Christmas eve- 2004

An evening worth remembering for Life time....

There were 10 of us in our best of days in Pune. along with my friends for a training at FTII Pune. Being 24th of Dec. the chill in the air, set a chill of excitement in our blood to get into some adventure. So all packed we planned to take a trip to Lonavla Khandala, and to celebrate our Christmas there. So our host for the evening, my childhood friend along with his friends booked a Sumo as we had no other option to go to Lonavla.... Being a Christmas time, the SUMO man actually robbed us of 800 bugs for one way!

Thanks to the master mind of my friend that we enjoyed the street lamps to the way to Lonavla. Generally people enjoy the site in the morning. Anyway, We were different... So we landed safe and sound to Lonavla. A small place but pretty indeed. lot of people were there to enjoy their Christmas eve....like us...

So we had 3000 bugs to njoy our selves. 3000 , 10 people that made 300 each. thanks to ATM cards which helos us not to carry to much of cash, but Gawd! the machines were not working . so 300 bugs to eat drink and njoy!!!everyplace we went demanded for 1000 bugs entry.... so only 3 of us cud get in, n it was hard to decide who cud be the lucky 3...so we decided to look out for some cheaper place.

Finally, one of our fellow partner got to know from somewhere that there was some place Dukes at Khandala, where food was free along with the disc. So fun and food were hand in hand... Then wat, without even giving a 2 nd thot we hired autos and went to DUKES of Khandala. And the site was worth million dollars when we got down at our destination. Dukes was actually a 5 Star resort... but we thot lets check things out. so we entered the resort, n guess who stood there, yes it was Isha Koprikar, top star then, the choreographer Ganesh, a huge black man. All of us decided to go back decently before we were actually thrown our of the place. We came down faster than we climbed up (Simple Physics). But now what....It was almost midnight and we didn't even have a cycle to get back to Lonavala. So we thought of boarding on our 11 no. bus and to move back. After walking hal way we saw a dim-lighted Tempo coming slowly and slowly. He was in no mood to work on a Christmas Eve, but some how all girls managed to get him all of us to Khandala. Any how we managed 10 of us in one single Tempo.

By this time we all were starving and really exhausted. Finally we entered a small little restaurant with a decent furnishing. We asked the manager as to what could be offered to us with the kind of budget we had. He welcomed us with a warm herat and man, we had the best food of our life time. All of a sudden, a Santa came to us, distributed some caps and with the party at its peak, we had a jazz there in the garden itself.

Finally it was time and we had to bid farewell to Lonavla. We boarded a train to Pune. Spending 2 hours near the stinky toilet, we finally were home. But that day remains fresh in my mind forever, as the best Christmas Eve of my life.

the COMEback!!!

Was back home...after 5 damn year.... came here wid a motive to help ma, in her work...and to chill out coz 5 years had really become a hard on my health... so home sweet home... initial days went on relaxing and getting back to the aura of this place..... pleasant and happy mopments were back...the nxt stage was to join CBI...hold on it is not the investigation department but the abbreviation of our insti, "Centre for BioInformatics". the first thing my boss that is my ma said that u will be serving here as the Peon...can u crack that, a Peon with a MBA degree... but boss is a boss, woh bhi ghar ka, baat tu manana hin tha or else wud have been sacked off the house, the job, the dining table, the bedroom, the life...so had to be there... there is a co-partner to our insti that is College for life Sciences.... the 3rd gr8 achievemtn was to get the affliation for our new B.Ed College...well well well, 3 achievements in a row and in the span of 5 yrs... indeed a good achievement...i salute my ma for it....but...

will continue the 2nd of the story under various sub heads....

Velocity

I was the first one from my batch who got placed into an Event Management Company "Velocity Brand Server"...Yippee! i had something to share with my frenz, but hold on EVENTS!!! Aditi have you ever thought of getting into events. But then maybe life wanted to show me something....hmmm n the boss...(sir forgive me for this) So i Reached Delhi, place where i had to work....eekks! i hate the heat n traffic there. but paapi paet (Sinful Stomach)... s177, GK2, New Delhi was where i had to report. so like a good girl with my parents, in my sneakers n jeans(thinking a cool place to be into events) entered the office... Strange was the look of the people around. Maybe they thot the same for me. lots of them waiting in que for some interview. What! was i suppose to give an interview again along with these funny looking teenagers. I felt like an "amma" amongstthe YO kids.

Entering into a room I saw few men in formals, probably my co-workers. showed one of them my appointment letter. Alas! i was given a chamber to sit in, to wait for my new boss. AC taking heat off our head and cold water soothing our thirst, me along wid my parents sat there listening to the ticking clock.

2 of the most intelligent people (let them feel the same) then approached us to give us the information about the company and its work. hmmm...so it was not exactly like what i Thot...its not only sho-sha thing, but a lots and lots of work....

Then enetered the star of the sign, a gentle looking smart lady who gave me a jerk and informed me about the dressing code. Lady you are into a corporate now, so no more college clothes...What into the collar thing throughout the week... huh!!! in the heat...but thankfully A.C did work...

So my normal office life began, and then came my first show, the first event, Radisson NOIDA... a corporate event. I was asked to take care of the back stage , but man its all different when the show is on. Completely on my toes. Looking back and fore-stage. Running here and there with full-on enthusiasm. MY FIRST EVENT, had to be perfect. Muzic, Lectures, Dance, Drinks were all in the show. At last the event came to an end. it was 1.30 a.m...tired to my **** but then it was fun...lots to tell my folks... client was happy boss had to be happy so every1 was happy happy....

the next event was scheduled in Mumbai... the Maya Nagri... I had to be there.... Leela's oh Gosh the place to be.... Awestruck , but like a Corporate Client Servicing personnel i entered the premises...by this time my boss started trusting me and after handing me my lappy (MY PERSONAL LAP-TOP) He left for Delhi and left me to make all the damn arrangements... but hello this is Mumbai with no staff around, what and when i had to do was the question!!!but hello...here came my saviour, my office mate who handled the entire thing just on a click of the mobile. and things went smooth... I juz had to meet people and give them a killingwa smile and ofcourse sign on the behalf of VELOCITY!!!

Event was fun, better than the 1st one... my saviour had come down a day prior to make last day arrangements... Our EMCEE was just too cool... Made good frenz wid her in the next event in Pune... and then my boss Threw a bombshell...Aditi u r transerred to mumbai... like hello what???

i got juz one day to pack my belongings and adieu my beloved PG mates... Packed the stuff and flew down to in the dream land. Was happy coz was to meet my sis, who is in mumbai...and had to put up wid my aunt till the rains and i could find an accomodation for myself. But the rains never stopped and I Was back to my home-town on my MOM's call!!!Home sweet Home....