the final goodbye

Hi..
Same old id, same old person, that’s what must have gone through your mind.....
Nevertheless I just want to thank you for being associated with me for the better part of my life, you must feel what better part, but ask me,,,
The time we spent while walking back from school....
The time we spent waiting and then sometimes walking back from Mr. Arvind’d tuition...
The time we spent talking in your balcony at house no. 82, at timarpur....
The book (maths) you allowed me to borrow before my class tenth examination.....
The small chit chats we had in the house no H 292, at patparganj,
The visit to the mandir be it at maha rani bagh or at Ramakrishna app.
Be it the eternal wait for your replies...
Be it the wait to catch your first glimpse at timarpur....
Be it cycling around your house, in the evening , to just catch a glimpse of a person called .......
Be it gathering courage to propose you for the first time...
Be it waiting eagerly for your Jiya Jale performance, or still better the first thought that appears on hearing the song is you....
Searching for a white maruti 800 whose reg. No has the digits x,x,x,x
Same goes for a wagon r with the digit xxxx, or a steel grey swift.....
Associating st. Xaviers with you......
Getting excited still to see a lingya;s bus, or to hear about Infosys...
I love it how every conversation i have with my friends ends with you,
I love it when its 28 november,,,,
I still love it to end my day by having a look at your pic....
What more I love the way you are, love the way I spent the golden days of my life and these few pointers just being a part of the book I may write on you.....
I just loved liking you, caring for you, missing you.... I just love the name .........
But I got what you always wanted.....
I loose you win......
Bbye , do something good in your life, which I believe you would,,,,,
P.S. I love everything that at least brings you closer to me.......

So finally the idols has again touched the waters of our holy rivers, and it marked the end of the celebration time especially for the bongs,
somewhere deep down my mind this phase brings in a period of thought provoking sentiments and most of the times the emotions and sentiments take over..
but why this happens,
okay so a brief history of our puja, started in 1991, and to be precise i was a 5 year old kid at that time, slowly with each passing autumn , has slowly transformed and taken me from being a child of class one maybe to a first year masters students, so much has happened over the years, with each passing year the gap widens, and we are expected to be more sincere, the kids who roamed about a few years ago( or as it seems ) are now gearing for their boards, or entrances, the uncles /aunties are slowly turning grey, what i cant observe is how i am also changing, how people must say that even we are growing, people like me, kaushik, dodo, who once used to be the most adored kids are slowly no longer kids,
everything is changing, the strength of the committee is reducing from a decent 40 families, to at most 15 now....
every passing year makes us think whether it will be the same glory and charm next year or ........., it sends shivers even thinking about life without it, but yeah some things do happen, but just hope it continues that extra mile....

i am afraid, cant catch up with the fast slipping time.......

LIFE AT A B SCHOOL THATS ALSO CALLED D SCHOOL

SO FIRST POST AFTER GETTING INTO COLLEGE, AM REALLY ENJOYING MY LIFE OUT HERE,
THE PLACE IS CALLED:

FACULTY OF COMMERCE AND BUSINESS,DELHI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS,DELHI UNIVERSITY

THE COURSE IS MHROD THAT IS: MASTER OF HUM AN RESOURCE AND ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT :
LIFE OUT HERE IS VERY DIFFERENT, COMPARED TO MY PREVIOUS COLLEGES AND SCHOOL,PEOPLE COME HERE TO STUDY, TO LEARN NEW THINGS AND TO QUESTION THE QUESTIONS WHICH DO NOT HAVE ANY ANSWERS,
EVERY SECOND DAY WE HAVE A PRESENTATION OR GUEST LECTURE OR SOMETHING ATLEAST WHICH KEEPS US BACK,
LAST WEEK THE COMMITTEE SELECTIONS WERE FINALISED, THE SENIORS SELECTED ME FOR THE STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CELL AND THE MEDIA CELL, HAS TO MANAGE THOSE THINGS, BUT THEY PROMISE TO TEACH ME LOT A LOT OTHER THAN THE REGULAR HR GYAAN.
HAD OUR FRESHERS YESTERDAY,GREAT PLACE, TASTED THE BAR AFTER 2.5 YEARS, LAST TIME IT WAS AT KASAULI WITH THE "BANISHED KNIGHTS" OUR GROUP IN THE COLLEGE,COUPLE OF SHOTS ARE ATLEAST REQUIRED IF YOU GOT TO DANCE FOR FIVE HOURS NONSTOP, THATS WHAT WE DID....
LOOKING FORWARD TO THE ALUMNI DINNER AND OTHER EVENTS WHICH ARE TO HAPPEN NEXT MONTHS.
FOR NOW ITS A BIT OF SERIOUS STUDIES AS COMPANIES WOULD START VISITING TO HIRE US FOR SUMMER INTERNSHIPS FROM NEXT MONTH....
SO SIGNING OFF WITH A PROMISE THAT I WOULD BE BACK SOON.....

trip to dharamsala, mcleod ganj and dalhousie

Holidays always bring in a special feel and have an aura surrounding it for me, and this time on it was no different when we decided to go out and explore parts of Himachal Pradesh. After much planning and re planning the venue was fixed, and it was dharamshala and the trip began on a saturday evening with we departing for the place from the kashmere gate i.s.b.t., tickets have been booked in a himachal roadways volvo bus and it was quite a respite considering the external conditions prevailing in delhi.
reached dharamshala next day morning and what a place , not the typical indian hill station with crowds flocking in everywhere but again this change is absolutely necessary for anyone coming from a place like delhi.
checked in the hotel kunal,as it was owned by the himachal tourism it offered a great view of the place,that day was given to visiting mcleodganj and the local places.
left for mcleodganj at around ten, mcleodganj is just around ten kilometers from dharamshala and the place is a real showcase of chinese and tibetian culture with the people cursing china but selling chinese products.
while returning back saw many places the dharamshala cricket ground, what amazing location it has, and also a few local attractions, but the best part which i liked the most is the view of the snow capped dhauladhar ranges which can be seen from dharamshala
the next day was reserve for dalhousie which takes almost the entire day as the terrain is rocky and is at a distance of around 150km., we left hotel at around 7 in the morning and the view on the way was just majestic,had breakfast midway and our first srop was planned at khajjiar, heard from many people that the place is called mini switzerland but one needs to see it to believe it,on the way to khajjiar we crossed a village jot(pr. jotte in hindi), visiting these places we get to know how lucky we are to have all the necessities and ammenities of life as for them things as simple as a pot of water makes them walk around ten kms.
so back to the trip khajjiar is a just a place to sit back and relax and to get lost in tranquility .stayed for a couple of hours at khajjiar and then moved on to dalhosie and true to its name it still has that old world charm,with english styled architectures , roamed around a bit and walked the streets, had lunch at a restaurant of hotel manimahesh, tasty food they make, started from there at around four in the afternoon and reached back dharamshala by evening .
FEW POINTERS FROM THE TRIP: places like dharamshala and dalhousie are not the peculiar indian hill stations full of tourist places and crowd and shops selling things at double their prices, but if someone is areal nature lover and loves peaceful and ca;lm surroundings then this is the place.
for people interestedin visiting the place on their own we do get motorcycles on rent

and a warning to people willing to travel by bus, go in for volvo coaches as the ordinary buses will make you suffer big time due to the condition of the connecting roads.

once upon a time, part two

so the girl moved on and the poor boy agian left with no choice but to wait and wait for those lucky moments, two years went by in despair for the boy , the boy cleared class 12, prepared for a year again for the various entrances , the girl was also to give her entrances that very year , and they filled form together, even gave most of the exams together and finally the boy got admission in a very esteemed college , the course not being in lines with something very common, and the girl also took admision somewhere in some course, the guy started missing her further more as, somethings donot happen for the benefit of the boy everytime, the families which were very close initially began drifting away and finally the meetings which were initially once a month or so turned to once every six years to no more meetings except the commuity gatherings , his friends in the college supported him big time to get rid of this anxiety by speaking it out, but actually he never got a chance, the chance he finally got in the year 2007, a community gathering that spans for over five days, that day came on the second last day of the gathering when he had to finally give in to the wishes of his friends who decided to go in on a hunger strike if he didnot propose her, so the boy proposed her not verbally though but through sms, he got a reply but that was not the reply he had waited for ten plus years, again he reproposed her the next day this time verbally though but the answer didnot change and broken and shattered he went on, the boy considered a bright prospect in the college dropped in academically, even his friends tried to talk to the girl but the reply was that she does not had any problem with the boy but she was not going to do anything that hurted her family members, the year passed by, the boy worked, left his job, prepared for mba, joined a prestigious college in delhi to do his mba, the girl is working somewhere , but till today there is a void in the boys life which he is not able to fill, void that remains even today the 24th day of june 2010, and the boy does not know again as to how he will get over this, how he loved the girl and waited for a positive reply since that day 23october 2007 to this date, how he misses her and though they have not had any communications for the last around a year but he still misses her.
many people had said that the girl even liked the boy but if we considered what people said then earth would have been jupiter to say the least,
what more this is one of the biggest dreams of the boys life but again his another big dream was that the girl remained happy in her life and maybe that had come true.
DISCLAIMER:
though it comes at the starting , this post is a little different as you may find resemblance between some characters in here and some person you know in real life:

happy reading