Bangalore Blues and Greens ...

I know its been real real long since the last post but traveling, shifting and finding a roof to shelter me in exchange for money and not smiles or major ass kickin.
So I landed here (read Bangalore) on the 7th of December, 2008 to find myself lugging around bags to my hotel room with the help of an already drained dude ( Rohan Rocks!!!)
Then came the first day of office and the excitement was killing. After a real long time I’d be ticking another item of my list of must do / have. The day was done and everyone was warm and welcoming. Looking forward to every day at work and the usual first month went by in a jiffy just adjusting and assimilating everything around you.
After hrs on the other hand was something that I looked forward too as it was the most fulfilling part of the day. And all this was possible thanks to the most lovable guy I met a few years ago and ever since every ass kickin session’s been nothing but pure fun!! Yes I guess he knows it’s him but I’ll single him out nonetheless - Shanky a.k.a Modi a.k.a Wanky (don’t kill me for the last one its K Baby's i believe). Anyways we’ve had some serious times too ( just so that he doesn’t pass off as an ASS) its just that it makes no sense to write about serious stuff :). He introduced me to the most enthusiastic bunch of people full of energy with a dash of madzzznezzz :D Everyone’s weird in their own cute way :D. Since day one its been endless laughs and doses of herbs and spices ;) apart from the regular overdoses of ITC products :). Top it off with some chicken wings and kathi rolls and oh yeah not to forget the ever famous DBC’s (for those who don’t know Death by Chocolates that adorned our kitchen on new years) Ofcourse most of my creative juices were spent in weaving a nice warm blanket of friends for Madzz ;) (she is gonna kill me soon for all the ass kicking :D)
Come weekends and I’d chill with the gang or once in a while meet the other Dawgs I know :D (Shvets + Rohan, Saurav , Chunnu and Sagar). Once in a bit as Naga calls him “Macho Man” would come around and we’d hookah or chill :D. So I believe basically there’s been a lot of enthusiasm shown in lazying around and oh yeah singing at the top of our voices to ruin almost everyone’s sleep :D
Moved into my own place in Jan and so far still unpacking and still managing to sneak a few days back to shank’s warm lil nest which by the way is probably the only best place I know in Bangy. The “Inmates” (called so as this jail kinda makes someone wanna stay on forever) Gunjan and Vipin are probably the warmest people I’ve come across making each day of my then so undetermined length of stay very memorable and leaving me wanting more :). Anyways I see I can go on forever about each and everyone I met and everything I did here so far but I feel something’s are better left unsaid
So till next time…

Wake me up when September ends...

Come September and I’m beginning to feel like ROYALTY :D. Everywhere I go (read Bombay, Pune and Bangalore) Its been a roller coaster ride…. And in a fun way!
Right from Shanky’s awesome birthday to the death ride to the Blore airport. Its been totally fun! Oh just incase ppl don’t know it’s the BEST month of the year ALWAYS ;) :P. So it started with a pleasure trip to Bangy a.k.a. Bangawhore! Where I witnessed primitive ass flogging of Shanks ( cool friend from Geometric … something I thank GSSL for) by atleast close to 20 of his classmates. Then I reach back to pune to find wat turned out to be the most awesome of bday surprises till date!
So here I am back in pune September 3rd 2008…. Its 1 pm and I enter my flat with both my roomies chillin and waiting for me to padharo!!! Then I finally lay my ass down on my bed to find this HUGE bday gift wrapped in greeeeeennn shiny paper topped off with pink (really pink) twisted ribbons!
Instructions read : Open Slowly… I oblige by doing so to find well the first of my 16 gifts :D. Considering that in this fast paced life to receive even a greeting is a big deal as everyone has their own shit to deal with and for my roomies to have taken the pains to do this was a big deal!! Trust me I was ecstatic when I started unwrapping the first layer to find that not only was in it the gift but each layer had a small note giving me the reason behind the gift selected.
Every day I woke up eager to unwrap the next layer and all starry eyed once I received the small note with it… I received things I remember I had mentioned months ago and the way they were wrapped was exactly as I wished I’d have gotten them. To add to this already amazing start one fine morning I was handed a letter neatly put in a beautiful envelope. I wondered whats this??? A Bill???? Na kidding hehehehhehe
It was the first of my long chain of letters all the way till a day after d-day.
Totally overwhelmed by the fact that my roomies went thru all this to get most of my friends to write me something is beyond words. I cant imagine the aggravation and questions faced by them… Now I know a few of the questions and well I think it was real big of them to quietly take it all.
So the first letter then the second then the third and so on… With each letter was a surge of emotions and my eyes welled up every time I finished reading one. The Funnest part of all this was the fact that none of them were signed by the author so I had to guess each time I read it after which I could only unwrap my next layer. Some letters were real funny and some struck a chord in my heart. But all of them hold their own place for me. At times it was real real hard to guess as I used to wonder, even if it was a particular friend, how on earth did my roomies contact them??? And when I’d get a “Yes , It is so and so” I’d go like “WTF, how on earth” and they’d go “sab baad main batayenge ki tere liye kya kya papad bele hain”
I was flabbergasted with the enormous efforts and the lovely responses by each and every friend of mine… new and old! They even got my office gang to write me a really cute totally confusing poem for me and place it on my table. WOW!!! Now that’s something I said to myself….i can barely get them to agree for lunch and they got them to write!!! My office gang have been such sweethearts and for what they barely know me like a few months.
Next were letters from gssl guys Shree and Tush…. Total Friggin Jaan’s of mine!!! They have been the sweetest ppl I’ve come across and have seen me through a lot professionally and personally  I just can’t imagine wat my time at geometric would have been without them.
Then I have Gautam… he’s the funnest coolest and most HARAMI senior of mine and his words of wisdom got me thru college and well now my quarter life…hehehhehehhe
Not anywhere behind are the sweetest couple I’ve met till date ;) Rajeev and Sameena (Sam a.k.a Khan Sama). They have been there for me I know since what seems like eternity and even though Rajeev calls me chunnu or munnu (I forget) and hates the fact that I verbally take his case almost every time I meet him for marrying a bloody Pakistani (Sam’s not by the way), its amazing to see them both support each other and love each other in such a cool way :D. Their letters though I admit were in the true sense SHORT AND SWEET!
Next my ex – Roomie Vinzzz…. Well we’ve been there done that and now even though milezzz away sent me sunshine and smiles thru the lovely poem she wrote!! Chandigarh main lagta hai bahut bahut maal hai ;)
Coming to Goti! Bosss Rulaoge kya!!! His letter did just that! I dint know he would ever say all that but I’m real glad he did!
Jeet far far from dilli sent me his wishes in full speed :D and as usual made me SMILE!
Then comes Shanksss well reminding me of the good times we’ve had and promising times ahead he never fails to get me in total HHKP mood (Hus Hus Ke Pagal)
One of the best advice I’ve got in a while and from a real new friend of mine who by writing all that showed he gave a rat’s ass (though he’ll deny) was Amit! Dude I know u care :P
I never knew I’d inspire someone to write and that too in stipulated time with articulate words and rhythmic tone. For knowing him for wat a few months and few meetings it was quite something to have received such a beautifully put birthday wish that felt too good to be true! Thanks Dee ;)
Then I have my naughtier half write me loads of stuff in her own style with max masala and totall faltugiri that had so much of underlyin feelings that I still can’t imagine ke kammeeeeennnzzzz ne itna kuch likha mere liye….. Probably more than her Fuckin CA exam papers!!! To kaminnnzzzz Ansh – Karamjali – Anjali! The Jaans U are!!!
Then I have my oldest and strongest pillar Hitesh write me something that I never thought would happen!! Handwritten!!! Hell Yeah…the bastards not written a word since BA and now finally he writes. Dipped with cynicism he still cant help but tell me he CARES and I love that!!! Hehehhehe dude amazing stuff that was!
Last but definitely not the least was Richa’s lovely poem that graced the handcrafted pages of Chimanlal in a totally awesome envelope (im crazy about stationery bare with me) written with wat I believe a Cross pen ;). Not that all this wasn’t flattery enough I had everythin I wanted right there sent for me from her in wish format and speed delivered by the GODS ;)

Even as this was done I had loads of phone calls … Amazing bouquets with exotic flowers and even loads of chocolate cake, strawberry pie and trifle pudding (yes diet ki toh max bajj hi gayi thi … but amazingly I dint gain wait) I ate and made merry all week almost got my ass kicked at work with some stuff piling on… went gallivanting and then eventually completed stuff. Weekend came and I was in Blore on the Friday itself on office work. Finished up at office and hit a nice disc with friends and continued the party next morning blowing smoke away again at mocha’s. I'm thinking of investing in them soon enough as I’ve made it my second home .First being office ;). Reached Bombay – Sapno ki nagri and voila had a sexy piece of jewelery waiting on my dressing table with a note “happy birthday – hope this is the best so far - Aki” and well who’s denyin that it wasn’t . The merriment continued and I had a blast with my folks and chilled at home with a couple of drinks and lotsa a sexy homemade food – chicken (my bro’s style) and well there was other stuff :D

So there we go its barely been a week now and I’m still all wondering “What Hit Me?”
“Am I really really dreaming or did all this just happen to me”.
At this point all I could think of was the song “King of Wishful Thinking” (OST Pretty Woman) and I still cant stop Smiling . I feel like a QUEEN and whose to blame me for all u know YOU PUT ME UP THERE!!!

Thanks a Ton again to EVERY SINGLE DUDE and DUDETTE!!!!