"Holi"day Part 3

When i said that the entire trouble begins,believe me it was an understatement....
First of all the auto in which we were travelling had a flat tyre in the middle of the road! i thought he was just joking...but when he really asked us to get another auto i knew my troubles had only began...Think about it..two girls in horrible clothes(beggers were looking more glamourous that day!) and obscenely pink....do u think we could autos easily....nah!!!....it was a struggle....absolutely nobody wanted to even bother to look at us...Finally after atleast 45 minutes in the blazing hot sun we finally managed to get an auto and that driver even charged us extra claiming that we had spoiled his seat covers....it wasn't true, afterall standing for so long in the sun one could be damn sure that we were plastic dry!! But we had no choice and had to part with the money...
I was standing in front of my apartment wondering whether my mom would recognise me....finally mustering all the courage i could,i rang the bell...my brother opened the door...i can never forget the look on his face for i had finally managed to scare the living daylights out of him!! My mom simply shrieked and went hysterical when she saw me..she started mumbling something about not letting me play holi again...i didn't bother to listen coz i was too tired and too fed up to hear my mom's scoldings...
Finally when she was satisfied that she had let her all her feelings out, she put on the geysor for me...all the while i had been pretending to listen to her..but i never knew that my ordeals had just began...
I went into bathroom completely confident that i would be back to my normal self in no time...but i was in for a rude shock..no matter for how long i took my bath(precisely 2 hrs n 15 min) the pink colour refused to go...i had finally met my match in the pink colour for it was more stubborn than i was..i gave up for that day.. later when i came out dressed in my night suit,i was still pink..my brother simply loved the way i looked..he started calling me "PINK PANTHER" i for once agreed with him b'coz i truly was looking like pink panther and we both started humming that pink panther tune much to the amusemant of my mom who joined us...
Its been more than a week now and i'm back to my normal self but i cant forget how i spent each day last week wondering whether i would ever look like a normal human being again... But to be honest i miss being the pink panther....hmmm...looks like holi is a fun festival afterall...

"Holi"day Part 2

I panicked....my friend caught my hand and reassured me that someone had just screamed "happy holi" nothing to worry about..but my heart was beating so loud that i could barely hear her...i begged her saying we should go back..but she said we've been brave enough to have come this far and we should go ahead with it....just then my friend screamed out to us from her terrace asking us to come upstairs...we went there..she was in a room on the terrace which we later came to know was her brother's,my other friend was also there with her...she had not yet started playing holi coz she was waiting for all of to arrive..we are a gang of 6 girls and so far only 4 of us had arrived..so all of us sat waiting in that room for the remainig two to arrive...to avoid confusion-so far prathibha,vasavi,sandhya and myself were there in the room..prathibha was the one who had called me in the morning...we waited for about half an hour then we started getting bored..at this point prathibha lost her patience and said we should start playing,we agreed..
At first we didn't know what to do coz none of us had played holi in a long time..the last time i played holi was when i was in my 6th std and all i remember is running away from my friends whose sole intention was to get me drenched...the first few minutes were very awkward...all we did was get some dry colours on our faces that too in a very docile manner...then we started getting bored again...it was then i decided that i wont let my holi be such a demure & bland affair...so i secretly got a bottle of water from the room and spalshed all the water on my friend vasavi catching her completely offguard....it was then all our holi spirits got unleashed...we started playing like mad, all of us were drenched and horribly pink..just then we came to know that one of friends shweta was on her way upstairs...then just as how a leopard stalks its prey and then leaps on it...we decided to do something similar,cashing in on element of surprise, all of us simply pounced on her when she came up,in a matter of seconds her face had b'come completely unrecognisible...just then the little kids in the apartment came up to ply holi too...all of them looking simply adorable...infact we had so much fun that we completely lost track of time...i was a favourite with the kids,all of them were after me,jumping to reach my face to apply colour,i gave in most of the time(something i'll repent later on)
Then at last the 6 th member arrived,she already drenched and purple!she was late b'coz she was playing holi with her family but she was given the same treatment as shweta..infact worse..we ended breaking her specs while "attacking"her..We played on n on for hours the music (courtesy the PC in her brother's room)was amazing..i even played her brother's drums! must say i wasn't that bad...we simply let ourselves go and jumped and danced for hours....
Then atlast we decided to stop,we were famished,vasavi left immediately as her father came to pick her up..5 of us decided to go to prathibha's place to take some well deserved rest and ofcourse to eat! Everybody in prathibha's family except her brothers play holi(how ironic)when we entered the house,her brother simply vanished when he saw us...i thought we had scared him as we were looking terrible...but later we found out that he was hiding from his friends as they threatenend to break eggs n tomatoes on his head(good enough reason to hide forever!)We had some delicious biryani and then bid farewell to everyone and finally were on our way home....myself and sandhya found an auto with difficulty and quickly got in....
Now the entire TROUBLE begins......

"Holi"day!!! Part 1

My day began at 7:30 in the morning yesterday...quite early for a sunday...but my friend wont let me sleep anymore...so she keeps on callin me on my cell till i'm totally awake..she knows i wont get up that easily so she calls me around 5 times...and ultimately i had to give in n get up...i really want to go back to bed but then i realise that if i'm late she'll kill me...afterall it was our first holi together...
Now began a real challenge for me...i had to search some old clothes that i was willing to expose to the colours of holi, for they would be destroyed forever(i know i'm over reacting here but still) It wasn't easy, i had to search a lot and with a heavy heart i selected an old dress of mine which had faded from white to dull grey....Now just as how a soldier prepares for battle i had to prepare for holi...firstly i had to apply enormous amount of oil to my hair, reluctantly i applied some to my face also, then i applied some to my arms also...now that my transformation was complete,i saw myself in the mirror, i looked pathetic...oily, slimy with a horrible grey dress....yuck! i was already regretting my decision to play holi.... but i knew it was too late..so i started waiting for my friend with whom i was to go to the place where we would play holi....she arrived half an hour later looking equally ghastly....we both decided not to talk about our attires as it was embarassing...i could tell she wasn't keen on playing holi either but like i said we had no choice....so silently we both embarked on our journey to that god forsaken place where we would be playing holi...we were quite a sight on the road,everybody simply stared..finally we found an auto and quickly got in...we were both grumbling to each other that it was a bad idea....
Finally we arrived at our destination-it was my friend's place who had called me in the morning...we both started toward her apartment with great care examining every step of the way...we were as alert as cats, moving gingerly towards the door...then suddenly we heard a scream....

Not A Girl Not Yet A Woman

This is what Brittney Spears crooned a few years ago,and this is precisely my situation right now.Brittney Spears has herself transformed from a girl to a woman though not very succesfully if you ask me but she did it nevertheless and so will I,after all its only a matter of time....

My servant maid got married 2months ago,I remember my mum giving her some sarees and jewellery.I cant forget the sheer happiness on her face when she took them.My mom was feeling sad because she could no longer work for us as she would now live in her husband's village,my mom simply adored her....as for me.. I felt really weird because she was all of 18 years ready to settle in holy matrimony....and i have just turned 19 a few days ago.I wondered what it would be like to get married at such a young age.....for I still watch cartoons
A few days ago my mom came rushing into my room and told me that Anita had died.I gasped...then I wondered who Anita was... I asked my mom.....she was none other than my young 18 year old servant maid...
Her husband had killed her for dowry.We learnt that he had been harrasing her from day one....(I hope her husband gets hanged for such a heinous crime) Though I never really talked to her when she worked at our place.. I felt as though i had lost a friend...she was somebody who was my age but was very different from me...she lived in a world very much different from mine..I always saw a silent strength in her which is rare and that is why her death made me very sad.
She was just a girl who was forced to become a woman too soon...i'm sure she was a good wife or atleast she might have tried to be one but her life ended a little too soon...
Though her life was a short one..she will be remembered by me forever coz looking at her always made me feel damn lucky for living a life that i am and I am very grateful for that....and I'm still humming Brittney's song...