summer of 99

It might appear a little too stupid thing to remember ... but hell yeah when i remember it ... i feel so much blesssed ... so much covered with the paint of the love of the god ... Not much of us wud have had the oppurtunity to sit on a bed inside a fully fledged Girls' College's Girls' Hostel ... hell yeah i cud remember every single detail of that day ...

It happened when i was in the 7th standard ... It was the summer holidays 1999... I was in my hometown ... CUTTACK ... the place of fairies for what i recall ... It was a boring day ... Mom and Dad were busy, as usual, in their daily routines ... My Grandpa and Grandma had decided to go the village for that day ... And that left me and my brother alone ... I did the daily rituals ... kicked my little brothers ass ... ate the daily allowed dose of icecream ... By the time i finished all these i thot i had passed a big amount of the day ... and then it happened... i looked over my moms shoulder, from the kitchen, with the tilted head ... and all of a sudden i had this feeling ... i felt like a knife had beeen pushed into my stomach and was being pushed and pushed further with all the force the almighty had ... it was 10.15 AM ... jus 10.15 ... i could not believe it ... i had completed almost my every single daily activity and it was 10.15 ... i had no idea what i was going to do ... the whole day waited for me like a big giant demon with its mouth open as if all it had to do was to take me in ... And then it came to me, this is it ... This is how i am going to die ... And then i saw that Angel ... he was my Uncle ... Mamu, i called him ... He was all dressed up ... And that could mean only one thing in the world ... He was going out ... I knew if i ever had the oppurtunity to make this boring day colorful, then this was it ... I started to cry out loud ... My mamu stopped the doing the famous RajniKant cut and came running to me ... yeah Rajnikant was a famous and admired man then ... He had this now-what-happened look on his face ... I cried out louder ... and thus came the success, the victory ... hardwork in crying out loud had finally paid off ... I was on my Mamu's bike ...

Boy i could tell, from the look he was giving me, he was really pissed off at me ... Enjoying the hot breeze of the summer of 99, i asked him the so usual yet so pissing off question ... Where are we going mamu ... He didnt answer me ... He jus gave me that dont-you-bother-asshole look ... fine by me ... and thats when it hit me ... it was friday ... We were going to pick my mausi from SB ... yeah guys ... SB - the famous Shaila Bala Womens' College ... Finally god gave my life the green light ... that yes you could actually enjoy a few moments with those lovely grown up fairies of SB ... you could actually talk to them .. you could actually smell their hair ... from a distance of course ... But yu know, sometimes god could be irrationally rationale with yu in case of luck ... he could jus pour all the sweet honey he had in that pot on yu ... who knew it wasnt jus my lucky day ... it was the luckiest day any alive person could ever have had on planet earth ...

We reached the heaven ... At heavvens' door mamu asked the Gatekeeper to call my Mausi ... Now, the gatekeeper was a proudy man ... i mean it ... he was very proud of his duty ... guarding the Girls' Hostel ... Boy i was reconsidering my career here ... How would it be to be a gatekeeper .... watching the Girls moving in and moving out of the hostel ... moving in - moving out ... It would be so nice ... i could actually talk to them whenever i want ... i could actually look at them for infinity ... And i could be actually be callled Bhaina ... Wait a minute ... I could actually be called Bhaina .. No way ... No way ... Career dumped ... Engineers' good ... I was busy in my thoughts when another good one came ... it was have-a-look-at-yourself-first-stupid thought ... oh my god ... i wasnt prepared for this at all ... i wasnt prepared to meet a 100 beautiful lovely chocolate candies ... and then came the four classic stages ... denial ... anger ... guilt ... and finally depression ... how could i do this to myself ... how cud i come unprepared to the SB Womens' College without preparation ... how could i not have had a makeup before ... this was so humiliating ... i couldnt do this to myself ... Then i remembered this sweet voice inside me ... Wait a minute ... Neha had said that I looked cute ... yeah most of yu wouldnt agree to that but yeah she said that ... and thus i felt a new confidence building inside me ... i went to the bike ... looked in the mirror ... Look at little me ... not that bad ... a little taller ... a little more filled out ... i was good ... i gave my hair a little makeup with my hands ... and decided to take on the fate ...

The gatekeeper bhaina had finally arrived .. and so did my mausi ... ohh she looked so pretty in that pink t-shirt and blue jeans ... But wait a minute ... She picked me up and gave me a kiss on my cheek ... i felt like i had jus swallowed a huge giant stone ... No no ... Not acceptable ... i mean an empty house with my mom and dad and family was fine but this was going way out of hands ... in the public .. she picked me up jus like that ... and then she kissed me on the cheek ... jus like that .... how could she do that ... it was SB Women Colleges' Hostel ... i couldnt be more embarrased ... i could see ... the gals laughing at me .... i could hear them saying see that little stupid kid who gets picked up jus like that ... it was too much ... i was humiliated ... beyond expectations ... i had to do something ... i wanted to hit her ... that stupid gal in pink t-shirt and blue jeans ... who does she think she was ... and i ended up doing something ... i ended up rubbing my cheek ... but even then the stupid girl wasnt done .... as she went to my mamu, she slapped me on her way ... i felt like crying ... but i cudnt do that ... this was SB Womens' Colleges' Hostel ... i cannot do that ...

Anyway ... i stood there ... Maintaining a distance 100 zillion miles from my mausi ... My mamu and mausi got into serious talking ... And all of a sudden my mamu had his finger at my direction ... he was pointing me and saying something ... and from his lip movement i figured it out ... it was pretty much something like ... " I cannot take that stupid dumb foolish kid with me ..." ... He started to kick his bike ... Now i was confused ... he hadnt callled me ... what am i gonna go ... do i have to return home on my own ... no he couldnt do that to me ... its not fair ... and thats when it hit me ... thats when i realised how great god was ... how much he loved me ... i couldnt believe it ... and then i heard it ... "Lipu, yu are gonna stay with me in my hostel for some time" ...

I had this new respect for this young lady ... i wanted to worship her ... i decided to do that ... We went to mausi's room ... She asked me to sit on the bed and went out ... Gals came in from every possible door and talked to me, laughed with me, played with me ... i wasnt sure what was this all about but yeah it surely felt good ... man i was in heaven ... i mean the room wasnt that good but yeah something was there ... it was so ... so ... i still cannot figure out what that was ... but it really had something in it ... and then something happened ... the beautifullest ... loveliest ... cutest angel appeared out from a door ... she had this pink suit on ... God she was beautiful ... i had never seen anything like that ... i felt like climbing the highest mountain ... i felt like diving into the deepest ocean ... i felt like picking her up and kiss her all over ... and then it happened ... she came to me ... she took my face into her hands and started kissing me ... it was a intense but soothing kiss ... i was in heaven ... i was with an Angel ... and BAAAAAM .... and i was dreaming ... She was still at the doorsteps ... and then came the obvious question ... "Who are you and what are yu doing on my bed ..." ... I made the smartest yet the cutest expression i could make ... and answered her .... Introduced myself to the love of my life ... She came to me, sat near me and said ... " Jasmine here sweetie ..." .... oh my god ... this girl was all over me ... Wait a minute ... Did she said Sweetie ... sweetie ... yeah ... we were so bonded ... I was in love ... I wanted to take her in my arms and dance with her forever ... and sit there and talk to her forever ... And then may be if her parents would agree we could marry and have two cute little daughters .. Disha and Drishti ... hmmmmmmm .... we talked ... and we talked and we talked ... and thts when mausi came and said its the time to go ... I didnt wanted to leave ... but i had to go ... i thought Jasmine would stop mausi ... i kinda had this feeling that she loved me too ... i had this feeling that we were like lovebirds ... i had this feeling that we are gonna be the cutest couple ever and so on... And thats when she said ... "Have a nice summer lipu ..." .. I was in shock ... wait a minute ... this girl loved me ... i loved her ... and all she had was ... " Have a nice summer ... " ... I was broken ... i wanted to kill myself .... i was humiliated ... i mean what was all that talking and evrything about .... I walked out of that room with a new lesson ... I learned a new lesson of life ... God had taught me a new lesson ... "NEVER LOVE A GIRL WITH WHOM YOU ARE FACE TO BOOBS ... ALWAYS MAINTAIN A FACE TO FACE RELATIONSHIP ..."