Road - Less Travelled

This is the time of Diwali Vacation. Every morning and for the whole day there are lots of children playing around my place. They shouts like they have the world with them. Fighting for a thing that they are about to throw within few minutes. They are not at all thrilled by things like diamond jewellary or precious cars. What excites them is to own colorful wrappers of chocolates, collection of glitter paper, pocket full of toffees and something like that. I saw them playing in the ground. They were totally covered by dust and sand. It was difficult to recognize them. I was thinking that their parents are facing so much pain to handle such annoying children. I was constantly staring at them, thinking what a wastage of time? These children can make good use of their time, but NO they have decided to waste it in this pool of dust. I compare myself with them. I thought whether I can afford now to waste my time in this way? Then would I be able to have what I have today? Would I be able to be a part of so-called recognized MNC at world level? Would I be able to travel in flight for which I always dreamt about? There were many such assumptions going in my mind.

Suddenly all of them started staring in the sky with same shining smile on face as well as in eyes. And all of them started jumping and shouting “aero plane, aero plane, aero plane, …”. It seems that these kids were completely fascinated by an aero plane in the sky. I also noticed aero plane in the sky, but perhaps I was not that much excited as those kids were. After completion of their chanting for aero plane at top of their voice, now they started running in a circle.

One of them was perhaps the youngest and was not able to cope up with the speed of others. He fell down while turning in a circle. "Areyyy…" came out of my mouth. But he was busy enough to listen to my sympathetic words. He stood up on his own and again start running behind others, this time with more speed, waving his hands in air and blowing whistle. Perhaps he was trying to imitate aero plane that he just saw in the sky. Smile came on my face as well. Because I just recall my thoughts, I was thinking that I am lucky enough to invest my time in proper direction, because of which I can travel in AERO PLANE, but here that 2 years old kid is on the top of the world while being himself an AERO PLANE. He doesn’t know where he will land. He was just moving here and there waving his hands in air and making some whistling noise which resembles to aero plane engine.

Suddenly with a lighting strike my mind went blank. I was not able to hear anything but noise of those children. I can't see anything but a shining smile on their face. I can feel that their smile is not on their face, but it is straight from heart. I went back to my child hood. Now I can see myself with those children. They all were imitating aero plane, without knowing where they will land. Destination is completely unknown to them. It seems to me that it was just few days back, when I also used to shout and run like them. I still have those stickers having Disney characters on it. I still have that note pad which has different cartoon characters on it. I still have collection of colorful beads with me.

It seems that it was just few days before, when we all were busy in collecting dolls, marbles, stickers, etc. I remember those days when we used to visit mango tree garden and would climb on it to get raw mangoes. Those shouts of mom at dinner time, those excuses for not completing home work and lot many other things, for which this blog is not enough.

I came back to present. I advance my mind a bit. After few weeks I shall be getting married. I shall be part of completely new family. I don’t know what the future will be. I will be then with my God and my dearest would be hubby. There will be responsibilities. I shall be supposed to make their life smooth and easy going. Don’t know how successful I shall be in that. Sometimes I feel bit scared. But then I pray to my God, close my eyes and I remember his smiling face and don’t know why I feel stronger. I can face everything, if God’s blessings and his smile is with me. Amen

One of the most memorable day of my life.

I was so angry on him. I manage passes for Garba and told him to come down to Ahmadabad, so that we can celebrate our first navratri together.
Me and my parents were eagerly waiting for him. But he din't turned up. My parents gave him a call to ensure whether he is really not coming. And he confirmed.

Next day 12th October was my first birthday, after making him part of my life(or say after making him my life :-)). I was bit tensed as I was not sure what
he is upto? he tumbled down my navratri plan. In early morning he gave me call to wish me Happy Birthday and said that he will be late as he is not able to get any proper commutation. I was again disappointed. He reached Ahmedabad by 9:30 or so, but then he went to some other way in auto. I told him to get off the auto and then I went to receive him. We came back to home. He wished Happy Birthday truly from heart. He gave me a bouquet of six big red roses, and that was the reason why his auto went in some different direction. He told auto wala to go to some place where he can have fresh flowers. Then he gifted me a beautiful suit piece. A birthday card that he made himself and there was a sweet message written by his father(now my father-in-law). He gave me one more birthday card. I thought to visit temple with him. So I was getting ready for that and when I entered another room I saw a basket full of chocolates on jhula. And I was pleasantly shocked. His sister took a pain to prepare that basket of chocolates. We went to temple then after.

I invited my friends for lunch at 12:30. But all of sudden all of them started calling/messaging me that they won't be able to join us for the lunch. I was disappointed. Still to cheer him up, I said to him, don't worry if no one is there, we shall take lunch. But when I reach there all of them were sitting there and waiting for us. It was a surprise plan for me, Jainesh called one of my friend and made this plan. We ordered lods of thing and had nice lunch.

During lunch I told my friends that he is flying off tomorrow. But then he said, no I am here for whole navratri. I was not ready to believe. I thought I am not able to hear clearly or once again he is playing some stupid joke on me and so I made him repeat the same thing. He again said Yes I am here only for 10 days-complete navratri. He got rolled off from the project and now enjoying his bench period. It was such a happy shock for me. There were no words to say. I was staring him blankly. He said trust me. I was speechless. I want to hug him tightly in front of everyone. Perhaps this is one of the biggest surprise for me.

We moved from the restaurant and went for movie. There was a gap of an hour for the show. We sat in a restaurant and he had tea. He gave me a beautiful birthday card to me. We went to movie and after entering multiplex, there was another card for me. Movie is Ok, but I enjoyed a lot with him.

I was bit tired and want to go back to home after movie. But he insisted me to go to CCD. I was thinking what the hell he want to have at CCD. But I went with him. He ordered coffee for him. And once again there was a surprise for me. He gave me a gift. I opened it and he was recording me. And that gift was completely out of the world. It was a booklet. Booklet of few of my poems(Yes, I do write poems), watermarked it with our photographs and get it printed and bind. I was speechless, once again. Tears were about to come from my eyes. I was chocked with emotions. This stupid boy loves me so much. And forgetting everything I hugged him for this wonderful gift. I can never forget that moment and that gift.

We came back to my place, as I plan a dinner with my family. I was getting ready and my mom started calling me to come upstairs in my room. I din't know what was happening. We were quite late for dinner and now what is there to be done in my room. I went upstairs, open the door of my room and whooooooaaaaaaaa, there was one more surprise. My room was completely decorated and there was a cake with candles on the table. I started blowing the candles, but... as expected it was magic candles. Still I blew them off. This was a plan of Jainesh again. He gave lods of decorative material to my mom, called my brother to arrange a cake. Now I came to know why he was visiting rest room. He was calling my brother to make this plan.

We all went to Patang Restaurant. This restaurant is at elevation of 8-9 floors. And yes it is the only revolving restaurant of Ahmedabad, perhaps Gujarat.
We occupied the tables. Live music was there. Jainesh was irritating me by asking me frequently to go and get my hands wash. I was not in mood to spoil my birthday, so I did. When I came back, there was a birthday dedication for me. Jainesh gave me one more surprise by giving me birthday dedication song through singer over there, when I went to wash my hands. I don't know how this boy can plan so many things and get it implemented. Whatever that is, this was one of the best birthdays I ever had. Finally we had dinner and came back to home. But we both were awaken and talked till late night.

He told me now tell me, how can I manage to make your birthday memorable, if I had been here yesterday for Garba? I din't said anything, just gave a smile tohi
And then finally my birthday completed with lots of memories to remember and lots of things to be written in this blog.
There is more than this in our heart for each other, perhaps which cannot be written or shared. But it is good to have such memories with you for whole life.

Guj - kyarek to hashe....

aankho na anajan purti rahi,
na jaane kyare didaar thashe.
hriday ma upvan mehkavi rakhyu,
kadach kyarek emne pan pyar thashe.

chandan sukhad na vilepan karya,
e jove mane to hamesha nikhar hashe.
hasta gujari didhi kaal ni pariksha,
kyarek to milan keri pad hashe.

najar ni bhinaash ne papaan ma santavi chhe,
emni najar jove to chomer smit joshe.
koyal na tahuka ne antar ma sachvyu chhe,
emna kaane je pade shabado, te to geet hashe

Guj - Few More Shayaris..

tamara aagman ni aalbel pokari
je ugyo hato suraj, te namyo nathi.
tamara pagrav no ek shaant padgho,
je padyo hato, te shamyo nathi.
be pad thai nathi, aa mulakat ni
ne tamaro aa vichar javano, te gamyo nathi.
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bhini khusbu bani mehkave, tu mara jivan ne,
hajaro rang lavi shobhave, tu mara jivan ne,
ek komalata lai nikhare, tu mara jivan ne,
najuk pushpa bani shangare, tu mara jivan ne.
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tapti dharti par padti pehli jharmar tu,
pratima ghadva pasand karel sangemarmar tu,
maryu haiyu to taru j chhe,
dil taru dai ne , kari de hisaab sarbhar tu.
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e phool phool shu, jema suvas na hoi,
e jivan jivan shu, jema saahas na hoi,
e swapna swapna shu, jema taro aabhas na hoi.

Guj - Few Shayaris - One liners

koi taras have nathi rahi, shahir.
trushatur hata ne mrugjal pi lidhu.
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ghelu chhe mann, te mohi padyu, shahir.
andharu thayu ne, padchhayo khovai gayo.
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ek sundar swapna shangaryu hatu naino ma,
yaad tamari avi ane ashruo thi e dhovai gayu.
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duniya chhe kadamo ma pan, taro saath nathi,
bhid gherai vadi chhe mane, taro sangaath nathi
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bagicho chhe gulab no pan, mithi suvaas nathi,
yaad thi jivan chale chhe, nahi to tan ma swash nathi.
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manaso thi bharchak aa jagat ma tari khot saale chhe,
acharaj ni vaat chhe, tari gerhajri ma mara swashoswas chale chhe.

Eng - I don't want to miss a single second

I don't want to miss a single second.
When you were there holding my hands,
When you were there playing with my curls.
When you were there with me.

I don't want to miss a single second.
When I was always cursing you on your jokes.
When I was eagerly waiting to see you.
When I was there dreaming about you.

I don't want to miss a single second.
When we were teasing each other,
When we were shouting on each other.
When we both were together.

I don't want to miss a single second.
This time will never come again.
perhaps we won't be together, but
those memories will be there till eternity.

Eng - "RAY OF HOPE" . . .

Ray of hope is shining there,
high in the sky,
As bright as me it is shining,
there in the sky.

I will be there and shining, like it in the sky.
Everything is so golden,
Everything is so beautiful,
When I see my 'ray of hope' in the sky.

How can I think something down, when you are there?
You are there for me to shine,
You are there for me to be fine.

Nothing concrete, Just your thoughts are
as sweet as nectar, as beautiful as rose.
as innocent as child, as bright as sun.
as inspiring as 'RAY OF HOPE'.