True that this tag line is inspired by Nirvana, but what they sang and what I m penning down having nothing in common. let me get started and I will leave it for u to decide whether any similarities exist, you are not supposed to have a girlfriend when u spend your weekend glued onto the TV wishing your favoright soccer team to win everything and screaming the roof off when they score goal and whine like dog when they concede one. In truth its difficult to have them when u are too much attached to the 4 F’s (Family ,Food ,Friends ,Football).U won’t be having anytime to spend with them…u are always busy in something or other. Adding to all those is my physical appearance. I m whole 6ft tall and 85kgs in weight, this huge appearance helps in some while screws up some other .Seniors thought twice about ragging me(seldom it helped me as I ended up getting screwed) but when it came to girls it dint do any good…not that I would mingle with them, I would never have the courage to do it but it just dint help… but did all these stop me from going the distance…….. no I guess.
It was unusually dull day. I was just hanging with my cousins who had nothing to talk but recession and how it affected computer science (my branch!) and god I hate those talks. They won’t be knowing shit about it but they talk as if its going to affect there kitchen. I was feeling little low……just hoping that something would make the day quite interesting and then came the call from my dad which would put an end to my misery .He had been to bank ,he had forgotten the passbook. He wanted me to give me it to him. With the pass book in my pocket I jumped onto the bike kicking engine to life. it was a tedious drive as traffic was up to its neck.
.I had planned to get out of there ASAP, so as I reached there I told my dad that I had some important work to attend to and it would be better if I left now, as it turned out my dad had other plans too, he wanted me to meet someone. I love meeting people but not of my dad’s age, we have nothing in common, nothing to discuss, nothing to argue about, but that was not going to stop my dad was it?. A lady in her early 40’s emerged from the bank’s door. She was the one my dad wanted me to talk to .She introduced herself as my relative’s friend. She wanted to know the pros and cons of computer science (CS) branch, her daughter was going to switch from E&E to CS. Things got quite interesting when I said it would be better if her daughter itself speaks to me because there were many things that she wouldn’t understand (one among those things was that I wanted to make things interesting). My dad was quite amused …. Who wouldn’t? If someone who was reluctant to speak for few moments is in all smiles and looking patient enough to speak for hours.
It took her whole 10minutes for her to get out of the bank and get to where we were. I was struck by thunder bolt ( Pacino in godfather). She was dressed in all red; she was beautiful just like bright red rose bud in the early morning sunshine. There was something about her look which would make many to skip a beat .She had those beautiful long hair which made her look even more even attractive .Her grin would take my breath away imagine what would her smile do ?.Her voice was damn sweet like a little bird humming. What fascinated me the most was her body language, she was supremely confident and never seemed to be intimidated. Her hands were wrapper around a pink I-pod (lucky i-pod) .She was not listening to those but she held it .She strolled towards me(In fact she strolled towards her mother who was standing right in front of me but I like it pen it down this way!).She introduced herself as an E&E student .We were having the conversation only because she wanted to know whether switching from E&E to CS would do her any good so we never deviated from that topic. She had scored 80+% in her 2nd sem exams and had an opportunity to get into CS.I said if she loved programming and such stuffs then it would do her would do her world of good ,how physically less demanding it would be, how a semicolon would decide your fate in the lab, how you can bunk classes and roam about, she seemed to like it all. I guess she had already decided to switch she just needed some clarity about that I provided it(guess so).she said it was nice to meet me, asked my name .Being a dumb which I certainly am I lost out on the opportunity of asking her name.
The problem with being the only person in the family to know how to drive the car is that, you become family member less and driver more. If they want to go to market, temple, hospital, even marriage for that instance it requires you to go with them. I have a weakness I just can’t say no to my mother, when she asks me something with please in its suffix or prefix. Whole family was preparing to attend marriage I being the driver was included by default. There are always positives and negatives for everything in life attending marriage is no exception .negative was that u needed to attend an family quiz program (where somebody pops up and u need to identify them….no need to tell how seldom u get it right).positive was that u could hang out with the cousins and do what do best(u know what I mean).I parked the car outside the kalyan mantap and I walked in with my family….few minutes later I realized I had forgotten the cell in car(I just cant live without forwarding messages ),I went back to the car to get it. was about to opened the door when somebody honked soo loud that for a second I thought somebody was crashing my head with a sledge hammer, I wanted to curse him, so I turned back to get started with it.
There she was with her father, dressed in all black. Her face was like little bright star in pitch dark sky. I was wondering whether she will recognize me or not (I certainly was!!). God bless those who found the central locking system with that click sound, that sound drove her attention towards me then came the cute little hi .I acknowledge her back. She introduced me to her father ( no other option as he was too close to us).I wished to walk with her inside, I just wanted to be with her ,talk with her. my wish materialized as her dad caught up with some old friend of his .I spent too long searching for the right world I guess, she asked me why was I so silent (even I wondered why was I silent? may be because she was so beautiful that my mind refused to think about anything else).I asked what she decided about switching branches, she was sure of it. on our way inside I introduced her to my sister ,my sister was in hurry she giggling( y the giggle? ) at me she rushed out with her cell phone in her hand .We both sat together just hobbling on with some topic, suddenly something flew towards her and caught her in the eyes. It was my cousin(he is a moron) who created that mess….yes he dint have any others intentions other than returning my i-pod to me but it was not the way I wanted him to do it. I called my cousin over and asked him to apologize to her which he duly obliged. I enquired her how was she felling now, I was not going to let my stupid cousin steal that moment from me, and somehow how I wanted to make it right, her speaking would be a good sign. She saying that she was fine was even better one .She asked me whether she could get a look into my i-pod, I handed it to her. She was quite impressed my collection (girls generally don’t like heavy metal and rock, strange that she liked them). She asked me whether she could get me some songs, yes was my replay. The I-pod told quite a bit about me ,it was quite easy to see I was a football buff (who wouldn’t if ur favorite soccer team is all over i-pod) .She asked me which was my favorite soccer team answer dint surprise her. I tried explaining the rules she dint get it. She came to know that I worship lance Armstrong just like he is the only eternal truth(I can speak about him for hours).Her family wanted her to join them for dinner, she invited me too, that would make things fishy so I said I would be having the dinner with my family she waved goodbye….I was lost in the moment .
I usually hangout with my friends in their college. Usually the place blessed by us would be the bike stand .That day was no exception as we decided to kill sometime .I reached there in time (to kill time I am always on time) .I was wandering around the bike stand wondering why my friends dint show up. My phone rang it was my friend; I learned form the conversation that they would be 10min late. In the vicinity was a gang of girls buzzing about some topic. A voice which was familiar to me was chirping in that group. I never wanted to forget that voice. She was in her uniform…she looked absolutely amazing even in her stupid uniform, she looked so beautiful that it would fool someone into believing that uniform looked well on everybody. It was more like she making the dresses look beautiful rather than other way around. I wish I had the courage to go talk to her .Glad that she saw me and waved at me I waved back. She signaled me to join her. I went over; she introduced me to her friends. I being a dumb which really I am I asked the same question about the branch change, she burst out laughing. It was embarrassing, in front of group of her girls if somebody laughs at u, its like hell building around U. they dispersed except her guess they had some other job rather than just standing and watching we both talk. I know I am poor at socializing with girls but never thought I was below par. She seemed to recognize it; she said that I had no idea how to talk to girls (so true!).My sis had told her even though I looked sturdy, I was fun loving kind of person, cracking jokes and making everybody around me laugh but at that moment I failed my sis miserably. I was fumbling for words but somehow gathered myself up and started to talk something that made sense. I asked her did she get used to new class, new friends, new subjects, and new lecturers. Questioned her about what she thought of CS, about labs. there were many things which I wanted to ask her which called for massive courage, not surprised to see myself totally down on it, wanted to ask her what she thought about me ,was she comfortable with me talking to her ,did she have a boyfriend?(no I think …I think so because by now either I would have spotted him or the vice-versa, either way we would not be having this conversation so freely )most important I wanted to ask her out for the dinner. Life is full of surprises isn’t it? Hell yeah ,she asked whether she could drop by my home sometime to get the songs, I wouldn’t say no to any of my friend coming to my home certainly not to her. I was so immersed in all that I had forgot why was I there .Suddenly somebody yelled out my name I just hoped it was not any of my friends because that would for one thing let the rabbit out of the hat and for another I cannot stand the comments I get from my friends. It was some other human being calling out some other with the same name. I looked over my shoulder to make sure that nobody was in the vicinity. Y do always beautiful thing in life happen in a flash? May be because they loose their thrill when elaborated. She asked me whether I could be at a restaurant at 8:30 for dinner and the instantaneous yes popped out of my mouth. I never even paused for a moment to check my schedule not even to check whether my favorite soccer team was playing that night. It all happened in a flash.
I got dressed up!, Neat and tidy for the first time in life , as far as I can remember. My sis was amazed to see me that way. She earlier had asked me drop her to someone’s place. I was more than happy to do it as it would give me an opportunity to go out, without answering any real tricky questions. I dropped my sis to her friend’s house; I would pick her back again. I arrived at the place 10min late blame my driving skills for it I m not good with driving cars. Hoping my late arrival had not done any real damage started to look for her. There she was dressed in all white like an angle, like a heap of snow beautifully sculpted, like a little white Lily gracefully sprouting out of Mother Nature, her eyebrows bent like a rainbow, her hair fluttering in the cool breeze. But real jewel in the crown was the splendid smile which she wore soo naturally. She was standing in the middle, galloped by her friends(y the hell was her friends there and y the hell was I moaning about it?).It was pitch black night moon to be seen nowhere. I guess moon never wants to be second best but with her in whites he was always going to be the second best. As I walked towards her something shiny caught my attention. It was a gift wrapped with those glittering papers and a label on it read” happy birthday!” It was her birthday does angels have birthdays?? But she had and I was there without anything to gift her. What would I do now? Go back get some gifts?. Even before I had time to think about it she was right in front of me. I was feeling like shit? How could I be so dumb? How could I just walk into a birthday party without any presents? What would she think about me?. It was hurting me to go through all this. we all gathered around the beautiful cake. It was huge, with a thick layer of the cream on it wonderfully decorated. Happy birthday written across as if It screamed hey moron its her birthday. She lit the candle on the cake, chorus began to sing the birthday song ,I joined too that was the least I could do for her. Party went on smoothly. It was time to leave I went up to her wished her once again, said that I was going to leave. She escorted me the parking lot. sometimes u get rewarded for being dumb, she said something soo beautiful that it made me proud be dumb for the first time, she said having me at the party was the best possible gift she could hope for .she blushed, hey she blushed I was more than ecstatic, going totally out of control. I clinched my fist in the air jumping like mad, she blushed yes she did. Sometimes cell phones can be nuisance and it was. It rang loud breaking the silence around, screen flashing my sis name .it was time to go , I dint want to go but there was no real choice. I swung the door open, jumped in roared the engine to life ,waved at her she waved back, She said something that blew my guilt away, she thanked me for the present, holy cow she thanked me for the present…..I was totally surprised and confused what did I gift her?....shall I ask her what did I gift….no I thought, a wise decision from absolute dumb. I could see her in rear view mirrors, written across them was ”objects appear closer than the are” but it should be other way around.
To be continued
