| Bindaas Deal: Facts, Fiction & Features Deep Focus | | | | to my aid. I zoomed in to her kitchen and studied the |
| Zoom in, zoom out! | | | | difference between flour and baking powder (how to |
| Valentine’s Day is approaching and it’ll mark our | | | | differentiate man? both looked similar), and putting all |
| first anniversary. It’s been a year since I proposed | | | | that jazz together made that perfect chocolate truffle. |
| to Shanaya and she said ‘yes’! She didn’t | | | | Phew! Quite a task! |
| stand a chance of refusing anyway! After all, being | | | | What I couldn’t do in years, my Olympus Binoculars |
| neighbours for the last 15 years, I did know quite a lot | | | | helped me do in a month’s time. I watched and |
| about her likes and dislikes. My inspiration being the | | | | watched. The binoculars erased the distance between |
| blockbuster, Devdas, in which Shah Rukh, (and later his | | | | her and me (15 ft of painful distance between her |
| grandma) used binoculars to ‘bird-watch’ | | | | balcony and mine!) I learnt that she returned from |
| Aishwarya Rai. Funny, but true! Being a modest boy | | | | college around 5 p.m. She loved dogs (and hated cats). |
| who maintained a ‘safe’ distance from women, | | | | She loved wearing big silver danglers in her ears. |
| the binoculars were my only hope to get closer to | | | | My binoculars gave me a peek into the minutest of |
| gorgeous Paro …I mean gorgeous Shanaya. I bought | | | | details about her. From the number of plants in her |
| the Olympus Binoculars and set to watching my | | | | balcony to the number of soft-toys in her room. The |
| soon-to-be lady-love closely. Seemed like my | | | | subjects she studied, the way she twitched her nose |
| homework paid. I swayed Shanaya off her feet last | | | | and the cute dimple that fell on her left cheek while |
| Valentine’s with a bunch of bright yellow | | | | laughing. |
| sunflowers and a home-made chocolate truffle. | | | | Then came D-Day. I dressed up and prepared myself |
| I always found giving drop-dead red roses…the | | | | to confront her on her way to college. I adjusted the |
| long-stemmed ones, to beautiful girls, too clichéd | | | | field of view of my Olympus Binoculars. A pink figure |
| (roses to sab dete hain!). For an entire week before | | | | appeared and seemed to be walking closer and closer. |
| D-Day, I used to adjust the field range of my Olympus | | | | Suddenly it was right in front of me! (Thanks to the |
| Binoculars to watch Shanaya placing a bunch of bright | | | | near focus distance of my binoculars)I dashed out and |
| blooming sunflowers in the flower vase in her room. So | | | | landed straight on my knees in the middle of the road. |
| sunflowers it was. I was never a cook. Forget | | | | There stood Shanaya, looking stunning in her ‘taken |
| full-fledged cooking, I didn’t even know how to | | | | aback’ expression. |
| make tea! Once again, the Olympus Binoculars came | | | | |