Hello again, albeit a little late..! Oh yeah, quite late actually, almost an year.
I am myself busy figuring out a reason for taking so long to return here. Couple of reasons I could think of,
1. Maybe the creative writer's genes are active only at this time around of the year. ;)
2. Maybe happening meets, get-togethers take place when calendar reads January :P
[or maybe I am not part of them at other times :P, but that's a different issue altogether]
I don't know, you figure out. Anyways, here's the 3rd post from my kitty.
A lovely, lazy, sunny winter morning on a Saturday. This was for Nash. Yes, because he's got all the time on the earth. And his followers, like me, have to be on toes to follow time-lines. As was decided on the previous day, myself and Ajya
were to meet at wakad around 9:30 AM, so that we would be able to keep the timing and be at Mayur's place just before all wall clocks smile [that's 10:10 AM]. We did keep up to our reputations of being American-Indians [that's what IT guys like them to be called as, these days], and were right there, on the parking floor of Mayur's housing society, just after the Indian clocks spread some smiles around.
I was the first time visitor and Ajya had been there before, and was obviously expected to guide both of us to Mayur's flat. But that was not to be, as it seemed like even Ajya had no clue about the exact floor. We belong to ND and free breakfast is enough of a motivation to find out the exact floor. With lift taking rest, and my completely-recovered-from-khoorup feet, we decided to go for the stairs,
and by the stairs. And Mayur was spot on to smell the hunger, err, sense the murmur between me and Ajya and the door opened just-in-time as we were about to turn and take steps to the floor above.
One could have hardly ignored the innocent expressive smile on Mayur's face. The smile was owing to the arrival of charming demons I guess. And married men do look innocent right after their marriages, or at least they pretend , or they have to pretend at the least. :P [Mayur, don't take this seriously, just trying to use some variants of the language here, and the fact that I am married too will definitely help.]
"Taare zameen par" was what I hummed [manatalya manat] and we entered in the hall. Neat and clean, everything arranged with due consideration, perfect color combos, in short a woman's presence in the house. Believe me, they[women] take these things [home-sweet-home] very seriously. No matter even if its bunch of NDites, who have been in COEP hostel for a staggering duration of 4 years. :P
We had to wait for a while before the rock-star arrived, yes Mr. Nash.
And Mr. Fundoo followed the suit. And as its said, the circle was complete, rectangle was drawn, and what not..
We sighed with a big relief, as the wait for breakfast dishes was logically over. ;) With only 5 members of ND together, rest were thoroughly missed, but not that we kept talking only about the guys who were absent. [we have got other businesses as well :P] Anyways, I did think and curse the bridges or the areas beyond bridges in wakad which had resulted in Ram's conspicuous absence. Ram, for details, maybe you can give a call to Nash and Mayur, who, if the readers don't know, have a rare distinction of spreading awareness. Yeah, com'on guys, its true, believe me..!
Anyways. Mr. and Mrs. Mayur played perfect hosts, and we were obviously delighted to get the special attention and 'aagrah'..! With mouth-watering MH-22 delicacy and a Bengali sweet, it was a gimme-some-more brunch. Yes, I did not blink, it really was a breakfast turned into mini lunch.
Oh yeah, Maddy, you were so missed and you so missed it.! :P
With bytes, sorry bites, gushing down, the game of pot-shots was on. As always, the cynosure and the anchor was Avi, [of course in absence of and with due
respect to Pashya]. On a little different note, I am convinced about the convincing abilities of Ajya. He not only enjoyed every bit of the get-together, but also had a group of colleagues, [he works in IT], come and pick him up from wakad. And only a phone call from Ajya made them feel so guilty about delaying the departure to the destination, that they actually came all the way near Mayur's place to get the little wonder on-board the vehicle.
Meanwhile, we also had the privilege of getting a look at Avi and Ajya's just completed flats. Swimming pool was just awesome. Otherwise how do you explain all of us blindly following Avya to see it from different angles while it looks the same from everywhere.There was only water in it. I don't know what Avya saw in it, and what we saw in Avya. :P
On a philosophical note, all the young flat owners must be feeling proud, and they have every reason to feel so. I would really like to congratulate all the new flat owners, who have started a new era, a new generation.
On this note, I would like to end our conversation for now. Keep visiting.
P.S. : Mayur and Vahini, our hosts, you make a lovely couple! and breakfast too...!
Monday, January 31, 2011
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