21 GUNS!!

Woohooo!! Am 21 today! It’s been 21 freaking years since I popped out onto mother earth! The legal age to get married!!( hope my parents are listening;-) ) huh!! This is one of the strangest birthdays ever! Cos I turned 21 in davangere railway station waiting for the train to get back to mysore! As usual the train was pretty late and I was busy talking to my friends and cousins over the phone. At least this time, the absolute inevitability in the delay of the train worked out in my favor! Cos I could talk to my close ones with all the leisure!

I was almost done talking with one of my cousins and I could hear the train coming! I was not excited for a change! I don’t know why! But my mind was ever so sober! I got into the train, settled down on my berth, blew the air pillow only to find out that the pin was missing! Finally made use of my engineering knowledge, if at all I had gained anything, and took out a pen from my bag’s front zip, which one of my friends calls a dustbin, and made sure the pillow was up and ready!! A guy below my berth gave a weird smile when I did this! It brought about a sense of achievement in me! It felt great to pose in front of such dumbos who smile at almost everything! Even when his kid farted which almost turned the compartment into Hitler’s gas chamber!

And to add to this, I don’t know for what reason, the kid started to cry! Or rather YELL at the peak of its voice! Probably its own fart had scared it! Poor kid! But this really started to piss me off! So was my friend in the opposite berth! I felt like crying myself with helplessness! However advanced the science may be, no technology can ever be devised to shut the damn mouth of a 3 year old kid! God! I pity the parents of that kid! Its mom was trying every trick in the book to make it shut up! But, as I have said, it’s an absolute impossibility! By now u must have realized that me n kids don’t get along! Never ever! Atleast till I get my own!!!

Well we had a situation inside the compartment! Everyone was disturbed and nobody could scold it cos that would only worsen the situation! The kid’s dad could do nothing but to be a silent spectator! An old guy did get up and scolded the mom! To take care of the kid! Mom’s are always good at defending! Better than Rahul Dravid sometimes! She rightfully sent the oldie packing by asking him to change the berth! The only attempt to make this shit stop was fired right royally by the mom!!

This was when I realized that this ain’t stopping anytime soon and I better start to live with it! I gathered all my guts or I don’t know what to call it, together, and I pressed my ears harder against the pillow by plugging in my ipod with maximum volume! This at least spared me from the agony of the agonizing sound that the kid was making ever so vigorously!

Along with that, it did push me to remember my own childhood! I never used to cry bloody shit out of people! My mom, and many of my relatives have told me that I rarely cried! But I do have been a part of reasonable amount mischief which my mom always keeps quoting!

It was in my ukg when my dad had got me a new cycle for my first rank in lkg! That was the day when I had my first test of ukg! I was so eager to finish the paper off and run back home that I intentionally skipped attending two mains of questions and gave the paper back! My mom found out about this when the grade cards came home and she whacked my ass off! The other funny thing was when I was made to wear the dress of seetha(although I was a boy) and one of my close cousins, a gal, was the rama! This was probably in my first standard I guess! I was all dressed up with skirt, jewels and stuffs! My mom n my aunt were about to take us for the studio! And at the very moment, I had to pee! Without any hesitations whatsoever, I went to the drainage nearby, lifted the skirt waist high n relieved myself with all due pleasure!! Though people around me were laughing their asses out, I dint have a clue on earth as to why they were laughing and I started laughing too!! I still have that photo and everytime I see it, it reminds me of this!

One more peculiar feature of mine in my childhood was to write the first letter of kannada alphabet, aa, as the exact mirror image! I don’t know how I used to manage to write it with so much precision, but I used to do that 9 out of ten times! My mom was fed up of this totally! Once she had banged my head so hard against the wall that since then, I never erred in that!

I had to dance once in my school annual day, which incidentally was my birthday to a hindi fast track! I started off the practice placed in the first line of the formation! Eventually my dancing skills pushed me to great heights and I ended up as the last guy in the last row!! Though I danced with all my heart, it irked me to the core when my friend’s mom asked me “even you were dancing in this group??!! I couldn’t see you at all!” I was furious! But there was nothing much I could do about my dancing!

“Huh! Where did I go all of a sudden??!!” this was the thought that came to my mind after about 2 hours of hardcore metallica songs blasting into my ears, pretending to be asleep even though my mind was far from it! Yes…I was lost…lost in the memory lane….what better day and what better time to remember all this…than my birthday!! It seriously felt great to remember all that…I couldn’t stop myself from giving a call to my cousin to tell what I had just experienced…and she opened up a bit more of the mischief that me n her were part of….

I was really on cloud nine! I don’t know how…I was happy…. I couldn’t stop smiling… it just escaped from me every moment that passed…it was all cos of that baby…which was crying…that led me to experience a strange but one of the most special birthdays ever… I finally managed myself to get some sleep…even though the baby dint stop crying… I later realized its all about mindset…I could sleep right in the middle of it!! call it whatever… it was magical!

Then I got down n came back to my room! One of my closest friends showed up n gifted me the best thing ever possible to me… 21 5 stars!! On my birthday…I would like to thank that friend and along with that…the formulator of this bloody awesome chocolate… 5 STAR! Without which, let alone my birthdays, the normal days itself would have lost color! Thank you dear friends for wishing me! And thank you cadbury’s for coming up with out of the world chocolate as 5 star!!

Well…I guess that’s it!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!