidents, could you relate yourself to any single thing? Or something equally weird has ever happened to you? This weird thing might not exactly mean the mentioned things it can be anything as weird as "Always using same pen/pencil box for an exam because it is lucky for you". "Wearing same shirt or same color for any important occasion/meeting or interview".
ANSWER:
In case your answer to above question is "YES" or you could pen down any single such weird habit or so called superstition then I would say it is very Normal. Yes, studies have revealed that every average human being goes through a phase like this. BUT, surely for the above mentioned cases, the severity of these incidents/habits and weird behaviour is BEYOND LIMIT. As long as you can control these habits (Weird habits) and they are not harmful to you or any one else, its acceptable. In case its not controllable and is BEYOND LIMIT, then it means that you are suffering from OCD - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Its not that scary as it sounds. But then there are cases where this is actually treated and medications are given to the patients.
Well, now you must be wondering why the hell in this whole wide world this girl decided to leave her masala stories n scripts and diverted her attention to such a topic :-P. Now, here the reason is that I just watched "As Good As It Gets" - Where Jack Nicholson is suffering from OCD and is a bigoted romantic novelist. After watching the movie I did some google serach on OCD because I could find out many weird bevioral patterns in myself. Then I also took a test on OCD - to determine if I am actually a patient or not :-D. To my relief I scored 10/15 which suggests that I am quite capable of becoming one :-).
If you wish to you can take test at: http://psychcentral.com/ocdquiz.htm
Newaz, I would love to hear from you in case you also turn out to be suffering from OCD like me (HE HE HE :-D) or even worse, you are a psycho like me to take this test just for FUN :-).
Hey, let me know your score :-P...
Sunday, August 10, 2008
My First Successful Blood Donation Event ;-) !!!
After reading the topic of this post I am sure many will wonder and say "What Crap!!!" Kuch aur nahi mila likhne ko ise.. But sorry to disappoint you people I had to write on this incident as this is really a memorable one for me.. Before 7 Aug 2008 I had tried twice to donate blood.. Once I was rejected saying tha above 18 only [at that time I was in second year of my college :-(] and next time I was rejected becoz i had suffered from jaundice before 2 months of blood donation date. Newaz, this time I was mentally prepared to donate blood and wanted to make sure it is successful :-). Actually one of my office collegue's father had a Bypass surgery and was in need to blood so a mail was circulated and i responded positively to donate blood. I along with few other collegues reached Ruby Hall hospital aroune 1 PM. There we had to fill in a form and after that our blood pressure, weight and pulse was checked. [How can something unusual not happen with me] I was the last person to be tested. Everyone before me had pased the routine tests. The doctor tried to feel my pulse, but he couldnot find the vein in my right hand to listen to pulse and had to order for stethoscope to measure my pulse rate. [:-o well normally a doctor just uses his finger tips at base of palm n feels the pulse rate but in my case he couldnot trace the pulse itself :-P ha ha ha..] Then after few minutes hesitatingly but he gave me OK. Then we were all asked to have a light lunch and assemble together for next blood test and there after we could donate blood. After light lunch we came back and again one by one everyone went to give a blood test. Each one described that the doctors have an instrument which they aim at the ring finger n prick at it to get few drops of blood. well they were scaring me a bit becoz I have given blood for test only through the vein at inner elbow of right hand and never from finger. Asusual I was last person to enter the room. Before the doctors could do anything I asked them to take blood from my right hand and not from finger, but they refused and said if I am scared of this little needle then how will I face the bigger one so I decided to close my eyes and get over with it. I also warned them not go get scared in case I shout ;-) well they said its OK as the walls are sound proof :-)!!. Newaz it was not that painful but like an insect bite.. ;-) so I didnot shout too :-P.. After that I was the first one to be called to donate blood... Well, I wasnot scared at all in fact I was excited and had butterflies in my stomach again :)... I was asked to lie on a bed and there was an instrument like the blood pressure reader only. My left arm was tied with that pressure meter and the attendand tried to find vein in my left hand. I bugged him with my questions..
Me: Bhaiya, kitna time lagta hai?
Attendant: 5 minute. Ap pehli baar donate kar rahe ho?
Me: Haan
Attendant: Ghabrao mat apko apta bhi nahi chalega..
Me: Arey nahi mai ghabra nahi rahi bas yu he pucha.. agar normally 5 minute lagta hai to I wanted to record ki mujhe kitna time lagega?
[Attendant A confused look ;-)]
Me: Bhaiya, kitna time lagta hai?
Attendant: 5 minute. Ap pehli baar donate kar rahe ho?
Me: Haan
Attendant: Ghabrao mat apko apta bhi nahi chalega..
Me: Arey nahi mai ghabra nahi rahi bas yu he pucha.. agar normally 5 minute lagta hai to I wanted to record ki mujhe kitna time lagega?
[Attendant A confused look ;-)]
Finally, the attendant gave up on finding a vein in my hand. Later a nurse came and then another one came, but Alas both of them failed to find a vein in my hand [;)]. Newaz, then came a doctor and he too was amazed on not able to find a vein by his usual methods but he was a doc so he did manage to insert the needle by some of his calculations [;)]. There after he stood there for 30 minutes as the blood flow was very slow since the needle was inserted at an angle and not parallel to my vein [:D].. but he concluded that i have got very thin veins and I must join gym to thicken my veins [:)].. After adha ghanta ki bakar I had managed to keep the environment jolly.. and waha everybody was like tumhare jaise log hospital aane chahiye to hospital gloomy kam lagta hai [;)].. Then ye hua ki jitna time ek bande ko blood donate karne mein lagta hai uska double time mujhe laga.. I HAD TO MAKE A RECORD in here [;)]..maine pucha doctor ko ki after so much of patience you ahe shown with me can I ask you a question? He looked at me with a doubt.. and I asked him ki agar mai is wakt ek bottle blood aur donate karna chahue to.. he said madam apko adha ghanta aur punishment dene mein mujhe kya maja ayega?? ha ha ha everybody was laughing in the hospital then... Actually since the needle was not properly located, the doc had to stand with me for the entire period of 30 minutes and hold the needle else it would have taken much more time for me to donate 350 ml of blood [:D]..Later on when i naratted this incident to my friends I realized that it was again one of my Kaand type ka incident and so I am penning it down [;)]..
Monday, July 14, 2008
In Love Unnatural things come Naturally to you.... :-) !!!
This is quite an unusual love story. As the title suggests there is some amount of MAGIC always present whenever and wherever LOVE is concerned [;)]. I shall now Begin my story of LOVE with a little bit of MAGIC and REALITY..
Scene 1 Begins...About 2 Years ago:
There was this guy called Adam, who was a very nice person. He was kind, humble, good hearted, caring and all the good adjectives could be added here in his praise :-). He was in short a GEM of a PERSON :-). It was in his nature and attitude to help those in need. Every needy person who came across him was also served with respect and in turn used to shower blessing on him. So, finally this guy Adam became one of the luckiest man alive on this earth. Once an old blind man was ahving trouble while crossing a road, Adam was on his daily joggin routine at that time and he immediately came down to help this old blind man cross the street. The old man was quite pleased and in gratitude he gave a boon to Adam saying "My dear Son, you are a good man at heart you deserve to get a boon. I grant you a boon that in your life you will be able to see the future twice. Once it will be at your own wish and the next time it will be at God's wish"
Adam just smiled at this. It seems he never believed it :-).
Scene 2 Begins: Love enters in his life.. ;-)
One fine day at Adam's office, came a girl called Anaida. She was everything Adam could dream of, she was beautiful, smart and had a smile that could steal anyone's heart ;-). So, she did steal Adam ka heart ;-). Well, no one in the office was unaware or unaffected by Adam's charm. So, how could Anaida be different. She and Adam became very good friends. Adam was surely in love with Anaida and Anaida too liked him very much. But did she love him???
Scene 3 Begins: When the first part of BOON came true..
It was about an year that Adam and Anaida had known each other. Everybody believed they make the BEST couple. Adam decided to take their relationship one step ahead and so he decided to propose Anaida. Adam zeroed down to Valentine's day as the day to propose Anaida, he was very happy about it and was ready with all his plans for the most amazing proposal. But, like any normal person he was having his doubts..[Kya ye hai kahani mein twist ;-)].. He prayed to God a little harded and said to HIM, how I wished I had known what was is store for me in next 5 years.... AND THEN IT HAPPENED.. Adam had a VISION.. and he saw what would happen after next 5 years....[Thrill and excitement begins..]
VISION:
After 5 years Adam saw that he was in a lovely house at a breakfast table. He had a kid sittin next to him who was exact replica of Adam himself :-). Then he saw a lady come out of kitchen with delicious breakfast trays. And that pretty lady was none other that Anaida herself :-) !!! Amazing isn't it?? What Adam saw was nothing short of how Adam wanted things to be. He was happily married with the girl of his dreams ... what more could he wish for :-)
Scene 4 Begins.. [The Valentine's day..]
Adam was blooming with hapiness and was all set to execute his plans for the D DAY ;-). He met Anaida that day in a restaurant for Lunch. He had imagined that she would also be excited like him and then things would be lot easier.. But, Adam noticed that Anaida was not her usual self that day.. she was bit nervous and scared.. When Adam asked her about she dint say anything... Adam was little disappointed but nevertheless he decided to postpone his proposing ceremony to some other day.. meanwhile he just concentrated on cheering up Anainda.. And Why not, he knew now that she was going to be his forever... :-) so Adam was a bit relaxed.
Scene 5 Begins.. [Now comes the kahani mein twist ;-)]
About 1 month from Valentine's day, One Sunday afternoon, Adam was about to meet Anaida. Anaida called Adam and said that she had a great news for him. Adam was dreaming of all the possibilities that could be involving him and Anaida.. when he reached the restaurant where they usually meet, Adam saw that they had a company. Anaida had brought his Boyfriend Aman along with her and today was the day when she wanted to intoduce him to her friend Adam. Well... this is what happens when you delay in acting on your feelings.. Anaida told Adam that she had met Aman on the valentine's day. That afternoon when Anaida had come to meet Adam she was worried because she had been getting some cranky calls from a guy who had been bothering her since a week. This crazy guy had threatened her saying he was madly in love with her and would marry her or kill her. That evening when she was going back to her, this crazy guy had attacked her and it was then that she met Aman who saved her life. Bas fir kya tha hero ne right time pe entry ki heroine ki jaan bachai... AUR PYAR HO GAYA... ;-)
Scene 6 Begins...[Jab Dil He Toot gaya..]
After learning about Aman from Anaida Adam realized that the couple did have something special. Something that Adam and Anaida never had. This made him feel even worse... He lost all his charm.. His usual Happy go Lucky attitude died away... He took a long vacation from his office and went to visit his old Aunt who was his only relative alive. His aunt was also worried and tried to cheer him up. She introduced him to many nice girls but he seemed to be lost in his own world. He Kept on thinking why did he ever had that vision if nothing was going to be that way. He was too depressed and in his depression he asked God "Why did you lie to me in my Vision..that I will have a happy life with Anaida when I know I can never have her..What will I do without her? What will my future be without her..?"
Scene 7 Begins...[The second part of BOON..]
They say that a prayer from a noble heart never goes unanswered.. and so God did answer Adam. He gave his SECOND VISION.. A vision which was the reason of his first vision.. Adam saw that its raining heavily somewhere and the night is quite dark.. All the lights are gone out and there is road with speeding cars. He then sees Aman running down the road with flowers in his hand and a smile on his face.. At this time Adam realizes that the place he is seeing is near Anaida's home.. But what Adam sees next is something he dint want to.. He sees that as Aman takes a turn into the dark street there's a speeding car which drives right into him without any prior warning.. Aman is suddenly throw right up in the air with such a force that the Smile he had on his face didnt get the time to fade away and be replaced by Shock.. Before he could realize that he was struck by a car and probably there was any chance that he would survive this accident.. he was already dead and numb as soon as he hit the wet road and that smile freezed on his face... :-(.. Then he saw sad Anaida at Aman's funeral...
The vision thus ended..
Scene 8 Begins [Some body in Dilemma]:
Now, Adam realized why in his first vision he saw that he and Anaida are going to be happy together in next five years... Adam didnot know what he should do now.. He could not figure out if he should warn Aman n Anaida about his second vision or he should just let things be the way they are.. He decided to fly back to Anaida. He had to see her before he decides something. On his flight back he was thinking if he should do something to save Aman. But that would mean he can never have Anaida in his life. He then thought if he could just forget everything and may be none of this will ever be real or true.. as soon his flight landed Adam calls up Anaida. Anaida sounded happy on the phone, Adam though deep in his heart that may be Anaida missed him badly and that is why she sounded so happy on hearing his voice over the phone. And he realized that he can never let her go away from his life as he cant live without her.. Then Anaida gave him the news. She told him that she just got a call from Aman and he said that his parents have finally agreed for their marriage. She also told Adam that now Aman is on his way to Anaida's home so that he could talk to Anaida's parents and ask her hand in marriage :-). That was the reason Anaida was so happy and excited on the phone. It hurt Adam to realize that it was Aman and not him who was the reason of her happiness. at the same time it struck him that its raining heavily and now is the time when his second vision might really come true..
Scene 9 : [Tiem for some Action]
Adam he had to act and act now. He just kept the phone down and rushed to Anaida's home. He got a taxi outside the airport and in hurry he gives the address to the driver. The driver was new and hence he was not aware of the place. At this he asks driver to shift and he himself comes in the driver's place.. The driver obvioulsy got scared seeing the pace at which his customer was driving but he kept his mouth and eyes closed. Adam was driving nervously because all the way he was worried how he was goin to stop that accident. He was nearing Anaida's home. And suddenly all the lights went out. It was just another major power failure during rainy season. At this time something struck Aman. He tried to revisualize what he ahd seen in his vision. And now he was surprised and shocked that he was near that street where he had witnessed the scene. It was all the more scary when he realized that the car which hit aman was the same one which he was driving right now. Before he could conclude that he was the one who hit Aman and killed him, He applied all his strength on the brakes of the taxi he was driving and turned his steering wheel. And he did it in time to avoid runnning into the person who suddenly appeared out of nowher on that dark street. What was worse was that in the process of doing so the taxi lost its control and hit the nearby lamp post and directly ran into the fence of the house at the turn. The fence crashed into the windshield of the car instantly killing the driver who was Adam.... Meanwhile the actual driver was thrown out of the car as the door of his side flew open when the taxi had hit the lamp post. He was not hurt at all. But, there was no way Adam could have survived :(. In this entire episode, Aman was the one who was suposed to die and Adam was the one ti win Anaida. But as the title says "In Love unnatural things come naturally to you..!!!"
[Note:] This is why I say you never know when a boon turns into a curse. When Love takes some body's life and when you cannot answer whether Love Wins here or Loose. I know it has sad ending. But in the end finally the two people who loved each other did end up happily with each other :-). I would leave upto the readers to judge if it was sad or happy ending :-). Comments are most welcome and I am waiting for them!!! This story is based on concept given by Mayur Madhwani :-) !!!
Scene 1 Begins...About 2 Years ago:
There was this guy called Adam, who was a very nice person. He was kind, humble, good hearted, caring and all the good adjectives could be added here in his praise :-). He was in short a GEM of a PERSON :-). It was in his nature and attitude to help those in need. Every needy person who came across him was also served with respect and in turn used to shower blessing on him. So, finally this guy Adam became one of the luckiest man alive on this earth. Once an old blind man was ahving trouble while crossing a road, Adam was on his daily joggin routine at that time and he immediately came down to help this old blind man cross the street. The old man was quite pleased and in gratitude he gave a boon to Adam saying "My dear Son, you are a good man at heart you deserve to get a boon. I grant you a boon that in your life you will be able to see the future twice. Once it will be at your own wish and the next time it will be at God's wish"
Adam just smiled at this. It seems he never believed it :-).
Scene 2 Begins: Love enters in his life.. ;-)
One fine day at Adam's office, came a girl called Anaida. She was everything Adam could dream of, she was beautiful, smart and had a smile that could steal anyone's heart ;-). So, she did steal Adam ka heart ;-). Well, no one in the office was unaware or unaffected by Adam's charm. So, how could Anaida be different. She and Adam became very good friends. Adam was surely in love with Anaida and Anaida too liked him very much. But did she love him???
Scene 3 Begins: When the first part of BOON came true..
It was about an year that Adam and Anaida had known each other. Everybody believed they make the BEST couple. Adam decided to take their relationship one step ahead and so he decided to propose Anaida. Adam zeroed down to Valentine's day as the day to propose Anaida, he was very happy about it and was ready with all his plans for the most amazing proposal. But, like any normal person he was having his doubts..[Kya ye hai kahani mein twist ;-)].. He prayed to God a little harded and said to HIM, how I wished I had known what was is store for me in next 5 years.... AND THEN IT HAPPENED.. Adam had a VISION.. and he saw what would happen after next 5 years....[Thrill and excitement begins..]
VISION:
After 5 years Adam saw that he was in a lovely house at a breakfast table. He had a kid sittin next to him who was exact replica of Adam himself :-). Then he saw a lady come out of kitchen with delicious breakfast trays. And that pretty lady was none other that Anaida herself :-) !!! Amazing isn't it?? What Adam saw was nothing short of how Adam wanted things to be. He was happily married with the girl of his dreams ... what more could he wish for :-)
Scene 4 Begins.. [The Valentine's day..]
Adam was blooming with hapiness and was all set to execute his plans for the D DAY ;-). He met Anaida that day in a restaurant for Lunch. He had imagined that she would also be excited like him and then things would be lot easier.. But, Adam noticed that Anaida was not her usual self that day.. she was bit nervous and scared.. When Adam asked her about she dint say anything... Adam was little disappointed but nevertheless he decided to postpone his proposing ceremony to some other day.. meanwhile he just concentrated on cheering up Anainda.. And Why not, he knew now that she was going to be his forever... :-) so Adam was a bit relaxed.
Scene 5 Begins.. [Now comes the kahani mein twist ;-)]
About 1 month from Valentine's day, One Sunday afternoon, Adam was about to meet Anaida. Anaida called Adam and said that she had a great news for him. Adam was dreaming of all the possibilities that could be involving him and Anaida.. when he reached the restaurant where they usually meet, Adam saw that they had a company. Anaida had brought his Boyfriend Aman along with her and today was the day when she wanted to intoduce him to her friend Adam. Well... this is what happens when you delay in acting on your feelings.. Anaida told Adam that she had met Aman on the valentine's day. That afternoon when Anaida had come to meet Adam she was worried because she had been getting some cranky calls from a guy who had been bothering her since a week. This crazy guy had threatened her saying he was madly in love with her and would marry her or kill her. That evening when she was going back to her, this crazy guy had attacked her and it was then that she met Aman who saved her life. Bas fir kya tha hero ne right time pe entry ki heroine ki jaan bachai... AUR PYAR HO GAYA... ;-)
Scene 6 Begins...[Jab Dil He Toot gaya..]
After learning about Aman from Anaida Adam realized that the couple did have something special. Something that Adam and Anaida never had. This made him feel even worse... He lost all his charm.. His usual Happy go Lucky attitude died away... He took a long vacation from his office and went to visit his old Aunt who was his only relative alive. His aunt was also worried and tried to cheer him up. She introduced him to many nice girls but he seemed to be lost in his own world. He Kept on thinking why did he ever had that vision if nothing was going to be that way. He was too depressed and in his depression he asked God "Why did you lie to me in my Vision..that I will have a happy life with Anaida when I know I can never have her..What will I do without her? What will my future be without her..?"
Scene 7 Begins...[The second part of BOON..]
They say that a prayer from a noble heart never goes unanswered.. and so God did answer Adam. He gave his SECOND VISION.. A vision which was the reason of his first vision.. Adam saw that its raining heavily somewhere and the night is quite dark.. All the lights are gone out and there is road with speeding cars. He then sees Aman running down the road with flowers in his hand and a smile on his face.. At this time Adam realizes that the place he is seeing is near Anaida's home.. But what Adam sees next is something he dint want to.. He sees that as Aman takes a turn into the dark street there's a speeding car which drives right into him without any prior warning.. Aman is suddenly throw right up in the air with such a force that the Smile he had on his face didnt get the time to fade away and be replaced by Shock.. Before he could realize that he was struck by a car and probably there was any chance that he would survive this accident.. he was already dead and numb as soon as he hit the wet road and that smile freezed on his face... :-(.. Then he saw sad Anaida at Aman's funeral...
The vision thus ended..
Scene 8 Begins [Some body in Dilemma]:
Now, Adam realized why in his first vision he saw that he and Anaida are going to be happy together in next five years... Adam didnot know what he should do now.. He could not figure out if he should warn Aman n Anaida about his second vision or he should just let things be the way they are.. He decided to fly back to Anaida. He had to see her before he decides something. On his flight back he was thinking if he should do something to save Aman. But that would mean he can never have Anaida in his life. He then thought if he could just forget everything and may be none of this will ever be real or true.. as soon his flight landed Adam calls up Anaida. Anaida sounded happy on the phone, Adam though deep in his heart that may be Anaida missed him badly and that is why she sounded so happy on hearing his voice over the phone. And he realized that he can never let her go away from his life as he cant live without her.. Then Anaida gave him the news. She told him that she just got a call from Aman and he said that his parents have finally agreed for their marriage. She also told Adam that now Aman is on his way to Anaida's home so that he could talk to Anaida's parents and ask her hand in marriage :-). That was the reason Anaida was so happy and excited on the phone. It hurt Adam to realize that it was Aman and not him who was the reason of her happiness. at the same time it struck him that its raining heavily and now is the time when his second vision might really come true..
Scene 9 : [Tiem for some Action]
Adam he had to act and act now. He just kept the phone down and rushed to Anaida's home. He got a taxi outside the airport and in hurry he gives the address to the driver. The driver was new and hence he was not aware of the place. At this he asks driver to shift and he himself comes in the driver's place.. The driver obvioulsy got scared seeing the pace at which his customer was driving but he kept his mouth and eyes closed. Adam was driving nervously because all the way he was worried how he was goin to stop that accident. He was nearing Anaida's home. And suddenly all the lights went out. It was just another major power failure during rainy season. At this time something struck Aman. He tried to revisualize what he ahd seen in his vision. And now he was surprised and shocked that he was near that street where he had witnessed the scene. It was all the more scary when he realized that the car which hit aman was the same one which he was driving right now. Before he could conclude that he was the one who hit Aman and killed him, He applied all his strength on the brakes of the taxi he was driving and turned his steering wheel. And he did it in time to avoid runnning into the person who suddenly appeared out of nowher on that dark street. What was worse was that in the process of doing so the taxi lost its control and hit the nearby lamp post and directly ran into the fence of the house at the turn. The fence crashed into the windshield of the car instantly killing the driver who was Adam.... Meanwhile the actual driver was thrown out of the car as the door of his side flew open when the taxi had hit the lamp post. He was not hurt at all. But, there was no way Adam could have survived :(. In this entire episode, Aman was the one who was suposed to die and Adam was the one ti win Anaida. But as the title says "In Love unnatural things come naturally to you..!!!"
[Note:] This is why I say you never know when a boon turns into a curse. When Love takes some body's life and when you cannot answer whether Love Wins here or Loose. I know it has sad ending. But in the end finally the two people who loved each other did end up happily with each other :-). I would leave upto the readers to judge if it was sad or happy ending :-). Comments are most welcome and I am waiting for them!!! This story is based on concept given by Mayur Madhwani :-) !!!
Friday, July 11, 2008
Another Adventurous ;-) Day Of My Life !!!
Its 14 July 2008, I got up on this lazy morning at 7:30 AM when it was drizzling outside with a lazy humming sound too... :-) [So much of laziness around ME.. whose life is never short of adventures ;-)]. I guess, I should have guessed it right here that there is something in store for me which will jerk me out of my laziness... :-o [but it had to be this way......lets read on...]. Well, I was having a quiet and a normal day.. I wanted it this way today..So I didnot listen to FM today like I ususally do every morning... Today, I did not switch on TV to listen to any songs either.. or watch any of my favorite cartoon... [All this effort only to have a normal day like anybody else in this entire huge world ... :-). Well, how dare I thought it would be so too...]. Newaz.. after I got ready for my morning bus to the office... Ihad to rush at it was already 8:33 and I had to get out of my home at 8:35 AM if I had to amke it on time for the bus. But.. My ID Card was missing.. I sat down and tried hard to recollect where I had put it... and after some search here and ther I found it in one of the pockets of my bag that I had taken to my Didi's house this weekend. [But ofcourse, mere bag ki jis pocket me ID card tha wo maine sabse lst mein check ki.. agar is pocket mein nahi milta to I had to go to office without an ID card :-(...] Well, I did manage to lock my home and get out at 8:35 AM. While i reached the ground floor, I realized that I had not taken my umbrella and it was raining while I was leaving for my bus. :-(..
Sad... but i had to rush up till 3 floor by staircase and open my door, then open my cupboard.. then open my drawer and search for my umbrella...[Ofcourse I dint find it in my first search]. So I decided to switch on the lights and search again.. luckily I did find it this time and hurried out without forgetting to switch off the lights [Wow..what an achievement ]... but forgot to close the drawer and the cupboard [Now,.. tats so typical of me :-(..]. But, never the less, I did rush out of my house, managed to lock the door atleast.. and get out only 3 minutes late.. I reached my bus stop and saw that one bus of Amdocs was leaving just as I reached. I thought now there must be some another Amdocs bus which must be coming behind so I didnot take much tension. And lucky for me again.. when I turned back I saw another bus and saw some people climbing in it. So I joined them and closed my umbrella. Luckily I found a front seat too (in second row of the bus) and I made myself comfortable there [:-).. Don't you think I was being very lucky today...]. Well, I thought so and I did manage to Thank God that I made it safe and on time.. Then the bus journey continues... It stopped at iis usual stoppages and collected people on its way.. By the time the bus reached Big Bazaar, I was enjoying the view outside.. people rushing here n there with their umbrellas.. trying to get an auto or their bus etc.. While our bus was taking a turn, I saw another bus which was of Navy Blue colour.. it had a symbol of '>' on it... I was trying to guess the company's name to which this bus belongs to... While I was about to decide so, I tried hard to remeber where I had seen this Symbol before... and as I was in the process of thinking.. my eyes went wide open on seeing the same Symbol in front of my eyes..
Wow..no Baap re... :-(.. The bus where I was seated had the same Symbol which I was trying to Guess!!!!... Then I saw a few people getting inside the bus with an ID card around their neck, that in no was like the ID card I had in my purse :-(... I am not kidding when I say that I literally had to pinch me ... I thought I am caught in some BAD DREAM.. its just a night mare and whn I will get up I will realize that its just another day... But when I woke to my own pinch.. I was still in that NAVY BUS with ">" sybol on it....
Now... the situaton struck me.. there were people who were staring at me... [I dunt know if they really were.. but I could feel so..much of embarassment.. that i thought they must be staring at me]. I took out my cell, and messaged my friend about my current situation.. I dint know what to do now.. Boy.. have you ever been in this situation.. [Believe me I am not lying when I say that I pray you should never fall in my place like this..]. Well, I thought very hard what to do now. I thought of getting down too.. but then that would confirm that I was stupid to climb on wrong bus.. that would confirm my STUPID action of ABSENTMINDEDNESS.. :-(... So i did not get down. But I was not sure also, which company's bus I was on..where would this bus go.. till now it was following the same route as my bus.. So NOW I was praying that this bus goes to MAGARPATTA.. [There were temples on the route and I did pray very hard that this bus should go to Magarpatta atleast..]. I never once turned my head to look at any face around me.. So, that nobody ever remeber's my face whenever or if ever they see me some other day than today outside anywhere else.. :-( they should not recognize me ... :-P. Well.. to my fortune, to my luck, and in answer to all my prayeres... the bus did go to magarpatta.... and it did go to Tower-5. Which had names of different companies on it... and then I saw the name "Accenture" and realized that the symbol ">" was Accenture's logo symbolising "High Performance Delivered"...
Well, as the bus stopped in front of Tower -5, I got down from bus [again hiding my face]. I was playing with my cell and made a call to my friend and started walking in the opposite direction of the remaining other people who got down from the bus :-). When I reached Tower-2 I removed my ID card and got into my office... :-)..
I guess, now I was having a feeling that this is just like any another ususal day of my life... full of embarassing moments.. full of kaands.. full of not so normal, not so quiet... but an adveture ;-).. to begin my day !!!! [ While chatting with my friend and narrating my entire episode I did have a question in my mind.. WHY DOES GOD CHOOSE ME of all the available population as his FAVORITE BAKRA... !!!!
Sad... but i had to rush up till 3 floor by staircase and open my door, then open my cupboard.. then open my drawer and search for my umbrella...[Ofcourse I dint find it in my first search]. So I decided to switch on the lights and search again.. luckily I did find it this time and hurried out without forgetting to switch off the lights [Wow..what an achievement ]... but forgot to close the drawer and the cupboard [Now,.. tats so typical of me :-(..]. But, never the less, I did rush out of my house, managed to lock the door atleast.. and get out only 3 minutes late.. I reached my bus stop and saw that one bus of Amdocs was leaving just as I reached. I thought now there must be some another Amdocs bus which must be coming behind so I didnot take much tension. And lucky for me again.. when I turned back I saw another bus and saw some people climbing in it. So I joined them and closed my umbrella. Luckily I found a front seat too (in second row of the bus) and I made myself comfortable there [:-).. Don't you think I was being very lucky today...]. Well, I thought so and I did manage to Thank God that I made it safe and on time.. Then the bus journey continues... It stopped at iis usual stoppages and collected people on its way.. By the time the bus reached Big Bazaar, I was enjoying the view outside.. people rushing here n there with their umbrellas.. trying to get an auto or their bus etc.. While our bus was taking a turn, I saw another bus which was of Navy Blue colour.. it had a symbol of '>' on it... I was trying to guess the company's name to which this bus belongs to... While I was about to decide so, I tried hard to remeber where I had seen this Symbol before... and as I was in the process of thinking.. my eyes went wide open on seeing the same Symbol in front of my eyes..
Wow..no Baap re... :-(.. The bus where I was seated had the same Symbol which I was trying to Guess!!!!... Then I saw a few people getting inside the bus with an ID card around their neck, that in no was like the ID card I had in my purse :-(... I am not kidding when I say that I literally had to pinch me ... I thought I am caught in some BAD DREAM.. its just a night mare and whn I will get up I will realize that its just another day... But when I woke to my own pinch.. I was still in that NAVY BUS with ">" sybol on it....
Now... the situaton struck me.. there were people who were staring at me... [I dunt know if they really were.. but I could feel so..much of embarassment.. that i thought they must be staring at me]. I took out my cell, and messaged my friend about my current situation.. I dint know what to do now.. Boy.. have you ever been in this situation.. [Believe me I am not lying when I say that I pray you should never fall in my place like this..]. Well, I thought very hard what to do now. I thought of getting down too.. but then that would confirm that I was stupid to climb on wrong bus.. that would confirm my STUPID action of ABSENTMINDEDNESS.. :-(... So i did not get down. But I was not sure also, which company's bus I was on..where would this bus go.. till now it was following the same route as my bus.. So NOW I was praying that this bus goes to MAGARPATTA.. [There were temples on the route and I did pray very hard that this bus should go to Magarpatta atleast..]. I never once turned my head to look at any face around me.. So, that nobody ever remeber's my face whenever or if ever they see me some other day than today outside anywhere else.. :-( they should not recognize me ... :-P. Well.. to my fortune, to my luck, and in answer to all my prayeres... the bus did go to magarpatta.... and it did go to Tower-5. Which had names of different companies on it... and then I saw the name "Accenture" and realized that the symbol ">" was Accenture's logo symbolising "High Performance Delivered"...
Well, as the bus stopped in front of Tower -5, I got down from bus [again hiding my face]. I was playing with my cell and made a call to my friend and started walking in the opposite direction of the remaining other people who got down from the bus :-). When I reached Tower-2 I removed my ID card and got into my office... :-)..
I guess, now I was having a feeling that this is just like any another ususal day of my life... full of embarassing moments.. full of kaands.. full of not so normal, not so quiet... but an adveture ;-).. to begin my day !!!! [ While chatting with my friend and narrating my entire episode I did have a question in my mind.. WHY DOES GOD CHOOSE ME of all the available population as his FAVORITE BAKRA... !!!!
Thursday, July 10, 2008
ThE PeRfEcT BoyFrIenD !!!
Well, I hope the Title of this Post does sound interesting to the reader ;-).. But before it creates any misconception I would clear it beforehand that what ever I am about to narrate here is not a story of my life, but somehow i believe that every girl (including myself) will be able to relate to it in some or the other way...
Not wasting much time the story begins..
Scene 1: [Flash back about 22 years back.. 1986]
There was this sweet little girl called Heena who had a very ordinary and peaceful childhood. She had loving parents who gave her enough freedom to take her own decisions and who trusted her completely. Being an only child she was more comfortable with her lonliness. Adding to it she was shy to make new friends at school and thus ended up being an intorvert and a loner.. She only had a pet dog whom she adored and was the REAL friend she had :-). Their was this another boy called Shobit who was always around Heena when ever she was alone. He used to play pranks on her, crack jokes for her, play all her favorite games with her and do whatever Heena wanted to do. In simple words HE was HER BUDDY :-) [The DOSTI Begins.....]
Scene 2: [When Heena was 10yrs old.. 1996]
On 17th of September, 1996 a couple moved into the apartment next to Heena's. This couple had two kids, a girl (Kritika - 12) and a boy(Rohit - 10). Within a week from their arrival Heena had two new friends. But, it seems that Heena had hard luck in having people around her :-(.. Kritika and Rohit had to leave within a fortnight to their boarding schools.. So finally at the end it was only Heena and Shobit again...[The BOND Continues....]
Scene 3: [Heena as a teenager]
As the days passed, Heena grew up to be this simple, sweet, charming, adorable, very independent and cheerful girl so she was not an introvert any more :-). Shobit was the only one responsible for this change in her.. Whosoever knew Heena, was also aware of Shobit. She could talk hours about him. Whenever she was with him she was having the best time of her life...
She did miss her friends Kritika and Rohit occassionally but somehow Shobit's presence would cover up for that loss. Whenever Heena was sad or gloomy Shobit would appear from nowhere and brighten her day as always.. It seemed like they were there for each other alwayz and both of them enjoyed it that way!!!
Well, now we all know when its like THIS between a BOY and a GIRL... we have A LOVE STORY going on here ;-)!!! On her 16th birthday, Shobit proposed Heena (as expected ;-)) and what is more obvious that Heena accepted (ofcourse...expected :-)).. [The LOVE Begins.....]
Scene 4: [Heena after graduation]
For 5 years Heena and Shobit were committed to each other, however in these past 10 years she had seen Rohit for about 5 times and each time she saw him she felt something...[:-o surprised!!! shocked!!! mai bhi..]. She wanted to tell Shobit about it but she couldnot. She tried hard not to feel something or anything about Rohit .. but she couldnot... :-(. (pyar mein kabhi kabhi aisa ho jata hai....). This time when Rohit was back he had completed his graduation too and was back in the city for job hunting. Everytime Heena saw him, she used to have butterflies in stomach, heart beats would race up, she would become self conscious and end up doing something stupid. Shobit noticed it and decided to talk to Heena about it. They both had to confront each other on this. After hearing Heena's story he decided to leave her for good and not to have any contact with her (Kahani mein twist !!!! :-o). Heena got scared of this thought of not having Shobit around her. That also for a guy whom she doesnot know that well, who might not have any feelings for her and moreover who might think she is just another stupid and a very ordinary girl... She apologized Shobit and decided to make it work again.. [The STRAINED relationship begins.....]
Scene 5: [Rohit ko kuch kuch hota hai ;-)]
Wow... now this is some love triangle. Rohit and Heena ended up in same workplace :-)!!! [God's Conspiracy I would say ;-)]. They had lunch together, coffee together and ended up discovering each other with both of them liking each other more every time they meet. Even Heena's parents liked Rohit a lot.. [Total conspiracy of God !!!! beta shobit teri to waat lag gayi :-(]. Then one fine day, on a rainy afternoon (total romantic mausam - July11) Rohit proposed Heena and was about to have his magical kiss as expected ... but Heena freaked out [:-o]. Heena then told Rohit about her perfect boyfriend Shobit. Rohit was heart broken and shattered, he was more hurt on knowing that Heena never mentioned Shobit to him. Heena was also confused as to why was she not able to tell Rohit about Shobit since Shobit is the first person anyone would hear about from Heena...[The TRAJEDY continues...]
Scene 6: [Gettogether of families - 2008]
Rohit was avoiding Heena for all good reasons. Heena tried explaining things to Rohit but he always steered away from her. But (God's conspiracy ;-)) their family had a gettogether on 25 anniversary of Rohit's parents. Heena's mother was a chatterbox and in her conversation she mentioned before everyone about Heena's IMAGINARY FRIEND SHOBIT [:-o :-o :-o.. baap re shocked as HELL :-O.. mai bhi..] She told everyone that since childhood Heena is having company of her imaginary friend Shobit who is supposedly her boyfriend too :-) and what a PERFECT BOYFRIEND he is ;-).... When Rohit heard this he was dumbstruck.. He thought he was going through a lot of pain, guilt and suffering just because of a person who actually never exists... Everybody else over there had a laugh of their time but the only two in pain were Heena and Rohit... [The ANGER continues....]
Scene 7: [Its Now or Never - Decision Time]
Rohit leaves the party and runs away, Heena as expected follows him.. But she was stopped by Shobit. Heena and Shobit had their final talks. Shobit explained Heena that he cannot bear to see her like this. She had do decide on one man and make things work. This was the most difficult time for Heena. On one hand was Shobit who was PERFECT in every way a girl could dream of a boyfriend. However he was not REAL. This TRUTH BITES but its TRUE, You cannot have some things PERFECT in REALITY. You have to compromise in REALITY with REAL things in order to make things PERFECT :-).. Her Imaginary Boyfriend was perfect, she had spent years with him.. but he doesnot exist. Where as on other hand was a guy, Rohit - who loved her, who wanted to make things PERFECT for her in REALITY. She had to make a CHOICE. She had to Choose between a PERFECT BOYFRIEND and a REAL BOYFRIEND??. This time again with Shobit's help but for the last time.. she took her decision and kissed Shobit Good-Bye. [:-)]. she ran towards Rohit, explained him all about her lonely childhood, how Shobit came in her life, how he changed her life and how he left from her life.. Everything was said and done hoping Rohit would understand her.... [The DILEMMA continues....]
Scene 8: [Its Now or Never part two ;-) God where are you!!!!]
The decision time is alwaz crucial, we all might be aware of decision but still, till the time when it is announced the heart does beat fast. Rohit told Heena that he might not be a perfect boyfriend like Shobit, he might not be as understanding as him, he might not always know the right thing to say, right jokes to crack, right moves to make like Shobit,... But he does understand Heena and would always make his best efforts to keep her happy..(he had to after all he loved her ;-)). Rohit (as expected) understood Heena and they both accepted each other as they are...Finally God did make an entry and oh boy what an entry he made... ;-). This is what i would say a PERFECT Couple ;-)!!!! Cheers....Njoy!!!
Note:- Shobit is imaginary character. Scene 1 mentions that the only REAL friend Heena had was a DOG prior to meeting Kritika and Rohit :-)!!!
Not wasting much time the story begins..
Scene 1: [Flash back about 22 years back.. 1986]
There was this sweet little girl called Heena who had a very ordinary and peaceful childhood. She had loving parents who gave her enough freedom to take her own decisions and who trusted her completely. Being an only child she was more comfortable with her lonliness. Adding to it she was shy to make new friends at school and thus ended up being an intorvert and a loner.. She only had a pet dog whom she adored and was the REAL friend she had :-). Their was this another boy called Shobit who was always around Heena when ever she was alone. He used to play pranks on her, crack jokes for her, play all her favorite games with her and do whatever Heena wanted to do. In simple words HE was HER BUDDY :-) [The DOSTI Begins.....]
Scene 2: [When Heena was 10yrs old.. 1996]
On 17th of September, 1996 a couple moved into the apartment next to Heena's. This couple had two kids, a girl (Kritika - 12) and a boy(Rohit - 10). Within a week from their arrival Heena had two new friends. But, it seems that Heena had hard luck in having people around her :-(.. Kritika and Rohit had to leave within a fortnight to their boarding schools.. So finally at the end it was only Heena and Shobit again...[The BOND Continues....]
Scene 3: [Heena as a teenager]
As the days passed, Heena grew up to be this simple, sweet, charming, adorable, very independent and cheerful girl so she was not an introvert any more :-). Shobit was the only one responsible for this change in her.. Whosoever knew Heena, was also aware of Shobit. She could talk hours about him. Whenever she was with him she was having the best time of her life...
She did miss her friends Kritika and Rohit occassionally but somehow Shobit's presence would cover up for that loss. Whenever Heena was sad or gloomy Shobit would appear from nowhere and brighten her day as always.. It seemed like they were there for each other alwayz and both of them enjoyed it that way!!!
Well, now we all know when its like THIS between a BOY and a GIRL... we have A LOVE STORY going on here ;-)!!! On her 16th birthday, Shobit proposed Heena (as expected ;-)) and what is more obvious that Heena accepted (ofcourse...expected :-)).. [The LOVE Begins.....]
Scene 4: [Heena after graduation]
For 5 years Heena and Shobit were committed to each other, however in these past 10 years she had seen Rohit for about 5 times and each time she saw him she felt something...[:-o surprised!!! shocked!!! mai bhi..]. She wanted to tell Shobit about it but she couldnot. She tried hard not to feel something or anything about Rohit .. but she couldnot... :-(. (pyar mein kabhi kabhi aisa ho jata hai....). This time when Rohit was back he had completed his graduation too and was back in the city for job hunting. Everytime Heena saw him, she used to have butterflies in stomach, heart beats would race up, she would become self conscious and end up doing something stupid. Shobit noticed it and decided to talk to Heena about it. They both had to confront each other on this. After hearing Heena's story he decided to leave her for good and not to have any contact with her (Kahani mein twist !!!! :-o). Heena got scared of this thought of not having Shobit around her. That also for a guy whom she doesnot know that well, who might not have any feelings for her and moreover who might think she is just another stupid and a very ordinary girl... She apologized Shobit and decided to make it work again.. [The STRAINED relationship begins.....]
Scene 5: [Rohit ko kuch kuch hota hai ;-)]
Wow... now this is some love triangle. Rohit and Heena ended up in same workplace :-)!!! [God's Conspiracy I would say ;-)]. They had lunch together, coffee together and ended up discovering each other with both of them liking each other more every time they meet. Even Heena's parents liked Rohit a lot.. [Total conspiracy of God !!!! beta shobit teri to waat lag gayi :-(]. Then one fine day, on a rainy afternoon (total romantic mausam - July11) Rohit proposed Heena and was about to have his magical kiss as expected ... but Heena freaked out [:-o]. Heena then told Rohit about her perfect boyfriend Shobit. Rohit was heart broken and shattered, he was more hurt on knowing that Heena never mentioned Shobit to him. Heena was also confused as to why was she not able to tell Rohit about Shobit since Shobit is the first person anyone would hear about from Heena...[The TRAJEDY continues...]
Scene 6: [Gettogether of families - 2008]
Rohit was avoiding Heena for all good reasons. Heena tried explaining things to Rohit but he always steered away from her. But (God's conspiracy ;-)) their family had a gettogether on 25 anniversary of Rohit's parents. Heena's mother was a chatterbox and in her conversation she mentioned before everyone about Heena's IMAGINARY FRIEND SHOBIT [:-o :-o :-o.. baap re shocked as HELL :-O.. mai bhi..] She told everyone that since childhood Heena is having company of her imaginary friend Shobit who is supposedly her boyfriend too :-) and what a PERFECT BOYFRIEND he is ;-).... When Rohit heard this he was dumbstruck.. He thought he was going through a lot of pain, guilt and suffering just because of a person who actually never exists... Everybody else over there had a laugh of their time but the only two in pain were Heena and Rohit... [The ANGER continues....]
Scene 7: [Its Now or Never - Decision Time]
Rohit leaves the party and runs away, Heena as expected follows him.. But she was stopped by Shobit. Heena and Shobit had their final talks. Shobit explained Heena that he cannot bear to see her like this. She had do decide on one man and make things work. This was the most difficult time for Heena. On one hand was Shobit who was PERFECT in every way a girl could dream of a boyfriend. However he was not REAL. This TRUTH BITES but its TRUE, You cannot have some things PERFECT in REALITY. You have to compromise in REALITY with REAL things in order to make things PERFECT :-).. Her Imaginary Boyfriend was perfect, she had spent years with him.. but he doesnot exist. Where as on other hand was a guy, Rohit - who loved her, who wanted to make things PERFECT for her in REALITY. She had to make a CHOICE. She had to Choose between a PERFECT BOYFRIEND and a REAL BOYFRIEND??. This time again with Shobit's help but for the last time.. she took her decision and kissed Shobit Good-Bye. [:-)]. she ran towards Rohit, explained him all about her lonely childhood, how Shobit came in her life, how he changed her life and how he left from her life.. Everything was said and done hoping Rohit would understand her.... [The DILEMMA continues....]
Scene 8: [Its Now or Never part two ;-) God where are you!!!!]
The decision time is alwaz crucial, we all might be aware of decision but still, till the time when it is announced the heart does beat fast. Rohit told Heena that he might not be a perfect boyfriend like Shobit, he might not be as understanding as him, he might not always know the right thing to say, right jokes to crack, right moves to make like Shobit,... But he does understand Heena and would always make his best efforts to keep her happy..(he had to after all he loved her ;-)). Rohit (as expected) understood Heena and they both accepted each other as they are...Finally God did make an entry and oh boy what an entry he made... ;-). This is what i would say a PERFECT Couple ;-)!!!! Cheers....Njoy!!!
Note:- Shobit is imaginary character. Scene 1 mentions that the only REAL friend Heena had was a DOG prior to meeting Kritika and Rohit :-)!!!
Thursday, May 15, 2008
15 May 2006 - Nostalgic !!!
Today 15 May 2008... I celebrate the anniversary of 2 years since I have left the premises of NIT-Surat, my college, my hostel H-7 and my room :-).
When i got up today morning I was quite nervous, the butterflies in my stomach that had been playing kabaddi since night had turned into birds :-P. Now the two words Neha and Nervous do not go together I know it :-), but still this is true coz I had to give a presentation today as an expert lecturer before a crowd of people more experienced than me ;-). I left early yesterday from office as I had to prepare my presentaion after I reached home I did nothing but crib over the fact that I cant give presentation, I cant speak a word before the crowd, I cant explain anything but laugh and smile :-) looking at faces or the listeners ;-).. Yesterday at home I watched a movie "First Daughter" then saw the thrilling.. ooops entertaining (because of Jaysuriya's batting) match of Mumbai Indians Vs Chennai Super Kings then had yummy aloo paranthas in dinner (courtesy my roommate abhilasha :-)) after all this.. I again cribbed and started looking for excuses not to go to office tomorrow ;-).. I had bugged most of my friends that I am not going to give this presentaion...All of them Yes all of them were like " U r a fool Worrying over a trivial presentaion"... Ab kya hai na... sabko lag raha tha ki mai natak kar rahi hoon.. bcoz the kind of image I have..."Nonstop chater box wali" kaun wishwas karega ki ye bolne se darr gayi :-(..
I know its sad, its weird but it is also THE TRUTH :-)... Mujhe yaad hai college mein kya vaat lagti thi meri presentation ke naam pe... anyways.. then I slept the night worrying over tomorrow and subah jab uthi to... I remembered ITS 15 MAY 2008 and it was 2 long years ago that i had left SURAT :-). Then ...woops.... a FLASHBACK again... into the memories of the day 15 May 2006...
In hostel we were a group of 12 friends (girls) in hostel..and we were popularly known as "V12" :-). On 12 May 2006, one of us called Pavithra had left the hostel.. and we all had managed to reach railway station to say good bye to her.. Appraently that day was "Project presentaion day for Comps batch" and I and Amisha had struggled really hard to sneak out of the class and reach railway station on time just to say good Bye to Pavithra.. :-). On the station was this all emotional outburst for all of us.."Tears, Smiles... Tears...Laughs ..Giggles and lot more..." Finally we dis say our good byes to her... and came back to college... to the seminar room just in time for presentation ... All my hostel friends know that I am a big fattuoooo when it comes down to presentation... Aise kitni bhi bakar kitni bhi bakwaas kara lo no problem but PRESENTATION IS SCARY ;-).. Newaz i gathered all my courage and once I was on stage I had it .. I did a satisfactory job and lot beeter than my expectation... Just thinking of it..filled me with same enthu that i had on 12 May and I gave my presentation today with the same confidence and again I did better than my expectation :-)...
Now moving back to 15 May 2006, on this date all the remaining 11 of V12 had to leave... and the first one was me... I had a train to catch at 3:30 AM in morning... and guess what all 11 of us had reached railway station by 2 AM ;-). I was going to Delhi from Surat by Dehradoon Express with 4 other guys from my college who were also going to UP. Now the most exciting part is that all our tickets were in waiting !!!!! None of us and YES none of us had a confirmed berth :-D... CRAZZY isnt it. Now I will tell you the best part, I and my friend Mohit who was going to Meerut had booked our tickets in this lousy train which takes a long time to reach Delhi just because he knew that the other guys of our batch who were travelling by this train had confirmed tickets :-). but how can Neha have any trip without any adventure in it..... and like alwaz at 0000hrs on 15 May I was informed by Mohit that "None of the 5 people who are travelling by Dehradun Express have confirmed tickets !!!!!!" You can not imagine how I would have blasted on that poor fellow ;-). Well, we all were leaving our college forever so you can imagine the quantity and quality of luggage that we all had :-O!!!. Apart from that we all had waiting list 8,9,10,11,12 :-D... Gr8!!! What now??? We had to go by this train no other alternatiove. So we did reach the station on time. Just remeberering the huge crown on platform makes me feel nostalgic. The entire batch of ours i.e who all were remaining had been there on platform number 1 ;-) [ Yeah!!! it all hapens on platform number 1 :-P for me ]. Newaz, our train (the great train Dehradoon Express) was late as usual by 2 hours.... and we had a merry time on the platform :-). People exchangin their slam books on railway station.. sharing their last joke in Surat.. remebering the good old times of college... and RELIVING those 4 past gloden years of college in those 2 hours. We girls did play our pranks on Raj Gandhi. He was sitting on that weighing machine and we dropped a coin in it without his knowledge and he ws startled by that awful noise and we had our launghs amidst that teary and silent environment :-). 2 hours passed so quickly that nobody realized it. Our train came and 5 of ou managed to thorow our luggage in one of the compartment and climb the train.. Mohit and Raj were talking to the TT so that we could manage a seat or so... In hurry we said our goodbyes to guys there... and luckily we did manage 5 seats :-) till Kota atleas ... (the only good thing it seemed at that time).. But... as alwaz i was the last one to hop in the train... as the train slowed moved away I realized that i had not hugged my goodbye to Jyoti, Punty, Varsha.... Before I could do anything the train took its speed and I was standing there on the last step from bottom ... The FEELING at that time cannot be described in words.. After Pavithra's departure we had decided we won't cry and we actually din't cry during Sangeeta's farewell and mine... But when the train was moving away.. I had this weird vague feeling of getting down from the train and give a sweet little HUG to my friends for one last time in SURAT...... :-)
It was not as if we were never ever going to meet each other or see each other or anything like that.. but still that very moment, I wanted "THAT MOMENT" to STILL for some more time...
Everything in this world should just Freeze and I should get down fromt ain kiss my friends good bye... and thats just what I wanted then... I gave that last smile with tears (TEARY SMILE :-)) to my friends Amisha, Anusha, Amulya, Varsha, Jyoti, Punty, Sitara, Sonal and Preeti :-)....
What now.. the train dint stop.. I dint get down... with Mohit shouting.. "Abey utariyo mat....tera kuch bharosa nahi... ;-)". He then pulled me into the train and we settled down at our seats :-).. I left everything and came near the door and called my my friends... they were all in autorickshaws by then and everybody was crying silently... I cudn't see them but i could hear in in their voices.. and then what.. after hearing my voice.. we were all crying on the phone :-P....
He He He.. Yes... after all Ganga Jamuna na bahaye to ladkiyan ladkiyan nahi rehti ;-)... There is lots more to this date 15 May 2006. But I would be glad if my friends add to it.... I can write no more about it.. I already have Teary SMile on my face now...and I am sure any of my V12 will react in similar way.... ;-)
Kyu dosto.. sach keh rahi hu na??? Nahi bhi aye rona to meri ijjat ke liye ek baar muskura jarur dena :-).. verna meri to beijatti hoti he rehti hai ;-)... Tats it here... enough of SENTIAPS ;-) !!!
When i got up today morning I was quite nervous, the butterflies in my stomach that had been playing kabaddi since night had turned into birds :-P. Now the two words Neha and Nervous do not go together I know it :-), but still this is true coz I had to give a presentation today as an expert lecturer before a crowd of people more experienced than me ;-). I left early yesterday from office as I had to prepare my presentaion after I reached home I did nothing but crib over the fact that I cant give presentation, I cant speak a word before the crowd, I cant explain anything but laugh and smile :-) looking at faces or the listeners ;-).. Yesterday at home I watched a movie "First Daughter" then saw the thrilling.. ooops entertaining (because of Jaysuriya's batting) match of Mumbai Indians Vs Chennai Super Kings then had yummy aloo paranthas in dinner (courtesy my roommate abhilasha :-)) after all this.. I again cribbed and started looking for excuses not to go to office tomorrow ;-).. I had bugged most of my friends that I am not going to give this presentaion...All of them Yes all of them were like " U r a fool Worrying over a trivial presentaion"... Ab kya hai na... sabko lag raha tha ki mai natak kar rahi hoon.. bcoz the kind of image I have..."Nonstop chater box wali" kaun wishwas karega ki ye bolne se darr gayi :-(..
I know its sad, its weird but it is also THE TRUTH :-)... Mujhe yaad hai college mein kya vaat lagti thi meri presentation ke naam pe... anyways.. then I slept the night worrying over tomorrow and subah jab uthi to... I remembered ITS 15 MAY 2008 and it was 2 long years ago that i had left SURAT :-). Then ...woops.... a FLASHBACK again... into the memories of the day 15 May 2006...
In hostel we were a group of 12 friends (girls) in hostel..and we were popularly known as "V12" :-). On 12 May 2006, one of us called Pavithra had left the hostel.. and we all had managed to reach railway station to say good bye to her.. Appraently that day was "Project presentaion day for Comps batch" and I and Amisha had struggled really hard to sneak out of the class and reach railway station on time just to say good Bye to Pavithra.. :-). On the station was this all emotional outburst for all of us.."Tears, Smiles... Tears...Laughs ..Giggles and lot more..." Finally we dis say our good byes to her... and came back to college... to the seminar room just in time for presentation ... All my hostel friends know that I am a big fattuoooo when it comes down to presentation... Aise kitni bhi bakar kitni bhi bakwaas kara lo no problem but PRESENTATION IS SCARY ;-).. Newaz i gathered all my courage and once I was on stage I had it .. I did a satisfactory job and lot beeter than my expectation... Just thinking of it..filled me with same enthu that i had on 12 May and I gave my presentation today with the same confidence and again I did better than my expectation :-)...
Now moving back to 15 May 2006, on this date all the remaining 11 of V12 had to leave... and the first one was me... I had a train to catch at 3:30 AM in morning... and guess what all 11 of us had reached railway station by 2 AM ;-). I was going to Delhi from Surat by Dehradoon Express with 4 other guys from my college who were also going to UP. Now the most exciting part is that all our tickets were in waiting !!!!! None of us and YES none of us had a confirmed berth :-D... CRAZZY isnt it. Now I will tell you the best part, I and my friend Mohit who was going to Meerut had booked our tickets in this lousy train which takes a long time to reach Delhi just because he knew that the other guys of our batch who were travelling by this train had confirmed tickets :-). but how can Neha have any trip without any adventure in it..... and like alwaz at 0000hrs on 15 May I was informed by Mohit that "None of the 5 people who are travelling by Dehradun Express have confirmed tickets !!!!!!" You can not imagine how I would have blasted on that poor fellow ;-). Well, we all were leaving our college forever so you can imagine the quantity and quality of luggage that we all had :-O!!!. Apart from that we all had waiting list 8,9,10,11,12 :-D... Gr8!!! What now??? We had to go by this train no other alternatiove. So we did reach the station on time. Just remeberering the huge crown on platform makes me feel nostalgic. The entire batch of ours i.e who all were remaining had been there on platform number 1 ;-) [ Yeah!!! it all hapens on platform number 1 :-P for me ]. Newaz, our train (the great train Dehradoon Express) was late as usual by 2 hours.... and we had a merry time on the platform :-). People exchangin their slam books on railway station.. sharing their last joke in Surat.. remebering the good old times of college... and RELIVING those 4 past gloden years of college in those 2 hours. We girls did play our pranks on Raj Gandhi. He was sitting on that weighing machine and we dropped a coin in it without his knowledge and he ws startled by that awful noise and we had our launghs amidst that teary and silent environment :-). 2 hours passed so quickly that nobody realized it. Our train came and 5 of ou managed to thorow our luggage in one of the compartment and climb the train.. Mohit and Raj were talking to the TT so that we could manage a seat or so... In hurry we said our goodbyes to guys there... and luckily we did manage 5 seats :-) till Kota atleas ... (the only good thing it seemed at that time).. But... as alwaz i was the last one to hop in the train... as the train slowed moved away I realized that i had not hugged my goodbye to Jyoti, Punty, Varsha.... Before I could do anything the train took its speed and I was standing there on the last step from bottom ... The FEELING at that time cannot be described in words.. After Pavithra's departure we had decided we won't cry and we actually din't cry during Sangeeta's farewell and mine... But when the train was moving away.. I had this weird vague feeling of getting down from the train and give a sweet little HUG to my friends for one last time in SURAT...... :-)
It was not as if we were never ever going to meet each other or see each other or anything like that.. but still that very moment, I wanted "THAT MOMENT" to STILL for some more time...
Everything in this world should just Freeze and I should get down fromt ain kiss my friends good bye... and thats just what I wanted then... I gave that last smile with tears (TEARY SMILE :-)) to my friends Amisha, Anusha, Amulya, Varsha, Jyoti, Punty, Sitara, Sonal and Preeti :-)....
What now.. the train dint stop.. I dint get down... with Mohit shouting.. "Abey utariyo mat....tera kuch bharosa nahi... ;-)". He then pulled me into the train and we settled down at our seats :-).. I left everything and came near the door and called my my friends... they were all in autorickshaws by then and everybody was crying silently... I cudn't see them but i could hear in in their voices.. and then what.. after hearing my voice.. we were all crying on the phone :-P....
He He He.. Yes... after all Ganga Jamuna na bahaye to ladkiyan ladkiyan nahi rehti ;-)... There is lots more to this date 15 May 2006. But I would be glad if my friends add to it.... I can write no more about it.. I already have Teary SMile on my face now...and I am sure any of my V12 will react in similar way.... ;-)
Kyu dosto.. sach keh rahi hu na??? Nahi bhi aye rona to meri ijjat ke liye ek baar muskura jarur dena :-).. verna meri to beijatti hoti he rehti hai ;-)... Tats it here... enough of SENTIAPS ;-) !!!
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
SCARY KAUN ???
The bitter-sweet memories of Hostel, make everyone nostalgic :-). Today I will pen down an incident which brings same series of emotions to my face everytime I think about it...
Ok.. So here we take tour into Past .. Flashback :-D !!!
SCENE 1:
Aj se kuch 2 saal 2 mahine pehle ki baat hai...
Raat ke 2 baje the...
Girls Hostel ke Room number AF-2 mein, 2 ladkiyan Sleep le rahi thi... [Neha & Sitara]
zzzzz....zzzzzz......zzzzzzz........zzzzzzzz..........
Par unhe kya pata tha ki is Room AF-2 mein un dono ke alawa aur bhi 2 living creatures present hai.... Wo dono bechari apni neend mein doobi hui thi.....
Uss room mein 2 bed the and undone bed ke beech mein ek table thi jispe PC rakha tha aur table ke sath thi ek chair..... PC mein gaane chal rahe the....
"Kahi deep jale kahi dil.....Ye kaunsi hai manjil...."...
Oooops Sorry.. the song was
"Chupke se lag ja gale.. RAAT ki chadar chale...Chand ki bhi AAHAT na ho... badal ke peeche chalein...."
Achanak se room mein kuch awaaj hui... khatar patar ki.. jaise ki bed ke neeche koi ho....
Dono he gehri neend mein the... fir bhi dono ko pata chala ki unke room mein koi to hai...
SCENE 2:
Actually unke hostel ki ek purani story hai.... waha saalon se ek Billi raha karti thi... jo saal mein na jane kitni baar pregnant hoti thi aur apne bachcho ko kisi ke bhi room mein deliver kar ke gayab ho jati thi... Fir kuch mahino baad pregnant hoti aur laut ati....
Jis raat ki hum baat kar rahe hai.. us raat he wo billi fir se pregnant najar ayi thi...
Ab dono Neha & sitara billi se bahut darti thi... bechari Neha ke cupboard mein to 1 year mein he 4 billi ke bachcho ne janam liya tha .. wo bechari to billiyon ke naam se he khauf mein aa jati thi... :-(...
Isliye Uss RAAT 2 baje jab Neha ne apne bed ke neeche awaaz suni.. to usko laga ki billi wahi hai uske bed ke neeche... Ye soch ke he Neha ke paseene chootne lage :-(.. wo becahri ghabra gayi... par Kambakht Neend itni aa rahi thi ki aankhen kholne ka mann nahi kar raha tha...
Inte mein usne suna ki kuch doosre bed pe hila.... Wo aur darr gayi usko laga ki billi bagal ke bed pe chadh gayi hai... ab to neend veend sab bhaag gayi par darr ke maare uski aankhen he na khulein...
Tabhi kuch bed pe se kood kar Chair pe aane ki awaaz ayi....
ab to Neha ki vaat lag gayi usko laga ab ye billi kood ke uske bed pe aa jayegi...
n wo ye sab soch he rhai thi ki itne mein wo kood ke Neha ke bed pe uske upar aa gayi...
Fir kya tha...
Neha daarr ke maare ankhen band karke itna chillai chilllai..... ki hostel mein aaju baju ke room wale bhi dar gaye ki kya hua....
Itne mein Neha ko kisi ki awaaz sunai di ki koi uska naam le raha hai.. "Neha Uth... Mai hoon Mai... abey chilla kyu rahi hai.. mai hoon mai..." and Neha ne jaise he apni aankhen kholi... uske upar Sitara chadh ke baithi hui thi... baal khule hue ikdam bhootni style mein... n gandi si shakal bana ke ... Neha ne bhi chashma nahi pehna tha.. bechari Sitara ko aisi khatarnak halat mein dekh ke wo aur jor se chillane lagi.. Sitara bhi chilaane lagi... dono ek doosre ko dekh ke chillane lagi... Itne mein Punty jo uss room mein mere, sitara n billi ke alawa majood fourth living creature thi jor se chillai.. tum dono pagal ho gaye ho kya... kyu ek doosre ko dekh ke chilla rahe ho...????
Ab Neha n Sitara ki Neend khuli :-)
Neha ne kaha wo samjhi billi uske upar chadhi hai par billi ki jagah sitara ko dekh k darr gayi isliye chillai :-(.
Sitara billi ke darr se apne bed se chair pe kood ke and fir Neha ke bed pe kood ke ayi... aur Neha ko chillate dekh wo sochi ki billi sitara ke peeche hai isliye Sitara khud bhi chillane lagi...
Hum dono ko chillate dekh Punty hum pe chillai :-) and wo billi bechari shor sunke darr ke mare mere bed ke neeche se nikal ke room AF-2 ke bahar chali gayi :-) !!!!
Par hamara shor sunke.. poore block ki janta jama ho gayi... and sabne milke hamari khoob hasi udai... :-(
Sab bole ye jamnagar ke 2 darpokon ne billi ke darr se sabko dara diya ;-)
Waise I still think ki wo billi humse darr gayi thi na ki hum usse :-P !!!
What say Sitara ;-)???
Ok.. So here we take tour into Past .. Flashback :-D !!!
SCENE 1:
Aj se kuch 2 saal 2 mahine pehle ki baat hai...
Raat ke 2 baje the...
Girls Hostel ke Room number AF-2 mein, 2 ladkiyan Sleep le rahi thi... [Neha & Sitara]
zzzzz....zzzzzz......zzzzzzz........zzzzzzzz..........
Par unhe kya pata tha ki is Room AF-2 mein un dono ke alawa aur bhi 2 living creatures present hai.... Wo dono bechari apni neend mein doobi hui thi.....
Uss room mein 2 bed the and undone bed ke beech mein ek table thi jispe PC rakha tha aur table ke sath thi ek chair..... PC mein gaane chal rahe the....
"Kahi deep jale kahi dil.....Ye kaunsi hai manjil...."...
Oooops Sorry.. the song was
"Chupke se lag ja gale.. RAAT ki chadar chale...Chand ki bhi AAHAT na ho... badal ke peeche chalein...."
Achanak se room mein kuch awaaj hui... khatar patar ki.. jaise ki bed ke neeche koi ho....
Dono he gehri neend mein the... fir bhi dono ko pata chala ki unke room mein koi to hai...
SCENE 2:
Actually unke hostel ki ek purani story hai.... waha saalon se ek Billi raha karti thi... jo saal mein na jane kitni baar pregnant hoti thi aur apne bachcho ko kisi ke bhi room mein deliver kar ke gayab ho jati thi... Fir kuch mahino baad pregnant hoti aur laut ati....
Jis raat ki hum baat kar rahe hai.. us raat he wo billi fir se pregnant najar ayi thi...
Ab dono Neha & sitara billi se bahut darti thi... bechari Neha ke cupboard mein to 1 year mein he 4 billi ke bachcho ne janam liya tha .. wo bechari to billiyon ke naam se he khauf mein aa jati thi... :-(...
Isliye Uss RAAT 2 baje jab Neha ne apne bed ke neeche awaaz suni.. to usko laga ki billi wahi hai uske bed ke neeche... Ye soch ke he Neha ke paseene chootne lage :-(.. wo becahri ghabra gayi... par Kambakht Neend itni aa rahi thi ki aankhen kholne ka mann nahi kar raha tha...
Inte mein usne suna ki kuch doosre bed pe hila.... Wo aur darr gayi usko laga ki billi bagal ke bed pe chadh gayi hai... ab to neend veend sab bhaag gayi par darr ke maare uski aankhen he na khulein...
Tabhi kuch bed pe se kood kar Chair pe aane ki awaaz ayi....
ab to Neha ki vaat lag gayi usko laga ab ye billi kood ke uske bed pe aa jayegi...
n wo ye sab soch he rhai thi ki itne mein wo kood ke Neha ke bed pe uske upar aa gayi...
Fir kya tha...
Neha daarr ke maare ankhen band karke itna chillai chilllai..... ki hostel mein aaju baju ke room wale bhi dar gaye ki kya hua....
Itne mein Neha ko kisi ki awaaz sunai di ki koi uska naam le raha hai.. "Neha Uth... Mai hoon Mai... abey chilla kyu rahi hai.. mai hoon mai..." and Neha ne jaise he apni aankhen kholi... uske upar Sitara chadh ke baithi hui thi... baal khule hue ikdam bhootni style mein... n gandi si shakal bana ke ... Neha ne bhi chashma nahi pehna tha.. bechari Sitara ko aisi khatarnak halat mein dekh ke wo aur jor se chillane lagi.. Sitara bhi chilaane lagi... dono ek doosre ko dekh ke chillane lagi... Itne mein Punty jo uss room mein mere, sitara n billi ke alawa majood fourth living creature thi jor se chillai.. tum dono pagal ho gaye ho kya... kyu ek doosre ko dekh ke chilla rahe ho...????
Ab Neha n Sitara ki Neend khuli :-)
Neha ne kaha wo samjhi billi uske upar chadhi hai par billi ki jagah sitara ko dekh k darr gayi isliye chillai :-(.
Sitara billi ke darr se apne bed se chair pe kood ke and fir Neha ke bed pe kood ke ayi... aur Neha ko chillate dekh wo sochi ki billi sitara ke peeche hai isliye Sitara khud bhi chillane lagi...
Hum dono ko chillate dekh Punty hum pe chillai :-) and wo billi bechari shor sunke darr ke mare mere bed ke neeche se nikal ke room AF-2 ke bahar chali gayi :-) !!!!
Par hamara shor sunke.. poore block ki janta jama ho gayi... and sabne milke hamari khoob hasi udai... :-(
Sab bole ye jamnagar ke 2 darpokon ne billi ke darr se sabko dara diya ;-)
Waise I still think ki wo billi humse darr gayi thi na ki hum usse :-P !!!
What say Sitara ;-)???
Monday, May 5, 2008
Jab the TRAIN Left ;-) !!!
Now this is one of my RECENT most embarrassing experiences :-)!!!
Before I start, just to remind you about an incident from movie "Jab We Met!!!". This is the incident where Kareena (Geet in the movie) runs behind the train as and when she realizes that she is about to Miss it ..Ooopss !!! Have you ever been in such position yourself... I hope not :-)Hey.. neither me ;-).
Lets start...Lights .. Camera...Action !!!!
Date: 1 May 2008
Place: My home
Time: 5:o0 PM
Scene 1 begins:
I am at my home chilling out on a pleasantly hot evening with my flat mate Abhilasha and a friend Gaurav. Suddenly my mobile rings... "Is this Love......."(tats my ring tone ;-)). When I pick this call, its from my cousin elder sister and she called me up to remind me that my mausiji (her mom) is about to leave for Gwalior by Jhelum express and it departs at 5:20 PM. Well my didi like me hardly does any thing in time ;-)... Newaz I gave a curse and then asked Gaurav to give me a lift till Railway station on his bike...[if you knew the kind of driver Gaurav is.. you would hardly take this risk ;-) he he he]. But with all my good luck and because of Gaurav i did manage to reach railway station by 5:18 PM. So far so Good !!!
Date: 1 May 2008
Place: Pune Railway Station, Platform no 1
Time: 5:18 PM
Scene 2 begins:
I make a call to my Jiju as he had come to drop my mausiji. He replied after a long tring tring :-) and to my surprise he says he is looking for mausiji too[Baap re aisa kaise]. Actually he had asked her to go and get the seat while he would park the car and get back to her with luggage!!! Now here the excitement begins.... Gaurav dropped me at the entrance to railway station and said that he will park his bike and get the platform tickets. As I entered the platform 1, I was greeted by my mausiji :-). She was standing in front of Sleeper Coach while she was supposed to be looking for AC coaches!!!. Somebody misguided her and she was looking for AC coach in the entirely opposite direction as well as she was in Panic state as she could not find Jiju as well :-O!!! I tried to call my Jiju again but no response after an entire Tring Tring! Meanwhile it was 5:20 P.M and the train started to leave... Here the thrill begins.. Now coming from the same Gene like my mausiji, I also got panicky and right there on the platform I started yelling "Arey koi chain kheecho please train ko rokna hai.." [Please pull the chain as we need to stop the train :-(] There were people on the platform who also started yelling on the seated passengers to Pull the chain... We (I, mausiji) din't know what to do.. so we started running along with the train.. My mausiji was too scared to climb into a running train..(not her fault here).. Newaz the last bogey where the Good old guard was waving a green flag saw me running behind the moving train and heard my shouts to stop the train... ;-). Here is the place where the entire sequence of Kareena running behind a train in Jab We Met.. flashed before my own eyes.. and I could actually feel what she must be feeling then :-(... [ Mind you people the only difference here is that I was not about to board the train but it was my mausiji :-) ].. Finally after running through the two/third of the platform no 1, the TRAIN DID STOP :-).... Surprised as we both were more than that we were happy... All this while I was trying to reach my Jiju and I did manage to reach him but of no use.. because all that he said I couldnot hear and all that I said he could not hear :-) !!!. After reaching the end of platform 1 we saw jiju.. and started running towards him..
Date: 1 May 2008
Place: Pune Railway Station, Platform no 1
Time: 5:25 PM
Scene 3 begins:
I am not quite sure if it was the happiness on seeing my jiju with all the luggage right in front of the bogey or it was this realization that the train started moving again.. that brought tears to my eyes :-P.
FUNNY isnt it.. :-) or TRAGIC I must say... though..
Newaz, as the train started moving again I and my jiju tried to push my mausiji on the train... but alas.. it was of no use :-( and I started running again behind the train this time that Good old guard uncle was not good to us any more.... and he said take another TRAIN :-(..
Date: 1 May 2008
Place: Pune Railway Station, Platform no 1
Time: 5:30 PM
Scene 4 begins:
Once the train had left... I heard "Is this Love....". Yes, correct it was my mobile ringing..."Gaurav Calllin..". When I picked the call I said trajedy ho gai yaar... Now words from Gaurav.. he thought ki mai platform pe gir gayi :-P.. I had to clarify to him that no We missed the train. Then we came out of platform and were discussing what to do now... I was consoling my mausiji ki aj jana nahi likha tha apki kismat mein so its ok.. it happens.. :-) Though the train had stopped and we still missed it.. is a real TRAJEDY man.. Meanwhile Gaurav joined me, jiju and mausiji and I described the entire event to him.. We all had smiles on our faces :-). Especially when I told them I felt like Kareena for a moment ;-).
Before I start, just to remind you about an incident from movie "Jab We Met!!!". This is the incident where Kareena (Geet in the movie) runs behind the train as and when she realizes that she is about to Miss it ..Ooopss !!! Have you ever been in such position yourself... I hope not :-)Hey.. neither me ;-).
Lets start...Lights .. Camera...Action !!!!
Date: 1 May 2008
Place: My home
Time: 5:o0 PM
Scene 1 begins:
I am at my home chilling out on a pleasantly hot evening with my flat mate Abhilasha and a friend Gaurav. Suddenly my mobile rings... "Is this Love......."(tats my ring tone ;-)). When I pick this call, its from my cousin elder sister and she called me up to remind me that my mausiji (her mom) is about to leave for Gwalior by Jhelum express and it departs at 5:20 PM. Well my didi like me hardly does any thing in time ;-)... Newaz I gave a curse and then asked Gaurav to give me a lift till Railway station on his bike...[if you knew the kind of driver Gaurav is.. you would hardly take this risk ;-) he he he]. But with all my good luck and because of Gaurav i did manage to reach railway station by 5:18 PM. So far so Good !!!
Date: 1 May 2008
Place: Pune Railway Station, Platform no 1
Time: 5:18 PM
Scene 2 begins:
I make a call to my Jiju as he had come to drop my mausiji. He replied after a long tring tring :-) and to my surprise he says he is looking for mausiji too[Baap re aisa kaise]. Actually he had asked her to go and get the seat while he would park the car and get back to her with luggage!!! Now here the excitement begins.... Gaurav dropped me at the entrance to railway station and said that he will park his bike and get the platform tickets. As I entered the platform 1, I was greeted by my mausiji :-). She was standing in front of Sleeper Coach while she was supposed to be looking for AC coaches!!!. Somebody misguided her and she was looking for AC coach in the entirely opposite direction as well as she was in Panic state as she could not find Jiju as well :-O!!! I tried to call my Jiju again but no response after an entire Tring Tring! Meanwhile it was 5:20 P.M and the train started to leave... Here the thrill begins.. Now coming from the same Gene like my mausiji, I also got panicky and right there on the platform I started yelling "Arey koi chain kheecho please train ko rokna hai.." [Please pull the chain as we need to stop the train :-(] There were people on the platform who also started yelling on the seated passengers to Pull the chain... We (I, mausiji) din't know what to do.. so we started running along with the train.. My mausiji was too scared to climb into a running train..(not her fault here).. Newaz the last bogey where the Good old guard was waving a green flag saw me running behind the moving train and heard my shouts to stop the train... ;-). Here is the place where the entire sequence of Kareena running behind a train in Jab We Met.. flashed before my own eyes.. and I could actually feel what she must be feeling then :-(... [ Mind you people the only difference here is that I was not about to board the train but it was my mausiji :-) ].. Finally after running through the two/third of the platform no 1, the TRAIN DID STOP :-).... Surprised as we both were more than that we were happy... All this while I was trying to reach my Jiju and I did manage to reach him but of no use.. because all that he said I couldnot hear and all that I said he could not hear :-) !!!. After reaching the end of platform 1 we saw jiju.. and started running towards him..
Date: 1 May 2008
Place: Pune Railway Station, Platform no 1
Time: 5:25 PM
Scene 3 begins:
I am not quite sure if it was the happiness on seeing my jiju with all the luggage right in front of the bogey or it was this realization that the train started moving again.. that brought tears to my eyes :-P.
FUNNY isnt it.. :-) or TRAGIC I must say... though..
Newaz, as the train started moving again I and my jiju tried to push my mausiji on the train... but alas.. it was of no use :-( and I started running again behind the train this time that Good old guard uncle was not good to us any more.... and he said take another TRAIN :-(..
Date: 1 May 2008
Place: Pune Railway Station, Platform no 1
Time: 5:30 PM
Scene 4 begins:
Once the train had left... I heard "Is this Love....". Yes, correct it was my mobile ringing..."Gaurav Calllin..". When I picked the call I said trajedy ho gai yaar... Now words from Gaurav.. he thought ki mai platform pe gir gayi :-P.. I had to clarify to him that no We missed the train. Then we came out of platform and were discussing what to do now... I was consoling my mausiji ki aj jana nahi likha tha apki kismat mein so its ok.. it happens.. :-) Though the train had stopped and we still missed it.. is a real TRAJEDY man.. Meanwhile Gaurav joined me, jiju and mausiji and I described the entire event to him.. We all had smiles on our faces :-). Especially when I told them I felt like Kareena for a moment ;-).
DOES YOUR HEART RULES THE MIND or OTHERWISE
Welcome ladies and gentlemen, to the world of ecstasy. Yes! Ecstasy it is because whatever happens here is something you can relate to everything that happens in your dreams but rarely in reality :-).
Before I take you to this ECSTATIC WORLD of mine I will tell you something about the REAL WORLD. This is a FACT, when I say that I live in a world where people play Mind games at every Step of Life. Games or Mind Games rather are played with their parents, friends, family, beloved and last but not the least even with THEMSELVES :-O. It sounds absurd but each one of US in this real world does the same thing…
That is why I live in fantasy… a DREAMLAND of my own. Many of my friends have pointed this out to me.. “Apni Dreamland se bahar nikal.. Be practical.. People in Real world do not work or think the way you do.. bla bla blah..” But I cant help it. I might not be able to change this world but I can create a world of my own :-). A WORLD of my OWN where HEART RULES OVER MIND. Where everyone does what his/her heart says.. where people listen to their heart and not their mind.. and are happy doing it.
Have you ever wondered why you are in this world? What is the purpose of your life? I have.. and trust me I am still wondering.. ;-) the only answer I have now is to bring happiness to those whom I can…and I believe this is a good enough purpose for your life ;-). But before you say or do thing to make others happy it is very necessary that you should be happy…coz if you are not then you can’t light other’s life if you yourself are in darkness. So, finally to keep myself HAPPY.. all I have to do is Listen to my HEART :-) and follow IT. Remember Our ultimate DUTY is TO OUR HEART and If your MIND is interfering in your Heart’s business then please stop it.. you will never be happy if you go against your heart. On the other hand you will never regret any decision if you follow your Heart :-) because your heart always tells you the right thing.. it will never misguide you and this is what will make you happy :-)!!!
Before I take you to this ECSTATIC WORLD of mine I will tell you something about the REAL WORLD. This is a FACT, when I say that I live in a world where people play Mind games at every Step of Life. Games or Mind Games rather are played with their parents, friends, family, beloved and last but not the least even with THEMSELVES :-O. It sounds absurd but each one of US in this real world does the same thing…
That is why I live in fantasy… a DREAMLAND of my own. Many of my friends have pointed this out to me.. “Apni Dreamland se bahar nikal.. Be practical.. People in Real world do not work or think the way you do.. bla bla blah..” But I cant help it. I might not be able to change this world but I can create a world of my own :-). A WORLD of my OWN where HEART RULES OVER MIND. Where everyone does what his/her heart says.. where people listen to their heart and not their mind.. and are happy doing it.
Have you ever wondered why you are in this world? What is the purpose of your life? I have.. and trust me I am still wondering.. ;-) the only answer I have now is to bring happiness to those whom I can…and I believe this is a good enough purpose for your life ;-). But before you say or do thing to make others happy it is very necessary that you should be happy…coz if you are not then you can’t light other’s life if you yourself are in darkness. So, finally to keep myself HAPPY.. all I have to do is Listen to my HEART :-) and follow IT. Remember Our ultimate DUTY is TO OUR HEART and If your MIND is interfering in your Heart’s business then please stop it.. you will never be happy if you go against your heart. On the other hand you will never regret any decision if you follow your Heart :-) because your heart always tells you the right thing.. it will never misguide you and this is what will make you happy :-)!!!
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Listening Problem
Here I am with words too few..
To Start a Conversation which isnt so new :-)
Of the five common sense organs, that every normal human is bestowed with, the most dangerous sense organ is 'TONGUE'. For those like me who are not from medical background and are a little unaware about human anatomy, let me tell you that the most powerful muscle in our body is 'TONGUE'.
Very often we come across people, who talk..these are the ones who make the best use of this strongest muscle ;-)..Hey Chill!!! i can only write and talking ....well mmm....it comes quite naturally to me sorry can't help it :-(.. u need to ask my friends to know about my Skill of Talking ;-).. Newaz.. recently i have been trying very hard to control my TONGUE and make use of another sense organ called 'Ear'... Yes !!!! here it goes... They say that it is easy to cure a problem if you know exactly what the problem is.. and though late i have realized that my main problem is that i Talk A Lot and rarely Stop :-). i am sure many of us might be thinking that they also have same problem.. well in that case you ought to read this and understand..
I would like to give the actual symptoms of Listening Problem...
1. They Talk
2. They Talk when they are happy
3. They Talk when they are sad
4. They Talk when they want to kill time
5. They Talk when they are busy
6. They Talk when they are cheery
7. They Talk when they are gloomy
8. And the main one they Talk even if they are not feling anything :-O...
So, i guess you now realize the gravity of the situation...
Lets discuss the solution here:
1. The only solution here is to STOP the Chatter.. and Control your Tongue :-).
2. Then take a deep breath and relax
3. Divert your mind to the people and things around
4. Try and focus your attention on others
5. LISTEN to all that you can.. a conversation going around, may be the wind blowing, may be you can listen to your own thoughts.. :-)
And once you reach this stage where you are able to Listen yourself.. TRUST me you will never have to speak to others... Coz then you will be able to talk to yourself..and thats when you will never ever be lonely again :-)!!!!
Trust me it WORKS !!!!
To Start a Conversation which isnt so new :-)
Of the five common sense organs, that every normal human is bestowed with, the most dangerous sense organ is 'TONGUE'. For those like me who are not from medical background and are a little unaware about human anatomy, let me tell you that the most powerful muscle in our body is 'TONGUE'.
Very often we come across people, who talk..these are the ones who make the best use of this strongest muscle ;-)..Hey Chill!!! i can only write and talking ....well mmm....it comes quite naturally to me sorry can't help it :-(.. u need to ask my friends to know about my Skill of Talking ;-).. Newaz.. recently i have been trying very hard to control my TONGUE and make use of another sense organ called 'Ear'... Yes !!!! here it goes... They say that it is easy to cure a problem if you know exactly what the problem is.. and though late i have realized that my main problem is that i Talk A Lot and rarely Stop :-). i am sure many of us might be thinking that they also have same problem.. well in that case you ought to read this and understand..
I would like to give the actual symptoms of Listening Problem...
1. They Talk
2. They Talk when they are happy
3. They Talk when they are sad
4. They Talk when they want to kill time
5. They Talk when they are busy
6. They Talk when they are cheery
7. They Talk when they are gloomy
8. And the main one they Talk even if they are not feling anything :-O...
So, i guess you now realize the gravity of the situation...
Lets discuss the solution here:
1. The only solution here is to STOP the Chatter.. and Control your Tongue :-).
2. Then take a deep breath and relax
3. Divert your mind to the people and things around
4. Try and focus your attention on others
5. LISTEN to all that you can.. a conversation going around, may be the wind blowing, may be you can listen to your own thoughts.. :-)
And once you reach this stage where you are able to Listen yourself.. TRUST me you will never have to speak to others... Coz then you will be able to talk to yourself..and thats when you will never ever be lonely again :-)!!!!
Trust me it WORKS !!!!
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