Hurray Holidays

Its time for Santa to come down from Antartica and give me a present in form of good appraisal and Salary hike. Yooo.. But before accepting this valuable present, ( dont know how much valuable will this present be, or better to say will I even get it or not ) I thought I should take a trip to home. I took a sick leave for 26th to 29th Dec with comments "I am going to fall sick from 26th to 29th." which interestingly got approved (funny cooporate culture. Isnt it ?) It was 21st night 11 pm when I booked the ticket for 22nd night (Friday) 2:45 am plane. (Well its not funny. It really a good feeling to finally get a ticket for a 2:45 am plane, when everything else travels, trains, planes is booked and everyday dad calling and scolding "you haven't booked the tickets yet ??? You are a completely useless fellow!") After an hour or so I got an email "your PNR number is XXXXX. ... Date: 22nd Dec Time: 2:45 am" 22nd Dec 2:45 am. hmm.. I thought how many hours still left to go home. And suddenly a thin shiver travelled from my abdomen to center of my skull and gave a blink. It was just 3 hours left ! I was so stupid. I wanted to book for 22nd Night means 23rd early morning 2 am. Damm !!

After rescheduling, finally I was before the Kingfisher counter in mumbai airport on 23rd Dec at 2am. The beautiful girl had finally found time for me after the long discussion with the angrez. ( I was wondering whether who was more chipku - the angrez or the KF girl ?) She told me "Good Morning" at 2 am when I was half sleepy and handed me the boarding pass. After security checkin I sat in a place from where I could see everybody (or better to say every girl). hmm .. there were few butterflies around for the same flight (For a moment I started believing my non-gujju friends who always said gujju girls are beauty queens) Aaaha, lets hope anyone of them would have a seat just beside me. The flight was delayed. Finally I was in the air bus and no sooner I found 30A, I jumped on it. The two seats beside me were empty. All hopes went in vein when a lady came along with her small 5 year old girl and took a place beside me. But it was good since there were two kids in the seat now and it was going to be a fun journey. The lady said "honey, u want to hug a pillow?" The kid agreed and took a small pillow and hugged it happily. (I thought of hugging the air hostess). Then the small girl said "mom, i dont feel comformatable in shoes". Her mom took out her shoes and the kid shaked her small hanging legs giggling. (I thought of taking out my shoes but that would make everyone around me hold their nose). hmm ... then there came along lime juice! The kid overflowed the liquid from our mouth falling it around everywhere. Her mom scolded her. I thought "so stupid kid". It was then I hit the elbow with the corner of seat and large amount of juice overflowed the plastic bottle and fell on my pants. Damm !! I thought "wat would people think if they saw it". In no second, I took out a magazine and kept it in my lap hopping everything would dry off before I reached. I looked at the small girl sitting beside me. She was watching cartoon channel and laughing. I smiled and closed my eyes. I thought of home, mom, dad, sis, ... days i spent in Ahmedabad ... and donno when I slept.

My eyes opened on a beach. I was lying on sand. I stood up and found many girls around in bikinies and playing in water. wow !! But suddenly I saw a girl drowning in sea. The hero in me woke up and I jumped in water to save her. She was unconscious. I carried her to my hotel room and layed her in bed. She opened her eyes "where am I?". "In hotel room baby. I saved you" I replied. She holded my hand and said "Take watever you want". I couldnt believe my eyes. She said again "Wat do you want from me ? Veg ? Non veg ?. You are free. You can take anything" I was about to reply "non-veg" when suddenly ..

Suddenly my eyes opened and I found the air hostess shaking my hand and speaking "Food sir, wat do you want ? Veg or Non-Veg?" I replied "Veg". Finally I landed and took an auto to my society. After I got down from auto and entered the society, I was welcomed by many barking dogs. I wanted to say "its me your old friend. Remember we used to play together ?" After reaching home I rang the bell at 4:45 am. Mom opened the door and I said "Surprise". :) Everybody in house woke up. My cousin brother said "Before you left ahmedabad there were only 4 dogs in society. And now there are 14". I commented "Count again. There will be 15 now".