Nostalgia 2

UPDATE 12/5/06 - To the man of many names... call him Ram, call him shantaram, call him ramji... i still go with the original ;-) HAPPY BIRTHDAY VINAY!!!! Have a blast! And damn you're 20! Nitya'd say "Old age's catching on"! lol... and yes, we await the treat :D Good luck for the year to come...and beyond.

I voted today. I'm so proud of that purple line running across one digit of the index finger of my left hand. I'd like to think it makes a difference. This post is not about poilitics, or voting, or the elections. I just realised that the sentences i've typed are so disconnected. But i like it this way. Because sometimes, things do seem so disconnected....until that 'connection' is made. I'm blabbering. I didn't mean to. I want to stop. But its not stopping. It's just tumbling out of me. My fingers just cant stop typing. aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!

Ok, sorry abt that.

Besi. The word synonymous with the 'oh my God i don't know how many people i'm going to bump into this time!' feeling...Beaches can do crazy things to people...or maybe it just depends on the people you go there with. I for one, was among a group of the craziest people i've ever met...the whackiest. And well, ofcourse we cracked up. Alot. We didn't waste more than a minute being awed by the beauty of the water and te beckoning breeze. Our topic of interest shifted to the bill boards of rahul dravid that used to be there a while back and how the present ones make no sense at all. Aah, how important. Our odyssey to reach the edge of the sands and see the water was very expectedly disturbed by a detour taken by 2 among us. A tempting detour indeed. To the hand-operated merry-go-round! My dear pal nitya and I went in search of a dustbin to discard the uncooked contents of a transparent polythene cover while lavanya and nidhee were very busy getting excited to sit on the 'oh-i-am-waiting-to-be-broken' wooden seats of the merry-go-round. And the world became one big circle. Too bored of watching the two merry-go-round-ers scream and laugh and sway, we took to observing our footwear! And Nitya, the architect, decided a photograph of our footwear would do the world good :D

The odyssey continued. Through the sticky sands and non-stop comments. And there was this 'moment' when we reached the waters...somehow, the receding waves always have this particular 'effect' on the mind....like it can hold your attention forever...like you'll never get bored of staring into the abyss...and out of nowhere, the song 'alaipayuthe' plays in the mind...that always happens. But that moment, was short enough...quickly pushed out of the mind by a photography session! And there my metallic smile comes into the picture! Literally metallic... :D We sat, stood, smiled, made faces....and results of such disastrous acts are yet to be seen! The long stretch back to the road leading home had to be taken...

Nitya puts her hand (which it must be noted, is nothing more than the thinnest bone in the world covered by a little flesh) ;-), around my shoulder...like we're going ot have the most senti conversation in whole wild world because we met after so long...u should read this...

Me : Lavanya's going to have two dogs later in life.
Her: ya me too
Me : two?
Her : No, one. Those really furry ones! The lassie types!
Me : *laughter*
Her: But i'm going to have twins
Me : Oh... yeah?
Her : Yeah...before i used to want a boy and a girl. But now, i'm settled for two boys.
Me : *suppressing laughter* (facing difficulty closing mouth cuz of braces!!) ok... then if i have a boy and you have a girl, can we exchange?
Her : Yeah totally!I already have that deal with so many people!
Me : *burst out laughing*

at this juncture, lav and nidhee enter the convo. And i very gracefully explain what we've been discussing....

Nid: But if you exchange, your twins wont be identical anymore!
Nitya: No that deal's only when i have a single child!
Lav : but how can u be sure u'll have twins!
Nid: Oh that's simple. You just have to practice ART.
*all stares and eyebrows raised at the word*
Nid : *quickly realising where devious minds run to* Oh ART is just assisted reproductive techonology!!!!
*burst out laughing again*

There ends the topic of twin babies and the way nidhee always has to prove that she's doing medicine... nj, we understand the insecurity!

Some days just keep you laughing... i was laughing about that conversation even 3 hours after it happened. And about the merry go round, and all the crazy snaps....and the bill boards...and the discarded packet of kadalai...we walked abt 100 metres in search of a dustbin! Nostalgia, yet again. A feeling that's always bitter-sweet. A feeling that sometime's seems to overflow from the mind...pouring into each cell of your body...taking control. *sigh*
Nidhee, nitya, lav - thanx !! Great day!

PS: Am not really in the 'sequel mood' or anything....all '2's comin out... or maybe i am ;-) considering pirates of the carribean 2 is coming out!! wooo hooooo!!!

Yours ' Crazy days end up tickling dormant nostalgia'ly
Signing off........