Day 92!

Considering how badly the day has ended with regard to books, this is the funniest part of my day today!

Day 86!

Dear Friend,

You make me so proud! I couldn't have been happier for all the 100 days put together. You worked really hard and you deserve every bit of this success! And I hope you get lots and lots more of the success in the years to some. I cannot wait to meet you and hug you!

Love you a lot!

P.S.: It still is a secret, rest assured. ;)

Day 74!

Dear Twin Soul,

Our friendship is officially an adult now!

Lotsa love!

Day 71!

Thank you Mommy and Daddy! Thank you little sister! Thank you Twin Soul and Toto, the monkey! Thank you Jakarta Girl! Thank you onion seller! Thank you to all my office friends who braved the heat and the finals to join in the celebrations and mock cake fights! Thank you all of you! Love you guys a lot!

Day 66!

Unbounded joy! When you know you can irritate your friend and the friend cannot do anything about it!

Day 64!

Pre birthday celebrations begin! Thank you, Japan, for calling my friend early so I could start cutting cakes a week ago!

Oh and another happy moment today! When someone reminds you, "Form is temporary, class is permanent." I'll remember this, Aditya, and be happy for a lot more days! Thank you!

Meanwhile, the cake, rather what's left of it :

Day 59!

It's back! Evenings won't be as boring again! Summers, now you're welcome!

Day 52!

Getting together with office friends after so long!

Day 50!

You, my Twin Soul, are a keeper! Ummm, not like Oliver Wood. More like Julia Roberts!

Day 34!

Thankful for the angels around me!

Day 28!

No matter how much of Chinese, Italian, Continental or Thai food you crave for, nothing matches the craving for puchkas! Nidhi, we'll remember and talk about today's puchkas for long!

Day 12!

All those dear ones, away for a year or even a day, our hearts are just growing fonder! This is for you :

Day 3!

Winter mornings + under the quilt + chocolate from friend = Happy Me!

The best you can have!

She knows how to make me smile!

Irritating me is almost like her part-time job!

He’s crazy about his chick(en)s!

She is like my twin sister!

We’re fondly called the monkeys of the house!

I can bare my soul to her!

He calls me paranoid!

He gets me thinking!

My day is incomplete without talking to her!

He inspires me!

He loves my smile! I love his too!

She never ceases to sing! (Not even during class!)

She loves to fight!

These are my friends! And I love them the way they are. This is the family I got a chance to pick and choose! 

Happy Friendship Day to all my dear, near, close, long-lost, old, new, fun, boring, crazy, lazy and wacky friends!

Kyun Ki… Har ek friend zaruri hota hai!

Love you all!

Don't let time fly!

Kabhi kabhi toh milte hai (we meet very rarely), my cousin said yesterday evening. That is exactly what has been going on in my mind since then! How rarely we manage to get time out for the ones dear to us!

We're all so busy with our lives, our work, that the time left has to be spent very carefully to satisfy all. A year ago, when I was preparing for a major exam, I’d only spent time with my books for around a month or so. And at that point of time, I’d promised myself, I’d give time to all that I’d neglected during the preparation. And I had later. But today a year later, when I’m going to office on a regular basis with no long vacation in the near future it is so difficult to please everyone in one Sunday!

Today we live in such a competitive world, racing against time, immersed in our work, involved in our own lives that we fail to regard the other important aspects of our life. Our relations, our friends, our passions, our pleasures ― they all take a backseat. And we fail to understand when that backseat turns into neglect.

And years later all we will be left with will be regrets, unfulfilled wishes, laments...

You don’t want to live that way. No one does. So before you get lost in the whirlpool of distractions, stop for a while, take a deep breath, think about all those people you’ve been meaning to talk to for a long time and give one of them a call. Any one.

You’ll hear the smile in their voice! Trust me. Cuz I just did!

Once in a while, give yourself a break. You deserve it. Every one of us does. Just laze around. Relax. The world won’t come to a halt if you ease up a bit.

As the world proceeds ahead, tougher do the times get! But, “When the going gets tough, the tough get going!”

Old is, indeed, gold!

Yesterday, while travelling to college by bus, with lots of stuff in my hands, I had the least bit of support to help me balance myself while the driver swerved the bus through the lanes of Calcutta. My mind suddenly reeled back to the times when my friends and I used to play a game called 'Balance' in our school bus on the way back. The rules were simple. The girl who managed to stand in the moving bus for the longest period of time, without touching the seats or supporting herself in any other manner, would win!

Little did we know it would help us so much later on, while travelling through public transport!!! What fun those days were...

Over the past year, so many things changed in the lives of so many I know. School ended. College started. We made new friends. Tried to keep up the promises of old friends. We became busy. Priorities changed. People changed.

Still, whenever I come across a school friend, the innocent days of school life takes over for the moment! It's instantaneous. More so for me. Because I spent fourteen beautiful years of my life in the same school, among the same set of friends. Believe it or not, but we have seen each other grow. Literally! Some we might remember, some we might not. Some we love, some we hate! But it's all a part of our lives!

Those were days when the whole class knew you, and you knew the whole class. But in college! I don't think apart from examination days I've even seen all of them in one room at the same time!

To all my school friends, I still love you all! Even though we might not talk, we might not meet, we might not even think about each other, but I'll always cherish you!

And to all the new friends I've made on the way... I hope to see you turn into gold :)