My Best Friend..:) (Uttara)

Topic which i lost oops i mean i didn't write on!! :D

my best friend..

i got 2 whom i would introduce here in a while.. but b4 plunging into that i wanna ask you all why there is sooo less people around here? Is it the attitude saying lets others do it 1st? or you all need a whack on ur backside or is it that you guys want attention and 'asking' oppps sorry ! 'begging' you all to put a post and be here.. I understand people are busy but its hard to believe that all are busy at the same time! what happened to the sense of belongingness towards this place? I think all of us have lost it ... And all the emotions were FAKE i guess.. if you guys think its NOT fake then prove it.. don't ask me how?.. you guys know it well..

ITS SAD INDEED!!
Its 24th today and the new topics haven't been updated.. *sigh* guess all are banking only on ISHI ! Isn't it SAD?

Alright coming to the topic.. my best friend One who has been my childhood friend Kavitha :) and the other i met during my college days Jigisha ..

let me go one by one...

Kavitha : who has been just like me types.. we have laughed, cried, fought, done all the masti on earth and we are an open book for each other.. I cant hide anything from her neither she.. We relate so well that people around us always wonder what exactly happened :P

I have sooo many memories bound within me right from our childhood till date.. life is such a journey it got us apart she is settled in Cochin now.. and we crave to meet and have our fun time.. *sigh! We fight on every small thing and next moment we would behave as if nothing has happened..lol.. we party whenever we meet :D "girls party ;)" and and and and... lot many secrets to let out:p soooooo SHHHHHHHHHHH! hehe

Jigisha : If not for her i wouldn't have been a Graduate..lol.. It's all her nagging that i used to sit and study in the reading hall and finish my portion:p. Else i would be gallivanting around with all my other friends in the college:p She is my college friend i met her at NIIT and then realised she was from the same college.. it was a funny incident .. anyway.. she recognised me as i was a hoo haa girl i mean famous in the college befriend with many.. she is just opposite! but our lives have been in similar lines so we hit on well... She is just 10 days younger to me but, when we meet she is the boss:P.. If i say no then god only can save me:p..heheh sometimes am scared of this woman.. cos she will go ballistic on my stupid acts, even after knowing this well.. at times i will do it purposely :p. With this woman .. my mom will trust her blindly b4 she even listens to me..lol!!

With both i have different relationships yet soo true and pure .. i can trust them blindly w.o a blink of my eyelid or second thought!

They both have been with me during my thick and thin i owe them a lot.. but, in friendship does give and take matter?? at least with these 2 it hasn't that's the best part in the whole relation..

I'm blessed to have them in my life !

HUGGGGZ

Childhood!( Abhishek)

Two in one..
What and how is 2-in-1.
The post is, It covers both the topics.

It covers, both My favourite Childhood memories and my best friends.

We used to have this tradition, all thru the years we have grown .. Summer holidays would mean the great dhamal and get together with all maternal aunts and cousins in delhi @ Nani'z ( maternal Granma and Granpa)
and every Diwali would be the great dhamal get-to with all paternal uncles and cousins @ Biji -Papaji ( Paternale Granparents)

( yes I do not have Maternal uncles and Paternal Aunts..)
So favourate memories have been way too many.
With more than one pair of twins in the famili, ( my mom and my Maternal aunt , and my cousins from my paternal uncles side) the fun was always a little more

You can imagine Six kids with a 2 odd years progressive age difference, no one could stop us from jumping on beds ( all together) and yelling, to Throwing water at each other in the verandas in the great Delhi Summers till all water gets over..

TO the amazing walks in the night with Nana treating all kids to ICE Cream!!( I miss my Nana big time, the amazing person he was, he could make the dullest statement into the biggest joke of the world)
He has made all laugh so so much!

And the Diwali's used to be a "BLAST" in a big way. We used to get the Huge Basket fulls of crackers and, the night used to fall short to blow all of them, till our folks would yell.."Goto sleep.. otherwise...."

And my best friends are all the members of our famili!!
I have ADORABLE sisters ( you can spot four in the pic )
amazing brothers, and my uncles and aunts are way tooo cool.!! It is usually difficult for my friends to absorb the kind of amazing understanding we all share with each other.

NOt to unmention a Special palce for my mom, dad and bro !! ( yeah now sister -in-law too) Bhabi
( touch wood)


Task for Amy/John/Wacko...... You have to locate more than one person you know in this pic?( Pssst dont comment, just tell me yes or no)

I Dream of "Gini" (Sam)

Alright now, first things first. Don't let your imagination fly with the title..... that's my best friend... the one closest to me. Though there are many whom I can term the same, she takes the cake... and by miles. The reason being she has never met me!! Intrigued?? Hmmm.......... guess i have to tell you a story.........

The story between Sam and Gini began around 7 months back, when they came across each other in the world of Orkut. Before that they knew about the other's existence through a common friend. So not really strangers to each other, they interacted pretending to be strangers, and before long realised that it was an effort in futility........ Long chat sessions.... fierce arguments..... and then a phone call!!

23rd December was the night. Sam was on his way back from Mumbai, and it was around midnight. Gini calls Sam up for the first time with certain doubts in her mind regarding the person she would be talking to over the phone. But she got more than she had bargained for...... What was supposed to be a 10 minute conversation, ended up being a 3hour long one..... And that remained the norm till the end of April. I mean that was like the minimum number of hours that they would speak.... Often they would touch 6-7 hours in a day.... To an extent they can't pass a single day today without speaking to each other for at least 5 minutes (thanks to professional commitments). The journey till today has been a joyous one... A lot of emotional upheavals.... Turbulent times.... testing times..... But Sam and Gini stayed together....

Here is what Sam has to say about Gini:

"They say all good things come in small packages, but after coming across this girl, I’d say the best things come in small packages. Guarantee humari kismat tumhari!! Lolzzz………… But seriously speaking this lady is a pint sized bomb. Energetic, full of life, very curious, very calm and stable minded…… except when it’s personal……then you’d get to see the fiercely passionate and possessive Gini. And trust me you’d love that sight. To be very honest this otherwise chilled out lady, can be very hot-tempered and god save your soul should you end up being in her wrong books. And from what I’ve heard and experienced…… it’s one hell of an experience. And now the icing on the cake…… she is very moody…… and her mood would swing faster than you can spell it out. Guess I am the only one who can handle that and calm her down to a more rationale frame of mind. Her curiosity knows no bounds. She can ask any damn question imaginable…… and I being the quintessential “Mr. Know-it-all” would go out of my way to answer her then and there. And the best part would be it would all be so logical, she accepts it. I can recall only one question of hers which I’m yet to answer: “How do you know so much??” The first time she had asked me this question was a few days into our friendship. It came around when I had to voice my opinion about her. As fate would have it…… it was more than just accurate…… it was perfect!! She reciprocated in the same manner but took her time (say a few months!! Lol……).

There are so many things about Gini, that either language is inadequate or time or space…… in fact, it’s really difficult to capture Gini’s essence in words. One has to experience her persona. It’s magnetic!! Hunterwali, cattie, dumbo… are just some of the names I refer her by…… At the end of the the day the way we can understand each other is nothing short of a “miracle”!! I’ve tried to sum her up often, coming up with names like Devilish-Angel or Angelic-Devil. While both are applicable to her yet something is always missing. Guess “Ananya” fits her to the T, for she is unlike any other lady you’ll ever come across.

Oh!! I forgot to add…… She hates sweets, loves spicy food, is simply in love with babies (not the bratty ones) and…………………… still loves to play with Barbies…… Sometimes I wonder, whether she is really 23 or is she actually a 3 yr old kid…… That’s how she’d behave when I catch her on the wrong foot!! But still at teh end of the day she's a sweetheart....."

That’s not all. Assume it to be just an insight to a wonderful person called Gini.
And to know what Gini has to say about Sam, ask her if you can find her… else checkout my Orkut profile.


Being the nice girl that she is Gini is always there for me whenever I’ve needed her comforting words…… and it ahs been duly reciprocated on quite a few occasions. It’s been a month that she started her 2nd innings in the professional world. While it has left us with little time to be the chatterboxes that we were, we still manage to catch up. Ummmm…… to an extent you can blame her for this blog bug…… I was happy blogging away in own domain, and never really bothered to venture out into this blog world as such. But, she made me read Tanuj’s blog and then there was no looking back.

So thanks to Gini basically, I’m blogging here today amidst all of you!! Thanks Gini… I owe you one!!

At the end of the day no matter how much we fight and quarrel, but we can't do without each other..... and to top it we are yet to meet... She stays in Delhi and yours truly in Pune.........

There are so many things I have skipped... She deserves a book not a single post!!

And so there you have an insight into my best friend.... my dear Gini... the Angel!!

Voila *wacko* tis!!

holla mates!

Finally, I do get a chance to become a part of this wonderful blog 'BUF'. I have been wondering what it takes to attract people towards one's blog, but unfortunately cudnt get a hint till now [:P]. I found this blog where i've instantly become friends with a lot of people hanging round here without even joining it. Well, this not being the sole reason for me joinin BUF, I actually realized that it is very creative and innovative to have a group of friends converging together to share what they feel like and simultaneously get to know what others feel. [:)]

Not deviating from my aim, crisp and short it will be! [:D]

As some of the Buffers here already know me by 'wacko', i would rather prefer being called as Anshuman. Yeah, thats my name! I dont actually know what 'anshuman' means but I defnitely have a hint of what 'wacko' means [:P].

As the name suggests, I am a bit weird and difficult to understand on the first hand. But, once i get hold of you(or vice-versa), I bet there aint any damn thing in this world that could get us part(till we die..is lame :P). I am currently pursuing my BTECH engineering from a not-so-cool college(Dehradun Institute of Technology) situated in the Doon valley of Uttarakhand, India. Though the college is not cool, the serene environment and the calm ambience there is definitely enchanting. Anyways, I love making friends(got half a million f em :P). I like people who are full of sarcasm, should possess a great sense of humour, trendy and witty not to mention! Some of my friends think I carry unwanted attitude with me, but on the contrary, I think 'attitude' is the only thing i cherish having in me. (yeah yeah i can very well differentiate between having a good and having a bad attitude).I really dont care much of what people presume or think about me! I dont give a damn.Matter of fact, I would really like to tell ya that some of the best friends ive ever had are ONLINE. I am what I really am. I am allergic to people who really dont know how to carry themselves or people who flaunt unnecessarily.

I have this ever-eluding dream of going abroad and settling there(man..i hv this charm for blonde's :D). Not to mention, am working hard to get a goooood GRE score..lol! Though am not the fittest hanging around, but I am a sports freak..a fanatic to b precise! (are ya guys able to catch the sarcasm filled moi?). I lauuuuuv music especially Hip-Hop and Rock...Can listen to any damn nigga(no offense ya) besides my family and friends repeatedly cursing me not to follow these semi-naked black body hulks with absolutely no sense of gentle-man dressing sense(i hope you get me)!!

I like surfing as in anything which i find worth lookin upon. My friends keep asking me to tell'em some of the sites to surf, but unfortunately i can only manage to find a way out of their questions. In short, I really dont surf anything meaningful :D. I like fidgeting with my laptop, playin games(Counter Strike yeahhhh) and fooling around online! And yeah, I am not at all political by any chance. :D

I am a social animal, a shopoholic, and am freakin insane. I like adventures and would not mind turning raunchy some or the other times! :P I've been a NOMAD literally. I've lived in Surat, Calcutta, Kota and Dehradun presently, still planning to take my ass wherver life takes me to.

thats it for now i guess!
Here's a link to my alternate blog: http://wacko-da-n00b.blogspot.com/

Ya gotta holla me back if ya wanna knw about me better! ;)

\m/ peace \m/

Current Topic: Introduce/talk about your best friend

Well, to start with..I really do not have a so-called "best friend" or whatever, but yeah at this time of my life, I would really like to mention about a very special friend of mine. She is Priyanka aka Pinka(it'll be P frm now on).

God knows what bestowed upon me, but unfortunately am not in touch with her anymore. So, all I have to share with you guys are just plain memories gathered in a span of some 3 to 4 years. And believe me or not, I met her online. Now looking at the very ironical fact of this particular phase of my life, the day I met her, she suddenly started acting weird and apart from a few swearings online, we havent been the same ever since that goddamned day! :x :x. We've never talked the way we used to. I miss talking to her not to mention! I even remember taggin her my best friend on HI5 :D.

Yeah, so gathering back all my emotions back...lemme tell ya some of her characteristics. She's a cancerian and so obviously she has this fukat ka attitude with her. She has this so-called mental block in her mind. By this, she refers to being petrified of some apprehensions that she has about meeting unknown people or talking to them. She has this so-called "respected" list of guys..Man, I tell ya, she's krazy..(not to mention a biaaatch too, but anyways i like her).

We first met when I was in the middle of my holidays after my 12th ka boards. All hail to Yahoo chat rooms...She was looking for this mentor she wanted, who could guide her for IIT and other exams and i bet she couldnt find anyone better than me ;). So this is where, it all began.

In the beginning, as most of the girls do hv security issues, so did she. She was afraid of trusting me and had a big doubt of even lettin me know her name. But anyways, since am not the usual hacker or whatever, I finally managed to make her understand that am humane enough to talk to. :D

As years passed by, we managed to keep in touch through mails incase of calamities and the usual chatting when it was perfectly normal. I still remember my parents and my sisters scolding me like anything for chatting with a person completely unknown. But, it seemed really hard to make em understand how well we both bonded all these years. I literally knew everything about her. I just hope she did too :). We had this rigorous sessions of sarcasm filled statements aimed right at each other. There were these long heated talks between us which ultimately i had to give up cuz of her attitude and shit. We had this so-called online dates where we used to fix up a time and then consequently not show up most of the times :P.

Then, one day I finally convinced her to meet me and get her fear away of not meeting unknown people. We did meet. I really enjoyed being with her. We parted nicely. It was just that she was in a hurry and was a bit tired. Ever since, we just met online a few times and things hvnt been bitter enough ever before. I told her what i felt and that was it.

I can perhaps write a whole book out of it, as I sincerely loved every moment I spent with her online. I dont actually know what happened(just in case ya ask me) between both of us. I leave it to ya guys to figure out and just lemme know the possible reason for it.

Anyways, at least for some part of my life, I considered her my best friend. I really dont know how she felt about it, cuz whenever i managed to ask her about it, she used to get away by telling she aint emotional and stuff....

Seeing the length of my post, I am scared already of the admin people kickin my butt, so I better finish it off.

Looking forward to knowing all f ya wonderful people.
adieu!!

My Best friend (Seema)

Heh friends sorry to be writing after such a long time..but i fell ill u know..had viral fever and was in bedrest for one week....Anyways now iam back and hope to be blogging on and on and on....

This time the topic that has been decided has been "Favourite childhood memory and/or talk about your best friend..." My Chidhood memories are so bad that i better not remember them. Anyways yes today i would be talking about My best best best friends......

Ya thats right this post would be dedicated to my two friends who are so close to me that without talking to them my day doesnot get complete....

The first person i want to talk about is my collegue and my best pal who has been with me for the past 2 1/2 yrs thru thick and thin. Lent her shoulders to me whenever i cried and adviced me whenever i needed it.... Ya her name is Nagarathna....My best buddy...No what she is so younger than me but believe me you she is so mature than me. Whenever iam low she advices me so well...seems like she is my elder sister. She always make me feel good. And believe me she is so ambitious...Has lots of dreams....And she is who makes the saying very true..."Good things come in small packages"....She is damn talented man....She is so talented...And she being the eldest at home takes care of her family, works, takes time out for her studies, takes time out for her friends, takes time out to go to gym, takes time out for her extra curricular activities( She plays chess, is great at suduko, Loves to dance salsa, and loves to blog) and what language she has man....God if i start praising her this blog wont be enough.... There is just one thing i have heard her feeling sad about her height but sweetheart let me tell u " U have many good things in you that ppl will not even look at your height" Lolz iam really lucky to have you as my friend. And also she is the one who introduced me to the world of blogging..... This is the pic we took on her bday party....

The second person obviously is my sweetheart....My Jaan..The special and the Mr.right of my life. Jaan...without whom prob i would never have survived all the crisis in my life. He never let me cry on his shoulder and all that...Know his love for me has never been like college romance. He always wanted to have a mature relationship and prob thats why he chose me....Ya actually he is the one who chose to make me his sweetheart. He always wants me to be strong and mature but always i end up leaning on to him for the support and care. Its not cause i am not strong but cause its the first time in my life i found true love and i want to enjoy it till i can. Tmrw before he leaves me i want to enjoy the relationship so much that i should be able to live in the warmth of the friendship we shared. He is a doctor. He too co incidently is younger to me only in age but the way he behaves sometimes i feel he is like my dad...he he he... He is so organised and has beautifully planned his future and now is planning mine.... He loves his car and his mobile ( more than me...sob sob sob)... Loves to party( he showed me what life is outside home), loves to travel, loves his work, loves music, and yes he lovessssssss biriyani.....he he he... And what i love about him everything....everything....Thanks sweetheart for supporting me and being there for me.......

And all those friends that i have not mentioned here..iam sorry..U r close to my heart but these two stay in my heart........

Me and Zulu!! (Shooting Star)

Zulquer (or zulu as i call him) is the sweetest thing...he's down to earth,soft spoken,caring and always there to listen to me..whether its my philosohical stuff,comical stuff,angry outbursts or emotional crappy stuff.....he always listens to me smiling..if am out of wits with a problem at hand...he'll think of something....he's always been there cheering me in my happy moments and encouraging me to go on in my sad moments...but that's not to say we don't fight..on the contrary we fight a lot but we never get angry on each other.......life has gifted me jewels as friends and among them the brightest jewel is zulu.....

Silhouette (Switchblade)

Sorrrry for not putting this up earlier…. Hope I’ve made it in time before the topic ends….

When the time had come to vote for the current topic I was furiously voting for ‘Introduce your best friend to us’ coz I have one dear friend whom I was dying to introduce to you guys. His name is Gagan and he’s perhaps the best friend I ever had…Since my choice of topic wasn’t chosen, I think I’ll bend the topic a bit and post a pic of Gags n Me :)

Short background on my friendship with ‘Gags’…we studied together from LKG uptil the 3rd in India…then I left for Bahrain to continue my studies and after I got back to do my engineering we happened to land up in the same college…Now we’re part of the same church and conduct bible studies together. A lot of people think we’re brothers coz we think alike…laugh at the same jokes…and quite often its only the both of us who understand each other while the rest of the world thinks we’re off our rocker! We’re planning on starting a 2-piece band and naming ourselves GnR…to heck with Guns & Roses!

Now for my favorite pic (this is just one of the many favorites I have)…its one of Gags and Me when we were on our trek to Ticona Fort near Pune way back in November 2005.





I know you can’t see much but that’s taken from the inside of a small cave. That's me on the left of the picture…Gagan like silhouettes :)

Cheers Gags!!
Friends are friends forever if the Lord is their God...

Lifetime Investment (Suchi)

What I am writing here is something that has been on my mind for a while now. This post means no offence to any person on BUF and should be solely treated as my observation and feelings.

When we hear the term ‘investment’, things that come to our mind are mutual funds, flexi bonds, insurance, LIC, ICICI, HDFC, Franklin Templeton and the list is endless now-a-days. Do we ever think in terms of investing in our relationships and friendships so that they reap long term returns as well. Invest in people who always have been standing by us. No matter how sour our between people they continue to invest in their relationship so that they can still be secure emotionally as well. Investments are nothing but fall back plans and I have invested in one such relationship.

We have many photographs together but this one is very close to my heart.

Many of you may have seen this picture in the past also but possible are not aware that we were having one of our worst fights, cold wars, series of misunderstandings and friendship lull during this time. I was also down with cold and fever on this day.

Nobody who looks at this photo would know all this as we do not show it. Of course our photographer Rajiv was aware of it. :)

Ishi and I are absolute different people with very different behavioural patterns, situation handling skills except outlook towards life and people. We seldom disagree on many things in life but we have similar approach towards our relationships. We may not invest so much in mutual funds and bonds but we do not believe in the school of thought which preaches to be practical and detached in friendships. We may be emotional fools to believe in people and expect from them and sit and cry later but yet we do not stop investing in friendships and relationships.

BUF is a place for meeting new friends and forging friendships. Let’s not forget the fact that this is about “between US friends” and not just few of us! For those who are reading this post, I urge you to know the creator/ admin of BUF, Ishita, as a sensitive and intelligent person, instead of stereo typing her. Give her, her due credit for the concept, activities, hours put in, keeping this place full of life and non-political. Have any of us ever received a harsh, rude and insulting email/ comment from her. Then why is she getting it back??? Terms you may think you used in jest also play on her mind. You joke may not be her idea of it! And what do I say to those who claim to know her and be her friend that they did not even know before a volcanic eruption what has been hurting her and why has she been upset for so long. For those who seem confused about special days in her life…her birthday is coming up on June 20, anniversary on 5th July and Vedant’s Birthday on 18th July. These are busy times for her and times in which she feels happy and excited. Pity that has not been the case of late.

Criticism is welcome but follow it up with a suggestion. The slogan is cliché but hey how many of us have actually contributed towards the slogan competition??? Don’t make it so late that one day this space loses her completely.

I really don’t care what you perceive me as but I would not take people walk over Ishi.

Well that just sums up two topics – my favourite picture and talking about my best friend.