After quite a long time (4 and a half months, for sure), I called up one of my closest friends — to know that she was 4 months pregnant!! So much for being “close friends”!!! 😛
And after the inital whats and whaats and whaaats, I let out one string of abuses her way for not letting me know. And with that ever cheeky that-don’t-impress-me-much tone, she tells me, “Oh! I thought I’ll just give you all a surprise!” Apparently, in all that excitement and tests and waiting-for-the-confirmation delays, she forgot to call us. Then she thought about it a month later…by then she was sure she’d get killed for not having told us friends. And then, she thought ‘what the heck, let the baby come out…and i’ll let them know”. The ass! Hehe…she was quite sure then, that we wouldn’t be meeting till the baby’s out 😛
I’ve been friends with this mad girl since my 9th grade…and it’s always been the ‘heights of fun’ when the two of us, along with the third musketeer, joined together! All 3 of us are “younger sister” to some super brothers…and while we both have 1, she has 3!! Which explains her escalated level of madness!
We’ve stayed cooped up in her smelly bedroom from morn till night, pretending to study…while all we ever did was read novels and eat and make endless phone calls and eat and sleep and eat and gossip and eat and…oh, you get the picture, right? We’ve walked from her house, all the way to mine (some good 8-9kms) in the scorching sun, chattering away on about everything. We’ve spent hours together discussing loves, crushes and heartbreaks.
We’ve travelled all over Trivandrum for no reason at all (as a result of talking animatedly and boarding any damn bus without looking at the name board!!)…in fact, once we sat right in front of the conductor’s seat in the bus and refused to take a ticket 😀 Just before getting off the bus, when the conductor asked us for the ticket, she actually told him “Oh, innu ticket edukkan oru moodilla” (Oh, we didn’t have the mood to get a ticket today!) 😛
We’ve bunked our classes to join a third class’ PT hour {two of us were in the same class n this mad one was in another; so, while the every class had just one PT hour a week, we had one everyday…almost ;)}and play in the hot sun (guess we were the only 3 girls the PT master didn’t hate :D)! We’ve always wanted to be in the same class (precisely why the teachers conspired and always made sure at least one among us was separated from the gang during class hours) that she’s hidden under our bench, only to be discovered and thrown out by the teacher!
Edited to add this after this memory suddenly came back: We’ve lurked around after school hours, waiting for all the teachers to leave, then gone behind the school building and tried to understand what’s the ‘cool’ factor about smoking 😉 After a puff each and volleys of coughing fits and teary eyes, we ran off into the girls’ loo when we heard our PT master demanding who the smoker was (he saw smoke, apparently!) A poor 7th grade boy got caught and interrogated [they did the spell smell-check on him, but he came off clean :D], but no one ever figured out!
We’ve bunked school to attend the “La Fest” (an inter-school fest conducted by Loyola School in Trivandrum, every year), in spite of being warned against it by our class teacher–and then disappointed her by bringing her leave letters signed by our parents that actually said “Was unable to attend class since I wanted to attend La Fest”, instead of a cooked up “fever” story 😀
Long story short, we’ve been the perfect ‘undisciplined gang of girls’ at school (and SO NOT proud about it now 😦 ) By the time we passed out of school, we ‘grew up’ and vowed we’ll become better people. All that took to make us better people was to get the 3 of us going in 3 different ways 😀
We still get back to being the ‘undisciplined gang of girls’ whenever we meet (though we pretend to be civilised). All of us were mad enough on the other’s wedding and instead of gifts, presented the ‘bridegroom’ with condolence messages (through the bride of course! who wants to give away the disaster that’s in store :D)!?
I can’t believe she’s going to be a mom! I can only pity the poor baby that’s on its way (am done pitying the husband by now 😉 ). Love you girl! Can’t wait to see you!
It must be so exciting when someone u r close to is having a baby 🙂
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Ooooh! It is, it is!! 🙂
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Congratulations to ur friend..
but i can’t help thinking that if u were guys, u would’ve been beaten by the conductor and driver and hauled off to the police station.. 😛
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Hahahaha…true. These were only a ‘few’ of our escapades! 😀
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so u girls were like the female version of the ‘three stooges’ huh? nice 🙂
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Welcome to AlphabetWorld! 🙂
😀 😀 😀
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haha..wht was tht welcome for? i think i remember commenting over here a long time back.. 🙂
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Hain? Nope…you’ve never come in here before… Trust me, I shall never forget a visitor by name Karate Brat! 😀
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thts coz i keep changing my aliases …my real name is Rakesh
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i was bartula the vampire previously 😀 😀 😀
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hahahaha…nice name! 😀
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Ok, so for these four months, your phone didnt have outgoing facility or what ??? Even you didnt bother to call, le ? So much for being “close friends”!!! 😛 😛 😛
Convey a congrats to your friend from our end !
and I just loved this — “Oh, innu ticket edukkan oru moodilla”. I use such phrases in similar situations! 😀 😀 But then, I also tell them that I am kidding ! 😀 😀
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Hehe…ondaairunnu…that’s exactly why i said “So much for being “close friends” 😛
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Haha! Sounds like a great friendship. Loved reading about your escapades and have to say the smoking one is my favourite so far! 😀 Must be nice to see a close friend having a kid…
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😀 I guess if my mom reads this, she’ll figure out why i never topped the class 😀
Oooh, its so exciting. only, i cant come to terms with it. Another super close friend had a baby…and i still cant believe shes a mom…Guess “seeing is believing”, after all. Am yet to see tht lil one 🙂
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If I were in your place, I’d have sooo many questions to ask her! 😀 A best friend getting married or having a baby is always exciting!
It’s always fun spending time with your girl friends… 🙂
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@Anu
I do too! But it’s just not all that exciting over the phone. Can’t wait to go over and meet her soon! 😀
Oh yea…girl friends are the best; especially if they don’t like cricket and cars 😀 😀 😀
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now everyone seem to be full of nostalgic school memories 🙂
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LOL you girls were such devils!! 😆
I was laughing while reading this post, I am sure your friend will make a great mom, along with being a parent, she will be a friend and partner in crime to the kid 😉
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@IHM
That’s a lovely perspective! 🙂 I’m sure she’ll be a super mom!
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hey, u have an absolutely lovely blog! stumbled upon ur blog thru poojitha’s blog n could mostly relate to most of ur blogs…friend having a baby (my friend also jus did)to the one where u had ur last thoughts.. totally loved it!
will stop by to read more of your posts!
Cheers!
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@Saira
Welcome to AlphabetWorld! 🙂
Thanks a lot! Hope to see more of you around! 🙂 I’m heading to yours now 😉
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