THIS HAPPENED TO ME

This incident happened to me today as well as yesterday (today I had FUN though)....





It happened like this...




While having lunch, my landline phone rang up, and I picked up...



"Hello.."



"Hello mam, Can I speak to Mr. Siddhartha Desai?"



"May I know who's speaking? (Does this stupid not even know that grandpa is passed away 2 years back?)"



"Mam, this is XYZ(I've forgot his name) from State Bank of India"



"Sure, Can u please tell me in what matter you want to speak to him? (This is gonna be fun now..hahaha...)"



"Mam, It is a confidential matter"



"Yes, I am sure it is, but since I am his financial advisor, he anyway going to tell me this (Ghanta... FINACIAL ADVISOR)"



"No mam, we have to speak to him"



"OK, can you please tell him what data do you have about him?"



"SORRY?!?"



"You have called up to talk to a person, then you must be having data regarding him na? Can you please tell me what data you have, so I can give you some additional info?"



"What info mam?"



"That... he passed away 2 years back"



"Sorry mam?!?"



(Must have not heard properly) "HE PASSED AWAY 2 YEARS BACK"



"Didn't get you mam"



"(you idiot..... grrr....) He expired 2 years back"



"Sorry mam?!?"



"(Ahaa... this is fun...) He's shifted to somewhere else.."



"Oh..OK... mam, Can you give me his contact number?"



"I afraid I can't, that place has no telecom service yet, but I can give you his postal address"



"Oh sure mam, please give me his postal address"



"write down please, it is, 206, Heaven Apartment.."



"Yes mam.."



"Next to Hell Colony..."



"OK..."



"Cloud's way.."



"hmm..."



"GOD's country...(God help me...)"



"umm.. can u hold on for a moment??"



"Sure..."



"Mam... who's handling his business now?"



"(Who idiot now told him that grandpa had a business) What business?!?"



"His business mam... He must be having some business na?!?"



"Who told you that???? He never had any business..."



"Oh sorry mam... I am really sorry"



...and cut down the Phone




(P.S.: The aim to write down all these is to give you all a li'l laughter (probably) and to aware that SBI has started 'SPAMMING' on phone now... just like Club Mahindra used to do few years back... like... 'u've won free trip' etc.

Friendship means...

Hmmm... 1st Sunday of August... Entire world celebrates FRIENDSHIP'S DAY... A day specially dedicated to friends... N just because of that people start singing songs of friendship n write long n long articles/blogposts on friends n friendship... But none of them describes what friendhip is to me... n how can they do so?? It's my feeling... So lemme tell you what friendship means to me...



For me, Friendship has many meanings. Some of them are common, some uncommon... But one thing is for sure... My meaning of friendship changes from person to person....



My friends are my life and all of you are close to my heart... but stilll I have different meaning of friendship with all of you n also for all of you, my importance is different...



I have a Jay-Veeru kind of friendship too and also Veeru-Basanti kind of friendship (not exact that kinda friendship, but since 'm a gal I'm calling myself Basanti)



Friendship to me is helping out that closest person from the toughest problem, like marking proxy in attendence... Friendship also means asking to mark MY attendence to that closest friend



Friendship means... when you are having Maparesir's class test n telling the person next to you.. "yaar konsi manhus ghadi me .net liya tha" and then writing the answers with that person... li'l from ur knowledge n li'l from his/her knowledge n passing out internals of .net with average marks (Maparesir hai yaar... aur kitne aayenge... :P )



Friendship means... bunking Revdiwala's lecture n being the only person in Parikhsir's lec, by sending the rest of class to cantten (n then joining them, exactly after 3 mins ;) )



Friendship means... Exchaning readings in Physics n Chemistry practicals...



Friendship means... Having Dabba Ujani when someone from "Devils' Zone" forgets the lunch box



Friendship means... "Can I have a sip of water from your water bottle?"



Friendship means... "Night outs at Aneri's place and never-ending gossips from school time till today"



Friendship means... "Joining guitar class because you think your friend will attend it regularly because of you, n then both of u bunking the class"



Friendship mean... "Marrying your best friend on Facebook... Even though you r straight n that fake mariage makes you gay"



Friendship means... "Being a shoulder for that person when someone real close to your friend is not well"



Friendship means... "Seeking help from someone-who's not your parents, when you are at a confusing point in your relationship"



Friendship means... "Giving a tightttttt hug (on phone) at midnight, when someone close has had a break up"



Friendship means... "1st Sunday of August.. 4 close friends... having coffee+snacks at CCD... n at the end fighting for paying bill"



Friendship means... "saying 'YES' to be a back-up spouse to ur closest pal"



Friendship means... "Letting go your crush for someone you care more about"



Friendship means... "Having a chicken sub n not being caught by Superitendent of Hostel"



Friendship means... all of these n much more...





Thanx people... for coming in my life n touching my heart... Muah

Just for a change...

Last night, me and my best friend from school were chatting on phone... and we "discussed" an amazing topic. Though it was less of discussion and more of a real sarcasm.

I am gonna share that "scene" with u guys.... just to give u a good laugh, for a change ;)

[we are in middle of our usual weekly "gossip" on which school friend is doing what nowadays and who got laid etc and all of a sudden my friend (for u we'll call her AD) started this....]

AD: hey babes... u know... x's GF took admission in IGNOU for MBA

me: who? y? but why would she do so?? I mean x is cool with all those career oriented thing na? what's wrong then?

AD: c'mon girl... he's "cool"... when it comes about "ghar ki laxmi" they all are same.

me: seriously girl... I guess for GF they want a career oriented girl, but not for wife yaar... why why why????

AD: f**k off that thing yaar... you know they take entrance test for IGNOU.

me: (in serious tone)really???

AD: yeah... they ask u... the nailpolish u've applied is of what company?? and then they give you four options

me: and what about specialization????

AD: that would be like culinary skills, household skills, Operation Management and Disaster Management.

me: oh yea that's awesome...

[...and we both burst into a really laughter shower ]

[after a while]

AD: u know what kind of logical reasoning do they ask?

me: k what would you do if ur husband's income is 5k n your monthly expense is 6k? How would you save money?

AD: nice one babes... you r learning...

me: (while laughing) thanx babes...

[after our "all 3 floors get disturbed" laughter... I asked]

me: do u know why people go for girl like her, and not like us?

AD: why?

me: because.... they know that... girls like us would reply that expense question like... Don't worry about that 1k dude.. I'll start working and by that we can save 4k each month.

AD: hahaha... true babes... n that would hurt their "male ego". n anyways with your degree from Symbiosis, you would definitely kick his ass

me: yeah... n then comes the future scene...

AD: what future scene?

me: see... after a few years I would start earning more money... So I would then tell him to leave his job... and he would start doing all household thingie.. n since his current earning is just 5k, he would not have that much education qualification, so being a home manager would be better for him...

AD: then u'll start ordering him.. like A.. make coffee for me, why dinner is not ready yet.. etc etc

me: on dinner thing, he'd say, sorry darling, but I was busy with this xyz serial, they'd a special episode today.

AD: yeah.... n then u'd say, ohhh... u and ur serials...

me: LOL... still biggie... what if he'd miss an episode, n of course, he'd blame me for that, k since u wanted me to make dinner ready by this time, I missed today's episode. Now I have to watch it at night...

AD: babes... that'd affect your life only...

[giggle.. giggle...]

me: this way... there'd come a time, when people know him as AK's husband...

AD: yeah babes... n may be he'd take ur surname as his...

me: but still... why x would go for a girl like y and not a girl like us..

AD: c'mon babes... his love is arranged...

me: WTH!!!!!!!!

AD: yea... I just come to know... It's all for his business and all...

me: cool... but still... question remains the same... why an IGNOU MBA??? If he wants an MBA, he could have gone for some girl from a normal college, even H.L. MBA is good yaar.

AD: may be, his mom wanna say in front of her "kitty party" group, that she got an MBA bahu..

me: whatever yaar... this sucks...

[...and I changed the topic... but still I can't understand this "double standards"]

[P.S.:

1) being a home maker is a good thing, I know, but being JUST a home maker not gonna work yaar... I mean, it doesn't make any kind of sense in today's world.

2) this one is just for a little fun at our side, and thought I should share it. No intension to make fun of anyone out there

]

Relationship that has no name

There are some relations which are damn difficult to understand. You sometimes don’t know what name you are supposed to give to that relationship… Is it just friendship??? Or is it Love??? You’d say that such relations are called best-friends… but there is a relationship, which is beyond the category of ‘best-friends’ and does not fall under the category of “love”.



There is no such name for this feeling… You’d feel that person so close to your heart and life that you’d just can’t live without that person. And this thing becomes complicated when one of you is married. Because you know that your spouse not going to understand this relationship and you also know that the other person is really important to you and it becomes worse when your spouse start thinking that the other person is creating problems in your marriage life.



And this thing is difficult for that other person too. S/he just wants to be that friend who never breach trust of his/her “best friend”, but sometimes that friend begins to think that s/he is a disturbance in his/her life. It’s just not the way s/he wants to treat his/her single friend, but it’s something natural to happen.



I don’t know much about this relationship world but I too have such relationships… Both with some of my female friends as well as my male friends. A relationship which doesn’t have any name for the people out there, but we know that we r sharing this “something special” relationship. May be our “friendship” is not acceptable for society, especially Indian society. Some think that I am gay, because I am just too close to that girl, n I love her like my kid sis (though people won’t notice that). Same way with my male friends. Okey, I am too friendly, but not like him in that sense that I would come between his serious commitments and family relationship.



I sometimes really don’t understand whom to blame for this. Can a girl-who probably would take active participation in some “Purush samovadi andolan”- be so narrow-minded that she’d just simply start building up a negative impression for that girl because of whom her husband is emotionally alive???? I seriously don’t know what to do with this type of relationship, which is a damn normal thing in today’s “cyber” world and with our Gen-X…


Anyways… My part of “Monsoon” has begun already… So ‘m enjoying “rimzim bearish”… All the best people… For both monsoon and this out-of-way kinda relationship ;)

First Rain of the Season

Monsoon has begun in India and so are the various songs on rains, ranging from classic oldie bollywood songs to regional songs. And with this rainy season, stories and feelings of first rain start too.



Well…. First Rain… According to some Indian writers, First Rain is the rain where you get chances to get “wet” (pun is included, intended) with your special someone … But there is no mention of what to do when one does not have someone that much special, so I thought I’ll celebrate the first rain of this season with my friends. College friends were not in Pune, so celebrated it with my office friend.



As per my amdavadi rituals for “Pehlo Varsad”(First Rain), I have to welcome the rain Gods with garma garam daalwada (will give you recipe if u guys want)- ofcourse from Gujarat Dalwada Centre, but, Pune has different ritual, it’s to have Vada-pav, but was not in mood of that… So I started the celebration with a cutting. My next ritual is to have a good rain-bath but unfortunately, the time we left office the rain was almost gone. Now you will think that then what I did do to celebrate the first rain…



Okk, so now I’ll tell you what we did today…. When we left office, the water clogging in our gully was at its peak as you can see in the photograph attached, so after having a cutting, we walked till the main road, water was there too, but we somehow managed to start our journey to my way back home. The atmosphere was chilling cold but that was not enuf to shake our mood of masti, hence we decided to go for a li’l drive in nearby area.


That drive gave real pleasant moments for eyes… all scenery was totally green n really awesome. And as if rain Gods were listening to our prayers, it started drizzling. In short, it was most awesome day today. Though I had some typical girlie fearsome moments, regarding a mouse n of course, a snake (how can I forget that!!!).



But in all these I missed my cell phone a lott, if that unavoidable incident had not happened 20 days back, then I must have clicked some really awesome pics of the nature, but abhi ke liye, enjoy with my these clicks….



Happy Monsoon people!!!!!

F.R.I.E.N.D.S

6 young people, sharing their life and experience with each other for 10 long years, in the city of New York. Yeah, that’s the basic plot of my most favorite TV Show- F.R.I.E.N.D.S …..



I sometimes feel that I too want friends like Ross, Chandler, Joey, Phoebe… & sometimes I unconsciously compare my friends with the characters of the series. I love the way they share their life, happiness and sadness of each-other, with each-other. Actually that’s what friends-best friends- are for.



Right now my life is at such junction, where I don’t know what’s going to be in near future, where I’ll be land up after 2 months, who will be there with me- from my current friend circle. 2 yrs back when I’d joined SICSR, I might be the most nervous student from my batch. I was afraid if I could make any lifelong friends over here as I did in my last college. Will there be someone to whom I could turn for solace on every sad moment?



And today after 2 years, I am thinking, will I be able to meet them again and again, as I used to in these 2 years?? Some of them are already out of contact, due to this Industrial Training, yet in touch with many of them. I don’t know what I am feeling… I’m happy that I’ll be free from all these “tiffin ka khana” and all, but at the same time I’m sad coz I’ll miss coffee-stop and all those thelas out there.



Thanx a lott people… To allow me to be a part of your life… will miss u all a lotttt…..



And this is not like I’ll just miss my college friends. At this point I’m also thinking about my roomies… Had 7 room-mates in the duration of 2 years… They all are special to me- in one way or the other…



And that’s not all… I don’t know if my life gonna be the same in the near future… I made so many virtual friends in this duration of 2 years. I love them all… they all are a major part of my life and thanx to social networking sites, they r almost like my family member. I think I have a li’l family over there, I’ve a kid sis, an elder sis, a big brother, a mausi (sorry prits) and so many friends who are permanent part of my heart. I Love u all people….



Just stay in touch ( I promise I will)….

Love yaa all…




(P.S.: dedicated to whole Uniqs, Devi, Kalyani, Shikha, Sarita and also to VK, Baby, Bhums, Pri, Doc, Kush, Nimz, Dev, Dharu, KP, Bhushanbhai, HP n all of u)

Gujarati Bachao Sanskriti Bachao

Just saw a page on Facebook, named “Gujarati Bachao Sanskriti Bachao”




Now a question came in my mind, “When one needs to save a language or civilization? Simple… When the language or civilization is dying. Now when does a language die… when the language is not getting changed with the time… right??



Why English is so popular today??? Reason is simple; the language has never been imposed upon anyone. You can speak English the way you want; it has so many versions and accents and it keep changing from generation to generation. Today we are not speaking the English which our forefathers were speaking like 20-30-40-50 years back. Apart from that, we use some words which are taken from some Indian language, without any hesitation. Seeing all these, did we hear any Britisher complaining about this??? No… Does it mean that he doesn’t love his mother tongue? Ofcourse he does… but he’s not worried about the changes just because he thinks that his language is not stagnant like ours. They know how to change with the time



And we?????? Today we do use words from other languages, but famous names of literature do not like this. They just don’t want to change with the time and want to pause themselves in that 5th decade of 20th century, which was Golden Period of Gujarati Literature. After listening to the dialogues of today’s Gujarati daily soaps, if you want us, the younger generation to “love” Gujarati, then sorry, we can’t do that. Just because we don’t like that extremely pure Gujarati language, full of jargons which we have not ever heard in our life. By the way, that’s why we hate Shakespeare, for his extremely pure language. Because, it’s not our language, it’s not simple to understand. That language is for CLASS and not for MASS.



Today youth of other states follow their regional language, just because, the literature of that language has changed with the time. Today they have movies and literature, which is the choice of today’s youth, where in Gujarati we have very few writers whose pen speaks language of youth and the rest of them are just opposing them. How can you accept the youth to respect the mother tongue, when the elders do not believe in the growth????




Same is the case with civilization. We keep saying how great our civilization was like 5000 yrs back, but what about now??? Whatever was there 5000 yrs back was perfect and good for that time and not for today. We need to change with time and then only we can be proud of our civilization, not by opposing the changes.
I guess that’s enough for any intelligent person, otherwise both the language & civilization will die…soon….