The khutafale cloud

(the day before diwali weekend…)
“jate hain…bas ho gya…kal jate hain…” impulsive plans usually work out more often than planned ones. So I was thinking this time when people have agreed, we would finally go. Emotionally mind fucked as I am, I wanted a change and I was ready. Unfortunately, as time progressed the idea of a one day trip didn’t seem that interesting to some. The no. of people reduced to 7 after one realized he had his toefl.(that was funny). The number kept dropping and this time for a change I was not the one with the excuses. So in the end it was just me, maddy and rohit at maddys place at 11 o clock on Thursday night, convincing people to come.(we had gathered..i.e. if 3 people does count as a gathering..so that we would not have problems getting up and going early). That was not to be. When the number dropped to four and Brett cancelled, the plan was off. I was mumbling shit as I was sleepy and I kept saying something about going to palakkkad in kerela(ser don’t ask me why) while maddy and rohit contemplated on water kingdom. 2 south park episodes later, we were asleep.
Getting up is usually not a problem for me but I don’t know why at his place I sleep really well and that too for long hours. Chai, dosas and dal(courtesy: maddys mother). We lazed around at his place with the occasional “kya karne wale hain aaj?” murmurs and the expected “pata nahi” answers. Maddy went to cal gaurav and we watched coach carter till that time. 2 hours later, there were four of us on the lokhandwala market road, half pant-ed, plastic slipper-ed and conveniently forgotten to bathe. A laid back walk through the market in search of food, paunches stuck out, carefree strowl. Chicken Cheese Frankie and chocolate ball. Stomach full and we walked back to maddys (sounds like a restaurants name). Didn’t know why but felt good about the walk through lokhandwala. Carefree. We looked like a bunch of thirty year olds, groggy, unhealthy and careless. Back at maddy s place, we were still thinking of what to do when gaurav put up some animation humour. God that was funny! (Especially the frog prince and the gay from Canada! ) after that ended, we lazed around on madyys bed even more as gaurav persisted in his search to find something interesting on maddys computer. He found a movie called “perfume: story of a murderer” or something like that..now I had not seen the movie but I knew it was about a guy who discovers smell that is amazing or something close to that. Gaurav, knowledgeable that he is, patiently explained to us that the guy who is a murderer discovers a smell that results in a mass orgy of the people who smell it. He was determined to make us see the scene. No one objected, not because people wanted to see it but since uttering anything would require strength and we were determined not to spend that. As the scene went on, the mass orgy started. It was not very interesting but the incident in maddys room, which followed it, was. The door was closed but not locked. So as the scene unfolded, maddys mother entered the room with some clothes. I and rohit already had started laughing looking at gauravs face. Unnerved and determined not to make maddys mom suspicious of anything, he casually glided the progree bar of the movie to some other scene. And looked back at us, innocently. We were in splits and couldn’t control our laughter. He looked confused and looked back at the computer screen only to realize that the scene had a completely naked woman with the lead actor in an “oomphh” moment. Gauravs expression was worth it. As he prayed that maddys mom would not have seen that, he closed vlc player and tried to find some document on the comp to read. And it happened to be cloud computing! He shifted his glasses and started to read as if amazed by the concept, though he knew why we were laughing uncontrollably. As maddys mom was about to leave, he thought there was too much silence so he tried to put on some music. And it happened to be the Bacardi song. That was hilarious. “be what you want to be!”…we were on the floor as gaurav joined us with his straight expressions and his curses to fate. “sala 2 scene tha who movie mein jo thoda hatke tha…aur wohi 2 teri maa dekh li!”..thats gaurav for you btw.! That was really funny. We kept reciting the incident to ourselves and laughing over it again.
We left maddys place late in the evening and as I headed home walking, maddy joined me. We walked from lokhandwala to inorbit and finally took a rick till home.

(this post was meant to be understood by the people who were present at his place..the situation was funny. Also the significance of the title is that gauravs last name and cloud computing)