Ragini - Cupcakes, Football and Maybe Love

Chapter 38 - Danny's Letter

****"Tel lene jaae woh."**  is equivalent to "he can go to hell", but it is not as dramatic as he can go to "hell", rather it literally means , "he can go and get oil", which sounds funny, but in Hindi , it sounds like "I do not care anymore about whatever the heck that person is going to do/is doing."

Mother Sauces- There are 5 Mother Sauces in French cooking. They are Hollandaise. Béchamel, Velouté, Espagnole and Sauce Tomat.

Hain = what 

RAGINI'S POV

After taking my bath, I decided to answer the Whatsapp messages and the emails that I had received. Greg had asked me in our personal chat if I was feeling jet-lagged while Aashna had asked me to bring a few items from here , back to London . I replied to their messages, and then decided to move on to the emails that I had received. After finishing up my job in that IT company, where Mr. Wang the Grumpy was my supervisor, I had applied to other part-time jobs. The one that I was aiming for was in our college itself, as a tutor. I loved teaching and also if I did get this job then it would save me lots of commute time. 

I clicked the email that I had received from my college . It was to inform me that my application for the teaching assistantship/tutoring job position had been accepted and that it would require 2 weeks of processing time. I looked through my other emails while glancing at my mom now and then. We were sitting in the same room, she- near the PC, while I was sitting on the bed with my laptop.

I saw her typing on the keyboard, sometimes having to press the key harder or twice because now the damn PC was so old, even its keyboard was not working properly.Mom had told me how sometimes the monitor would just freeze, and she would spend the next two minutes worried that all her work that she had typed in for the past 45 minutes would be lost. The were tonnes of problems with the PC, so much so even the repairing guy had grown tired of it.

"Leh , ho gaya hang , useless!"(Here we go, it has hanged now, useless!) She said frustrated.

 I placed my laptop aside and went near the PC. As soon as I reached the table, my mom exclaimed ,"Thik hoga! Leh! Kya , problem kya hai isse?"(Now it becomes okay!What , what is its problem?)

"Uhh....Maa, aap naya PC ya laptop le lo na ab !"(Uhh...Maa, buy a new PC or a laptop now !) I asked my Mom as I saw the screen go back to its original mode, with my Mom's work still being displayed on it.

"Nai, abhi nai lena mujhe. Kudh paise kamaungi , tab lungi. Abhi jab wahan , computer classes mein , main padhane lagungi na, tab salary milegi, usse main lungi mera laptop."(No, I do not want to buy now. When I will earn my own money, then I will buy. Now when I will start teaching at my computer classes, I will get salary, and from that I will buy a new laptop.) She explained to me , after which she started typing away.

I smiled hearing her answer. I went back to my bed and started working.

After a while my Mom exclaimed, "FINISH!" . I looked up from my laptop to see her hands raised in the sir like she had achieved a victory.

"Very good , Ma." I said to her.

"Ab main email kar dungi ise, phir thodi der Facebook kholungi." (Now I will email this, and then I will open up Facebook for a while.)she said giddily.

I chuckled seeing her all giggly and giddy .

Few moments passed and I heard her say again,"AE, woh tere friend ne, kya naam hai uska, ha! Danny ne koi letter bheja haina? De toh!"(Hey! That friend of yours, what is his name? Yes! Danny! He has sent a letter with you for me na, then give!)