Was watching 'Rock On' after long time today and the climax; it really rocks man!!!
"Uske the jo sapne , wahi uske the apne , SINDBAD THE SAILOR!!!"
My own memory started reeling back to the time when the movie was newly released. One afternoon when we were having lunch in B7 FC Pune Ph1 , Infosys Technologies Ltd . Me , Smitha ,Rashmi , Akhi , Javed, Gaurav ( and not sure if anyone else was there, please do remind me ) .. Rash & Vivek had watched the movie over the weekend and of all things to talk, she came up with question why is it Sindbad the Sailor??? Gossh how did it matter? BANG!!! Guys had topic to pull her legs.
Akhi: Right, it should have been Popeye!!!
Gaurav : ..... Popeye the sailor man ...
(Gaurav managed to sing it to the tune of sindbad the sailor)
Akhi : Poooooooo
Roar of laughter.
Guys didn’t leave a leaf unturned in takings rash's case ; on how witty she is, the new gold adlabs , its cushion seats , free popcorn, everything was dragged in. our laughter volume had hit the roof by then.
But this was the usual scene on our lunch table. Of course the size had now reduced from 3 tables to 1. Some of our folks had quit Infy and others were onsite. But that never got our enthu down. Ours used to be the nosiest table in the whole food court. At times people used to give us looks. BUT!! WHO CARED??? We always had a topic to laugh on .Managers who claimed to have super natural powers, babes who over did their make ups, gossips, Infy policies, HR jokes, TV soaps, roomies chat, updates about friends sitting on other side of globe, Vivek-Rashmi after marriage jokes, pati patni and WOH (read Praveen) jokes, Javed and baddy court stories, mimicries, Smitha's before marriage jokes ;) :P, my own fights with Akhi ; the topics never seemed to end. And by chance if at all someday all the funny things in the world decided to hit the bottom of the sea, we would remember old jokes and laugh a new laugh.
HO HO HO!!!
We all being foodies lunch trips often went beyond campus to andhra mess or Tammna. At times they were even followed a small ice cream party in Infy lawns. It was like revisiting our childhoods again.
Not that all of us were going through best of life all through these years. But it was as if some observed protocol, no one ever discussed their problems on lunch tables. And probably that is what made the lunch times so enjoyable. And not just that, for me personally they made me go on in life for quite some time. My only motivation on such days used to be a small get together during lunch. That one hour instilled the feeling that everything would be well.
There was some magik in it !!!
