When you realise...

When you realise...

Has there been this time in life when you feel that things have changed and the world seems to take it well?! I felt like that a few days back... not for the first time but recently...

3 of my best friends are to be wedded and are right now : Engaged! We were the lucky bunch who lived together in hostel. It was a cute family who at the end of the day had all the time to sit up and discuss about each ones H.O.D, teacher, warden, class mates, popular girls in college and blah blah.

There was never a time we actually spoke of those few years after college that would change all our lives. We were the world to each other in that hostel and being away form hostel surely meant coming back for most of us. It hit us that things will change when a few did leave hostel and never came back, but to visit. Personally, it hit me hard when I had to leave and when I for sure knew I would not come back when most of my other friends were gonna be in the same city. I knew I was leaving behind a lot, but I knew what I was leaving it for.

Life goes on. We've gone paths, we've finished a year without being together. We've understood that a few years down the line we will meet with maybe some chunnus and munnus around us. It still hits us hard to think life is changing and we are scared. Right now, the 3 are extremely excited, we are too!! Can't wait to see them tie the t to live happily ever after. We've begun speaking things like "what are we wearing... color code" haha! NEVER before!

We've loved each other a lot, missed each one in our one ways and shared with each other according to our own wavelengths and yet we all stick together cause there is something common among all of us which we have no idea what.

I miss those long planned birthday parties whenever I call each one to wish 'em. It stings a little hard when I browse through those pics taken on beaches, restaurants, hostel rooms, madness during birthdays et all!

I've realised that life does go on, fairytales do come true, friends don't stay with you forever - they BE there for you from somewhere...


...We are not from the world where friends dream about who is gonna be who's brideasmaid or the single women who compete to catch the bouquet when the bride throws it. We are all from the world where the bride wears the saree and counts her toes when she walks... but I still believe that with us the one who is least expected will be the next one!

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible...


Congrats Aarti, Sus and Ribs! We're really happy for you guys!

City of Life - Hong Kong

With all that Buddha explanation about in my previous post, I decided to bring back those memories of Hong Kong myself!

This trip was totally unexpected. I was in school when mom called and said daddy is going to HK for a fair this summer. With something on my mind, I said i wanna go too! Then Sai was pulled into the plan and it was finalized! It was the three of us and mom was planning to walk it to Palani.

All excitement and happiness in school!! All things were packed and we reached Chennai by train and stayed the night over @ some random hotel. The flight was late that night and we were @ the airport! Sai and I were going abroad after a verrrry long time! The flight was to Singapore and a transit from there - 8 hours!

The Singapore airport is the most beautiful man made thing after the Taj Mahal I would say. The various shops, the colors, the people, the orchids and every damn thing was welcoming in that place! Starbuckssss - - Ooooh!! Dad got us black coffee and I enjoyed every bit of it!

The flight from Singapore to Hong Kong was tiring... my bones were paining and Sai was a little to heavy on my shoulders. The landing in Hong Kong is the best! The runway is withing the seas and it feels like the flight is plunging into the water!! I luuuvvveeddd the city!! From up there i tlooked like a board game with false buildings that were twisted and turned to look cool! But not joking, every damn building was different!

We checked into the hotel after a loooonnnggg "not-so-refreshing" drive. All way long, there were buildings, constructions, more buildings, more constructions, containers, more containers ..... oops... a tunnel, more tunnels... phew!!! Looked like the city was made of just blocks and blocks of brick and cement! I hardly saw any greenery and life!

The hotel people were sweet! They offered Foxs which Sai and I grabbed immediately. We were famished. We freshened up and left in search of food and found this Pakistani restaurant near the hotel. (I hate it that I dont remember its name!) We picked up water and some stuff from Watsons and had dinner! The Phuket fish and Curd was THE MOST AMAZING thing there! I was sooooo desperate to try clams but dad just would not allow it on the table! :( Sai and Dad had naan and some gravy everyday of our stay there and I experimented almost all i could.. except the clams! I had Squid soup!!!! (nuthin gr8!)

When I fell in love with Hyderabad, the moment I lost it!

That was the glimpse i got of the Buddha statue in Hussain Sagar lake. I always wondered why people went there - 1) the place stinks like 2 tons of bleaching powder has been mixed with 10 tons of rotten fruits 2) its just a statue 3) its not even worth 60 bucks to go by that boat - you get to see buddha's butt for like half and hour, and another half you're trying to figure out what is so special about his front that people actually get off these boats to take pictures right by his feet - WHATEVER!

Pranav and I started off with this boat ride on the first available boat. 60 damn bucks for the ticket per head. This particular boat has entertainment but did not give the privilege to get off the boast and take pics near HIM! we dint care - we just wanted to go!

I was holding my digi cam after a long long time and it was sunset time! I kept clicking and clicking and the memory card was full! The stench form the waters were killing me... the loud noise from the music that was played for the dancers on the boat was worse! some telugu song that goes "Aah antte amalapuram... aahh antte ...puram" EEEEuuuuwww!!! Pranav was sitting just for the sake of it and we could not even get offff!!

It took us half an hour to see Buddha's face and that's when i clicked this picture! The sunset behind HIM turned purple and it was beautiful to see the statue lit from the bottom! I tried getting my bored brother to pose but in vain! For a minute, all i could think of was the Buddha statue the 2 of us visit in Lantau Island, Hong Kong. The one in Hong Kong was on a hill top and I instantly fell in love with it! I remember complaining that my dad should have come too. The Super Chinese lunch that was served in the Po Lan monastery was immensely yummy, all i could identify was their Tofu soup and some leaves with pepper on them! Pranav dreaded the food and Dad thought it was a waste of 100 dollars on us - Food wasters! I remember clicking soooooo many pictures of this BIG Buddha, i was fascinated by this big guy made of bronze in between the greenest mountains!

Vroommm!!! I was in Hyd! It was stinking and I hated it! The telugu music was loud and the mood was horrible! I got off the boat and looked up to see the Birla Mandir lit up so beautifully again! I didn't go back to any temple in my thoughts, walked my brother to an auto and we left!

I almost fell in love with Hyderabad but thankfully I was woken up!

Guess who has just been arrested for the worst crime in the world.....

...being too cute! Serves you right for stealing our smiles!

4 full days and no time

It was April finally and THE (only) convocation in my life was on a Tuesday - A day which is after a weekend and almost middle of a working week. I did not want to go with all the changes my college was making with its dates. I informed home that I would not be going when my mom said she wanted a snap of me with my 'degree'! That's all I could give her after 3 years of college and all the EDUCATION! ;) I decided to go... i scrapped 5 days of work and decided to make it to Chennai. With a lot of alteration to my tickets, I was done - I was flying to Chennai, 4 days there and then would go back home by train.

It was Friday and I could not wait... I reached the DAMN Shamshabad airport and boarded. I was looking forward to stay with Monu in her house. This is the first time I was seeing her after she got married. The flight towards Chennai was gone in a wink and I took a taxi towards Sowcarpet - that's where Monu lived! All my luggage (1 bag) was loaded and the car sped off. The first song that came on was "pettarap".... then i knew... I was in chennai!

I remember the first time and the last time in Chennai. In a cab - lost in thoughts but full of dreams! Sounds like i wanted to become a movie star! I remember how much i wanted to be out of home and there i was - Out of home! 

My day of graduation was not a day where my parents could watch me holding hands with the hat from far off... it was a sticky affiar inside that audi in college. But our spirits were not low! As usual, we did not sit in order. It was the 5 of us together - yet again! Giggling, making noises, cheering for the ppl we knew in other depts and havign the most fun we could out of those few silent hours! 

And FINALLY it was B.com Corporate Secretaryship. The long impatient wait became a slow and anxious one! We were to receive our *degrees*. We were about to graduate! And we did! 

My graduation day did not involve throwing the hat in the air and taking pictures with the paper! It was one fun filled reunion with loads of pride! 

Sambar/Vada, Roti/Aloo, Chapathi/muttar, Pav/Bhaji

Does it take a long time to digest all this eaten at the same time?! Its the same digestion process anyways. Why does it take so much time for people to learn to adjust when you are from different roots to live in one place?! Ego? Color? Race? Dressing sense? Expenditure limits? Choice of words?

Status - My definition

There is this group of people I know in Tirupur who do some things. Read on

---- Buy the costliest clothes only for the Brand
---- Purposely leave the price tag on it the first time, just so that someone sees it and go WHOA!
---- Swing these clothes around when they go "hahahaha" for the not at all funny jokes
---- Fold these clothes and never spend on their dry cleaning ;)
---- Repeat these clothes for a 'family function' after a 'social get together'
---- Talk no end of these clothes when asked
---- Think they can just carry off these clothes

---- Donate 1 crore just so that their name comes on the paper
---- Add in their column in the paper "We wanted to make an Anonymous donation, but the trust wanted to publish this. This was not necessary"
---- Poise for these pictures near the poshest hotels for making a donation

---- Wear plastic smiles wherever they go
---- Host a party once a while just to remind their friends "we're here"

---- Hire nannies to take care of their babies
---- Buy mobile phones for their kids in 5th standard (latest)
---- Send these kids abroad, however DUMB they are for their MBA or even university


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