It's India time....

there is nothing much that i can think of writing...actually am just too exhausted of thinking...about everything...or probably nothing...or maybe about somethings...its all confusion.... The smell of India is in the air in every desi apartment here...most of my friends are going to india in the next 3 days..both are roomies are already there..and one has even emailed me that he stopped and ate wadapav on the Mumbai-Pune expressway the day he landed..i can actually imagine that content smile on his face while eating that wadapav...coming to think of it..we eat something similar to that wadapav at Burger King or Pizza Hut or Subway or McDonalds on campus almost everyday...but nothing can beat that wadapav...its funny what people want to do when they go to India.. my roomie wants to sleep, play soccer and eat tandoori chicken and do nothing else...another friend has told his mom to bring a tiffin box full of idlis to the airport!! says he does not want to miss a day of not eating idlis...

Another friend from hyderabad says he will go to his favorite biryani place first before going home..while another friend says she just wont come back from India...as simple as that!!! There are many other similar 'desires' that i can mention...simple pleasures of life that no amount of money can afford here...I told my best friend who is in India right now and is from my hometown, to fly kites everyday..because this is the season for that and flying kites is what we used to do all december in our childhood...and no amount of pleasure here is gonna replace flying that 50 paise kite on my terrace....

And since I am not going home, all i am doing is transporting myself to India thru all my friends...telling each one what to do...they hate it..and i cant help it...because that is what i would have done if I was going...but alas, somethings take their own time to happen. There is nothing else that i can do but wait patiently...for the time I get to go home and for the time when my friends are back here with bags of Kaju Katli's that I have asked everyone to get....And meanwhile, for all my friends whom I miss so badly...

Guzare Huve Kal Ki Yaad aati hai..
kuch lamhon se aankhen bhar aati hain..
woh subah rangeen shaam nirali doob jati hain..
jab tum logonki yaad aati hai...

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We had the Christmas Potluck dinner in our office this Wednesday. Here is a pic of me with my office mates and my boss...me with my new look.. ;-)