Sunaina

Overnight Santa ... He was clearly disappointing me big time.. As my cell ranged I heard him say at the other end " Hey Neelima .. Can't make it to Lab tonight for our planned experiment .. Going for the rock show tonite ..cya in a bit".. I looked with exasperation on phone screen ..his heavy Metallica ring tone had already started reverberating in my phone .. " this Metallica generation " I muttered to myself  and put it off.. Mike Henderson  my undergrad trainee at Merkert Chemistry Centre , Boston College though a likeable typical Amerikan  yo yo kind of rap chap but surely not my cup of tea as a trainee .. I muttered to myself shaking my head off....I was fast  loosing hope of ever getting him to seriously concentrate on our designed experiments and to take the lab work seriously::.. His lack of patience for bookish concepts and knowledge never failed to irk me and make me more and more hopeless.." Hey ! Chill lady .. We will make it happen.. ...

Dreams in a lazy dopahar.. We were three of us .sitting under the sardiyon ki bheeni dhoop in our college lawns... Gulmohar flowers dropping from the tree above  in our Laps...Young girls with loads of dreams and    plans dripping from our dreamy eyes.. With books sprawled in front of us..but minds floating away in the vast oceans of dreamy waves..I looked up at my bestie and we both laughed and together yelled " dream time..!! Ok let's dare to dream girls " I got up and added " so out girls .. Let's dream and let's share our dream".. My bestie turned to me " out with urs first ".. Lying on that warm grass under the sun that lazy afternoon with my dupatta over my face to protect my burning pink face from direct rays  of the sun I dreamily sang " All I want is a cosy home somewhere ..far away from the cold night air.. With a loving hubby and an adorable dog and that would be lovely just lovely "..🎶 My bestie burst out laughing at t...