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"

Muted

I always wondered during meetings and conferences, watta blessed man he is, who created mute button. :)

As i claimed my expertise in keen analytical mind and blah blah... "How to ensure the mute button actually worked???" No need to mention what a disaster it would be if the line is not muted.

Its been a tough time for Amy's team.. ( yep amy is all grown up and  started to work :P ) Late nights, endless meetings, non stop conference calls - perennial bombarment of knowledge being transfered from left ear to right ear.

After a point, they were just present physically and mentally too tired to understand. well that just gave them one more reason to FB, chat during these sessions. And they acquired a talent of mindlessly saying "yes" or no "we are good to go"

Just few minutes ago, note the time.. 2 am and on a friday night sunday early morning - training on material which amy made. do u think she would be interested :P If you peep into Amy's lappy - FB ( checking out notifications and chatting with 4 - 5 windows, the max allowable in fb without a scroll bar. considering the fact how much Amy hates scroll bars.), few mail boxes open, twitter ( only source of news during the long stretches ), gtalks, blogs, many work related mail chats, office communicators.

Amy's influence spreads faster than fire, the team was a notch higher. Needless to say - everyone was in same page :P

For a moment Amy beamed with pride that she was multitasking so well. Also saving the team from influence of trainings and KTs. This "next in line" guy gets up to bring beanbag ang gets comfy. But now that he is settled, and they all realise there is no one to say "Hmmm" "Yes" or any unmuted vocal nods :P
So he goes "Hey Amy, now u are the closest to the speaker, you better take over"

Amy: "what is the need to say needless things, the speaker also knows its his duty to talk. Haan yes bolne ki kya zaroorat hai"

She could hear her own voice with a lag. ' Is it what i think it is :| '

Rest is common across all blogs. Embarrassment. and feeling guilty :P

We all had a hearty laughs.

U are the best amy. what would we just do without you.

Mad Hatter

This was an old incident when amy had just finished with her school.

Amy and best friend punnu were headed to BCity and that too a flight journey alone ( what i meant was un-supervised ) Punnu's parents had a conference in BCity, whom she was going to join. Amy was just fulfilling her set routine of visiting her grandparents just like how we used to read in tinkle and other comics.

Done with school. No more uniforms and what it represents - Restriction. Not a kid anymore. More freedom. Can try out more from the bounded behaviour set by parents. One offshoot of such idea was to bully some guy.

In the capital city Airport, they find a guy who appears to be a NRI ( for the reasons like he is wearing a cloth hat, which was not in fashion in India at that point of time :P ) Perfect bakra, their eyes gleamed. No need for communicating "Are you thinking what i am thinking???"  I dont think Amy was aware of the term adam teasing ( still it is not prohibited by law :P ) Apprehensive Punnu goes "may be we shouldnt"

"How does it matter? Do you think he would ever know who we are? Are we ever going to meet each other again? Come on lets seek some risk for a change" comes a confident answer. Followed by some comments like - "Dekha nahi videsh ki log apne aapko pardesi samajhne lagthe hain. Apne suit boot toh dekho. topi pehnane ki zaroorat hai bus" No need to explain whom it was passed on.

The gals were just warming up to have fun, there was announcement for boarding.

But Amy's wish for seeking some risk was so intense that even god wouldnt back off from granting it :P And fate would have had it, the seating was Amy, Punnu and ... THE NRI guy in the window, middle and aisle seats respectively. When probability theory fails - Murphy's theory kicks in. More omen of worse to come. The two were quiet as strangers!!! And didnt even dare to cross him and go get out to go to the loo in midst of the journey.

Once the plane lands in Bcity, they give out a loud sigh of relief. It couldnt have gotten worse! They let the guy go and waited till he disappeared in the crowd before getting out of their seat. Unlike the usual tendency to rush before the plane even comes to a halt.

Narrating and giggling about their experience while collecting the luggage that they see Cousin waiting. going up to her - "Hey i didnt know you were coming to pick me up. Thats is very sweet of you. Meet punnu my friend"

She replies "Actually I didnt know you were coming. But good that I met you as well. We would drop you on the way. Do you remember cousin Y he is coming back from US of A after his masters. So came to pick him up"

"Oh great I havent met him in ages, as I was in the north for years altogether. You wait for him and I would pick up punnu's luggage and come"

Amy walks up to punnu. After collecting all the luggage and were returning to leave, they see that its the same guy. Murphy's law in succession.
"Now what how do we avoid them?" When he aside, Amy runs to her cousin to convey that she would leave punnu in her hotel as she is alone and from there she would head back home. Hahha :P I would have loved to be there. The sadist in me would have been so happy. Some incidents do suggest that god still works for the underpriviledged :P

The Farewell

An ode to the 1 and half year spent here. Things changed. Enthusiasm and even the outlook. What people meant to amy. The priorities changed. Expected outcomes changed. :D In the end nothing mattered and it was good and to an extent practical education that Amy got. She is a changed person and we are loving it.

Most important of all, its just not her who these had happ. Everyone has had a paradigm shift, change in personality et all.

New people come, new (mis)adventures.

Cheers to life. Another phase starts. a bit of responsibilty and sophistication.

Keep smiling til she unleashes her clumsiness.

pre exam

Once more and I would make it a thumb rule. Her urge to do everything except to focus on things at hand. :P Esp during exams. I had written a post before her previous mod exams on her instistance
Well I guess Amy's brain is made to be active during this time hence she start pondering more.

Amy: I crossed cat s path wat would happen to the cat. :P
ASax: ( should i even reply ) - smiles just for courtesy sake
An auto passes by
Amy: I guess it just turned lucky, it was not rode over by the auto. See i am so lucky and made the cats life.
Wat ASax replied.. does it even matter.

She didnt even attribute it the cat having 9 lives. :P

I sometimes do wonder why do i even entertain her and her stupid thoughts. No curse one me :D

Well a little pondering on my side revealed that I wanted to write about the worst, useless banter is different. Hence!!!