Before rushing to other experiences, let me stop and say hello to the memories of my beloved ex-phone. I still remember how till the end I could not believe that it was not a prank. Had it been with me today, my phone and I could have given a strong competition to the Amla-Reliance love story. Good that Amla changed her number. Now its Meenakshi’s turn to depart from her beauty queen Nokia 52 something. I can’t figure out why she takes away her phone from me as soon as she realizes that I am going to press any of its keys. She gives a “isme jo data hai wo confidential hai…aap ise mat dekhiye” look! But I know expecting Meenakshi to change her phone is like expecting Imran to quit smoking. I wonder if all the girls of the world were attracted to the guys who smoked, Imran would have married Salma Hyke. But then it is good that things don’t work this way. After all it gives me immense pleasure to know that he would be associated with Kanpur for all his life now!
The post remains incomplete without the mention of AB(sconding) and Shivani dot ajay at gmail dot com. We three have some real good times together these days. We go out on Maggie lunches (and give the food poisoning responsibility to our Boss), joke around about irrelevant things, and if you have observed, we look like a podium when we stand next to each other. Abhishek 1st prize, Devanshi-2nd prize and Shivani-3rd prize. It can’t get funnier. I am surely going to miss AB’s surprise song transfers via ‘neela daant’ to my phone, and the way my phone lights up and displays ‘receive data from King of Kings’. Now ‘King of Kings’ is funny again. Anyway enough footage to AB, lets move on.
Apart from Smarika Singh, another person I hate is the bearded man who enters Sharmeen Maam’s cabin and keeps her busy with meetings, data and technical stuff every time I need to get her signatures on the letters. I keep waiting for him to come out and he doesn't! It seems as if he is making a mockery of my patience. I hate him as much as I hate getting up early in the morning. I abhor him as much as I abhor Shivani when she pronounces ‘Basant Vihar’ to what is actually Vasant Vihar and happens to be the place where I lived. But I love Shivani when she gets surprise bottles for me. And also when she says that I am the problem of her life. AB and Amla say the same thing. Lucky they are to have a problem like me.
Problems remind me of the health problems Amita is facing these days. But then they are not competent enough to prevent her from cracking jokes, laughing and enjoying all the time. I can visualize a day when her 2-3 year old kid would give Amita her handbag, hang a water bottle around her neck and tell her, “Mommy office me zada masti mat karma..apki bahut complains aa rahi hain..” to which Amita would reply, “ek chutki masti ki keemat tum kya jano chhotu baby!” [Act2 Scene 1 Enter: Manisha] and Manisha would say, “ek chutki…how LS!” and then we would go on discussing all the so called LS words we normally come across. Words like Neodda, Thanda le lo, and sankoch would be star performers in the discussion and it would be garnished with Shikha’s peculiar kind of a smile. Prerna as usual will not spend her brains on this 'sensible' discussion and just be a patient audience.
Lot more to be discussed, lot more to be quoted. I would keep updating things as they come up. Kya Meenakshi apna handset change karengi, kya Amla dobara usi shop se Maggie khayengi, kya Shivani apni mail id change karegi, Kya Manisha badal jayegi aur use crèche ke bachchon se pyar ho jayega, Kya Imran ki ‘unse’ kabhi phone par baat ho payegi, kya log punching machine kharab karna band kar denge, kya mere dahej lobhi sasural walon ki maang badhti jayegi, , kya JS Mumbai ki openings kabhi close hongi, kya log Vivek Khare ke cabin se chairs lena band karenge, kya AB ki nayi company me sach much saare Saturdays off honge, kya log Amita se printer aur Xerox machine ke bare me poochhna band kar denge?
Jaan ne ke liye dekhnge dharawahik “Shalu ke pyar” ka agla episode. hum log. Tiding!
Thanks and Regards. Lol.
