Yeh Dil Maange More....

While emptying my mailbox today, I chanced upon seeing a mail titled “B’day Pics " . Owing to curiosity I opened the mail only to find photographs of a famous birthday party celebrated at my first job. Soon old memories came rushing back...Here I go into flash back...3yrs ago...

It was appraisal time that year. My teammates and I were in dumps and for all the hard work done that year; the chances of even a 1% raise appeared to be bleak. Financial crunch. Dire needs. Apparently bagging a good appraisal on top of my wish list. After racking our brains , eventually I came up with this dorky plan of celebrating our manager's birthday. Yes! Yes!! .. You are guessed it right. We actually thought of patao' ing our manager by celebrating her birthday so that she would be kind to us during the appraisal meeting. After much cajoling, my teammates finally agreed. Crazy. But true.

On that fateful day, we were all set to start the action! Cakes, Flowers, Confetti, Balloons, Gifts...what not? We hadn't left a stone unturned in our attempt to showcase the best of our event management skills. We wanted to show her that we were the only ones who cared for her unconditionally in the entire office . And yes! That did burn gargantuan holes in our wallets because it was that time when our salaries (which was a pittance) were nearly over with some month left :)

Deep in my heart I did feel that this was the heights of nautanki, but I was too busy with the arrangements to ponder. Me and my partners in crime were jubilant that we had finally made it to her favorites list. But fate had other plans. The photographs used in this post bear a silent testimony of that eventful day, which by the way didn't favor us very well. What injustice!!! Disheartened, but not discouraged.

Back now, reminisce of this incident simply brought a smile on my lips.