It’s her B’day again..... 3

Continued from: The Last post

Now it was only 7.30 and we started feeling hungry, we thought of having her favorite Pav Bhaji at a nearby shop but as no one was at home so we decided to cook Pav Bhaji at home, and had Gol-gappes there.

Bhaiya was out for his business related work and bhabhi was at her parents’s place, so the whole place was mine till next morning when bhaiya was supposed to came back. After having Gol Gappes around 8.15 we were at home with Pavs and were chopping vegetables for the bhaji. At the same time I put on some soft romantic songs on the home theater system as background music for our evening. With some cuddling, some teasing we didn’t realize how time passed and our Pav Bhaji was ready. We brought everything out there in the dining room and settled in front of the TV and started her favorite movie "Maine Pyaar Kiya". And the Murphy’s Law struck, state power suppliers didn’t like it and there was a power cut. So we put one the movie DVD on the laptop, lit some candles and had our Candle Light Pav Bhaji Dinner. WOW a lovely, soft and romantic dinner, and above all my Sho can cook, and not just cook but indeed she is an awesome cook. 15-20 minutes after dinner when we were done with cleaning the kitchen and were done with removing all evidences of our presence, the power was back. But by then we ditched our plan to watching the movie. We moved up the terrace, and had a walk up there with our hands in hand.

Even after a whole day together and even though we ran out of topics but didn’t get tired of talking. We were chit chatting nonstop without even any topic and after every few minutes we come up with "aur batao" or "kuch bol na, chup kyo hai... kya bolu... Kuch bhi... Kuch nahi hai... accha ye bata..." and all that...

We didn’t even realize that it was 1 am in the night and her PG would have been closed by now. We decided to take some rest. I gave her a set of my lower and a t-shirt to change into and relax. I kissed her Good Night, told her to sleep in the guest room while I slept in the bhaiya - bhabhi's room. She thanked me with return kiss to make her birthday a most special day for her.

Now I just hope that as decided bhaiya should call me in the morning so that I can drop Sia on my way to pick him up from station.

Good Night!!!!!!

It’s her B’day again..... 2

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Me: Nothing!!!!!
Me: Now tell me, where should we go next? It’s so lovely out there with clouds and gentle breeze. Tell me where we should go…
She: I don’t know. I’m all yours take me wherever you want to go.
Me: Ok!! Let’s go to Amer Fort.
She: Amer??? Are we going just to touch the fort as with Autos strike we are left only with option of buses, with that by the time we will reach there it will be closing time. Suggest some other place.
Me: We’ll be there in about 40-45 mins.
She: How come? Will we fly to there?
Me: Yup with myself as the pilot of my Santro :).
She: What!! You have car, you never told me so.
Me: Ohho!! This is Bhaiya’s car and bhaiya and bhabhi both are out of town so it’s all mine :). So are we going or just standing here and talking.
She: Ohhh sure driver, let’s go… :P
We went to the car. There were some papers on non driving seat.
She: What’s all this mess on the seat?
Me: Sorry Sho, may be some bhaiya’s stuff, just throw everything on the backseat and take the seat.
While she was putting everything on back seat she found a packet with her name written on it.
She: Whats this?
Me: I don’t know why don’t you just open and check it. :)
She: (After opening it) whaaaaaaattttt!!! You remembered it????
Me: Yes Sweetheart.

During our first date at new years when we went out for shopping we selected a dark orange colored suit for her. She tried and it was looking fabulous in her. We decided to buy it but unfortunately the only piece available in her size was defective one (that she tried). Last week when I was roaming around in one of the malls in Gurgaon, I saw a dummy on display wearing the same suit the same brand store. After enquiring a little I found her size so I brought it for her as a birthday gift :).

She: Before Amer let’s first go to my room. I want to wear it today only.
Me: In front of me… great… infact why go to your room change it here only. It’s dark out here in the basement and no one’s around. So you can wear it here only. :)
She: Oye, Shut up!! And let’s go.

Parked outside her room, and as I was just opening my mouth to take yawn she said "Shut up!! Just wait here and I’ll be back in a couple of mins." It’s time for me to get surprised. After 10 mins she came out looking absolutely stunning in that suit. Within 10 mins from western gal wearing Capri, Tee and sports shoes, she was completely changed to a traditional Indian gal with salwar suit, bindi and all other matching accessories. How Come???

I sat there staring at her for a minute or so before she punched me and told me to drive.

Next we went to Amer Fort. By the time we reached there it was almost 3.00 pm. After roaming around for a while looking at different parts of the fort we decided to look for a secluded place away from general area where we can sit and talk without getting disturbed by others. We found one such cliff, the stairs to reach there were messy and a little bit slippery so people generally didn’t climb up there, but we did. Although she slipped once but didn’t lose balance as we were holding hands. The view from there was fabulous. In old times this cliff was perhaps used to keep an eye on downhill activities. A person sitting at that point can see all the paths that lead towards the fort but it was so well hidden that no one from other side can actually see person sitting here.

Here we started talking about our daily routine, my new job, office, environment there, new friend circle, then about her final year, studies, final year project etc stuff. In all these talks we didn’t even realized how it became 5 pm in the evening, the closing time. We still had some more time to spend so we left the fort in order to look for some other place where we could sit and continue with our talks. We decided to go to Birla Mandir, a temple with greenery around it, a calm and soothing green place. There we sat in the garden and continued with our talks. The topic moved from us as individuals to us as together. This was our third date and was as extraordinary as our first two dates were. We talked and laughed about how uncomfortable when we first met and then how we became so comfortable by the end of the day. How our friendship grew and we came so close to each other that I decided to take calculated but a big and crazy risk in going with her by the train where I almost missed my actual train, and then this one, with a B’day full of surprises.

To be continued …
We are going to my home...

It’s her B’day again.

11th July 08

Last year’s fight was just stupidity and this time we didn’t had any fight as this time we didn’t discussed the gift, reason being I myself had thought of something that could be a perfect gift for her.

I casually wished her B’day at night. As other calls were waiting so we cut short our talk and decided to talk in the evening. In morning around 9, I send her a bouquet of orchids, lilies and roses from flower shop and with a B’day card. Besides the card there was just a little note, "For your gift please visit Archie’s Gallery in Crystal Mall at 11.30 am." She reached there and she called me and asked where her gift was? She even talked to shop’s manager and didn’t found anything out there in her name. I said how it is possible, then after a while I found out that there are 2 malls in Jaipur that starts with Crystal, Crystal Palm and Crystal Court. I was aware only of Crystal Court Mall (where we watched Ghajini) and she was at Crystal Palm (nearer to place she lived). I told her to immediately go to Crystal Court Mall as someone was waiting for her with the gift. A little bit furious but excited she left for Crystal Court. After reaching at Archies in Crystal Court she asked to cashier at counter for the gift or any concerned information. He gave the gift to her. It was a talking teddy with a short message, “Heyyy Lovely Baby, Many-many happy returns of the day, and I promise that this is gonna be best b’day so far for my Sho. You know how? Wellllll just wait and watch sweetheart… and guess who is behind you honey…::)”

When she was listening, at the last sentence I just came from behind and closed her eyes. She turned round and kinda screamed my name and hugged me in surprise. And all of sudden we became focus of attention in the shop with other people started staring at us and we suddenly realized that, blushed and left the place together hand in hand, after thanking cashier for his support. :)

It was already half past 12 so we decided to have lunch there at Pizza Hut outlet only. After having lunch, I signaled the waiter to clean the table and to bring the cake. He brought it, it was not actually a cake rather there were three brownies in a plate covered up with Vanilla IceCream as icing and chocolate sauce and a couple more sauces as dressing on (so called) cake with a candle. Seeing this she was just stunned!!! After a few seconds I changed my seat and sat beside her to bring her back to senses, she cut the cake, we had it and she was completely overwhelmed with tiny tears in her eyes. She controlled her emotions, didn’t say anything, just gave me a smile and we came out after paying.

Sia: First the B’day card and my favorite orchids in the morning, then a cute little talking teddy, then you here in front of me and then this brownie cum cake. So many surprises, you are going to kill me with these surprises. Now what’s next?
Me: Nothing!! I prefer you to be hale and hearty, so no more surprises. Ok?? Happy??
She: Ohho Sho bura maan gaye? I didn’t mean that.
Me: (Laughing) Sho Sweetheart do you really think that if I have some surprise for you and I will miss that lovely expression… hahaha :)).
She: Youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Me: Love you!!!
She: What!!!!!!!!!!!
Me: Nothing.
She: You said something.
Me: Nothing!!!!!
Me: Now tell me, where should we go next? It’s so lovely out there with clouds and gentle breeze. Tell me where we should go…
She: I don’t know. I’m all yours take me wherever you want to.
Me: Ok!! Let’s go to Amer Fort.

To be continued…

The first day at the job

1st July 08

Quite exciting day, big office, complete new environment, lots of new people, it’s now time to create a new ‘office’ friend circle.
Let’s see how things will go?
How work will be?
Will it be interesting or not??
Are people here helpful or no??

...and there are lots and lots of question that will be answered in coming days. Let’s hope there will be favorable answer to all of them.

The adventurous journey

12th May

Goshhhh!!!! What a journey it was!!

Her uncle left, we adjusted our stuff and then started talking, unlike last time we were comfortable in others presence this time but still we were a little bit uncomfortable as of other people in our compartment especially the elderly couple who were keep on staring at us. They were more of skeptic as in presence of her uncle she pretended like she didn’t know me but the moment we lost sight of her uncle we started talking. After a while we decided to ignore them and after getting ignored they also stopped staring, by this time we just had a formal hi, hello and we reached Mathura.

At Mathura our train didn’t move for about 15 mins as against 5 mins of regular stoppage, I came out and found that our train engine had some problems and due to unavailability of another engine our train had to wait till the engine came from some other station. Rather than sitting and waiting in coach I asked Sia to come out and we roamed around on the station only. Luckily it rained that day to weather was cool and although there was humidity but it was comfortable out there. After about an hour wait our train was ready to leave.

Here once a train becomes late, it gets on delayed in order to keep other trains on schedule. 1 hr late at Mathura became 2 hr by Gwalior and 3 hr by the time it reached Bhopal. Rather than reaching at 12 the train reached Bhopal at 3 a.m. We didn’t mind this delay as this just gave us 3 more hours to talk, we talked about almost every possible thing that we could talk about and whenever ran short of some topic we get back to the topic of our New Years Date and it leads to a new topic. During one of those discussions I’ve asked her to be my girlfriend, she told that she will think about and tell me.

At 3 am the train reached the deserted Bhopal station she came out to station to bid me good bye.

Sia: Bbye Sho, will miss you.
Me: Will miss you too!!! And Sho, a new name for me??
Sia: Well Pranjal is too long so here is a new nick name for you. Sho, short and sweet name for my Shona.
Me: Good so let’s call each other Sho :).
(The train whistled.)
Sia: Great, will miss you sho…


And we hugged goodbye, at the same moment she kissed at my cheek and ran back towards her coach, I was stunned standing there smiling and looking her as she was standing at the coach’s gate, smiling and waving goodbye. After 5 mins I came back to my senses and realized that I was alone at platform and after a little bit enquiry I found out that I missed my train to Ujjain by 1 hr, and the next one was in the morning. I couldn’t afford to take that train, so I went to bus stand and enquired for next bus either to Ujjain or to Dewas (so as to catch intercity exp for Indore). After waiting for about half an hour around 4 am, a bus came for Ujjain. I boarded that bus, and immediately fell asleep.

I slept for about three hours and at around 7, I got up with a good morning SMS from Sia. She woke up as all other people in her compartment woke up and there was noise by vendors. We then chatted for a couple of hours and mostly talked about last night. Also as the time was passing on, I was becoming more anxious as it was 8.30 and Ujjain was nowhere near. Finally around 9.50 I reached Ujjain bus stand after completing 4 hr journey in almost 6 hrs, courtesy flat tire and then traffic jam on highway. 9.50 it was arrival time for the train at station with 10 mins halt and the railway station was also about 10 mins away from bus stand, I immediately ran towards Railway Station with the hope to catch the train and found out that the train was about 15 mins late, it was about to enter station. I thanked God and Indian Railways for my delayed train. I was never been so happy with a late train.
I boarded the train, took my berth (I already had my reserved ticket) and slept. I didn’t realize when the train reached Indore. My brother came in the coach and woke me up. I found out that whole compartment was empty and outside at platform my parents were laughing at me.

Ahhhh a tiresome but an amazing journey with even astonishing luck, the adjacent berths, the three extra hours in train, a new girlfriend, her kiss, the extended bus journey, the delayed train and then finally parents to receive at station.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!