Punctuation

Amy is associated with haste, speed & clumsiness. yes you are right!!!

Here s an example how she almost got married because of the punctuation.

T&Y was star gazing and talking philosophy :P He gets a msg "Hello my friend got married and I freaked out because of that" from who else Amy!!!

Well being Amy's friend, there should some quirkyness to him and he doenst read it like normal people - he interprets with his own punctuation inserted ( as shown ) - "Hello, my friend. Got married and I freaked out because of that"

He gets flustered - Amy's craze to run away and get married has come true. Everyone always thought it was a joke but then you can never be sure of Amy. T&Y calls Amy immediately, "What the hell happened"

Amy: "Yeah man, She is freaking out because she is getting married. She has been dating this guy for last 11 years and they are family friends n neighbours from her childhood. She knows the guys parents and they know her well. She used to postpone her marriage just to avoid this day.
She goes "meri sasuma mujhe torture karegi" LOL dude!!!"

T&Y: "Who She"

Amy: "Gau"

T&Y: "Did you learn to use punctuation in school"

Amy: "Why wat happ?"

T&Y explained the whole thing. Amy's response: Who the hell calls someone "Hello my friend" Still...

This is one of the lol conversations to come...

Friend's Best Friend

It has been over and over seen with Amy that once someone introduces her to a friend, the next time the three of them meet - the whole equation is changed. She am closer to the friend's friend. Not Just close they are Super Pals. This has been happening time and again. Best example is the following chain in the same order - Nandish - Pradeep - Raghu - Shujath - Sanjai - Suppi. Before we go to why this is so? She just cant stand the fact if it happened to her. Nandish can vouch for it.

I can see the gleam in her eyes when she gets to meet new people. It is sort of like drug that gets her on a high. One reason could be new people fresh realtion or it could be new people new personalities new outlook. But i have seen it on a decline in the recent years. Well, the huge friends list comes with social obligation and huge up keep and maitainence of the social network.

One more thing I see about her is - she is not that good with regrouping of these chains. She gets along with the people to feed on their personality traits and her pyschoanalysis on these people. Well it requires her to be neutral so that she doesnt influence people in anyways to change their behaviour. It is a known fact that everyone behaves in a way that is apposite to the other person. So when they regroup back, she is a toss because she is perceived as different by different people.

Amy keeps asking me - "Does this mean I am acting to people?" I am not sure, may be you just want to be accepted by everyone. I would let the floor open for you folks to give the judgement on her.....

Just Keep Talking On

Assuming you all know about Amy's history and how she discovered she had the gift of the gab ( well she realised when ddax told her she had it ;) ) She was trying to put it to max usage. Overconfident enough, she took 2 days to fill the simple form to apply to the forum.


Just before the JustT interview she falls ill, hilarious enough to get fever in which she goes on shivering. Imagine, Interviewers ask her to talk something and she shivers. Wow thats confidence.

She dresses up in western formals, and on top of it wears a shawl, trust me I saw her and she looked like "mujhe apna haath de de thakur" wala thakur types. I asked her to take the shawl off, but she started shivering. I wanted to laugh out loud. But wanted her some reassurance. She scared the hell out of interviewers by looking so ill. Made them switch off the fan. It was a pyschological atyachar to feel pity and not be grilled. I asked Amy why was she tensed about a Forum Interview and she goes "It was tough to face a friend as interviewer. Esp when the friend can know what you think even before you think and how you react before you react, its real difficult."

Well they cant just let her go or take her in without any tough challenges. The fiend, oops Friend played his part - Asked her to talk impromptu, especially knowing how random Amy's thoughts can get. There she started her blabbering and 2 years of GradSchool she goes on and OOOOONNN!!!!! I am still not sure if she was actually ill or acting. I always thought she was too proud to accept that she was ill nor i want to give credit to her acting skills.

Bhaag Zaroor Lena

Few months back, Amy succumbed to peer pressure and decided to register for marathon. What was going through her mind... Amy wanted to overcome her fear. For a person who had just run once in an 100 meters and that too in Class 5, this was a brave step. For a person who hates running, this was a commendable step.

The thought was running through Amy's mind, she used to discuss with me, She needed to practice. But... !!! Then her Jagriti Yatra happened leaving no space for anyone to point out that she was lazy to drag herself out of bed to practice. ( Another post for her jagriti yatra hungama )

Come back from JY and it was time to clean up the mess that was created in her absence. Will it surprise if I say she fell and twisted her ankle. The creative firangs were creating a tree of sorts from used Aquafina bottles. As AnanK pointed out, "Is it creating more waste or what?" Jy train reached Kalyan and in a hurry to get out with the donkey load of luggage she had, she couldnt see where she was walking. She apparently stepped on the label. The placement of the label was also right by the door, she skid right into the space between the train and the platform. Well it was hilarious at the best at first, but thank god she had huge suitcases that stopped her from falling right through to the rail.

She limps to the Club Meet. She is in crape bandage for the next few days. She decides to run with crape bandage on the day of marathon? Yes you guessed it right. Deriving inspiration from Present Roomie's preparation and enthusiasm. Also the Roomie praised Amy of how active she is. Lol I am sure Amy's bro KP would also laugh along with me. So will Amy's mom. Amy was basically a very lazy kid.

She was happy to be part of marathon and all the hype around it. Created right from Aleem Bhayya to Rajan to Agashe to Shanu to Swathi. Then many of her friends were running, she bumped into many people. As far as I know Amy, for her the City is close to her heart if she bumps into people who she knows all the time. Bangalore was working very well and Mumbai has started to catch up. I know this for sure Amy has been avoiding socializing or rather spreading her social web so as not to stay back. More social connections she has here more difficult it becomes to get back to her Native.

I dont know how many names Amy took referring to the people she met. Very inspiring stories. From Worli Sea Face towards Haji Ali - She met this 50 Year old who over heard Amy saying "Why am I torturing my body?" This lady repsonds "I am 50+ and I havent had a single drop of water, So now you better run along" Amy was just too dumbstuck to reply even by a nod. Within less than a 1 Km - A Guy with Artificial limb was Running/Walking.






Amy did run about 8 kms till Worli Sea Face but may be because of Crape bandage or Bad shoes - she realized she has blisters. Till that point she had confidence that she can finish just because other can, so can she attitude. But she was loosing hope because she was panicking from inside. She had few small pebbles inside the shoe which can be irritating. God knows how it landed up in her shoe. ( No PT Usha stunts sorta story) She put her wrist band and hankie on the other to give some extra cushion. Not really it would help much, still worth a try.

As she said bye to Roomie in the Uturn, she saw AR. God sent. The same AR, she and Roomie decided to leave behind because he decided to walk. He gets all enthu, lets jog. Hahha - my thought at this juncture is same as yours - she cant last that long dude. As SDgr pointed out "Paww you have become soft" Well she always appeared as one Dude. Never thought anyone would walk along with her, esp when she is not able to walk. She developed a limp after crossing Sophia College. Some god had gotten into AR - AR was unearthyly selfless. Listening to same music, they were not able to walk but were able to dance at the same place, eat on the way. Bursting bubbles, water spray

Amy was at a look out for any railway station from the time she crossed Mahalaxmi. Even she didnt admire the serene Haji Ali. Amy's wish came true around 18th km after crossing chowpatty, Lo there was Charni Road. Adding more logic to her argument - CST mein itni gardi hogi ki yahin se train leke ghar jaate hain. AR didnt argue back, just held the back of her neck, literally pushed her - "aaram se chal but we will finish" Just then Monty and PD called "Aaj hi khatam karna hai" Swathi, Ram and Chiru had finished the race by then.

She completed it "jaise thaise" but she found her inspirations and people found her inspiring. Some effect it had on people thats the hype of Mumbai Marathon. Everyone trying to do things, come out of their comfort zone and explore, grow in life. Even if they were not running they were cheering for the crowd. Coming out of their houses, coming all the way and cheering for the participants. "Medal" for achieving the uncalled for and unimaginable for Amy. Well, even i cant believe it was over. Hats off to Amy's body which lives through the torture she put it through. Even she was too happy that it cooperated with her to finish the race. It means a lot to her. One more things off her "to do" list. And as Rachit pointed out, "Whats next climbing Himalayas???"

Lets see, I would be here to give you guys an update.

In a soup or in a pickle

After her Mad Hatter incident, I was thinking of many Amy's Misadventures, one more came to my mind. And how can i forget this.


 Meet D - Amy's bestest friend from college - If you have read prev blog Punnu's version2 in Amy's life. Partner in crime and crazy gigglers of all times, to have them thrown out of public transport for nuisance and potentially spreading insanity ( or even for the simple gibber gabber conversation by incoherent uncontrollable laughs )


Final year Amy was supposed to do a project and submit in college. They decided to do it in D's father's company. Not that he owned it, but he was a big shot in there. Enough to get them all the resources to do more masti and spread their madness.


In the first stint of corporate world, armed with craziness, girlish gigglers had a over sincere supervisor, who almost did their entire work. All they did was come to office, keep their bags, get freshened up, Lunch Time, come back to cubicle. control their laughs. crack more situational jokes. ( best part was the laughs were so infectious any sane person joining them would do the same, hence they didnt bother abt anyone else to come near us ) Go for coffeee ( We used to get gr8 tomato soup, by the end of their stint the company went into loss and had to stop it. In future the auditing scandal can be traced back to this, as the auditing firm was not able to account for the pilfirage :P ) feel sleepy even more. Time to leave.


As you can see the major part of all these fun and frolic was Lunch Time. One such day, D and Amy were having argument on whether it was curd or curds. The literature experts were so engrossed in their conversation, they were unaware of the long queue and the boredom to the listeners. Finally when they reached the food, the Great Amy - reaches out to curd ( the topic of dicussion ). It fuelled high volume argument between the two. What to do, Amy believes more she fights with people closer she would be.  When they realised the argument was going no where. But to remove the unvented anger they picked the next item, THE PICKLE, but it was stuck to the spoon and didnt come off that easily. Amy goes, Kya D zor se hila spoon ko. And she shook D's hand so hard that it overshot the plate and landed up on the pants and shoe of the guy standing behind them.


What next.. ESCAPE. Fire escape can be used even when there is no fire.


With each passing day, they forgot abt the incident. Well they did behave well - to an extent atleast. They started coming early to office, with the fear of not having any deliverable to show case at the end of internship period. Think of the HOD in his worst form!


Day N: Amy and D enter office, go straight to lift. Entered the lift which carried few guys from basement where the parking was. There was one guy who was staring and was visibly angry. Once he got off at Level 2. Amy exclaimed out loud to D, "what was his problem. I know coming to office can be stressful but you cant help it or you cant show it"


"Well, not when few silly girls add to his agony, by spilling food items on his clothes"


"You mean. He is.. The Pickle.. No Wonder. Oopss!!!"


Well the whole point of narration: "You can afford to forget the incident but not the person who was affected"