Surprising Surprise!!!!

Disclaimer: Read this at your leisure. The author cannot write short stories.

Surprising Surprise????? , If this is what you are thinking then you are right!!! I was actually surprised to know that someone planned a surprise for my birthday ( Hey hold on, read further, I am not that bad, that I do not deserve one!!).

About my birthday celebrations, almost all of my birthday’s during school went with mid-year exams and me distributing sweets to only those few in school who remembered it in spite of exams. Hey, there was an exception, my last year in the school (10th Std). That year, I had all my classmates sing Happy Birthday for me!!!. Thanks to Politicians (probably) because of whom the exams got postponed.

After that day, all of my birthdays have been almost normal even the latest one!!!!!! To make it even worst many people who wished me all these years forgot to wish me this year!!! They had to be reminded about my birthday by other friends of mine. For some great ones, I had to remind them, that too after taking about the weather for an hour. Actually, they thought I was blessed to this world on the next day!!!!

Then how did this surprise come up???? This came up almost a week after my birthday to prove that birthdays are sweet memories to be cherished no matter what happens on the day.


Thanks to MM and CC (not Crazy Curly), who had same spirits even days after my birthday to put up an eventful Birthday Surprise for me on Gandhi Jayanti!!! With the help of our friends' cum neighbours.

I had some plans until the afternoon of Gandhi Jayanti, as this day is National Holiday (Hopefully its stays the same in coming years in spite of Tharoor’s twitter debate) I had some preplanned meeting and without any hint of things happening behind me I returned home in the afternoon. Here I was greeted by my roommates who left home with a “Tit- for Tat” leaving me alone at home as I reached.

Thinking back I feel so dumb for not evening thinking why these people left me alone at home for almost 4 hours giving funny reasons, which I otherwise could have easily become suspicious. Maybe if it was on my birthday I could have, but I had already convinced myself that these people will make me cut the cake when I treat them, even if that treat be a month after my birthday. Ridiculous na…….. I know, I am that mean at times…… ;)


MM & CC left the place on my bike, about which they always cribbed!!!! MM and CC had some shopping and other plans for MM's long upcoming official trip; you can say that is what they said to me….

When they came back home, CC voluntarily asked, “Aren’t you ready for the evening walk, we supposed to go right?” I did not even doubt this unusual behaviour of CC. Normally she would have bluntly refused to come for a walk at 7 pm, after day long shopping.

After a long walk combined with Grocery shopping, we returned home, CC even managed to buy candles for my birthday cake, easy to fool me you see…. !!!

I rang the doorbell of the house, and the lights went OFF (that is what I thought, w/o even noticing there is light on at neighbour’s….). MM opened the door for us and
Yipeeeeeeeeeee!!!! There was my neighbour along with MM and there was cake at the centre of the hall with CANDLES on it…….. How did candles get there??? CC arranged for the store fellow to delivery the grocery home before we reached……..

This was a surprise I did not expect at all……Wait this is not the only one…

Anyways with the cake, there was a box and a note next to it, which was more tempting than the cake itself and got me curious…….. After cutting the cake I quickly opened the box for my gift like a little kid, and found WHAT? ……………..A Comb (Birthday Gift????).
A NOTE next to it was still waiting for my attention and half of which read “There is something for you………..” TREASURE HUNT, ha ha ha…….GIFT HUNT!!!!!!
Hurray thatzzz Fun……

I Cut the Cake and opened my gift, I found a comb with a note that said,
“There is something for you… Barack Obama will take you there”
I dug the shelf for the book “Dreams of my Father”, which seems to be lost…..
Thanks to next 'note' and a gift which fell down the shelf, that I wanted at any cost……
Looking at me, it said to me…”You are best at it”...
I am best at what? kept thinking, first best thing, no that’s not there….
But the second one was The Kitchen, where 3rd clue waited in the kitchen cupboard …
It said to me… “You are so obsessed with this place that you won’t let anyone stay in it for long”
I did not have to think at all on this….. I read it half and there I was with my 4th clue and a gift……
This one was also nice to me and said “You make _______ in it”
CAKE!!!!!! Microwave, instead of a cake, it gave me my gift and the next clue……
“You love spending most of your time there”, don’t think of any non-sense…..
It’s the idiot box at the corner there….
Idiot box gave the clue by playing the notes on the String of the “Guitar”
Guitar- The pride of our store room, none of the guitars gave me any clue……
People kept telling think out of the blue…….
Store Room having guitar is the clue…..
The clue in the Storeroom screams at me, “It’s too cold for you to get in”
I answered UTILITY, but how cold could it get? We are not in Finland yet!!!
It has to be the Refrigerator, I bet………..
A chilling clue warmly said “You end your day on it”,
My Homoeopathic hair fall Pills, I don’t end my day ON it….
Oh!!! My bed held a gift and a note towards me!!!!! And smiled…
“YEP!!!!!!!!..........!!!!!!! END OF YOUR JOURNEY.”


I unpacked the gift in a fast forward mode and found some BANGLES… Before I could say or react, MM said this is your gift. I did not want to show my disappointment of not finding any treasure at the end of hunt!!! There was hope that said, this not all of it, there is another Gift (not a hair band, hair clips, earrings, nail enamels etc which came along with the clues). I sat with all my small clue gifts thinking, what next???

Then CC told me to wash my hair which had eaten more Cake than I would have!!!! This time finally my battery started!!!!! There is gift along with my towel in the cupboard. I tried not to show my curiosity of knowing where's my gift, but I gave up and Gift was worth it!!!!!!

This was not the end of it!!!! I even found another note and a gift in my handbag (which I carry to work every day) couple of days after the Surprising Surprise!!!!!! Which said, “You Carry it with you every day”.
So sweet of MM & Neighbour who kept the note in the bag that it should have led me too!!!! I can never forget this one
Thanks, M, CC and crew………

MM- Mobile Maniac (Thanks to CC for this name).
CC- Candid Curly (Thanks to CC again for this name and the blog name- I could not find the better name myself)