The 3 Musketeers

After a very different (and successful) post last month I am back this month to spread joy, laughter and happiness again in your life.

This month also, I am reenergizing my blog, this month I will introduce u to, not 1,not 2 but 3 best frenz of my life, shocked (I guess not), well there are many more shocks to come, so get ready for an exciting adventure(yet again ;))…….

Let’s start with a confession, as I joined coll, I dint have frenz who were girls, But by the help of my very best friend Jasmine, I now have the world’s 3 best frenz whom she (i.e jasmine) calls ‘The 3 musketeers’.(sometimes, I call them too ;))

So lemme introduce you to my 3 musketeers

Aathos – Nalini (I call her jinky)

Pothos – Nirmala (I call her nimmy)

Aramas – Anishath (I call her ani ;))

So how I came to know these 3??, here is the story,
Once upon a time there lived a guy, who was very shy to talk to girls, even though he wanted to make friendship with girls, he never did because he dint have that confidence, but an angel of a friend helped him out and he came to know ‘The 3 musketeers’. Well that’s it.






Well that isn’t the whole of it. As easy as it seems, it wasn’t that easy for me, so lemme introduce u in sequence how I gained friendship with the 3 of them.


#1 Nalini
Friendship with nalini began on a rather startling note, when I was in my 2nd year, I and my friend Ramesh talked about everything, things about each other’s life(typical college talk ;)), if you know what I mean, and in between he always used to say about nalini, he used to say that he used to call her every now and then, and talk to her and, she would talk till his currency got over, I used to laugh at him and tell “what do you guys talk about?”, he said “I dont speak, it’s her, she talks like a train, never stopping, but, talking with her is absolute joy, because you can forget all your worries talking to her”, I liked what he said, after that I used to exchange hi’s and bye’s with jinky, but never talked, or even if I did, it was very rare, the 1st time I seriously talked to nalini was outside a bakery, she was buying something with her mom, I was getting out of a cyber, she suddenly approached me and said “do you know when are the exams?” , I was startled, but I said “I donno”, she said “here take my number and if you get know, send me a message ok”, I hesitantly took the number and you won’t believe it, the only time I sent her a message was ‘the exam time table’.

Likewise my 2nd year ended, and I entered into my most memorable year of my life the final year of college, oh what an experience it was….

The start of the year, and we got to know that our classes had been shifted near the staff room, bcoz last year, we (the boys) had created hell for the lecturers, as our class was near to the organized mass (i.e the principal’s office), the lecturers thought we would make less noise and be less trouble, boy were they in for a surprise, you wont belive, that even me. One of the good natured ;) & silent boys in the class got enlisted in the ‘good boys turned bad’ category ;). I used to talk to Jinky but not much.


#2 Anishath
As a week passed I remember one day when a boring human resource class was going on, our ma’am was explaining about, how some people are smart and some people plain stupid, while she was explaining this she said:

“A stupid person can be anyone” at this moment I nudged a friend beside me to tell a girl’s name,(bcoz as you know girl’s can be stupid, sometimes ;)) and he called out loud “Anishath” (she is the smartest in our class) suddenly I felt a momentarily shock bcoz, everyone in the class including the lecturer had turned towards me. To my bad luck another guy sitting behind me called out saying “why thousif why did u call her name?” the lecturer was looking keenly towards me but I said “ma’am not me” I thought the matter was over. But when I saw towards anishath, she was looking at me angrily. I knew I was in trouble.

That moment (another bluff master moment :)) I will never forget bcoz, that little prank turned out to be the best thing in my life…

So as I was saying, she was angry, I had not even talked to her properly in two years, but as class ended she came darting towards me and said

“why did u say my name?”

I said “it wasn’t me, really”

She angrily said “I KNOW. IT WAS U”

The words hit me like bullets, I felt very sad, sad bcoz, I wanted to make friendship with her, and now I couldn’t confront her, bcoz I had blew it up, I dint talk with anyone that day, the guy who said ‘why thousif?’ Came to me and apologized. I said, “it was actually my bad, but you made it ‘look bad’.” He said it happens and went away, after that day anishath gave me cold eyes everytime she saw me,(you can’t blame her, can u??) I couldn’t bear this, I became even more sad, seeing this the guy who made me ‘look bad’, went to her and said, “it was not actually him that called out your name”, she asked then “who said it”, in hesitation he said “it was me”, he is a lil hyperactive and acts a lil crazy at times so she believed him, next day when I came to coll, she came to me and said:

“hey thousif, I am sorry, some guy called out my name and, I thought it was you”

This made me sad little more bcoz I had started it, still I felt good, it feels good when somebody tells sorry to you na..(I am not evil guys ;)), and actually it was not my fault, was it?? Anywayz,
I said “it’s ok, not your fault ;)”

She said “I am really sorry ok”

I said “its k it happens” (how evil of me na ;))

From that day I started saying the hi’s and bye’s to the two of them (i.e Jinky and Ani), and I thought, as things have gotten better, let’s get to know them a little better, so I started through studies, as I couldn’t understand a single word of cost accounting (oh, I hate accounts), I asked Ani to help me, she readily agreed and from that day I started talking with them.
As days passed by I got to know the final musketeer….


#3 Nirmala
Friendship with Nirmala was really easy, bcoz she is such a fun girl, Nimmy was a benchmate with ani and jinky, so as I often visited for study matters with ani, I used to say hi to her to, and likewise conversation started which initially bloomed to friendship, these 3 are close frenz with each other, so I dint have probs about meeting them one a time , I could meet the 3 at the same time. Couple of days passed by and ani’s b’day came, I really dint knew it was her b’day, it was a total surprise, she came and told me to “pick up a sweet”, I said “what for?” she said “it’s my b’day” I just wished her, I felt bad that I had not brought her anything, reason was bcoz I dint knew.

I usually prepare weeks before a frenz b’day what to buy as a gift?, what card to buy, but it was so sudden that I couldn’t do anything, I regret it to even this day that I couldn’t give her a gift,

As days passed by I got to know each of them better, at first I just went to talk to ani for studies. But as dayz passed by, I started to talk about different things, and it kept getting better, I started sharing my feelings with them, usually I am a very conservative type of guy(as you know), but I opened up with them, I donno why, but I did, and then I got know, what are the things they like, what are the things they don’t like, I started caring towards them, and they towards me.

My frenz who were boys were in a frenzy, bcoz I never used to talk with girls, now seeing me talk with 3 of them made them nervous and somewhat jealous, they used to bully me saying, “another girl has joined in our class”, but I dint care I was getting true friendship and I was loving each and every moment of it.

Even though I used to share my feelings with the three of them, the sharing of secrets was more with Jinky, somehow I used to share every detail with her, every problem, 1 call to her and till the currency got over we used to talk, I call her “The currency Eater” ;). She really talks guys, god, but really as ramesh had said earlier, it an absolute joy talking with her, and now too when I talk to her I forget all my worries

Days passed, and one day I saw anishath was visibly upset, I asked:

“What’s the matter?”

She said “nothing”

Nimmy said ‘there is something but this dumb girl won’t tell thousif”

I tried reasoning with her, tried to comfort her, but she wouldn’t listen, saying “no yaar nothing”, I tried hard, but I dint get to know what the problem was,

Later when I met her, I gave her some of my ‘GURU GYAN (tm)’, saying, “see you won’t tell me the problem, but whenever you feel sad, just, think of the times which make you happy the most”,

I asked her what makes her happy, she said “being with my brother, makes me happy”. I said “then think of the times when you had the most fun with your bro”; she thought for a couple of a minutes then smiled, I felt good at that moment, that I had brought a smile on her face.

With Nimmy as I said its really easy going, whenever I say something funny, she is always there giving me a hi fi, that’s the one quality I like about her, she is the first to say me good mrng, she is ‘the coolest’ in the group,

This continued and likewise our semester exams came, and we got down to studying, I will be always gr8ful to Anishath in this matter, bcoz I dint knew Sh** about costing, but she patiently sat with me and helped me out and in the exams I was the most confident writing costing, and as exams started there took another change in my life,

Before, i.e. in 1st and 2nd year I used to go alone, after exam got over each day, sometimes I used to go with frenz(i.e. guys), but this year that is last semester, I started to wait for these 3 and then go with them, this attracted everybody’s attention, bullying became worse, but it dint matter bcoz I was happy, actually even I was amused bcoz I had never walked with a girl before, but here I was walking with 3, but we were frenz and we liked each other’s company, so think any, what may, it never mattered.

Exams ended, holidays were damn boring without coll, but as coll started back, it just kept getting better, bcoz I now spent each and every moment in coll with the musketeers ;), our friendship became more intense and strong, we bonded well, and one day we got know that our results were out, mine was good as expected, I even surpassed ani’s score to my surprise, she was lil jealous about that he he..;), but the shock was that Jinky had flunked in one, she told she had written the paper extremely well but still it’s happened, she immediately put up for revaluation, but she remained sad that day, even cried pretty bad, I felt so sad seeing her that I cannot explain, she was not eating food also, I told her “plz don’t do like that, what will you gain of leaving food ?”, but she dint listen ,she dint eat properly for around 2 weeks, u know, I Nimmy and Anishath have gone through hell making her to eat. At last I guess the gods listened and made her understand, that it was not her fault and she started to eat, you don’t wanna know how much currency I have spent talking it out with nimmy, on ideas as to how to make her eat. But I must say, it was worth it :).

One moment that I will never forget, is when, one day when I got to coll, and I got to know that there was no class in the mrng 3 periods, I wanted to talk with the 3 but they had some work, so I dint meet them that day, I felt boring so I bunked the afternoon classes, and went home, I dint have any currency so I dint inform them. In the evng, Nimmy gave me a miss call, I called her back through my home phone, and said “whats the matter?”, she said “whats the matter with you dumbo?, why dint you visit classes in the afternoon?”

I said “nothing yaar, I felt bored so I bunked”

But this dint convine her, she kept asking “tell me really, whats the matter?, is there any prob?, is your health all rgt?,tell me yaar don’t hide anything..”

(Lemme tell you a fact, no guy or even other girls who are my frenz, have called me and asked why you dint come to coll today? If I am absent some day, in 3 years, really, no one has done it except, these 3, I am not boasting here but, I always ask my frenz what’s the reason for not visitng coll, if they don’t visit class even for one day),

Let’s get back, She was soooo caring you had to hear her, You can say it was another bluff master moment for me, Nimmy then gave the phone to Ani, she started scolding me more saying “why dint you inform me or the others saying you will be going?”, I was abt to say I had no currency, but she wouldn’t listen, she said “whatever be the matter, you should inform me every time, when you bunk classes,” she sounded like my nanny at that moment, (after that I have been informing her ;)), it felt so good to be cared ,I guess you know how it feels like right?

Even when my sister passed away, they provided me constant support, they called me daily when I dint visit coll, and kept in touch, I will never forget those moments, the reason for forgetting that pain to some extent have been these 3.i am really, really lucky for having them in my life.

They each have their own special quality:

With Nalini, it’s her way of caring, and being carefree, if u have seen ‘jaane tu ya jaane na’, jinky is like ‘Boms’ charecter. Yeah that explains her, but she is very caring and very sensitive, loves to make frenz, loves to smile, loves to make us all worry abt her, and always does her favorite hobby: TALKING NON STOP ;)

With Anishath, it changes, she too is caring, but she is more senisitive, worries more, but ‘her eyes’, God her eyes are the most beautiful, they are the most expressive eyes I have ever seen, and when you give her a surprise, her look in the eyes, god I love that look, and her smile matches those eyes, both are too good.and guess what, this girl listens to metallica, I have never met a girl who likes metal music, and loves Eminem. That’s the 1st thing that impressed me about Ani, cause i am a music freak too.

With Nimmy, as I said, its different, she is the silentest in our group, but when she speaks it always upto the point, each word she speaks are wrapped with care everytime, she the most caring in our group, eats less, and is also the thinnest in our group ;), I always say her learn something from me about eating ,(coz, when I am watching a film and all na, I am a hog ;))

Another incident I wanna tell you about, is: ‘The last day of coll’

There were no classes and I was hanging out with my guy frenz all day and when I returned to class after sometime the 3 weren’t there, I waited, and after sometime they came, but as they came I saw tears in their eyes, these 3 were crying like anything, the reason being, they were leaving their frenz, and couldn’t met them every day and Nimmy was crying the most, I gotta tell you I felt a little funny seeing that (Don’t kill me musketeers ;)), though I consoled them, and Ani said I can’t stay anymore I will go home, I knew why she told that, so I said “yeah its k but don’t cry, take care”, so she went away, and I with Nimmy and Jinky went and sat under a tree, here too Nimmy couldn’t hold back and they both started crying again, seeing this also made me num eyed, I had a little work in home that day, and if I had sat there any longer I too would have joined the ‘tearjerker club’, so I dint show my emotions, (I am a guy after all), I consoled them again and said, “I got some work I will go home”, Nimmy said “it’s ok take care”, I came home and I too cried, later in the evng jinky had sent me a SMS saying,

“plz don’t forget me, I will always miss you, take care,”

I was amused as I read that msg, later when Anisahth called me the other day I said her abt the msg, she asked “will you forget us?” I said “can you forget the best part of your life?, It’s like trying to live without air, can you live without air?”. I think you can guess what the answer was..
I have been very very happy after I made friendship with the musketeers ;), it has changed my life towards a better prospective, and I have loved living my life after that, they have been a constant source of support, constant source of fun and everything else which you expect from a friend.

The songs I wanna dedicate them are:

For Ani: Aankhen teri from Anwar

For Jinky: kabhi kabhi aditi (change it to nalini) from jaane tu ya jaane na

For Nimmy: jolly days from jolly days (it’s a kannada movie)


And for the 3 of them in total

Yeh dosti from sholay

Raktha sambandha gala (More than blood ties) from jolly days

True friend by Hannah Montana.

P.S
.....................This is for you Ani,Jinky,Nimmy,

So howz it ani?, I know, that you will be the 1st one to read the blog, hope I have included everything, I know there are many other things, but they are way too personal to share, so I dint, hey you guys, the gift that you gave me for my b’day was awesome, I liked it very much, I will always treasure your friendship, it has been the best thing in my life,(beside jasmine ;)), really you guys have thought me how to feel, how to care, how to live,

Nimmy, I will never forget your hi fi’s, Ani, I will never forget your eyes, and Jinky, I think you know what I wont forget…

In my life if god gave me a wish that will be fulfilled, I would ask him, to let me relive my every moment spent with you guys, you are so very special to me, I am teary eyed as I write this, hope I have been a good friend to you, I may find other frenz, but there will be none like you guys, you guys are the best part of my life, and you always and forever will be.

Best of luck for your future and May you be always happy, take care have a nice day.


So that’s it guys, next month I will write about the person who I adore the most, even more than jasmine sometimes (plz don’t kill me jasmine ;)), it will be much fun when you read it, I promise. So until then keep waiting……….. bye cya……….