The Promise Day!

On this promise day I Maria Joseph, want to tell you a story. A story of a promise we made to each other and a small part of the wonderful journey we had. And it doesn matter how much it had hurt me later, becz it still remains the most beautiful road travelled so far. It was an evening in late July, 2 years ago. We had both come back early from office and he came to pick me up. We had planned for a movie at a cinema near my place. The weather was divine that evening. The scattery clouds that were showing up that morning had taken over the whole sky with a hue of light orange on the west. And it was very slightly drizzling. He decided to keep his bike at my place only so we could walk to the cinema and enjoy the lovely weather. Tiny little cool drizzles touched my face and I was warmed by the touch of his fingers clasped into mine. We didn say anything to each other just walked slowly and sometimes looked at each other and smiled.It was such a nice evening walk that we both didn’t even feel like going inside to watch the movie. But after staying outside for sometime we both made a wise decision to not to waste money we’ve already spent on the tickets. Golmaal…was a nice entertainer and we laughed our lungs out. He had especially come there to watch it, even though he had already seen it. After the movie was over we came out happy and there was still cool breeze flowing in the air and it was warmed by his presence. We sat at the wall outside the mall and stared at each other with loving eyes. “I love you” he started it..”I love you too”…”I love you three”…”I love you four,five…till infinite”…we always played this game!! And I loved it each time when he would say in the end ..”Ok you always win!” At the age when most of our friends were busy getting married or raising kids already, we sat there like a college couple and loved each bit of it. After a small chit-chat we began to walk towards my home. Still holding hands and enjoying each other’s warm presence. My eyes just felt on the florist nearby and I couldn’t resist..”I want a rose”…he never was quick enough with buying me flowers and I always shamelessly asked. Dunno maybe we had no ego between us then but perhaps it was already budding because when he was about to buy it I paid instead and took it. He might have been a little hurt, I knew he was. But I said, you should have thought first, now I did so I bought it to make him feel worse. Because I had a plan in my mind to surprise him. Just about we were to reach home I pointed towards the park nearby and said, lets go and sit there for sometime. We went inside and took our favourite bench under the big tree. But just as he sat, I bent down on my knees and was beggining to say the famous and my most favourite proposal lines from the movie Runaway Bride. And just as I was on my knees he jumped up and his expression changed from a little hurt to toally surprised. He was breathing heavy and held me and said “No! do not do that, I may not be worth it”, but I smiled and made him quite. Then I took a dreap breath and said ” I guarantee that we’ll have tough times through this and I guarantee that at some point one or both of us will want to get out of this relationship. But I also guarantee that if I don’t ask you to be mine, I’ll regret it for the rest of my life cause I know in my heart you’re the only one for me.” His eyes almost had tears I and could hear his heavy breathing, its sound is still fresh in my ears. Today 2 years later, we both have now walked out of that wonderful relationship we had. Trying or already moved on, with choice or no choice. But the promises he made that night I can still remember. He had then held my hand and was speechless for sometime and then promised me that he’ll always keep me happy and thanked me for that beautiful evening. I thanked him and my god too for sending that wonderful person in my life.
Times change, people change, promises too change their meanings but one thing that always remain the same is the forever fresh aroma of love’s promises one makes ones beloved. The sweet feeling of being promised a lifetime of happiness and smiles.But no season lasts forever. Our promises didn last too long but I hope yours do..may your promises actually be that of a lifetime and stay with you forever and as they say..”Happily ever after”.

My Friends

I was walking down my life
I was happy to be alive
When you came by
My life was the same
And Nothing had got changed
But I had an extra smile
You became my lucky line

I was walking down alone
And my phone rang your tone
I was walking with the tears
And you lend me your ears
I was walking down sad
But your words made me glad
I was walking down in fear
I forgot it when you came near
I was walking in the rain
You made me forget the pain

Everyday he sends us our angels
They dont have winged hands
Nor they hold any wands
But everyday they stay
To brighten up the day
My sweet loving angels
My FRIENDS!!

Happy Propose Day!!

Ridhi Verma stays at the 5th floor of Novelty Society  and Sakshyam Arora onm the 7th floor.Each day Saksham would rush to lift at 7 am sharp and be there in the lift till she comes to get a glimpse of her. She generally would ignore him and sometimes did give a faint smile. This continued for around a month and each day when she went to catch her bus Saksham would steal a look at her beautiful face. Days passed by and he noticed her with a gang of around 10 girls at the dandiya function, he didn’t dare to go near her. But somewhere she might have noticed he is continously watching her. But he soon vanished as he realized she might have noticed him. No one knew what was in his mind except Ankur. Ankur Trivedi from 8th floor same building. Ankur and Saksham were in same school but now in different colleges. Ankur is an engineering student at IP and Saksham is a B.COM student of DCAC. Both are counted amongst the bright students of the society who often made their parents proud and many women maybe waiting for them to turn to marrigeable age for their daughters,but they were simply not interested. Ridhi is new to the society they came here 2 yrs back and now she is in YMCA engineering college Faridabad. Her bus comes at 7 am and leaves her back at 6:30 pm. This is all they knew about her and had never talked to her. Because Saksham had always fancied her.

Both the boys often go to the terrace for a smoke where the world can not notice their presence and their parents would not know they smoke and talked about various things like college, exams, politics but mostly about girls, sex and yes Ridhi. The hottest chick in the society. By now it was final that she’s Saksham’s girl and Ankur is not going to think about her.Blowing out a fine circle of smoke slowly from his lips Ankur said..”Saale you are going very slow Sakshi,had I been at your place we would have seen movies together by now and she would have kissed me 10 times”, “What do I do man? I do not understand how to begin talking to her. I even went to her house to give courier but her mom didn’t even asked me inside and just said Thankyou beta!”, she could have offered me tea and we would have atleast been introduced once. She is not even a DU student that I can talk about elections or exams. I do not know how to begin and he looked at
Ankur like he has flunked in an exam. After a long pause Ankur said “Ok let me try to befriend her on this studies thing this looks like a good idea, we’ll have to do something to break the ice between you two!”..”Listen! if you steal my love I will throw you from this roof you know that na!”…”Abe saale am only trying to help you, don’t you worry I will vanish from the scene the moment you both click”.

The trick worked soon Ankur had befriended Ridhi who was happy to have a friend from another engineering college to exchange notes with. Few days later she too would sometimes come to the rooftop to meet them,mainly for the notes but then the boys could not smoke that day. For Saksham the uncomfort of not been able to smoke was much less than
the chance to meet Ridhi and they would now sometimes have a small chat. But then what next. The New Year party Saksham made sure he looked his best and as adviced by now his love guru Ankur he just tried to ignore Ridhi as much as he didn’t even check out if she was there at the party and when she stopped by to say hello to Ankur he pretended he too had just met Ankur and said hello and jumped in the conversation. Cleverly Ankur soon disappeared leaving them both together to chat after a few minutes of beating around the bush Saksham said “Did you try the gulab jamuns they are really good, and luckily she hadn’t he took her to the stall and they had gulab jamuns together.” This was the best day of Saksham’s life because he even managed to ask Ridhi out for a pan at Rajinder Nagar which he said was “ultimate!”and she agreed. He thought he’s going too fast but its just a pan not a movie and seems to be working. Ok so now he knew the way to a woman’s heart is also food!!

Days passed and by Feburary they had been to the pan wala at rajinder place on his bike twice. He even dropped her up to a friend’s place once when she accidently or knowingly told him she is going to next day and Saksham lied hez also going the same way at the same time. Huh! Love wasn’t an easy task was it? His bike’s petrol ran out on the
way back and he dragged it for 2 kms, Ridhi never knew about this part. Ankur the love guru had a brilliant idea and really wanted Saksham to propose Ridhi on 8th of Feb the Proposal Day though Saksham was at first very scared but when Ankur said he can sense Ridhi likes him too he agreed and they planned everything very well and rehersed a
night before.

It was 6:30pm, they knew the time Ridhi comes back from college time for.. Ankur called her to ask for Advance Mathematics book “I forgot my Jaggi Mathur in college yaar, can I please borrow yours for a day I really have to complete an assignment tonight”, she quickly agreed if she hadn’t he had a list of other things he could ask her for .”Ok then I’ll see you on terrace at 9pm I’ll go for a walk with Sakshi after dinner”..”Ok” she said…”Wa..what did she say…” Saksham’s eyes were fixed on Ankur’s lips as he said “Yes” she agreed.

This they have been working on since morning and now went again to check, they had bribed the electrician to switch off the society lights for 5 mins at 9:20 pm and he refused at first thinking they are upto planning a murder or something and then they had to tell him that Ankur is going to propose Gauri from tower B 3rd floor..huh! He finally agreed. Ankur being the stud and a good sport took the blame but Saksham got a good yelling after that.They exchanged Electrician’s number so they would give him the missed call when he has to switch the lights off.

They made arrangements at home by telling they are going out for dinner at a friend’s place so the folks at home do not worry about boys’ absence.They prepared the terrace. Meeta aunty didn’t have to come to collect her laundry that day it was dilevered to her home. They bought flowers and candles and arranged things on the terrace.

It was 9 pm Ankur called Ridhi to check and yes she had left her home he said he’ll be there in 15 mins Saksham is struck on the terrace so she should go there and open the door for him. Oh! Ridhi got worried for him and rushed. Ankur kept a watch on the lift’s number display and the moment it indicated the top floor he called up electrician bhaiya who took a few minutes to understand why they want it 20 mins early and that required another 10 lies to him but this was just in time.

Ridhi opened the door at terrace and Saksham was standing in front of her and he said hi, he was breathing heavy. ” Ankur told me you got stu…” she hadn’t completed her words and suddenly there was a power cut. Ridhi noticed candles at the back and moved closer. There were candles all over the floor saying “Be Mine?” his heart was racing so fast that he was scared that she maybe able to listen to his hearbeat. He wanted to hold his heart to his chest but instead he kneeled and said with all his courage “I love you Ridhi”…and the time just stopped. They stood there motionless and frozen. The moon was shining very bright that night and the wind was blowing through her hair but they both stood still and suddenly the power came back. Ridhi didn’t say anything and rushed downstairs directly to her room and locked herself in. She was still shocked. Her mom called to ask what happened and she gathered courage to say..”Nothing am going to sleep..Very Tired” suddenly a tear rolled down her cheek and she realzied that she was just proposed by the guy of her dreams. She rushed towards the phone and called him though couldn’ say a word. He said hez sorry and didn’t want to hurt her. He was scared that she would be crying and suddenly she asked “why did you do this? Do you actually mean it?” ..yes suddenly he had got a lot of courage and he bravely replied “Yes I love you..do you love me too?”…”Yessss…I do!!” and she cried even more and this time a tear drop rolled down his cheek too. He hugged Ankur and cried a bit too.

Its been 5 yrs now they both still stay in Novelty Society but now on the same floor as Mr and Mrs Arora.Ridhi has been a lucky girl to be proposed by the man she secretly liked in such a beautiful way and they have been lucky that their parents understood their love. Hope you too will get the love of your life someday though I know this is tough. Wish you all a very Happy Propose Day!

Rhyming again…

Saw tornados in my dreams
I just woke up to screams
I saw anger and saw furry
I was running away in hurry
I just saw dark death
I just woke up in sweat

But now everything is fine
I jus woke up late at nine
Woke up to sunday morning
Sun is bright up and shining
I feel warmth in the air
And relaxed and spared
Soon I forgot, wasn’t scared

I had my brush and bath
That fear didn last
It was a warm morning
I went for grocer shopping
I met my friend at the mall
We stopped at burger stall
There was a burger boy
With his face full of joy

At me he smiled
But I almost cried
He was exactly the same man
I saw in my dream wen I ran
The same from last night
And I got frozen in fright
I just turned redder
While he was sprinkling the cheddar

My friend came up from back
And shook me out of the rack
I just opened my eyes
And was so surprised
Mom woke me up
She was shaking me from right
And I looked so white
OMG It was still a dream
And I didnt actually scream
And everything is fine
But oops! clock jus struck nine…

One fine winter morning

One fine winter morning
In the middle of the storming
I met this sweet smiles
Our friendship became a journey
And we went by
We walked hand in hand
Together we did stand
But then we fell apart
Problems took a start
True came my fears
Our eyes wet in tears
No matter how hard
We both fell apart
Now its been 2 years
When I walked in tht room
And saw my sweet smiles
I do not repent
I got no offence
I am happy that we spend
Times Together as best friend
Now we are careful
But those times were beautiful
We have memories to cherish
And I thank that winter morning
When in middle of storming
I met my sweet smiles

Rising like a phoenix

I know its tough

The times are rough

But m gonna rise lyk a phoenix!

From the ashes to sky

I am gonna fly.

Yet again I shall be born

New and young over again

No matter how hard

Tough times shall part…

And m gonna rise lyk a phoenix!

This has happened before

Not long ago

Though times are tougher

But am stronger

No matter how hard

Tough times shall part…

Again m gonna rise lyk a phoenix!!!

A story close to my heart

Once upon a golden phase of time

There lived a holy saint his name was divine

I can’t describe in my words, his glory

All I can tell you is this small story

 

Once the king of Puri had a dream

Lord Jagganath came and told him

Do not my dear child perform any rituals

Early in morning or late in evening

Because that time I myself go I listen

To the devotional songs of my Bhakt

The king rose and went to Priti Stambh

At the swarn dwar he was surprised and numb

He heard his words and saw the god listening to him

Nanak sang with love this holy sabad

 

“Gagan mein thaal rav chand dipak bane,

tarika mandal janak moti,

dhoop malyanlo pavan chavro kare saal banray phulant joti,

kaisi arti hoye bhav khandna teri arti..”

“In the salver of the sky The Sun and Moon shine like lamps,

The galaxy of stars are scattered like pearls;

The chandan-scented winds waft as Thine incense,

The forests are Thy flowers. (Thus) is Thy aarti performed, O, Thou Destroyer of fear!”

 

“Sahas tav nain nan nain he toh kao sahas moorat nana ek tohi.

Sahas pad bimal nan ek pad gandh bin sahas tav gandh iv chalat mohi.

Sabh meh jot jot he soi. Tis ke chanann sabh meh chanan hoie.

 Gur saakhi jot pargat hoie.

Jo tis bhavey su aarti hoie.

Har charan kamal makrand mano andino moh aahi peeaasaa.

Kirpa jal deh Nanak sarang kau hoe ja te terey naam vaasaa”

 

“The sound of the sabad is the sound of the drums

Thousands are your eyes and yet you have no eyes

Thousands are your forms and yet you have no form

Thousands are your lotus feet and yet you have no feet

Thousands are your nose and yet no nose

I am enchanted by your glory

Your divine light is omnipresent which is lighting up each one of us

And by Guru’s grace the light is revealed

Whatever pleases you my lord is your true aarti.

 Nanak yearns for your Lotus feet,

 Night and day,Nanak is like the thirsty bird

That asks, For a drop of water of your mercy,

 That drop of your grace will make Nanak find comfort,

In the uttering of your name O’Lord!”

 

Dear Nanak forgive me, if I made a mistake in writing this story…Dear Nanak grace me and make me your holy rabab which you held in your divine hands and played yourself to spread the name of lord.”

 

Dear friends forgive me if there is a mistake in my writing today, the words I spoke are very close to my heart. The meaning of arti I have compiled from different meanings available on net but these words are not enough to describe”

 

Love, Shuchi