Magical Tipsy Toes

i remember that day when you told me you were pregnant. You were happy, excited and glowing. I remember that day. You walked into the office gleaming. Walked to my table and stood there fore 5mins before I realize you were there. You whispered, I’m pregnant…and you started laughing. That statement woke me up, Immediately. I remember when you told me you wanted a kid but you thought you and him weren’t ready.. I remember we having this conversation in a meeting room. Thats when we became friends..no more just work colleagues. You shared your stories, I shared mine in that meeting room..you wanted a kid so bad..i remember. You were due in March. It was a boy. I remember coming to work and asking you if the little rascal is moving yet. Everyday! I remember you weren’t the least bit irritated whenever i ask.

I remember today..you came to my table in tears..sobbing so bad. I was scared. I did not know why. I did not know what to do…you sat beside me at my table and you just cried. It was just the two of us cause it was lunch time..then.. You asked me to pray for you. That’s when i knew.. I became scared. Worried, panicky… I asked you if you needed me to call him..but he was away on business. He’s still on the plane..uncontactable. You kept sobbing. I could not console you enough. I am sorry. Mr Whitedog asked to me see you home..I went. I waited for while just in case. Kept thinking…million thoughts running in my head. Why? Why? Why? and i prayed. For you. For him. For little J***8

You called later. You sounded alot calmer. The chance of losing the little one is high. You broke down again.. Doctor said the next few days is crucial. Main thing is Rest. You managed to get him. He is on his way back home to you. Thank God! Then you said, “I want this child so so much, Kel, my little tadpole, but looks like God has other plans for my little angel, his little angel..we’ll just have to see I guess” I cried with you on the phone.

You had to rest..I had to go back to work… I said i will pray for you, I promise.

Don’t worry, I will remember…Always and everyday.

You know you gotta quit when:
Pssst…..which one out of the 40 is your fav?

1) work starts at 10.45am, you walk in at 12pm
2) work starts at 8.30am, you walk in at 8am and realise you are too early so you sit at
Starbucks and read papers and coffee till 10am
3) Start calling your own colleagues using the office phone and pretend to be a student
4) Surf New York sites over and over again during office hrs, till you know the add by heart
5) play good music on the comp and order toast with butter & sugar every 2hr interval
6) you know what time the toilets get cleaned
7) you take out your calendar and highlight the dates which you have already marked out for
Leave and you realise all the colors have been used already your colleagues are talking to you and you try to spell out the words in your head
9) the phone rings and you say “Institute of Mental Health, how may i help?”
10) you start singing “All by myself…dun wanna be all by myself….anymore..”
11) while walking to the labs, you pray that some chemicals explode and hit you
12) if no 11 doesn’t happen, you pretend it happened and shout ” AHHH….nooooo…..how
could you… its hot..somebody help” and run out of the building. then go have a cup of coffee
13) you are touchy about your stapler
14) you tie a string to your stapler and tie the stapler ard your wrist
15) you have a hidden pack of sticks at the back of the office..under the stone.
16) Act like you never knew it was under the stone and you go behind and go ” HEY!! look,
sticks!!! I found the treasure
17) Call your sis who is at school and go, “Hello, can i go toilet”
18) walking around the office and asking ” Where Sharkbait? Do you know Sharkbait?”
19) When someone ask “eh, who is Sharkbait”, you look at him blankly..and say, “who you
talking about man, you ok??”
20) take your cigs out and pretend you are smoking it…with the smoke circles all..
21) bring your swimming costume and go tell the boss, im going for a swim in the drain
22) if the drain is dry, pretend you are floating
23) go into the electricity room when somebody is looking for you
24) look at your calendar and plan your leave again, just to make sure you’ve fully utilized your
leave
25) you go up to the lab just to breathe in the chemicals
26) hide under your table and go….”Pssst” and then get up and ask colleagues, “Did you guys
hear that”
27) go to the cafe and ask them “So..how long you think this place will last?”
28) plan what you are going to have for lunch tomorrow and the day after, today
29) write down the plans you’ve made for the year
30) ans your hp with your office greeting
31) actually debate with your cousin on who is right, Gupta or Gabbeth on the office phone
32) look at ur phone every fricking 5 mins
33) office phone rings, the person ask for you, you say, “She dun live here anymore”
34) make paper clip earings
35) *laughs* put letterhead in the photocopier so that anybody who prints will end up printing
on letterhead. Then you exclaim ” WHO DID THIS???, this is not a nice thing do!!”
36) order milkshake and have it sent it to you at your secret place behind office
37) you finish the whole pack of sticks in half the day
38) realise you’ve actually bothered to have a bloody list
39) you deserve a marlboro break cause you’ve wasted brain power thinking too much for this
40) while having a break, think whether or not you’ve made any spelling mistakes in here

I went for an engagement party last night. One of IP’s friend was getting engaged after 1yr of courtship. (Mr & Ms Engaged) It was nice.. a really nice & sweet engagement. Music-good, drinks-good, ppl-good,dancing-good. Couple - extremely happy. Of course, we all just had to ask the guy how he proposed..And honestly it wasn’t the most romantic story neither was it amazing fantastic..but it was his story. His story for her. His story of how he realised he needed this girl in his life, and that was perfect.

So there we were, IP & Sharkbait..chilling and just laughing for the sake of laughing (we do that well) cause each time somebody came up to us and asked what we were at laughing we, we said nothing…Later on somebody had asked her (Ms Engaged) how do you know? how do you know that this is the one, that he is the one you wanna marry…she gave it some thought said, you just know..you feel it. In here, she touched her hear.. i heard and saw that, i had a million thoughts in my head…1yr.. 1 yr… i wondered if that was enough. To know a person. To love a person. To trust that person with your heart and whole life.
To tell the person, ‘here you go, this my life and my heart. I am gonna take this risk, a gamble that you will look after it for as long as i live…’ Were they really sure this was it? Or were just trying it out to see if they were ready? What if they realise its too late? What happends then? Will they still believe in “The One”? Or will they be jaded for the rest of their life and stop believing in the one? ok…ok…too many thoughts..but i really could not help myself.. i shld stop.

well, the band came on and of course, the Engaged Couple had to dance…a small bar..with alot of loud friends, silly laughter, strangers looking on..teasing the couple…friends shouting and laughing and teasing them majorly…band playing…and there they were, the Engaged couple dancing by themselves on the dance floor..she was flushed from all the drinks i suppose..and being happy, contented and in love.. laughing trying to hide her embarrassement…BUT he on the other hand… that look on his face….man..that look…like as though he was oblivious to it…all that noise, that laughter, the teasing, ppl..strangers looking on at them…all that did not matter to him…that look…one that i will never forget..he was looking at her..just her, nobody else..in fact nobody else mattered..everything else, surrounding had just vanished for that one moment..it was just two of them…there he was smiling to himself, watching her throw her head back in laughter at the teasing..swirling her ard..whole time, he was looking at her..and thats when i saw it…he was taking that same risk too..giving her his heart and life for safekeeping….

1yr..yes, 1yr is enough to fall in love with a person, to know that this is the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, enough to know that maybe this is the one..to say i want this person to be the one…i may get hurt..but i wanna take that chance with him/her..

After all…Love just Happens.. and it happened to them..

And I wish them enough..enough love and happiness to last a lifetime.