The Birthday Bash!

I had just heaved my bag upon my chair when I heard someone calling out to me. I wiped the sweat and turned back to look at a volley of familiar smiling faces all indulged in the daily morning chatter.

Then with a sudden excitement and liveliness in my steps, I ran to Sanjana (a really good friend) who was waving frantically towards me.

“Hey Meghzz", she said, “So how you celebrating Nandita’s Birthday?”. Nandita is a cousin sister of mine who is studying here and lives at a hostel as her university is far from my home. She is an utterly fabulous gal with a great sense of humor and a fascinating behavior.

“Huh”, I said, “Oh no! when was it?” I asked with sudden panic and fury at myself. Sanjana sneered at me and said, “So you forgot again, eh? Great! But this time I am not telling you when it was. Try to rattle your brain and remember it yourself. For your information, today is 30th December….” she said it all in one breath and left me desolate with my thoughts.

Today I write about something that happened with me few months before the holidays. Okay, so how many of you there reading my blog have a major problem of forgetting birthdays? My sincere sympathies to all. Well, I do have that really bad problem.

Birthdays are the most troubling things to remember. The cupboards in my brain are so full of English, Math, Science, friends, family, games, blogging…..that there is precisely no space left! So today I write about an incident which occurred due to this forgetfulness.

“Okay, you can do it. Yes, you know it. Yeah…the date’s 29th and then it has got to be January then.” as much as I recalled I became more certain and assured of my assumed day. So I frantically started on the celebrations.

Grinning from ear to ear, the next day I told Sanjana that I had remembered and even started saving on my pocket money! She looked at me with absolute disbelief and moved away, not believing a word of what I had said.

Finally as the D-Day arrived, I was all prepared. I had enough money saved to buy an exuberant bag as a gift. It was gold in color with shimmer increasing it’s exotic beauty. It had an ornate look which captivated the onlooker.

Armed with the gift and candles and a cake in hand, I headed towards her hostel room. I creaked her door open slightly and saw her studying without looking back. I fumbled for the switches and turned the light off. As she turned towards the door, I lit a candle and shouted or to be appropriate screamed hysterically, “Happy Birthday!"

I then ran towards her, thrusting the gift in her hand and giving her a bear hug. When I finally let go, she said, "Huh, don't you think it's too late? It's almost a month now! It was on December 29th you know and Sanjana phoned me to wish on your behalf as you were busy studying for the tests", she exclaimed with a raised eyebrow.

After a minute of pondering over my huge silly mistake, I burst into uncontrollable peals of laughter as I explained the situation to Nandita. Then we both had a really late birthday cake with each of us laughing our heads off!

Hello to all! I told you I would be back soon and so I am. I had a gala time and now I am getting busy with the loads of holiday homework. Thanks for all your wishes and I am trying hard to read all your updates there!

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