People who know me know how terrific and how terrible i am when it comes to friends. Terrific, because i more often than not love them with all my heart and terrible, because sometimes i am both over-possessive and over-protective of them. Generally the maximum amount of time i ve stayed in the same city as my friends is 1 yr, 2 at most but even as i move on with life in a different geographical location, i usually stay in touch, enough to know their whereabouts and at times even their daily activities if not hourly.
This post is dedicated to my most recent group of friends, who brought in a lot of love, fun, stupidity and adventure in my life. In fact i dont think it will be blasphemous to say t
hat they were the most spicy and crazy guys i had ever met. Together we made the 'Square of Trust'. Manajit, the fun-loving, intelligent, smart ass. Bolin, the Rock star, the lover of heavy metal, the cool creative dude, but his flight usually needed two runways for take off (sorry Bobo). Saurabh, he is the silent killer, sharp but simple, the one who will love you but will never say it. And then there was me, the gal of the gang, butt of most of their stupid brainless jokes, the silent sufferer and yet the most pampered and spoilt one.
Frankly, i dont know what brought us together, a bad sense of humour, cigarettes, our laziness or a good deal of misfortune... may be all of the above ;).
Gathering in the office balcony for a quick smoke and laughter, going to La Casa every Thursday for those long chats on weirdest of topics (probably some people will kill me if i make the audacity of listing them here, so pardon me). Working late hours, devouring pizza and 'anda-bhurji' at the Yellow Fields. Playing stupid games, aim being not to win but to not let others win... and yeah CRIBBING (i know this is not a word, just an expression for 'compaining' but somehow i like it), we were all master complainers, we would do the job eventually but not without complaining about it all the while.
We stayed together for 1 whole year, fooling around, getting drunk, being stupid, sharing exciting and embarassing moments. Like the day when i ordered the "third from the top" drink on the menu of Legends of Rock called 'Orgasm', to Bolin renaming me as Rani, to Saurabh having a mysterious "cousin" (read: companion in sin) to Bolin forgetting directions and always loosing his way around the city. And then there were days when Manajit would teach me how to write code, clean, beautiful and easy to understand (i will probably write more about his teachings somewhere else). Ah!! they are so many that even trying to list them here is impossible.
Sometimes i feel we were a weird mis-matched group (i being probably the biggest outlier).
It is tough for me to try and sum up my feelings for each one of them, but even if i try... Probably , Manajit to me was not just a friend but also a mentor and a guide, his compliments made me feel proud of myself and yeah there were seriously embarassing moments when i used to write the stupidest of code and he would get so furious about it. But i will definitely commend him for being my one stop solution to everything, my GPS, my wikipedia and yeah, my drinks-advisor ;). i remember telling him one day that i could trust him with my life and that still holds,... He is one person who will never let you down if you let him take charge of you, but yeah be careful as to not hurt his ego, he is an egotist to the hilt... but what the heck the guy deserves to be it.
Saurabh... ummm.. of the three he is t
he one whom i love the most, he is my junior-tech-guru, he is the epitomy of patience, was always there to tell me that 'I could'. Always there to listen, never to judge, always to encourage, never to leave you alone. The most sensible and sober of us all and seriously no one can win at an argument with him, he has can hit the nail right on the head.
And last but not the least Bolin, i was the youngest in the Gang but mentally Bolin is the most kiddish one. Never a dull moment with him around. But hell i have had quiet serious discussions with him so dont you think he is only jokes and nothing more. The guy loves his golden retriever 'Vader', he loves heavy metal, cars and bikes and has a emotional range of a tea-spoon ;) (he will kill me if he ever reads this blog)
I moved to US few months ago and haven't seen them since, we still get online and group chat or exchange short mails and phone calls often, i miss them a lot, and i miss all that mindless fun and profound talk sessions, and that is one of the reasons for making this lengthy blog entry. I wish i could leave on a profound note but instead i will let them add one if they happen to get to this page ever...
Miss you guys
Love ya all...
Rani :P
This post is dedicated to my most recent group of friends, who brought in a lot of love, fun, stupidity and adventure in my life. In fact i dont think it will be blasphemous to say t
hat they were the most spicy and crazy guys i had ever met. Together we made the 'Square of Trust'. Manajit, the fun-loving, intelligent, smart ass. Bolin, the Rock star, the lover of heavy metal, the cool creative dude, but his flight usually needed two runways for take off (sorry Bobo). Saurabh, he is the silent killer, sharp but simple, the one who will love you but will never say it. And then there was me, the gal of the gang, butt of most of their stupid brainless jokes, the silent sufferer and yet the most pampered and spoilt one.Frankly, i dont know what brought us together, a bad sense of humour, cigarettes, our laziness or a good deal of misfortune... may be all of the above ;).
Gathering in the office balcony for a quick smoke and laughter, going to La Casa every Thursday for those long chats on weirdest of topics (probably some people will kill me if i make the audacity of listing them here, so pardon me). Working late hours, devouring pizza and 'anda-bhurji' at the Yellow Fields. Playing stupid games, aim being not to win but to not let others win... and yeah CRIBBING (i know this is not a word, just an expression for 'compaining' but somehow i like it), we were all master complainers, we would do the job eventually but not without complaining about it all the while.
We stayed together for 1 whole year, fooling around, getting drunk, being stupid, sharing exciting and embarassing moments. Like the day when i ordered the "third from the top" drink on the menu of Legends of Rock called 'Orgasm', to Bolin renaming me as Rani, to Saurabh having a mysterious "cousin" (read: companion in sin) to Bolin forgetting directions and always loosing his way around the city. And then there were days when Manajit would teach me how to write code, clean, beautiful and easy to understand (i will probably write more about his teachings somewhere else). Ah!! they are so many that even trying to list them here is impossible.
Sometimes i feel we were a weird mis-matched group (i being probably the biggest outlier).
It is tough for me to try and sum up my feelings for each one of them, but even if i try... Probably , Manajit to me was not just a friend but also a mentor and a guide, his compliments made me feel proud of myself and yeah there were seriously embarassing moments when i used to write the stupidest of code and he would get so furious about it. But i will definitely commend him for being my one stop solution to everything, my GPS, my wikipedia and yeah, my drinks-advisor ;). i remember telling him one day that i could trust him with my life and that still holds,... He is one person who will never let you down if you let him take charge of you, but yeah be careful as to not hurt his ego, he is an egotist to the hilt... but what the heck the guy deserves to be it.
Saurabh... ummm.. of the three he is t
he one whom i love the most, he is my junior-tech-guru, he is the epitomy of patience, was always there to tell me that 'I could'. Always there to listen, never to judge, always to encourage, never to leave you alone. The most sensible and sober of us all and seriously no one can win at an argument with him, he has can hit the nail right on the head.And last but not the least Bolin, i was the youngest in the Gang but mentally Bolin is the most kiddish one. Never a dull moment with him around. But hell i have had quiet serious discussions with him so dont you think he is only jokes and nothing more. The guy loves his golden retriever 'Vader', he loves heavy metal, cars and bikes and has a emotional range of a tea-spoon ;) (he will kill me if he ever reads this blog)
I moved to US few months ago and haven't seen them since, we still get online and group chat or exchange short mails and phone calls often, i miss them a lot, and i miss all that mindless fun and profound talk sessions, and that is one of the reasons for making this lengthy blog entry. I wish i could leave on a profound note but instead i will let them add one if they happen to get to this page ever...
Miss you guys
Love ya all...
Rani :P
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