Apologies for the long delay in posting...Net wasn't working and then i was just being lazy and not doing anything....well all said and done i am here now...so let us move on to another one of the legendary characters in my soap opera..
"SHE" is probably one of the most teased and picked at "GIRLS" in our group...and with good measure..."SHE" does some pretty stupid things...also "SHE" was the only "GIRL" in our group for a long time so we had a very easy target to pick on...
Ok before this continues let me please explain the " " around the SHE and the GIRL...well "SHE" (Last one...i promise..) isn't a "GIRL" (Hehe...Couldn't resist)...at least we never considered her one...and of course we weren't going to call her a boy right...so she (see...i resisted this time...) became "SPECIES"...Amma is referred to as SPECIES in our group...every time i would be 6 guys and species...never 1 girl...hehe
One more clarification is needed...u may ask how her name got to be AMMA...Frankly...NO ONE KNOWS...that is right..its a huge mystery...no one has any recollection of exactly how and why we started calling her that..but that's what we call her...and that's what will continue to be her name...sorry amma...i can't think of you with any other name frankly...
Actually that one is not totally true...because she does have a lot of other names...just like everyone else in our group does...Amma has been called SELFISH...and i mean....she has been hounded by that name by none other than Ketan Kolte (hereafter referred to as K2...described in a later post)...
K2 has this uncanny ability of associating everyone of Amma's actions with her being selfish...she did not give you a pen...yes...coz she is selfish...she doesn't want you to write an assignment...she is wearing 3/4ths..yeah...coz she is selfish...woh kapde bechne waalon ka sukh nahin dekh sakti..and countless such very silly and very infuriating (for amma) instances that keep coming up every single day...one of K2's patent dialogues was...haan...yeh toh kisika sukh nahin dekh sakti...selfish kaheen ki...hehe...
Amma has been an integral part of our group right since first year...amma and I had some pretty intense encounters at the start...she confided a lot in me in those times...short lived start to our friendship...but we got back after not talking to each other properly for a few months time...and have been good enough friends since then...
Amma is a total Gujju...SORRY...Kutchhi...she keeps reminding us of this fact again and again...as if we care...you all come from roughly the same part of india and have roughly the same annoying nasal voices anyways...right...one of the most memorable of amma's gujju-accent-dialogues is "Paachaaaaas log ne paaaachaaas paaachaaas rupayaaa toh diya hogaaaa"....i still remember the look on Lalit and my face when she said this...i mean ...we were actually SCARED that the sleeping Gujju in her was waking up...
All through 3rd year and a major part of 2nd year...our group consisted of Amma and the Central Gang (This SOCH deserves a proper post)...and Amma tried so hard to break into it...but alas...she stays in Dadar...neither Central nor Western...so she had to be content with her application being rejected again and again...and every attempt by amma at any joke of our level was seen as another ploy to get into Central Gang...and it was rapidly foiled...after all...Central Gang had to maintain its sanctity...Of course we will never forget the Nirop (Farewell) in the 3rd year where we admitted Sneha (a junior) within about half an hour of sitting with her...and Amma was left totally Red faced...poor girl...Sneha had achieved what Amma had been unsuccessfully trying to do for over a year then...Hehe
I remember one of the times when i was truly worried about her it was when she had kept Pajushan (I don't know if that is how it is spelled...Don't vandalize my house for getting the spelling wrong..)...It is a total fasting period for her lot...and she had NO FOOD for, what 7 days i think???do not remember...but at the end of the 7 days she looked properly sick..which prompted me to give her more gaalis as to the actual purpose of keeping it in the first place...her reaction was...aisehi...rakhna tha mereko ek baar...WOW...awesome...*rolls eyes*...
Of course during the Pajushan period she came to be known by a few more names...Moong Gud Paani...Dal Paani and others like that...coz that was the only thing she would have...and of course...we could bunk a few lectures coz we were "taking care" of her...and her beloved SUKETU SIR was more than eager to make sure she was alrite...
Recently she has become LIKE US...and i mean a LOT like us...what with all the unspeakable gaalis coming out of her mouth...and i mean the PROPER MUMBAIYA gaalis..of course it happened once and after having been instigated into it by who else but the great K2...
I think after so much of "negative" things, as she would call it, about her..let us examine a few good things about her...one thing i love about amma is she ALWAYS ALWAYS speaks her mind...she never beats around the bush...of course sometimes she doesn't know how to control her temper because of that..but still its an admirable quality in her...and she has ENORMOUS patience...i mean considering the amount of abuses we have hurled at her...she NEEDS all that patience...She also never throws all those girly tantrums...in a lot of respects she is like one of the guys (K2 might threaten to hurl me out of central gang for this of course)...But i dont think any other girl in her place would have been able to gel with a group of guys so well...Hats off to u amma for being such a Sport...seriously..
Amma rarely feels bad...and when she does she kind of storms away...of course none of us apologize to her...OK i know that is not true...i always always send her an sms saying i am sorry if i went overboard...that has kind of become a routine now naa??But for all her storming off...she always comes back to our group the next day...not like she has a choice..no one else will tolerate her anyways...hehe...
Thankfully in the 4th year she had some proper GIRLS to hang out with in our group...she has been considerably happier ever since...although rumors of an alleged "LINK UP" have been doing the rounds...AHEM AHEM...i will leave this to be speculated upon...LOL..
Now she is off to the US for doing her MS...our explanation for why she is going there is that if she doesn't, she will probably be married off in a few years time...and she plays along with this explanation...i wonder if its true...hmmmmmm
Well AMMA....I of course wish you nothing but the best...I hope and pray that you be able to shed off your selfish-species-3/4th tag at least at Gatech...and i hope that at least in your wedding we won't have to see people wearing netted black shirts under maroon coloured embroidered coats...i mean that would be just TOO MUCH amma...
ALL THE BEST AMMA!!!!!Best wishes and Lots of Love for your Future...
P.S. Her name, by the way, is Hiral Satish Modi...or Mody...ok i don't know which...chuck...like we care anyways....
P.P.S Please learn by heart all Dadar starting trains if you want to become a member of central gang...though chances are you will still not be allowed...hehe...
