Sunday, April 25, 2010

Funny Facts, fundas of my life....

While writing some info to my friend got an idea to collate some memories of my life...all happy funny ....I love this really..
As I said in my earlier , the previous blog. ...the accident in my life which changed me a lot...here though I met with an accident only bro and myself knew about and kept on fooling mom as it was an wound made when got caught into a broken pit...Hehehehe but it was good....
At the same my best friend afy and my cousin anil had come home to see me after accident..

Afy Comes home on sunday nov 9th 2008.
Afy calls my brother and asks for address and comes home..Bro is home asking his friend senthil to take care of dad at hospital for two hours..
Afy enters, was sitting on diwan cot in hall with my legs covered with a blanket..
Kya gey tu , Jhoot kaayeko boli ,  lazy head still on bed...U r all fine and simply creating nuisance as met with an accident saali kaminii...
My brother replies signs at afy to calm and tells to be quite for little while..
Afy sits on the chair and i slowly take the blanket of my leg..

Oohhhhhhhhh kya hua gey kahan jaake takkar maari ? hope the bike guy is well, is he serious after hitting you , he is dead I suppose..Bro and Afy laughs together..again bro signs him to be quiet.

Mom comes out of kitchen and gives tea to afy and she goes out to neighbours house..
Bro tells the story that mom is not having a bit clue also that it was an accident....

Afy's reaction "gey tu insaan hai  , tu zaroor ladki nahi hai...couldnt u have called tarun"..He stays at NGV.me just smile and scold him as usual for being a loud mouth....

Anil (my brother /cousin ) enters home on Nov 13th 2008 in the afternoon..

HI akka hegideera..

Baaro baa..enivathu nodatha ideeya..

Akka get me some water pls..

Eh go inside take urself ..

He is astonished that I reply him like that still he goes like that..

Akka am very much hungry , pls can u cook something ...

Go to kitchen , open the cooker , there is rice and some curry in the small vessel beside and serve yourself and come here..Give me ur laptop I shall be watching Happy days movie till then,..

Akka pls akka pls do it..\

Eh dumma , see my legs with ur eyes wide open ....

Oh Good Gracious ..What the hell ? What happened akka ? never expected this ..not a bit fatigue on ur face though hurt so bad..seeing his reactions felt as if watching some funny american videos...hahahha


2) Cricket match , December 27th 2006 Mysore Infy ground..

Had been playing cricket in childhood days at school and with bro and his friends ...Now after so many years had got chance playing on ground...Hmmm I 'm loving it...supporting Sapphires...as two girls mandatory to be in the match joined the team....Not that I am very good player and all ..but Love cricket..am nutty about cricket and would not hesitate going to stadium to watch match alone....am all that you say Nuts Crazy ,bindoss, dare devil.....but am a sweetheart my friends sure wil agree......

Last bit of the match , our team had finished batting opposite team was batting...last few balls to be bowled..The ball was bounce , and the batsman hit high above..Me trying to catch hold of it....Sudden CRAAASHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Me and my manager(Mr PHANIRAJ)  tried catching the ball and got hit to one another..His elbow had hit my right eye.......haaaaaaaaaaaa it pained me man like helllll....All around  me and my manager feeling sorry  for what happened......finally we won the match and I was out of the match now as an audience...
I come to floor and my eye is swelling like a black ball in matter of few min ....GOD MUST HAVE BEEN DRUNKEN LIKE CRAZY ...when almighty created me , cos he made me a girl and not a single behaviour like girl...
I called my friend Naj and said what happened, he's like fully asking how am I and all the stuffs and when I said am roaming around with blotted carbon print eye....He was like some defect in me..Usually girls sit hiding their face at this situation and me roaming around...Felt Like "Million Dollar Baby" ,,,,,


    Next day when I was walking on the floor to my TL 's cubicle to back to my cubicle , I heard someone calling Ms Universe.two to four times.....Damn !!! Who cares for all the comments..To hell with the comments.. Me My work my life......Yippppeeee am strong ( very much head strong I am, aint I ? ) ......me in cubicle as usual listening to songs on my system and working on MOAI project...

     My manager DM approach my cubicle to see How I was feeling? My manager as usual very sorry for what happened?  I just smiled...

     Couldnt come home for two weeks...came the third week for sankranthi..by then it was recovered a bit and as soon as I entered home mom questioned why yyour right eye is dark ..? Are u eating well ? Are u taking care of yourself . If you cant stay alone " Quit the job, come back ".. Thats her as usual Mantra....QUIT THE JOB COME BACK.. I just said " No mom", I was travelling in that JP Nagar to infy route bus and it was over crowded and a lady's elbow hit my eye....OH GOD .....So hard she hit you ...Mom's started panickking ....That dark mark never left me ..till today its with me reminding me of that day ....Hehehehe......I love you mom...

3) Gilli Dandu ( Chinni dandu ) :

As a Kid till my 4th class had no other friends than brother..Playing with Brother and his friends,lunch with brother and his friends..So all his friends were my friends..I was in 4th std me bro and his friends were playing chinni daandu ..
Vinay was the one to hit the gilli and all of us me, bro, kiran , sathish and others to field for gilli..hit by  Vinay.

Vinay hit the gilli hard...high up it flew ..straight it flew and hit my eye as I was about to catch...Shhhhhhhhhucks....JUST MISS....CATCH and my eye both.......it hit between my nose and eye....and left a mark there..

Bro came running and scolded Vinay ....so sad..!!!....a small scar was there...Now me and bro very scared about mom...Me cos got hurt while playing with guys, which mom hates like anything...and bro scared for always taking me to play with him and his friends..

Some how didnt speak to anyone till next day...Next day heart thumping against my ribs...cos if mom would see that mark we both are dead..Quick think soon Rooopa  my mind said...Started filling ink into my fountain pen..took a drop of ink and smeared it on the scar near to my eye..
Went before for combing my hair and as she parted my hair in the mid she asked what happened and why ink got smeared..I acted as if I dint know and told am gonna wash it..

Uufffffffffffffffff !!! saved... Got ready and went to school after removing the mark..

Next day came and same issue again.. again I smeared the ink on my face and got saved..Evening as soon as I came back from school my puppy came to greet and I picked him up in my hands and e was wagging his tail and trying to lick my face..Mom scolded "let him down u get him all over ur body ".....I left him down and mom noticed that scar on my face and started usual inquiries.

Finally Mom saw it and blasted .....without an end....My world my dads hugs and laps and My mom's scoldings and my bro's pampering and fighting and doggies love.......MUAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, I love my family..

My HALF TEETH...

It was in 96 just finished my aunts wedding and back in Bangalore..As usual I love kids and playing with my neighbouring kids in their new house with marble flooring....Anusha and Anoop...Very cute kids...We were playing Hide and seek and then started with running and catching in their house.Played so much , running in the house which has a quite spacious hall....Finally felt myself slipping on the marble floor...I was laughing and felt with my face down..My mouth touched the floor...Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmm..
Guess What happened next? My central Left Incisor had broken to half.. Oh God...I collected all the pieces of my Poor little incisor and threw it away..Thinking Tooth fairy wil give me back my broken tooth in few days.

I was scared what to tell at home , stopped laughing, came home silently took my book for 8th std and started studying summer holidays even before school started.Mom came home, she asked me did I feed my doggy.. I bent my head down and answered yes I did.. From then for 3 days my laughs and giggling had stopped and I spoke very little,just like answering whenever asked only...All were amazed at home thinking am not well.Dad came to me asking if I was not well needed to go  to a doctor.Mom was very happy to see me as DECENT cute with studying and helping at home.Hehehe none of them knew why I was transformed from a porkey to so called DECENT kid...

Then came the ICE BREAK Session at my house 3rd day after my tooth break, it started acheing , I went to mom called from behind..Mom asked what happened? Maa Tooth ache..Mom asked what happened , I showed her my broken tooth and said it broke..Mom started her sahasranamas for me.....Wow my ears went on banging my head...Hehheee....I just said softly it will grow soon...Whacckkkkkkkkk.....mom slapped me telling its not a broken nail or cut hair that will grow..Its gone she said.

At 6 in the eve she rushed me to a dentist, and the dentist looked at it carefully and said its dead,me sitting and playing with the instruments there,DEAD..Wow even Teeth also has life and death..Simply Great I thought.he said to replace it and for the whole treatment it would cost 1200Rs..Hmmm Mom started cursing me for putting a heavy debt on her. She said we will come back next day and I never visisted that dentist after that.After that 8 years I had not got it replaced, only after I started working got it replaced after Root Canal Treatment..

But whenever mom saw my teeth and started mourning and crying for it I used realise even Teeth also has life and death..till 2005 Jan I was known for my broken tooth..Rana Bhai always appreciated my broken teeth ,
Coolllll.................LOL ;-)

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Death by side

Nov 7th 2008 , I met so many friends ,
I  was sad listening about CHOSWIN's death . A person whom I never saw in my entire life. Why its hurting me ? He was just my peer sitting at some vendor location and helping me with the issues that needed to be cleared.NOV 3rd he committed suicide on a railway track just for a mere girl who was his best friend on floor and was getting married on Nov 4th 2008.....

Though Friday dint have much work as all orders booked ,went to meet SC at manipal centre, then lakshmi  at CTS my Mysore Infy friend and met shilpa .Took her to my new house to show her the house and roamed on her vehicle went to Comm's where she forced me to choose my birthday gift ..I just pushed it off saying not now ...

Then came back to office at 3 .00PM .Bro called me up and asked me to buy him a network card from reliance or TATA...Said ok will get it to St johns when I go to visit dad every evening.

On my way back home took bus 201 till NGV ..Called up Najju..Nov 9th was my cousin sheetal's marriage and also Manu's marriage . I was totally confused which one to attend..For Sheetal's marriage Asha aunty and poorna aunty were forcing me to go with them and from there to Haal Rameshwara..For Manu's marriage I was trying to gatherup my whole team .
I called up rachi ,kumu and others to find if they are coming all said ok. Finally called up Najju asked whether he is comin to manu's marriage. Najju said he will try as he had lots of work and he is not able to finish them .
I started up my usual kindling fight with him and finally totally bugged with him , I just said if hes not coming even I wont go . Just trying my last armour at him so that he would change his mind.He said its too difficult for him. I just cut the call. Later spoke to Sajesh Chetta and Hari also.Mom called me up asking where was I .I said am in Kormangala going to buy Internet card for bro, she said how was I going. I said by walking.
Mom asked me to take a rick . As suggested by her I took a rick and went to  Sony world 100ft road, my mind listening to fm started wondering again about my life style before mysore and after mysore...Life changed before going to mysore itself ..My life style dressing sense  everything had changed ..dont know why these many chnages never realised it also...A person who wore pants and skirts very often and salwar once in a week ...sarees for every ethnic wear day..or just sudden planning days at night....had felt it strange when she wore pant in Mysore Infy on the first day..Proper Formals looked out as too mod wear for a girl ..Is it the Mysore air or is the fear might some day bump into a relative in any nook and corner of Mysore in pants..Nah never had that fear.....Its a common dress why fear!!! MinD Kept on wondering ..Now after coming back from there had put on weight , so pants were looking odd on me.Person who used to wait for Fridays to wear Jeans and her favorite T shirts rather than  the formal Shirts ,,,,,now on friday wearing a cotton salwar...Porkey look changed into decent traditional look ...I was NUMBER 1Porkey in SPS..Rachie used to tell u r HIGH ....When u in jeans..Ur walk , talk all becomes very confident and u behave like a guy and very carefree attiude u wud have....

Why this change never my mind understood..Mysore Air has something which turns people decent , I think but why not people who are staying there...Sudden air gushin into the rick making my hair fall onto my face.. I come back to this real world and see the auto is running at high speeds , road has not much traffic.... O M G crazy auto guys who drive as if they are driving a FERRARI in F1 ......

Whats that thing coming in front.........ooooooooooh just 7 mts away , a bike .coming in a wrong route . Oh god the auto speed is so fast he might hit the bike and both auto and bike might crash.!!!! Gosh man Am dead today....I am not scared abt my death anytime but worried about dad in hospital what if he hears am dead..He would get into a shock ...Bro would feel helpless and mom would really get into a worst condition cant even think about it.......God why now.......Why my family to undergo all the pains ..First of all bro is half taking care of dad and again me ..BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM CRASHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!... Auto driver to avoid accident took a right turn at the deviation , the bike guy also entered the path and crashed the auto....Shucks auto turned two upside downs and me inside ...My heart missed a beat  !!! I am out of the auto and falling on the divider , my heads gonna strike it  hard now..I am dead..Life's over ...End Of  all worries......



I am on the road lying down not able to get up ..My laptop bag my birthday gift all scattered on the road haphazard....I remembered Franklin anna's accident on Jan 1st 2003, his ankle almost hanging from his leg seperated...I wondered If my ankle has the same issue now..its bleeding cant see the ankle at all ...My laptop bag is all covered with blood oozing from my leg...I saw the divider..Just an inch difference between my head and divider...No death ..but still worries continue...What to I say mom ? What will happen if my leg is fractured? Again another patient in St Johns..Me and dad hospitalised ..Mom and bro beside us taking care of us..Oh God pls no no ..Not again ....

People near by lifted me so that I can stand ..I just tried shaking my ankle to see if its fine... not able to cos its swollen....Finally rushed  me into a near by nursing home..Docs checked and said to move my leg ..They took X Ray ...I kept on praying nothing major should happen..

Prayed & prayed in pain ...Doc came and asked nurse to clean and apply medicine and do the dressing..
Its just a Ligament  tear nothing to worry..Dint know exactly about it then asked doc , is there any surgery ..he said laughing No no nothing to worry ..

Oh god relieved then!!!.. Took a deep breath ..Now again pain seems to be increased..A burning sensation..NO one in the dressing room ..Just cried loud enough to let out the pain thru my tears,,
After some time nurse entered to clean and apply medicine..Once she cleansed it saw my leg..Gosh full skin scrapped out ..its peeled of like papaya peel peeled off...After applying medicine she dressed..People had collected my laptop and my birthday gifts and gave it to me...Auto driver and the bike guys had escaped...WOW great.... I was sacrificial sheep for the day..


I took my mobile called bro.
Hello

I said him"where are u ?
"
He said I am in the pvt room with dad..
KI come out wanna speak
Its ok tell ma ..
No u better come out now .I get impatient..

He comes out
R u out ?
Y tell  me what happened ?
 " Dont get shocked nothing major.. I met with an accident just now.
Now dont joke...
Am serious...
OH how where are you ? OK wait I will come..
No no you dont come ..dad will get doubt so u handle him..I will call Vishwa or franklin anna for help..am near Sony world..100ft road.I need cash will take from them..

I try vishwa's number he says he is at native,, Franklin anna is on leave that day and far awat from MIT.
I called Kumu hope she will be near by ..NOpe she is not picking..Called Loch ..Loch is at home ...Called Avi ..Avi is at office..Gosh no one ..Wht to do ....Shall I call Geetha? Nope She will go tell mom first thing..She isnt that daring....Kya karoon ......

Okie Let me handle myself.I called nurse and asked her to help me home and on way will pay her...
They said ok and at 6 reached home..Went hopping down the stairs..My chappals lost on the road...one leg fully bandaged and other bare foot ......my leg is feeling as if its seperated from my body just an attachement is made to my leg........

Reached home ...Mom is praying and lighting lamps ....nurse enters first ...Mom is puzzled as to what happened..She says small hurt..Mom is full in tears ..she asked what happened..Nurse opened her mouth to tell ...I said my leg got caught into a small ditch in the footpath..Which was left  unclosed...Mom half believed,..News spread in my neighbourhood ...What a time dad is in hospital and daughter has her leg hurt ....all comments ... spandana geetha shwetha comes home ..spandu is full scared seeing the blood on the dressing.,,,,Dressing was not proper..Mom asked shwetha to take me to hospital ...I said mom not to come ..I can handle...shwetha got an auto and we went Kaveri Nursing home..I narrated whole story to shwetha and asked not to tell it to anyone.....Shwetha said ok....I dint let her see the wound .....sent her out...asked doc to give a pain killer.......Fine done and back home with shwetha bro s friends Senthil anna and Anil....

Thought came into my mind as to what if dad will ask why am not coming to hospital to see. He will be shocked to see me this way... I called bro...Bro picked the call and asked how I was?  Spoke to him a bit and asked him to give it to dad...Dad picked up ...He asked why I dint go to see him ...I said I had too much work and reached home only now...at 9 :00 in the night... Told dad tat too much work half yearly closing so cant visit him at hospital for 15 days ..he got angry and cut the call...

Convinced mom to go to hospital everyday and I shall manage at home myself just watching TV all time....
Mom finally agreed to do that,,Pain mom and bro underwent was more than the pain me and dad undergoing...dad never knew until his discharge after twenty days ..Mom also came to know the same day as it was accident and not a wound caused by Keeping my leg in the ditch.....But untill then got scoldings as to be careful while walkng... Ha aha ha ha I still enjoyed the scoldings ..... :-)

Saturday, April 10, 2010

25th July 2008 Bangalore bomb blasts

25th July 2008 , office: 13:00 hrs Lisa barker and my manager me attending India Offsite call .Year end . Target ...billion USD .Call Kumar is talking over and one by one people logging into the call . Nora , Ashok , Deepak , Anna, Lynn me with Lisa, Ishmeet with nisha , harpreet and Sreeni.All SAM's.......
My mobile is ringing , the loan guy has come to collect cheque. Took permission and ran to give the cheque.Again in lift alone full tensed about work my past , my credits, home loan, etc etc year end tension . Want to be the best this quarter also.

Mom's calling me !! God why now? I have a call to attend which is important for me ...I picked the call finally . Hello,
amma : Ellidiyamma
Me: Office nalli yenaithu..
Amma:(full tensed) madivaladalli st johns hattira bomb blast anthe.Manege bega ba. Nimmanna helidaane.
Me :Avanu bandna
Amma: illa avanige kelasa anthe
Me:Avana kelasa imp , nanna kelasa enu , nodu ma ivathu shukravara call ide mugid takshana horadthene oki na bye.
Amma :ok bye

I get into conference room ,

S.....: Roopa how long ....K......'s been asking for you, ishmeet gave the update .Do u have anything to say?
S on call  " K....r roopa is here " u have something to say  to her..
Kumar : Hi Roopa , Hows it going  on ? I think I have nothing to say, u know the target very well am confident u will be at it .good luck
Roopa : (getting the fake smile)sure K.. I will be at it . We will get thru all the orders booked .

Lisa : K.... we will look through all orders for sure , no need to worry..Roopa is on it..I assure you.

Call ends after all updates.

Mails pop on my Laptop. I open that and read it aloud for S...and lisa ..
"Sreeni theres series of bomb blasts happening in bangalore , I will leave early and login from home".
Sreeni : How can you do that Roopa? You should be here see Products teams is working on it. U need to help them .
Roopa: Sorry Sreeni, I have my services order to get booked first later with products sorry but I need to go.
Lisa:Sreeni , think we should let the guys go home soon and ask them to login from home .
Sreeni :(Giving a nasty look at me ) sure Lisa.
Its 4 o clock out then and am trying to take a rick outside. I say Madivala , Illamma and they turn away .
Couldnt find any bus.
Mom's calling me again , me full tensed again , said her am coming and kept . At 5 , one auto driver agreed to drop me till Kormangala BDA complex..I said ok .. Whole way was praying how lucky would I be if somewhere I reach the spot of bomb blast and my body would turn into ashes in matter of few seconds..BUT god has decided everyones START DATE & EXPIRY DATE.

My phone rings again. This time Vidhya's mom ( my tuition Student) .......
Me :Hello Aunty

Vidhya 's mom : Ellidhiyamma

Me :innu viveknagarnalli aunty

Vidhya's mom: Unclena kalisala ma pick maadlikke .Hege bartheeya ? Auto yaaru bartha illa .
Ivathu tension tagobeda tuition enu beda ..neenu rest tago
My mind again swinging between the thoughts of life death , people who care for me like my parents and vidhyas parents gowra aunty shreyu Asha aunty , lochana and her mom , shilpa and her mom ..So many caring people around and I am worryng about people who dont care me like my Grand mom , my relatives many more....Why do we crave for things which we dont have and we dont stay happy with what we have?

Again my prayers started pls god pls god pls take me off today in some blast when i walk back from BDA complex..
I reached home at 5:45PM .As soon as I entered , mom prepared me hot hot filter coffee.... I started sipping it after washing my face and legs... felt relaxed.. Took up my laptop to login and start my job for completing my target for the year end sales.... Woooooow numbers just took me off my senses... ....billion dollars in 36 hours needs to be booked, lots are awaiting the Finance controller's approval....My laptops battery is getting low.Damn it...I searched & fiddled my bad over and over again..GOOD GRACIOUS !!! my charger is missing Damn it..  Damn it ......Where did it go ? I remembered finally it was in the conference room where we took our concall..OMG!!!.. I got up said mom i ma going to office to get my charger ....Mom stopped me but I dint hav time for waiting to answer her or ask her full permission ..Ran thru the street to catch up with a rick agaiin to office..
Sir brunton road bartheera...
Took the rick .

Rick passd thru the St Johns bus stop .....Full media people buzzing around like bees on the divider announcing looking at the spot where the first blast happened and the lady got killed..
What a job my mind said? Wow why ever I dint get into this job ? Doing a job which is not adventurous though I am getting fame and rewards....But working on jobs like being at such spots without fearing for life..
Here I dint fear Death but I feared living ahead of my life..NO god I dont want life..Even if i should for a day in this day pls do it..

Finally reached office ..Mom calling again


Where are you ? Mom's yelling at me?
Mom office , without my laptop charger I cant work and its important I stay online these two days mom pls understand .

Mom again shouting, "Roopa do u know you are girl and girls need to fear a bit also..You fearless lady dont u have compassion for us.."City is under threat of bomb blast and you cant sit home carefully. If this is the job u better quit and sit at home ..No need to work.. I said " Ok mom will quit after my Year end now pls keep the phone down " Am already tensed.

I take the charger and speak to Lisa and take leave of her..agian back on roads asking for every rick ..This time I find noone..OK finally decided will take bus . Got into 201..Hmm safe sound...Now in bus listening  to FM forgot all that worries I had,,Now only worry shooting in front of my eyes was ....Billion USD orders to be booked in 35 hours... GOD PLS HELP ME...

I think of that very day , I feel my thoughts so stupid.. my mom thinks of that day I just get blastings only .
and appreciation that I am daring ..Am I Daring ?.....who dint want to fight life and wanted to die..