Mangalore Girl

I was standing in Vashi, Bombay Bus Stop alone. It was too hot and sunny. 2 guys were discussing about a girl who was alone at the other corner of the bus stop. I moved a bit to see the girl they are talking about. She was cute, slim and tall. I thought to give my luck a try, as no one knew me there.

I went to that girl and asked was she waiting for Bangalore bus. She said yes. We continued to talk. We talked about 15-20 minutes. Then came our bus to Bangalore. We both went to the bus. But the number of the bus was not the one I got in SMS. I thought as the bus number changed once, it could happen again. I went to the conductor and showed my ticket. He said it was the bus to Mangalore and my bus was coming behind this bus. Then I realised she heard Mangalore when I said Bangalore.

She and I had to separate now. All my dreams of the bus trip were badly shattered. I wanted to talk to the girl and can see the similar restlessness in her eyes too. I don't know how the short discussion happened next, I asked or she, but she asked for my name and number. I gave my company Hoopos card. But I told her do not call me instantly. It will sound desperate from her side. Also that shows I am not desperate, plus some attitude. My actual reason was I wanted to stay connected to few people by SMS after catching the bus. I asked her to call on Sunday 4PM. This piece of shit was because the closer around this time she calls, the more interest she shows from her side. When I asked her name, she said she will call and tell. Then she left.

Till saturday night, I remembered that she will be calling the next day. But I forgot the time I told her. I slept late and got up at 2PM. I totally forgot about her call. Chicken was made at my home and I ate enough. At around 3:50PM, I went to loo. When I was in loo, she called. Then it struck me all of sudden that she was going to call. But I couldn't pick call in loo. So I disconnected it and SMSed to that number that I will call in 10 minutes.

After 10 minutes, I saw that the number was a landline number and SMS wasn't sent. Then I called back to the number, but a man, with bad Hindi accent picked up. I said, "Hello Sir, this is Deepak from Bangalore. Is Rahul at home?". As I did not even know her name, I could not ask him to give the phone to his daughter directly and I mentioned my name so that if he repeats it, she might know I called and that too from Bangalore. But the plan failed, he said, "Sorry, wrong number". I asked, "Is this number of Hubli?". Just to make sure the call was the same girl's who I met. He said, "No, this is Mangalore's number" and disconnected. I called the next day too. Same thing but with her mom.

My next plan was to ask my friend Amrita call her number and ask his dad or mom to give phone to her daughter in Kannada. Story of bus stop, if needed, will remain same, but Deepak will be replaced by Deepika.

Plan B. I will get Mangalore landline directory and search the number for the address. Then I will go to Mangalore on my bike, stay around her house and will meet her when possible. But reverse searching from number is hell of a big job, when I don't even know name or surname. Only thing I know is her number and she lives in Mangalore or may be not. She might have got down before Mangalore. WTF.

When god was distributing luck, I was in loo.

Prison Break

Premise:

I have 2 sisters, one of who just got married and is in Bangalore. For her marriage, I had to shorten my very much loved long hair. But I always picture myself with long hair. I had been watching Prison Break 2^nd season whole night and slept at 4am. My dream was similar to Prison Break and I doing things similar to Michael Scofield.

Dream:

In my dream, First scene was that I faked a murder attempt just to go in the prison for some reason. Nothing is clear to me why yet but I faked a murder to go in prison. Next was in courtroom, where I saw myself with long hair. I requested judge to send me to some specific prison. In the prison, every plan made and every event occurring went super-fast like pictures. In the next scene, I, with 4 guys, was breaking the prison and was in a drainage tunnel of the prison. We opened a manhole and came out on a road and ran to some direction. Next we were running on a runway of airport, towards a private plane. We got on the plane and flew for Mexico; though the prison, we were in, I am not sure was the Fox River. In the air, cops chased us on jets; border control and air traffic control detected us and chased us too. We took the parachute bags and jumped from the planes below, not being sure in which country, we jumped in but it was not an English speaking country.

We jumped in some barren abandoned land like place. Running for miles, we got the road. There we split ourselves. 2 guys went left and I with one went right, making sure, the person I went in the prison to break out was with me. One of which left the group way earlier, maybe he did not jump from the plane. We walked the road and came to a small town. Everyone in the town was looking at us, as we were foreigner to them; but we doubted everyone that they are recognizing our faces as fugitives.

We went to a bar, which comes out to be a local don’s den. Local don was John Abruzzi, the person who broke out with us but probably did not jump from the plane; and he orders his men not to let us stay in the bar. We tried to talk to his men but we weren’t able to communicate with them because his men did not understand English language and I did not understand theirs. Something made me feel, we were not 2 but 3.

I went alone out of the bar to find any person who understand and translate. There I came across Fernando Sucre, one of 2 guys who went left on the road; the other was T-Bag but he doesn’t meet again. Sucre left T-Bag and followed us. I bring Sucre up the bar and ask him to talk to them and they came still came to the conclusion that we should still leave the place. The mean time Sucre was talking to Abruzzi’s men, I was talking to the person with me and everything got clear automatically; for whom, why and how, I went to the prison and how I broke it. The person with me was not he but she. She was my sister Neeta, who got married and her in-law framed her for some murder and she was to be hanged in a week after we broke the prison. For her I entered the prison and visualized her in the ladies prison and I digging her cell too from the tunnel side to get her out.

I went down to the road for something before leaving the bar and Sucre was accompanying my sister Neeta up in the bar. When I went down, I met my other sister Deepika and asked her what she was doing there. She said she too faked a murder attempt and went in the same prison behind me and she was with my sister Neeta in the prison the whole time, in the ladies prison. But she entered the prison to spend the last quality time with Neeta, believing I went in for the same. I had no clue about Deepika being in prison. She followed us while breaking the prison keeping some distance that we 5 never knew she was with us; and she broke out too. Then I visualized, in my dream, her following Neeta and us, making a turn in the tunnel and running in the barren land behind us, walking on the road just behind us like she was with us, also sitting in the plane and jumping from it. What I realized earlier that we were not 2 but 3 was correct. I left Neeta with Deepika while coming down the bar for searching a translator before meeting Sucre. I told her to go back to Neeta and went back searching something.

I came back to the bar and Sucre was leaving. Deepika was nowhere around. Neeta was with some other girl, who was Neeta’s look alike but little shorter in height. It seemed that girl knew me and was smiling at me. For some reason, she seemed familiar too. I came to know that Neeta knew Deepika was with us and she planned keeping her with us in breaking plan. But I did not understand what would have gone wrong if she would have told me too. Now everything started getting clearer how Neeta might have planned Deepika to her cell to running from the prison. But one thing wasn’t clear where now Deepika is and who this look-alike of Neeta is.

I with the 2 like looking girls came down the bar and from about 50 meters far Sucre shouted to run and follow him. We 3 ran towards him. There was a bar’s steel fence. Neeta’s look alike jumped then I was about to jump but a dog came by and started barking at Neeta. Neeta fearing the dog ran opposite way then ran across the road and fell down on the other side. She might have hurt her badly. When she was fallen, dog went and started biting her. I ran towards her and the dog left her and ran towards me. I in anger kicked the dog very powerfully and ran towards Neeta. Before I could reach Neeta, I woke up.

While kicking and running, I realized that the other look alike was Deepika herself. When I told her to go back to Neeta and left for searching something, she either did plastic surgery or wore Neeta’s mask but it was Deepika for sure. Deepika might have done to hide her fugitive identity from that country’s people but she did not realize that Neeta was more wanted person than her and was going to be hanged in a week. 

KLPD Switch

I have been in OnMobile for 2 years. But when I placed my resignation, Geo, my senior Manager asked me to fly to Italy for a deployment for 2 weeks. I thought it was just to lure to me stay in OnMobile as deployment can be done from India too. I rejected the offer and stayed on leaving the company. After 2-3 days I came to know, a 4 years senior person named Laxman I going to Italy on my place and that too for the product I developed. Then Geo talked to me again and I stayed on my words. Next day, I got a mail, regarding passport details and Visa stuff. Mail was sent to 3 people Laxman, I and a girl Akansha. What the fuck, If I would have stayed in OnMobile then Laxman wouldn’t have got this chance and I would be flying to Italy with Akansha. Now as I have resigned, Laxman will be flying with her to Italy. I lost my once in a lifetime opportunity to be with her. I was trying to go out with her since 2 years; and I had got the chance to fly with her to some other country and be with her all the time; and I kicked the opportunity a day before. What could be my KLPDed condition you guys can understand? The day, after we received that mail, was her birthday and I wished her and asked was she going to Italy. She said she wasn’t sure but she had to go as she was required. Damn it. I had to give Laxman KT regarding the product so that he is able to work on my product with very less difficulty.

Now let me explain something about this girl. Akansha is a Mallu girl. She is polite, helpful, caring and friendly girl. She is dark but good looking, thin and have a super soft voice like Genelia D’souza. Since training I have liked Akansha. She is senior to me by 2 years.  She is the second sweetest girl I have ever met. She used to help us during training times. We were in friendly terms even after that. Murli, one of my friend turned rival joined her team. They were good friends. But from the day he started being my rival, behaviour of Akansha towards me changed. She started ignoring me. As I was her junior, it was not a big issue for anyone of us. It was understandable. Till Murli was in the company, she and I did not talk at all. After he left, I messaged her on her birthday. She had no idea whose number was it? Since morning till she guessed that it was me, which was 3pm I think, she and I kept messaging each other. After that we talked to each other about 2-3 months on chats but not personally at all. Then no idea what happened, there were the same junior-senior distance created and we stopped talking to each other for about 9-10 months. Then as i told earlier, I mailed her on her birthday.

Hectic Switch

I have been in OnMobile for 2 years but I never felt so important yet confused. I was nobody till now but now when I am leaving I feel like I am the most important person in OnMobile. Geo, my senior manager, is talking to me almost every day half an hour just to convince me stay, using infinite reasons I find immaterial. But Geo can’t do anything about it. His hands are tied because monetary factor is not in his hand. Kamal SBU head, who has the power to decide the remunerations, talked to me about two and half hour one day discussing pros and cons of start-ups(hoopos.com) and well-established companies(like OnMobile). Even after so many talks, I wasn’t convinced the OnMobile is a place for a guy like me.

I have spent several restless days and several sleepless nights just thinking about this. Now when it’s decided that I am leaving, I have been put upon so much work that will take too much of my time, again leading to restless days and sleepless nights. Team is short of people to work. So they can’t make any backup plans to relieve me as soon as possible.

I have no experience of switching company as OnMobile is my first company. Had to listen to everything everyone wants so that relationship remains intact even if I leave the company. IT industry is such a small place like Goa that anyone can meet anyone anywhere. Let’s see am I able to cope up with all the necessary requirements and responsibilities before leaving. This is for sure; it’s going to be hectic.

My Best Friend Khushboo

Khushboo came to my house about a week ago. From the day, she became a very important member of my house and my life. I call her Baby. I feel bit responsible for her.

I have a reason to come to my home at lunch and dinner for her. She is so cute that I sleep looking at her most of the nights. She is so innocent that she doesn’t even know what is going on around. She doesn’t even recognize people around her. She doesn’t even recognize me. She doesn’t even know her name is Khushboo. She doesn’t even know how much I love her. She doesn’t even know how much troubles I am taking for her. She doesn’t talk to me, or anyone else. She is quiet and busy in her own world all the time. She neither listens to me nor does she know I am talking to her.

She is such a friend that I do things that I do for no one. She eats a lot and I make sure she gets food all the time. She grew older and fat in front of me in a week.  She pees and poops anywhere not caring and not even knowing who cleans it. I have to do everything but still I am happy she is with me and I am happy to do anything for her. She sleeps in my arms or palms when I hold her.

She is with me only for 2 weeks. Then her guardians will take her away from me and I can’t do anything about it. I can’t stop them. I can’t even make them not take her. They left her with me because they were going outstation. And they will rightfully take her back. Here is the pic of my Khushboo.