F.R.I.E.N.D.S....!

You have somebody standing by you to lend their shoulder when you feel like crying, to give a bear hug when you badly need one, an assuring smile saying everything is going to be okaaay, or share a silent tear of happiness seeing you happy, I think that is when you should realize, God has sent you a special gift in the form of a FRIEND.

I'm glad I have a few special gems who've proved me time and again that they are there for me, no matter how crappy or happy I am :)
Thanks for being such a pillar of strength to me... I value you more than words can ever say... muahh!

I'd like to dedicate the title track of F.R.I.E.N.D.S to my F.R.I.E.N.D.S... :-)

So no one told you life was going to be this way.
Your job's a joke, you're broke, you're love life's DOA.
It's like you're always stuck in second gear,
Well, it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year.

But, I'll be there for you, when the rain starts to pour.
I'll be there for you, like I've been there before.
I'll be there for you, cause you're there for me too.

You're still in bed at ten, the work began at eight.
You've burned your breakfast, so far, things are going great.
Your mother warned you there'd be days like these,
But she didn't tell you when the world has brought you down to your knees.

That, I'll be there for you, when the rain starts to pour.
I'll be there for you, like I've been there before.
I'll be there for you, cause you're there for me too.

No one could ever know me, no one could ever see me.
Seems like you're the only one who knows what it's like to be me.
Someone to face the day with, make it through all the rest with,
Someone I'll always laugh with, even at my worst, I'm best with you.
It's like you're always stuck in second gear,
Well, it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year.

But, I'll be there for you, when the rain starts to pour.
I'll be there for you, like I've been there before.
I'll be there for you, cause you're there for me too.
tan tadadaaaaaaaaaaaaan tandadan daaaaaaaaaaan ooooooooooooooooo :-)

Sayonara...

We were just out of college, met here in office 2.6 years ago. Shared the same innocence (or the lack of it ;-)) from college, so, the gelling was not difficult at all...

One canteen table where all could meet... fought for idly drowning in one bucket of sambar, had one by-4 coffee, those loud laughter in chorus made people raise eyebrows (uh, who are these creatures kinda luks...duhh, who cares!!!), the long jail walks, THE ttbs to end the day(yeah, its called as tea time bitching sessions)... oh, its been an eventful journey...



4 different people,
4 plates of idly sambar (:P) [this is just to show the common looooooove for foooood :D]
4 attitudes towards life,
4 dreams,
4 hopes and
4 goals

Now, one is moving ahead to fulfill hers...

these 2 are the memorablia from v-3.
Good Luck poo...

Meeting and parting is the way of life,
Parting and meeting is the hope of life...

Best Friends...

When I was in my primary school, the idea of my best friend was someone with whom I can play with, whom I could go for my dance class with.

When I went to my High School, the idea of a best friend was someone who was good at studying, sports, extra-curricular activities, someone who shared the same favorite movie star :).

When I went to college, the idea of a Best friend was someone with whom I could go to movies, talk about crushes, do all girly things.

I could say life was pretty much simple until this time.
When I joined my engineering, the idea of a best friend was changed to someone with whom I felt comfortable in disscussing my 'konfusions' of what-next, talk about the girl secrets, and ofcourse have FUN amidst all the Internals, Assignments, Combined studies etc.

By the time I joined work, the idea of a best friend was changed to someone with whom my 'wavelength' matched, someone with whom I could sit and chat for hours, someone with whom I could share my dreams, someone with whom even silence was comfortable, someone who shared the common 'I-hate-this-person' list :D, someone with whom I could do night outs, someone with whom I could just be just Myself.

Now I have some good friends whom I've never met in my life at all but we discuss everything under the sun.

The idea of a best friend kept on changing from time to time...
But the strange part is, some friends remained as my best friends who could fit in all the changing definitions.
I still have some of my school friends and college friends who are very much in touch with me on a day-to-day basis. The definition of friendship has grown with our age and these people fit in all the above categories :).
But something which bothers me always is that, as time passed, some of my friends who were in my best friend list at a certain point of time, is now just in a 'hi-how are you' relationship. I always wonder is it something to do with 'ME' that i'm not in touch with them? Is it a failure on my part that I couldnt 'maintain' a relationship?

But when I get a chance to talk to 'those' friends, I cant talk more than half an hour and even that will be so formal. We just run out of topics. I guess our priorities have changed in life and probably thats the reason we dont find much of things in common to talk about. Though the basic care and concern is there for each other, it cant go back to the way it was... the ease at which we used to talk to hours before has just vanished... hmph! some friendships are meant to be like that I guess...though it sounds odd, I feel some friends are seasonal, and no point brooding about it.... hmph!!! ways of life I tell ya...

How does it feel?

You are listening to the Radiocity…. They say about some new contest they are hosting for Christmas…. Its something called “Gift a wish” contest… you can nominate anyone whom you feel deserves a special gift for Christmas… and justify the reason…If your mail impresses the radiocity people, they would gift your someone a special gift… and the special gift list includes pick and drop for a week in BMW, small gifts for a week, a dinner for a couple and so on…

And the next day you go home after a tiring day of the same old boring work in office, finish dinner and just about to go to bed, but your friend insists you to listen to Radiocity 91FM… oho… ok….switch on the radio, some phirang songs are making lots of noise where as you are in a mood of listening to kishore kumar’s or Mohd. Rafi’s Rona Dhona…But you bear the brunt for your friend… and after completion of one or two songs, Rohit Barker, who is the host of the show, starts chattering with somebody on air and you realize its your friend… and your friend is talking about you and why you are so special… and Rohit barker announces that your friend has won the contest of “Gift your Wish” and guess what the gift your friend has got…..
a Parasailing trip………
WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is exactly what happened to me yesterday!!!
December 22nd 2005 :D
How should I feel about the whole thing????????????????
Firstly the whole concept is so cute (thanks to Radiocity :D)…. My friend writes to Radiocity and tells them why I deserve a special gift for Christmas… Just that gesture itself is shooooooooooo very shwweeeeeeeeeeet… I’d won a big gift here itself :D... Just this much was more than enough for me...It becomes really trivial whether I get to win a gift or not...but then what happened, I got the gift too, and what was it, a Parasailing, voila!!!!……
I’m just flying since yesterday!!!…. (ya… literally in the near future too ;-)).. and I’m so very excited about this whole thing, I’m just speechless…
It was a very very sweet gesture of my friend and oye, tussi great ho ji ;-)

to all my sweetie pies....

Whenever I feel down, I have this song which has a gr8 capacity to pep me up and bring me back to my 'self'.... here it goes...

You're my Honeybunch,
SugarplumPumpy-umpy-umpkin,
You're my Sweetie Pie
You're my Cuppycake,
Gumdrop Snoogums-Boogums,
You're the Apple of my Eye
And I love you so and I want you to know,
That I'll always be right here,
And I love to sing sweet songs to you
Because you... are.... so.... dear

itchy bitchy TTB's......

We have our TTB's 5.30pm everyday and its so much fun :D.. According to TOI, this is something which is very good for health... wondering what??? here is an excerpt:
Participants: Me, Nannu, Nichu and Poo (the four most eligible spinsters of my office ;-))
Venue: Office Canteen
(Go to the counter where we are supposed to place our orders...)
'hey wt do you want?',
'i'm not that very hungry',
'i'm actualy full'
(and after a series of such statements, here goes our order..)
'2 plates chilli bhajji, one plate dosa, one plate sandwich, 2 coffee, one tea :D'
(hmm, go to a table and make ourselves comfortable and it starts..)
'mann!!! we need to gift this SU one hair band, huh!, after her staightening it looks so bejaaan, ish!
'oooo look at that!!, such a small top, her tattoo is seen, eeeks, its supposed 2 be formal...what a way to come to office? duh!!'
'hmm chilly bajji is just out of the world..ummmmmmmmmm',
'hey, SU, MU, TU not seen together from quite some time right??'
'ya, i dint see TU and GO also together'
'come on i saw them yesterday kuchikufying in canteen'
'really??? ohh!!'
'ohh, think of the devil, here comes the Devil's GF, ha ha ha!!.'
‘Ishhh, this tea is big time sugar syrup’,
'ohh this kulla-kulli together, after a long time i must say',
'sheeesh, look at the way that guy is eating',
'who will teach them some table etiquette',
'i was wondering what i've been missing whole day, here comes fancy store, my day is made :D'
'eeeks, baby pink formal shirt, blue trouser, white sandles, long earring, phhhink lipstic, and a bindiiiii :-O, for sure MTV lycra fashion award, duh!'
'hey its late, i have a call at 6.15',
'oh even me, DAE will kill me if i'm late'
chalo..
Now any guess on wtz this TTB????
He he, its Tea Time Bitching :D which we follow religiously everyday!!!
;-)

Kapi with Nisu

Totally jobless today..
Whole day reading blogs, blogs, and more blogs...
Kishore kumar Crying away to glory from morning....
Could hear the rain when I take my headphones off....
And suddenly I get an idea of having kapi with nisu....
Ping her, and hurrray, she agrees.....
We both go to the 2nd floor balcony with 2 cups of coffee.....
Small droplets of water falling over me, lovely breeze, my lovely friend, and KAPIIIIIIIII.....
woww, what else do I ask for?????