The unforgettable day eveeerrrrrr !

Okay here's my next one. This is gonna a be a big one so keep patience :D. This would be about this year’s birthday which was the most memorable birthday ever for me. I never in my life would have imagined so many surprises in a single day.

Was back home from pune don’t remember what was the reason for that small vacation which I got from college. So had no plans whatsoever this year for my birthday because of the odd day and all my friends would be working in here. Had decided would go on a quiet dinner with family in the evening that’s it. But little did I know a night before that the next day coming would be one of the most memorable day of my life. So on 10th March 2010 a day prior to my birthday had a good dinner and as usual did by “Social Networking“ and donno how felt extremely sleepy. Generally I stay awake on birthdays to receive calls but this time around I slept at 11.30 pm. Just as clock reached 12 in the midnight, came the first call by my good friend Mayank Vatsal. I was so sleepy somehow answered his phone in like 30 secs and went back to sleep again. Again after a minute or so my brother Ashu came in my room and said get up and come in the hall. I was so freakin sleepy shouted at him will do all the cake cutting the next day please let me sleep. But he forcefully took me out and I could see the cake in the hall. Just as I came in the hall behind the curtains were present two of my closest friends Amey and Karna, they popped out of the curtains and started beating me, man that was a shock of a life experience. I was so shocked that I started giving expressions which generally people give when they become miss universe or miss world :D Everything was bloody planned with my brother and Mom, who also contributed to this event.

Next up I found my face covered with the sheath of delicious cake. Then me, Amey and Karna decided to go for a drive, as usual these 2 “rakshas” were hungry and wanted to eat. I was driving and these 2 a**Ho*** decided to sit in the back seat and gave me feeling of a driver. So many calls were coming as I was driving and these 2 were just making sure am not comfortable at all, peeping in all my calls. Anyways it was around 1 Am we landed at Gugils gave the last order and had gr8 food. Had a nice happy diwali dance after dinner by amey n karna. Came back to my complex and decided to sit in garden for some useless talk. Karna was on the call entire time with my new friend Kausar  while me n amey had the most foolish talk ever. Next what we did was unimaginable. We came out of the garden, lot of dogs where staring at us, we decided to teach them a lesson that night and make sure nobody barks on US. We sat in the car with steering in my hand, we went over all the dogs in my complex (not killed) just threatened them and amey was talking to each and every dog through window asking questions like “ What is your problem? Tell me I will solve your problem “ hahaha that was hilarious. We drove until there was pin drop silence. Finally got a call from my bro at around 3.30 Am , asking where we were. We returned home and amey n karna went home next morning that is on my birthday around 10.30 am.

I went back to sleep, little did I know at this time that my day was just about to begin. Bell rang, I opened the door and got the second shock that day, my closest friends from SCIT had come all the way from Pune to meet me n give me a surprise. Megha, Som, Sachin, Lovey, and RR came home. These people had never ever even seen where I stay but still manage to reach safely at my place. Thanks to the Jugadu RR, he found out my address donno from where. Biggest surprise ever this was. Then somehow I manage to brush my teeth and take a shower as my house was on fire wid the arrival of “taarebaaz’s” :P We decided to go to Poptates for lunch and got into RR’s international car which is awesome from inside and awful from outside. We had nice lunch in poptates with the most hilarious discussion as always. Then Sachin and Lovey decided to go back home. We said dasvidaniya to them. Now came the real twist, the plan was to drop everyone in vashi and go back home. Suddenly on a highway at around 5 PM we decided let’s not go back to pune today, let’s party at my place tonight and then go back to pune the next day. I remember now, I was home because it was my PL going on :P We decided that we would study in the night, we called up abhirup who was not able to come due to interview and he too agreed to come to Mumbai. So we were all set to go back have some fun and then study later that night. Came back to my complex, we directly went to the club, had rocking time till 8 Pm there. I must mention the “Massage Chair” it was splendid. Then we decided to go and pick up abhirup. So we started again in the car and guess what we got “the most horrifying traffic ever”. I thought “entire day was so good but everything now would be spoiled by this traffic” but I was wrong we had one of the best times ever in that traffic jam. RR made some mallu friends who were truck drivers and started speaking like them. Remember guys the best dialogue “ Mai jara dhar marke aata” hahahaha poor megha, but she is used to all dis shitty talks. We somehow manage to take a U turn and get out of that traffic. We called up abhirup and asked him to take a bus. All of us were starving now it was around 10.30 pm. We went to a place called Nandi Palace where we found soothing ghazals were being played. It felt so good after the tiring journey we had entire day. Abhirup soon joined in, he made some new friends on the KDMT bus. We requested some ghazals which the singer sung so well. Another surprise which I got was a Happy Birthday song sung by the singer in Ghazal’s Manner. That was awesome. Had nice food came back home. Megha slept with my mom in my room and Som, me, abhirup n RR in hall. Finally the most eventful day ended. Just to mention we didn’t study a single word as planned :D. Next day by the time we all woke up everyone at my home had gone to their offices. We woke up and ordered megha to prepare breakfast and tea for us. Som ordered the most, chuuza kahika. We had lunch and then Som, Megha and abhirup went back to pune and RR went home.

This was my birth day this year, the most memorable one ever. I can’t express my feeling how much I felt special that day. I just love you Amey, Karna, Som, Megha, Sachin, RR, Lovey, Abhirup. Always be my friends guys come what may. But one thing which I felt extremely bad about was that I was not able to give time to my family that day. Will regret this. My brother Ashu always says “I think too much for my friends but do they care about you?” Still unaware of this answer “ I Hope they care “. Sorry and Love you Mom, Ashu, Bhabhi and my future niece/nephew coming in our family. Muuaaaaaah 

Networking to me…

Social networking has become such an important part of our lives, at least I can say about mine. I cannot stay without being on facebook (fb) a single day and there would be many of us who would agree with me. But guys have we ever thought about this that being on fb is not what networking used to be 10 years back. I used to go for social meetings wherein we had people from all the ages. I never knew people around me but still there was some bonding with them. I still remember my first day at that this social gathering wherein I was asked to introduce myself and talk about my hobbies, I was so shy then but as time moved on I got the courage of speaking in the crowd. This was the place where we did so many things for the society right from arranging cricket tournaments to helping people affected from earthquakes or floods. Man I miss those days. This is where we learn the real management, which a book can never teach us.

Things have changed so much these days, back then I used to remember all my friends birthdays, telephone numbers but honestly not anymore, have to login to Orkut or Facebook to check if there is anyone’s birthday today or not. So sad I can’t even remember a date. Back then I used to personally meet or atleast call and talk to the person whose birthday was. But these days just a sentence on the wall on fb or a scrap on Orkut, That’s it…Honestly speaking we don’t even take the pain of writing the two words of “ Happy Birthday “, just copy paste it from someone’s scrap below and we are done with it. I know this isn’t right but this is how we have become these days. I have no point to prove. Its just that I feel we have lost the touch of practicality in networking. The so called “e-networking” is great but it can never take place of the text book networking which is not present in any textbook.

My day starts off with logging in to twitter and facebook and checking various updates and giving my expert comments on them :P Sometimes I tweet as Good Morning tweeple or Gn tweeple as if am a celebrity and thousands of people follow me. These days am having war with people on these networking sites whom I haven’t even seen. Getting into petty fights, supporting some of your friends, making fun of your friends when the upload their pictures etc. All these minor things are such waste of time but is so much fun to do all these things. So all my facebook and twitter friends, we rock but don’t forget my point of practical networking. See you all in sometime on fb. Till then.

Peace…