It was the master mind of Chashmish (Oops! She has mind after all!) who stated this idea to me and Chakli. Once we were discussing something about some wonderful memories. Then we thought we should treasure all of them, it’ll be a great collection for the future. So all in all we decided that we’ll write a common diary. Then we thought of where and how to write. We wanted to make it extraordinarily beautiful. We did not want actual diaries-book like-with thick covers and all because it would be difficult to share with three of us. We were looking for something else-colorful designer pages like project papers or Nirma’s assignment ‘tute(tutorial) pages’. We are smart you know ;) We can divide those pages easily for 3 of us, write and then just bring those pages to let others read. Apart from that, we can easily manage those in a file if the lot increases. In conventional diary, while writing something wrong happens then, we have no option but to tear that page which looks so bad. But in these project pages, we can easily throw a page in dustbin and write all over again! And its lot easier to write in separate pages(read also) than with 500+ pages of diary. So easy to carry, easy to handle, easy to file and hey, cheaper also (100 pages in almost 40 rs :) ).
Then one day, we went to all stationary shops. I remember that day. Amity and Chakli came to my house. We 3 with my sis were supposed to eat out that evening so we decided first we’ll go through all stationary shops and find the most beautiful pages. We went with 2 vehicles to search in all local shops of Gurukul. Now the chaos started. We somehow got separated. Then Amity and Chakudi went into some shop, called us(Me and Chakli) to come and see. When we reached there, they were not there at all! Again we called them. This happened vice versa also. Same thing happened when we decided to meet at Hanuman Temple. After wandering in whole Gurukul we finally met at a big stationary shop at SubhashChok called ‘Dinalay’. We were shown lot of colorful designer pages. We chose the one with red rose in the background, it looked (in Amity’s language) very romantic :) . My sis got frustrated with all these chaos for these pages…hehe…So FINALLY we bought our diary pages for the first time on. After coming home, we divided them,33 for each of us.
Now we 3 actually started writing diary on 5th September, 2007, Wednesday. We separately wrote ‘Prastavna’ (prologue) and when we met next time, we showed it to each other. We all were so thrilled! Then we went on writing and it became a hobby for us to write and then meet and read and discuss and comment and what not! Once we went to Lali’s place and gave her all those pages to read and she went crazy, totally mad at reading them. She read it again and again. We’ve given her pages to write, she wrote 1 topic but it seems writing is not her cup of tea. And Chakudi though always part of our fun is not interested in this diary business. So all in all we have 3 writers, 1 partially writer and passionate reader!
The diary is neither personal nor a group diary. We’ve given it or some of its topics to read to family and friends. Almost 70% of topics are open for all. You wont believe what have we done for this dear diary! We now know almost every stationary shop in our area for buying new pages. We’ve found out cheapest zerox-shop coz we want 3 photocopies of those pages for me, Lali and Chakli. Amity(according to her precondition) will keep the original beautiful pages. We’ve scanned few of them. We’ve divided them into sections and have arranged Big files(‘ghoda file’) for all of us. We almost have made 3 indexes. Sometime we just meet to count those pages, numbered them and distribute.
The diary contains every topic you can think of(and cannot think of!). It has movies, gossips, books, philosophy, fun, studies, exams, databases(yes, it does!), stories, poems, dialogues, college, home, picnic, personalities, discussions, birthdays, friends and so on and so forth. Its more than a just a hobby now, its part of our life. Diary is a time-machine, whenever we read it, we rewind the time and go into past. Whenever we read it, we totally go mad and laugh like anything ANYTHING. And our readers also have a big smile on their face whenever they read it and encouragingly give us compliments. This shayri(poem) is dedicated to all the readers of our dear diary.
Yun to hum jaldi kisise dosti kiya nahi karte,
Dard-e-dil diya aur liya nahi karte,
Ye to acha rishta hai apse,
Varna hum kisiko apni dear diary diya nahi karte!
grt!
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