MY BOY IS A CA...The Rave/Ravi/GUJJU now a CA? Man time flies by! AWESOME NEWS RAVE...He's one of my best friends in aamchi mumbai. See, we are a closed knit unit of 6. I knew what we had as friends when i called one of them at 3 am on a sunday night and told them that my dad had not come home and that they had to come over so we could go look for him...my dad was actually stuck in traffic on his way from vasai, and there was no reception where he was. So twenty minutes passed and we kept calling my dad..my mom was really worried...and then they showed up...and right behind them my dad. Five of them walking in with my dad...it was just a coincidence that they met in the elevator...but you should have seen the smiles on their faces...when the walked in...like prize fighters, having just won the biggest one. Cocky son's of b....., whatever little of life that i saw in mumbai (as i moved here when i was 18) they were right behind me, covering my back. Be it the biggest lie of my life (more on that later), fist fights, love stories, girlfriends that they didn't get along with or coming here to the states...they always had my back. Now that's something you don't find everyday.
It all started with Taral...
Taral-I think we really hit it off on my first school trip to Rajasthan, back then my weekly crush was a girl called Ojas. And his was Shalini, Ojas's best friend at the time...So there we were....traveling on the train to rajasthan, where all the girls were in one little compartment...and all us boys were annoying them in one way or another...then it happened...
BOM BOM...BOM BOM...Do mastane chale zindagi banane
IT was a very famous song from an awesome movie...some of us still consider it to be the greatest comedy...Andaz Apna Apna. So yeah we sang, and sang, and sang into the wee hours of the night..until everybody in the train had walked by telling us how much they hated us at that moment in time...well, the two of us didn't care...we were having too much fun flirting with our crushes, and singing this funny ass song. INSTANTLY, we were like brothers; you know, you can just feel a special connection you have with someone, he's not big on communication...so we didn't communicate as much, but everytime i saw him at the airport, it was like i know YOU MAN...Inside, and OUT!!
Siddhi-Now here's a man for all you ladies...a commited man. This boy has been with his girlfriend for seven years now!!! SEVEN. He's the quiet one...the one who thinks more than he ever should...analyzes every situation, and really really feels. He's exactly liks sid (Dil Chahta Hain)...i'm suprised siddhi is in engineering...everything about him screams ARTIST. He's tough to get to know at first...but has a heart of gold. He's doing his MBA now...tell's me that he has changed...opened up a lot more than before...i can't wait to go back home to see what he has cooking...
Hemen/The HAM- The ham because he is the perfect gujju. He tries to be someone he isn't, be it his fake little accent...his new found dressing sense...or his new attitude: "I don't wanna CARE." But he cares the most...he is the one thing that keeps us together...if you guys think that i am a FILMY person...you should see him...We, actually his self proclaimed name is the GLUE of the group. We have been really close at times and moved a little farther away at times...but this time i think we have found a perfect spot...he moved to california from mumbai...and i went down there to go see him...and it was like when we first became really good friends...because I told him everything that i was thinking...even if i thought that he was lying to me about something...so i guess it is my fault that we did drift away ever so little...
Sitting in our Math Tutor's classroom...my gujju friend...said: Damn! have you heard about that new brand...TOMMY HIGHFLYER....we were almost thrown out of class because of his comment, actually because of the hysterical laughter that followed...
ASHUTOSH/PUNEA- Tall dark and handsome...they say....i think he's downright ugly...just kidding bhai...yeah, he's the older one...but not the wise one...the true player...be it his pimping maruti esteem...or his dancing skills...i think the one thing i really share with him is our love for cricket. You see he's the fast bowler...the true, true fast bowler...talks more than he can back up...(kidding)....but thats where it started with the two of us...in the tennis courts at the hood (GREEN ACRES)...we played every night...during the summers...and he talked all through it...only when i had something to say first though...but once i did...then he didn't stop. He'd be like: what do you do jack? what do you do?, every time he had the occasional pleasure of getting me out...one tappi that too...Big time movie buff...corny piece of shit...love ya man!
Finally the Rave: THE F'ing CA. He struggled through it more than i expected him too...but he made it and thats what counts...now he's is the practical one...a true problem solver...you see everytime any of us had a problem...we would meet up at rave's place and discuss it...he just had the right answer everytime...a "rapist wit," as was described in one of my favorite movie's. A girls best friend...be it any girl...haha. But yeah we used to study during the nights, actually we used to tell our parents that we studied through the night during our 12th board exams...but we were out every chance we got...or every time a stomach croaked...to go get some bhurji or pav bhaji...or for that matter have a run in with the cops...and hang out at the police thana...CONGRATULATIONS BROTHER
HARAMI'S I got all your backs! FOREVER!
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