Visit to Kiran Kaka

Visit to Kiran Kaka!!!

 

Visiting anyone has always caused me upset stomach characterized with heavy nausea for food, and visiting someone always means you have to have food. Well I know this is a unique problem, but offcourse I am unique too ;). So most of the invitations are responded by denial; because no one can digest the fact of having visitors and letting them go without having food. But this was a different invitation; it came from someone very near and dear to Nabha – Krian Kaka.

 

So as soon as I knew that we were going to his place on Saturday, I started up with my preparations. Oh! Are you thinking about preparations on what to wear and what not to wear types??? No no no... My preparation is different... it’s more of mental preparation, like – oh come off it Bhartesh, everybody eats outside, everybody can eat in a group - to – human is a social animal, you have to socialize, eating is not that important always!!! What is important is meeting people... ok now take a deep breath and relax; everything is going to be alright. This has been what I go through almost every time when I have to visit someone and this has been going on since, say, 8-9 years now... aab aur kya dookhada soonaoo tumko!!!

 

Finally ‘the day’ came. Though it was a Saturday, I had my office (to compensate for the additional holiday given for Anant Chaturdashi) and my wifey had the clinic as usual. Usually I drop and pick her up on Saturdays but since I had my office my brother did that job. And yes there was also this funny incident that happened that day. I went with my brother to pick her up. On the way one of us (who – is not disclosed since that’s a secret for my confused wifey) called her up and said we are stuck in traffic and will be little late – which was true!!! Finally when we reached there, I switched my seat and went to back seat and bent down so as to hide myself from being visible. I wanted to give her a surprise (or rather scare her when she sits in the car – but surprise is what I have told her J). But at the same time wifey had different plans... she had told Laxmi and Dr Poonam that my hubby is coming and you can meet him today. Since I was hiding, all three of them didn’t notice me and they thought ‘well next time’!!! But when Nabha came to sit in the car she saw me and shouted back at Lax and Dr Poo, hey he is here, hiding behind the seat!!! And I came out with a face as if someone caught me doing something wrong. Well the seemingly exciting plan was a dud the next moment. “Kshanat hote sambhava sare kshanapurviche asambhav!!!”

 

Well, so we returned home discussing who the caller was!!! And it’s still a mystery!!! After coming back, I didn’t go back to office since I decided to take a half day off from work as I had to go to Kiran Kaka’s place. We relaxed for some time (which was very necessary for me) after having a late lunch. Finally it was the time to leave for the visit. I popped in few homeopathic pills, ate phakda (mouth freshener) did whatever I could to make myself (or rather my stomach) feel relaxed (<censored> even attended last minute natures call </censored>). With wifey in the navigator’s seat we started driving. With some help from pedestrians we reached our final destination.

 

As we passed the bungalow gate (I located the parking spot just ahead of the gate) we could see Kiran kaka and other family members waiting eagerly to welcome us. It really felt so nice!!! I parked the car and we entered their bungalow. We were welcomed in to the house and I settled down in to one corner of a sofa, next to the chair where kiran Kaka sat. Well though Nabha had assured me that she had already spoken to Krian Kaka and it was mutually agreed upon just “Tea” I still had butterflies in my stomach. As the time passed we started talking and discussing on few general topics. Since the road by which we had come was recently turned in to one way, we had to find another road to go back. Uday Kaka and Kiran Kaka helped us identify the best possible route. Then Kiran Kaka even drew a rough map from his place to a road Nabha knew (well my knowledge of roads and my skills in remembering them could be another topic for a blog so let it be left un-discussed here). Then was the time for eat-eat!!! But by this time with all the talking (and drinking water) I was feeling a bit relaxed. Looking at the menu made me feel more relaxed. There were apple cuts, cake and shev puri. Kaka and Fai had taken really good care to make me feel comfortable. Then within some time all the butterflies flew out of my stomach as more space was being made for the delicious food. I was now feeling very comfortable there, chatting with everyone and eating everything J... It was only because of Kakas and Fais that I became so comfortable so fast, and offcourse because of my wifey who was taking very good care of me. We were having a really nice time out there and suddenly it was time to leave!!! Nabha introduced me to all of the family members – Uday Kaka, Kiran Kaka, Sucheta Fai, Sunanada Fai and Sandhya Fai (I know this was the first step taken last but considering the situation this was found to be most fit). We bid adieu to all of them and started back on our return journey. The navigator this time was the map Kiran Kaka had drawn for us and wifey was doing a good job in reading it out for me.

 

We reached home, shared our experiences with everyone and that was the end to an exciting Saturday