Birthday Celebrations...

Its a happy happy birthday season here it seems.. everyday there's a birthday celebration and lots of creamy cakes to eat.. and also to smear on each other's face.. must say its real FUN!!!Seems like almost our entire batch comes under the Virgo sunsign, and have their birthdays either by the end of august, or in early September... Did someone mention Kismet Konnection??

Starting from 28th last month, (yups my birthday when i turned 21.. achieved the legal drinking age [;)] not that i am gonna drink now, but sounds kewl, no? lolz) my first birthday away from family and friends but everybody here made the day so special and me feel like a princess that to confess i did not miss home so much.. At the stroke of midnight, all the girls of my floor wished me and came along with cards and a yummy cake (which i cut, a bigggg piece forcibly put into my mouth, and the rest smeared all over my face, neck, shoulders and hair.. that was the ulti start to the ulti day). And from that time on to 3 in the morning, i was over the phone collecting all the best wishes of my friends.. still missed 13 calls! The best part throughout the day was that my old school friends, college friends, CL friends, tuition friends, friends i have made here, my entire clan including uncles, aunties, cousins, grandmoms and grand dads... everybody whom i could remember wished me.. oh man staying away from home has its own benefits. ;)

Starting the day with the blessings of God, and then with a few absent teachers (which means a lot of free periods and lots of time to enjoy with friends, to take on a few more calls, leg pulling sessions, planning for surprises which i already knew, and a looong phone chat with Reema; my day was going perfect...) Even the mess people conspired to give me a big gift.. ya spent a lot of money on the treat because the food was.. whatever... though it was worth it! In the entire day there was not a single dull moment, or 15 minutes without me saying "thank you" over the phone or in person or typing it out in the message box.

And that is not all... the icing on the cake was the evening celebration where the entire batch of 120 people (more or less.. attendence was'nt compulsory you see... lolz) turned up to wish me. Firstly i was made to stand on the top of a wall, and give a "short speech" on 'myself and my experiences in XIME till now', which was promptly followed by my "roomies' speak session" where they divulged all my secrets of how i am always the last one to get up in the morning, and the second to hit the bed in the afternoon and at night (KK beats me in this.. damn good motivator she is) and how each sentence of mine is superceded by words like "bada wala", or "solid wala" and "shoo"... After what it seemed like hours later, i finally got around to cut the cake.. Ofcourse as soon as i did that, i was in BIG problem.. it looked as if everyone wanted either to put the cake on my face or hair, or choke me with a big peice in my mouth... KK laid the foundation stone and others gladly followed.. I tell you she's gonna be a great leader one day... That day i got to know how many creative people we have in our batch and how good each one is in face painting, each hitting me with a vengeance.. lolz...

But all in all it was a great great day which i enjoyed till the end. Not to forget the next day which was my roomie cum momma cum warden's birthday (ya Mahi) which we all celebrated in a big way as well, followed by birthdays of others..

Its real fun, and the free fruit massage that we get is too good too...