A Can of Thoughts: May 16th this year

Have been wanting to write this for about 15 days now. Thought better late than never!!!! :)

For all of you who did not know, I joined my current company on May 16th. So on this day, this year, I complete 7 years of my stint with the current company. That's out of the scope of this post. Coming back to the topic, what did I do for Shri's 33rd Bday????

The research began about 3 weeks before his bday. The internet gave ideas like

a) Give him a B'day card written in 33 languages

b) Give him love coupons

c) Do a party with 33 people

d) Make him feel like a kid and have a kid's party. (One of these years when I really can't bare his monkey business anymore, I may do this. Everyone who know him will know why)

e) Any regular gift would not be sufficient, would it??

I couldn't decide what to do. Then, I got so busy with .. you know what.... for a change.. work.
Then there was the chicken Pox. And on Monday, a week after we had been to the Sunday Soul Santhe and 2 days before Shri's Birthday, it struck to me that I had not planned anything. Then, I called up Ms. P from 'The little things - gifts' whom I had met at Soul Santhe. She promised me that she would deliver 'Customized Love Coupons' on the 15th if I could collect it from her.

I have to write about everything I have had to go through to get a gift that was different what I gave him previously. 15th evening was very cloudy so I decided to take an Auto to go to Ms P's house and it started raining. I have never been out in such heavy rains in an auto. Call it my luck, the driver's luck or the auto's luck, we just missed a falling tree. I could feel a few leaves touch my legs. :) The pedestrians were screaming 'You are lucky'. It took me a while to come out of that shock. I was completely wet by the time I reached Ms. P's house. My heartfelt gratitude to Ms. P and her mother who invited me to their house, mind you I had chicken pox, and served me hot coffee and also forced me to change my clothes.

Coming back to the gifts, I got the love coupons very well gift wrapped by Ms. P. Shri being Shri I didn't know what his reaction would be. So to be on the safer side, I bought a cake, T Shirt and a Bermuda shorts for the Chaddi Chikka. I really don't know if he liked it as there was no reaction from him at all.

Anyways, here are a few pictures from the day!!!!!

Chaddi chikka in his new clothes that were both one size smaller. :(