We love you baby!!!

Baby: *Opening Eyes* I can finally see. Have been waiting for this.

*Some lady Screams* Suddenly there is a lot of noise..There is excitement in the air.. There is the usual pitter patter of feet.. Suddenly a whole set of queer looking faces peer in...

Uncle: He’s opened his eyes.

Aunt: He’s looking sooo cute...

Granny: Look at him checking us out.

Baby: Who are these people? And why are they all staring at me. Hey People stop making those noises *Getting used to people talking*..

Aunt : he's up get him out of there..

Baby: Nooooo dont touch me, I like it here its cozy. Who do you think you are?? Dont you dare....

Uncle: Oh No don’t cry dear. Hey sis.. He’s crying.. What do i do?

Mom: take him out on the balcony. Maybe he needs some fresh air..

Uncle: Ok

Takes him on the balcony

Uncle: hey baby.. Look there bow bow (Pointing at a dog on the street)...

Baby: I know that animal.. And its bo bo(Courtesy: Previous day mom’s definition) not bow bow... Make up your Mind people.. And what is this glare. I'm sweating.. Take me in you idiot *Continues Crying*

Uncle: Hey Sisss.. He's not stopping..

Mom: Maybe he’s hungry.. Bring him in..

Mom is trying to feed now.

M: Alelee.. Drink my child (The Feeding bottle is Deployed into service)...

B: What is wrong with these people.. I just drank this thing a couple of hours ago.. Do they think I’m a tank or what.. Leave me alone people...

The Crying has intensified now.. Everyone has taken notice...

Granny: Try gripe water..

Mom: Good idea.

Baby: Oh noo .Oh god where have you sent me.. These people are experimenting on me.

Gripe Water Comes up.

Mom: lalala..here sweety....drink drink...

baby: What in heavens name is this... Tastes awful. yeech.. *spits out most of the stuff*

Mom almost in tears now..

Mom: mooom…He's not drinking!!

Granny: does he feel hot? *feels the forehead* he feels okay...

Everyone comes around and starts singing and clapping and making noises to calm the baby down.

Baby: Whoa People.. Calm down people .. What’s with the excitement..

The noise continues... Suddenly the Door Bell Rings... everyone pauses...There is silence in the air..

Aunt: hey he stopped crying..

Uncle (Thinks): thank goodness… He was kind of getting on my nerves

Aunt(Thinks):Ohhhh He stopped because of MY singing..

Mom: That’s it. He likes the door bell.. We will ring the bell every time he cries..

Baby: What is she talking about.. I Just stopped cause they all did..Now they are going to terrorize me with the door bell. I just wish I could make them understand.. Hey here’s a thought Maybe I can make different noises for different things I need.. Let’s hope they understand *looks around at the faces* This is gonna be one hell of a ride...

Top ten :)

10. Grrrrr. *Slap... Slap.... Dishum.... Dishum... Bam.....THUD*

9. "I am scared my dad and brothers will kill you, your friends, your family, your neighbors, your grocer, the president, the prime minister ...."

8. "I am engaged"/ "I have a boyfriend"/ "I have a girl friend :):):)"

7. "I like you.... as a "friend" "

6. "Who are you again??"(Time to ask yourselves some tough questions)

5. "Are you rich??" (I was rich before!!!)

4. "I've never felt that way about you.......I hope this doesn’t ruin our friendship"

3. "I need time!!!.......3.......2......1......I'm sorry, the answer is NO"

2. "I love xxxxxxxx!!!"(Very likely to be your friend ;))

1. "WHAT!!!! ARE YOU CRAZY!!!... Muhahahahhahaha"(Run for your life!!!)

P.S:- All the above does not I repeat does not come from any of my experiences ;). Please don’t read too much into it. Everything came from the twisted head of mine

P.P.S:- I might have left a couple of good ones too. The order can change too: P

My Ramblings on Love

Love........

Oxford dictionary defines it as "an intense feeling of deep affection”. The definition makes me laugh when I read it. It seems quite so simple doesn’t it. If only it would be so simple. But I guess life wouldnt be so much like it is now had it been so simple.

I have known love in various ways around me. "I Love Her/him." being the most frequent of them. When I say "most frequent" it’s more like the ratio of land to water on our beloved mother earth. Why is there such a big difference between land and water now is again dependent on a lot of factors which come in. So, without deviating too much from the topic in hand lets come back to the lovely emotion called love. As I was saying, apart from the very popular "I love her/him" syndrome, there actually are a lot of other kinds of love.

These other kinds of love if you come to think of it also play a very significant role in our day to day lives. There also exist "interpersonal" love for mom, dad, friends, grandparents, kids, spouse, self (believe it!!!) and many many others, some of which are rather inexplicable relationships (mostly non-Platonic). I can't get myself to give examples for them, Human Beings are real scary sometimes.

There also is love for elements of the very materialistic world that we live in. Food, clothes, sports, television, the list goes on. Humans are even more weirder in this list. (Caution:-Kindly refrain from too much attachment to these. I mean give them slightly lower preference ;))

The point I am trying to make here is that we love so much and receive love so much but still, we most of the times sadly forget to acknowledge it. Think about it.. When was the last time you expressed your love in words or in actions(try a hug, it feels really good:)) to the "less" popular though equal or maybe more important people in your life who you know love you so much and better still you love so much. There is this undeserving uncanny ignorance about this kind of love which is a shame really.

Love is the root of all emotions. All other emotions that I know of are more or less derivatives of love. For Instance take hate, you probably hate something or someone cause you love something or someone else. But Love, You can never love because of hate. It simply wouldn’t be real enough for you to feel it. You can relate to a lot of emotions like this to love. Love is Universal.

So please don't restrict yourselves to only the most glorified kind of love. Learn to respect and acknowledge all kinds of love cause "all you need is love"...

So as an activity, I(Your conscience) implore you to go up to someone other than your boyfriend(s) or girlfriend(s) and actually tell them how much you love them and look at how their face lights up and yes, a hug would be like the icing on the cake:)

P.S. I have assumed some things here, No offense to anyone :). If I am wrong somewhere I apologize and I will be the happiest person in town to be wrong about my assumptions.

P.P.S:- And When I mean Someone other than your girl/boyfriend I Mean someone you love:)(Gosh!! gotta be careful with these:P:P)

The Three Strange Strangers in the Strange... Strange place...

I opened my eyes to pitch-black darkness all around me. My mind immediately went into overdrive producing some rather difficult questions at a feverish pace. Answers to all of them were quite unclear. I would even go to the extent of saying that I had no notions about what was happening to me or around me.

I slowly regained my composure and tried to get myself up to my feet as my eyes got accustomed to the darkness, which was quite literally freaking me out. As I made efforts to explore the surroundings, I could now make out gigantic structures all of which were unusually shaped towering around me. At that point it was very hard to judge whether they were real or was my mind playing tricks on me. It seemed as if I was in another dimension altogether. All my senses were on high alert as I made my way carefully aware of every little movement I made.

Not too far away....

The eerie calm was broken by a shrill high-pitched shriek followed by a uniform thud..thud..thud consistent with someone running.

She was running as fast as she could. She dint know where she was... She dint know where she was running… She dint even know why she was running... All she knew was that she had just woken up a short while ago in an alien environment. She did the first thing that came to her mind.. She let out an ear splitting scream. As she got into the scream the intensity of it sent shivers down her spine. She did the next best thing She could think of.. She ran. She galloped I would say..

As she ran...She finally started thinking about what actually was happening. As hard as she tried she could not recall a thing. She started to pinch herself hoping that all of this was a dream and she would wake up any second in some place. But she dint feel a thing.

Suddenly she realized that she had been running steadily for a lot of time and she was not feeling a least bit of fatigue. She wondered if she was alive at all?

Meanwhile...

I was making steady progress in whatever I was doing by walking aimlessly.. I felt that I was absolutely alone in whatever god forsaken place this was..

Suddenly, I heard this faint noise.. I initially couldn’t make much of it.. I stopped in my tracks and tried to determine the direction of the sound.. I put all my concentration on the sound.. It seemed as if it was coming from all around me. It seemed to increase in intensity by the second. I was in a state of panic now.. I dint know what to make of that sound..

AAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah...... The sound came......... It was downright creepy... I just felt a sense of resentment come over me... I just closed my eyes. And then it happened..BAM... I was thrown to the floor. Something had just fallen on me... Quite literally fallen from the skies or whatever that was up there...

I lay there sprawling on the ground thinking about the events that had just transpired.. What was the thing which just fell on me.. A voice suddenly rang through the surroundings.

"Hello!!! Anyone there?..Where am I?............. Help! Help!"

I sat there Dumbfounded. I dint know how to react to this brand new development.. A fellow living thing.. A human at that..Who was he? Was he friendly? My mind went into another tizzy....In spite of all the apprehensions, I made my way to the source of the noise.. I could make out the outline of a person.

"Hello" I said

That’s when it happened. There was a sudden burst and something or someone just crashed into me.. For the second time in as many minutes I lay there sprawled on the ground. This had started to anger me now. I was not even sure why I was angry. But there I was on the ground really really wild.

"Who is it" She said.....

"What is happening here??" He asked..

I was confused now.. This was something new.. A girl!!!.. My anger seemed to melt away....

Hi, I said... Er.. Who are you?

Both of them dint look that they knew the answer to that.. Almost as soon as I finished my question both of them almost in unison asked me the same question....

As I was about to think of a favorable response....**Poof**..... There was a bright flash of light....It was all over at that instant....

Kolkata, Circa 2000AD, January 1st….Article in one of the popular Newspapers..

In the wee hours of the morning a speeding bus hit 3 people dressed in strange clothes standing in the middle, two died on the spot. The lone survivor, a yet unidentified male, is battling for life in the government hospital. Police are waiting for him to regain consciousness to take an offical statement. Meanwhile, when our reporter spoke with the bus driver who is in police custody. The visibly shaken driver says that the 3 people suddenly popped up out of nowhere in the middle of the road and he couldn’t do much to avoid them.

I opened my eyes again to a very different atmosphere…

The Lady... The Whiff... The Sniff....

The other day, I was just walking down on the road thinking about things which I am not going to get into here.. When Suddenly I see this pretty little thing coming (or floating should I say:)... "An Angel" I thought to myself:P:P) in the opposite direction... Anyways, She was this elegantly dressed lady. She was understandably very involved in various things like where she was stepping, how her hair was behaving w.r.t the breeze and a host of other subtle actions(Boy!! Talk about Multitasking!!!)

The Closer she came to me, The more I felt my world squeeze in my Head... And to top it off like icing on the cake, She Had a wonderful wonderful aroma about her. Or so I thought until She came Close enough So I did what came to my mind at that moment.. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath...

You CANNOT, I REPEAT CANNOT Imagine What Happened Next...........

Atchooo...

Yes people, There I've said it.. I Sneezed.. I Really did... And I wouldn't be entirely being truthful if I say I did it again cause i Did it again and again for about 30 seconds(ETERNITY)...

One Probably good thing I would say is I did not get to see her face after the "Incident".. All i Knew is I Think she just stopped everything that she was doing and started to concentrate on the Issue in hand.. Walking Away....

Anyways what it did was that it got me analyzing in to the run up to the unfortunate incident.. I was Determined to let it NOT happen again.

let me Take you through SOME of the things that went through in my head....

"Did I just Sneeze????... I hope I did't... OH GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE.. I JUST SNEEZED.... Why me of all the people? Why? WHY? and for heavens sake why at that precise moment??? Was it the Perfume??? NAH(What a Scary thought!!!).. Cant be.. Has to be some dust in the "breeze".. Who am i Kidding??? It was the Perfume.. oh nooooooooo.................Bleep Bleep........")

As a Probable Remedy to the Problem I have sworn to use or rather drown myself(Thats what it takes!!!) in more deo or "pleasantly" smelling things(cant find many.) on MYSELF more than any girl i come across....And going by what i have seen..er..smelt.. I think soon enough I am going to create a big enough hole in the Ozone layer to kill a forest or something(Kidding!!!)...

SO A PUBLIC-SERVICE MESSAGE TO THE GIRLS/GUYS(To prove I'm not Gender Biased.. I really aren't:D:D and Guys Do it too anyways..) STOP USING THOSE OZONE-DAMAGING DEO's and other stuff too...

Brought to in Public-Interest by the (Never seen again)Elegant Lady on the Road...

P.S:- All characters in this Work of "FICTION" are fictitious, any resemblance to any person dead or alive is merely and purely coincidental...:)

TIME

Probably one of the best things ever to happen to me is me being born... I finally arrived from the realm of the unknown to this amazingly wonderfully confusingly bitter-sweet place. Taking things into perspective I don't really know if its been an instant since i came in or has it been eons and eons together. You see I'm very confused about this wonderful concept called TIME. I'm sure at this point of "time"(I cant believe it :P) most of you people are thinking "Well that is something very clearly defined by science. Whats really so confusing about it???" Lets just for the moment put aside all the stuff like Time-lines,Time-zones and all the very well documented time related Stuff..

Just take a moment(or more if you like :D) to pause your time and think about all these years that have just passed you by.. Think about how much time you actually did spend in the crib, in your mother's arms, in kindergarten, in school, in the company of your parents, friends, think about the time you spent studying, pretending to study....The list just goes on...

Now just take that list and considering the long long life each and every one of you is going to have multiply it by 2 or say 3 or 4 or whatever fancy number you can think of.. and just IMAGINE the moments that you are going to have. There are I'm sure a lot of them.

Now comes the time for you to probably ask yourself the same question. "How exactly does time work for me?". and following immediately next should probably be "How can I make it work better?" If you can find satisfactory answers to these questions , believe me when i say it.....You are really really going to be at peace with everything that you do in your life.

Please note that I'm nowhere talking about Time-Management here.. That's a whole other concept although probably intertwined in an almost inseparable kind of way. But still it is definitely different here.

P.S:- I've used "moment" to quantify time because I feel its one of the words if not the only one whose meaning actually goes beyond the definition of time itself. Having a moment is more about the everything that happens at the time than the time itself. Well i think I'm just stating the obvious now.