My brother’s twin sister: Raashi

It feels great to have your life printed. I mean records of what u did in past and those moments you enjoyed being yourself. There are so many incidents which get washed away from our memory with the passage of time. We slowly forget these moments and carry on with our life as if they didn’t exist.

The other day I was sitting with one of my friend telling him about the person I love most…my cute little brother. I was telling my friend how innocent my brother was and how naughty I was with him. Always teased him and made fun of him ..coz he was the only toy for me to experiment..he he…

I was in second grade and it was summer vacations for me. Whole day mom used to hold us from going out in hot sun and evening she wud let us play. We used to play with our neighbor’s kids…a gud gang of mixed age children. One fine day we two were sitting in the room painting a girl in a frock with crayons and we were filling red color in that frock. Bhai exclaimed “how pretty this frock looks with this color!!!!” yup…little we knew that he was a colorblind. When we finished the painting I realized that I too possessed a red color frock. I went to almirah and pulled it out and showed my brother..see its like this. Brother smiled and said u look gud in this…He looked confused with a whats-wrong expression when he saw my eyes twinkling.

Aunty opened the door and was surprised to see me at 4.00 instead of 6. She looked at me and called her daughters Hafisa- Nafisa. They both came running. We three were sitting and were planning to play that bell rang again. Hafisa went and opened the door. There stood a little gal. She was very pretty and wished us. Hafisa looked at me confusingly. I was taking a sip of Rooh-af-sa, and then I replied..ahhh she is my younger sis “Raashi”…Rishi’s identical twin. They were all shocked. She exactly resembled rishi. They asked me where was she all this while and wanted to know more. Aunty also came out of the kitchen wiping her sweat of neck from the duppata she was wearing. That was something strange for them that my mom dad had abandoned a baby gal. I then revealed that she was medically unfit and was allergic to new weathers and we cudnt afford to take her all the places keeping her health in mind. So my grandparents were looking after her and she visited us every summers. Aunty showered her love mixed-with-sympathy on her. Fed her like anything ignoring me completely. We played and returned back. Two days later Hafisa’s Mom came in the afternoon to see mom. Me and bhai were playing in the other room when mom called both of us. When we saw aunty our face turned white. Next question was but obvious “who is Raashi?”

Well mom she stays in village..rishis twin..why do u want to hide…mom looked at us in horror…monkeys was what she cud say…she threatened us and then my brother went inside calling Raashi’s name…and then Raashi appeared wearing the same red frock and did that sweet namaste and started giggling. And the best was she lifted her frock and said…look I wear a boy's brief… He was around 4 yrs old.

Then poor mom explained to aunty that it was nothing but a prank played by two of us. Next day another aunt came and she also wanted to see Raashi. Poor mom was tired of giving explanations to all neighbours that she never had twins. She then told dad abt the same and we both got royal scoldings. I guess after that my brother never dared to wear a frock….forget red..

Reason i m writing this post today is i missing him terribly...spoke to him couple of days back and found out that he was suffering from viral fever and a viral disease called Chickengunia which is being spread across nagpur and tamilnaadu. He has not disclosed it to mom dad and confided it to me. He is recovering now. I am missing him and feel like visiting him. I guess he needs me now...

Trip to Bareilly...

This one turned out to be exciting when it was least expected. We were supposed to start for Bareilly @5.00 in the evening from office and were carrying our stuff in the office. The Cab which we requested came late and we started at 10 in the nite from Noida.

we were 6 people in 2 cabs. 2 girls and 4 guys. All from different departments and different projects. I knew 2 of them and used to interact with them but other 3 were new to me. It was little awkward initially but soom we were comfotable with eachother. We stoped at one of the dhabas on our way and had nice food. Reached bareilly in the morning @6 and were quite tired. I was down with fever and my running nose was another pain. I kept lots of tissue paper from office just to support this idiotic nose.

We entered the army cant and finally 3 rooms were given to us. Me and Ekta were in one room. We hit the bed and soon were asleep. Others knocked our door @9.00 for breakast and then we reached officer mess and were late. Though they still served us but civilians are always seen as not punctual people and lazy ones and we proved it once again. After breakfast we started for our mission and reached the War Memorial Hostel where we met the kids. There are some 6 kids we sponsored and this time we had new responsibilities. We took their introduction and counselled them. Added new names in the merit list for more sponsorships. Evening we played with them.

After years i played basketball...it was nice...just that i broke my index finger of left hand. It swelled and m not able to bend it. Then we played badminton. Did lot of cycling with my colleague Don aka Saurabh. New name given to him in this trip as he itched us with this new movie "Don" dialogues.

In the nite all 6 of us went for a long walk in the cantt. We did cross the graveyard and it was quite horrible. I mean though i dont get scared but i must admit that the dead silence at 1 in the nite can take anyones life and the unconstructed road which we took which was covered by trees was worth crossing and getting a cute heart attack. Mohit did challenge me for getting inside..but guess they were scared than me...we came back at 2.00 and hit the bed...legs were paining as after a long time we walked for some 5 kms that too after a tiring day.

Next morning we visited the hostel and did rest of our work. Ate our lunch with the hostel kids. The best kid and favorite kid was a boy called Arun..he is in 8th grade and we cud see the fire in him...the spirit of doing something in life...the spirt of reaching his goal. A passion towards life. We all sat with him personally and felt the same. he lost his father in a firing which happened in jammu some 6-7 yrs back. His younger brother, Tarun was also there; must say he was the cutest boy of the hostel. We all pampered both of them. It was nice to be close to such children. We salute their fathers who sacrificed their lives for the nation.

Evening we started back @4.00 and reached Noida @12.00 midnite. My fever was gone in the fresh air and aftr playing games. So many snaps and so much of fun. This trip chnaged my mood. This trip made me forget my worries and I realised that there are people who are deprived and need our support. There is so much that we can do in this life and we just dont do...I am thakful to my organisation for considering me for this opportunity and letting me live another side of my life and my dreams.

Today i have memories of a trip which was made for a nobel cause. I have the moments captured and thanks to my colleague shirshendu whose passion is photography. He has clicked some amazing pics of those children.

The last person whose name i have not mentioned is Charan paji..Amazing person and quite a chilled out man. This trip brought me closer to these colleagues and they are very much part of my life now. We now know each others personal life and worries and share them whenever we get time to meet each other in office. This trip has given me new friends and new bonds.

Looking forward for more such meaningful trips of my life.

Going To Bareily Now

I am going to Bareily…Official visit again. I am feeling so tired and restless. Throat infection has led to cold and mild fever and I can’t backout at the last moment.

I will be back on Sunday evening. Thankfully next weekend in a long one.

Thanks to Baapu ji…I love him for this :)...and only this

Chandigarh Trip: A success?

My Chandigarh trip was good. We started @3.00 p.m from office. We hired Innova, gud vehicle. GT Karnal road is a good road for 5-6 hrs journey. We picked two from delhi and then reached Murthal Dhabas. My manager could no accompany as she wasn’t keeping well, so last minute the whole plan changed and my colleague came into picture. From Murthal Dhabas we picked some snacks and choorans and then moved to panipat and finally reached Karnal. Technical managers parents were staying their so, we halted and met them. Sat there for few minutes and then decided to have snacks at haveli. Haveli is a nice chain coming up in NCR region. Its basically a food joint, given a design of our village/ ancient times. Its huge structure appears like a haveli and it has a good architecture. I guess a good place to see if u plan to travel to CHD.U will see the big verandah and some khats/Manji’s. There are stalls for panipooris, pavbhaji, jalebis. Artifical envoirnment created by the person is appreciable. We picked most of the food items (snacks) and had it there. There are two restaurants as well apart from stalls, with reasonable rates. And food is hygenic. A Must C.

We started again, and the driver took an isolated route. This route was made when there was terrorism in Punjab. So Haryana govt. made this as a bypass to connect to Chandigarh. This road had no street lights, no dividers and the trucks were rash. We were sharing all sort of stories with each other. We entered chandigarh from panchkula and reached Hotel Mount view at 10.30 p.m. Rooms were booked so had no problem in settling down. Had no enegy to take dinner in their dining room and moreover it was about to close, so ordered food at 11.30 from round the clock menu. Same boring sandwitches and cutlets.

TV in the room was an ancient one. I mean the button to switch channel/tune volume was on the top and had no different color…10 mins we spent fining the buttons to it. We had remote..but none of the buttons in it were working. Supposedly 5 star hotel..but TV said it all. i guess i tried to press all those buttons embedded some 10 times but none responded back. Finally i stood and surfed the channel mannually. A

Me and my colleague shared the room and others were in the adjacent rooms. We cuddled ourselves in bed and slept @12.30 midnite. Morning got up at 7.30 and started preparing for the event. Reached there @9.30 when it was supposed to start. By the time it got over it was 8.00 in the nite. We were supposed to travel back but I was damn tired. My legs were shaking. I guess the heels which I wore wasn’t a gud fit for an event like it. We were in dilemma whether to start or to stay back. I was in no mood to travel back asif the body had dissipated all my energy. So we all decided to stay back. Then we decided to explore the city. In that condition also I was ready to explore. Someone pls shoot me to end this habbit of exploring places. We went to sector 17 market, which is a famous hangout for youngster. But that’s a different story that u will see old ladies and couples in 40’s resting on stairs in front of the fountain as if they have come to some park.

We came back and sat in the bar/lounge of Mount View. Some Danik Bhaskar, (newspaper) corporate party was organized in the lawn and they played all lousy hindi numbers which itched us. Believe me people were dancing on those as if all the nuts of their body parts have fallen and they were shaking as if tremors hit the place.

We sat in a loungebar and had our discussions on various topics. I felt really tired & excused myself…me and Abha came back in the room. We slept and next day we started back @ 12.00 in the noon. Just halted at haveli for lunch. I just had 4 spoons of curd rice. Wasn’t feeling well and reached back home @6.30 p.m. I was so tired that came back and slept as if I was deprived of sleep for ages.

BTW: on my way back I saw sukhna lake from outside…beautiful lake but heard there are lots of snakes..water snakes…& I m scared of snakes..they come in my dreams and make it a nightmare.

Hissssssssssssssssss

Going to Chandigarh on 15th sept 2006

Life has become hectic all of a sudden. No time to even have lunch properly…Monday I had burger just to avoid wasting my time in pantry...so told my colleague to get me a burger when she was gng to Mac D.

This weeked gng to chandigarh on an official visit. All business and no fun. I am the only one working for this requirement so I will be the only one who will get screwed if things go wrong..need to give 200% of myself…Today also I almost missed my lunch when my colleague dragged me to pantry and fed me…before I cud complete my lunch my manager called me on my cell “ where r u…we r waiting for ur report…meeting rite now….”

And again I had to leave and run for the meeting as I was already 15 mins late for it. Royally my manager and superboss took my class looking at my status of the event…and manager was still considerate in saying incase we are not able to do…we will push it for next weekend…and rite there..the same moment..my cute superboss said..”no no..u will have to do it this weekend itself & there is no option for u…”

So me stressing myself out….My superboss was wondering whom to send along with me..coz I m a gal..and I will need one lady atleast with other male colleagues….and then my manager nominated herself. I am happy indeed. I really appreciate the way she is dedicated to her work and I try to learn things from her. So it gng to be a good exposure coz I m sure she will share her experiences and guide me in this event…and I m sure before leaving I will make her feel proud on my report.

And i need to find out the good places to see after 6 in chnadigarh as i m sure i will be stuck with work whole day so only evening i would be able to go out with colleagues...i m happy..another place for me to visit..i have heard its one of the planned city in country and quite neat and clean.


P.S: i just realised that my comp is seriously affected by virus..and i need to get it formatted..and i wud not be able to do so for next week...so hopefully if things go fine i will post again...