12th july 08
Woke up at 8. me and aji were sitting on the swing as usual when manisha aatya called. She and rattan aji were to attend a marriage and the kids dint wanna go. So she asked if I cud baby sit eshaan and anusha for about 3 hours. I so wanted to say no but duty calls baby! They love their tai coz shes into arty stuff and keeps them busy. So there I was at ratan aji’s place making drawings with blow pens. Eshaan made an island with coconut trees and anusha made a butterfly. Then we had pasta for lunch and sat swinging talking about funny old movies. That led us to our plan for the evening- watch ‘dunston checks in’ . but we did not find that dvd!
So we thot we’ll make a glass painting, but we dint have the material so its planned for Sunday.
Caught up with jayu and dhaval in the evening. Dhaval looked fatter and jayu thinner! As usual they were eating when we met. We walked through vile parle..met some ptvians on the way who did their best to convince us to go to the reunion, but in vain! Actually, since we (me and jayu) were very low profile in school, we aren’t that keen on attending the reunion. Anyways, we came home and I showed them the pictures we took at alibaug and further on our trip. Me and jayu had a good time making dhaval jealous but it seems he was more worried about his tutions at 8.15pm. so him and jayu left soon. Jayu came back after dropping him at the station and we made plans for Sunday.
At night, Isaac called up to make sure I was in Mumbai when he came, so we cud meet. Its been almost a month we last met. Yes, I have been missing Isaac and mohini a lot for last 2 weeks especially. I missed them on the trip, at pune, at alibaug… we did keep in touch on the phone but hanging out with them has become like an all time thing. some frnz are so unique, no one can take their place! C u soon guys…
Thursday, July 17, 2008
3rd Root canal
11th july 08
The 3rd root canal in the same mouth. I don’t recollect the one that happened when I was 14, but today’s was the worst for sure. The doc drilled into my nerve with that terrific sound making device and all I did was shut my eyes real deep, crumbled the plastic cloth in my left hand and tightly grabbed the handle on the right with all the power I cud, rubbed my toes over one another and prayed. M not very sure whats wrong with me, but it seems 2 shots of anaesthesia did not manage to do any wonders on my tooth.
After a while, half my mouth was all numb, which was great. Finally! But root canal is a complete horror. There are these tiny files that they insert into the root and clean it. It actually feels like carpentry work is being done on your tooth and u can not feel the pain but the movements and the noises create a super frightening experience. It took one hour for the cleaning. My month was stuck open. The corners of my lips were paining badly. Lastly, she (dentist) asked me to rinse off, which was a task coz I cudnt feel half my mouth. So most of the water spilt out and I managed to ‘rinse off’ with the little left. I was bad. Anyways, she then laid some fibre-like thingys into the root and filled it up. I cud see with one half eye, but the instruments dint look nice so I decided to keep that half eye closed too.
All done, I’ll get my tooth cap on Monday evening. And I’ll also get the bill that day! Earlier she used to send it to mum straight away, but now since she isn’t here, I’ll have to pay it from my account. Dentist’s bill always digs a big pit in pocket, and with teeth like mine… even the doc made fun of me saying- every year one root canal, by next 30 years, all ur teeth wud be fake! Duh!
Anyways, staying here with aji-ajoba is the most relaxing part of all this. Aji is the best cook and she is so happy that I am here! She says, now we can make bhel and pani puri at home, which otherwise she doesn’t coz its only the 2 of them. But aji loves such food. We also made ‘amba barfi’. it tastes awesome! The colour and sweetness is just perfect..yummy…
The 3rd root canal in the same mouth. I don’t recollect the one that happened when I was 14, but today’s was the worst for sure. The doc drilled into my nerve with that terrific sound making device and all I did was shut my eyes real deep, crumbled the plastic cloth in my left hand and tightly grabbed the handle on the right with all the power I cud, rubbed my toes over one another and prayed. M not very sure whats wrong with me, but it seems 2 shots of anaesthesia did not manage to do any wonders on my tooth.
After a while, half my mouth was all numb, which was great. Finally! But root canal is a complete horror. There are these tiny files that they insert into the root and clean it. It actually feels like carpentry work is being done on your tooth and u can not feel the pain but the movements and the noises create a super frightening experience. It took one hour for the cleaning. My month was stuck open. The corners of my lips were paining badly. Lastly, she (dentist) asked me to rinse off, which was a task coz I cudnt feel half my mouth. So most of the water spilt out and I managed to ‘rinse off’ with the little left. I was bad. Anyways, she then laid some fibre-like thingys into the root and filled it up. I cud see with one half eye, but the instruments dint look nice so I decided to keep that half eye closed too.
All done, I’ll get my tooth cap on Monday evening. And I’ll also get the bill that day! Earlier she used to send it to mum straight away, but now since she isn’t here, I’ll have to pay it from my account. Dentist’s bill always digs a big pit in pocket, and with teeth like mine… even the doc made fun of me saying- every year one root canal, by next 30 years, all ur teeth wud be fake! Duh!
Anyways, staying here with aji-ajoba is the most relaxing part of all this. Aji is the best cook and she is so happy that I am here! She says, now we can make bhel and pani puri at home, which otherwise she doesn’t coz its only the 2 of them. But aji loves such food. We also made ‘amba barfi’. it tastes awesome! The colour and sweetness is just perfect..yummy…
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
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!
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.
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.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
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...!!!!!!!!
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...!!!!!!!!
Thursday, June 12, 2008
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...."
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...."
Friday, May 30, 2008
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!
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