Kalyaaaaaaaanam

Gloomy Sunday afternoon. It was a long weekend and there was no one in the pg except me, Shyam and darkness - result of BLooDY powercut! We opened the window and sat at the table and were having a Language Exchange Program. I was teaching her Telugu and she was teaching me Tamil.

                           
                           "What r u doing?"

                           "Em chesthunnav?"

                           "Enna pandra?"

Shyamala asked "I miss u" ???

I started thinking.....
"miss vaa????" .....
"MISS vaaaaaaaa????!!!!"....
"Ennadhu?? MISS Vaaaa!!!????????? " .......
Before I strain my brain, I told her "iLLa...no such word in TeluNGu (baby ma's version of telugu)"

Then some stupid Gult and Tam exchange about "Like" and "Love" and then....

                         "Will u marry me? :D"

                         "Nannu pelli chesukuntava? :D"

                         "Naanu neenu kalyanam pannikulama? :D"

By evening, Arch and Shreyas arrived from Chennai. The moment they entered the room, Tam words started flowing from my mouth half of which dint make sense! Finally I could recollect and frame the last sentence that I have learnt "Naanu neenu kalyanam pannikulama? :D :D" I was facing Arch when I said this as Shreyas was not around I guess :P  

Arch stretched her arms and said "I AccePT...AccePT and ACCEPT" !!!

The Night Unfolded...

~* JiNi-piG *~

So after many days of contemplating when to have the first PG party, we decided on a Saturday night to disturb the so-called people who live around us. Shyamala, Arch and I went to Spar to get the party drinks and snacks. It was when we entered the supermarket that we realized we didn’t exactly have a list of things to buy per say. So we thought we’d randomly buy the snacks and alcohol... Shyamala approaches a scrawny looking kid who apparently was working at the market, goes up to him and says with a funky attitude: Where’s the booze? This shyamala attitude was received by a big question mark on his face..thus she repeated her query and asked: WHERE’s the BOOZe?! Da Booze? Booooze..booooze… I stepped in and asked the guy where the alcohol is kept before he could shit in his pants from the confusion this certain customer was asking. Finally we reached the ‘Booze’ section and were hunting for some tequila and vodka, spending almost 30-40 minutes calling up the others if they were okay with our choices, we triumphantly decided on a bottle of tequila and 2 Bacardis and marched out of that area with an extra Foster’s beer and some breezers. Strolling down the aisles we grabbed some munchies, crunchies, and juices apt for the alcohol we bought, and made our way back to the pg.

Later that evening, we all got ready in our respective pjs, Shreyas in her super sexy kick-boxing shorts and multicoloured fluorescent rainbow socks,Arch in her wonderful mind-blowing stripey 3/4ths and a tee and Shyamala in her lil green skirt..PRaa and Sheryl weren’t present at the party and I wonder how it would be with them around as well! The first drink we all had was reasonably mixed with either 7up or coke, and after a few minutes, chugged that down and since then we’ve only been downing shots one after another till we managed to empty a whole tequila bottle and a Bacardi. Soon after, with almost blurry vision and heaps of unnecessary laughter now and then, as I walked into the kitchen to drink some water I saw Arch sprawled out onto the bottom of the stairs fast asleep, possibly snoring? Couldn’t hear from all the music and noise..I giggled and went up to her and mumbled ‘Achna?’ – didn’t hear a response..so I tried again ‘ Achana??’ ( stupid drinks making me slur like anything) and then! A quiet moan ‘ mmm?’. I then tried to tell her as lucidly as I could that she’s sleeping on the stairs and she might as well go sleep upstairs on her bed comfortably to which she mumbled ‘ ahhh I’m verrry comfortable here, it’s nice, you should try it!’ and there she lay like a Spinx. I knew if I let her sleep there despite her unconvincing effort to tell me she’s highly comfortable, she will wake up the next morning all stiff and hurting everywhere, so I shook her with all my might and told her to get up and lie down on a sofa instead to which she sprang up and walked about unbalanced for a few seconds mumbling something else which I didn’t hear. Shreyas was walking and dancing around while Divya suddenly decided to chase her and take off her fluorescent socks which were pulled upto her knee! Seeing this, Shyamala also joined in to take off the other leg’s socks. With 3 unbalanced girls trying to pull off Shreyas’s socks, that poor girl finally fell down onto a bean bag and surrendered to them quite easily without putting up a fight..so much for kick-boxing! Swarnima, I noticed, was dancing to the beat of the music and randomly kicking people for pure pleasure, and when she realized that no one kicked her back she took that as a ‘kick me more,I don’t care’ sign and resumed her little spontaneous activity with sheer joy! It was only when she kicked Arch that she realized she cannot go kicking everyone without getting some back from someone or the other. Arch started kicking Swarnima back with as much as the same amount of love Swarnima gave her. It was quite a sight, I must say! Shyamala was having her own little thing going on the side. Seriously, people get really emo when drunk, which at times is probably a good thing to let out anything that’s been suppressed. Anyways, towards the end of the party, with some of them asleep on a sofa or something, we had a round of Strip S&T which hmm..let me just say that it ended quite interestingly where I wished I had worn more jewelry to remove rather than clothes!!! We all went to bed early in the morning and when asked later that day about their recollection of the previous night, not many had much to remember! Thus, this story J…

Dosa session- ruined!!!!

%< Achu-pichu >%

FLASHBACK!

We were happily cooking, one Friday evening when the doorbell rang in a rude way which indicated the presence of an unwanted intruder in our evening bonding time. This began a frenzy of WHO will open the door since all of us were quite inappropriately dressed. So Sheryl grabs a jacket on and opens the door by which time the person outside has rung the bell 10 times. The owner’s son stood looking absolutely livid outside the door, and began screaming at us for putting the motor on and not switching it off. Since it was truly our fault, we began responding in an apologetic and reasonable tone. Yet he continued to raise his voice which made me lose my temper and yell back. Finally Sheryl stepped in, signalled me to stop arguing after which the moron left.

 Present day story

7/8/2010

                What happened this evening made me realize that moti bhains is not the only weird soul in this world whom I can absolutely not understand. The owner lady’s son ( I somehow think the law of equal distribution of parent’s genes in an offspring completely skipped this family. He is his mother’s copy. Quite sad really). Anyway, the owner lady’s son(hence forth referred to as OLS in this story) comes ringing the bell. Just once, unlike his usual way of ringing the bell a dozen times, which made me think my darling husband maybe back with 2 pairs of pretty white-grey socks for me ;). Alas, wicked are the ways of the world, and there he stands.

CONVERSATION BETWEEN ARCH AND OLS

Arch: looks enquiringly. (is too pissed with him to offer any pleasantries)

OLS: what happened last night?

Arch: THINKS: “ummmmmmm”........... LOOKS: *ummmmmmmmm*

OLS: Who came here last night?

Arch: THINKS: “you did!! Duh!” (thoughts running in her head. “is this guy a twin? Maybe he’s the good twin and it was the evil twin who came and fought with us? Or maybe he’s suffering from MPD.? Yeah that explains it”). LOOKS: *ummmmmmmmmm*

OLS: We heard screaming. Who was screaming?

Arch: THINKS: “yes u heard screaming u ghaas khate hue gadhe! (translation. Grass eating donkey). WE were screaming at each other remember? (“maybe not MPD. Maybe he suffers from ghajini syndrome? “) LOOKS: *ummmmmmmm*

OLS: Around 12 or 1 in the night? What happened?

Arch: THINKS: “oh finally! NOW I understand”  LOOKS: *realization dawns* SAYS: Ohh that!! Yeah, we had an unwanted visit from god’s biggest mistake (read lizard), so we were just giving it a fond send off.

OLS: “ohh ok! We were worried . thought it won’t be right to come knocking at your door so late in the night!”

Arch: THINKS: “yeah right! Where was this etiquette consideration when you came banging on our door at 9 in the night you Litchi! SAYS: “OK”

OLS: “If you ever have any problem, do come and tell us”

Arch: THINKS: “will do. The day moti bhains weighs 50 kgs.” SAYS: “OK”

OLS leaves, arch goes back to making dosas.

Jini wakes up disoriented as she had fallen forbiddenly asleep while watching some hindi movie. As she had woken up, she quietly went to do some nature-calling and went ahead to the dark eerie balcony to wash her hands..and as she was approaching, may I add WITHOUT her glasses, she saw a black looking thing move in front of her and stand upright... AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! She went as she cupped her heart ...AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! went the black looking thing and realised it’s none other than Arch, wanting to wash her hands as well after eating her well-made dosas. !

Liz day!

"Praaa"

Yayyy Friday night :D we just had our dinner and were planning to watch some movie in my laptop. We wanted to watch Knight and Day but since the print was not good we finally decided on “once upon a time in Mumbai”. There was no Tom cruise on the the screen so I could blink my eyes and also can afford to have a glimpse of outside world. I was checking if all the windows are closed properly and then I saw something moving on the floor. It was a very small lizard of about half inch in size. I showed Jini “lizard lizard..” she said “don’t say it loud..arch ll get scared! ”. Arch was deeply involved in the movie mesmerized by the pretty faces of the heroines. So she couldn’t hear us even though we were sitting on the same bed. And then at 12 O'clock, arch screams “lizard lizard!!” and we both pretended “ohh where is it..where where?” She paused the movie and said “catch the lizard” to both of us. Jini already killed a lizard accidentally last week so she dint want to do it. I was scared of lizards so “no way!”. Arch started describing the places from where it could pop-out if we left it in the home. I couldn’t bear those thoughts so I said get the broom I ll try. The plan was to somehow make liz ( Im getting goose bumps every time I write the word lizard.. so I named it liz for now ) move till the door without touching or squeezing it. The moment I tried hitting liz’s nearby space with broom, it ran and hid under the fridge and I couldn’t see it. We had to think of someother plan. We missed Sheryl this moment as she said once “if there is a liz in our house, I ll catch it with tail and throw it out” Catch it with tail?!! Yaks. Only God knows if she is really gonna do it. Jini said “If we use broom it will get squeezed…we need something else…aah..may be a cup or something like that to cover it and keep it moving till the door”. I pointed a shoe box and said we can use it. So Jini was holding the lid of the shoe box in her hand on one side of the fridge and I was standing on the other side. Arch was standing a bit far from where she can see the liz and was directing me to keep moving the liz towards Jini’s side. Liz was very scared and was trying to climb the fridge. Finally after halfanhour I could push it on to Jini’s side and she slowly placed the shoe box on it. She slowly started moving the thing towards the door. When she reached the door we dint know what to do! As there is a small step there, we cant move the shoe box anymore. We had to find someother way. I got a paper and placed it on the floor. I asked Jini to keep moving it on to the paper so that the shoe box is covered at the bottom with this paper and then we can roll it on top and throw it out. She kept moving and damn!! the paper had a hole! Somehow three of us together managed to cover the shoe box with paper completely with me standing outside the door and Arch and Jini inside. Jini started lifting the shoebox slowly and then suddenly liz fell down. All three of us screamed and I was trying to move backward and I tripped and fell screaming. Technically liz was as far as Antarctica is! I really don’t remember why I was trying to run away. Then I guess Jini put an end to our drama of not killing  liz and she lifted it with broom and threw the broom in to the balcony. Arch was saying “throw it in to the mans house who shouted at us” hehe. When we came in, Jini and Arch burst out laughing. Arch said “what a dramatic queen you are! You fell in a perfect tv-serial type…and ended up in a perfect bollywood pose!” It happened in a fraction of a second, so I don’t remember how I fell but I do remember the end pose and it was something like this.