Pages From My Diary - A Birthday

March 20, 2010

12:00 MN

“Dhoom…” 

“Damm…”

“Dhomm…”

“Happy Birthday da!”

Our noise was superseding the train’s rhythm. The compartment was fully awake with those birthday bumps and midnight party. We were just 14 in number but made a hell lot of noise so that all other 58 passengers woke up. Aged people got a smile over their face, middle aged men turned red in anger, other young college girls in the next compartment could not tolerate the enjoyment we had!

Agony, jealousy, pity and anger filled up every other person’s face but we all had a happy mood splashing cream over one another, taking photographs and playing as if it was a weekend at corporate! Our TTE gave a right entry to make us calm. He was middle aged and checked us for liquor bottles. May be he would have expected us to have one so that he can have one!

Its 15 minutes past one when everyone just showed signs of tiredness. One by one we started moving towards our berth and it looked as if a huge chaos came to an end. No one noticed what path the train took up to reach the Central, Chennai. Usually all trains from south will be reaching Egmore but ours was a festival special train!

Chennai was as dirty as it could be. The sultry climate, salty breeze and hot sun was not much felt when we are with our friends. A short walk, electric train, a long walk and finally we reached Chepauk! We have already booked our rooms there through a friend of a friend of a friend! We relaxed ourselves in the most comfortable cot, had a fresh bath with the special salt water of Chennai and went out for the breakfast! From our place, the half completed new secretariat for the State Government stood amazing and the geeky pair Sathish and Navanee had their chat over the facilities in that building!

It was a usual morning otherwise and we all are quite excited for the evening match! The preparations started in the early evening around 3’o clock when we all started standing in the queue for the 7:30 cricket match. We all had a uniform yellow jersey in favour of the home team. We all are well dressed typically to match the cricketing scenario. The companies did free advertisements on us! We were wearing green LED glowing coolers for 7up, a yellow jersey for Aircel and a turban for the Super Kings! I was much concerned about the uniformity than the home team! I literally hated the home team except for their captain who captained the Indian Cricket team!

In recent times Indians are much concerned about the T20 matches especially the IPL which was the prime reason for our Chennai trip! We all had On-Duty on our attendance sheets in college and were not at all worried about the consequences!

Even before the game started we all took seats and started cheering up along with the cheer girls! The match went on very well and it was a nail biting finish with a tie! My first ever cricket match at a stadium was a tie! I was much delighted and moreover the home team lost at the super over!

A splendid birthday for my friend, a wonderful cricket experience and overall a much awaited trip with my friends! A much excited day and a dream came true moment for me! (I have seen the cricket stadiums only in my dreams!) May be the birthday boy could forget but never can I!!

P.S:- 22^nd and 23^rd March, 2010 were full of enquiries for that trip!! ;)

Pages From My Diary - Miss You

18^th February 2011

1:00 PM

A cloudy afternoon turned sultry with lots of inconvenience. I then decided rightly to get into an air conditioned movie theatre with my friends to change my mood. In fact I am not at all worried of my girlfriend’s departure to a faraway tourist spot but felt a small difference than what I thought in the morning. 

6:30 AM:

“Do I need to get blessings from you for my birthday? Won’t you wish a blank happy birthday atleast? I was expecting your call since 12 MN. Anyway, am moving far away. Meet you in March. Bye :-@”

That was the first message I saw that morning. I am not that bad to forget her birthday but was good enough to choose early to bed than wishing her mid-night! I felt bad with the last angry smiley placed with a sweet ‘bye’. What else could be the most joyous moment if your GF is out of town for 10 full days!

I replied with a simple birthday wish and never even cared to ask for a sorry either. She replied spontaneously with a change of topic. She was much worried about missing me for whole ten days for which I am happy to the core. She was in complete love when she said “it would have been really nice if you were with me in this trip!” But for me, that would resemble a trip to Vegas only for the beach and not for girls! Brushing aside those thoughts I simply said, ‘Let me enjoy these days dear’ with a winking smiley.

She became really furious and bet with me that I would miss her atleast for a moment in those ten days. I was delighted at the sight of a bet, much of a winning kind and accepted. We both were quite confident of winning the bet. 

2:00 PM

Finally, I and my friends decided on a horror story which would certainly the most expected movie that day. It took nearly 10 minutes for my friends to reach theatre. I felt alone with some strangers staring at me. It is really hard to push time waiting for someone! I usually come late to theatres where she would be waiting with the tickets!

I took out my mobile and thoughts started running from Nokia Xpress Music 5130 to the theatre, their movie together and finally ended up with thoughts of her! This is the first time I am waiting for someone and wonder why I could not stop thinking of her. I just remembered it and not missing her for sure!

Huh… Thank god. Friends came and movie went on with full of horror and I had no time to think of her. We all came out of the theatre for the break and had a nice chat over the movie’s progress and proceeded towards the canteen. He was caught hold of the ‘Corn Puff’ in the canteen shelf and remembered her again!

5:00 PM

The movie ended with a horror note as expected and we had mixed feelings about the movie. Everyone started to give their own views for the movie and started walking back. City traffic has hit the peak but it was quite less noisy than his inner voice that shouted ‘turn left, it’s Reliance Fresh! ‘

I reached back home and just writing this by 9:00 PM and overall a great day to remember. One last question to think about, “Did I miss her?” May be we will sort this out after ten days! ;)

Pages From My Diary - Prologue

Present Day,
                                        A large cleaning process held his Sunday – the only day he could rest a bit. But this Sunday made him a bit restless. He was cleaning his shelves and suitcases. He doesn’t have much of his collections with him now at his work place. He left out his bunch of movie tickets, cluster of bus tickets and most gifts from his sweetheart in his hometown. But he had all his first gift of all the years so far with him. He carried them wherever he goes atleast to safeguard his hidden secrets! 
The Diary – Usual Gift from his dad on January 1^st of every year! Though it is regular he was much fascinated with that as it records life’s important dates! He took a diary randomly which was 2011 and opened a page… 

P.S :- Its purely fictional and any coincidence to any living characters is purely coincidental!