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 ;-) !!!

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 ;-)???

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 ;-).

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 :-)!!!