Vinayakachaviti

This festival has always had a special place in my heart. One of the festivals that I love and has more to it rather than just cooking and eating.
This was our third consecutive vinayaka chaviti @ KL and maybe the last one here. And this year we had friends visiting us and so all of did the puja together.
Dhriti had a gala time trying to replicate whatever we were doing. She had a glass (with water) and a spoon and was pouring water in my hands all thru' the puja!

this is how our Ganesh looked...and no we didnt do the puja in a jungle :)

Flirting!

Yeah, that's a very suggestive title...but then why not??
Okay...when was the last I flirted with somebody....hmmm cant even seem to recollect...actually haven't even talked to anybody about this off late..
That is quite strange considering the fact that that was the ONLY thing we did when we were at college...flirted and gossiped...:)
Today...I was generally very very bored...and was surfing orkut and found quite a few "old flames" there :)
And the fact that they sent a request for friend and scrapped was an added nudge to this post...!!

Sometime back Putchu sent me a cassette (yeah those were the days no cds yet) that we'd gifted her on her b'day when we were at college. I was listening to that and realised that there is not even a single person whom we haven't teased...
Each and every one in our gang (all girls gang) spoke to putchu,wished her and dedicated a song (their fav) to her as her b'day gift.
But quite surprisingly, we teased each and every girl with some or the other guy...some of them so bizzarre that I was like..."oh...sheesh...we teased her with HIM then, is it??!!!!"

After so many years, when I read this scarp in orkut I find myself recollecting everything...and all that seems so very long long ago...

Those curious glances/cat calls when on of the girls in the hostel would shout...Sirisha, final year,Civil someone's come for you!!

Those days when we sat in Sammy's room and looked out of the window (we choose that room specifically for that window facing the outside of the hostel) and saw who came for whom on Val day (and why nobody actually came for us)

Those days when we used to tease poor Putchu with the most ruthless guys in the campus!!

Those days when I went out for a movie before the final exam.

Those days when we quaralled with day-skis for not having shared their feelings/stories/thoughts with us

Those days when we had fights...

All those strange and unknown people we teased each other with....

Man...how I miss those days!!!!!

After a long long long long time

Yeah its really really long time since I've literally fallen for a song. Long long ago, when we were in REC, during the first year...there was this movie called Maachis. The songs of the movie were a craze amongst a close group of friends. We used to play them non-stop (even if there was a power-cut using batteries!!).
Then there was Zakhm which had a similar effect. Some of us at college were so very addicted to those songs that even today if I hear to one line of any of those songs,it brings back a flood of memories.
And I am bound to have a heavy-heart for the rest of the day...remembering those good old days...

I am not a songs person at office, I somehow don't like the idea of listening to songs with headphones....but I was so very addicted to these Omkara songs, that I put them on a continuous loop and listened to them all day looonng..

And looks like I'm going to be in love with these songs for a life time....