Have just reached home after a weeks vacation, this last week was very eventful, so thought would pen down my experiences and share them. Will continue my posts on The Trip after this.
Every year we have a week off for Plant maintenance, and this last week was the scheduled maintenance off, as I didn’t get time to meet some of my friends after I took up this job, I had planned to make full use of this weeks time, and though I had a lot of things planned was able to do justice to a fraction of them.
I started for Hyderabad last Saturday evening, Chins was coming from US after a period of one and a half years, and the last time we met him was when we got together to see him off as he left for his MS, so as planned Vicks and Mams had already started for Hyderabad and had reached on Saturday itself, I reached on Sunday and we all were put up at Chits place, the stage was set for a special welcome for Chins.
I don’t know about the others but I was expecting to meet a US returned Chins in a GAP t-shirt and a changed accent, but to my surprise he had not changed a bit, it was as if we had met only a few days back, Just like old days we sat and enjoyed the F1 race together and chatted along about how he spent his time there, his studies, new friends and other things. That was followed with a dinner we even planned to celebrate the occasion but Mams and Vicks had to return back to Bangalore to attend office the next day and Chins had plans to visit the Visa balaji temple, so had to change plans.
The next day I had plans to visit another close friend of mine, infact that was the reason I stayed back in Hyderabad though I had nothing much to do that day, but then due to some other commitments that meeting had to be cancelled at the last minute, so I was left with nothing to do on a hot and humid Monday in Hyderabad, I was really pissed off with myself for not having planned anything else, But then, my father always says that whatever happens, happens for the good, and my sincere thanks to that friend of mine for having cancelled tht meeting that day, because that gave me an opportunity to meet two very old and close friends, We had done our Intermediate together and didn’t get an opportunity to meet or get together for a long long time, infact that day we were meeting after a period of eight years, we had lunch together and chatted away for a long time, reminding ourselves about all the stupid things we did when we were at college. In the evening I met another good friend who was my junior at college, never really spoke to her when we were at college, well I got to know from her much later that, I had a very bad image at college among girls, that I was very arrogant and was not at all approachable, well I don’t know what gave them that impression but anyways after I passed out she had once scrapped me on orkut and then slowly we got to know eachother and finally we met that day, finally in the evening I boarded the bus to Chennai.
I reached Chennai pretty late the next morning, reason – a flat tyre in the midnight in the middle of nowhere, anyways I managed to reach home by 11:30 my caring bhabi had prepared dosas for breakfast, and I hogged them as if I had not eaten for a couple of days. In the evening Mom and Dad arrived from Kolkatta, and all of us Anna, Mom, Dad and Bhaabi spent the rest of the evening chatting. We had a family dinner all five of us together nearly after a year and that was really nice all of us getting together.
The next day was a very special day, well it was my birthday so it was special, I always feel why people make such a fuss about a birthday, but then the truth of the matter is this is the day when everyone no matter who he is feels very important, that day one realizes how much he is loved by all his loved ones, and that is really something that everyone should look out for, and if even one person doesn’t call or send a loving birthday wish it really hurts. And I feel, no matter how busy one is, one should not forget to wish someone on his birthday, especially when he/she is expecting that. But there are so many things that people are busy with these days, so many responsibilities and so many other commitments that they might just forget, and we should have a big heart to forget and forgive such slip-ups.
The rest of the week was more or less a family get together, just the five of us, going out for lunch, dinner, temples the beach, some family photographs and stuff. That’s how I spent the last week, was an eventful week for me and brought back very old and nice memories.
Finally, I would like to thank everybody, my family, my friends and The Almighty himself for blessing me with such nice moments to look back and feel happy about, and look forward to more and more such moments.
Every year we have a week off for Plant maintenance, and this last week was the scheduled maintenance off, as I didn’t get time to meet some of my friends after I took up this job, I had planned to make full use of this weeks time, and though I had a lot of things planned was able to do justice to a fraction of them.
I started for Hyderabad last Saturday evening, Chins was coming from US after a period of one and a half years, and the last time we met him was when we got together to see him off as he left for his MS, so as planned Vicks and Mams had already started for Hyderabad and had reached on Saturday itself, I reached on Sunday and we all were put up at Chits place, the stage was set for a special welcome for Chins.
I don’t know about the others but I was expecting to meet a US returned Chins in a GAP t-shirt and a changed accent, but to my surprise he had not changed a bit, it was as if we had met only a few days back, Just like old days we sat and enjoyed the F1 race together and chatted along about how he spent his time there, his studies, new friends and other things. That was followed with a dinner we even planned to celebrate the occasion but Mams and Vicks had to return back to Bangalore to attend office the next day and Chins had plans to visit the Visa balaji temple, so had to change plans.
The next day I had plans to visit another close friend of mine, infact that was the reason I stayed back in Hyderabad though I had nothing much to do that day, but then due to some other commitments that meeting had to be cancelled at the last minute, so I was left with nothing to do on a hot and humid Monday in Hyderabad, I was really pissed off with myself for not having planned anything else, But then, my father always says that whatever happens, happens for the good, and my sincere thanks to that friend of mine for having cancelled tht meeting that day, because that gave me an opportunity to meet two very old and close friends, We had done our Intermediate together and didn’t get an opportunity to meet or get together for a long long time, infact that day we were meeting after a period of eight years, we had lunch together and chatted away for a long time, reminding ourselves about all the stupid things we did when we were at college. In the evening I met another good friend who was my junior at college, never really spoke to her when we were at college, well I got to know from her much later that, I had a very bad image at college among girls, that I was very arrogant and was not at all approachable, well I don’t know what gave them that impression but anyways after I passed out she had once scrapped me on orkut and then slowly we got to know eachother and finally we met that day, finally in the evening I boarded the bus to Chennai.
I reached Chennai pretty late the next morning, reason – a flat tyre in the midnight in the middle of nowhere, anyways I managed to reach home by 11:30 my caring bhabi had prepared dosas for breakfast, and I hogged them as if I had not eaten for a couple of days. In the evening Mom and Dad arrived from Kolkatta, and all of us Anna, Mom, Dad and Bhaabi spent the rest of the evening chatting. We had a family dinner all five of us together nearly after a year and that was really nice all of us getting together.
The next day was a very special day, well it was my birthday so it was special, I always feel why people make such a fuss about a birthday, but then the truth of the matter is this is the day when everyone no matter who he is feels very important, that day one realizes how much he is loved by all his loved ones, and that is really something that everyone should look out for, and if even one person doesn’t call or send a loving birthday wish it really hurts. And I feel, no matter how busy one is, one should not forget to wish someone on his birthday, especially when he/she is expecting that. But there are so many things that people are busy with these days, so many responsibilities and so many other commitments that they might just forget, and we should have a big heart to forget and forgive such slip-ups.
The rest of the week was more or less a family get together, just the five of us, going out for lunch, dinner, temples the beach, some family photographs and stuff. That’s how I spent the last week, was an eventful week for me and brought back very old and nice memories.
Finally, I would like to thank everybody, my family, my friends and The Almighty himself for blessing me with such nice moments to look back and feel happy about, and look forward to more and more such moments.
2 comments:
Oye! Who was that who forgot your Budday! Don't tell it was Moi! Coz it was you who told me not to call at Midnight!!!
And whoa....the gals of ur college had it spot-on re.....hats off to them!
My apologies for the delay in replying back.
No it wasnt you who forgot my birthday, and i am not trying to point fingers at anybody here, i dont enjoy throwing mud on others in public, so i will keep the identity of that person to myself,
and FYI even your sis had a role to play for that impression i had created for myself back at college
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