Today is nothing special as all other ones and my mobile shows 9.30AM as it does every day. Mohan my room mate is in full attire, ready to leave to his office said "Bye Varun". Replying him, I prepared to get ready though my laziness held me in bed. Then in next 20 min., I am done with all I have to before leaving to office except for my dress and shoes. I have a great confusion in selecting my dress. Not because that I have a good variety of dress to do so but for the few I have is either not pressed or dirty. I will make a clever and a quick selection at last after a great analysis about the day ahead. The next one that I spend lot of time is in selecting my foot wears... Whether to select a casual shoe or a formal one or a slipper... Making such big decisions will eat most of my morning hours and my mobile will now run to 10.30AM. Now I won't have time to walk through the main gate of our vast apartment since it takes 10 more Min. so I will make a clever decision to jump out of the compound while our watchman shouts from there - SAB SAB SAB... Never minding his words, I moved on to the main road and started walking towards the road side shop to get my today’s quota of cigarettes. One in my mouth and another in my pocket I walk towards the office building.
When I enter the office the time is 10.40AM and the canteen is almost empty. With few good mornings and hai's to my recent friends, I enter the canteen to order one plate Poha – my usual breakfast. Now I should rush to my desk as quick as possible not to attend an important meeting or to report my boss... but I have much more important job of sending good morning mails to my dear friends. If I am late in doing so, or if the mail reaches them after 12.00 noon, I will surely get some nice criticism from them for not sending in time. Then I will start checking mails both personal mail box and my personal mails in the office mail box. Replying all my friends, I now have to thing for what job I have to do today and how much time should I take to do the same. Ring Ring...Ring Ring... Ring Ring... Oh My Bava is calling me... he is my Andhra friend who use to teach me Andhra Telugu. Completing his work I continued thinking of what to do when my team mate Narendra pinged me "Go?” When I turned behind my seat, I could find him ready for a short break in the car parking with the cigarette I bought on the way to my office.
At least then I thought to start my work that I planned for today, when Srini my referral visited me... chatting with him along with my work I could spend around one and a half an hour when Sathya pinged me "Lunch?" Oh no I have worked a lot that I don’t even note that the time is 1.30PM so, I went for lunch with my Bava, Srini and Sathya. We have a good time during our lunch which will eat a solid 1+ hours of our time. Back to seat, should search for my friends on line to have a short chat. Continuing my job, I started spending my time interacting with team mates, criticizing others, blaming others, etc when I got a call in my desk phone... "Prabhu Vakil" is what is the name displayed in the screen. I took the phone and said "Can We?" when he replied OK. Then locking my PC started walking towards him when he too moved out of his seat. We both went down to the near by tea shop having a Chai and a Cigarette. Coming back, I had to start continuing my job to end my day...
Now it is around 5.30PM when Aarthi pinged me "Hi Varun". "Hi Aarthi" I started chatting with her discussing about her, me and our friends... This continued for upto 6.30 when she leaves for the day. With the thoughts of all my friends I continued doing my job when my friend from Chennai gave a missed call. I called him back and started scolding him as I always do before speaking to him. He too gave out some sweet words which I could not express out... after which I enquired about Arul, Jain, Prakash, Logu, and all ... when Rajkumar ping me "There?" at around 7.30PM. I replied him as I do daily and we continued speaking about the days work, plans, our blogs, etc... Interrupted by my job up till 8.30 when his cab is ready to move for the day. Now it is time for me too to leave for the day.
This is how I spend my one day life in Pune, though physically far from my friends and family, my friends in no way let me alone here. It is just a matter of few seconds they spend for me makes my stay here worth and my life happy in the mids of some critical situations that I face everyday... I should wish those great companions, on this special and auspicious day,
A Happy Friendship Day!!!
I still remember the day when I with my brother rush to school with a Flag in the chest and joy in our hearts inviting all our friends in my hero ranger to participate in the flag hoisting ceremony at my school. The only day, I went to school with a smile in my face.
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