Two Dozenth Birthday

Birthday - A day, which comes once a year (unless of course you celebrate "fake" birthdays), for which we wait for days, weeks and months, a day which passes by with lightening speed, a day when you were dropped on the earth, a day when you feel special (or in case, you always feel special, this is a day when you feel extra special) !

Yesterday was my two dozenth birthday (i prefer it 'coz 24 seems a bigger number than 2 dozen) and it was made special by some great friends of mine !

Frankly speaking, I was not that excited for my birthday on the evening prior to it, since it was probably my first birthday away from my family. However (yes, I am an MBA-student, and its kind of offending to use "but") the day was made special by some special people around me.

Although I couldn't maintain a record of all the people who wished me throughout the day, but I will mention the names of some really great friends who made this day indeed very special, namely Kamlesh, Pratik, Vijay, Tarun, Garima, Swati, Aarzoo, Seema, Khushi, etc among the few :) You guys made my day !!

Besides these friends, almost all my family members and friends wished me throughout the day and made my birthday really special one. The number of birthday wishes I got made me think for a while that I'm really growing 'old' !!! :P

My prankster buddy Kamlesh Parihar, whom I gifted a matka (clay pot) for his birthday, compensated my gesture by gifting me a really big watermelon carefully gift-packed exactly when the clock struck 12, and later a pair of "keyboard chappals" :) Thanks buddy !! I loved them both :)

Key Board Chappals or KBC

Moreover, the biggest surprise on my birthday came from my blog, Good For Nothin', which crossed the 1,00,000 pageviews milestone on my birthday. What a coincidence !!

Last but not the least, a few really great friends who missed to wish me on my birthday also deserve to be mentioned in the post. I never thought that they could forget my birthday, ever ! But as they say, Life mein bahut kuchh first time hota hai maamu !

Leaving you all with the two lovely cakes that I had cut on my birthday, but alas, I couldn't save it for you, as they were so tempting that I couldn't resist finishing them off !

The IRRESISTIBLE Cakes !!

Better luck next time guys !

TWO whole years !

Today, 7th October 2010 marks the second anniversary of this blog. Exactly two years ago, I started this blog just to catch up with the world. Blogging wasn't a rage at that time. But within no time it picked up.

When I started this blog, I had no idea of what I'm gonna put up on GFN ! I wasn't even sure on how long would I be able to sustain this blog. But it continued. With all your love, this little effort of mine has successfully completed two years despite some rough patches.

I think I should present a mini balance sheet for this year (and may be get happy at the progress)... So, here it is :

If it would've been a business, my investors would be very very happy by now !


I'm happy with the progress. Even if the number of posts decreased, the spread has increased. Thank you every one for the love !


And since you people haven't brought the gifts, no celebrations this time. :P

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!!

Just one word - THANKS !!!

As I go through the final moments of my 21st birthday, I have decided to jot down the list of people who wished me. I am thankful to everybody who wished me on this occassion. And those who forgot to wish me, better luck next time.... :p

Although I have my exams, but I feel its necessary to at least say thanks to those who cared to wish me.

Well, I have categorised them.... And here goes the list...



ADVANCE WISHES :
These guys have wished me before the day.... may be coz of lack of time or coz of the fear that they'll forget, they preferred to be on a safer side by wishing me earlier...

• Abhimanyu Singh : 23rd Mar... well in advance I'd say...


• Ashish Sharma : 26th Mar


• Nitin Solanki : 28th Mar... thinking that my birthday was on 27th and he was late...!!! :)


• Kailash Mewara : 1st Apr


• Shishir Kapadia : 4th Apr


• Kamlesh Muthliya : 4th


• Shekhar Upadhyay : 4th Apr


• Meenal Mehta : 4th Apr


• Tanu : 4th Apr


• Jayesh Nagda : 4th Apr


• Kailash Prajapat : 4th Apr

EARLY BIRDS :
People who wished me exactly at 12 in the night. And the list ends at the time when I slept..... and I slept at 3 AM....

• Akshay Saini


• Shekhar Upadhyay


• Shehraz Ali


• Shruti Solanki


• Arpit Mehta


• Chirag Rathod, my elder bro


• Dr Ramesh Rathod


• Geeta Rathod


• Akshay Rathod, my twin... n even i wished him too....


• Yukta Rathod, my sis


• Nishant Jain


• Shishir Kapadia


• Happy Mewara


• Kaushal Rathod


• Kamlesh Parihar


• Anshu Jain


• Manish Mewara


• Kalpesh Soni


• Jayesh Nagda


• Vishal Dedhia


• Saurabh Dhoka


• Darshit Shah


• Preetam Chatterjee


• Rashi Mehta


• Dheeraj Agarwal


• Ratan Malviya


• Aniket Sangle


• Jayesh Naik


• Renuj Parmar


• Tuhin Chakraborty


• Kailash Mewara


• Sunny Kichloo


• Anish Tak

THROUGHOUT THE DAY :

• Jayantiji Kothari, my Jiju


• Rekha Kothari, my sis


• Hardik Kothari, my nephew


• Namasvi Kothari, my niece


• Manali Baldota


• Raj Rishi Sharma SIR


• Nitin Solanki


• Gaurav Agarwal


• Kushal Kitawat


• Gaurav Mehta


• Garima Sancheti


• Rishabh Baldota


• Rita Surana, my cousin


• Omkar Pol


• Komal Rathod


• Neha Baldota


• Kamlesh Mewara


• Kaushal Rathod


• Tanu


• Honey Rathod, my cousin


• Kiran Rathod, my uncle


• Prabha Rathod, my aunt
• Heena Mehta


• Bhairu Parihar


• Preeti Malviya


• Abhimanyu Singh Chauhan


• Pratik Jain


• Rohan Merchant


• Rashmi Jain


• Vinish Arora


• Pragya Seth


• Rahul Kumar


• Vishal Shah


• Arjun Krishnan


• Kriti Surana


• Sumeet Gehlot


• Tejo


• Meena Rathod, my aunt


• Palash Monga


• Tanuj Parmar


• Saunil Shah


• Sanjay Sancheti


• Shruti Dev


• Ankit B*


• Aakash Baldota


• Upasna Bhatia


• Amandeep Singh


• Ankit Rana


• Anuj Parmar


• Manish Jain


• Neha Mehta


• Viral Jain


• Abhijeet Gupte


• Praveen Rathod, my uncle


• Aneesh Saji


• Dhaval Sanghavi


• Bhavesh Jain


• Vinita Shah


• Sandeep Dave


• Bharat Thapar


• Saurabh Nandoskar


• Mahendra Dhoka, my friend's dad, surprised me by sending a birthday cake... Special Thanks uncle :)


• Sunita Rathod


• Janvi Rathod


• Vansh Rathod


• Chirag Dhoka : dude.... u called damn late.... i expected an early call from you...


• Jaken Shah


• Rahul Kumar


• Nadeem Khan


• Chetan Malviya


• Prateek Monga : Better late, than never.... :p


• Bhavesh Mehta


• Honey Bagga


• Rahul Goswami


• Ashish Rathi


• Garima Ranawat


• Abhishek Jain


• Kinjal Parmar


• Jay Bendkhale


• Vikram Angara


• Ashish Sharma


• Kaustubh Rawool

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER - BELATED WISHES :

• Akshay Deshpande
• Bhavin Vaidya
• Ronak Baldota
• Gopalkrishnan Venkatraman
• Vikas Rathod
• Rishabh Khandhar
  

Thanks a lot guys for making me feel special on this very day. Its because of YOU that I felt this special....



BOTTOM-LINE : I am 21 now.... And hence i qualify for the 'ELIGIBLE BACHELOR' category (21 is the minimum legal age for boys to marry).... lol ;)