Holi Hai
March 15th, 2006 by Archana
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You wake up early on that day with excitement… get all dressed up in one of your old clothes… sneak into your parents bedroom and apply colour on your parents face while they are still asleep…and wake them up by suddenly shouting ‘Happy Holi’ in their ears… you knock your neighbour’s door but they don’t open ‘coz your hands are all coloured… you go back home clean your hands n knock on everyone’s door… you trick them saying ‘mom sent these sweets’ … sneek in to your friends room slowly n shout ‘Happy Holi’ and colour their face… you wait on the stairs for your friends to gather… drag all the people out who are afraid of holi … throw water balloons filled with colour from your balcony on the people and hide immediately so that they don’t complain to your parents… your parents shout at you to go out and play ‘coz you are messing up the whole house with holi colours.
Holi is one such festival which i love a lot. When I was a kid, all my friends used to bring colours to the school ., esp on saturday ‘coz we had white uniform and at the end of the school we all used to play, get all coloured and at home I used to get scoldings from my mom. ‘Now who’s going to wash this uniform? ‘ n she would say ‘ you are not playing tomorrow’ . That night I wouldn’t eat anything n next morning me n my sister would wake up early and colour my parents faces n my grandma used to call us ‘ Breakfast ready’. { we all lived together} All the kids gathered on the stairs to have breakfast, play till noon , take a shower and get ready n sit in front of the T.V and wait for the ‘Mahabharat’ episode to 
start. But as years passed by people started to loose interest in playing holi. It was just me, my sis, cousins n friends… we still continued that spirit untill my 10th Board Exams started.. that was the first time i didn’t celebrate. And since then every year I used to curse the Board of Education for not letting me celebrate Holi. Even if i did, that lasted only for an hour ‘ coz i had to prepare for my exams!
I still remember, when we were kids ..we used to request our grandpa to come and play with us.. but he always used to refuse since he dosen’t like Holi.. he used to sit in the chair and watch us play..the only chance we had was when he gets into the house, we used to walk slowly behind him without making any noise and pour a bucket full of coloured water on his back and run like hell so that he wouldn’t catch us and hide somewhere behind the trees or get into the crowd. After taking shower, we were scared to step into our grandparents house. We used to ask our cousin to see what grandpa was doing.
It was fun and I still cherish those sweet memories.
Anyways, here’s me wishing you all.
Fun kabhi na ho low
May joy n laughter brighten you everyday.
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March 15th, 2006 at 7:32 am
ye!! archana is back to blogging and in full color
March 15th, 2006 at 8:20 am
March 15th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
Wow! lovely post!! Each experience has been beautifully explained! I could see it all happening.
Happy Holi To u!
rashmi.
March 15th, 2006 at 7:49 pm
I hope all the colours on your face go deep in to your lives.and make ur life all the more colorful…
Happy holi to archie behen and uday ( isko kya bolun
) and all other guys here !! 
March 16th, 2006 at 6:50 am
Happy Holi to you too Archie!!
I left playing Holi since like 10th std….last holi played was way back in 94…abhi mann nahi karta…just got bored of everything….
Lazy bone na
March 16th, 2006 at 4:34 pm
Hey Archie and Uday,
Happy holi to u guys!
Had a nice time, hope u too had a gr8 time.
March 16th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
Wish you both Archie and Uday..a very happy Holi!!
And what a lovely pics they are…
March 17th, 2006 at 6:02 pm
rashmi, taggy, z000nie, Het and Gangadhar!
..happy holi in person to every one of you 
!
thx for ur comments..
March 17th, 2006 at 8:33 pm
well happy holi to u too
brings back a lot of memories of the past couple of years of the holi days
okai then
tatatatat………
cya
Ash
March 18th, 2006 at 1:46 am
HAPPY HOLI !!! It seems you have enjoyed alot Great ! Nice Colours….
Hey Archie Please Help Me with this !!!!
I have setup wordpress on this website but the problem is when the new person registers for the website the user gets no email with login details.
I don’t know where am i making mistake…
Please guide me, and where do you think i have done mistake….
Please Help Me Out ! Thanks in Advance. I have seen your wordpress is working very fine and same help me to do sooo….
March 18th, 2006 at 3:47 am
HAPPY HOLI
grndparents ko bhi rang diya.. ha ha
u play holi in phoren land?
March 18th, 2006 at 5:02 am
@Ash- Thx for sharing ur experience with the article..glad u lyk it :)..Holi was a bash for me too growing up
@Sudeep -Absolutely!! I think it is so important to celebrate here so that our second generation gets a taste of what we are about
@Prasanna - sure would help out! check out the server on which you are hosting. Does it support xmail or zmail? Did you buy support for it? That is the most important point. Also, when you install, there is wp-config.php file which contains your email information. please double check it to see if it looks right.
March 18th, 2006 at 5:33 am
I have seen the wp_config.php file
I didn’t find the email address info… Please help to edit it properly.
I have CPanel Hosting When i click webmail - There are 3 menu’s
Neomail, Hordemail, squirrelmail
I don’t know wht is xmail or zmail?
Where can i check whether it supported it or not ???
Thank You !
March 18th, 2006 at 7:02 am
@prasanna - if u hv squirrelmail, that should do the job. not sure why it is not working.
March 18th, 2006 at 9:07 am
colorfull holi to you too even though it’s late….baby picture is cute
March 18th, 2006 at 9:31 pm
saw your blog on orkut….nice description of holi…