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.