Roses at my door step

That sounds quite romantic naa??? It happened this year on 14th of october - my birthday. The day started wonderfully as all of my b'days do - with everyone calling to wish me and thereby trying to wake me up early at least on this day :D . Finally after many such wake-up calls i got outta my warm , lovely bed (man that thing is just too good!!) This birthday happened to be the first one after i started working - so i was missing my college b'day celebrations - the midnight parties , the delicious cakes , the silly dares , the grt gifts , the surprises from friends , all the wishes and smiles - wow!! it was all too good and how i missed it all!! With all these thoughts in mind and hatred towards this working life i got ready and somehow managed to cheer myself up and reached office...then the day went as usual though i wasn't doing any much office work ( come on! after all its my b'day - I'm not supposed to work right?) .But u know what?? they say that in every dark cloud there just might be a silver line .. i just managed to find my own silver line which turned to be quite a lightning in an other wise boring day :)

It was about 11.30 a.m or something when my dear old nokia vibrated indicating that i got a message(being a nice girl , i have my mobile always in silent mode :D). I read the message thinking that it will be another nice wish from a friend - i was partly right , it was a cute b'day wish but only this time it wasn't from a friend - it was from a total stranger!!Ahem! don't think i started floating in the air with dreams .. I've been through this message stuff during b'days before - these friends of mine always try to fool me like this ..btw i have to tell abt my dear friends here ..we are a close gang of 4 - me , D, P and K (identities are protected :D ). I'll tell abt them some other time.

So coming back to my b'day.. this time my brain was quite alert and i was sure it should mostly be either D or P who could do this.Anyway i played along and replied back asking who it is and things like that ... my secret admirer as expected refused to tell his name but wanted to meet me sometime..Grt i thought - by this time i was quite sure that this is the work of P ..so i called her and told that i found out her game . But she stubbornly refused to accept that she's doing this and said that she had no idea abt it ... she even started teasing me with this secret admirer guy :( poor me!! anyway i still was convinced that its her grt game and just thought to go along with it and see what happens .. So this messaging went on for sometime and then i got involved with some office work. By the time it was evening i had quite forgotten this secret admirer stuff.

But u know - they say that love doesn't leave u , though it wasn't exactly love here .. i got another message from the secret admirer after i reached home -guess what?? it read "hi, open your door and see " and i was like "OH MY GOD!!" Can you imagine?? That admirer guy just is real!! My heart beat so fast i could actually hear its rhythm! i got all possible reactions - a chill down my spine , butterflies in my stomach , and shivering hands . I was thinking - what could be there when i open the door?? will the guy himself be there smiling at me or is it some kinda gift that's awaiting??? oh god! oh god! i really couldn't take a step towards my door.You just should have seen my face!! Then i gathered all my strength and went to meet the destiny awaiting at my doorstep.I opened my door ..and there it was at my doorstep - a beautiful bouquet of red roses!! It was just too lovely .. i took it and looked for anyone around who would have brought the gift - but couldn't find a soul except the aunt two doors away who was looking weirdly at me .. i didn't get the strength to ask her - how can i ??? I went in and frantically called my admirer's number but he wasn't picking it up .. oh my!! i went out of the door again and looked around .. was running in and out of my house - whats happening to me?? then finally i calmed down a bit and decided to go ask the security abt this ...

I stepped out of my house - you should have seen the grt scene that happened ... my dear friends D and P jumped outta nowhere singing "happy b'day to u" and laughing their hearts out .What???? It was all your doing???? i shouted at them - they were like rolling with laughter and were proud of what they had accomplished . And me???? what else to do?? was blushing like hell for believing in the secret admirer stuff and patiently took in all their teasing with a smile - what else can you do when you are silly enough to expect prince charming waiting at your doorstep with a bouquet of red roses??

Everything in life teaches us something.Lesson learnt here by me - i might have left the college and may not be exactly having all the same fun and celebrations that we had there but "friends are always friends" - they are the soul and life of college days and every celebration that happened there ...as long as they are with me - its always fun. Again , they say that its the company that matters and not the place or anything else.Believe me this was one thrilling b'day i ever had .. full of surprises and excitement - just the way i like it :)

The Me , the Machine and the Database .... 'A Date with Database'

So this is about my date with "The database" ..it was all arranged through my machine - the grt inter mediator.I was just too excited - it's been a long time since i actually did any active interesting work. I was happy that i finally got to do something nice ( which i was soon going to regret by-the-way). It all started quite fine... i came fresh and full of energy in the early morning ( early according to my standards) .The machine was all charged up and ready to connect two wonderful ppl - me and the db ( ill call the database as db from now on - quite a long name .. wht to do??) . Finally we got connected and started getting to know each other -it was all quite fine at first with grt data sharing. I even started to think that this could be what i have been waiting for all this long!! (see .. sometimes the takeoff to dreamland could be quite fast ) Then as i wanted more data from db , things started to change.. db's response time increased and i grew impatient(turbulence time...). In all this discomfort , the machine too started to groan and made all heads turn towards us - what an embarrassment!! By now the db has become totally unresponsive and the data transfer seemed to be taking ages ... the poor machine was struggling to keep us connected . As for me - never mind .. somethings can't be explained in words - they include not just things which make you spellbound but also things which irritate you to the core . I lost all my patience and shouted at myself for thinking that this could all be exciting and entertaining . How did i think that this could be what i've been waiting for?? things are all not what they seem to be at first sight baby!! Finally my brain worked and i came back to reality- but it was too late ... seems like some processes cant be stopped when started - but this one didnt seem to give any sign of ending or for that matter even any sign of progress ... so i decided to take the ultimate step - "KILL IT" .... finally the happy ending of my date with db goes like this : i killed db , shutdown the inter mediator (the machine) , and ran off from the place to my home sweet home deciding in my mind "no more dates with any database -never!!"

But .......somethings in life............ never.......... leave u