14.25 Wishes :D

14.25 wishes completed out of 20. And I call it a very good score.. had it not been for these people, I wouldn't have had any!!

This is how I turned 20. It would probably look like a 1 year old's birthday party to you! :P

In case you don't know about the wishes, see it here. 

- So, I got lovely flowers. Which I put in my hair :') That makes (1)

- Super awesome chocolate cake. Which was frozen to an extent that the knife stuck in it :O Which was smeared on faces. Kaalicharan bana diya tha :'( So, the score becomes (2)

- I had wanted one handmade card. I got four!!! (3)

- My brother called me. He didn't forget. I highly suspect that Amma reminded him, but no! I'll count that as (4)

- I did get a birthday wish at 7:45pm :D Thank you Mappy :) (5)

- The secret wish.. Surprisingly... very surprisingly.. came true. (6)

- See. I didn't get the book that I wanted... But I got two other books, Walden and Gora :D So I'll consider it as (7) 

- I got a very lovely list of the 7 things people hate about me. (8)

- I got an empty box decorated within another decorated box within another decorated box. (9)

- I found four birthday twins :D (10)

- Unexpectedly I met an unexpected stranger.  :D (11)

- I had wanted birthday wish in 7 languages. I got Yiddish, Russian, Korean, Chinese, Farsi, Arabic, Japanese, Urdu, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, English, Punjabi :') So much love :') (12)

That makes 12. So where did the other 2.25 come from? 

Didn't I tell you that I got my Hogwarts letter today. 2.25 points to that :D

I really feel you people gave me more than I deserved!

I had a really good time because of all the good people I know. Aah! Let me start from chronological order.

My corridor people- the coolest ones I know. For midnight party. :')

Anantaa. Sammy Reesa.. You gave me my Hogwarts letter :') I shall remain forever indebted to you.

Sammy for doing my hair nicely,
Reesa.. thanks a LOT for bearing with me as a room mate for two years. If I were you I would run away :P

Anantaa. Tere chote se card mein duniya bhar ki memories. :') 

Nikitaaa :') Mere liye diya jalaane ke liye thanks 

Haripriya,. Sonakshi... your sexy dance :P 

Sera.. for not shouting at me .. when we were occupying your room and you had sleep dripping from your face :P

Vidushi, Naema, :D Thanks for your wishes

Satya  Bhawana, Chayanik Nayanthara, Cute bachon :') Shukriya for your lovely wishes. :)

Satya you really made me nostalgic. with all those old photos :)

And all the seniors, juniors, Chicago Party, Saubhaagyawaan party and others.  Aap log sabse pyaare ho. Vedukuna, Alpha Alpha, Kangra didi, Subhu didi :D

Then I really can't put into words. All the surprises. little and big. That you people gave me. Thank you so much.

• Akshita ke dabbe. Teri game sabse zyada enjoy kari maine. 
• ARchit "SIR" (RON) you are too cool.  Thank you so much for telling me the 7 things you hate about me.. I'll make sure I continue doing all those things :P
• Anshul. Accept kar lo chhoti si baat. Tum mujhse jhooth nahi bol sakte. Mujhe bewakkof samjha hai ki main maan jaungi ki tum birthday bhool gaye (Toh kya ek din pehle apni aur Anurag ki leave sign karake petha lene gaye the bazaar? :P )
  But tumko sabse bada thanks. Ice creams ke liye
• Dhingra tumhara OCTOPUS. Mashallah! Bahut cute hai bilkul tumhari tarah. Jo waada kiya woh nibhaana padega. Pizza toh tumko khilaana padega
• Abhishek Chaudhary .. Yaar. 100 baar thank you for your gift. Everyone was admiring it. Somebody made my sketch for the first time. And it was very beautifully made :D Chehra kharab karne ke liye thank you, I mean cake se :D
• Adarsh, Khoobi, Anurag, Adhi. for you gunga behra call :P 
• Anurag. Tune apna waada poora kiya. Kheer banayi :') You are the official "Cooker" :P
  Sabne bahut pyaar se khaayi teri kheer, Aur tumhari shayari. Waah! *Slow claps*
• Adhithiyan!!! Photo man..!! I won't even thank you, you singer  :P Buddy. I can never thank you enough! I have found another horcrux by the way :D
• Adarsh Soni. You looked very cute jab tum cake se bachne ke liye kone mein dubak kar baithe the. :P Thanks a lot for your really thoughtful message on the card.
• Aarushi. Tera message bahut acha tha :) Thanks a lot. :D It made me very happy! We have had so many good times together. I hope for many more to come. :)
• Kopal, Ishita, Kritika, Moksha, Avantika, Abhishek Bisht, Urvashi :') thank you so very much for coming  and making my evening memorable.
• Pulkit. Tumko toh chaanta lagana hai. Sorry. But thanks a lot. Tumhaare prank mein mazaa aaya tha khoob. Thank you for picking the most ugly photos and making a collage out of them :P
• Shahnawaz, Imran. Thank you for your lovely poems. :) I like poems :) Though I had little trouble translating them as they were in Urdu, and Arabic, and for some time I just kept staring at them in hope that I would understand.
• Akshay Bisht. Abhi abhi tera phone bhi aaya hai, waise toh mujhe naraaz hona chahiye, lekin tu Nona bacha hai na, isiliye maaf kiya. :D
• I know he won't be reading it, but thank you Atmajith  M Kaimal, for his wish written beautifully in Malayalam, and someone please tell him that I don't take that many photos.
• VAP group!!!!  Combined party hogi humari yaad rakhna 80-20 :P :D Thanks Chotus and Chutkis of Rawal-wasseypur, for chocolates, wishes, dher saara pyaar :'( *khushi ke aansu*
• Apoorva Joshi Mam. I can not thank you in enough words *lakkar bazaar wala rona*. Tune aur dhingra ne itni mehnat karke ithni pyaari cheez banayi hai mere liye. Personally tere paas aake rona dikhaa ke thank you bolungi. Love you and Dhingru  :'( :'( :'( 
• Akshita Sharma. I have no idea in what words to thank you. Your card moved me to tears. Your gift is lovely. And you are too good :) And I'll try to do everything that you mentioned. I love you so much. :') The old times will come back. Thank you for doing so much for me :)
• Then comes my Chandigarh party :D Bahut khushi hui jaan kar ki abhi tak tumne mujhko yaad rakha hai. :D Thanks a lot. 
• Family and puraane paake dost, Manal, Aanchal, Heena, Shivangini :') Tum logon ke bina mera kya hoga :)
• Everyone else :D

Apart from this, there was a really lovely long gmail wish. :D Yes Yes. I will wait for January 15th. :D

I would have put a really nice picture with this, lekin Adhithiyan didn't give me any!!

Agar kisi ka naam reh gaya ho galti se, toh bahut bahut sorry :'(
Mujhe aake maar daalna :'O
I guess for the umpteenth time, but still before the right time, Anek, Anek shukriya :D

P.S. I don't understand the riwaaz to change whatsapp picture and status but, thanks to these people <3

More photos :D

Nemo- Part 2

My hostel makes sure that whenever I'm having a bad day, a dinner worse than my day should be served to me.Today we had baingan for dinner. The word is derived from 'begun' (बेगुणं ) which means without any qualities, because earlier it was thought to have no nutritive value. It is one of the few things I wish, should cease to exist. If I had to make a list of 10 things I hate the most, brinjal would occupy the list from number 3 to 10.

My father had once asked me very forcefully to eat it. And I did. And I vomited after that. Even my stomach doesn't accept this nasty specie.

Sulky mode apart, let's talk about Nemo Part 2!! :D
I just realized that today is the first monthly anniversary of the  adventure, so what better day than today to remember the amazing surprise!

Recap:
So, me and Joshi had planned a surprise home visit, and we were actually quite scared, worried that it would join the long list of misadventures that we did.
Nevertheless, Dhingru also joined our mission.
The day came. We were mentally preparing ourselves, to be scolded, and thrown away from our homes. 

Spoiler Alert: I did NOT transform into a beautiful ice cream. In fact, I enjoyed the cool weather instead.

The rest of the story:
Well, well. I would cut this story real short. Because everyone complains that I don't get to the point soon enough!
As expected, we left from college - late than we planned.
And that is where our story started- late than we planned
The metro stopped working for sometime. Everything was late than what we planned.
Interestingly, Joshi's mother, who never calls her at this time, had to call her today, because... (obviously!!)
And just when she told her mother that she's just going down for dinner, the train started shouting, "Next station: Adarsh Nagar."
"This is Adarsh Nagar Station. The doors will open to the right. Please mind the gap"
They talked  till Vishwavidyalaya. It was very interesting to see the way she was talking, and how her expressions changed, every time the announcement was made.. we laughed till tears came out of our eyes. :'D
They left me at ISBT at 8pm. I had 2 hours to kill. So I found a place in the waiting area. Too much crowded because of the Diwali rush. I started reading Danielle Steel. Five Days in Paris. I met another lady going to my town. and I played with her little baby. She was extremely
bothered as to why I was studying in Delhi, too far from home, and not in Mandi!!! :'P

My journey partner :D

This, and many other unimportant doubts. Actually, answering her questions was more interesting than reading, at the moment, so I saved the rest of the book for the journey.
My bus had to arrive at 9:30pm and leave at 9:50!
And my wrist watch stopped working precisely at 8:54pm because... (obviously!!)
It was 9:45pm (the bus was about to leave), and I was sad, that time was passing slowwwwly!!! counting that I still had more than an hour to go, when suddenly... (and I thank the Gods for this) Joshi called me. It was THEN that I realized that I better run.
Thankfully I didn't miss it.

(But I had already thought of alternatives had I missed the bus, which was highly expected.)
Plan B: I would wait till the morning and come back to college, and stay there. And since my family didn't know that I was coming,
Number of hearts broken = 0 (Woohoo!)

I had a very interesting co-passenger with me, who reminded me of Cinderella's stepmother. I went back to Danielle Steel. hoping the next 12 hours to pass soon!

I woke up, with neck pain. I had reached familiar territory once again! Yeehaw! I mentally danced around!
Aah!! And when I felt the cool wind in my hair, I decided I would walk till home. Not too far. It took me some 20 minutes.


Now HERE'S when the best part starts:
I walked into the house very normally.. like I had only come back from Aanchal's home.. :P

• My fathers reaction: He stared at me for some 5 seconds, like he had seen a ghost! :D He then hugged me and I told him the entire master plan and the story. I was expecting him to scold me, but he didn't (Phew!) I guess he was too happy to see me!
• My mother's reaction: I generally don't expect anything.. but I had expected her to behave like this. She hugged me and started crying. Tears of happiness :') Huhuhu. She then fed me all my favourite things. And she didn't scold me either!

 Now, supposing, for a moment that the amount of happiness they get from my coming home is X, the happiness I was witnessing that time was X+10. Because they weren't expecting this.
Ha! This is why I love giving surprises to people. Good and bad :P

 I would like to end the story with the thing about this entire experience that I would remember the most, and never forget. It was:

• My brother's reaction: He came back in the evening. Saw me sitting, cutting onions. He said 'Hi!', and continued his work and went away :'O

I was expecting at least a smile. Or a tiniest hint that he's glad to see me. And I got none. Which is a  little sad. But it's okay. I know he loves me the most. And it's not necessary to show it all the time. Is it? 

20 things!

We're 6 days into my happy month already, once again after an year.

It suddenly feels like time is flying. 

And why should it not?? 

We have class tests, semester exams, lab exams, festivals, birthdays, marriages, marriage anniversaries all coming up pretty soon. One of the reasons I like months from October to December

Speaking of birthdays, I have mine in line too!

It's not a big deal, birthdays come and go. But I hope time crawls till 28th. Because 20 sounds too big to me. Feels like 1994 was a day before :P 

How old are you?
20!
Twenty? Viente? Zwanzig? बीस? Sach meinn?????

Enough said.
Here is a list of 20 things I wish for, on my 20th!

1. My brother to remember my birthday, and not Amma reminding him :P
2. Flowers. Because I like them.
3. Milkybar. Because I like it. 
4. Jesse McCartney in gift wrap. because I'm wishing this continuously since 2007 
5. Chocolate cake :D Because it is the best thing in the world
6. A beautiful hand made card.
7. A Birthday wish at 7:45 pm :) 
8. Birthday wish in 7 different languages :O
9. *This wish is a secret*
10. 'Waves' by Sharon Dogar. I still remember how happily I was jumping up and down with tears when she had written me her long, thoughtful message. I feel I have a lot in common with her. 
11. A 7-things-I hate-about-you list :P
12. An empty box decorated beautifully!! 
13. A hot air balloon. Because sitting in a hot air balloon is really cool.
14. I still haven't found a birthday twin!!
15. Fossilized animals. Creepy. 
16. Spontaneously deciding to go on a road trip. Sometime. Later.
17. Roghan Josh. Because it's easily my favourite. Also, Kehwa made by Amma, first thing in the morning.
18. My long hair back :'(
19. Striking up a conversation with a stranger. Because. Nothing.
20. Paint some weird thing up and try to sell it as "abstract art"

Up Next: Class Tests! :P Time to save the semester. Bye! :D

Not a word!

I missed my mother a lot today.
It's not that I don't remember her everyday. But I miss her more than any day since I joined college.
Okay I called her. But some things you cannot simply say on the phone. You need the person to be in front of you and you need to have a good talk with them.
And moreover I don't want her to have unnecessary worries, by telling her things which would get her worried while I'm away from her.

I have 8 rooms in my wing. 15 girls other than me live here.
Other than that there are 48 girls on my floor.
And some 200 girls in my hostel.
And more people in my college,
This is not a counting class. My point is that I have people all around me. Good people, not so good people, elder people, younger people, people, people everywhere. And I'm feeling like the only person on the planet.
I never made many friends, not even in 12 years of school. But I  have 2 or 3 few chums(2 or 3 because I'm not sure), who would bother if I become such an example of an emotionally unstable organism. Meaning to say, that I do have people in college I can talk it out with. But the thing is: I'm not in the mood to get anyone sad or worried because of pointless things that I think of.
Also, I'm quite terrible when it comes to putting my thoughts into words. Not always.

I'm human only. I get sad. I also have lacrimal glands. All the emotions piled up in my brain, I cried a lot today.
I cry generally. But I cried rivers today. I guess my room mate was wondering once or twice what happened, when she came back. But we both have this unwritten, unsaid agreement. We pretty much know what we would like to share and what not. And she knew so she didn't ask.

And all this while I was only praying I could blurt everything out to  a stranger. Because all this burden of the unsaid things won't go till I talk it out. Just make the person sit for sometime, talk, and ask the person to leave.

I follow the same phases of business cycle:
Prosperity___Recession___Depression___Recovery.

And very soon I'm going to step into the third phase, so I think.
I only hope it's not for too long.
I also hope it does not lead to an irreversible damage, like it did last time.

Oh! And by the way, I'm not going to write Nemo-Part2. At least not now. Because it's too amazing to be written in such a mood.
Sometime later, maybe.