yes ...16th july ..its her birthday ....and i need to get a birthday present ...but what ???....the very idea of Shopping for a women sends chills down my spine ... i suck at shopping in general and my sucking capabilities are enhanced further when i shop for women ..ehehehheh...i remember having been attributed with all possible gaalees under the sun when i gifted a pair for Nike Sneakers to my sis on her birthday ...okay ..i suck ...i suck then anyone else or rather worst in the entire histroy of sucking when it comes to shopping for gifts ...it was 3 years ago and it was my good sis(who exchanged those sneakers for a pair of Cargo trousers ) ....but now this is she ....she is the Girl you see...my ever active brains cells stop working the moment she is around....in desparation i took the liberty of consulting my collegues at work for advice ...now in retrospect feel that was one of the biggest mistakes in my life...like chetan bhagat i now feel i should also write about all the three mistakes of life ... one of other two being the very idea of reading that book i must confess ...we shall come to the third one some time later...so i was saying that i consulted my collegues for a suitable birthday pesent for a girl...follwing are the excerpts from the experiences i had ....
8.45 AM : I enter my adopted home ...my cubicle i mean ....
9:30 AM : My lady collegue Neha comes over with that ever glowing smile ...she sure needs to try her luck at those tooth paste ads ...
9:35 AM : i ask Neha..what would she want her boy friend to gift her on her birthday ..assuming that she had one.....well... she gave me that .."abey o teri maa behan nahi hai kya ...apney collegue pe line martey sharam nahi aati" ...in short ...how groose this fellow is hitting on me ... i was all like come on...me hitting on Colgate Toothpaste girl ...naaah... i explained her the entire story ....
10.00 AM : I finished my sad story only to be advised to get something like a diamond ring or something ....i was like ....come on ..its just her b'day ...iam not marrying her now ....
10.30 AM : for half hour i decide to take refuge of pretending to be working on something ...but my ever active grey cells would not give in ....
11: 00 AM : An armada of my co-wokers is seen slowly moving towards my cube .....slowly they were inching their way ...i could hear battle cries in my mind ...i could not understand a thing....my eyes were glued to the internet desperatly searching something birthdayee for her....
11:15 AM : There is silence ...oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo......6 confused faces were staring at me with the look of some Nazi interrogator....i was so scared that i would have confessed anything..but the problem was ... i didnt know what they wanted ....
11:16 AM : The silence breaks and Ajai ..the hunk ...says ...so you buying a present for your girl friend aah...
11:17 AM : well now my little secret was no more secret than George bush being the president of US.... i never told any one ...my left part of brain answered the questions raised by the right one ...ohh by the way ...yes its official i now have a fully functional brain ...still....
11:20 Am : I stood up confused and with a smile on my face .."what are you talking about ..what girl friend" and internally wondering how come the folks in the 3 floor would know about things on the 7th... only to realise the truth of life ...which is ...the fastest way to spread a message is not
Tele-gram Nor Tele-phone
its gotta be
Tell-a-Women....
11:25 AM : After some intense speculation some other collegues started off with their own interpretations ....
Avinash said ....."Is it some one at work ....is it Anika from the Finance team ...i always thought she had a thing for you....or Is it Pooja from from Marketing" .......does not matter both are hot ...
Suddenly Anjali popped her head out and with her trade mark chuckle said ...."i dont think
she is some one in the office ....i see him leave office early these days(with an expression of "very unlike him") and park his Car outside the Mckinsey office ....
Sanjay joined by saying ....."Good job tiger ...Mckinsey haa...."
11:35 AM : Activity resumes in my brain as i start figuring they are pointing at...
Come on guys ...we just went out for coffee a couple of times ...and its her birthday so ifugred out its good a gift her something nice ....
11:36 AM : something niceee....they are repeated ....
11:40 AM : hahaha....the laughter subsided and the armada slowly vapourised into their own bunkers ...
11:45 AM : All said and done i was still searching for gift .....
