Baroda-Bhopal-Baroda!

:D yeah yeah.. like Kota says...'You have wheels on ur feet... rather you have wheels only instead of feet!' ~giggles!

En route from Baroda to Bhopal (a scribble in diary being copy pasted as such!):

The train and her auto reach together at the platform and Dad's the one who's actually tense even though he's been tellin her to relax every 5 mins that he calls her to ask, 'pahunchi ki nahi? relax relax!' :D Settled in.. inot her corner with her book n pod.. she calls up Mom! mom's constant refrain these days is, 'Ur an MBA! I'm old now!!!!' She's lying... Mom's the one Mom who could never get old! She sometimes has to remind Ma, 'Hey Bhagwan!! Aaap Ma ho!' :D The situation is so crazy that Mom keeps wishing urs truly wears mini nskirts, and urs truly keeps dodging her about it! Size to theek thaak hone ka maangta na! Theek hia, I'm in shape and round is a shape but that's like not the right shape for such sexy clothes!!! :P

Well... call's over and she's enjoying her moment... when she suddenly realizes she's all blue.. (kurta, jeans, earrings, clutcher and even the chappals! and - don't scream.. even the diary she's writing in!!) but her aura happens to be a soft lavender! And the pen happens to be purple too! (call it a coincidence of sorts if you will...!) :)

Well... a few hours into the journey and Dear Darling Di calls up just when she's eneters the loo! Sone pe suahaga:
YT (yours truly): Hiiiii!
Di: Kya kar rahi hai??!!!
YT (mann hi mann!): kya javaab de koi ab??!!!!!!! :P

Well... as is usual... the world around her started their usual rant of 'Madam light off kar dengi aap please!' (somehow she's always travelling with oldies!!! some twist of fate! serisously!!) So she switches off the lights.. walks to the door.. opens and and lets the breeze play with her hair while she listens to a friend strumming the guitar on her pod! :)

Adventures with Mommy:

Tea, Papdi chaat, Ma aur beti!!! :D Kisse kahani's of college... Pics from Dad's China trip (bahut ghoomte hain ye bhi - so its kinda hereditary Kota!! :D) and plans for the convo! :)

You know how she welcomed me home? An amazing bunch of white gladiolous and pink carnations!!! And a card that says:

'Welcome home My MBA
Little prayers for special things
fly heavenward on little wings...
And there is not one thought or word,
that goes unanswered or unheard.
As you step into your home,
may you realize this fact in every way,
that our prayers and blessings were with you,
each and every moment when you were away!
You were Really Missed!'

I jus hugged her so tight! :)

A special evening with Mom - went to the handicraft mela... and sat down to listen to the ghazals... both of 'em were softly humming the tunes... Luv ya Ma! We need to do this more often!

The night! This is crazy! And i swear, 'Meri koi galti nahi hai for the way i am! It's all in my genes!!!' Ma's starting this new venture of hers for which we needed to distribute pamphlets... the local newspaper wala was given a tonne of those and the regular stuff was done.. but khuraafaat kiye bina hum thode hi maanenge!! Mother and daughter in their most silent pair of skippers with a load of pamphlets in their hands at 11:30 in the night go for a walk in their colony and 2 meighbouring ones... putting pamphlets silently in every house!!! Koi dekh le to conveneintly walk straight and the expression, 'humne kahan kuch kiya?!!' :D giggling, laughing, whispering!!! They covered 300 houses that night in an hour! Efficient for amateurs on foot right?!! :D Haalat ye this ki apne ghar pahunch ke bhi whispering!
YT: 'Hamar hi ghar hai..!
Ma: 'Arrey haan!'
(major outburst of laughter!!!!!!)

En route from Bhopal to Baroda:

It's a crazy kind of feeling in her head... a purple grey aura.. (she doesn't like grey.. it makes her numb! it's thankfully softly been blown away... :) ) And thence, she's sitting there with a funny grin on her face, the world around her could shatter and she'd say, 'Yeah baby! bring it on!'

Travelling 2nd AC! Don't start wowing! 3rd AC is heaven! This is overpriced and what you get are rats and cockroaches as bedfellows!! And to keep you company are some dity curtains and as is usual with me... old uncles snoring away to glory! My poison: Mom's parathas, a rumball and some mountain dew! And of course the doorway and music! :)

A messgae: From Shekhar aka Nirma Mommy!! He's gettin a tattoo! (permanent)!! on his arm of course!! :D it's the Third Eye! Loads o lectures from me to him.. (role reversal... ;-) ) He sent me a pic of it n now i call him, 'Macho Mommmmyyy!' :D In between... a chit chat with Kota.. debbie's refrain the background and CT, the crush of my life giving me my biggest heart attack! He sez he'll hang up his shoes and leave basketball 3rd April! I literally had tears in my eyes! The sweetheart that he is, said 'achcha theek hai.. i'll try it for another month!' (She: Temporarily pacified!)

Thoughts: Past and Future!
'Rememebrance is the only paradise from which you cannot be driven away!' and 'Don't be afraid to dream for out of these fragile things come Miracles!' :)

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Parallel Thoughts:

Steam Engines: She has no idea how this wandered into her head! She travelled in it once and all she remebers of it is a a lot of coal in her hair and everything had a blackish tint!!! :D The next thing that comes to mind is the story of the engine that looked at this big hill and chugged, 'I think I can, i think I can' and then after havin crossed it merrily sang, 'I thought i could!' :) A li'l faith can work Miracles right?!

Next thought: The evolution of man as is illustrated here....


Finally: the kid in the next berth! Her eyes actually... innocent, wandering, curious.... wanting to explore but somehow.. restricted! (That's a heavy statement I know.. it could well launch us into a discourse of the what's n hows of society etc.. !) Phew!

Stay happy and stay sweet! For the next week or 10 days! Yup, thoughts of a trip with buddies happily float in my head right now! :) cya!