December 11, 2009
An eventless day ended with a pretty nice evening. A group of us went together to watch the movie Rocket Singh and then headed for dinner. Throughout the course of the evening we discussed totally random topics like the creation of the new Telangana state, a friend's ability to speak Bahasa Indonesia, Bengali and Marathi, weight issues, alcohol, Twitter, something called zoo-zoo, and the most intriguing of all how my husband figured out that a woman in a burka was actually wearing a pink spaghetti inside.
But the highlight of the day was when we headed to a friend's place just before midnight to celebrate his birthday. His wife had arranged for a birthday cake (which apparently the birthday boy had made a special request for), drinks and snacks. As he blew out the candles and cut the cake, all of us sang "Happy Birthday" in as many different pitches and scales as possible.
Then one of them commented, "It's been so long since we gathered like this...as a group... and celebrated a birthday." And he was so right! Birthday celebrations complete with cake cutting and a pretty juvenile ritual of "sabo" (I think it is meant to be "sabotage", which for us entailed covering the birthday boy or girl in food items, eggs and milk) used to be an integral part of university life. But after we graduated, a decent birthday celebration was going for a film, having dinner together and maybe a visit to the Rupee Room at max.
And then I realized how much fun a simple cake cutting celebration is. In the process of growing up (or growing old, whichever way you wanna look at it), we had chosen to ignore this tradition. Maybe we might start it again in the future, once we have kids. But the truth is that, we the adults, do enjoy it as much as the kids do.
So as of today, all I want is to cut a cake for my birthday.
976 more to go.
Hey ... you just got another follower for your 1000 day journey towards 'thiry'.. just made me count how many days I have and I have much less than 1000 I guess...
ReplyDeleteWell, that's one area where we've (my batch) have sustained. At the very least we make sure we cut a cake for a friend's birthday, sabo aside. So I'll start making arrangements for your sabo in advance :p
ReplyDeleteP.S. I think what you guys were discussing was the JooJoo :)
Sunitha - Thanks for following! :) Have a great countdown to 30 as well as beyond that! :)
ReplyDeleteNaren - Thanks! :P It is ZooZoo (apparently that's what the character in the Vodaphone ads are called... and from what I understand JooJoo is some phone related thing)?