To Pavan

This blog is my brain child, started this as a way to pass time but ended up being a hobby which ultimately became something very close to my heart. I always wrote things which I found interesting or funny or fictional but this one I wanted to pen down not for any of the above reasons. This is dedicated to a person, a guy who had huge impact on me and my friends, Pavan.


Dear Pavan,

We met in first year, not sure of the circumstances but I guess we met cause you were swami’s roommate and I was swami’s classmate, Ultimately we became friends and ended up as classmates in second year. I do remember many many many evenings how we spent over tea cup arguing on cricket, cinema or super natural. Pavan, you know I always enjoyed your company, I’ll always remember the things we did.
I have always learned from you Pavan, many things.

I am always surprised how you find time to talk with every friend of yours! Something I was always amazed.

You always find time to meet up your friends, no matter how short the meeting may be, but you did meet every single one of them. Have to learn this from you!

Every one who has been to your home knows, you and your mom are always pulling each others leg, and you have to admit your mom does make you fall hard!! People think you are always like that, but I have seen how much you are sincere on taking care of them, be it taking them to temple or getting things done for them.

Another thing I wanted to learn from you and I always amazed about it, you remember everything, in fact you remember the final date of assignment submission. But of course you won’t do it but you remember and got copied it from right people. Lucky me, have spent all my college day beside you and submitted my assignments on time!!

How many girls contact did you have? this one the entire world was amazed. I have been with you always in the college days yet you knew more girls and I never knew who they were!! and I won’t forget how many times you tricked me or yogu to canteen and made a punjab out of us while talking to them!

I’ll never forget how we struggle to arrange the first Industrial Visit for our year.  Visiting dean for approval became a regular thing during those days. And the visit was spectacularly arranged!! highlight was our second ooty trip with the entire class! dude I know how much effort everyone put during those days, now I smile remembering how much we struggled.

Remember the kodai trip? I couldn’t stop laughing when Navanee was given a glass of soda water and he thought it was vodka and started getting high. the trip was epic, so many funny moments!!

How could I miss this!! Our paper presentation! oh my goodness, everyone kept scaring us we need to present paper to select in campus interview. we choose a old paper, modified edited it till we understood bits and pieces of it and submitted to many college. at last some college in erode called us!! :-) the hilarious part, yogu was selected in same college in mechanical department paper presentation, we knew then how the college standard was!! We three reached at mid night to a bus stand near college from where we were supposed to be picked up. We were sitting in bus stand alone with a beggar, I still have the video yogu took on bus stand! Ultimate part was how we made bed out of many pillows and slept peacefully. when we woke up we saw some other guy sincerely preparing for paper presentation in our room!! :-D The judge was ulti, she said I’ll give you both a special prize for answering so many questions in Q&A session :-D haa haa! And yogu gave us questions and wanted us to ask it after his presentation…! we both were controlling our laughter the whole time…! awesome times dude!

While returning from passport verification , we didn’t get bus, and asked lift to a truck and rode till college on top of it!! the look the security guard gave us when we got down was priceless!! :D Not sure how , but most of our trips had many funny events, each time we travelled to Chennai there was always something happening!

Pavan, I am a big fan your batting!! For the physique you had and shots you played were great! No one would ever think you would play such a big shots to finish off games. you are one of the smoothest and pleasing to the eye slip fielders I have ever seen!! Your running between wickets sucks though!

How do I ever forget our project together!! that was icing on cake of our college life! SOLITON! We were hopeless until one day we accidently fixed a circuit and got a desired output. But you know it was yogu who nailed our review with his one liner!! I’ll never forget that!! we were rolling with laughter when we walked out of review. But we never gave up, kept doing some nonsense with project in sideline while we dedicated our project time to downloading all movies via our college wifi! ;-) We couldn't stop laughing when we found out that college is funding for proceeding further with our project!! :-D

I haven't even written down half of things we shared but here are many things I learned from you or was amazed by you. I always thought I was a strong person mentally, but it was you who proved it wrong and showed me I was not as strong as I thought. Pavan, I do understand the reality, I do understand the truth, I know you more practical than me and wouldn't like emotional stuffs from me, but all these events I wrote about is not to cause emotional out burst or to inflict the pain. All these things are happy moments in my life for which I have to thank you. I know thank you sounds very odd when said to a best friend but I really do owe you this. You have always been one person who many including me looked up when in need. Even now, this moment,you made me realize something, when ever some one asked me where is pavan? I would say “he is in PV hostel or he is in class or he in tiruvanmiyur or he is in muscat” but now I have learnt to say, "he is here, inside me". For that I have to thank you again. Rest in Peace.

Love,
Kram.

This song reminds me of you always. A small dedication to you pavan.

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Date Night

Aashay was very nervous, he had dreamt about this day his entire life and he wanted to make sure that it went flawless. This day three months back his marriage was fixed with Vritti! After three months of official tour only now he was able to take her on a date. Plan was simple, pick her from home go to a movie then have dinner, drop her back home. Aashay tried taking deep breathes to calm down his mind but in vain. Vritti was simple and charming girl, they both have been in touch very frequently since their marriage was fixed thanks to the skype and whatsapp! Aashay was waiting on his bike, when he saw Vritti walking towards him, she had a simple orange color salwar, her long hair neatly pulled back. The bindi on her forehead ever so small and a warm smile, but what whacked him out of his mind was her sparkling eyes! Aashay got down from the bike and greeted her.

Aashay : “Hey!!”
Vritti : “Hiii!!”
Tingling sensation spread through his body hearing the girlish cute ‘Hiii’. Aashay was constantly reminding himself to be in control!!
Aashay : “Shall we move, I have booked “Ek tha Tiger” in sathyam cinemas!”
Vritti: “Sure! heard the movie is good! Are you Katrina fan?”
Aashay, to himself, don’t blurt out you like all heroines be cool! : “She is fine, doesn't know acting though!”
Vritti: “Oh!! I like her so much, she has cute smile!”
Aashay, to himself, What the helllll!! okay, don’t change the statement! “Yeah she has many hit films, one of top actress in industry now! I like Salman too! Heard he is good guy off screen!”
Vritti: “Yeah I like him too!!”
Aashay, to himself, YEAH!! That’s the way dude!! Score ONE!!

It was a thirty minute ride to the theater, Aashay nervousness seemed to have calmed down a bit!! In his younger days he used to dream of taking a girl on date, this was dream coming true for him!!! Chennai traffic was on full swing, Aashay had to apply brake hard at times, in one such occasion, Vritti kept her hand on Aashay’s shoulders for balance. He was all smiles, the tingling sensation was back again! He started to hum in low voice a song, a specific song, in fact a specific scene from song, it was not for the tune but for the reaction, he looked up and thanked god still smiling.

They reached the theater, Aashay showed his online booking SMS, there was a small glitch in the system which was sorted out and he got his two tickets.
Aashay: “Would you like to have something before the movie starts?”
Vritti: “Yeah I would like to have pop corn!”

Aashay got himself a extra large coke and a big tub of pop corn for Vritti, they settled down on their big comfortable ELITE seats. The movie started and theater became noisy as the Salman Khan made a dramatic entry in the screen as RAW agent, Aashay started sharing few things which he knew about RAW with Vritti, when a beam from torchlight fit his face. He saw a theater employee asking for his tickets, he checked Aashay tickets with another pair of tickets in his hand, both seems to have identical seat numbers!! The employee cross checked again and said to Aashay : “Sir! you have got yesterday’s ticket!”

The words was like a tight slap on his face, Aashay looked at the ticket himself, yes it was indeed yesterday’s ticket, he checked his SMS confirmation, he had wrongly booked for yesterday’s show! He managed a wry smile and asked Vritti to follow him. He looked up and said “God! why ?” , With a extra large coke and a big tub of pop corn still unfinished they made their way out of the screen! There were so many thoughts running on Aashay’s mind, he didn't know what to say.

Aashay: “I am sor…!”
Before Aashay could finish his sentence, Vritti was laughing so hard, that she had tears in her eyes. All Aashay could do now was to smile, he didn’t know what is to be said!
Vritti still laughing: “That was very embarrassing….! Never happened in my life!!”
Aashay smiling sheepishly: “Yeah!! Never happened before! Sorry!”
Vritti regaining her composure: “Hey it happens, its okay! so what’s the plan?”

Aashay looked like a spectacular fool on his first date, he didn't know what is to be done next : “Shall we go to beach? its around fifteen minutes from here, may be we could watch the sunset!”
Vritti agreed, both of them reached the beach, the crowd as less, it was getting dark, they both made their way past the sands to the edge of water. Aashay took Vritti’s arm and said : “Sorry about the movie! I was excited about the date I made mess of the dates!”
Vritti smiled : “That’s okay! Everything happens for good! This is much better than the movie!”
Aashay smiled : “That’s sweet! we will spend time here for a while and then start for the dinner!”

They both sat down on the sand and started talking, after a while Aashay said: “I think we missed the sunset! Shall we start to our dinner? I have booked at a romantic place, it’s a surprise!”
As he finished saying that a big droplet of water hit his forehead! Aashay looked up and saw dark clouds, it looked like it was going to rain cats and dogs!! They both ran for cover, before they could even reach half way to their vehicle it has started to rain so hard that it was not possible to see things, driving would be impossible in this condition. They both took shelter under a “corn” shop, Aashay looked up and said : “God! Why me?”. The rain had no plans to stop, with every minute passing it rained harder! The dinner plan was spoiled! Aashay stomach started grumbling, he was hungry and so was Vritti. They got two fried corn, in the rain condition, the corn tasted heavenly!

(Photo courtesy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeveeaar/4382648132/)

Vritti: “This is the tastiest corn I have ever had!”
Aashay: “I agree!!”
They ate two more corns each and then ate two full plates of various bhaji’s available in the shop. They chatted away while eating, the rain had finally stopped.

Aashay drove Vritti back to her place.
Aashay: “I am sorry, I wanted it to be perfect, but it was messed up!”
Vritti: “It was perfect in so many ways! I enjoyed the time spent with you!”
Aashay: “the movie was totally spoiled, we both got drenched and missed our dinner!”
Vritti: “Aashay! Many people will remember that movie for the box office collection, but in our little world we will remember it for more precious moment! There is an old saying , it not the place which makes it special, it is the person who you are with! this was special to me! It is simple things which gives you more happiness than the extravagant stuff! The plan which you made was for a good date, but what we had was the best date! thank you! go safe and text me!” , she said with a wink.

All Aashay could do was simply shake his head in agreement, he started his bike still smiling, he looked up and said “thanks god!” and started humming the tune for the scene!!

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Patriotism

15th August, Independence day, every Indian knows what the day is all about.

I was travelling back from work that night on office cab it was raining very hard. The streets were clogged with rain water not sure of what is ahead the car was moving at slow pace. The vehicle hit a bump while trying to avoiding a gutter and the noise confirmed that lower portion of the vehicle must have hit something. It was drizzling outside, the driver got out to check if the damage was maximum. The scratch was at the interior portion as the driver had to bend and check it out. He got up looking satisfied, the damage must have been less that what he anticipated. His shirt was soiled as he had to bend check the damage. First thing he did after getting up was to wipe the dirt of the National flag he had pinned to his uniform. I was seated on the back seat and was watching the entire scene, I know this was what everyone would have or should have done, but was happy to see that happen.

We are in a world where everything is express fast and things are changing at greater speed. There was time when I was kid, I was excited to see the “Parade” on “DD National” , but now I am not sure the kids know if such a thing happens on Independence day! Of course they will know what Independence day stands for, they have been fed with the details of day so that they can nail the “two mark” question in social studies exam! I am not blaming anyone but this is what the world we are in( and I am very much a part of it!). Even for the current generation the word “patriotism" is becoming a synonym for supporting Indian cricket team. It is not that the people don’t love their country but most of them are not sure what is to be done. I am very sure every Indian gets upset and angry about terrorism. Every Indian gets emotional when they listen to vande mataram song or this scene from roja.

Current generation has the emotion, it has the anger, it has the willingness to succeed. The support for “India against corruption” is an example. But then the word patriotism is losing its depth, it should be more than just a status on Facebook or tweet in twitter. The “India against corruption” movement has lost the vigor it had at the beginning. The Indians in the past have fought a much bigger battle, they literally had death staring at them at the hands of British. But the current scenario is much different, the equation looks simple yet the results are far far away.

The main difference, in simple words, between the past and present are the leaders. People trusted the Gandhi’s and Netaji’s, people were ready to fight along side them. Why I say this is cause, during the current “India against corruption” the spark created was intense, the youngsters were ready to follow what the leaders wanted. Every Indian Facebook account holders was part of “India against corruption” group, there were meetings in beaches, candle light rally. But then every form of protest vanished and yet the problem remains, in fact the problem has became even more bigger! People are losing their interest, frankly it will be even more worse if their anger is replaced by the acceptance.

The current generation is the one which has seen the transition, It has seen the Doordarshan as well as the latest High definition. This generation has survived the school days without internet or mobile phone, it has the patience and ability. The next generation has a silver spoon in its mouth already, spending an evening with friends involves a “Budget” but current generation knows how to spend quality time without a penny. The future generation may or may not understand the depth of patriotism. The current generation knows “Patriotism” is much more than supporting a team but unfortunately it is handicapped, doesn’t know what to do or whom to look up or believe. We have lots of angry young men but unfortunately very less enlightened leaders to show the path. As the saying goes "Patriotism... is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime" may be this is the right time to start!

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Life after Marriage

March 8th 2008, a day which Anay won’t forget… or it won’t let Anay forget what his life has become. It was on this day Anay married Kavana.
Almost a week after the marriage, only today Anay was alone with Kavana at his home. Anay’s parents had left for yet another one day temple visit for which the newly wed couple didn’t go. Anay wanted to discuss so many things about life with Kavana.
Voice inside Anay’s mind (Voice 1): “This is my night alone with her… a good chance to talk about life and get to know her more…! Day after parents will be back and I won’t get a chance to talk freely like this.”
Anay tries to start conversation with but some how he couldn’t find the right topic to start the conversation.
Voice inside Anay’s mind (Voice 1): “Why am I feeling nervous about…! I am married for almost a week now and now I am feeling nervous to be around her! I even went out with her after our engagement!”
Another voice inside Anay(Voice 2): “Mr. Anay, if you must know this is the first time you are ALONE with a girl at NIGHT at your home, so being a little nervous is not a bad sign you see!”
Voice 1: “Relax dude… she is your wife, you are her husband, you can talk anything with her!!”
Voice 2: “Yeah right… you can talk anything and bore her to death… remember this is not a DATE where the girl goes to her place after dinner, this girl is here to stay with you… FOREVER! so don’t talk like
brainless!!”
Voice 1: “may be you should talk to her about how you both can to do the financial planning… you know buying house or gold or doing savings for future together… since you already have this in your agenda on things to discuss with her…”
Voice 2: “Haa haa… are you even serious?? has it even slightly crossed your mind that on the first night alone, she will be expecting something more romantic rather than this finance talks…! Dude seriously talk romantic stuff!”
Voice 1: “If you act more matured and responsible now, she will feel secured with you and ultimately will share her thoughts to you… that is the way to go, you did all your romance while you were engaged.. went to movies… to dinner… to beach.. all the while I told you to talk these responsible stuff… but you kept acting like you were one of these cool DUDES flirting with her! Now you are married and this time she can’t reject also, talk the responsibility stuff…!”
Voice 2: “Alright…! What will she think about you if you suddenly talk about responsibilities !! she will think the Anay before marriage was a fake!”
Before Anay could make up his mind, kavana spoke to him: “Anay… I am feeling sleepy, shall we go to bed?”
Anay: “Yeah! I’ll join you in ten minutes.”
When Kavana left to bed, anay started gathering his thoughts on what topics to talk to her.
Anay to himself: “Okay I have spent the engagement time very romantically indeed.. dinners.. beach .. movies.. acted ‘cool’.. flirted enough…  if  I hadn’t done it, then my bachelorhood would never have been complete! so that’s settled… We did get to know each other when we were engaged… but as friends… we understood each other likings and dislikes, settled on many silly pet names… but in the end she went to her place and I came back to mine that was a big difference, both of us never understood how we should react to the new environment we were going face… my parents… her parents… these people are integral part of our lives too!”
“May be I should just casually start with my office joining date and talk to her about her office joining date… then move on to office timings… first start with weekends… tell her that we will have great fun weekends… she already knows parents will be going back to hometown in two weeks time and after that she will have to take up more responsibility on handling home stuffs and say ‘of course I’ll help you in everything!’ and she will have to prepare his lunch and dinner  everyday…”
Voice 2: “How do you feel when you are back from office?”
Voice 1: “I work for more than 9 hrs a day… obviously I’ll be tired!”
Voice 2: “You are planning to make her work at home as well as in office… won’t she be tired ??”
Voice 1: “Ohh…..! Okay weekdays I’ll manage in the canteen… she can cook in weekends!”
Voice 2: “Never in your life have you woken up before 10 AM, then why should she wake up, she works the same time as you do!”
Voice 1: “Oh come on she can do it…!”
Voice 2: “you want to maintain your independency even after marriage, then why should she give up hers?”
Voice 1: “How will you know this before you even talk to her…! She loves you a lot she might do this for you!! go and talk this now… at least start the topic…!”
With so much prepared in his mind Anay entered to bed room only to find Kavana deep in sleep and he took only five minutes to get to bed after she went! Anay lied down next to her…
Voice 1: “People should sue the movie directors who show wife bringing coffee to husband in the morning just after bath, neatly dressed and with wet hair… they are imprinting false ideas into people’s mind!!!”
Voice 2: “Don’t get so worked up… being married is not actually like you think… it doesn’t make you ‘complete’… it doesn’t end your need to connect or belong or never be lonely… just a week after marriage your everyday problem has clouded your romantic feeling for her… understand that no couple complete each other they only complement each other… every marriage goes through peaks and valleys, your relationship will be tested then, this is when decision making to love is important… last but not the least even after marriage you need to have the ‘lonely’ time… It is an opportunity to listen to yourself and discover your likes and dislikes. Quiet time alone will help you appreciate any harsh criticisms that arises from within you, remember self-acceptance is an important component of self-confidence!”
Anay didn’t know when he fell asleep but he woke up earlier than usual, the clock showed 7:00 AM. Kavana was still sleeping, her pointed finger nails still had mehandi in them, her light brown eyes were still closed, her plump lips had a strange curl to them, her soft deep breathing making the world seem to stand still. Anay realized how much he loved her, he got up without waking her up.  On a Saturday morning he went into kitchen and prepared two cups of coffee.
He woke her up and handed her a cup of coffee: “Good morning!”
Kavana: “Up so early? and coffee too?? that’s so sweeeeeeeeeet!”
Anay: “Get up… I have big plans for the day!”
Anay took her out for lunch and movie, he did flirt but he also put across his ‘views’ to her. They had a good evening and were on bed to sleep.
Anay to himself: “I did try and do things in a better way than imagined… lets see what happens from here on…!”
Voice 1: “If she understood you, she will be awake before you and give you a cup of coffee when you are awake meaning she is ready to take up responsibility… or else your life is going to be a total screw up!”
Voice 2: “oh come on… we talked so much on this… give her time to adjust and understand!!!”
Anay tried to sleep putting the voices behind, he wanted to catch up on the sleep he missed today morning. Next day, he woke up at 10 AM and he noticed that his parents had returned from the trip. He sat on the sofa half asleep, a cup of coffee was handed over to him……. by his mother!
Voice 1: “Ah… at least your life isn’t going to be totally screwed thanks to your mother!!”
Anay knew he should give Kavana more time to adjust, but his mind was trying to fight off this idea, he had an abdominal lull and even his mom’s coffee was tasting bad…!
All this might have reflected in his face, he heard his mom say, “Coffee was prepared by Kavana, not by me!”
Anay didn’t reply back to his mother instead he took another sip of coffee and it tasted much better!


March 3rd, 2012,
Four years after his marriage, Anay is father to a beautiful girl. It was a Saturday morning, he woke up and went to kitchen to prepare two cups of coffee.
Voice 1: “You should have never prepared the coffee fours years back… you are still making the coffee!!”
Anay ignored the voice and woke up Kavana and gave her a cup of coffee.
Anay: “Good morning!”
Kavana: “Good morning!”
They both were seated next to each other on the couch with their feet up.
Kavana: “You know I never thought you will make me a coffee a week after our marriage and I really love your Saturday morning coffee’s!”
Anay smiled at her said : “You do it every other day which makes it even more special!”
Anay took another sip of coffee and it still tasted good…!

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What happens in GOA!

Vadish was packing his things for a short unexpected trip to… Goa. He received a call from his friend Mahanth if he could come to Goa for the weekend. Although Vadish was excited about the trip, there was a little nagging thought in his mind about the third person who is joining them… Sadvita, she was a good friend to both of them. But Mahanth and Sadvita had huge crush on each other and Vadish didn’t want to be the loner in the group! At last, vadish made up his mind ‘it was Goa’ and he wasn’t going to miss out on this!   Vadish started his journey to Goa, it was Vadish’s second time. Right from college days Vadish dreamed of visiting Goa, every time friends talk about tour, Goa would be on top of the list. And every time it failed miserably! But at last he did make it to Goa two years back with his colleagues and it was dream come true. About 2 million people visit Goa every year! Vadish felt, Goa was somehow was a different tourist spot from others. In Goa one feels disconnected from his routine world, he couldn’t put a finger on the reason… may be it is the location.. or might be the girls… or might be the booze… but all these you get in other tourist spots too.. Single or married, Goa trip is always special!
Vadish started reasoning to himself about Goa: First the clothes, what ever season it might be in Goa, clothes are always less! Vadish did make a self note on his previous Goa trip “the girl you see in Goa is not the same girl you see outside Goa!”, at times it holds good for men too! Next, People don’t accusingly stare at a person with a booze in their hand, how many places in India does this happen? maybe the mind set of people totally changes once they enter Goa! In short Goa becomes synonym for ‘party hard’! Vadish drifter into sleep with these thoughts.
Next morning, Mahanth, who was a localite of Goa, picked him up and drove to his home. They met after a long time and had many things to catch up on their ride home.
Vadish: “Listen dude! I have been to Goa before, I came here again having only one thing in mind, I wanna party hard! Its better if we rent a room, it would be awkward to return to your home late night!”
Mahanth: “Mannn!! My parents are cool, you don’t need to worry about a thing! They won’t mind these stuffs!”
Vadish: “oh!!”
Mahanth: “I know you don’t believe me but see it your self when you get there!”
Vadish": “Has Sadvita reached?”
Mahanth: “Yeah! she is at my home!”
Vadish had a impish smile! Mahanth: “I know what you are thinking!! she is not my girl friend! Just a good friend!”
Vadish: “Hey I didn’t say anything!! She is my friend too… I am happy that she has already met her mother-in-law!! haa haa!!”
Mahanth: “Oh!! Please!!”
Sadvita greeted them both when they reached home. Vadish said to sadvita: “so how are your in-laws?!” and he was replied with a kick on his leg!
Vadish met Mahath’s parents, they were totally cool people! Mahath’s dad offered his car to them. It was sadvita’s first time to Goa so obviously she wanted to visit all the places!
Vadish: “Mahanth I don’t mind visiting places but end of the day you know where I wanna end up!”
Mahanth: “I know… wasted!”
Sadvita: “Let me tell you what vadish, I’ll have a bet with you tonight! I’ll have what ever you have!”
They started the trip with visit to “Chapora Fort” aka “Dil chahta hai fort” then to Anjuna beach and then to Sinquerim beach! Goa was all about beaches and the break taking views.
Fort Aguada is in Sinquerim beach, on the edge of the fort and one can watch waves splash into the fort walls!

Vadish went up to the edge of the wall and stood there, it was a romantic location, he looked around and noticed he alone didn’t have a pair. Mahanth and Sadvita were walking together to the edge, not hand in hand but together! Vadish couldn’t stop smiling but Mahanth and Sadvita took their positions on either side of him! They waves kept splashing into the walls drenching them with water. Vadish noticed Mahanth looking at Sadvita, purposely vadish moved to block mahanth’s view, smiled and raised his eyebrow as if questioning Mahanth. Mahanth looked back to the sea as if nothing happened. Three of them were totally drenched, they dried themselves on the sun. Sadvita was seated on the opposite side whereas Vadish and Mahanth where on one side but seated at a distance. This time around vadish caught Sadvita looking at Mahanth,the look was different, it was a gaze into his relaxed eyes and both of them reflecting the most contented smile. Vadish smiled to himself and said “Lets go people!” and started walking back, mahanth went ahead to get the car.
Vadish: “Ahh.. It is such a romantic spot…! May be I should come with a girl next time!! And I said the same when I was here the last time!”
Sadvita with a sarcastic look: “You are with a girl. remember?”
Vadish replied with a sarcastic smile: “I meant with a girl who loves me and not the one who secretly wants me to ‘get lost’ in a romantic spot!”
Sadvita slapped him on the arm and said : “Shut up! I didn’t want you to ‘get lost’!”
Vadish winked at her and said: “Hey! I didn’t mean you!!”, sadvita cheeks turned pink for few seconds.
The three stopped for lunch in a hotel, it is a strange thing in Goa they don’t serve water in hotel, they won’t even keep glass for courtesy sake. One has to buy mineral water or get the other water! Every shop in Goa sold the ‘other water’ and for the price of mineral water one can easily get the ‘other water’ in Goa!! After lunch they visited more beaches and by evening they went for the ferry ride. Again intentionally Vadish left the two to sit next to each other on the ride, though the idea was silly vadish enjoyed making fun of them! After the ferry ride they went to the BAGA beach for dinner, the beach is so narrow that on high tide the water covers up the entire sand! They had their dinner in one of the beach side restaurant, there were many couples dancing crazily in discotheque! Another striking feature of Goa is the amount of TATTOO shops! Every one gets tattooed as if it is a custom!
Sadvita: “So what you gonna drink?!”
Vadish: “Are you serious?”
Sadvita: “I said I’ll drink what ever you drink!!”
What followed was an eventful night, except Mahanth both of them got wasted and they reached home late night! Mahanth’s parents had already slept, three of them shared a bed in Mahanth’s room. The bed was big enough for three of them. Mahanth noticed Vadish had a smile on his face, “I know why you are smiling, you are sleeping in the middle and we both will sleep either side of you!”
Sadvita was already half asleep: “Vadish, enough of your stupid jokes! I am really really sleepy now!” and crashed into one side of the bed!
Mahanth: “Dude! I didn’t get wasted today cause I had to drive the car, so you have to give company now!!”
Vadish: “what now?!!”
Mahanth brought in half bottle of ‘other water’ and the night re-started itself, they started talking about all the things in the world.
Mahanth: “Man…! How do you know when you are in love?!”
Vadish looked at his glass and then back to Mahanth and thought to himself, why me? why? why? and love?
Vadish: “Out of my vast experience in the field of love, I’ll tell you one thing, when people say, when you are in love: a bulb will glow, girls will dance, you will hear birds singing! that’s total crap! I don’t believe in those things, when you are in love you don’t know it, you only feel it! do you understand?”
Mahanth: “I am not sure man… what is difference between know and feel?”
Vadish again looked at his glass and back to Mahanth, “So he is not planning to give up! Help me GOD!!”
Vadish smiled and said: “That my friend you will know when you are in LOVE!”
Mahanth: “Nooooo!! you tell… you tell the difference now!”
Vadish looked at the almost empty bottle and thought, may be if I push for few more minutes the bottle will be finished and I can sleep.
Vadish: “See you know I am sitting here but do you feel I am sitting here?!”
Mahanth: “huh? what?”
Vadish: “Wait… I’ll give you another example… You know how a cloud in the sky looks, but do you know how it feels to be in middle of the clouds?”
Mahanth: “Ohhhh… I understand what you mean…!”
Vadish looked at his glass again it was empty but Mahanth’s glass was only half empty! “Dude…! I feels great to be in the middle of clouds but imagine what happens when you fall from a cloud… that my friend is painful side of love… finish your glass I’ll tell you more about love!”
Vadish empting the bottle into their glasses: “You like sadvita, don’t you?”
Mahanth just nodded his head… Vadish: “I think she likes you too… but think practically if this will work out or not, both your parents must agree and relatives must agree…! but if you truly love her then go for it man!”
Mahanth: “dude… I don’t know… I am not sure yet…!”
Vadish: “That’s ok! lets finish this and go to sleep!”
Next morning, Vadish was the last to wake up, Mahanth was already in the shower and Sadvita brought Vadish tea.
Sadvita: “Good morning!!”
Vadish: “Morning! you are up early!!”
Sadvita: “Yeah! couldn’t sleep much…! Can I ask you something?”
Vadish sipped his tea and nodded, Sadvita: “What were you guys talking yesterday night?”
Vadish almost choked: “What? we were just talking things…! why? what happened?”
Sadvita: “Oh nothing… I just heard bits and pieces of it…!”
Vadish avoided looking at her and kept sipping his tea. Soon, they started their day with Calangute beach then to Panjim and Mapusa. By late evening they went to Tito’s, this was one of the famous spots in Goa. This time Sadvita opted to drive back home, so Vadish and Mahanth had a great time! The place was so full of people Vadish and Mahanth kept turning their heads in every angle so that they don’t miss even a single girl in there! At last they reached home, Vadish had to catch flight in the morning, he crept into one side of the bed and dozed off.
Vadish woke up in the morning and packed up things in a hurry, said Good bye to everyone, Mahanth drove him to the airport.
Vadish: “I noticed something today morning, when I woke up I wasn’t on the middle of the bed!” and started smiling.
Mahanth: “We still have time to reach the airport so no worries!”
Vadish: “Answer me dude!!”
Mahanth stopped the car: “That’s cause you slept on one side of the bed yesterday night! Remember?”
Vadish: “oh did I???”
Vadish smiling impishly: “So…?”
Mahanth: “I have to talk to you before you leave… and I think Sadvita will also call you later!”
Vadish smiled faded: “What happened?”
Mahanth: “ After you slept we both were talking for a while and then I proposed her… It was stupid I know… may be it was the booze… but it was… She didn’t say anything at first… it seems she heard bits and pieces of talks we had the night before… especially the part about family situation and how relatives would react and stuff…!”
Vadish : “Dude… I am really sorry I didn’t really mean those things… I was wasted and you were not finishing your rounds soon enough! I’ll talk to Sadvita that it was my mistake! I’ll call her right now!”
Mahanth: “No! Don’t! She heard only bits and pieces of our talk… but…”
Vadish: “Dude.. I am really sorry I screwed this… Goa trip was supposed to be full of great memories… I didn’t expect this really!”
Mahanth: “And I told her what you told me…!”
Vadish: “I am stupid man! I shouldn’t given you advice when I was wasted!”
Mahanth: “I told her .. ‘In my life I have know only how the cloud looks like but when I am with her I feel like I am in the middle of clouds…You are very special to me’ !”
Vadish look shell shocked, he couldn’t find the exact words to describe how he royally messed up his friends love life with his advice!
Mahanth: “She kept looking at me for a while… as if I spoke something which was off limits… and then she kissed me!”
Vadish: “She what?!”
Mahanth was beaming and blushing, his face was red: “she kissed me and said… she was sorry, she felt the same way and she shouldn’t have listened to your words, family will always understand, she had seen my parents and was confident that her parents will approve our love!”
Vadish looked confused, Mahanth: “what? what’s with the confused look?”
Vadish: “So I was just sleeping on the same bed where all this happened?!”
Mahanth laughed out loud: “Yes… you were sleeping on the same bed where all this happened!”
Vadish: “Dude first of all congrats…! I am really really happy for you both but this is the most happiest and awkward news I have heard in my life at the same time! God!! I shouldn’t have slept!”
Mahanth: “Hey! if you hadn’t slept then I would never be this happy.. and… don’t mention to sadvita that cloud dialogue was yours!” , vadish smiled and nodded, they started to airport.
Vadish had given love advices to many, but a statement half consciously said turned the love life of a person. The flight was gaining altitude, Vadish saw the beautiful view of Goa and thought, or maybe it was just the magic of Goa that made people fall in love with each other.

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