Happy Birthday Nu

My Nu' birthday happened on 01 Dec 07. He turned 48 - he of course keeps saying that there was an error in the date and that he feels and looks much younger :)

It was a lovely morning and for a change I awoke before day break to quietly write out his card and pluck 2 flowers from our plant, make two cups of tea and land up on him singing a soft "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU". We had a great time chatting and drinking chai (this was Frukis first ever BED-TEA!!) I gave him the 2 flowers Id plucked from his parents which he promptly put above his ears where he left them till he went in for his bath ... check out the pic :))

Once the kids got up we gave him the rest of his gifts - a Levis sweatshirt and Cannon Camera from me and a Levis T-shirt from Rosh n Rock - and of course cards from each of us. He also got a huge bouquet of flowers from PAMA at 12 in the night :) They also got him 2 pairs of formal trousers tailored at Raymonds. He is yet to receive them.

In the evening we got together with pals for a lovely dinner at a nearby restaurant called Tian... Fruki wore his new T-shirt gifted by the kiddos and I was all dolled up in a tunic and slacks... I looked good but would have looked better if I didnt have so many oodles of weight... hopefully my morning exercise routine will work some wonders soon!!?

We all had some yum food and I downed a happy Margherita :) and was thereafter feeling very happy Hic Hic ... Apart from our kids there was Sanchi as well and Rosh and she gabbed about this and that while Raunaq was sort of trying to be a part of the conversation but eventually by about 11PM got really crabby -- he was bored stiff and sleepy as hell and in his drowsiness almost hurt himself very badly by jamming his lil finger in the doorway of Cafe Coffee Day (we had dropped by there for some delicious dessert steaming brownies and icecream). So it was this dramatic moment when his hand was in the doorway and the door shut -- we were all watching it happen and were too away from him to do anything so we all screemed "Raunaq watch it, EEEEEKS, Oh God, Hey Bhagwan etc." Raunaq was of course too sleepy and irritated with all of us and and so his hand stayed put and the door swung towards his hand while we shouted ... He got more scared than hurt as the distance between the door and its frame was about a centimeter away to allow for a free swing ... PHEW!!?

Shortly after we quickly lapped up our dessert and zomed off home -- Rock reached his paw for me to kiss while we walked back from the car to the lift. Kiss given and arm in arm we talked of the unnecessary fuss and the seriousness of the narrow escape from the swinging door. He said sorry and we kissed and huggied and made up.

Fruki gets a lil disturbed when incidents like this happen and is uncertain as to how to react - YELL, ignore or just give a sarcastic comment like "Priya kuch bolo yaar nahin to hum problem mein aa jayenge" This is the usual situation but when there too many friends around he sort of has this very stressful expression on his brow and an artificial smile on his face, sort of holding up - Well he held up well and so the evening ended well!!

All in all I believe Frukicat had a happy beginning on the first day of his 49th year :)