The days of most of the people usually begins with a bright smile on their face(cuz theyd’ve woken up early in the morning) OR a usual swearing word PROBABLY starting with F (cuz theyd’ve overslept)..But still its usually a busy day for most of us..(Weekdays atleast)..I can recall quite a few days beginning with one of the above feelings,but turning out to be a wonderful day OR a depressing one..Being pessimistic is one of the good things of human nature..because when u know ur going to have a bad day and ur pessimistic about it u wont be disappointed if u have one and you’d neither be sad if u dont..Usually its the good days that happen for most of us..So its pretty much the same for me too..Even though i would have got up late as usual wit the swearing word but still i wouldve made it to the office on time,still a lil sleepy but somehow a small chat with a colleague or a FWD mail or an sms from a friend wouldve put a smile to my face already.But one such day after the usual chores i remembered that it was one of my friend’s Bday.Luckily i had kept a “reminder” which made me “remember”.Then i decided to call her to wish her but then i realized that she was @ work and her cell wouldnt pick up the signal………….
Then i realized i was slowly drifting into nostalgia..The wonderful moments of college life kept flashing right in my obscured mind which made my eyes keep staring blankly into the computer screen with a java page opened..
It was right in the beginning of 6th sem when the “proper” Bday party thing started in my group..That was one of the best Bday’s ive ever had..I hadnt expected anything from the group cuz it had been formed quite recently after a cheerful and informative field trip to a power station in Kolar..So as usual i went to the college but ofcourse sporting a huuuge smile on my face(it was my Bday obviously) and i had decided i’d be owing a treat to my buddies..So met everybody got the Bday wishes..So i was all smiles..Then after the class got over we all stayed back to decide where we’ll go for the party and thats when my friend BoB(tats her nickname) came up smiling with the entire group with a gift wrapped..I was surprised…and elated ofcourse..So that was when i got my first “doctor sleeves” T-shirt..Loved it..So it all started from that day..Deciding the previous day as to get some suitable gift to the Bday boy/gal..it was usually an interesting thing other than once or twice when we were all busy and asking each other to go get the gift..But somehow it always ended up with 5 of us from the 12 person group..We used to call ourselves the “Fantastic Five” (dont ask me why)..So its usually one of us who’d come up with the idea of what to get..So we used to take our vehicles most of em ridden by the gals(cuz a few guys dint know how to ride a vehicle..SHOCKINGLY)..So we would go to our usual places which were a few shops we knew..Then we’d buy a gift and get back..But the next day(Bday day) was the best part..Its usually one of the 5 who would start the Bday bumps idea and we would whack the Bday boy(well whacking the Bday gal would be inappropriate) and it’d hav be so much fun..I vividly remember once that we’d actually hit the guy so hard that he was holding his bottom for about half an hour.If it was a Bday gal the definitely somebbody would come up with a bright idea of teasing em so much that would make all our eyes wet with laughter..Then was the lunch part..The discussion itself wouldve lasted for about half an hour as to WHICH RESTAURANT TO GO,and finally it was majority wins..So then we would be off on most of our “gal-driven” vehicles to the restau..We even went on a trip on “govinda’s ” Bday when we had was an awesome time..
But Now all these are just sweet memories..All the Bday parties,Bday bumps,Bday gifts seemed like ages ago when it was not even 6 months since we got busy with our own lives working in different companies…A few of my frenz are yet to join..So life just has its own way of making us move on..Now it was just phone calls on Bdays..The guys now know how to drive thier own vehicles..The gals are busy with thier work too..its just the weekends or holidays we meet up..What used to happen almost daily happens once a month..The days when we had just enough cash to buy a churmuri for all of us is gone..Its replaced with cash enough to buy pizzas for all of us but just that the ALL OF US has become rare to catch up..Long gone are the days when we roamed around to a nearby places with dutching the petrol cost but a sense of genuine happiness flashing across our faces..Now its just our own vehicles filled with a tank of petrol but no place to go..
Well finally i had to pull myself together and i finally had to stop staring at the comp screen..I thought lil drops of dew would’ve decorated my eyes and everybody else’s if they too were thinking the same thing..So i decided to cal her once and try if she was reachable..But the “Spice” service providers werent so keen to connect my cal and i finally had to give up..So i just ended up sending a text message with the words HAPPY BIRTHDAY with a smiley..Smileys are the best way of indicating ironies..So that was a pessimistic-good-start-nostalgic-punctuation-moderate-PERIOD-day…

P.S- I couldnt give her a call for the whole day,so it was just through a sms that i wished her.