Chandu met a girl at last !!

Disclaimer : This is a work of fiction and the characters
and places presented here are all fictitious and in
any resemblence to anyone anything is purely coincidental .

Place: A room somewhere in Bangalore

Time: 9 AM

"Jhalak dikhlaaza … Jhalak dikhlaaza …
ek baar aaja ajja aaja ajja aa aa aa ja…"

The music beats coming from the Philips 5.1 digital surround
system are shaking the room. With the brush in his mouth,
Syam sunk his head into the Sunday Times newspaper.
Ramana Reddy (Friends call him Reddy) is managing to
sync his head and right leg according to the beats by brushing his
teeth. He is standing opposite the mirror exposing upper half of
his body, observing his hairy chest once in a while and looking at
the Aishwarya Rai's poster once in a while, just beside that mirror.
(Here the author suppresses the second thoughts of Mr.Reddy's).
Umm … and their only room partner Chandu (friends call him Laddu),
who hates Himmesh and his songs, wrapped himself in a blanket
rolling this side and that side uneasily. Sunday is the only day
he gets some extra time to sleep but unfortunately his sleep
ruined by those high beats.

Impatiently Chandu got up shouting loudly... Stop!!
Stop that fucking nonsense… otherwise I will throw out those boxes
out of the window, you already ruined my sleep.
Immediately the volume lowered followed by Reddy's voice
" Saale Laddu!!! Wake-up and hurry-up you dumb noodle loaf...
Today we are going to **** beach"(come on.. its a fiction).
Again the volume raised
to as it is before. Chandu forgot about the song and the volume…
He is not thinking why they are calling him instead of them
getting ready first and giving him some more sleep.
May be, they are just curious that what is Chandu's reply gonna be
if they mention about going to the **** beach.
But now his thoughts are wandering
somewhere near the beach.
He has that instinct thing regarding this kind of situations.
He use to crave for girlfriends and still he hasn't got one.
But his Jigrees Syam and Reddy have.
For that reason he feels jealous about them sometimes.

He heard a lot about the beach that there one can see
youth-eye-soothing things and this is the first time he is going
to the **** beach with his friends as they promised him to come
along with him. He got up suddenly and rushed into the
bath room to get ready.
Syam and Reddy looked at each other exchanging short smiles
with brushes in their teeth.

Syam, Reddy and Chandu are very good friends
since their good old college days.
All three are B.Tech grads now holding jobs.
Syam works for Unisys and Reddy works for Motorola.
Both are working in Bangalore since 2 years.
Chandu works for Patni and he just got transferred
to Bangalore centre from Chennai.

Its 10 AM and all three are getting ready to go…
and Chandu looks some what more colorful than the others.
They are about to start and Syam's mobile started singing
" Bommanu geeste neelaa undi…..Daggarakochhi
muddimmandi…." On the mobile screen
he saw “rupa calling… "

Saying "Just a minute" … he went out to veranda

Chandu whispered to Ramana
"Veedu poorthigaa munigipoyadu roey...!"
Saying so Reddy's mobile too started shouting the
baby's sound "hehhehehhee”

Chandu jerked off a bit listening to his ring tone, saying
"you almost scared me off man... What's that ring tone…
it like a Ghost is laughing"

"Chandu, Gimme a minute" … saying so he too got off to veranda.

Chandu entered into the room agitated.
1 min. passed, 2 minutes passed… and 20 min. passed.
Chandu is watching both from the inside window… both wandering
oppositely this side and that side whispering, laughing, and talking.

"Damn!! They are testing my patience" Chandu told to himself.

"They woke me up while I was sleeping and they do this
to me now. Damn!! Fuck you two; my life was much better
when I was in Chennai". He cursed himself.

10 more minutes later Syam appeared before
Chandu… scratching his head and saying…

"Chandu ... It's aa Its aa .. Actually rupa called me up
and she wants to do some shopping today."

Chandu interrupted Syam saying "But Syam… now…"

Syam cutting Chandu’s voice said "now it’s very urgent
and aa and aaa... No problem… Reddy will come
with you... I gotta go now Bye" Syam went off
with out even trying to hear what Chandu is about to
say and so Chandu stopped the words coming out of
his mouth and he stood there staring at him thinking
…. Is he the OLD Syam?

Reddy came few minutes later … Chandu stopped him
saying "Come on you too tell me!! You got some work
with your Girl friend? So you cannot
come with me right now. Is it? "

Reddy replied slowly…. "Arre Chandu… how you
got it man... yea that's it Where is Syam? He will come
with you I gotta go man I am in hurry its already late...
see ya bubbye" he too disappeared with out enquiring
what has just happened leaving poor Chandu alone.
Chandu's mercury level suddenly raised and
dropped for his confused condition.

Chandu is thinking what to do on this dumb Sunday.
First He got the idea of calling his college mate
Kedar who is also in b’lore. After calling him he
came to know that he has some unfinished work
in his office and he has to finish it on this Sunday.
Anyway he managed to take his Bike and at last
he decided to wander in the Bangalore city.

Though it’s Sunday the traffic isn’t that much
less than usual working days. So his unconscious
mind told him to go out the city and take a small ride.
This time he listened to this and turned the bike
towards outskirts. Till he crossed the high traffic
roads he felt exhausted.

Now his bike is running on the road, outskirts
of b’lore. He raised the accelerator. Now he was
somewhat relieved with the feeling of being away
from the city’s busy unending routine life.
Now he smells the real mud and real leaves
of the trees side the road and he is feeling that
he is really under the sun. He hasn’t had such
kind of feeling since years.

“How I missed this kind of rides before.
One day I will wake up in my bed and
I will say to myself... so far how my life was and
then I feel I didn’t have any memories left to think of...”
His thoughts are running in this fashion.
Suddenly he got the idea that he has the
IPod in his pocket. He stopped the bike
and he took the Ipod Started the Pulsar and started
the Bryan Adam’s song
“Here I am…. This is me …
There’s no where else on Earth I’d rather be…”
He felt the heaven listening to the song while raising the
accelerator. A short smile on his face rubbed off
all the nonsense he had till now. His bike is going swiftly…

His bike ran 7 km or so, suddenly he felt someone standing
on road to the left side along with an Auto expecting a lift.
He hasn’t observed closely as he was going in high speed
but his mind told him to slow down the bike and look back
at once as he smelled something women-ish. Yessssssss
it’s a beautiful girl ... He took off the ear phones and he drove
the bike reverse. After having the conversation with the
Auto driver and her, he came to know that she is going
somewhere to a place some 5 km away from that place.
This time he doesn’t want to miss the chance… so he
managed to tell them that he knows that place and
he is going towards it. She said “It’s so kind of you… ”
and she sat on his bike.

Its really observable face Chandu has. It’s like thousand
flowers glowing on his face. He patted himself for his
good fortune today. He left one ear phone and the
other one he kept in his ear…. And replayed
the Bryan Adam’s song. And this time too
the song made more sense to him

“It's a new world - it's a new start

It's alive with the beating of young hearts

It's a new day - it's a new plan

I've been waiting for you

Here I am”

… To be continued