Birthday Baby!

2nd October was my B'day and boy what a B'day it turned out to be!! I certainly will remember it for a long long time to come, and that too for plenty of reasons.

One shady reason was just before I got up, I had this dream that it was 2nd September and that I had forgotten to wish my parents on their Marriage Anniversary. So half-asleep I immediately called up my mom and wished her Happy anniversary only to realise that it was 2nd October. People would have heard of sleep-talking and sleep-walking, but sleep-calling?? Woah!

The number of people wishing me was stupendous, and it dint do any harm to my self esteem. Hey people seemed to like me! :)

The Mess Tatha was in a particularly benevolent mood and gave me enough sakarapongal to even satiate me!, me who has an insatiable appetite for Sweets.

I donated blood for the first time in my life and felt satisfied with myself about having done my small bit for society, inspite of the nurse bulbing and inserting the needle wrongly and giving me a big ugly lump on my hand.

My girl friend wanted me to come and pick her up from the main gate(of the insti) amd visit all the temples where presumably she prayed (for my good health) and I goofed around; occasionally trying to recall vestiges of the many slokas I had learnt in my childhood, a long long time ago. After the temple visit was completed we were to go to the stadium where I knew that
some of my friends were also to come and we were to just have a quite get together.
But as I enter what do I see? My whole gumbal had turned up and were all waiting for me. After the customary cheery greetings and my expressing great pleasure at their all being there, they got down to the primary business of giving me birthday bums.
The girls started it off and I as is my wont couldnt keep my mouth shut, I just had to comment that I could hardly feel anything and that it was like a soothing balm for the bums I had already recieved at midnight. That was just the kind of encouragement the guys needed and they set to work with a vengeance. Pointy put all his footballing skills to good use, and ghattu pulled his weight around well for the cause. But the surprise winner bummer was Rakesh Garwal, aka PK,who looks nerdy and one wouldnt normally expect it out of him. The $#$@*$# packs a reall punch! But he will get his just deserts soon as his b'day is approaching!. I cant wait.

So after the guys had derived sadistic pleasure from bumming me(or rather my ass) black and blue, they settled down to watch me cut the cake and after that broke into a cacophony singing happy birthday. A slight diversion here to describe the cake, it was a lovely piece of work shaped like a heart and pale pink in colour(MY gf's handiwork I presume) with Ashwin (thankfullynot katta or it would be katta kutting a cake)written on it. I then got cake plastered all over my face, but anyway it felt good to have my cake and eat it too. After the cake was polished off, it was time to open the gifts they had got me! Yeah, Gifts! and there were so many!!
There was a beautiful alarm clock shaped like a house (Sigh! guess I cant bunk classes now
with the usual excuse of having crashed off), a nice T-shirt, greeting cards that made me go weak in the knees, Books(I love them), a rather nice ceramic doll which depicts a man dancing with a girl(I like to imagine thats me and my GF) and then of course a most beautiful watch (of which i have written before!).
So soon after much back slapping and pulling each other's leg, everyone started dispersing and I rounded the great day off with another trip to the main gate with my girl friend,
where we went and had Badam Milk(totally mind blowing) at Hot chips. Sometimes I feel it got over too soon. I had so much fun!

Forgive me guys for putting senti and all, but Thank you all for putting so much fight for me and arranging all this. It felt really great and your warmth and affection overwhelmed me.This certainly was one of my best b'days and certainly the best I have had in my last 4 years at IITM.
Thank You all! thank you Ghattu, Pointy, Sunt, Undi, Pyaare, Jumper, Whykaas, Matcha, PK, Pingala, Swathi, and last but defi not the least, thank you Rohini(for everything!!).

P.S: For some reason or the other 3 of the guys couldnt turn up, Jumper because he was doing duty for IITM in Roorkee thulping others on the way to 3 silvers and 1 gold, Vikas because he had gone to visit his friend, and Matcha because he couldnt be found on time! It would have been totally super if they also had turned up. Missed you all!