It was 29th July around 1.30 pm and I was chatting with one of my friend online. He started singing the birthday song and immediately I was surprised and asked him that it was still 29th and not 30th to wish me for my birthday. The next sentence was really wonderful. He said “Madam, you were born in India and in India it’s exactly 12 am now. So happy birthday “. It was very sweet of him. I don’t know if everybody feels this, I feel very happy on my birthday some kind of extra happiness keeps bursting inside my stomach. I started feeling this after I got his wishes. We continued to chat for some more time till it was 3 pm. Again he started singing birthday song and this time it was 12 am in Abu Dhabi the place where this friend of mine stays. I had nothing to say but just smiled and felt happy. I remained happy the whole evening. At 11 pm one of my friends came home with a cake. It was nice and we spoke for some time then I got a call from India. All my Infy friends were on the line. We kept speaking all nonsense for some time and they ended the call with the birthday song. I really felt special because in spite of thousands of kilometers of distance between us, they made me feel special and wished me so pleasantly.
At around 12 some more friends also arrived at my house with one more cake and an aquarium. I was so excited to see that I completely forgot everything else. I cut the cake, took some snaps, and decorated my face and hairs with cake. All my friends left after an hour. I cleaned up the place and slept around 1.30am. Did I tell you I got a call from my friend who had wished me according to two time zones! He again sang for me and this was according to US time zone. This was special and really different that I had the same person singing for me at three different time zones. In the morning I got up to find one more cake from another friend of mine. It was a birthday filled of cakes this time. I also spoke with my family members for some time and left to the school. Till now everything was fine and I felt that extra happiness which I feel during my birthdays.
After 1 pm I suddenly started to lose that feeling of extra happiness. Because it was 31th July in India and officially by birthday was over in India. Looks like even after seven months in United States I am still stuck in Indian time zone.
It might be ur best Birthday..away from home.
ReplyDeletehmmmm.. away from home and best do not go together :p
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