There was a kiddo among the freshers, he joined Juno this July. Ya, a kiddo!! Ofcourse he is not really a kid, but that is what I used to call him. He is Shiv.
It was today I got Shiv a book, a classic to be precise. "The Tale Of Two Cities". I did not tell him I got a book for him. I just thought I'll give him when I leave for the day. He usually doesn't mail me, but today I got a mail from him an' the mail read, "I've got a book for you -- The Alchemist". SURPRISE!!! I responded," I too 've got one for you!!! :D"
But I was in an intention of gifting the book for him, while I wasn't clear about his. I jus went to his place and I gifted him the classic. As he gave me "The Alchemist", I was reluctant to pick it up..[34,000 Feet]* I resisted it and somehow I managed to get off from him without the book.
Then I felt bad and replied to the mail saying that, "There wasn't really any problem in accepting the book, but I'm leaving Hyderabad tomorrow and you may not get it back"
His reply was something worth mentioning, "May be we did not get enough time to get along with each other, but this book could be one perfect momento I could give you". Ya, he was right, his intentions were clear.
Then I said, "Its OK! Sign the book an' give it to me! I 'll accept it" I liked this guy already and this incident created a new dimension to our relationship.
A kinship which could be attributed to the books we exchanged. Whatelse do you call this but "A Bookish Kinship"??.
The second surprise!It was the previous day around 9PM @ Crosswords a big-book shop in CITI-Center, Banjara Hills, while I purchased "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", I saw a book called "Business, the ultimate resource". The book was besides the billing counter, when I was in the queue awaiting my turn. The book caught my sight just by its sheer appearance. Certainly Big enough to catch ones eyes.
I asked the storekeeper to get me the book just for a look. The moment I looked at it I knew this is the book I'm gonna need for my business. But I know, as I'm leaving Hyderabad once for all in a couple of days, carrying it would be a really tough nut to crack,,
its such a big book probably 1.5 times the biggest Dictionary you have ever seen
,, IMAGINE! So I thought I would either purchase it in Coimbatore or through Amazon and half-heartedly left the place. :(
"Enough of flash back".
Lets get back to today!
As I'm about to leave Juno the next day, my team was desperate to get me a gift which I would like, but the problem was they wanted to give me cash. Being a team governed by a very practical PL, Jsmtpd puts egos & formalities aside and does first things first while focusing on the results. Anyways they wanna present me something, why not cash? But I on the other hand, being an adamant, sentimental idiot,, couldn't settle for this. I felt that getting cash for a gift is nothing but a formality.
So the team deceided to buy out something for me! For me alone!!!
I said I want the book "Business-The ultimate resource". So you guys could get me that an' I sent them the Amazon link to the book.
That evening we(Thiyaga, Avinash, me and Sharath -- "A rare combo") visited Walden to purchase gifts for Kishore(My PL) for completing 5 years. As the purchase is done, we decided to get my gift too.
But "fortunately" that book wasn't there.
Why is it "fortunately"?? The answer follows.. As there 's no other way we decided to visit "Crosswords" in CITI-Center, the place where I saw the book to make the purchase. The real scene was here.
We got the book and the cashier said the cost of the book is 2000 INR, but I remember very well that there 's a discount on this book. Its not magic but the other day the one at the counter, who fetched the book for me said that this one costs 1600/-. But the cashier wasn't ready for the discount, he said what the computer says is final.
And what will the computer say,, it just said 2000/-.
Now its Thiyaga's turn. He boastfully snapped at the cashier,
"Get us a fresh copy then!"
Though the one right in front of us was as fresh as a new born. Inevitably store keeper ordered his attendant for a fresh piece. After all, the first of all works of a storekeeper is to bend to rubbish requests of mad customer like us, who demand a new book against a new book. He got the so called fresh copy. Nevertheless, this one is special,, neatly packed,, with a small yellow sticker on the top right of it, which read:
50% OFF
Original Price: Rs. 2000
Our Price: Rs. 999
Before the cashier could realise what has happened, we started celebrating with Hooooos & Heyyyyyys, cheering and creating a mess around that place like the craziest of monkeys the world has ever seen -- in a book shop of course. LOL :@
Poor fellow, what else can he do? He billed the book at 999/-. We walked away happily.
Despite the fact it was my last day at Hyderabad,, it was one the best days!!! It was this book I wished for and there were these guys who got it for me! So this incident attaches a new string for our relationship an' do remember it 's 'coz of a book and 'coz of a book after all. Have read this so far, now tell me,, should I change the status??
:D
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* I wrote this when left Hyderabad on 02nd Sep'08, was travelling in a SpiceJet flight, it was precisely at this moment the pilot announced we were probably 34,000 feet above sea level. LOL
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