I completed this post...finally!!!

its' been quite a while I have written something...not that I was falling short of things to scribble about...but somehow cudnt manage to pen down my thoughts....my last writeup was bad....as was my mood that day! but thats gone now...over...completely over...lessons learnt..."Don't get shocked/surprised/pissed off by people's actions"...anything is possible!

I had better things waiting for me after this bitter experience...I was flying to Washington DC to meet Shruts and Mattoo! It had been so long I had seen Shruti...the 3 clowns were back together again...what we did the most...missed our 4th clown...missed her just too much to mention...the next thing we did...laughed and laughed and laughed on all those stories that we remembered umpteenth time!! I have stopped the count we repeatedly talked about our "HIGH kisse and kaand" and rolled on the floor laughing!!! another interesting phenomenon: meeting MAttoo's roomies: a kallu, a mongolian, 2 Indians: one sweetly wierd and another simply wierd!! they might be thinking us as wierd; especially when sheenu, shruti and I were just laughing our hearts out!! all perception uc ;))

the next two days were just too short to pass by...we just went on and on and on looking places...The Capitol, The White House, The Washington Memorial, The Lincoln Memorial, Pentagon, and not to forget the museums....those were just TOO many and TOO huge to cover in a couple of days...at the end of everything I felt so short of time in my hands...I mean just come to think of it...so many things to do, so many places to visit, so much to learn, so much to know...wished life was longer to do all of these...wished days had 48 hrs...or maybe 96 ;))...I also went to the National Cathdral in DC...it was HUGE, it was beautiful and it was so peaceful there...all n' all my DC trip was fun! only that I missed the Cherry Blossom Festival by 15 days:( some other time...

the next week I went to the TCS Springfest party...hoping to see some good guys around...;) but ALAS! I went there only to find out about the growing numbers of those "typical" South Indian guys in Chicago :((( not that all South Indian are bad...c'mon who knows better than me! he was a tamilian ....but the crowd here was saddeningly bad :((

I dunno wheres days fly off...weeks are over in a flick...lemme remember if I have done something significant in the past two weeks...ummmm....work...aah c'mon! I need to remember something "significant"...well that leaves me with only one thing..."watching F.R.I.E.N.D.S."!!! I have always been a die hard F.R.I.E.N.D.S fan...only at times my craze to wtch F.R.I.E.N.D.S. becomes dormant for some reasons...it currently its' UP and very much UP! so I have been watching F.R.I.E.N.D.S. like everyday till I can manage...the only reason that makes me stop that is the thought of getting up in the morning...:(( and each time I watch F.R.I.E.N.D.S., I end up with one conclusion...." I love Chandler!!!!" "I simply absolutely love him!!"

another weekend has started...and whatta start! I get a wakeup call asking me to login and solve some production issue!! rocking! isn;t it!! :)) neways, after the "safai abhiyaan" aka "cleanliness drive" of our house...I sit down here to complete my post that has been lingering around since ages....

and last but not the least...I am very happy today...for reasons not to be mentioned...its' a day for aai, baba, bhai and I to celebrate!! Life is beautiful....

Happy Holi!!

It was holi yesterday…for the first time in my life I celebrated Holi that was so dry!! My roomies were giving me a whatta-nonsense-gal-she-is looks when I was dancing around in the house asking them to celebrate holi!!! Finally we were at our friend’s place with red faces and a happy feeling inside me that I finally “played Holi”!! time and again things happen that remind me that I am away from my-home…my-place…I am finding myself in the midst of thoughts…thoughts that seem to be so conflicting at times…thoughts all around me…thoughts that compel me to think…to take a stance…something that I don’t intend to do right now…

Life here is…I dunno…what can I call it? Maybe ironical…in a sense that makes you feel amused, happy, excited but sad at the same time…five people staying in one house…I can’t call it home…home is in dewas…home was where the four clowns lived…everyone here in on the phone except for me…everyone glued to the cell phone…sitting in a corner…with a handsfree attached to the ear…dinner plate in the hands and sitting in front of the laptop…no one has the time to speak to people inside the house…people…in flesh and blood…people living…moving…”in the house”!! for me…things are a bit different…I am not on the phone most of the times…reason being as simple as not having anyone to talk to the way these gals do…not that I won’t enjoy that but then at the same time I can’t talk to “just anyone”….i have my dinner watching TV…I hate eating food in front of the laptop!! And the most ironical part which pinches me…bugs me…hurts me…bothers me is Chunnu and I used to talk more when I was in India and she was here…here…we just miss out on talking to each other…and by the time I realize that I find Chunnu on the phone or Chunnu finds me asleep or checking out some production issue….!!

I am not feeling well today and I am missing home…I am missing aai baba…and I am missing them badly…we take so many things granted in our life! When I am sitting here and tapping the keyboard with this stuff I remember the khichdi aai prepared…I remember her stroking my hair and her hands on my forehead to check the temperature…dad’s taking my side when aai used to scold me…those quarrels with bhai…and both of us being locked in the room…our playing Holi together…going to market with baba sitting on the scooter to buy pichkari and balloons and colors…there’s something here that makes me feel hollow…empty from inside…and then I am surrounded by the thought of good things here…I just find myself short of people to share all this with…

I was reading Abhinav’s blog yesterday…only that he puts up everything with a coating of something that sounds funny…that looks funny…but the feeling is universal…even he misses home…his mom…his place…but presents it in a much better way...very much unlike me…

And last but not the least, some additions to my last writeup…

Found this sketch by Sujatha…she had gifted this cute Popoye sketch to me…just like that! I have put that on my desk…remember her when I see that sketch…

Went to play bowling yesterday…missed Mahan n’ Surya…missed the times when I used to hangout with these guys…and played bowling to vent out the “negative energy”…that how Mahan used to call it…!!

Read Vamsi’s blog and missed the golden time I spent in aamchi Mumbai…I miss the local trains…BEST buses…crowd…road side shopping…hawkers with “chana chor garam”…

Each Saturday I miss going to VMS (Victoria Memorial School for the visually impaired)…miss the kids…miss the feeling to contentment I used to have after teaching them…miss my GANG of VMS friends…