Light From One Lamp!

I remember once when me and Modita were discussing (over twitter :P) about how unexpected this jeevan is! And how great it feels to experience something nice when you are least expecting it!
My fifth semester had started with 'An Unexpected Sojourn' and interestingly it is now ending with another surprise.
The story starts thus:
It was a foggy day in December. And sitting somewhere inside the mighty campus of my college, as I was mustering all the broken pieces of courage to study for the LAST exam of the semester, somebody asked me to come over. While I was walking over, I had this turmoil of winter-plus-headache-plus-eye irritation-plus-exam-hatred going on, and I was trying to sort them one at a time.
This is what I saw upon going there, after which all this turmoil momentarily gave way:



















Okay. So I saw a beautifully made paper lamp. And by the time I'm done with admiring it, I notice a scroll (tied by jugaad :P) kept on it. I observed it from every angle like a child who sees something new for the very first time and then I hear, "It is for you, you can read it!"

"Here is a lamp with one light. Consider it as my symbolic wishes to light up your upcoming year with joy and happiness."

(This is in relation to a book we are trying to read a little at the moment, "Light From Many Lamps")
 So after reading all of the letter I realized it was my birthday gift.
I have had many surprises on my birthday already. This one took it to the next level.
The lamp was made so nicely, that I don't think I have the right words to express my gratitude. I mean why would someone make such a nice thing for me when tomorrow is a very dangerous exam! :O
Deadly mode apart, this is  how I got my lovely first lamp.
Moral of the story:
With this, the person has given a good reason that justifies the closing note in the letter. I don't simply go into raptures about everyone. I do have a bunch of really nice people around me to make me do that all the time.
Baaki baat baad mein
Happy Exams! I have to start a fight with five deadly units now. Meat. Lovely to eat. Nasty to study.

P.S. My birthday was 11 days ago. :D

Yet Another :D

My laziness can be explained by the fact that I still have 3 incomplete posts in drafts, which will probably never see the light of the dawn :P

But today I'll write only this one.

There are scores of people and things I want to be grateful to today. Let me see if I can do this or not.. Let me start

*Everything is mentioned in chronological order*

Few times in a year I feel so fortunate and blessed that I'm moved beyond words. (And since a picture is worth thousand words, I've used more of those this time rather than writing long stories like last year.. 14.25 wishes :D ) God has been very kind on me to give me so many good people around me all the time, and always showering me with things more than I deserve.

Here I've tried to include all the "Arre waah" moments of the day.

• 

  You people were fortunate
  enough to find something
  my size :P

  How fortunate I am to have my birthday celebrations started a day earlier :D 
  Kavya didi and Harpreet Mam .. The intricately done, immaculately designed card made me very emotional. I am really out of words and don't know how to thank you people for all the love. And thanks Arpit, Amarendra, Arun bhaiya, Praveer and Himanshu sir for your lovely wishes. 
  What you people did was plain unexpected! Not to mention the cake being cut in a hurry at midnight on a stone platform under a tree :P

• "O teri" waali party... more lovely time full of dance and masti :D 
  Corridor mates Huddi, Anantaa, Sharma jih, Nikita, Reesa Roomie :* Sonakshi, Deepti, Priyanka, Shaista, Vidushi, Naema, Sera, :D 
  Special mention for Hari and Harpreet di's dance :D
  
  

BLINGGG!

• My midnight postman Aarushi, bringing me Vedangi di's gift was completely out of the blue. Lovely bangles and rings, and anklet and bling. :') I am seriously waiting for you all to come back and have more great time together.
• Skype (LATE) wishers Adarsh, Atmajith and Pulkit and their Chanda mama wala song  :')  :P The Skype call was very entertaining :P

  

  LATE WISHERS :P

• Joshi ke suspense ki koshish flop due to her whatsapp DP (laughing more than I should here)
  Also the unexplained circumstances under which she called me over where everyone was waiting with yet another cake, and also her excitement, "Hua ki nahi?" :P 
  
  
• This day will be permanently engraved in the books of history as it is today that I got the tightest bone-crushing hug in my life.It took me so much time to straighten my bones again.
  
  
• And now for the biggest surprise of my life - rather shock! 
  There's a girl who has been my friend since the time I started talking. Unfortunately we had not been able to meet and talk properly since 2 years. To get a call from her saying "I've reached your college gate" gave me a minor HEART ATTACK. Crazy girl drove for 3 hours to come and hug me and went back in 5 minutes because she had important college work to do. 
  My dear Ashna, you more than made up for missing all those birthdays after your 10th grade :')
  After you drove away I cried. :'(
  Thanks Ashna and Kunal
  
  

• 

  Peacock surprise

  A lovely purple  Kurti, which I saw in Joshi's DP - Packed. :P ... Jisko cake se kharab karne mein Pulkit ne koi kasar nahi chhodi -_-
  I'm not even finished admiring this lovely gift and out of nowhere.. a LOVELY peacock pendant appears in my neck. Thanks a lot Adhithiyan for this horcrux! 
  Thanks to my batchmates for coming and making my evening memorable..
  Joshi, Sharma, Dhingra, Hrudya, Urvashi, Tiwari, Ishita, Adhithiyan, Atma, Anurag Golu, Adarsh
  And of course, Pulkit was there to click nice pictures with his new HAIRCUT WALA CAMERA. Also clicking another picture similar to our first photo together taken a year back :D

KAHANI GHAR GHAR KI 

Peacock

• And if all of this was not enough, I got handmade THEKUA along with a magical mysterious powder to sprinkle on it, jiska composition unhone clearly nahi bataya. Now what's very interesting about this is that this consignment has been transferred by him illegally to me so I cannot reveal his name at the moment :P And I cannot imagine this gentleman entering the kitchen to boil water. To understand that this man made thekuas himself painstakingly took few seconds.. and that he saved some of it for me despite its demand made it a very prized possession of mine.
  
  
• My lovely family :'(  Celebrating my birthday akele akele and sending me pictures :'(
  Chandigarh friends : Divya, Smriti, Kanupriya, Aur tum dono ke saath conference call pe national importance ke issues discuss kiye jaana.
  School friends: Manal, Aanchal, Heena, Prerna, Vidisha, Modita, SWATIKA DEVI JEE :P (Jinhone mujhe wish karne se pehle kisi korean TV show ke English subtitles mail karne ko kaha :P)
  A really LONG and lovely wish by an old friend movie man :P 
  Juniors, Seniors, friends, romans, countrymen!
• 
  

  

• Anshul Agarwal... Aapko maafi punishment ke baad milegi 
• And Anurag. Sab khoon maaf. Tumhare kandho pe bahot badi responsibilities aa gayi hain ab. Tumhe bahot important kaam ki zimmedari di hai ab.

All this makes me wonder what I have EVER done to get all this - love and kindness and such nice friendships!

Many beautiful moments were experienced. Hard to explain.

And after all this love.. some sad things.. I have turned 21 today. I'm getting old... but have not grown up yet :P

As this semester and subsequently, college is coming to an end, I am only realizing that I am not ready for the real world yet.

Oh I'm just a girl.. Trying to find a place in this world!

PS- I'm currently writing a letter to 30-year old Apoorva Tikku: COMING SOON, Stay tuned for more :D
Sorry for this uninteresting piece of information :P

Filhaal I have semester exams coming up. I'll see you all after December 10. YO! :D

 Signing off, with more pictures

ANGRY FACES :P

 

Yeh photo ulti hai, ghoom nahi rahi 

Mental Note: Never get clicked with Pulkit again 

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

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

Bateeesa Forever!♥

As the clock strikes 12, I remember a girl whom I met somewhere 4 years ago in the School Bus going back to home.
Back then, I had no IDEA how important this girl would be to me in the years to come. As we started buzzing, got addicted! Slowly, over time we became the best of friends....inseparable! More correctly, we became Fraternal twins! (okay i know it's not funny) ... For one of our teachers(who happens to be our favorite!), "Apoorva" and  "Vidisha" became synonymous!
I have never ever told her, but whether she believes it or not.. She brought a metamorphosis in my life. Long story cut short : over the years we collected unfogettable memories.

My 25 years Dance! If you're a good observer then you would notice - Vidisha (right) 
ki bholi si muskaan ke piche kya raaz hai :P

• Science Exhibition, when we talked for the first time (Haan, Main vahi hun!)
• Annual function where she danced in a black lehenga (I still remember that!)
• Our getting addicted to Twitter and Blogging!
• That day we ate  Gol gappe TWICE
• Another day we ate Gol gappe when I loved it the most! (Kya mirchi hai Bhedu!)
• Another Science Exhibition next year..when we were STUCK IN SCHOOL at night I was scared as hell and she was chilled out! (That was the Killat hai day!)
• Our 11th vala auto (HP 05 1472) where there was Head Boy..which was replaced by Junior Head boy and his sister
• 12th vala auto (HP 05 1209) which I , Vidisha and my brother can NEVER FORGET... once again, New Head Boy with us..Luckily he stayed till the end this time!
• Silver Jubilee Function, my dance and then eating Kulfi with aching feet 
• 2nd day of the function, where we came ALONE...LATE AT NIGHT!! Can never forget "Bhagat Singh" and "Raam Raam" (Yes you know who I'm talking about)
• Our secret code talk (Maan na maan, main teri mehmaan and Magic Makeup Box)
• Our talking at 3 hours at stretch after final exams (Supersonic Cruise Missile-Brahmos)
• The Shivratri Fair (Check out earlier posts if you wanna know more)
• Our common future aim (I wanna say you have it, girl-you have all the talent... just don't let anything stop you and you WILL get it what you want)
• My getting emotional after her getting worried that I'll leave her in a month(*sigh* High School wasn't meant to last forever!)
• Our having crush on the SAME GUY! (Q-T)
• Giggling when the "Stabuser" and "Preet" saw pretty girls and did what they did...and how Q-T secretly laughed after that!
• The topics we used to talk on (how the hell did they get in our minds)
• Our singing "Give me Everything Tonight" everyday while going back to home!
• The moment *someone* sang - I can't PREEEEET without you (okay..VP rocks I agree!)
• Constantly nudging each other to get serious about *studies*
• CID memories!
• Another one to come will be our Farewell Dance (February 14, 2012)
• Its 1:30 am and sorry for forcing you to stay up to read this.. but due to the fact that i'm half asleep, I AM forgetting half the things..Why the hell does THAT matter .. we both know what we did...right?

We never had even the littlest of any kind of fight till now! and we won't ever!! It's amazing how amazingly similar our amazing thoughts are!
 By the way,
you might as well be thinking that I remembered her on January 26, 2012 00:00 am ? 
Why? Today's her Sweet 16!
Dear Vidisha, you've taught me many important things in life.All I want to say is you are just PERFECT. Stay as sweet as you are...always! God Bless you Bhedu!!! - We'll always be together!
*Disfrutar de la vida* :)

P.S- I LOVE YOU  ♥♥♥

Turning 17 ! ♥♥

I wish I could describe this day in a million words !

amazing, fab, one of the best days blah blah blah.

so today, November 28, 2011 completed the seventeen years that i have lived.  

unexpectedly , the day WAS unexpected .had started just like any other school day. had huge fun with my girlfriends. loved it. after school. we decided just to go out and enjoy for sometime. well,  Shruti drove  her Dhanno to pick me up and we were to meet Shivangini and Heena at the hotel. 

ordered our usual stuff! ate ate and ate a lot. like CRAZY . laughed laughed laughed ... like CRAZY ..sang on the top of our voices like CRAZY . went bonkers over a song and danced ..like CRAZY .then went madder . like CRAZY 

chocolate ice cream in the end was JUST the perfect finish! 

and those girls gave me a lovely birthday card that was just INSANE ! 

paid the bill . was getting dark . nearly 8 pm . so we started towards home. Heena and Shivangini went on her scooty and i sat behind Shruti on her Dhanno as she rode at 80 miles an hour on the nearly empty Jail Road. amazing to feel my hair flying in the air like CRAZY after such a long time. woohooo ! 

whoa whoa whoa... scarily fast that it took five seconds for me to slip back into my senses ! 

all in all, this was a day i can never ever ever forget.

so cheers , to my girlfriends, Heena Shivangini and Shruti. 

you girls made my day !

*disfrutar de la vida!* (:

the lovely card they gave me