nostalgic..

well m in a weirdly senti mood this nite..hav loads to do..also well-stocked on movies n stuff..but feel like just staring into thin air..hehe..see??..m totally crazy..missing pujas like anything..come to think of it..while i was at home, i wasnt particularly interested in all those pandal hopping sprees..everyone dressed up like they are going to some marriage party in the middle of the day..loudspeakers blaring away some dumb songs at ear-splitting volume..all those traffic jams n one-way roads milling with soo many people the car always got stuck..hehe..detested it all then..n was soo impatient..n now..id give anything to be there..weird eh??..the roads here seem soo empty when i know that the cal roads will have all those huuuge light things..no atmosphere here..the pujo-pujo bhab thats unique to only cal..

but what i miss the most is our own puja at our place..how our whole family used to come together for it..n the house would invariably fall short of space..il be sleeping on the couch (still reserved for me i hear..sweet aint it?)..my bros all packed in like sardines on the floor..all the adults looking for bedding everywhere..all us kids (ya still consider myself that) assigned duties n stuff to help in the puja..making all the prasad n bhog thalis..making the alpana..getting all the flowers..dubba n bel-pata..readying the veranda for the protima..getting the idol..in fact the preparations are much more fun than the puja itself..all us cousins running around all day..me keeping nirjala upwas n my dratted bros n sis (wretches that they are) deliberately taking me out pandal hopping in the evening n making me look at all the food..knowing i cant even think of a drop of water before the puja is over..which will be the middle of the night..hehe..but its all soo much fun..getting everyone to stay up all thru the night..fighting over the dhak-dhol to peetofy..losing breath in between sankh bajaoing n all those weird noises consequently made coz i just couldnt keep from laughing at all the funny faces my dumbo bro would deliberately make..uloo-ing our lungs out..all in different pitches..some not even properly..just wagging the tongue while screeching "uloo-loo-loo" at the top of the voice!!..collapsing in giggles after a sec or two..the exasperated glares from the purut..hehe..

everything so vivid still..as if it just happened yesterday..so many many memories..and to think i still have two more years at least when i wont be home for the pujas!!!..n then god knows where il be working..god how i wish one could remain a child forever..leading careless tension-free lives..school days..only worry being tests n holiday homeworks (oh how i hated that..n put it off till the last min always..classic me..hehe)..all those tiffin periods.."buffet system"..hehe..rainy days when almost noone would come to class..splashing around in the "ganga-yamuna" of the cycle stand..hehe..free periods galore!!..chatting, teasing n joking..getting caught reading a novel in class coz sum dumb guy snitched..making up some wild excuse like it being a "serious book" read as research for a project (well that part was true..i did need anthrax material for my "biowar" project..but that robin cook thriller didnt really give me much material..hehe..but guess what..jain sir actually believed it..n since my notes were top-notch n i read only when the guys asked some dumb question to sidetrack the class..which was like all the time..so he actually gave a telling off to the guy for snitching on me!!..cool or what!!)..hmmm..playing "killer-killer" and some guy winks at u thinking u were winking at him..hehe..all those sessions of "dumb charades" n "spin-the-bottle" during the last few days before exams when almost noone turned up for class..killing time with gay abandon..looking at us noone would think we had our xams in a few days..living life like theres no tomorrow..those really were the best days of my life..unforgettable experiences all..miss it all like hell..

god..all of this is making me feel just too nostalgic..n then m listening to all these senti instrumentals as well..too much "atmosphere" around..well anyway..guess id better get going..this could take forever..
ciao..for now..

ps: i cant believe its my fifth month of blogging!!!!..i mean..woah..time really does fly.. :)