Sunday, November 15, 2009

Happy day

Days are just perfect, just the way I want it to be. Laze around, do stuff I like, be a total couch potato, play a ton of music, go out meet friends, some giggles, some smiles, some nautanki (fun) and some shaitaani (mischief). Oh, the joys of being unemployed! How can my day be a perfect one? – When it’s unplanned. For some reason, when I plan to go out with friends, do some ridiculous stuff which makes me the happiest person, it’s always a major flop. When I don’t plan at all for tomorrow it’s always a brighter one for me. I’m sharing all that I did in one of the crazy and fabulous days of mine this week with a friend (a junior in college). I can get into all details with it, on the condition you don’t collapse from fatigue, okay? Okay.

On a frigid evening, while I was having hot coffee with a friend on a highway, another old college friend sent me a text asking me if I was free to watch a movie with her the next day. I was a bit particular about not going for the morning show because no one can wake me up from sleep in the mornings as I’m most active and alert during the nights. Trust me I wasn’t knee deep in all the madness about neither the movie nor the plan. I just thought, oh yeah just a movie. Then back home. As usual, what I hoped-for never happens. So, here I am sharing the list of crazy/fabulous stuff we did that day.

Ajab prem ki gazab kahani – yay we got the tickets, thanks to PVR always reserves tickets for cute people like us. The show started at 1:30, and we bought some snacks. Popcorn+ chicken sandwich+ coke. I cannot stomach nachos, so totally avoided it. The movie was tad overrated to be AWESOME, but it was just cute. No wonder the music was simply a WOW. I won’t type the whole story here but yes it was a fun watch. Ranbir kapoor, omg what do I say? I guess he’s in the process of stealing my heart. And kat looks sweet as always.

[After the movie]

Window shopping – we undoubtedly had no other plans, so we went window shopping. Talking, giggling, and saying wow wow for every eye catching thing. We also ended up in men’s section, exchanging our ideas with the difficulty we have in shopping for a guy. The rapid talks went on, while we also ended up in typical ladies section. Oh doesn’t suit me for some reason. I’m more okay being the tom boy than wearing Indian dresses. Well back to the topic, we were quite hungry by then and planned to head off to a place here called EAT STREET.

Wait there was a change in the plan; we wanted to go to IMAX/Prasads (a mall in hyd) to actually visit the scary house.*Rolls eyes* No it wasn’t really my plan she planned it, I really was scared with the thought of going to the scary house. Although on our way to the scary house I asked her if she was sure of going there. She could make out I was super uncomfortable and she withdrew the plan. We headed to the mall fetching to do something fun.

Crazy hotel – right next to the scary house we found this crazy hotel; she looked at me and asked if I’ve been there before. Hell no. And it actually looked scary too. So I was a bit hesitant to say yes let’s try it out. I wasn’t ready to explore like she was. She asked the boy at the counter, is it scary inside? The guy apparently didn’t wanna lose anyone visiting his crazy hotel, and said it’s all about earthquake. I knew he was lying! Duh? Earthquake? I was blank, before I could even say a no, she bought two tickets. And we obviously giggled and entered the hotel. It was all dark, just flipped the cell phone to see what was in. it was scary right at the entrance and I as usual, started screaming for no reason. You must ask her, I was almost in tears to go back and not go further. There was nothing inside, it was all dark and gosh it was totally crazy. We just had to find our way to the exit. Total crazy experience, while we found some ghosts trying to scare us at the exit and both of us pushed the exit door screaming, ended up making fool of ourselves, while everyone in the mall were looking at us and laughed at us too. Weird that is. So, if any of you have plans to go there, I would say “don’t waste a bunch of your time like we did”.

Mirror maze – this was right next to the crazy hotel, I’ve been there like thrice now. It’s a fun place to visit. It’s all about mirrors and you have to find your way out. The lights and the mirrors are like a total wow. I can live there because, I for some good reason love mirrors! How do people manage getting such ideas to make such fun places? I mean it’s all about you and the mirrors and those bright lights. Wow! It is all kind of amazing.

We went to the gaming section, one of my favorite spots in any mall. Nope this time we didn’t play any of those games, but we tried out our photographic skills. Posing and doing funny stuff.

Eat street – we eventually fetched up at eat street after all the hilarity at the mall. We craved to have an ice-cream. Belgium dark chocolate is something I love picking over other chocolate flavors. It’s been like a regular snack to me when I was employed. Yum!

We planned to get back home because we were already late. My friend has been one of the best in giving ideas! She had the puchka-hogging idea popped up in her mind. For all those who are wondering what puchka is? It’s pani-puri. Trust me I learnt it recently. L.O.L.

Puchkas – it actually started raining while we were enjoying the puchka bites. We got wet, but still grabbed all that we could. We also found a fellow stranger talking total crap while we were having puchkas. Not his fault, he did make us smile with his weirdness.

It was time for us to go back to our houses. But it was already late. And I, for some reason hate auto-walas, the hatred increases in the night times even more. So, I decided to drop her at her place. I’ve never been to her house, I loved her family. Her mom was one of the cutest women I’ve met. I’m loving the day totally. Yet another memorable one.

So what do you do in your free time? Drop me the details would love to know.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Chosen one

I never thought I’ll post something like this. This post is for my cousins (who are my best friends more than cousins), who lost their dad unexpectedly. I was inspired to write a few lines about my uncle, though I don’t know the entire life story of his, but the testimony he carried touched me. It’s a dedication, no cries, no sorrows, only smiles with a hope that he’s watching over us.

A person who was tall and handsome

A person of wisdom

A person who couldn’t tolerate it, if anyone cold-shouldered his brothers (all 6 of them)

A person who won all battles for his family,

A person who filled the gap of the head of the family, when he lost his dad,

A person who loved his wife unconditionally

A person who stood with his wife like a pillar of support

A person who loved kids

A person who loved his two cute daughters

A person who was the cutest father

A person who helped the poor

A person who was rich with no pride

A person who was active to help

A person who was courageous

A person who was ready to give up everything to see his wife/family smile

A person who took care of his wife in every situation she was in

A person who was fun loving

A person who could make his daughters smile

A person who never wanted to see them cry

A person who didn’t want to see his wife ill

A person who made sure to be with her throughout her bad times

A person who ignored his pain

A person who was selfless

A person who didn’t want to see anyone suffer

A person who was concerned about his children’s marriages

A person who loved his family more than himself

A person who didn’t care much about his health, like how he cared for his wife

A person who lost his breath unexpectedly

A person who assured his wife he’ll be fine before he took his last breath

A person who now, is in heaven

She was the lucky one, to have such a faithful/committed husband, she didn’t lose hope after he died, and she knew he would come back. When she saw him in the coffin, she knelt down, touched his heart and prayed for him.

She said - He’s the chosen one.

We will miss you uncle.

[sorry friends, its not to make anyone sad but I wanted to talk about how nice he's been to us. It makes me feel better.]