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This post of mine is no story, no poetry. It’s just what has been going on in my mind. It’s about how it feels when some you know changes to some one you knew. I don’t know how this will be accepted by anyone who reads this. I found no better place to share.

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I have not given much to this blog in the past few days. I was waiting for something to come my way. Something on which I could elaborate or something rather some thread of a fresh thought that passes my head. Unfortunately I couldn’t get any. I have been busy lately. I had my exams. But the pressure didn’t make me overlook the things that happened around me. In fact, these are the times when, I think one looks at some people for moral support. I am not going to whine about anything in this post just that I don’t understand why CHANGES matter so much rather how can they matter so much?

Changes are a part of growing up, and I know it. What I don’t know is why coping up with it so difficult. Some people change because of some other people, some do so to suit to the environment they are in. But do they ever think how much it affects those people who liked them for who they were?

I do not blame anybody it’s just that I am missing my friends. Everybody has moved on including me. I don’t complain. It’s not about not being able to spend time with each other it’s about what you do when you are with them. I am missing all the innocence and the purity of the relations. It has all become like an adulterated fruit drink that claims to give 100% fruit with no added preservatives. Why do people start becoming pretentious?

I am no loser. I am just a bit pissed off. I am not liking the fact that some of my best friends have changed their choice of friends, their taste (food) , their favorite color, their favorite song, their style(clothing) just to get along with the majority or because SOME ONE SPECIAL has entered their lives. Can’t we just be who we are and still be accepted by the world?

P.S : I am sorry for a comeback like this but I had to get this out of my head!

Incredible India

We live in a nation where a pizza reaches faster than an ambulance or police !

We live in a nation where you get a car loan at 5% interest but an educational loan at 12% interest !

We live in a nation where rice is Rs 40 per kg but a sim card is free !

We live in a nation where a millionaire can buy a cricket team for thousands of crores of rupees instead of donating a part of the money to charity !

We live in a nation where everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to follow the path to be famous !

We live in a nation where the netas are more concerned for IPL rather than the population living below poverty line (BPL) !

We live in a nation where the agriculture minister is more interested in cricket politics rather than controlling the rising prices of the basic food grains !

We live in a nation where a union minister can remain absconding when declared guilty by the court !

We live in a nation where loads of money is spent to provide security to a terrorist when hundreds of people are killed every year in terror acts !

We live in a nation where people love to break rules and then get away by paying a petty bribe !

We live in a nation where people prefer tainted netas to represent them over educated ones !

We live in a nation where people standing at a tea stall reading an article on child labour say "Yaar, bachho se kaam karwane waalo ko goli maar deni chahiye..." and then they say "Oye chhotu ! 2 chai laa..."

We live in INDIA ! Incredible India !

PS : Some of the above points are a part of an SMS forwarded by a friend of mine. I added some points on my own.

PS2 : This post should not be taken in a wrong sense. Rather this post should be taken as the key areas where we can change the system.

I'll Always Be There

When the world seems to walk out on you,

And you feel scared.

When you're feeling low, you're feeling blue,

Turn around, and I'll be right there.

Even though there were others to make you strong,

You never noticed I was there all along.

And now that they've left you alone,

And you're are all on your own.

I wanted you to know...

Whenever you get scared,

Turn around, I'll always be there.

When you'll win yourself back,

And shine like the brightest star.

When the others will come back to you,

You will change who you are.

I will still adore you and will always love,

Will wait till you're left again.

Because then you'll be all alone,

And I'll be your only true friend.

I just wanted you to know...

Whenever you get scared,

Turn around, I'll always be there.

Koi Mere Dil Mein Rehta Hai...

जब रात के तनहा लम्हों में,

कोई आहट मुझ से कहती है;

इस दिल में हलचल रहती है,

कोई जुगनू पास से गुज़रे तो,

कोई बात हलक से निकले तो,

मैं खुद से उलझने लगता हूँ,

फिर जाने क्या क्या कहता हूँ,

फिर याद उसकी आती है,

फिर पल दो पल के लमहे को,

ये सांस मेरी रुक जाती है,

एक शोला दिल में भड़कता है,

वो दर्द सेहर तक रहता है,

फिर मेरा मन मुझ से यह कहता है,

कोई मेरे दिल में रहता है...

A Big Thank You !!

April 05, 2010

Twenty two years ago... Exactly 22 years ago, on this beautiful planet called earth, God sent a pair of twins, identical twins, (and thankfully not Siamese twins... lol), seperated by a span of eight long minutes (for those who don't consider 8 minutes long enough, convert them into seconds, and then nanoseconds.... you'll get a very large figure....).

Brothers in Arms - Ankit & Akshay

Smitten by the Ramayana bug, the Rathod family named them Luv and Kush ! (not many people know this fact !!)

Later on, these twins came to be known as Akshay and Ankit. Out of love, they were also called Sonu and Monu !

Now, lets cut the crap ! Enough of this boring history lesson !! Lets get back to normal...

Its my birthday today, and of course my twin's too...

As I put my status across the social networking sites : "I like birthdays, but I think too many can kill you." ;)


For me, its just another day, which is made special by the people around you. This day is made special by the people who want to be a part of your happiness.

And its my responsibility to thank each and every one who took the pain in the following ways to wish me on this day:

• searching for my number in your endless phonebook and then call me and get bugged by me ;)
• searching for a nice birthday message or typing it and then sending it to me :)
• searching for my profile on social networking site and then again typing your wishes for me. Some people also sent picture wishes. They need to be searched too.

Searching for something is a real pain in the arse. So I have to be thankful to you guys for taking that pain for me !!

Jokes apart, I am actually overwhelmed by the way you guys made me feel so special on this ordinary day.

And continuing the parampara (for those who're hitting their head to know the meaning of this word, it means ritual) that I started a year ago, here goes the list who wished me and made my day a memorable one....

EARLY BIRDS / EXTRA CAUTIOUS WISHERS : Those who wished me before my birthday, either to be sure that they don't forget this day, or cause of some misunderstanding. Whatever may be the reason, you guys deserve a word of thanks too. I actually started getting wishes over a month in advance !! Here goes the list:

1. Mr B K Chowla - 25th Feb (thats 41 days in advance !!)
2. Mr Mahendra Dhoka - my friend's dad - wished me a "belated birthday" ;) - 6th Mar - almost a month in advance... :p
3. Arshad Raza - 22nd Mar
4. Rakesh Tailor - 26th Mar
5. Ankit Ranawat - 27th Mar
6. Mrs Kavita 'Kiran' - the poetess - 30th Mar
7. Shekhar Upadhyay - as a part of a prank played on me - 2nd Apr
8. Kamlesh Parihar - he too was a fellow prankster - 2nd Apr
9. Rohit Sharma - 3rd Apr
10. Priyanka Gulyani - 3rd Apr
11. Shashank Chorge - 3rd Apr
12. Manish Rathod - my cousin - forgot the date... ;) - 4th Apr
13. Shehraz Ali - 4th Apr
14. Tanuj Mathur - 4 Apr
15. Garima Ranawat - 4 Apr
16. Akash Ranawat - 4 Apr
17. Sandeep Dave - 4 Apr
18. Deepak Kumawat - 4 Apr

WHEN THE CLOCK STRUCK 12 : And then there were those who wished me in the midnight till the time I went to sleep:

1. Kamlesh Parihar - ye saala mujhe first wish nahi karta to bahut maar khaata... ;)
2. Manish Mewara
3. Vinish Arora Sir - pinched me a lot !!!
4. Kailash Mewara
5. Kalpesh Soni
6. Chiranjeev Soni aka Chintu
7. Kamlesh Mewara
8. Tanuj Mathur
9. Sandeep Dave
10. Shruti Solanki
11. Shruti Dev
12. Bhushan Kanathe
13. Aarzoo Syed
14. Rohit Sharma
15. Angel
16. Divya Rajpurohit
17. Rashmi Jain
18. Jayesh Nagda
19. Komal Rathod
20. Minal Mehta
21. Akshay Rathod - my twin - actually both our phones were flooded with wishes, we wished each other at 12:04 AM !!
22. Nitin Solanki
23. Shrenick Sanghvi
24. Kaushal Rathod
25. Manali Baldota
26. Manisha Gulyani
27. Saurabh Dhoka
28. Chirag Dhoka
29. Dr Chirag Rathod - my bro
30. Dr Kadambari Khona (soon to be a Rathod) - my bhabhi-jeeeeeee :)
31. Priyanka Gulyani
32. Ankit Ranawat
33. Abhimanyu Singh Chauhan
34. Bhairu Parihar
35. Meenal Agarwal
36. Nishant Jain
37. Mohammed Fahim Nakade
38. Prashant Saive
39. Akshay Saini
40. Naseem Tak
41. Rohan Merchant
42. Fahad Nadkar
43. Renuj Parmar

THROUGHOUT THE DAY : Those who wished me throughout the day:

1. Mr Babulalji Rathod - my dad
2. Mrs Gheesibai Rathod - my mom
3. Shekhar Upadhyay
4. Ashish Sharma - the man with the KILLER smile :D
5. Bhupendra Singh Gehlot
6. Shehraz Ali
7. Sunny Chhabra
8. Pranav Vengsarkar
9. Dimple Nangia
10. Mrs Geeta Rathod - my mom
11. Dr Ramesh Rathod - my dad
12. Nidhi Singh
13. Aviral Mathur
14. Chetan Parmar
15. Janvi Bid
16. Ronak Baldota
17. Aniket Sangle
18. Kamlesh Solanki
19. Gaurav Agarwal
20. Garima Sancheti
21. Geetanjali Chouhan Mam
22. Bhagwan Singh Deora
23. Arpan Rathore
24. Vivek Nambiar
25. Saunil Shah
26. Rekha Kothari - my sis
27. Jayantiji Kothari - my jiju
28. Hardik Kothari - my nephew
29. Namasvi Kothari - my niece
30. Arvind Rajpurohit
31. Heena Mehta
32. Hitesh Mewara aka Happy
33. Arpit Mehta
34. Yukta Rathod - my sis - expected an early call from you :|
35. Honey Rathod - my sis - expected an early call from you too :|
36. Abhijeet Gupte
37. Mahesh Kumar
38. Arshad Raza
39. Seema Dewasi
40. Chitra Ranawat
41. Aakash Ranawat
42. Suchita Shrimali
43. Vidisha Agarwal Mam
44. Sandhya Rishikesan Mam - thanks for that mouth watering FERRERO ROCHER !! ;)
45. Vinod Kumar
46. Nikhil Sharma Sir
47. Swati Bohra
48. Sudesh Singh Mahecha
49. Hemant Chouhan
50. Neha Baldota
51. Manish Palrecha
52. Anish Tak
53. Rahul Kumar
54. Vikram Angara
55. Anurag Jain
56. Akshay Deshpande
57. Siddharth Shetty aka Sid
58. Khuzaima Palitanawala
59. Aayushi Punmiya
60. Sagar Vora
61. Anuj Parmar
62. Preetam Chaterjee
63. Nimisha Sanghvi
64. Upasna Bhatia
65. Rita Surana - my cousin
66. Prateek Monga
67. Sandeep Sharma
68. Jay Gurjar
69. Wasim Khan
70. Rishabh Baldota
71. Aneesh Saji
72. Darshit Shah
73. Pragya Agarwal
74. Gopalkrishnan Vekatram
75. Rishabh Jain
76. Saiful Islam
77. Tannu
78. Rashmi Murthy
79. Aparna Krishna
80. Tanuj Vyas
81. Akshat Bagrecha
82. Vikrant Rathore
83. Naresh Parekh
84. Anshu Jain
85. Vikran Singh
86. Rajesh U Mehta
87. Vikram Singh
88. Sumeet Gehlot
89. Bhavesh Jain
90. Aniket Shirsat
91. Ankit B*
92. Gagandeep Singh
93. Sandesh Sable
94. Bhavin Vaidya
95. Garima Ranawat
96. Jayesh Naik
97. Nadeem Pathan
98. Bhushan Sawant
99. Shinoj Nambiar
100. Sapna U Mehta
101. Abhimanyu Singh Rajawat
102. Mr B K Chowla
103. Dhvani Kothari
104. Raghuveer Gurjar
105. Amit Bhosale
106. Tuhin Chakraborty
107. Dilip Rathod
108. Tosh Vyas
109. Abbas Chitalwala
110. Ruchir Bhomawat
111. Punam Punmiya
112. Viral Jain
113. Ashish Sharma - he's the second Ashish Sharma to wish me :)
114. Megha Nandiwal
115. Chirag Modi
116. Harish Vaishnav
117. Omkar Pol
118. Aliya Merchant
119. Ankit Chheda
120. Rishabh Khandhar

SPECIAL THANKS : To the two ladies mentioned below for their effort in writing a post on me (I don't deserve this honor) and my bro :

1. Garima Ranawat - for her lovely post Just for you!! (click to visit the post)
2. Shruti Solanki - for her wonderful post Twins' Twenty Two (click to visit the post)

and of course the two lovely (virtual) cakes in both your posts... Cake ki pic se hi kaam chala liya... ;)

AUTOMATIC GENERATED WISHES : Wishes that I got from some companies, sites, etc, on or before my birthday :

1. Hero Honda Motors Limited
2. Mr Ashok Munoyat, my LIC agent
3. 160by2.com
4. Way2SMS.com
5. NetLog

It feels great to know that so many people love you, so many people care for you, and so many people want to grab a piece of cake from you ! ;)

Once again, a BIG THANK YOU to all of you for bestowing me with your precious wishes, love and blessings :)

Now those asking for a treat, just look at the number of people who wished me... If you're good at mathematics, you can easily calculate the total... And if you're not, get a calculator and compute the total.... Itne log to main apni shaadi mein bhi nahi bulaunga, party to door ki baat hai... ;)

And a special mention to the two pandits (astrologers) who forecasted that I'll be married in the age of 21, BALLS TO YOU !! I'm already 22 now and I'm happily single, ahhh.. okay, I'll just stick to I'm single ;)

Twins' Twenty Two

Guest Post by Shruti A. Solanki:

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Akshay aka Sonu;

Ankit aka Monu;

(Don't kill me 4 this one..lol)

In the past, when we were kids, we usually had many best friends. Later on in life, most might not call certain friends, "best friends", anymore. However, we still know which friends we are closest with.Just a post 2 wish u guys a very Happy B'day!!!May ur"ll have a great year ahead.....wud like 2 pen down something about dese guys....

Akshay Rathod.... (Soon 2 b Dr.Akshay Rathod aka Sonu....)

Dam sweet guy.He is a perfect frnd....does'nt tlk only on d phone & tels me 2 talk...which is very bad....huh....& evn if he talks he only can listen whhat he tlks........Likes 2 roam around..n likes 2 hv outsde food..24*7.......dam cute but sum tym hez nt........lolz js kiding...luvs d way he spks.... funny at times.....he is very ambitious and i am sure he'll certainly achieve his goals...very optimistic but at the same time very impatient...when things goes wrong,gets anxious frequently...One thing he hates is his hell(His hostel).......Stop hating it so much...dey luv u a lot.........lol....Luvs his philosophy lectures ..keeps gving me evry 2nd day...hai na?? n ya one thing I hate abt him is that he never rplies on tym.......hope he strts rplyng on tym aftr readng dis..lolzzzz.......B d sme u r..dnt chnge n dare u 4gt me...i"ll kill u...

Ankit Rathod (aka Angry young man / Monu)

So about him.....aaahhh jitna bolo utna kam..lolzz...He is totally unique... just d best!!hez dam sweet n sum tym vry vry vry stupid ..lol..hez a perfct joker....He keeps solving evrynes prblem..lol(koi nhi toh Ankit is der na not 2 worry...lolzz hai na?).cant u'stnd him....he is complicated...bahut zyada..lol...Vry difficult 2 mke him u'stnd...lolzzzz....bt stil evn if i hv 2 break my head i"ll do dt...dnt worri AC ko kch nhi hoga ...n ya a very very imp thng he has a exam on his b'day..lolz...poor he....al d bst 4 dt ..In shrt about him - bahut mast banda hai...real fun to be wid...u rock!!!b d way u r..dont change 4 nyne nt evn 4 ur dream grl...lol...hope u gt ur dream grl asap....lolzzz...

So guys Happy Birthday! I wish you"ll have a sunny coming day, many smiles, reliable friends surrounding you, feel family warmth and always be the way you"ll are...

With luv,

Shruti.......

Just for you!!

Dear Ankit,


Birthday Blessings
Instead of counting candles,
Or tallying the years,
Contemplate your blessings now,
As your birthday nears.Consider special people
Who love you, and who care,
And others who’ve enriched your life
Just by being there.Think about the memories
Passing years can never mar,
Experiences great and small
That have made you who you are.Another year is a happy gift,
So cut your cake, and say,
"Instead of counting birthdays,
I count blessings every day!"

Just a small gesture to tell you that you are special and here's wishing wish you a HAPPY B'DAY . We wish you a year full of joy n success ahead!!