No Holiday on Holi!!!!

Date: 11th March 09

Who cares whether we have holiday on Holi or not…if one decides to enjoy, then come what may, s/he will enjoy. It’s all in the mind!!! Yeh yeh…me dispensing gyaan :-)

The day was gloomy…I was very sleepy and irritated..Why, well the previous night I reached home at 1 am and had to be back in office by 8…in short hardly 5 hours of sleep! (courtesy… Ops Plan and AHP review). On top of that, it was a day which had no future…no visibility at all. As usual, the day started with no work, but as the day progressed, I realized ki aaj bhi late hoga…About a week back Khushboo had come up with a great idea of celebrating holi at her place, but considering how the last week went, I had no hopes as well as intentions of going anywhere…was working like kolhu ka bail!!! At around 3, Khushboo came at my desk to discuss about the plan for the evening and gave me such an ‘I–will-kill-you-look’ when I told her that I am sleepy and wont be able to join. Finally I made up my mind and decided just to leave office by 6 and enjoy the evening at her place. So…I was just crossing my fingers (boss 6 baje tak mujhe yaad naa kare)!!! And the clock struck 6 and I dashed out…I was trying to sneak out of the office without being noticed…but hard luck..i was face to face with my boss!!and he wanted me to stay back till 7.30 to provide ‘moral support’ to the team!!!! I myself need moral support…andha kya kaane ki madad karega!!!! I politely managed to avoid staying back but had to work for another 15-20 mins and then I, Shaonli and Mehul left for Khushboo’s place.

Ok..now whoever says that girls are bad with directions should eat their hat!! It was the first time that we were going to her place and it was just once that she told me the route and bingo we were there…on reaching the terrace, I got this strange feeling whether we were at the correct house or not, so I called up Khushboo (she wasn’t at her home at that time) and asked… ‘yeh tera hee ghar hai naa jahaan chaadar, gadda and chatai bahar bichai hui hai' :-)

Khushboo had taken pain in creating agenda for the day and managing the event, but I think she forgot that we were the food deprived lot!! Coz as soon as she (and Naveen) came, we forgot everything about the agenda and we jhaptofied on the yummy samosas and jalebis( this was supposed to be had at last). Then came Archana…well here I can say only this much that those ppl who said that ‘girls are bad with directions’ weren’t exactly wrong. It took some 15 mins for Khushboo to explain her the directions and then Khushboo accepted defeat and told her that she was coming to pick her up..but it seems Archana, who couldn’t follow Khushboo’s direction on phone could hear her voice directly and managed to find the house…ditto with Aparna too!!
Then the games started and electricity went. Thanks to Naveen’s mobile and the full moon night, we enjoyed the game of masks and partners..


· Mehul and Archana (one proposed and the other sang!! The blush on both the faces was quite prominent!!!
· Arpita and Aparna (the most talked about couple ;-)) the dance and the ‘panja ladao’ competition and the then I had to praise Aparna!!
· Shaonli and Vinay (the discussion and mimicry of the pink blush and complimenting the other )
· Khushboo and Naveen (the REAL roadie ishtyle gaali and the filmy dialogue)

The masks added to the fun…

AND then the icing on the cake…gulal!!! I thought it would be quite a cool gulal party but I was taken by surprise when the party turned out to be reaaalllly wild…well again this pic say it all!!

Then me and Shaonli returned home…fully covered with Gulal...all the eyes on both sides of the road were on us…we got into the first available auto and returned home just to cherish this experience forever!!!