Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Eyewitness from an Eye... P-)

Subu's b'day party... 26th Night...
This was supposed to be the biggest bonanza of the year and indeed it was something! People with their crazy ideas of Fasting... (means no drinking)... finally broke the vows on the day. Okay then... lets start:

Don't knw why but i decided to fit everything into the tight schedule. Watched Terminator 4: salvation with office colleagues and rushed back home to pick my transportation: The Royal Bullet. Kicking life into it, i rushed to pick up Shruti just in time to get a beating... (for being late of course!)... But it was a wish come true actually!! ;) On the way she was telling how Veronica told her that she'd kill her if she doesn't show up; which is when i told her that i used the same thing on Veronica herself... :P

We reached Gurgaon with a lot of time to spare. Wasn't 12 already at least! Then the whole Mel Milaap thingie went on... We then waited to Sabana, richa, ksingh and negi to show up. Apparently, these guys went to a Mall to start their own party! Couldn't blame them. There wasn't any electricity there and the heat was just taking its toll. Finally these guys showed up and then again the whole Mel Milaap thing went on. Couldn't understand the girl shouting and wooing thing during the whole process. Anyway, after like 10-15mins we realized that Ksingh was missing in action. Everyone looked at Negi and ...!! :0... She wondered if she had left her locked in the car... lolz.. The search party found her standing by Negi's car in the posture of retching (ready to Puke). When asked to join the party, she showed a Fingure... (not THE FINGURE...) saying 1 min lagega.. :) People eventually loose sense of time in their inebriated state. By that time Reddy, veronica and Joneja also joined the party... and ksingh too came up after her first session of .. u knw what...

Subu finally got to cut his b'day cake (all thanx to casing) at around 1/2 an hr past 12. Pandey Papa and company enjoying their Euro trip rang up for the wishes... and its was Papa's b'day as well... :)
Non-drinkers didn't have a place here... but Shruti somehow manages to be at par with her latent abilities... (reminds me of Fassi and his juice pack)... The more subtle people took to their sweet spots and settled down...
We had some of the finest whisky, vodka and tequila available at the counter... :) The first bottle of whisky went into thin air in matter of minutes!! And thats when i knew the party has already taken its turn for the best... Crazy dancing, with shubham and me as the only representatives of our gender... and rest all items from the other... :P I even made them do the sit-ups bhangra steps!! And as always... there was no stopping our favourite Veronica... kept falling on reddy (already asleep)... like a bomb!! Sabbu (read Sabana) copied exact steps for the dance number "Marjaani - billu".

The jamming went on for a while and then around 3am we settled down to eat some fun and some of those good old wedding talks for ksingh... always an interesting topic :) That it point till which i remember... just don't knw when i went to sleep...

People left one by one and the lesser mortal souls, troubled by the power cuts, decided to take the party to Mocha... While people had Green Apple Hukka, i had the smoke... :| and subu had a NAP!! :)


Mademoiselle Chhavi: you are probably the only person who hasn't change a bit in this 1 yr after college. Good for us!
Mademoiselle Richa: Wow!!! how much slimmer you intend to get haan???
Sabbu: Nice glasses man... wonder what it reminds us of?
Ani sir: You are the ideal child courtesy Manishita...
The 3 musketeers: You guys are my favourite...
Anna: Dude!! Hope u had some sleep on the following days... This guys didn't sleep at all that night!

The organisers: Sorry for the appartment guys on behalf of everyone... but man you guys rock!!

And those of you who might be wondering whats with the Heading "...An Eye"... well actually i had injured one of eyes when i reached and had to keep a patch (hanky with ice) on it for like the rest of the time... thats why the smilie.... P-) innovative naa...??

Thursday, June 18, 2009

The Aroma of Seventh Heaven

Sitting in the cab today i recalled... where all it began; the mystical power that this smell holds over me.


The Beginning:
Setup: Boy's hostel - 1, NSIT, Dwarka.
Year : 2006-7

After a full day of hard work in the college... mix of masti and study... I used to come back to the hostel just in time for the Evening snacks. The snacks varied between bread pakoda, sandwiches, samosa... and other unexciting stuffs. They may have been unexciting yet I used to keep an alarm for each meal. Couldn't afford to skip many meals with my physique :P. So... Like any ordinary day, i stuffed my stomach with dinner as much as i could without puking. One could stuff their stomach but the hunger was there to stay. And we went to bed with this hunger of heart...

Some time in the night the sleep broke, whether due to this unbearable hunger or some crazy maniac playing idiotic songs at full volume or some shouting (b'day celebrations often) or just another call from nature. You open the door... not expecting anything... literally blank... when a fine aroma takes ur attention!! In an instance u forget why u are awake... why u are alive... and the hunger speaks and u follow that magical thing, bound by its spell. Subconsciously, u end up at the doorstep of room no. B 304...

Something animated is in there!! What is this guy doing at 3 in the morning??!! But without any further question u knock on the door... and.... tadaaa.....!!! u now know... its

Maggi!!!!
But not just any maggie...
a maggie cake being cooked on an ordinary room heater with almost perfected skills of the Kumar... Sumit Kumar (maado)...
And one bit of the hot steamy maggi, directly out of the utensil used to cook it... and u are on a direct bus to the Cloud Nine... :D

Nothing better to pacify the hunger in your heart...



Even now... i wake up middle of the night... with an expectation in heart... and wish... i could teleport to that exact setup just once more... and cherish the same...
Aroma of the Seventh Heaven...