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Sunday, January 29, 2006

Surprise Surprise Surprise

*Tring Tring*rang the phone. I had just entered office. I picked up the phone and said "Hello". The person on the other end said "Hi, I am K here." I had seen Mumbai's number on my phone before picking it up. I was surprised and said "What are you doing here? Are you in Mumbai? You told me that you will come only in May. No, you are kidding. You are not in Mumbai."

K is a very dear friend of mine. We were in the same college. We stayed in the same house for almost two years when we were in college. We are very close. She had gone to USA last year to do MS. But, we were in constant contact. I used to feel very happy whenever I met her online. We knew a lot about each other, thanks to Yahoo messenger and e-mails.

Over the phone, she said "I am in Mumbai. I wanted to give you a surprise by directly coming to your place. But that did not happen. So, I finally decided to call you up." I was so happy to hear her voice. It had been a long time since I had spoken to her. Immediately we fixed Sunday as the meeting day.

Sunday was fun. I was with my very sweet and dear friend. She had come to my place. We spoke without a single moment of pause. I served her with some Panjabi delicacies which she used to miss alot.

Later we went out shopping. She shopped a lot.

Then it was time for us to say Bye to each other. We didn't want to but had to. She left after that.

Posted by Nats :: Sunday, January 29, 2006 :: 0 comments

Friday, January 13, 2006

Home Alone

Friday was the day, I was longing for....to be home alone. Just wanted to spend some time with my own self, doing stuff what I want to do, not what others want me to do. Just stop thinking and relax.
Home alone to me means doing a lot of stuff for which I don't get time in my normal routine. It means talking to my own self, analyzing my own thoughts, think of some special moments, listening to old hindi songs, cooking my favourite dinner, singing, dancing, drawing, writing poems or just anyting, doing something creative, and sleeping.

Usually I don't get time for all this. Usually its just my computer, my friends and me in the office and TV, kitchen, computer, and my bed at home. But this was the day where I had around 12 hours with myself.....

What did I do?hmmm......12 hours seemed too less for all that I wanted to do, but wanted to utilize it to the best.

It was 9am. I wanted to sleep more. But thought, I wouldn't have much time for anything else if I would spend so much time sleeping. So, I decided to wake up. Did a little cleaning of the house.But i didn't want to dedicate much time to household chores. And so, I turned on my computer. I wanted to check my e-mails. Any new job offers, any long distant friend's mail, anyone online. But no one was online. A few e-mails. And then loud music. I am not the loud music types, but was still in the hangover of the previous night's party that I wanted to dance more. But my feet refused to move. They were paining like hell. How clever of me. I had the brains to dance for hours together with those heels. But even that night was fun. And I obviously had to look good. The body ache was a small price for that.

So I was there, sitting in front of my computer and listening to loud music. Then, I thought of removing my sketch book and colors and do some drawing. In that paints bag, I found a candle making kit which I had bought long back and had forgotten about. I removed it and read the instructions. The wax had to be melted. So I sat on the slap in the kitchen with all the accessories required. I heated up the wax, added color to it and then put it in the mould. It sounds very simple....and It was actually not very difficult. The only difficult part was to remove the air gaps from the wax, which i was not very successful at. I made 4 candles. One in shape of a bell, one in shape of a star, the third one was in shape of a wrapped gift and fourth one was some round design. The star and the gift wrap shaped candles looked very good with the air gaps but the bell and the design didn't. So I was 50% successful.

Then I went and opened my sketch book. Drew a very beautiful drawing. I had found my lost colors and brushes and was so happy to use them. Red, blue, yellow, my favourite pink, black and all other colors. The music was on throughout. Loud music.

After drawing, like a small kid I took snaps of all that I had made that day. The candles, the drawings and the soft toys that I have with me.

In the meanwhile, as I was doing all this, I was constantly thinking about something or the other. Some beautiful memories, some very close people, and that someone special....

Then I thought, I had time to sleep and dream. So, took a small nap. Woke up....Had to cook dinner. Cooked something that took my least time in the kitchen. And then started watching TV.

And then the door bell rang.....my Home Alone day had ended. But I was happy as I could make the most out of that day.

Posted by Nats :: Friday, January 13, 2006 :: 3 comments