Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Jaya's Wedding

Had been thinking alot of what i should write about coz nothing much had been happening in my boring life ....and then Jaya's wedding happened.....We left for Nagpur on the 22nd ....Nampally Train station ....The Nizammudin Express to Delhi was 20 mins late...Mum dropped me off at the station ...I looked for my platform number on the screen as the train timings appeared ..It didnt take me very long to reach platform number 1.I looked around to find the a whole bunch of people about 30 of them waiting ...The train was late and finally when it did arrive we jostled into the boogies....we settled in our seats...We didnt sleep that night ..Rinki played the dholak and they sang some sindhi songs and danced all night ....We reached the Nagpur station at 10.15 am the next day and we were greeted very warmly with rose boquets and oranges..We had cars waiting for us to drop us to our hotel.The ride from the station to the hotel was a 5min drive with mostly college's and Government offices on the way..We stayed at The Ranikothi's for 3 days....Nagpur was quite different from the pre formed image I had about the city...It looked more like a town with very few shopping malls and most importantly less traffic and no pollution which you hardly get to see in Hyderabad these days .With the advent of IT companies ,things have changed drastically..Nagpur on the other hand is a really warm and clean city famous for its oranges....DAY 1 -We reached the rani kothi's and freashned up and went for breakfast at the mini hall ...The breakfast was a mix of sindhi and SouthIndian food...we got back to our rooms ...the good thing was I had company .We were free for the rest of the day till 5 ..so we decided to go for a walk around the city ..there isnt anything much to see in Nagpur but still there is something special about the city ...the warmth,the stillness and laidback life. Well,in the evening they has some sangeet and it was the first time i had been to some thing like this..The sangeet was fun ..they played the dholak and sang the sindhi folk songs which were funny ...I mean i didnt understand but i asked my friend and she was kind enough to translate it for me.There was food again !One thing about sindhi marriages is that there is variety of food,mocktails,tikka's you just can't have enough of it.After the sangeet we got ready to go for the engagement ceremony at The Grand Millenium ..We had the kachela cars to pick us and drop us to the hotel...It was kind of boring in the beginning but later it was fun.Jaya looked beautifully gorgeous that day!We danced all night and had a blast!I kinda get mad when when music plays ,i love to dance!I also met many people.There was this particular lady who sat beside me ..she was very charming and well spoken...she invited me to tag along with her for dinner but i couldn't join her coz jay asked me to come to dance ..i felt really bad i couldn't join the lady for dinner ..there was something really special about her smile she had some kinda charisma..Anyway ,we had fun dancing and then it was also jay's parents anniversary so we had a cake cutting and sang songs.We called it a day the next morning at about 2.30 and then the cars dropped us back to the hotel.We got back but couldn't sleep so we talked for a while .With me in my room were Dimple,deepu,mohit and 4 other aunties from Nanded,Bangalore,Hyderabad and delhi.Most of them gossip mongers(Middle aged anunties somehow have a natural inclination for gossip)..any way i didn't care coz i didn't understand most of it.
Another thing nagpur is famous for is the haldiram's mithai ...its one thing u just cant afford to miss..
From Variety food,expensive jewellery to the the most lavish venues..sindhi wedding is an extravagant affair.The next day i.e the 24th was Wedding...The baraat as they call it ...came to the hotel at 1.00pm with the dhula sitting on a horse ..The reception was on the same day in the night and we were to leave the next day in the morning at 8am...All in all it was a wonderful experience and one of the most memorable one's

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

I always amuse myself !My degree of intelligence range from highly philosophical at times to plain dumb ...I am such a dreamer but sometimes i can get obnoxiously practical ...contemplating about all these things i walked through the partially flooded road disinterested in anything that happened around me....i pushed the gate to enter my compound ...what do I see .....It was sophie!She was there sitting all cuddled up waiting for me..She was all grown up now from the last time i saw her ..... all i could say was... aweeeeeee my baby you back!I took her in my arms and ...she licked my face and i was sooo happy that she was back ..i spent the whole evening with her..we watched t.v ,I threw popcorn at her and would run to get it ...i took her to the grotto where we spent many evenings talking(talking in the sense me talking and she patiently listening)she was my best friend ....and it was sooo good to be with my street cat...she had learnt alot of tricks living in the streets:)but i was sooooooooo very happy to see her again ...........didnt think i would get to see her after I had to leave her in the park

Friday, November 13, 2009

Are we ready for speed dating?

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Monday, November 9, 2009

I was watching tv over a sumptous dinner when the door bell rang ....it was raining heavily outside.....and i was wondered who could be at the door.......it was neha.....she was weeping ..i asked her to come in .........she looked nervous and scared .........i asked her to sit down and relax but she was too terrified ........... she kept weeping for a while before she could relax and have the strength to talk .
Rex was in the ICU! she said......i couldn't believe it ....i stood there for a min frozen not knowing how to react...we immediately left for the hospital ..........but couldn't find an rick....somehow we managed to find one..we were quiet all throughout the drive coz we were both too shocked to talk about anything..when we reached the hospital the nurse directed us to the ICU which was on the 1st floor......we rushed to meet him but we were not allowed to see him ...he was unconscious ..he had internal bleeding....we spoke to the surgeon..he said rex poole had to be operated and chances were bleek that he could survive..he had already lost alot of blood and it was close to impossible that he could survive.
All we could do is pray and hope that a miracle happened.......we stayed out in the corridor all night .....neha fell asleep but i couldn't sleep so i thought i'd take a walk.........i took the elevator to the 0th level where rahul's car was parked...........i was hungry.. so i thought i'd go get something to eat...i drove to the nearest food joint and got a parcel for us...
When i reached the hospital .......i went to check on rex and to my surprise he was not in his bed........i went to the place where neha was sleeping ......I woke her up and told her what had happened ....we went to the attendent.....he had no clue of what had happened.........we spoke to the authorities..none of them knew where he had dissappeared..............