The Adventure (Silly one)

Couple of days back, my friend (my junior in college) and I planned to meet and spend time together in the evening. Fortunately it started to rain cats and dogs, I said "wow" at first, and later "boo", imagining a walk on the wet road. The whole realm of me being ignored off late certainly put me into doldrums. So, to completely wet myself that day wasn't really a good idea, Although rain is so much fun! I informed my friend that we will meet only if the rain stops fully, or drop the whole idea of meeting. I still had a strong appeal to go out in the rain, yet refused myself not to get invited by it. Something did stop me, but i love the chill wind after the rain, i love the black cloud when it dims the light and the smell of the wet-mud. As soon as it stopped raining my friend and I planned to go and have an ice-cream and maybe a short ride. Such a cute idea on the whole, eh?

We took a long walk by the lake which is 20 minutes away from where i stay talking rapidly about shoes, accessories, clothes, bags and all sorts of unimportant matters as well. As we talked and walked, we found a guy who passed by with white sheets in his hands and asked us something. We both did ignore him as we were busy talking aimlessly. I looked around to see who it was and the guy was standing right there waiting for an answer from us, I asked him "WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?". He said, if we could pay him like $1.20 (USD) which is Rs 60 in Indian rupees he would make my sketch in 15 minutes. Dude, you want us to believe that? My eyes looked surprised yet. My friend didn't let me stand there. But i still couldn't take my eyes off him with a surprise wondering if he surely would make my sketch? I love photography & painting, I did try sketching too but yes i rather not talk about it.

Whats wrong if i pay him and get my sketch done? I've never tried it before and no one ever was inspired to make my sketch in my entire life. I looked around and said hey can you make a sketch of both of us? He looked at me and said "Only one at a time". I said, $1.20 is like too much just for one person, lets forget it! And trust me that's one trick I use when there is a way to haggle, i really wanted my sketch to be made. He said how much will you pay? I said 83 cents, which in Indian price is Rs 40. He agreed to it, which was surprising to me. Is he a professional? Can we trust him? I never shut my mouth, questions flow outta my mouth till I get an appropriate answer. It indeed was a venture, one with an uncertain outcome. I sat down and asked my friend not to leave me and go because I might laugh or giggle for no reasons and feared that he might make my sketch worse. I had many thoughts in my mind a) Capture the sketch and upload it on my blog sharing how my sketch was a happy outcome b) Make a frame of my own sketch with a date below it c) Demand for a full refund in case the sketch is not up to the mark.

I was so eager to see how my sketch looked like. Is it cuter than how i look or is it ugly? I couldn't wait at all. I was all smiles and happy because trying out new things make me enthusiastic. And finally it was done he called me to have a look. DISASTER! I mean it. I was like UGHHHHHSSSSSS who is this? OMG do you believe he made me look like a fat young lady with several kids. Options A and B were outta my mind. Option C was left out, but i just took the sheet of the sketch paid him and walked off annoyed. It doesn't matter he at least made a picture of a girl, so i don't need any sorta refund, but yes if he would have added mustache to it then there were chances for me to demand for a full refund. Aw, sad me. I just walked silently looked at my friend, and we burst out laughing at the silly adventure. He he, it did make me laugh and made me think how my folks would react to looking at the sheet of the so called sketch of Esther! Below are the lovely reactions:

Mom - She held the sheet in her hands, started to compare my eyes, my nose, my lips, my smile and at the end she asked, "Who is in the sketch"!?

Brother - OMG!!

Sister - Wow, lovely adventure.

Friend - I knew something like this would happen. DUH!

A venture which was a disaster made me laugh my ass off.

On a Rainy Evening

I have been doing a lot online today and also updated the “About me” column in 20 something bloggers and mentioned two things that make me the happiest girl no matter how worse the situation is, Rain and Music. Wonders never cease, it rained this evening. It brought a pleasing smile onto my face and made me look so bright. I sat in the balcony with the mp3 player my brother had given me in the recent past and begged mom to make a cup of coffee and I tell you confidently that I still can’t make a cup of coffee myself, so gross, but that’s OK! I played Birthmark by akon with maximum volume enjoying the rain, sipping hot coffee and sang these lines:

Go back to where we began

To that point which is days apart

The stamp right next to your heart

All I could capture was the dark cloud

I so much miss the days of my college. My college resumes in the month of June every semester after the summer vacation. It used to rain like every morning and I always planned on avoiding college because it was more fun sleeping and hearing to the rain outside. My college was 50 steps away from home so I had to take a walk everyday. My bff and I were rain-lovers (BINGO). One of our best hobbies was to play in rain- Folding our pants till the knee, wrecking our shoes, splosh across the wet meadow and to wake up with 45 sneezes the next day. I realize that our present always gets connected to our past! I miss those days, I swear. Today, I had good time alone with the music and I must add that, this was one of the cutest evenings in a long time now. Life is making more sense to me every day. I don’t peeve about my problems anymore as I’m ready to embrace every piece of difficulty.

Later in the evening I spent time with my bro who is recovering from whole of the accident scene that happened 2 weeks ago. We both had a rapid conversation about funny stuff that I prefer not to mention or it would add more weight to our insanity. Meanwhile, we also had cherries enjoying the weather and the silly talks, of course. Yeah, I did capture pictures with him that’s one of the things I can’t stay without doing. Like I said this was one of the cutest evenings I’ve had in a long time and I love it baby!

Here’s one of the darling visitors (My Nephew) who came home to wish my bro “get well soon”. Kids are such darlings I tell you. I completely adore this baby who looked super cute in his pullover.

And hey it’s still raining!