Skyward Fire

Two days ago, I celebrated another birthday. And I had one hell of a party thanks to my friends and family who are the best people I have ever known. I should have done this that day itself, but considering the lazy ass I really am, here it goes. There’s a list below of people who wished me for my birthday.

Those who wished on Facebook – Jazzie, Natasha, Shilpa, Audra, Disha, Avi, Manya, Ajita, Haza, Amjad, Sonia, Ritwik Bhai, Ninzy, Shobit, Vishwajit, Christine, Deepak, Aaron, Shirin, Ahana, Priyanka, Satwik, Joesph, Trisha and the friendly neighbourhood folk from Xbox Live.

Those who wished on Orkut – Vaibhav, Wasif, Kislay, Nicole, Shashwat, Soumalya, Preeti, Ritwik (Brutality) and Vivek.

Those who wished through email – G Krishnakumar and the very helpful folks from Sony Japan

Those who wished on Twitter – Deep, Reetesh, Shadez, Sathya, b50 and Harshad

Those who wished on Phone – Komal, Saba, Sana, Shruti (the very dear friend), Sohil, Chris, Ahana, Ninzy, Nathan, Ritwik, Sonia, Ahana, Ninzy, Priyanka, Vishal, Doc, Shawn, Shweta, Abhinav, Adrian, Eric and Priyanka

Those who wished on IM – Jenson and Nitesh

Those who showed up – Dad, Trisha, Sonika, Tara, Sree and more family folk.

And now, time for a few special mentions. First up, my mother, and obviously my dad, without whom I would never have been here in the first place. Thank you for the five odd cakes I cut last week. Then, there’s the lovely Komal, who had her birthday a day before mine. I was excited about her birthday more than I was about mine. How can I forget the very gorgeous twins – Sana, and Saba. Komal, Saba and Sana sang me the birthday song over the phone. You guys rule. It was amazing to talk to you.

Then there’s this one person who I expected to call me up but she didn’t – Disha, but you know I still love you very much. Then, Sonia gave me a Lorenzini shirt. The biggest surprise this year was the fact that my cousin Trisha flew in all the way from Dubai just for the heck of celebrating my birthday with me, and so did her sister Tara, from Mumbai, and they together gave me Fallout 3 for the PS3, a 12 month XBL Gold Subscription, and Call of Duty 5 for the X360. I also have to thank the lovely cousins for the beautiful dinner that evening, and the getting drunk part that followed. I got a Brioni gift card from Priyanka, and another Amazon gift card from Ahana. Natasha says her gift will come in a little delayed. Doc gave me the AC/DC’s special edition Black Ice DVD. Thanks to Abhinav, I now on Dead Space, Left 4 Dead and Red Alert 3. It’s not his fault though, if I pre-owned the last two. I can’t say I mind keeping two copies of the same game. And with all credits to la familia, I am richer by thousands.

Last, and certainly never ever the least, I must mention my fiancé Shruti. In spite of the disctance factor and the deal with her being all the way in London and me over here in India, you were so close to me all day long. Thank you for that. Thank you for pulling off karaeokes with me all day long. Thank you for the Star Wars boxset and those vintage issues of GDM I had been on a lookout for ages. Thank you, each one of you, for making the day so extraordinary in every other possible way.