Author: Kalyan (on 16th Dec)
Last evening for me, was as wild as it was for the earlier days in the week, which let me out of office only at 8:30 PM. By the time I stepped in Prasad, Srilu, Bindu and KS were already busy decorating the most badly maintained room in G2.
(No prizes for guessing it right to be our R{L}anga Rao’s room).
While all this was happening, Bunny and Hari were fighting like the warriors in the bull-fight arena stopping our dear Ranga from entering the house.
Epics claim that there are only 5 strong warriors - Bhima, Keechaka, Suyodhana, Saindhava and Jarasandha. This got disproved yesterday when the mighty warrior Ranga (pka RSP) could dismantle the defence of Hari-Bunny duo and could make his way into the home thru the balcony adjacent to the kitchen @ G2.
But, all his efforts went in vain when he was brutally sent back thru the same way by some of us.
The elite warrior had some wounds on his face and head while he was venturing all this. Before he got ready for a phase #2 attack, he was formally invited to enter the home which he did with a lot of valor and courage defending all the beatings from our dearest Bunny and Hari on his back, only to make me realize the second meaning of ‘A pat on the back’.
There after our Ranga tried to dominate the show at lot of instances and our defenders could successfully keep in him check and everything was done as per the whims and fancies of the group, other than the b-day boy’s !!
Unorthodoxically yesterday, it was the gift giving ceremony first, before the cake cut. Our Ranga after getting a lot of beatings for wrongly guessing the gift, finally opened the cuboidal box to show off a pair of (used) bathroom chappals to the community. You can find his cute face glowing in dignity and those moments were captured in a DigiCam for testimony.
The ‘actual’ gift was next to follow. This time it was a 3/4th metre long cylindrical structure packed in a silver colored gift paper.
Who says that one can become the master of one’s destiny ?? You would say "yes" to it after you know that our Ranga could wrongly guess the ‘actual’ gift too. He got some bumpsful by his beloved friends crew for not guessing his most cherished and coveted cricket bat and a ball. This pair was so attractive that our Ranga recollected all his childhood days when he used to dream if he were Sachin Tendulkar with such a pair of plastic bat and a noisy plastic ball in his hands.
Thanks to some critical genii in the group who studied the pulse of our Ranga exactly as it should be. Then came the cake cut ceremony. It’s a rare occasion that a 1 kg cake gets left out before an audience of around 8 ppl. Our crew was really relishing the other part of the fun program only to disgust the creamy choc cake. After getting some decoration done to his face, our Ranga participated in the most delightful event of the evening which anyone could guess.
He got very few feet kicking his bumps while he got some batfuls on his back. While the vendors are on a song, ‘the Actual gift’ came along. It was no more fun and he was this time gifted with a Super-Stroke BAS cricket bat.
Our crowd was little disappointed to find the ‘actual’ gift being liked and admired more than ‘the Actual gift’.
While all this was happening, our dear Tatayya (aka Ashok) was standing in silence enjoying the fun. His participation was short but yet sweet. I realized only then that we missed such a recipe in our multi-cuisine.
It was then, ppl started wishing him "Happy Birthdays" and all for the first time in the day. Yes, it was a grudge taken by the group on our Ranga for playing some silly tricks pretending as though he’s left for his native place the previous night.
(Clumsy I sound — did I ?? Ranga convinced everyone that he’ll be going to Nellore on 14th night.. and happened to call us that night to let us know that he’s at Hyd itself. Hence, no celebrations on 14th night and no greetings to him on 15th morning).
Soon after that, Srilu and Bindu had to make their way out to their office to catch a vehicle drop to their respective homes, while KS left a little earlier. Prasad did accompany Srilu and retired to home.
Then started the rush of telephone greetings to our Ranga. He was busy responding to SAP, Vandana, BabuKhan and many others.
Ranga was so very tired that he slept like a wild pig in his dirtily maintained but yet beautifully decorated room that night.
End of the Day !!