Me, Men and a failure at the attempt of being surprisingly nice and charming

Diwali!
That was when I paid a visit to the city of big dreams in our country...the business capital, the film capital and what not. I found Mumbai living upto my expectations by the word and I simply fell in love with the city even though I didn't have too many reasons for it.
About Mumbai and Diwali in a later post but this one's about how close I reached to demystifying the common womenfolk belief that guys are the most forgetful creatures to have walked on this planet and how far I ended up in doing it...(Reminds me of Sachin's recent string of 90+ scores but the failure to reach the 3 figure mark shouts out loud)...

Ok lets draw away the curtains...
I have this very wonderful friend of mine Nidhi who lives in Mumbai. Ever since we spent those 5 hours roaming around the Vienna airport and chatting along nonchalantly, we have become really good friends with a, the way she likes to put it and I agree to it, pretty good chemistry between the two of us.
So it all started after that meeting after which she went to Oslo and I to Tel Aviv and we had promised about bringing back a gift to each other from those respective places.
Nidhi likes to believe that all the problems in the world are because of "men"...the "species" are stupid...they dont know what love and care is and what not.
And I always try to prove to her that opinions can only be formed about individuals and not about "species" and I constantly make attempts at thwarting her myths.

We were supposed to meet each other after almost 5 months in my trip to Mumbai this Diwali (11/09/2007).
I knew she remembered about my gift and she would surely bring it and I also knew that she will not by any chance expect me to take her gift with me to Mumbai...Bingo! I thought I had something up my sleeve to pleasantly surprise her and impress her and may be, just may be making her believe that opinions really can only be about individuals! Yes I was extremely excited thinking about her possible reactions when she'd see me actually remembering to get the gift for a person who I have met only once in my life.
I woke up early from the loooooooong Diwali celebrations which went pretty much into the wee hours and I got ready to meet Nidhi! I took out the gift from my bag and kept it ready.
Whoa! I was going to surprise her and probably impress her too!
I had to take the Mumbai Local train as it is supposed to be the fastest means of travelling in Mumbai and so I did. I think there were 5 stations to cross before I was to reach my destination and by the time my train crossed the 2nd station......
Damn! Why do I feel I am forgetting something?
Shit...I forgot to carry it with me...how could I do that!
All the way from Tel Aviv to Bangalore to Mumbai and now how could I forget it in Mumbai!
Damn!
And hence I failed at my plans of once just once impressing her by completely outdoing the "species" she believes is stale.

Some other time, some other day...
The title of this blog is "Never Say die...", dont forget it! ;-)

By the way she's a lovely person and a gem of a friend...I feel blessed to have met her and known her.

Much love to you dear and yes one day I will prove it!