As I turn 25!!!

25 is a landmark they say.. Though it is, it really feels bad to be turning 25 u see.. You kind of feel old :P But the good thing is there are friends around who are already in the club or atleast waiting to join soon :) So everyone's getting old!!
All of the previous 24 birthdays in my life I have always been with Amma, Anna and Madhu and not having them around this time on my birthday was really sad.. To add to it all KuBa was interning in NY and he wasnt there too..
But with everything it still became one of the most memorable birthdays ever! Lydia was majorly responsible for making it very colourful :) As customary she had invited all of our friends who were there in Santa Barbara and not out interning, which included Tejaswi, Avantika, Sandeep ,Malavika and Avantika's bro was there too! There was the yummiest chocolate cake ever and of course Watermelon! So for the first time on my 25th birthday I got to cut both , a cake and a watermelon :) (I still have the cake left even after a week and I am relishing every bit of it !!)

 A walk to Avantika's house at 2 in the morning, a cute little birthday card from Lydia, back home and there was an email from Hari about some website.. This indeed was the best quiz I had ever answered in my life! An e-gift from hari, laks and chai to answer 25 questions about the last 25 years of my life. It took me back to the first year of Engineering and the whole beautiful journey from there to here.. :)

 The next morning in office as I was breaking my head over some code I get a courier from the receptionist and I open it to see a potted yellow rose plant. I feel extremely happy about the fact that after all the love Anna has for plants someone thought I should grow a plant too! The courier had no senders address and I anxiously call ProPlants ( the senders of the courier) to find out who shipped it to me.. They are not of any help as it was booked from a third party website.. I call up KuBa and Lydia to figure out who could have sent a plant to me and they throw some light saying it could be Madhu! and it indeed was, though she had intended to send a bouquet of yellow roses, they delivered a plant :) Now I rush to Kmart to get a pot to grow the plant and there it is growing :)

 2 days later after bugging Kuba enough about the gift he booked not getting delivered on time it finally arrives on a Saturday evening! Thanks to my wrongly worded message on the door fedex delivers it in the next house. But thankfully they are home and I get a huge, light weight box shipped from Amazon! There it is the second teddy bear in my life ;-) a cuddly , cute, huge brown one ! The first one 23 years ago was similar too a brown small one ;-) For a person who always thought wasnt the type who could be gifted a teddy bear , getting one on a birthday makes you feel very special :)

 So though this birthday was a lot different from all other birthdays it was a very special one.. Away from home in a far off land with an unknown set of people who have become part of a new home now it just felt amazing.. 25th became a birthday that will be remembered always...
 But I did miss u all Amma , Anna , Madhu, Hari, Laks and Chai........