Tear Me This

Birds latest entry has a part where he goes on about a childhood snap of his. And how it brought tears in his eyes. To quote him - "...its just that I was too reckless with my childhood than I should’ve been & too observant of my post teens. I should have been more observant & accepted my childhood than my adulthood, like taking childhood seriously & spend adulthood as a child..."

This made me dig out some old snaps which I had scanned on my trip to India. The fact that Bird would cry if I found some more kid snaps of his was motivation enough. Also Abhi posting some of his kiddie snaps (and Hooters snaps!) was sentimental reason enough.

The first one that came up see-sawed me between the past and present. What we were, and what we have become. Never ever at that stage would I have thought this is where we would be.

From L-R (I'm using complete names in case one of them ever Googles himself)
Ashish Duggar, Amit Sthalekar, Ganesh V (sharing the same chair), Aditya Bakshi, Neelotpal Kundu, Moi, Dont know who, Priyadarshan Nadkarni (Bird), Siddharth Anbalahan and Kedar Bhide.

Random Note:
Who would believe Amit would end up being a DJ. Ganesh would end up in acting/modelling (read here) and that Kedar would fight the Kargil war. The rest of us in that snap are useless.

Same time, same place.

Random Note:
The idea of Brokeback Mountain started with Farro and Sthalu in the same chair. And Baywatch swimsuits were designed after looking at my shorts (Girls stop trying to zoom in).

L-R: Phani, Me and Siddharth Maskeri.
This is by far one of my favorite snaps.

Random Note:
The phrase 'thunder thighs' was coined after looking at my.... thighs!

The above is from a stage play.
The man on the left, with the stick and white/black hair is Me! The woman with the stick is Smita Rao. I think she played my wife. Miss Red Pants is Mekhala Samsi but the guy right in front, white shirt and blue jeans, flapping his hands to imitate the Backstreet Boys, is well, you guessed it - Bird!

And thats Mekhala Samsi (Mekhala, if you ever Google yourself - Big Hello to ya!) and Me, standing up on the apartment complex's electrical box. It had a huge sign which said - "DANGER - 240 V". Mom always told me not to go anywhere near it as a kid. This is proof that I did and when I head to India this December - I'll get smacked for it! Sorry Ma!

Good snaps! Good memories.

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Coffee while typing this post - $3.15
To make Bird cry - Priceless!!

Start crying Bird, start crying!