:) and 2011 was good !

Ok so this year has been EVENTFUL all right

Dear Blog, I know I haven’t written much out here this year, but before I leave on my holiday I just thought I will take a little time out to share what 2011 has been for me. People I am thankful to and things I am happy for

GETTING MARRIED tops the list! Yay Steve, 2011 it was for us Our dreams and wishes came true as we said I DO to each other this year. Its been an amazing 9 months being Mrs.Thirumalai. Thank you for everything we have shared as husband and wife, every holiday, every laugh, every fight too… coz we learnt something from it. Setting up home and living with you has been and will always be awesome You are the bestest boy!! I love you a lot!

And hey… when I thank God for you, I thank God for the family he has blessed me with Thanks Steve… it is coz of you!

FRIENDSHIP: This one has been special this year Old friendships strengthened and new friends were made. Thank you Philip and Sharon for everything you have been to me and Steve. Thank you for every whacky weekend, every community activity, for all the memories we have made together this year. The Gokarna holiday was good fun

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prashanti and Aiswarya Knowing you has been a blessing! I thank God for sending you both into my life. I cherish the friendship we share… and before Manju starts fretting about her name not being mentioned here, I shall now introduce her into the blogpost. I think we 3 are awesome . We ve done the craziest of things, laughed like mad, cried together too. Thank you for being there with me all along, thank you for everything I will miss you Aiswarya… and yes… Manju I miss you a lot too

To all my other friends who make life special, I thank you all too

WORK : Yup !! I am thankful out here too. Thankful to God for the job that He has given me. I love Hanmer MSL. Amidst all the madness in servicing clients, and the not so nice things that are under the umbrella of PR… I work in an awesome place and I love it! Thank you Hanmer Bangalore for all the whacky times, for giving me so many things to laugh about and the many achievements

And even as 2011 draws to a close, I am super excited for my brother as he prepares to be HITCHED!! Yes… the NEXT BIG HAPPY NEWS this shall be…

Vandana Dayanand  :) I am soooper happy to have you as family Love you both!!

All in all, I ve had a good and happy year. I holidayed a lot !! Kodai, Ooty, Gokarna, Kerala, the green trek  across the Western Ghats..wohooo !! I shopped a lot, I ate a lot, I laughed a lot.. I did a lot of a lot of things !!

So a big THANK YOU goes to God for LIFE

Mwah to the world. I hope you all have a good end to 2011 and a fantabulous start to 2012.

See you next in 2012, dear Blog !

Ooty and WOW !!!

Imagine a large canvas… and thrown in are different hues of green… and in between some earth and then some rays of the sun… or maybe some glimpses of rain on one end of the painting!! That was OOTY this weekend and the artist was none other than GOD!

This holiday, God just showed me a tour of His creation, His marvellous creation and what I saw just held me captivated!! He is the best artist ever!!

Taking a short break from work, we decided to drive up to Ooty for three days. Driving through the night was great [minus the one portion of the drive where I fell asleep ]! Going through Bandipur early in the morning, a herd of grazing deer greeted us amidst the sounds of birds waking up to the new day. Lovely…

Here is the first sight that captivated us… what an awesome play of light this was..

And then we caught the first sight of Ooty and its tea gardens. Gorgeous!! Neatly “groomed” estates, miles and miles of tea gardens, water sprinklers a distance away… Ooty welcomed us, Steve, me & Te!

We took a diversion into the Glenmorgan estate to see what makes this place beautiful. What we saw justified why people say you must do this drive… it is a scenic drive leading you to a beautiful lake within the estate! But what we experienced from officials at the Electricity Board there left us in distaste. Rude people, hardly giving you a chance to ask what you want to know!! YUCK…that was what I felt about them!

But it did not take long for us to be back in good spirits… the beauty of nature just lifted our mood We continued our drive to the town, all the while through beautiful, scenic views. [I wonder how many times I am going to use the word beautiful here in this post ]

We had no particular agenda for this holiday and I think that was the best part of it. We just drove to places we’ve heard of and never heard off before And each drive was just wonderful. To Lovedale and beyond, to Coonoor and back and the best of it was to the EMERALD LAKE! This was by far the BESTEST part of our holiday.

This lake is tucked away some 25 odd kms from Ooty. It is a really really beautiful drive, but nothing about the drive prepared us for what was in store PHEW!!! We caught a glimpse of the lake from up above the “world so high” and we were like WOW!! The fact that it was raining through most of the drive made the Poojitha in me sooooooooooooooooooooo happy and excited!

On reaching the spot, we were “beauty struck” [I don't know how else to describe what I saw]. A lovely lake, a small little bridge, a cosy river bank and the view of the Nilgiris on every side you see… MAN!! This lake is just awesome! We had the Avalanchi Lake on one side and the Emerald Lake on the other, as explained to us by the locals there. Well, whichever lake it might be… it was splendid!! Steve described it as the Pang Gong Tso of the south

We just sat by this lake…in silence…no actually in conversation with nature!! I was so overwhelmed by the beauty that I could not stay without praising God for the awesome CREATOR that He is… for the beautiful ARTIST that He is… for the WONDER that He has created!! AMAZING!! No words can I use, no picture we have clicked will EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER capture the splendour of what we saw My blog will do not an inch of justice to the experience we had…

This trip was just refreshing… we had a great time… ate some yummy food! Nothing too fancy… two of the best meals were with a family we know and all we asked for was hot steaming rice, even hotter rasam and tasty chicken fry !! With temperatures dropping steadily as the rains lashed through the town this meal was just lip smacking!! A lovely dinner with a friend at King’s Cliff… by the fireplace… got our holiday to a beautiful… oops tasty end!!

Oh oh… and before I forget… if you are going to Ooty, please go to Modern Stores and fill yourself with the variety of chocolates up for sale. “OOTY HOMEMADE CHOCOLATES” took a whole new meaning for us here… all that we get in the many stores out there cease to tempt me anymore!! This place sells the best I ve eaten till date…and what makes these special are the fillings!! Cranberry, Blueberry, Maple Almond, Peanut Crunch…. and so many moreeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Uffff… Just lovely!!

We drove back to Bangalore through a different route from our onward journey. We took the Gudalur route while driving to Ooty and the Masinagudi route while returning. While Masinagudi was not as scenic as Gudalur, it was still a good drive

We met up with Philip and Sharon at Masinagudi and did the rest of the journey with them. A quick stop at this quaint cafe DREAMCATCHERS on the highway and a good lunch by the river Cauvery at Amblee Resort was the last of the good times we had Wonder why?? Well we took over 4 hours to cover the Mysore- Bangalore stretch thanks to maddening traffic!! Terrible!!

But but but… like every other holiday I ve taken in the past few months… God sent me rain It poured while we were entering Bangalore and I could not help but smile and wonder how lovely God is

** The pictures shared here are just a futile attempt at capturing the beauty of Ooty this holiday!

Dear blog….

Dear Blog…

I know how left out you feel, forgotten and untouched !

I wish I could let you know, how much I want to fill these pages again, how much I miss writing here and how much it hurts when I log in here and see the date June 21, 2011 stare at me; the day I last wrote on puddlerides.

At first I thought the problem was TIME. Between work and home I was all caught up and did not have the time to write here.. but as days turned into weeks and weeks into months the realisation has begun to dawn on me.. the problem ain’t anything else, the problem is ME !!

 

 I cease to be inspired to write and to spread the cheer to my  writing. Even my FB updates are BLAH nowadays !!

 

 Where has the old me gone ?? While the weather does cheer    me up still, it  doesn’t take me to heights of excitement that  translates into my  blog… while opinions still form in my head,  they don’t seem to  take the “form” of words.. while the joy is  still there, the desire  to pen it down doesn’t come ! WHY WHY  WHY ???

 Why can’t I write anymore ?? 

 

 

I’ve shared some of life’s most special moments out here, when  love occurred, when friendship bloomed, when tears were shed,  when laughter echoed.. when all this happened in life, I relived them here… !!

My dear blog, I hope you will always remember that you are special .. and I never would like to see you die! I promise you that I will give it my all… to write and fill these pages…!! 

Till then.. please bear with me..

Your’s Poojitha !!!

FED UP !!!!

My writer’s block seems to arise all too often nowadays and my blog posts are not regular at all!! At times I sit down and say “let me just force myself and think of a topic to write” BUT NO!! That just does not happen, because then I realise what I’m writing will come from my head and not from my heart. I then go back to waiting for my heart to tell me what it wants me to write… and my heart told me on Friday evening what my next post will be about…

I am fed up!!

Till date, my blog has always carried mentions of things that are happy, things that make me smile, things that matter however big or small barring a few times when I’ve ripped apart an ice cream parlour or chided the summer sun. I’m sure that mine is a HAPPY BLOG! But the tone of that will change for this post… because I’m going to just tell you all how fed up I am and what it’s about.

I am fed up of idiotic motorists on the road [an abundance of them has been the main inspiration behind this post!] You guys have no road sense whatsoever… you guys speed beyond comprehension and just ruin the pleasure of driving. You come annoyingly close to every vehicle and many a time give people, people like me, a start! You rip through roads with absolute disregard for others, especially cyclists! I’ve always enjoyed riding around you know, but thanks to people like you I just wait to reach office/home/any other destination I am headed to… just so that I don’t have to deal with you all!! Your reckless riding has today made me scared of Bangalore roads… I am fed up!!

You honking idiots [guess I’m going to be using the word idiot a lot this time] what do you guys even think? Why, why would you want to honk this way?! Your honking will NOT make the traffic countdown clock tick faster or make the light change in a jiffy, but you will still honk. Patience is truly a rarity today and you guys stand testimony to this. And this is also for those people who get those irritating sing song horns on the vehicle… as though your ripping around were not enough, we’ve got to hear those horn too! Aarrgh!! I really feel my blood pressure rising with all the honking. I think you guys just take away the little peace that prevails! I cannot stop but give all you cars and bikes a dirty look when you honk that way, knowing well that my look makes no difference to your stupidity. It only gives me the pleasure of having scolded you in my head… I am fed up!

The third kind of people I will write about here are found aplenty in Bangalore and of late very many. Guys who think they are very smart and we girls are just waiting to get some attention from you. Just to let you know [oh wait, I really wouldn’t want people like you even reading my blog anyway... to continue] you people just do a brilliant job of disgusting us, irritating us, and pissing us off to an extent that we wish we could get just another glimpse of you to slap you! [No, I do not believe in violence or even in talking with as much irritation as I am writing this blog] I am sure that only a person with patience the height of Mount Everest will be unaffected by your terrible behaviour [sometimes I think it might be tough for even so patient a person]. I hope you all realize, one day, that you so badly failed at the impression you somehow wanted to make!

So have I finished out here…well yeah! The three categories of people I am fed up with YES, but then there are the auto drivers who still drive us crazy, and people who think every place on the road is a spittoon and the every foot path a garbage dump. You guys are on my list too… this is when I choose to start looking at the good things and try and see the world as a HAPPY place again!

I shall end now, with a wish that roads and drivers in Bangalore would be as disciplined and nice as what I saw in Dubai… a dream that a NO HONKING rule would come to be implemented so so strongly here in India… And yeah, also that some guys would hopefully have a change of heart and learn to behave better.

Waiting for the rain now [Just had to say it!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

Honey, let us go to the moooooonnnnnnnnnn :)

And so we went, on our honeymoon! A good month after our wedding….

We were supposed to have been honeymooning in April, just after the wedding, but we just couldn’t go and I guess that is what made this trip so much more exciting!

Our trip began with the christening of our car, the new love of our lives! And guess what! We decided to name her after the word love! Te Amo has been a phrase close to Steve and me and although it ain’t much of a name, that is what we call our car!! She is known as “Ti” in short

Presenting to you Ti

Ti, we love you

We set off on a 9 hour drive that took us to cloud nine aka ELEPHANT VALLEY. A diversion to the right 20 kms before Kodai, will take you down to a picturesque valley. Narrow winding roads, with palm and eucalyptus lining your way, the humming of birds as your music, oh and the occasional mooing cow to add  to the harmony maybe!

Couple of kilometres down and you are at the gate of Elephant Valley. Nothing can prepare you for the beauty you see once you step inside and walk through the smallparking area… Just nothing!

Elephant valley is 137 acres of wild beauty! Spread over this huge landscape what you see is a lot of green, a lovely stream with a waterfall thrown in here and there … and sigh.. I am falling short of words. An eco-reserve, this beautiful resort is owned by a French man and he is trying all that he can to make this place as natural as possible. Rooms that resemble huts, accessorised with bare necessities, accompanied with a warning that some wildlife may visit you, this place is just amazing. Elephant Valley boasts of a rich pepper and coffee crop year after year, a vegetable garden that supplies all their kitchen needs, some beautiful horses, and birds.

A small bit of the beauty this place holds

We stayed on land for one night [and that night we were the only guests at the resort.. that means Steve, me and 3 staff members on 137 acres !!!!!!!!] and were suspended in air the other

WOW ! The tree house was one great experience. It was such a pretty lil thing… small and cosy, overlooking the stream! We spent a good amount of time admiring the room, reading about the architect and just looking out of the “balcony” at the vast spread of nature. The sound of flowing water below you surely feels nice, but the sounds that insects make all through the night, sounds of falling leaves amplified on the tree house roof, did freak us out a wee bit !! Ok I am lying… freaked me out lots and Steve a wee bit

I loved the tree house !

The most special part of our holiday was just catching up on memories of all our adventures, right from how and why we fell in love to where we are now. It was a beautiful journey together and I so think we should do it often!! It just makes me realise again and again, how God has blessed me! It was a whole lot of fun, discovering each other again!!

I loved every minute that we sat by “that” favourite bench of ours, looking at the stream flow by, talking about life.

Our favourite bench

I loved reading to Steve ha ha he actually wanted me to read out a feature about an explorer’s experience in Papua New Guinea  we were both browsing in a magazine called OUTSIDE. I totally loved reading to him, felt special, felt different! While waking up early to catch the sunrise and the waking up of nature is what most people do when in such a beautiful place, Steve and me slept in late on both days ha ha!!

We considered extending our stay here many a time but decided against it because we did not want the exquisiteness of the place fading away. We plan to be back there sometime soon in the future, maybe in the rains when I know for sure that the beauty of this place will be hundred million times more than it was on those two days We left Elephant Valley with special memories, in our hearts and captured on film!!

From Elephant Valley we drove up to Kodaikanal! While the first sight of Kodai is not very pleasing, we did have a good time there too. Maybe this was a wrong time to go to Kodai, it was overflowing with people, annoying ones at that! People there honk as though they’re plonked on the horn… aaargh!! You don’t go from a crowded, traffic crazy place like Bangalore to a place like Kodai only to hear the same if not more honking!!!

I think what was most beautiful about Kodai was the walks and the drives we did into the small little roads here and there, where all we could see were beautiful cottages, with lovely lawns and tall silver oak trees  ! A vast contrast from the main roads in the town!

We stayed at a little home stay run by a lovely couple. Overlooking the hills and the valleys, going back there every night was a sight! The room gave us a view of the city lit up every night, and hence aptly called the JEWEL CITY!

Day 2 in Kodai included a visit to the beautiful Berijim Lake. Visiting this lake requires a long procedure to get a permit and somewhere in between I began wondering if it was worth it at all. But when you drive into the forest and reach the lake… everything else is forgotten. Another piece of heaven on earth, this lake is absolutely serene. No words would suffice describing what you feel when you see Berijim Lake.

The beautiful Berijim Lake

As we drove into our place of stay for our last night there, it was with a sad heart… we were nearing the end of our holiday. But like I always say, God loves me We reached our room to witness a beautiful dance of the lightning, rain, the clouds and the hills to the lovely sounds of thunder!! It was BEAUTIFUL

Our drive back to Bangalore, we explored a different route from what we came earlier. This was the Palani-Gangayam-Salem route and it is breathtakingly beautiful. Hair pin bends lined with beautiful trees, distant views of waterfalls and happily enough for me lesser traffic J It was a beautiful drive!

All through the drive back we sat thinking in the back of our heads, why does this holiday have to end?? why why why !!!! But this is life, ain’t it!!

So we got back home, to home sweet home!! Back to work and routine life… already planning our next holiday

So Steve, look up your holiday calendar and let us set out!! Beachside it is

Hey Hey… Did I tell you all that Bangalore welcomed me.. oops us with RAIN Ain’t I God’s favourite child ?Whenever I am low, He sends me these showers to raise my spirits up and tell me LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

To sign off… Love you Steve, for all that you do to make life special

Thank you Steve for my fairytale

and I write again.. [for want of another title !!]

The weather inspires me to write today [and no it is not the summer day!!  The sudden dip in temperature, the breeze that is hitting me through the office window and the smell of rain that it is carrying is what is inspiring ]

So yeah, this time when I write, I write as Mrs Poojitha J Thirumalai, wohoooo !! Married girl I am now  And as the usual question goes “How does it feel”, here is the usual answer “AWESOME”

The journey’s been great…. from meeting Steve, to falling in love, to meeting his family, telling my family, waiting for the wedding to happen, to THE WEDDING itself, wow !!! The biggest high for me [apart from marrying the man I love] has been setting up home !!

I’ve moved from calling my place of occupancy “a house” to “a home”. Seriously, I’ve lived the past 2 years of my life in this “house”that I never kept clean!! From being this neat and organised person back in college/hostel, my last house was a DISASTER of sorts !! Sigh, kept brooding about it but never felt like doing anything.. ANYTHING to clean up the mess and put things in place [apart from sweeping and swobbing].

Ever since I came to know of a set date when I would say I DO, I ve been all excited about setting up home. I made sure I visited every Homestop sale that came my way during this time, any small knickknack I could visualise a place for in the home [which I had till recently not seen] I tried to buy.. throws for the floor, a happy yellow pot [for what??, don’t know], pots for the terrace… !!

Each visit like this when mentioned to Steve, did not get any encouraging response though. ….“but Steve this sale is so good, just look at the prices” I would say and my dear Steve would reply “Sweetheart, these sales will always come, when we have our home, then we will see”. …. “but Steve these things might not be there again”said I again …. and  “then other things will be there” said he !! SIGH !!! I obeyed sometimes, but most of the times I did not

When we starting arranging our home, it just gave me so much joy!! The first plant that we bought.. ha ha felt like we had bought a car or something!! We have been blessed with almost every need of our home and we have only God to thank for that!! We are today proud owners of some lovely pieces of antique furniture, come down through the ages in my family, I love the look it lends to my home!!  The rustic looking shelf picked up at the CKP Habba fair – a gift from my brother , the ethnic nameboard that reads Steven & Poojitha, made again at the fair… [how I love this craft mela that happens every year],my lovely pink and grey curtains, my floor cushions, the lovely lamp shade gifted by my devarji wohoo !!I like it all…. YAY !!

And while I’ve been at arranging the home, I’ve also been trying my hand at cooking !! hmmmm, and I m quite happy:) I thought I would die,I knew nothing.. but I ve survived !! In fact, the desire to send my husband, a lunch dabba to work inspires me to get out of bed early everyday so me happy, he happy, all happy!!

Being married feels great and I am loving it !!

Psst Steve : what do I cook tomorrow ???

Psst pssst: As I complete writing this, the rain clouds have blown away and I see the sun shining bright!! Grrrr Summers… just BUZZ OFF!!!! [I generally think of the title of my post at the end of writing it out, and as the rains have blown away I think it just took my writing mood with it.. that is what the blah title !!!!!!]

TxEnTy FiVe YeArS aNd MoRe

When the clock strikes 12 tonight, Poojitha Jawahar would have lived 25 years on this earth !! Wohoooo !!!

So how does turning 25 feel, well for the first time ever I feel I AM GROWING OLD !! I ve always been this really enthu girl about birthdays and stuff and never looked at it as “Oh, I’m a year older !!!!” I remember my close friend and room mate from hostel, Shyna !Her birthdays would be something she never really looked forward too because they reminded her that she is growing older. She would sit in front of the mirror and keep saying the same thing “Poojitha, I m growing older !! sigh Poojitha” and  I would watch her and laugh and laugh and say YOU ARE MAD SHYNA KUTTY !!!

Oh Shyna, wish you were here today and I could tell you how I feel about turning 25 !! It feels a little strange, as though 25 is like a huge huge number !! But anyway as I reflect all I can say is that these 25 years have been awesome !! God has blessed me throughout and there is nothing more that I could have asked for.

A wonderful family, that loves me so dearly- my mom and my brother YOU ROCK !!

A wonderful fiancée and a beautiful life with him to look forward to – love you Steve !

A great set of friends, who have been by me always, through the highs and the lows- thank you all

A secure job- one that is fun too

Thank you God for the joys that you give, thank you for helping see the beauty in the many small things and for making me believe again that YOU LOVE ME !! As I turn a year older now,I pray that

….I would continue to fall in love with Steve every morning that I wake up

….I would still be in love with the many small things – a dash of bright colour, a good cup of coffee, a downpour, a book and a warm quilt

….That mindless laughter sessions would never die

….I would travel more, do a lot more bike rides, lot lot lot more !!!

…. he he and as I get ready to become Mrs Thirumalai, I really pray that God would help me be a good wife and a good home maker !! VERY IMPORTANT !!

Poojitha, so what if you are turning 25, LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL !!!YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Happy Birthday to me soonly

DECEMBER- the month of magic !!

The magical month is here again [he he 23 days into the month and I say it now]!! But yes this month is MAGICAL!! It is my most favourite month of the year and the most beautiful too!! The cold in the wind, the colours all around, the lovely smell of cakes and brownies and chicken roast, the sweet strains of carols – all of it just makes me feel oh so so so happy!!

While the weather was a dampener in the beginning of the month, the last few days have been just PERFECT POOJITHA WEATHER [much to the dismay and irritation of my friends and colleagues]!! he he !! I ve been hogging on loads and loads of yummy Christmas goodies [all my plans to lose some weight before my wedding have been effectively postponed to January 2011]

This year has turned around well for me and I know that it is all God’s doing! The second half of 2010 has been most exciting and the BIGGEST BLESSING I am grateful for is my wedding  93 days to go and in between all the preparations and madness the excitement in my heart is growing and I must tell you Steve that I AM SO SO SO WAITING TO BECOME YOUR WIFE!!

I hope to blog more often in the future… I really miss it!! I m going to sign off now saying this to all my friends – “You guys make life so special, thank you!!”

Sharing one of my favourite carols with you all

 

lovestruck !! 4 years and hence :)

Its been good two months since I wrote on Puddlerides bad thing.. ain’t it !! Life has been moving at a super fast pace and I ve just not been able to make the time !!

September 2oth to November 23rd… what all has been happening ?? For one.. life is preparing me for a new new phase, that I have been waiting to enter for a while now !! For a girl who lives life like in a dream.. for whom magical moments make up all of life’s joys, LOVE has been a big driving force ! And LOVE is coming true for me soon, 4 months and 4 days from now I am set to marry the love of my life

Introducing to my blog world STEVEN THIRUMALAI [he has made subtle entries into my blog in my past, always referred to as my best friend he he !]

Life changed for me 4 years ago when he walked in, and in the most clichéd usage of the term, there has been no looking back ! From being my best friend to my ever present support, he has come to mean the world to me He makes me feel like I m his princess and that nothing else matters in this world ! This is a short blogpost and so I m not gonna say much here, but here you go.. for the first time ever on this blog… THANK YOU STEVE for being what you are to me, for loving me as I am and for the promise of a life so beautiful that awaits us together.

I am waiting for March 2011 now !!!

[psst: the pic we like !!]

[psst psst : I promise to write here more often !!]

[psst psst psst : I AM SOOOPER HAPPYYY]

 

 

 

Lost without my phone

Phew… It really was a tiring Saturday!!! And a Saturday that made me realise one thing [for the second time in last 1 week!!] I AM TECHNOLOGY DEPENDANT [to be read as I am lost without my phone!!!!!!]

So we begin this way.. I wake up lazily on Saturday morning, loiter around my home aimlessly [yay yay I had done my washing clothes bit on Thursday night.. yay yay No washing today !!] After some nice coffee I settle back in bed and watch back to back episodes of Desperate Housewives on the comp [ I like I like I like...].. A little while later I hear/see the power go off !! SIGH.. Ok It ll be back in an hour I think… and then I hear my phone go beep beep beep.. Low battery it cries !! Aiyooooooo I say in my mind

Anyway.. a lot of activity unfolds after this and suddenly I have a busy Saturday ahead. So I leave home and head out to meet some family friends at Lifestyle and end up having to make a few calls as I travel trying to co-ordinate a friend’s bday surprise….my phone battery cries some more!! I promise to stay away from my phone for the next few hours and salvage what remains. [I did not keep this promise too well]

Come 5 pm, I find myself saying bye to my family friends and waiting to meet a friend to give her my house keys. I tell her that I’ll meet her at Shoppers Stop and walk into the store…I m in the store for like a few minutes and my phone goes to sleep.. battery EMPTY!! Now what.. I wait outside SS for some 10 mins and see no sign of her.. I go to the help desk and ask if there are charging points anywhere in the mall – they smile and say sweetly NO MADAM !! I ask if there is a public phone and they guided me to one. As luck would have it I had all new 2 rupee coins in my wallet while what I needed was a 1 rupee coin [no security guard around to get change from as well...]

And then I don’t know what hit me… I got all frenzied wondering MAN HOW WILL I GET THRU TO HER NOW!!! I wait outside SS again, but still no sign!! Something told me to try the rest room and see if there is a free plug point somewhere….so that is where I went next .

BINGO there was a plug point alongside the wall there and the mall staff said I could charge my phone.. YIPPIEE !! [I ignored all the looks I got from people walking in and out of the restroom I needed my battery charged ] By this time my friend had reached the mall and had tried reaching me only to hear “the number you are trying to reach is currently switched off”..  ha ha !! Chaos !!

So yeah after all this, we ultimately got through to each other and she came by the rest room and took my keys.. PHEW !! I had a long evening ahead so I decided to wait there and charge my phone for as long as I could. As I stood there I could not help but think about how we used to manage without mobiles.. How did we wait for friends when we planned to meet outside.. Did we just wait at one point till they came…what if plans got cancelled, how we told each other etc etc etc. I REALLY WONDER HOW!!!

Last week the ringer on my phone went bust and so I could hear no calls/alarms etc etc etc. When I went to bed that night I thought to myself….how am I gonna wake up tomorrow morning without my alarm ??? I spoke to a friend and told him that I would set the vibrator on high and keep the phone near my pillow and sleep.He was to call me at 7.30 am and keep calling till I answered the call!! Well this exercise was not needed actually since I hardly slept all night.. I kept waking up every few hours thinking OH SHIT I OVERSLEPT !!

When morning came I realised, did I not have a small clock on which I could set an alarm… DUMB ME !! I found the clock on my shelf.. but.. NO BATTERY!![I don’t remember when last I looked at it sheeeshhhh POOJITHA !!!]

Has this device come to become so much to me?? I really can’t believe I AM SO LOST WITHOUT IT!! It is not a nice feeling now