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Its 10 30 in the night..After a gruelling session of understanding the functionality of a Financial Accounting Object, I feel something is going terribly wrong with me!..
Its ironic listening to Yeh Hai Meri Kahani by Strings and reflecting on myself twisting and twirling at the relevence of each line of the lyrics .. Talks about old times, thoughts that haunt you only when you are all alone..I turn around and stare at the empty cubicles alongside me, speaking in a unified voice... Wish old times returned.. Last four years, all I had was fun..Loads of it.. I've done everything that was humanly possible..Been really irresponsible..But that feeling really drove me..Living life carefree.. But now with all the responsibilities and pressure, things are suddenly looking ominous...And to add to the fact is this profound solitude at 10:40 in the night on a friday.. Suddenly feel like breaking free, and just running away..All seems like a dream..A dream with mixed and vague feelings...
Whats worse I don't have that old dependable soul to turn to and speak to...
Man I miss my friends...
But thats a bygone era..
More brain storming later...

April - 'Be the Fool'...

It was a nice sunny april morning...
Yuck...Bad beginning...
It was a rotten April morning...The Indian Airlines episode dint do any good to the day..
Just one thing that was good that day was the home food I ate at Venki's house and a nice long chat with him..
Back at home, seething unused dark corners of my mind started reeking out stupid ideas of fooling people...Me n ashok decided to go for Hostage...Supposedly nice movie..Anyways a couple of jobless bored guys din't mind a crappy movie...5 mins into the movie and I wasn't feeling too great sitting idle on an April 1st.. The first time I suppose when nothing untoward happened..

Ok quit idling guys..Time for some action...

I call up a friend of mine 'B', and start off...

[Me] " I don't know how to say this, but I think I need to tell you some____", pat comes the reply..
[B]"I know, I know, I know...., April fools day..."...

Chay...That was my dialogue...Caught and killed at the budding stages..Din't go down that easy with me..So lets fool someone else ('D')..She agrees...

[Me]"Why don't you call up the other friend and say, 'Ashok has been buggin me for ages..., He says he has feelings for you..I'm seriously bugged..Did he call you??'..

[B] makes the call..comes the reply.

[D]"I'm confused..Did he actually say that??..U said he's bugging [A] too??...
Cuts the phone and gives Ashok a missed call..
Me and Ashok seriously excited..But we plan to keep her waiting, so that she gets more anxious..And we call her back during the interval..


[Ashok] "Hello, I got a missed call from you..Whats up?.. "

[D] "Oh!!!, Sorry, it was meant for another Ashok...Not you..Very sorry.. "

Me n Ashok laughing our hearts out...Another Ashok...Ya right..I beleive her..


Sunday morning..Ashok calsl up [B] and asks her what the status is..

[Ashok] "Eppidi, hows the plan going..?? "

[B]" Its too good now..She sounded really confused..I called her sometime back..She asked me again and again if I was joking..I could hardly control myself..But I think now she's really confused...I dont want to miss it on Monday..I wont be in town.. "

[Ashok and Me] "Dont worry, we'll chalk out something.. "


Sunday night..
Again call [B]...and ask her whats up?...

[Ashok].".Can't wait to finish it off..Whats up with [D] now??.. "

[B].."She's totally confused now..Great going..."

[Me screaming in the background]..."Dude, I think [B] is double crossing..For sure..Ask her that.."<<I'm not that convinced>>...

[B to Ashok] "I heard that...Tell him I hate him...Only he would say such a thing..I would never do that.. "

Me and Ashok think she's trustworthy..Let's go along with the plan...


Monday..
I inform [B], major plans made...Just wait till Wednesday..
Lunch...

Ashok's mouth is watering, mainly due to the sumptuous feast laid out in [D's] lunch carrier, which he usually usurps a major part off....Today, major acting..Sacrifice..Anything for fooling...
Ashok curses me...Dude I dint have her lunch today man..Mere se nahin hota...I assure him..Dude chill...By wednesday its over..


Tuesday, Wednesday...Still cold war going on between Ashok and [D]...
Thursday [B] calls me up in the morning..And asks me n Ashok to come straight to Cafeteria, and finish it for god's sake..To get the timing right..Me a [B] exchange a flurry of smses...


Cafeteria..
All of us gather around the table..
Ashok facing [D].
Me across [B].

[Ashok] I don't know how to start it..I don't know if after this you'll still be my friend..

[D] Face becomes half a tomato..

[Ashok] Ahh..baahh...ehh...yebb....i've been bugging these two for many days now...
I should have told you about this that day itself..I made a mistake then..I think its late now..
But still..
Silence..
Silence..
Silence..

[B] Small smile flickers across face..

[Me] Control baby, control baby...muuaaah...

[D] Rotten tomato like face...Flabergasted...Totally preposterous stuff going on..

[Ashok] Guys I can't hold on any longer...

[D] Biting teeth..Clenching fist...

[Ashok] Elated...Excited..

April Fool....

April Fool...

All three of us rolling with laughter...


Suddenly out of the blue...

[D] Is this some joke for you??..How dare you...???..When [B] called me, I was totally tensed up..My mom also knows it..What'll I tell her now... <<Rotten tomatoes are pouring down her face>>....

[Me]"Dudes...Take it easy...It was my silly idea..Any fault is on me..."

[B] Face grim...Donno whats happening kinds...I kinda look at her, to guauge if anything actually wrong..hmmm..Face still grim...Defnitely something wrong...

[D] I'm calling my mom...You only pacify her...Hmmmpffff...
Hands phone over to Ashok..

[Ashok]" maamie....this is Ashok...Aaaanh..naan thaaaan...Ashok here..."

[Karthik]...Poda SAAvkreki! April fool!....

[Ashok]..Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssuuuuuuuuuuup Doc!!!!!.....
Shit...Totally fooled....

[B] and [D] laugh at the sad plight of two dudes in despair...
Me tho still wondering..Whats going on..??..What happened to the trust yen yall??.
Am I so naive..Shit...Some one pinch me...Tell me its a dream..All's not lost..
Is it a case of double crossing...Naaah...[B] said she wouldn't dream of doing that...

Truth beats down in a bitter fashion...

Rewind...

[B] Ashok called me now man..He's been buggin me about how he feels for you n all...And he kept telling me the whole_____...

[D] Ya right..today's what?April first..?? Lets fool those two instead....

[B] Can't wait to do that....Lets do it!!!!...
Let's double cross them big time!!!!..Yipeee...

Two of them start their executive plan...Involve Karthik...Tells Hebbu (Can't control laughter)..

Two donkeys fall for it...Unfortunately no double crossing over double crossing.

History is made...Rather, I've already written what happened afterwards...

Moral of the story???Anyone???.....

Post Mortem....

Last weekend was a hectic one...Heavily eventful too..
Met a batch of really enthusiastic people and felt like I was back in college and doing my daily routine...
Time to elucidate on the facts that made me hate Indian Airlines..
I was in TVM last friday for meeting up with the new recruits who were to join us this year. We hosted a party at Muthoot later in the night, and I think everything went really well that day. I was scheduled to catch the IA flight next day at 3:40 pm to B'lore enroute to Hyderabad. My dad is an IA fan and when I called him he said it always arrived and took off on time.

Except on this blessed Saturday..

• 2:40 pm: I was at the airport one hour in advance, after confirming that the flight was on scehdule..The moment I got down from the rikshaw, an electryfying message greeted me...IA flight to B'lore delayed by 20 mins..
• 3:00pm to 3:35 pm: No problems..I could reach B'lore by 5 pm and take the next flight at 5:55, which happened to be one Air Deccan flight..I asked the people on the Air Deccan counter if that flight was delayed..They said till last week it was delayed, but today it would surely take off on time...Damn...Murphy's Laws were coming at me like a meteorite shower on Jupiter..
• 4:15 pm..: No sight of the aircraft..
• 4:20 pm..: The aircraft from B'lore and Cochin lands lazily..
• 4:30 pm..: I'd already bitten all my finger nails off by now..Impatiently jostled with the entire passenger queue and settled into my fav 8F seat (1st row in economy in an A320 carrier, i.e, first to board and first to get off)..
• 5:35 pm..: The darned flight took suprisingly less time to land, and by 5:35 pm I was in B'lore..
• 5:35 - 5:40 pm: Then I embarked on my mini marathon..Ran from arrivals..Totally dilaphidated airport..Couldn't figure out where departure was..Finally found it amongst some bricks and mortar.. Some weird construction was going on..
• 5:40 pm: I'm at the security check in frantically trying to wade into gate 2 like Moses amidst the Ocean..
• 5:45 pm: I'm the last guy to get into the Deccan flight with half the airport staff mouthing obscenities at me and a big migraine attack settling in..

Phew...What a day to forget..