Bidding goodbye to dear friends

It’s only a week since they have gone but it feels like our big Pune gang is separating day by day. Almost two months ago we all were together planning for holidays in May for my wedding!!! But then life has to go on and who knows one day we all might come back together in Pune itself! Yes, I am talking about two dear friends Niks and Pario whose chitchat has always been eternal part of our group.

We had a grand farewell party with all beautiful deserts. Niks and Pario were on hot seats. They talked all funny incidents about how Niks had no train tickets due to Pario and when ticket checker came, Pario was waking up everyone except Niks :P Then some over smart dude(banda:)) harassed them all the way with his exaggerated talk. Then we discussed how our children would be like. Hit’s will have tattoo already inscribed, Pario's child will just keep on smiling without reason and Niks' child will slap him with 'hove' and Kend’s kid will just be posing for pics of himself. We also had fun talking about the recent incidents of police and missing bike where Niks was trying to speak in excessive English with local Policeman and Pario just laughed without any reason and Hit was looking down for Niks thinking that he would be lying on land with his half ribs would have been already broken.

I started a thread on whatsapp regarding their farewell gifts and with no surprise I got disgusting suggestions like shampoo to Pario and deo for Niks :). We cut out the boys' suggestions and decided the budget and went on to buy similar wallets for both of them. Niks was going first on coming Sunday. We had a great breakfast on Saturday morning made by Banda(here Niks) himself :). After having good dinner we all sat together and asked Niks to have a farewell speech. I started video recording of his funny anecdotes about each person. For me and Rajan, he said all good things and congratulated us for future assignments. For Pario, he pulled his legs saying that Pario is 'dude' and he mixes with girls group easily and he is fond of ladybird cycle, but his mixing capability will lead him to success. About Kend, he said that he is actually born in London and very sophisticated and will surly go to US with the hard work he is doing. Same for Komli and Khetani. For Chashmish and Chakudi, he said that both are fun-loving nature and 'healthy' in terms of food just like him (who cares for ppl who think they are fat):P Whomsoever Niks was desribing, he always stated that the person has clarity of thoughts. For Hit again, he made lot of fun of him that he is 'champlo'(nosy) and 'dhyan behro'(deaf by heart) and will always have one or more evades for not doing things etc etc. But yes, he is a 'Stud' and can make girlfriends easily. Ha ha ha...anyways he concluded that Hit is really cool guy and has good sense-of-humor. To this, Hit poliety replied, "Hey but you didn’t mention my clarity of thoughts and success path?" :D

Anyways after this we stopped video recording and remembered some funny incidents. We remembered all bike-exchange and recent bike-stolen incidents and how boys went to-and-fro for searching. Then they said how Hit's alarm will ring at 5am in morning and harassed everybody, and how Hit and Kend harrassed Niks by knocking doors at 3am night and playing radio loud :) All became nostalgic by remembering the parties, fun, breakfast, lunch, dinner, weekends, movies, diaries and this and that.

Next day morning, when Niks was packing things, we wrote something in a diary for him and packed the gift and diary in his bag secretly. We bought some sweets for him and bid him goodbye. He became lil senti I think. When he discovered the gifts after reaching Mumbai, he was overwhelmed and did senti whatsapp to us :)

Next weekend Saturday, it was Pario's turn. On Friday, we took a long video of him, narrating some incidents when he came to Pune and he had to walk miles wherever he went. Then all boys narrated incidents of their bizarre college roommate who had weird habits of cleaning room whenever he slept. Next day, we did same for Pario as we did for Niks but in better ways. Chakudi prepared a great decorative book and we prepared some questions and ppl had enough time to answer them in detail. However, he doubted many times when he saw colorful pens everywhere in the house but we tried to hide things from him as much as possible. The problem was he was coming here and there in every room whenever we were secretly writing. We bought sweets for him(which we finished at home itself J) and we were on time leaving for bus. But all of a sudden, Hit called and asked us to copy his important data from Pario’s laptop. When we started, the windows said ‘half an hour to go…’. We were shocked and cursed Hit for his last min reminders. We almost reached the bus-stand when bus was about to leave!!! Anyways, I took some last moment pictures, and bid goodbye to him. Pario was also being lil senti and Hit started acting of a crying woman. Ha ha ha…

Now that house of Vasant Avenue seems so lonely but each room of that reminds us of one or the other funny moment when we all were together.

Komli Bday

Our girl’s gang new member – Komli. She is so cool-sometimes looks like college teenage girl, sometimes proper lady like, even sometimes behave like a kid! On her recent birthday, I –the initiator - started thread on whatsapp that what should we do and cake and things like that. Initially, I got angry on Khetani(her husband) as he was not answering. But then I realized that I entered his other number in the group. Anyways, I later coordinated with Khetani for cake and everything and we finally decided to sing a song for her individually. Fortunately she came late that day from office and we had plenty of time to decorate her room. We decorated her room’s balcony curtain with ribbons, hangings and other colorful things. Khetani- the electrician- arranged some lights on the top of balloons. Chakudi -the artist- quickly prepared beautiful ‘happy bday Komal’ letters with few sketch-pens. Rajan – the manager- was helping everybody. Amity-the traveller- was on her way to Komli's home even after long office hours. Vibrant cake(selected by Khetani) was already hidden at Vasant Avenue(other friend’s society) –just in case Komli comes and opens the fridge. When decoration almost got over, Khetani started to get ready as if he was going on a first date :P He took bath, shaved himself, changed to decent cloths and then started spreading perfume all over!!! We all murmured – “Wah Khetani Wah!!!” (Bravo Khetani).

We called our friends to come. When they came, we started taking video of their singing. The purpose of this was to dedicate a song for Komli, but all were singing randomly. First we asked Khetani to sing, he sang a Gujrati song “Nayan ne bandh rakhine…” He was signing it so seriously that I and Chakudi started dancing on this in background :P Next, Kend sang and danced on a Hindi song. I and Rajan did a couple dance (with Rajan’s funny add-ons in song). When it came to Pario, instead of singing, he started with some dialogue – ‘Harry Potter, Superman, Batman all ready to go….’ Then sang some song of all super heros. When Amity arrived, she started to sing like a small kiddo “bar bar din ye aye, bar bar dil ye gaaye…” we all laughed at her and put her out of camera, and started to sing and dance on our own remix of this song (With of course, Pario and Rajan coming in between with ‘harry potter is flying…huuuuuu….batman on his wings….’).

Komli has already arrived and have been waiting out in drawing room. We all banned her from coming inside bedroom till everything got ready! Though she tried really hard to push the door, but nobody can win with CID’s Daya (here Chakudi J) at opposite corner. So she put on her laptop and started singing wildly as if taking revenge…he he he…then she applied facial and changed cloths and all that…At 12 am, our rest of the friends with cake arrived. We were just arranging candles and all, again Komali started to push, ‘it’s my bday, it’s my bday ye ye ye…yippeeee’. Finally when everything was ready Komli could enter the room and before we all start, she herself started singing “Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me…la la la laaaaa”. She kept on singing like this as if reminding us that we also need to sing!

Then we all set for DJ dance on latest Bollywood songs with Khetani on the floor with his unique style. This was followed by couple dance of Khetani and Komli, Chashmish and Chakudi. When we all were finally exhausted from dancing, we sat to view the videos we have prepared. We laughed at our own selves by seeing the way we were behaving and doing madness. When Khetani’s video came, we laughed like anything coz his video was taken upside down!!! He was sitting and singing seriously in video and me and Chakudi were dancing in the sky :P My God! That was so funny.

We had some snacks and dispersed at around 1am night. Next day morning, we all got together for lunch as usual. We decided 'to have' lunch at Vasant Avenue and not 'to prepare' coz we knew no material will be available where boys are staying. We gals decided to prepare Komli's fav food items. We knew that she loves Kheer, so our Amity prepared it. I prepared sabji. Cook prepared roti and we all got together. Even after fufilling our tummies, we wanted to have some more good food in dinner. After 1 hour of discussion, we cooked Pau Bhaji at Vasant Avenue only, and it tasted really good as we have already learnt how to cook good with lesser facilities :)

And the day went on like this. But now really we are lost at ideas to arrange for new themes on each birthdays. We are still trying to make it fun. We used to celebrate bdays on a vast level but now it is getting really difficult to make everyone available under one roof. Still we are trying. Next is Kend’s bday. Last year we gave him a big card which had 15 different types of dogs on it and we’ve written our names and his other friends’ names on each! Hope to see more surprises this year too.

Welcome back to my blog

My my...writing after a long long time. Lots of thing have happened, lots of status changed(and address too :)) since my first blog.

Starting with me, I am in Pune...happily married. My husband Rajan Jethva is from Jamnagar, Gujrat. He is currently working in Infosys. I am working in Amdocs. We stay in a rented home. Hectic schedule start everyday coz my home is 25km from my office and I just wait for weekend to have good sleep. But I think every IT guy whether he/she do or do not have work, wait for weekend everytime.

Now for our mithu group, My friend Chashmish and my sis Chakudi, both are working in Pune itself. Amity and me are in same company. Chakudi is in Cognizant. Both are single still :) So we gals rock here @Pune. My other friend Chakli is married and staying with her husband Nishan in Banglore, she too is working in IT company very far from her home. So we many times talk on phone in bus. But now she is not as free as she used to be(like me :)), so we can freely talk only after evenings. And as we are 'girls', our freely talk usually extend till an hour minimum :P. Her husband i.e. our Jiju(brother-in-law) is really cool and the pair perfectly compliments each other. My friend Lali is also married with a guy called Archan and staying in Bharuch, doing tutions. I have written previous blog about her wedding here. She is not much in touch.

Everybody is pretty busy in their life and we can't meet as much as we used to meet in college days. But I miss them. In my wedding, Chakudi and Chashmish created a video for me with all friends pics and I cried a lot missing them like anything. But apart from Lali, we 4 gals still do conference call on bdays and discuss on mails regarding bday gifts.

I had a rocking group at Mysore, Infosys similarly I have a whole new group here at Pune. My husband, before marriage used to stay with his friends. Hit, Kend, Niks, Pario to name a few. And there's a couple Khetani and Komali, they all are now part of our big 'Pune gang rocks' group. Here also lots of ppl came and went and still going to go. Almost every weekend we all get together and make meals together or go out. We all celebrate birthdays like anything, decorate house beautifully, order stylish cakes, have dance and games program and take funny videos...my God! I am fond of taking videos, and we have like 40gb of pics and videos of us!!! Everybody is earning in good companies. Once in a while we have a bachlor party(for married ppl also :)) for gals as well as boys. So me enjoying days in Pune.

So here I am. I have lots of topics to write, hopefully pen it soon.