Sigh...

All submissions done. Khallas. Feeneees.

Or as I love saying, that is the end of that!

So, as some know, I have been lying low for the past three days or so. It began with the back, and by the time my back was back to functioning normally, I realised that it had camouflaged one bigger illness. Dehydration. Caused due to the Mumbai heat, that has begun to make its presence felt, as it always does when people like me began to enjoy the so-called Mumbai winter; like a wife so jealous of her husband's cricket watching habits. Or whatever else.

So, the last two days have been spent in overcoming this dehydration problem. Amidst all of that the obvious villain has been college, which I have had to visit on four of the last five days. Which is 80% more than what my attendance was over the last two months. Add to that, today's excursions from Mahim to Parle, to Mahim, to Bandra and then back to Mahim, with a strong possibility of a Shivaji Park next up in the evening, and it just could mean more recovery time needed for me.

But the day was good. End of submissions was obviously a huge plus, and apart from that, I met up with two different entities, one by design, the other, as it so often happens in a place like Bandra. You end up bumping into people you very well know. That is what precisely happened.

The first set of friends I met were from Pagalguy, met one of them for the first time, and it was a nice little discussion on - what else - but cricket. But even before the three of us met, I managed to bump into a very old acquiantance of mine, after a gap of almost four years. She was a college junior, and belonged to the category 'f' of this. Anyways, that was for a very short period of about a month or so and then, moved onto next.

We have been in touch after that through the usual social networking sites, but, thats about it. Never met. And so, it was good to see her, and even better to hear that she had become a professor in our former college - TSEC - she looks and acts like one anyways. Incidentally, she was with her better half - or probably to complicate it a little, she was with someone, for whom she was the better half - and again, made for a nice viewing! The coincidence was that it was her birthday today, and this I remembered when I saw a bouquet in her hand. I also remembered that I had wished her on her birthday, five years back, never before or after that.

Nostalgia had stuck. As it has this habit of striking at places and times one least expects it to. I could see my college - TSEC, which is in Bandra too - sticking out its face in the background. The memories flashed through my mind like a Brett Lee delivery does past a hapless batsman. Today was my last submission at my current college, some years back, there was a day when I had had a final submission for this college too.

Time had flown. It had began like a river waves rustling down it's course, slowly and steadily, then meeting the ocean and then acquiring the pace and fervour to leave the river behind.

That had been the end of that.

Nostalgia is a good thing sometime.

P.S. Incidentally, I realised that I have completed 200 posts on this Blog. This is the 202nd one. Did not expect me to be that regular when I first started!