Re-Union

Out of Sight is out of mind... heard of this verse long before somewhere, by someone... and hey stop stop, is that happening to us also... once friends and now we are e-friends, isn't this becoming a virtual world... Emails, ecards, chats.... whoa.. people wait.. hold on.. where are days we used to go out meet at coffee shops, sit there and chat till the waiter gives us the leave-now-look, chill out at Satyam, Mayajal... ECR drives, weekly hang-outs...


We gang of 7 decided we will not let our Past hang-outs gone into just memories or slam books... so here was our poa (Plan of action)... that we meet every year... and just explore some part of the world... and which other place is best to start other than our "Sondha ThaaiNadu". Plans started from suggestions from all of us... Goa, Lonavala, Moonar, Kumarakom... U name it we had already finished discussing it... We even spoke about fishermans cove in Chennai :)


When we had already started our regular conf calls with varying Time Zones, half sleepy, pulling each other as usual... We all did get excited as we were all in totally different parts of the world and was really a long time that we had all met... We finally ended up deciding we will go to Lonavala... And now slowly... there came the regular stuff... G was not in a position to join us due to official reasons, L and M had their personal problems.. and so it was the four of us left to decide if we still wanted to go and we still decided to go. Atleast we were the first to take the first step...


The day came too... the much awaited day to meet and have fun as we used to in our good ol' days... It all started on a very early flight to Lonavala.. very early here i mean.. really early.. had to be at the airport by 4. A flight till Pune.. and here we took the cab to Lonavala. Luggages piled up, early morning stop at the Dhaba to get just a cup of tea, u must be joking.. i was hungry and all we get was tea... ok.. our journey continued to the much awaited green place. But wait, where has all the greenry gone? it was rather brownery. Whts wrong with the place? ...ahn. we had taken the wrong time of the year.. and chennai claimed to be a better place. But cant keep cribbing about it all the time when we had the next 3 days to be spent here. But the hotel turned out to be a heaven, with spa, good food, nice cozy rooms and most of all good friends to have fun.


Three days of watching sunset together, climbing the karla caves, looking at awe at the beautiful built caves, playing cards, watching movie at lonavala, buying chikki, talking about the booth bungalow, playing pranks of dropping me at the booth bungalow, buying things on the roadside shops, the togetherness at the indian-grand-canyon, shopping at pune, running for our flight, no matter how brown the place was our three days was really a good break, though L, G and M missed it, we sure to make it next time for that... our three days ended so short


Looking forward for our next meet....

Girl Friends...

Warning: This is a lengthy post and people with less patience beware

How many of us have a count of really good girl friends whom we can go back to and share our feelings, or who can even understand our silence... This post is dedicated to all my girl friends (Not to be taken in the wrong sense) to whom i get back to anytime of the day, month or year and pester them with my problems, my agony, my cribbings, my joy, my findings...

Being with girl friends who are of the same frequency, wave-length or whatever you call it, is such an exhilarated feeling. Girl friends come in all forms... L & S are such wonderful friends, that they can listen to you even past mid-night and still answer to all the ridiculous questions i ask them and finally L and me find S sleeping with a snore... L encourages whatever I am upto, from dresses i wear to the dresses I pick in shopping (finally i end up buying two extra set of dresses with L's encouragement and damage to my purse is already done). L has this wonderful habbit of getting tensed when someone has to pass a comment on me, or say something to hurt me... How happy I feel inside me, that i feel i really have good friends who care for me... S on the contrary listens quietly and finally tells me to ignore them and walk off...

Then comes D... Known D for about 20yrs by now.. wow thats quite some time... Being with her for such a long time, we have had enuf fights between us and our friends used to tease us saying thought u both were in a fight... and still the next time we speak to each other... there is never this stopping of us and we end up speaking as if we never fought in this world... She has always been with me through my ups and downs, we have cried to each other, consoled each other, Shopped together, watched movies together, watched the sunset at Besant Nagar Beach and the waves hitting our legs, gossiped about friends, Looked at all smart men together, Surprised each other with gifts all the time, been to each others house and known each others families so long... Never can put our times in a small post... D this part is mostly for you...

Then comes my sweet sweet Roomy R... Being a fashion designer learned many things from her on many ways of dressing, been roaming with her for some 4 years and now missing her badly... She was a great sense of support for me, from being brave (call her our super-woman) to doing all crazy things in life...

Then is S my dear college friend and then became part of my life... she is the best of all... She knows wht i think and the other way... No one can replace you my Dear S... Great times were with her while we shopped when we were out of our jobs, when we used to meet at the head-office (Globus) and pestering other friends to meet us there, Eating out daily even with what less money we had then, movies, outings, our laughter... nothing can beat it...

And finally O... She is my soulmate... I can be with her how iam and even my silence is understood with her... our bike rides, our yapping about anything and everything under the sun, lengthy talks about life, our eatouts at little italy, exploring chennai, movies at satyam... gosh my partner in crime for shopping... i know her husband has to replace my position now...

The world would have been a darker place without you gals ...

Keep rocking dear ponnugale... you are the best...

P.S: There are lots of other girl friends of mine whom i have missed here to mention.. pls dont take it hard.. coz without you all i wouldnt have made so far...