The hike numbers were announced on Friday and they are too good to believe. I hadn't imagined something of that sort, especially after seeing the bonus and my boss was almost like "you'd better keep quiet now". I will of course, I'm a bit scared now. But I also know that not everybody is happy and that's making me feel guilty. I know I couldn't have helped it and I'm sorry, really sorry. But I'm not great at consoling people and it's much more difficult when the other person knows that you are supposed to be the happier lot. I think I have problem putting my feelings across in an effective manner - be it empathy, sympathy, sadness or joy or whatever else. The trainer in our team-building workshop had all of a sudden come near me and said, "you should open yourself more to people". I think it's not easy for me.
Spoke to L yesterday and I miss her badly at times. Her life is very tough at the moment and both of us agree that we hadn't imagined it would be like that. But she's hardworking and she enjoys challenges too and I hope next year will be better for her. My association with her has been of 16 years now and all these years she's been just the same as ever - down-to-earth, fun-to-be-with, caring and very dependable. She was the first girl I met as Pappa and I entered our old hostel block and I still remember her tomboy looks and even what she was wearing then. She wasn't my roomie and I don't remember how exactly we became close friends. We were in the same section and may be out of the 6 girls in our class, we were the most compatible. In the first year, we moved everywhere together; sometimes only two, sometimes in a gang of 6. We went to downcorps(!, is that the name really?), SAC, library, beach, beach temple,lighthouse, Sads, Karkera and where else? Once all six of us took 3 umbrellas and went to the beach at 9 in the night, sitting on the stone embankment, listening to the roaring sea and getting badly beaten by the splashing rain, our umbrellas all overturned in the wind. Next day the seniors took us to task is another matter. Another time L and I ventured from the beach to reach our campus through someone's coconut grove, only to be caught by two ferocious dogs, lunging right at our chests and for a moment we thought we were gone! Then we found our voice to cry for help desperately and were rescued by the owners of the dogs and we were still shaken as we reached the hostel! Of course it sounds pretty funny now whenever we recollect it.
There are other memories too, like whenever the mood went bad, sitting on that rock submerged in water looking at the sea for hours not saying a word, going to watch DDLJ in sac and almost stepping on a snake(how L jumped about that time!), the Office Committee days and singing "O Sanam" again and again, returning from Lalit to hostel walking and having a competition with NS(L almost won!), like watching HKKN in the midnight and coming to my room singing "Kya Hua Tera Vada" and getting scolded by Pal, watching latenight Sampras-Agassi matches, trip to Bekal Fort, singing "Laila O Laila" in the crowded bus coming to hostel(actually, I hardly started when I glanced at N and he gave me a hard menacing stare and I shut my mouth up. But Pal and L didn't notice it and they went on and on. Next day it was me who had to face the music of N's outrage at our 'total lack of judgement'!!) ...I hope I'll have many more to look back at when I hang my boots and our long-pending trip to the Himalayas will be one of them.
Spoke to L yesterday and I miss her badly at times. Her life is very tough at the moment and both of us agree that we hadn't imagined it would be like that. But she's hardworking and she enjoys challenges too and I hope next year will be better for her. My association with her has been of 16 years now and all these years she's been just the same as ever - down-to-earth, fun-to-be-with, caring and very dependable. She was the first girl I met as Pappa and I entered our old hostel block and I still remember her tomboy looks and even what she was wearing then. She wasn't my roomie and I don't remember how exactly we became close friends. We were in the same section and may be out of the 6 girls in our class, we were the most compatible. In the first year, we moved everywhere together; sometimes only two, sometimes in a gang of 6. We went to downcorps(!, is that the name really?), SAC, library, beach, beach temple,lighthouse, Sads, Karkera and where else? Once all six of us took 3 umbrellas and went to the beach at 9 in the night, sitting on the stone embankment, listening to the roaring sea and getting badly beaten by the splashing rain, our umbrellas all overturned in the wind. Next day the seniors took us to task is another matter. Another time L and I ventured from the beach to reach our campus through someone's coconut grove, only to be caught by two ferocious dogs, lunging right at our chests and for a moment we thought we were gone! Then we found our voice to cry for help desperately and were rescued by the owners of the dogs and we were still shaken as we reached the hostel! Of course it sounds pretty funny now whenever we recollect it.
There are other memories too, like whenever the mood went bad, sitting on that rock submerged in water looking at the sea for hours not saying a word, going to watch DDLJ in sac and almost stepping on a snake(how L jumped about that time!), the Office Committee days and singing "O Sanam" again and again, returning from Lalit to hostel walking and having a competition with NS(L almost won!), like watching HKKN in the midnight and coming to my room singing "Kya Hua Tera Vada" and getting scolded by Pal, watching latenight Sampras-Agassi matches, trip to Bekal Fort, singing "Laila O Laila" in the crowded bus coming to hostel(actually, I hardly started when I glanced at N and he gave me a hard menacing stare and I shut my mouth up. But Pal and L didn't notice it and they went on and on. Next day it was me who had to face the music of N's outrage at our 'total lack of judgement'!!) ...I hope I'll have many more to look back at when I hang my boots and our long-pending trip to the Himalayas will be one of them.
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