Friends and Freedom

I sat at the back and let the breeze blow out all sound, while one of my friends drove the car, and the others contemplated on the evening.....11:25pm ...a little emptiness on streets...the streets where we grew up....became friends, bicycled, had endless walks and gossipped, went to school, went shopping, went to tuitions, went for birthdays and so on....But that one night, as the breeze embraced my face and tickled it....I sensed freedom....

Is the fact that we choose to be with our friends and are not born with them........is it synonymous with freedom....Why is a ride on a friend's scooty easier to ask for than asking your cousin to drop you somewhere?

Is friendship a branch of freedom? Could be, Its always easy to break rules when friends are around, even if that means misusing freedom :)

Food and Relationships

If ever I were to win someone's heart, I would do it with food...

Ranging from the most exotic to the most fingerlicious butterlicious Or even Gheelicious

Food I announce, is the elixir of relationships

I cannot possibly erase food from any of the memorable moments spent with family or friends, somehow food just finds its way in..or maybe food has always been there and the rest just fits in

Lunchbreaks in school : Hands snatching at the last bit left of that Aloo Parantha or cold maggie, mouths stuffed, stomachs growling, stained neckties and happy hearts.....friends united


Tuitions: The poor packet of Chips (or more so hot air) being transferred from hand to hand, followed by strictly one sip each of Mountain Dew, Somehow the hands kept increasing, the packet never returned to its starting point...


College: Maggie Anda was the new Daal Chawal with the Chutney of gossip...'Ya, ..munch munch....so as I said, she actually said this you know!...ek bite dena zara.."

Chai before momos..followed by juice and perhaps momos again , was anything but normal when important things on mind ..such as : "Oh I forgot to tell you, you are supposed to wash your utensils"...."But I have already washed mine!!"....."No, No, you havn't..all the rice is stuck on to your plates!"...."But I dont eat rice!!!!"..."Arrey you eat your momos na! we'll see later....have you paid the bill?'.."Bill? Which bill?"



After Date: " Oh we had the most awesome time together! We went to this all night cafe and had thsi most amazing mousse and chocolate blah and hazelnut blah and then drank the most exotic blah at the most romantic swimming pool side...and there their special chef prepared this blah...and decorated it with a heart....and his sister sent these swiss chocolates for me and blah......."..

you almost feel that it is a food monster babbling in front of you....




Returning home after training of four months:  "Oh It feels so good to be back home..sigh...I had my favorite badam milk in bed, then i had this awesome gobhi parantha with butter, mom made halwa for me, then i even had kheer because tayiji sent it for me, oh you must try the pickle my buaji makes, and then I had butter chicken at dhabha with my childhood buddy and had this amazing paan with papa....I really missed home....."

Who is to blame?

It is but so convenient to put the blame on the other. Whom would you like to blame?



Debate Topic in school:     Is the education system to blame for increasing pressure on  children?


Television Talk Show:       Is Reality Television responsible for increasing suicides?


Radio Discussion:             Why do girls wear salwars underneath T-Shirts?


Facebook Chat:               Why is everyone joining this Aircel Campaign, what do they do (joining it 

                                       nevertheless)?



Traffic Jam:                         Why do all these buggers drive a car when they can't..(CRASH) ?\


Evening Walks:                   These newage office goers, they strain their necks on laptops day and night, no

                                          fresh air! I made my daughter join her office gym !



Mobile:                              I don't know why my mobile gets discharged so quickly, no no tell me more, i

                                         have free talktime, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

A few unanswered ones...

Ever wonder how much are we answerable to the many who form our individual universe....
So much so, that we forget answering our own selves....

Such is the lust to prove our own worth, that we seldom grieve over the loss of what is worthy, for we do not have the time...

What value is the money earned that hurts even more when spent?

Dreams

If I could build castles in day dreams, I would create my own happy Chandni Chowk, a Chandni Chowk where Ghalib and I would have karachi halwa together..and his haveli would be free from encroachments........

If I could look different in my dreams I would be Queen Gulnaar of Sarojini Naidu's imagination, for only my daughter would be more beautiful than I....

If I could do something I can't, I would sing in my dreams, and have nightingales as my friends...

If I could build my own house in dreams, I would build one with lovely flowers, seven dogs, next to Ruskin Bond's house, and share my cakes and muffins with him....

If only reality weren't such a nightmare, All dreams would have been true.......

Verses on Kisses

She : "I kissed my boy friend  :D"

They: "HAWWW sharram nai ayi??"
         "Kids today..they just cant wait"
         " OOOOOh..how was it ....haan haan..."
         "He has spoilt your innocence......tsk"
         " Please concentrate on work...all this can happen after marriage"
         " DONT U DARE GO ANYWHERE without our PERMISSION!!"
         " I am literally saving you by keeping you away from him, trust me, now solve these equations!"
         " You really are shameless ain't you!"
         " Hmm How did it feel ? pata naa!"
        
Guardian angel (adult ego): "I know it was lovely :)...congratulations"

        
        

process

We said: W e can't simply make what we want to. We know what we are thinking is right, but we need to prove it. For we cannot be selfish, we want to satisfy a customer, consumer, user, buyer, an audience.

They say: Ok then, lets do a survey

We said: Yaay

They say: W e have done the survey, some audience wants a, some wants b, but none said so for c, and c is what u want to give.

We said: oh they cant even think of c, because c does not exist, c is an option that we have thot of, they will certainly love it.

They say: Prove it

We said: Lets do a workshop

They say: Excellent!!!

We did a workshop with prototype , for making the actual c is costly

We said: The workshop gave us some useful insights, now we are planning to make d.
 d = a+b+c

They say: Prove it!

We do another survey, another workshop and end up with e.

e=d+suggestions

They say: Prove it!!

We come up with f.
f=e-a +Suggestions

They say: Prove it!!

It continues...when we reach z

we realize:

z = c



They laugh.........