Thank You...

Well...yesterday was my birthday. :) Yeah, okay, I was feeling all special and happy. अरे, साल में एक ही बार तो आता है, ना? And yeah, I had to stay up for the messages and calls at 12... First of all, Asmi called. That also on my landline! Reason? Airtel से मेरे phone पे कोई call लगता ही नहीं है! I don't know why though...some दुश्मनी they have among themselves... whatever. Somebody forgot as I expected. Then messages came(...though the Airtel ones didn't get delivered). आज कल लोग treat के लिए क्या क्या नहीं करते... I went to college, entered the classroom and almost a dozen people wished me "Happy Birthday"! O_o That was something. Then, without me knowing, Monalisa, Solanki and Shubha brought a cake for me! (And no, they didn't do it for a treat... "Mind it") Then a lot of stuff happened... we didn't have a knife so i had to cut the cake with my scale which I later discarded though I had thought of keeping it for memories' sake... there were no candles so these people stuck two ice-cream sticks in the cake (as if I'm a 2 year old kid)... Sola grabbed my arms and Shubha applied lip-gloss on my lips saying "You need to look good today, come-on!"... lot of pics, a weird video taken by Mona and them finishing the ceremony by taking dollops of multi-coloured cream from the cake and sticking it on my nose to make me look like a clown! :D Sola and Mona have just recovered from chicken pox so they said "No" to a treat. Though the guys in my class were continuously bugging me for that... today also they went on for the entire first half. So, at lunch time, I managed to get out of college and get a 2 litre bottle of Sprite (as Kaushik had said "हम काला पानी नहीं पिएगा") and a packet of chips and banged it in front of them when they were having lunch. Then another नौटंकी started. "तुम्हारा birthday है...तुम भी साथ में पियो वरना ले जाओ...हमें नहीं चाहिए..." No matter how much I protested it didn't make a difference to them. So in the end (after Amitesh and Kaushik decided to pour the entire bottle on my head with me climbing on the bench and jumping down on the other side trying hard to escape...though I couldn't, as five of them were surrounding me and Mona and Sola were laughing their heads off) I did take 1 sip (termed as "Formality") and fled from the spot. But still... whatever happened, it was a lot of fun and to tell you people the truth, I loved every moment of it. I don't remember the last time I celebrated my birthday with my friends by cutting a cake. I'll remember this... and I'll miss college. :)