Rendezvous!

I spoke to two of my childhood buddies last week, after really a long time! Felt so good! We didn’t discuss appraisals or the project we are into or the latest stocks we bought; but we pulled each others’ legs reminding of the most stupid things we did in school and laughed so much at our madness! We talked about our sexy computer mam who one fine day stopped coming to school & the chemistry teacher who never smiles! And we laughed again!


Last evening, I was at a shopping mall, where I met this lady who was looking drop-dead gorgeous! She caught everybody’s attention in her lovely red saree draped tightly around her slender waist; her hair was loosely tied and the careless strands falling on her eyes only made her look cuter; colored glass bangles chimed on her arms and her saree blouse naughtily revealed the Chinese Dragon tattoo on her back! I snapped at my colleague when I caught him red handed ogling her! He said, “Ooo… A thing of beauty is a joy forever, indeed! At times God is so partial and unfair! Loveliness and splendor are concentrated at just one place!” he said tossing down the drooping saliva into his mouth!

Looking at ourselves, we couldn’t help cribbing about how unglamorous and wretched we were! To get over the dejection, we decided to get caffeinated! As we were gazing at the crowd sipping our coffee, the lady in red walked to us and said, “Hari Om*!”

My colleague not knowing how to react, said “Sorry, we are not aware!” and he looked at me.
I said, “Well… Hari Om! Chinmayan**?”

Lady, “Very much! I taught you guys for a few months; but not sure if you can remember me!” 

Oh My God! Deepika mam, about whom we spoke volumes just a couple of days ago!!! I couldn’t believe my eyes! For a second, I remembered how the boys in our class used to associate their ‘wet dreams’ with Deepika mam and her almost backless blouse.

So sweet of her to recognize me after these many years and even come to me and say a hello! I am really really touched. But, I failed miserably to repay the compassion!

In spite of having tons of questions in my kitty to make the reunion treasured, this is what escaped out of my mouth, “But, you never had the tattoo there before!”

Embarrassed Deepika Mam, “Oh… I got that done later! Hmmm… okay then, nice meeting you; bye!”


This post is dedicated to my male friends at school. Sorry guys! I couldn’t gather any information about your heart throb, once-up-on-a-time!


**Chinmaya Vidyalaya is the school where I studied; affectionately we address anybody associated with the institution as ‘Chinmayan’!

*’Chinmaya way’ of saying ‘hello’!