ashu's wedding....

...and i dont have anything nice to wear! i am fat, very fat. i surf through mum's sarees and pick one. its peacock blue coloured with some peacock motifs on it. mild saree but i love it. i try wrapping that 5 yard thing around me like 3-4 times, but i fail. i call mum to help me out...she quickly dresses me up. now i realize i do not have any jewellery. so i go hunting in my old drawer if i can find blue bangles or something...i spot them, red, orange, blue, some pink?! anyways i stretch my arm to get them and .............cuff cufff.... my eyes opened. i was lying in my bed. there wasnt any drawer in front and i was under my blanket. it was 7am.

how the hell did my mind drift to ashu's wedding??!! how? why? the dream was horrible. a. i was fat. b. i was wearing a saree. c. it was happening at my place in bombay. weird. by the time ashu gets married, that place wud be demolised. so theres no way the dream is coming true.

but something more funny happened after that. when i signed into gtalk late this morning, ashu was online! and we talked so much about her wedding, my wedding, our family.... it was very relaxing and fun... she told me about the saree colours a maharashtrian bride wears, yellow and green! to which i reacted i wud have a theme wedding- like an African dress code, or Hawaiian. she loved the idea..and we started fantacising my wedding...ah!

who... me?

It all started when gretta called in the middle of the evening, “ M coming in 5 mins, pacca!” she repeated my dialogue in that teaser tone. I had said that to her on 26th june when she'd called me to the office to sign a few papers. Obviously I dint turn up coz I completely forgot about it and she decided to haunt me today after 12 days! Well, I have now promised I’d be there on 11th july morning. She cooled down only when I assured I’d bring bakarwadi, kachoris and karanjis for all the staff!!! Yeah, that’s how they treat their boss’s daughter…like family…they’d wasool this everytime I forget to send my expenses or sign the vouchers.
While all this conversation was happening, mum was sitting right in the front. When I was done with gretta, she stared. “ that day, I told u to inform aji we’ll be home by 8pm and have waran bhat. U only told her we’ll be home by 8.30 and left hurriedly.” I was lost again. I am the last person u’d wanna rely on to transfer phone msgs… all this made me think of many a times that I have forgotten to give msgs to manda aji from her frnz when she’d be out of the house. And only when they appeared in front of me or called back wud I remember that they had called. They’d curse me for it!
The other day, jayu was in pune and I had promised pranju to meet up the day before. Jayu and I spent the whole day together and I completely forgot to call pranju, infact I remembered when she msgd me in the night.
Now, as I search thru the different types of amnesia, m unable to state my kind so I’ll just invent one for my sake- lets call it, sujuz amnesia. Yes, that’s the defect m living with…the ability to forget msgs.

what is happening ????

I decided to give myself 2 weeks of pure fun. but turns out destinity had its own plans for me! i set out on 23rd june and caught serious cold and cough on the 28th. followed by high fever for next 2 days and pathetic weakness for next 3 days. all of north india only saw me coughing... m still coughing. i dissapointed frnz i was travelling with and myself ofcourse!!! Cant sleep coz i cough, cant eat anything i want to coz of this throat....duh......
m back now.i dont wanna be home. i wanna go to out, out and away... my plans arent working well..m fed up of living here. m gonna run away...soon very soon....i hate to see mum's face everyday, hear her and sidd fight all day, look at dad and laugh at myself helplessly, hes like a total stranger. so back pack meri jaan..keep going... yeh college kab shuru hoga yaar, i swear i wudnt come home for anything more than a dinner and sleep. m sick , yes m sick, m out of my mind..i have officially lost myself now...hu lalalala....hmm hmm hmm....bla bla blah.... and the best part i hate sickness...!!!!!!!!

one more day of vacation..

It was 8, a usual day break until mum came in all panicked. She had to attend a meeting at 11 and the doc in mumbai hadnt sent the meeting details yet. he was suppose to email them on my id. so she shook me out of the bed and sent me to the cyber cafe. now this is pune, what kinda shop is open before 10?! after passing by closed shutters of about 4 cyber cafes, i found 1 open! thankfully, the speed was good. it was 8.45 by now. i hadnt received any email from him yet. i waited for half an hr, no email.. called up mum, she said hes already sent it, duh! i was so bugged! and mr.isaac had to call up...'hi, m at satara rd, how long will u take to get here?' i dint really have an answer but i said, 'go ahead, have breakfast and wait there.' 9.30, finally after killing 45 minutes, i got the email. printed it and rushed home.

By that time pranav had replied to my sms about the dehradun plan. so next one hour went into dicussions over phone calls- to pranav, to isaac, to jayu.. mum left at 11. she asked me to cook lunch. sidd was playing downstairs...isaac was waiting at the college. i managed to heat up the rice a lil and left for college. met isaac, he looked darker and sick. (bangalore return!) he had spoken to the princi, som and had got a green signal to go take up a 4 month course at bangalore. he was happy.

we then drifted to mg road to check out the hp tablet. called up pranav for directions to the showroom.. we parked the bike at pull gate and walked down. we dint find a tablet on display tho.. but we did some browsing.. came home at about 5. loose motions had killed my energy, i went straight to bed! isaac had food aka lunch at 5 at my place. when i woke up at something past 6, mum said he'd just gotten up from the dining table! hes a hogger!! and hes like the elder sibling at our house, he'll play with sidd, help mum in the kitchen, irritate me and chat all the time keeping everyone busy!

anyways, i wanted c yash, so i msgd him. i had to go to swargate to drop isaac, so i was half way in between kothrud and bibwe wadi. yash called me at saras baug. we met ,he was hungry (hadnt eaten anything since morning. reason- laziness to go out) so he had bhel, we walked for a while then went biking in the narrow lanes of sadashiv peth and navi peth..it was fun! we were back at saras baug at 9, it had started to rain..it felt amazing..
he called pranav and asked him to come over so they cud have dinner.. he turned up rather late. we had chinese at 'purva' and began our planning for dehradun. it all came down to pranav's gf! he had stories to tell, but i was getting late.. we walked out and got dressed to get wet. i got a good bye kiss from yash.....in front of pranav 2day! anyways, i dint wanna stretch it longer. wasnt embarassing, just awkward. c'mon, we were together throughout the evening and he had to find that moment! i only turned and waved out to pranav. reached home at 11. mum as usual "evdhya ratri yet jau nakos ekti...."

i love u guys!!!

i totally love my friends they way they are! may it be too sweet jayu or cranky mohini or sulky sumit or split-personality isaac or ziddi yash..! all have a special place in my heart and in turn, life! they are way different from one another but what brings them close to me are these 'symptoms' that i share with each one of them.

jayu and me: sweetness, kindness, care , love, the best time -walking thru lanes in parle. worst- when we dont get to talk for weeks.

mohini and me: passion for work, hanging out anytime anywhere, the best time -when we complete asgnts the night before submissions! worst- when her mood swings into a 'me nahi ja...' mode.

sumit and me: sms chatting, brain storming on subjects, the best time-travelling in pmt from college to swargate. worst- when he goes mute.

issac and me: out going, logical, thoughtful, openness in talking abt any damn thing! the best time- every time we hang out. worst- when he wants me to pick him up from station!

yash and me: the fact that theres nothing common in us! but it works! the best time- when we hold hands. worst- when we are not together.

p. s. these kinda surveys can actually help me count the no. of personalities inside me!

Mission accomplished!

Today, i woke up early than usual i.e. at 7. cleaned my room, washed the balcony, arranged the plants and after all the sweating, had a zakas bath in cold water. I had a mission 2day, so i finished the daily chores as early as possible. The mission: Hunt for my notebooks in my room at aji's place. the room is now only a storage place after i left. so searching for the notebooks meant serious scavenging! But i was too determined 2day, coz 2moro is the exam and i have to have the notes.

I reached there at 9. worked on the glow signs project for a while and then began the search. I went thru my junky table top first....no luck. i had packed some bags to move to my new room. there are around 8-9 bags. I took a deep breath and began opening them one by one. clothes, canvases, boards, colours, brushes, blankets, papers, papers and papers.....no trace of a simple note book. then with all possible hope i cud gather, i opened the last bag. after sliding out many a papers, there it was! oh, i cud have kissed it, but it was layered with dust. i wiped it off and carefully placed it on the table, opened it, browsed thru all the pages and what, the scripts that i wanted werent there!

i then remembered i had written them in another book. so began the part 2 of my hunt. Now there was only one option left- the drafting table top, burdened with more of my stuff. I gave it one look full of calmness and started gathering the papers. after collecting quite a pile, i found the jewel there, my flash notebook!!!!!! YES YES YES !!!!!!!!!!!! Ah, i heaved a sigh of relief! atalst, i cud study the scripts that i have completely forgotten after doing the assignments 3 months ago.

Almost 60% of my exam fever has come down now. its only serious study now, thats it, i have to work on a few game concepts, presentation ideas and web layouts....m not giving up...i have to score well this time..!!!

guest house?!

when a family moves from one city to another, guest pour in to stay at their new place. No asking, nothing...just one phone call, 'hey, we're coming to ur new place for bla bla days, c u!' thats it. and the poor family has no option but to get busy for preparations.

not a single day do i remember when we had no guests in house. They have been visiting us like ours were a guset house.. they come, they stay, have fun and ruin my study/work time! Not that i hate them..i love them all, but its just that the timing is sooo wrong! like yesterday, gadgils came over for dinner, i lost almost 4 hours from 6-10pm, which cud have been used to work on the glow signs project and also, i wud have taken an evening walk. and gadgils, arent guests, i have lived with them for 2 years, so they r like family to me. plus, m pissed with the way they all are all time baby-sitters for shamy. hes a pacca nautanki like many other over pampered kids, keeping the entire family on toes.

i have projects to do, study for the exam then go thru the exam, and mum the great had to invite her frnz from bombay with their families in the midst of my exam dates. cool. ok, its a week end, but its not the only weekend of a lifetime. on top of that she'd say, suju can shut herself in her room and work peacefully! ya rt! like the other kids are gonna let me do that..and my room doesnt have sound-proof walls and door. i have no idea whats gonna hapen to my temper that day...oh, how about running away to mohini's place, or aji's place or somewhere or anywhere... yes, i shud do that or m screwed. again, i pray, may all those ppl who want to study in life, dont stay with your family!!! ofcourse, if u want to study house keeping, thats the best!

this time its dreamweaver and flash scripting for the exam...they need a lot of practice, which ofcourse i havent done. no, the shifting thingy neednt be blamed, its actually my so called 'unwilling participation in it, to keep mum happy', that messed things up. not just my work, it also messed up my diet and work out schedule...which hurts me the most!

i hope things work out real soon!