The First Date

Its been almost 5 months now since I have written (I am not counting the last post as it wasn’t written by me). Probably coz neither did I feel like writing nor was there anything interesting to write. And I guess its after a very long time today that I am awake at 2 in the night. Well I guess I will start with some updates on the personal front:

The Good News: Cleared my cfa level 1 (yipppeee)…got promoted…now a Manager (yipppee – note-1 e less…hehe)

The Daily Stuff: Nothing but work….and the more I think abt my work the more I get confused…..i don’t know if I really wanna continue with what I m currently doing in the long term…n the sadder part is I don’t kno what is it that I exactly wanna do…..and I finally came to a temporary conclusion – STOP THINKING…..atleast for now….and other than work - have been watchin loads of movies lately – on pc, on tv (all weird movies, the latest being “AB BAS” (lol I guess only I cud hav seen dat), and occasionally on the big screen.

The Decision - decided to learn driving (finally!!!!!…..will pay the fees tmrw hopefully….n suggestions for a gud small car is always welcome)……….

And now let me continue with my story writing. Another short one..………….

The First Date (suggestions for a better title is welcome):

I was anxious, nervous, eager, excited, all at the same time. I was going to meet her for the first time after 1.5 years. It started with online chatting which moved on to sms ing, then to frequent calling and finally talking with each other every single day.

We had shared our snaps with each other after 6 months of chatting. Though it was a group snap, I was still able to identify her correctly. She looked the way I had imagined her to and I knew instantly she was the girl for me. And now after 1.5 years of knowing her, I expressed my intention to meet her for the umpteenth time, to let her know my feelings for her. I never wanted to express the same over the phone or on the net. Luckily she agreed to meet this time, though I never understood why she never agreed before. That’s what made me quite nervous thinking, ‘what if she didn’t share the same feelings as mine?’ Though I always had got the impression that she liked me equally yet I was not sure if she loved me.

We decided to meet at the Beach Café. Besides being close to her place, I thought it was also the most romantic place where I could propose her. I had already got a ring for her and rehearsed my lines as well. Infact my thoughts were racing ahead of me trying to figure out as to how I would convince my parents, when I looked at the time and realized I had to make a move.

I reached there 10 minutes before and just as I was searching for a good place to sit, I saw her already seated next to the window from where the beach was visible. She looked so beautiful in her red attire and I couldn’t stop staring at her when she caught my eye and waved at me. I went across to her and greeted her with a smile and a ‘hi’.
She replied back smilingly, “Hi. Seems like you were very eager to meet me. You are here well before time.”
Pulling up the chair, I simply said , “so now that explains why you reached even before me”
She: “I think I had told you I am meeting Swati here. She just left 2 minutes back”
Me: “Yeah right. So you should have asked her to wait. At least you could have introduced her to me”
She: “And why do you want to get introduced to her”
Me: “Well ur frend..my frend..”
She: “Ohh is it?,,, anyways…I guess if I m not wrong you have got those flowers for me”
Me: Oh yes ..sorry forgot abt it (handing across the flowers)…flowers for one of the prettiest gal I ve ever met”
She (blushing): Thanks for the compliment thou I think it was a lil bit exaggerated
Me: No. Indeed you are looking very beautiful, particularly when you are smiling. Infact I cant take my eyes off you.
She (continuing to smile, but taking her eyes off me) : hmm... That’s enuf compliments for me for the day. So bolo…what is it that u wanted to tell me which you din wanna say over phone?
Me: Come on…its not just about having something to say. I wanted to meet you. Have you never wanted to meet me?
She: Well its not that…..just that…
Me: You were scared of me?
She: excuse me? Why do you say that?
Me: Because….(laughing) i can see a stick next to your chair….for your safety, is it? Hehe
She: hmm…well that…
Me: ok anyways,…..now coming to what I wanted to say….(it suddenly occurred to me that it would be better if I took her to the beach and gifted her the ring there)….hey temme first, r u hungry?
She: well not really…I jus had a sandwich wen I was wit Swati, but u may order sumthing for urself….
Me: well even I m not hungry….lets go to the beach then…I wanna show u sumthing…
She: whats it? U can show me here….
Me: Nooo….lets go over there….and saying that I got up from my seat and prompted her to….
And then, I was shell shocked to see her reaching out to the walking stick and as she began to stand up, I realized her left leg was paralysed.
Seeing the shocked look on my face, she started, “Well this is sumthing which I had not told you, but always wanted to….”
“So that is why you never wanted to meet me, isn’t it? And I thought I knew everything about you”…..
“Well…I thought you would…it had happened when….”
“Its ok….you don’t have to explain.” I thought I already knew why she never told this though I could nt still believe it…
After 2 minutes of silence, she said “Come lets go to the beach”……
And now I wasn’t too sure if I could still stand by what I had decided….I thought I really loved her, but there was a practical guy inside me who said I needed time to think over this. My thoughts were interrupted when she repeated, “Shall we go….the beach?”
I just din know wat shud I say. I jus glanced at my watch and said, ‘Well , I jus remember I had to go sumwhere. I m sorry I have to rush…will call you later”….Trying to hide her disappointment, she jus smiled and said bye….I couldn’t look at her face when leaving. I just couldn’t dare to………

And on my way back, the thoughts that I had on my way here was jus flashing before me. Holding the ring tightly, I jus thought to myself that it was now no longer abt convincing my parents. Infact even before wanting to know her feelings, now I first had to convince myself and I wasn’t too sure if I could do that……….

Its only Words -2 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Please Read this after reading Its Only Words!!!!!!!! post below)

(this one is not written by viju)

Me: Heylo heylo
She: How are how are?
Me: Gud Gud….wassup?
She: Nothing much
Me: Read the blog?
She: Hmmm … very sweet, but not all is true… u din succeed in makin an April fool outta me
Me: Yea yea u did catch me early!
She: So I was not wrong wen I said you wanted to say something haan?
Me: Ummm for u to guess…
She: oh come on bol na!
Me: kya, kya bolun?
She: Wat did u have to say?
Me: Nahhh … nothing important
(in the background, song hoshwalon ko khabar kya.. with lines goin… hum labon se keh na paaye unse haal –e – kabhi …)
She: Nice song na.. I love jagjit singh
Me: I don like him
She: hmmm see I diverted as usual…u’re not gonna temme are u!
Me: What?
She: forget it, bye (disconnects without saying a bye)
Me (smses) what hapd y did u disconnect
She: (smses) u throwin a lot of attitude
Me: calls again… ok you think I wanted to say something dat night? What wud it b then
She: (smiles devilishly) I donno….mebbe u like me (says in a matter of fact manner)
Me: (smiles) says who…
She: your blog.. n “the comments”
Me: u believe in them, I thought you & I had already laughed them away.
She: ummm but u are still not telling me.. acha ok listen mom’s callin me… talk to u in a while and then you better stop beating around the bush.. n yea even I have to say something now bye take care (disconnects)
Me: hey wat…ok …bye

All this while I thought mebbe only I wanted to tell sumthing N now I was curious to know wat did she have to say.

Its Only Words!!!!!!!

Time: 2.00 a.m

Me: Heylo heylo
She: How are how are?
Me: Gud Gud….wassup?
She: Nothing…getting ready to sleep…how about you?
Me: Same here…so how was the day?
She: was gud…how abt you?
Me: Yea it was gud…so what did you do?
She: Started with….and then…..well pretty much that…how abt you?
Me: got up at….and then…..and now abt to sleep..
She: hmm…ok then…
Me: u wanna hang up??
She: u said u are going off to sleep
Me: ok (long pause) bye then…good night…
She: u wanted to say something?
Me: No why?
She: no..i just thought u wanted to say something…
Me: r u expecting me to say something?
She: no
Me: or r u wanting to hear anything specific?
She: no, nothing
Me: hmmm…well then I don’t have anything to say…
She: alright then…bye gn sd tc…
Me: hey on second thoughts mebbe I did want to say something
She: yes?
Me: u think I shud say this?
She: sure…go ahead..
Me: hey but u gotta promise u wont feel bad or something
She: ofcourse not
Me: And that you will still continue talking to me…and at odd hours as well
She: don’t irritate me now….i m feeling very sleepy…
Me: ok…just wanted to say..
She: yea?
Me: Happy April Fools day
She: funny…bye gn tc
Me: ok bye gn…..
She: u haven’t yet kept the phone..
Me: I always wait for you to hang up first.
She: ok bye (disconnects)

I still don’t know if there was something that I wanted to say that night. Though I sometimes do feel that she is not “just another friend” to me, yet its also true that I don’t like her beyond that, atleast not as of now. Guess there are few relationships which cannot be described in 1 word. This is probably one of them.

Hum Kis Gali Jaa Rahe hai…………………

March 11, 2009 :

“Hum Kis Gali Jaa Rahe hai
Apna Koi Thikana Nahi”
Was jus lissenin to da song and I guess da first 2 lines jus summed up precisely my current frame of mind……

Its been a while since I last wrote the story and after that have seen atleast 3-4 friends writing stories…but hey I started it (I luv to take credits, don’t i?)…so guess after reading all of that dint feel like writing anymore stories, atleast for now or to put in other words couldn’t think of anything better to frame one (thou I guess I wud luv to write sumthin comic but too difficult…lemme see if I can come up with 1 some tym later). Anyways just thought that the blog was losin a personal touch amidst all the reviews and stories…And now that m not at all feelin sleepy, hav decided to kill tym by updating it with sum stuff happenin on the personal front ….

Oops, but thers nothing happening there!!!!!!!!! I call it the “Wats Happenin? Nothin Much” syndrome….well can probably write an update on the “Dusvidaniyan” topic I had written exactly 2 months back…..

The only progress has been in terms of enrolment for CFA level 1….finally decided to give a crack at it…I may still be unsure of its benefits in terms of what I m currently doing…but more importantly atleast for the next 3 months I have sumthin to work towards…for a change I have a goal for myself (toh abhi ke liye humein apna thikana pata hai) which is to clear the level 1 (hey pls do pray for me :-) )…..And have atleast started with my studies, thou not much but a start nonetheless, thanks to the bak to bak holidays….For a change decided to giv movies a backseat…ofcourse with stuff like 13B and Dhoondte reh jaooge, it aint that difficult either!!!!!

But ya thanks to the enrolment, hav decided to postpone my digicam purchase with the new target date being prior to going to Nepal (that’s my centre for CFA exam)…And ya will also have to postpone my weight loss deadline to April end (have been hogging too much n gymming has gone for a toss…lollllll) ………

And now am too bored… wat a boring lyf (:-) :-) :-))…..cant even write 1 page on the interesting happenings in my life (is it the same with every1????)….

Changing the topic, have been observing quite a few interesting taglines (difficult to find even 1 person on gtalk without a tagline), some of which I have liked….so jus writin them down from whatever I can remember:

“I try to lose weight, but it keeps finding me...”

“There Are Three Kinds of People - Those Who Can Count and Those Who Can't"

“A chocolate bar in each hand is what i call a balanced diet!!!!!”

“Save Earth!!! That’s the only planet which has chocolates”

“Whenever you feel like working, sit down for a while until that feeling goes away.”

“I like work. I can sit and admire it for hours…”

“Some people put so much thought into their taglines!!!!!”

And ending on a serious note:

Love is giving someone the ability to destroy you while trusting them not to…..

Its 2.30 a.m now and gotta try and sleep….have to reach office on tym else wil hav to see a mail on “Office timings” from boss….Oh God!!! Pls help….n yea as far as office lyf is concerned …waiting for the Inspection to get over…Gosh I can actually write a post on the Event Called RBI Inspection…its jus been crazy…chao….bye for now…will probably have sumthin interesting to write next tym….

The Perfect Robbery

This is something I have been thinking of doing for a while…writing short stories. After Apeksha shared her story with me, another friend of mine had expressed her willingness to do a story with me and I was more than ready. And this one was to have a happy ending. Though she started with writing (and very well I must say), I guess she got a little too busy with her life and the story never worked out. Since then, I have been thinking of writing some short stories.....no reality stuff, just my imagination. But never got the time and opportunity to sit through and think of something. Today turned out to be the perfect day to start with it. Somebody was to come with me for a movie, but she had to drop out due to some reasons at the last moment and I decided to devote my time to write this…My first attempt at writing a story. Pls lemme know how this goes…….

The Perfect Robbery:

“So are we going ahead with this?” questioned Jack.
“Why the question at this point of time? You want to back out?” I responded.
“Nopes. But I was just wondering. Do we have to include Jenny in this? I don’t trust her 1 bit”
“Don’t worry about her. She loves me and will stand by me”
“Well, in that case, I would insist lets include Julie as well”
“You know we cant take that chance. Jenny and Julie cant see each other eye to eye. And moreover,her brother is in the police”
“Don’t worry about her. She loves me, as much as she hates her brother, and will stand by me”
He continued “Anyways we need 4 people to execute the plan. And she is perfect for this”
I could sense an aggression in his voice and I knew this time he wouldn’t listen to me and if I refused to side along with him, he might just back out.
“Well, if you insist. So we 4 meet tonight for the final discussion and our last supper together” Saying that, I headed towards Jenny’s place.
Jenny opened the door trying hard to keep herself awake after a long night. She looked so dazzling in her white night gown with her long hair falling over her shoulders. I knew I was doing all this just for her. Though its been only couple of months since we met, I knew I could even go to the end of the world just to see her smile. I kissed her cheek and stepped in.
As she was preparing tea for me, I was searching for the appropriate words to update her with the change in plans.
“Honey, I need to tell you something. There is a small change in our plan. Jack wants Julie to be a part of it”
“Joe!!” she screamed, “have u gone crazy? Her brother is an inspector. And he is always on the look out to nab you. And you know I just cant stand that bitch.”
“I understand all that dear, but we cannot do this without Jack and if Julie is not a part of this then even Jack wont be”
“Well Joe, I just know we cant trust her and we need to have an alternate plan in place, just in case….”
“Hmm…we will think through this. Now get some sleep. We will be meeting them at the camp tonight for the final discussion before we execute the biggest robbery in town”

I had planned it meticulously taking care of even the finest of the details as I laid out the final plan in front of all,
“At sharp 12.30 p.m, 1 guard would go out for lunch. Jenny will engage into a conversation with the only guard present there and keep him distracted while I and Jack will slip inside so that the guard never recognizes us. Jack will get into the control room where everybody would be out for lunch and deactivate the systems. After that, he will come to the lobby and after going across few antiques, will drop down unconscious. The few visitors coming to the place on a Tuesday afternoon would rush to help him and I will slide in the duplicate jewels in the box and steal the real ones, hand it over to Jenny who will move out and towards the car in which Julie would be waiting for her. I will rush to Jack and under the pretext of taking him to hospital, will get him into the car and from there all 4 of us take off. We will sell the jewels, divide the proceeds equally and by the time the theft is discovered we would be far away from this place and maybe from each other as well.We would be millionaires!!!!can u imagine that. But just keep in mind if anybody tries to double cross then all of us would be in trouble including the one who tries to backstab”. As I was saying this, mine and Jenny’s gaze went straight towards Julie who was quick to spot it and retorted, “You guys can trust me”. And we left the camp.

“But bro, you have to promise me, Jack wont get into trouble because of this” said Julie
“Don’t worry kid sis, you just play along their plan, I will take care of the rest- Jack and the money” said Inspector John holding his gun tight.

I crashed into bed as soon as I reached back home but I couldn’t sleep. I kept dreaming about me and Jenny in an island far away in each others arms. All our problems would come to an end tomorrow and we would start our lives afresh. All that we had to do was stick to our plans.

It was a big day and I was confident the plan would be executed successfully. I trusted Jack and Jenny to carry it through but was a little concerned about Julie.
The clock struck 12.30 and things started moving as planned. I handed the jewels to Jenny and rushed towards Jack. Jenny walked out and then all of a sudden instead of getting into Julies car, she jumped into a speeding jeep which stopped for second and then just took off. And from nowhere came 2 policemen who handcuffed me and Jack.

After traveling a safe distance, the jeep driver took off his police cap, smiled at Jenny and gave her a long kiss. “ I had tipped off couple of my colleagues. Jack and Joe would be arrested under suspicion and once it is verified that the jewels lying in there are duplicate, they will file a case against them and then a trial. The police might not be able to prove them guilty depending on evidences but we will have sufficient time to escape with all the money and they would never be able to reach us.”
“And what about Julie?”
“I did not want to cheat her, but she was getting a little too close to Jack which would have spoiled our plans. I am sure she will be alright and will forgive her brother”
“I love You and the devilish grin on your face” said Jenny kissing him again.

In the jail,
“Joe what do we do now? We have been cheated. We will have to suffer in the jail for the good part of rest of our lives.”
“Why do we have to be in jail? What crime have we committed?” I smiled.
“Oh nothing much….we just stole jewels and replaced it with duplicate stuff at the place from where we got arrested. I guess that isn’t a big enough crime for you”
I continued smiling “Have we?”
"You mean to say......but.....how did you....?"
"Well, Jenny happened to warn me that Inspector John was looking to nab me which was for an earlier case which only I and John knew about and I had always hidden it from her..."

“Sorry madam, these jewels are fake. I cant pay you more than 100 bucks for these.”
Jenny and John looked at each other in despair and disbelief!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dev D review - Emosanal Attyachar – not for the faint hearted (A):

The Background:
Nopes, writing this review was not at all there on my “to blog” list 5 mins back. Was having a conversation on the recently seen movies with a frend when she mentioned that she was writing something and I said I am yet to finish writing abt my panchgani trip, jus too bored these days to write abt anything and as an afterthought jus said that mebbe I shud write a review on dev d ..that wil get me all excited and she responded sayin that will excite everyone…n I decided to give it a shot….n a statutory warning before you go ahead…Read it at your own risk….

The Rating:
Apparently the movie had got great reviews, 5 stars which obviously meant I couldn’t miss the movie. And I have always considered Abhay Deol to be a good actor…so decided to go for it and experience the modern take on Dev D by Anurag Kashyap.

The Movie:
The basic plot sticks to the story of Devdas, with extra adult content added...So the movie has a bunch of despos who are too horny waitin to get into the bed with any1 he/she can possibly lay hands (other body parts included) on…
Dev/ Paro track:
The movie starts with a 5 min flashback and then the dirty talk between Dev and Paro with dialogues like:
Dev: Do you touch yourself? And
Dev: Tumhari ek tasveer bhejo
Paro: Hai toh tumhare paas
Dev: Bina kapdon ke…..well that pretty much sets up the tone for the entire movie…
So after seein Paros nude pic (the face loses its importance here…whoever said gud luks are important??), dev decides to come back to India, basically to have sex with Paro which is evident from the fact that as soon as he sees her, instead of starting with a hi-hello, dev tries to get all over her, but the scene gets interrupted with the entrance of Paro’s dad ..…And if you thought only Dev was horny, wait a minute…Paro packs a punch too…rather much more than a punch as explained below: …
Paro: Mera Dev aa gaya hai. Mujhe tere kamre ki chaavi de
Sunil (who is sum random naukar) : Paro, main tum se pyar karta hoon
Paro: Maine tujhe kabhi mana kiya hai kya kuch karne se…waise tu kuch kar bhi nahi sakta…Nahi chahiye teri chaavi…
All the while there is some wedding happening in the background…though I couldn’t really figure out whose wedding was it, my best guess was it was Dev’s brother’s. And in the wedding you come across another despo, Rasika (the only decent lukin chick in the movie) who is awestruck by the fact that Dev is from London where she intends to go and then takes Dev to car from where they go to a Stable to have sex, but Dev stops after smooching…though in the entire context of the movie, I couldn’t understand y did he stop…anyways he returns to the wedding and overhears Sunil (the naukar) talking dirty abt Paro…Dev goes to him and he tells Dev abt Paros extraordinary abilities in bed “ Maa-kasam, palang tod deti hai”. Dev gets up and smashes a bottle onto his head…
Meanwhile our Ms hornie, denied a key by Sunil, manages to take a mattress from her house carryin it on a bicycle all the way to the green lush fields where she sets it up and calls dev there (and the audience keep wondering y the heck did she need a key in the first place)…And as soon as Dev arrives, our heroine topples him over WWF style , removes his clothes when Dev remarks “ Wahan se haath nikaal”, and gets up, calls her a slut, slaps her and then walks out….Dev decides he doesn’t want to marry his Paro and Paro decides to marry a guy named Bhuvan (Rasika s Brother and a father of 2 kids) who had got horny when he saw Paro in the wedding…And in between al this, Dev has sex with Rasika….And then Paro-Bhuvan marriage is highlighted by Paros dance and the song Emosanal Attyachar which again is highlighted by the lyrics “Bol bol why did u ditch me whore?” No clue as to what was this song doin during the wedding…Anyways moving ahead, Paro gets married and Dev takes to drinking….
Now for Chanda’s track:
Lenne (I guess her name thou not sure) is a school gal who is goin around with some random guy who takes her to a room, shoots sum scenes and sends across to every1 via MMS (basically the MMS scandal)…Post this the school gals life is ruined and so is her family’s….Her parents take her to some remote place and as she is just about to step out of her house for a walk,her parents ask her to go in and she retorts “I am just goin out for a walk. I am not goin to suck every c**k that comes my way” And u get a glimpse of wat Lennes track is goin to be…Her parents force her inside when her Dad asks," how could u do that…I have seen that video" and she retaliates, “How could you see that video?” ..its too much for her dad and he shoots himself…And quite expectedly she ends up being a prostitute and takes the name Chanda….Till here the movie is tolerable to say the least, but beyond this u r jus waiting for the movie to end….
Dev ends up at Chandas place on 1 fine night when he asks “how old are you” and she responds “old enough to get into bed with you” then some chemistry (add physics and biology as well) develops between them with scenes like them eating momos at a dhaba, jumping into a swimming pool in the middle of a night, etc etc…also add havin cocaine together,,,,And in between all that, there is also a scene where Dev calls up Paro and asks her to come and meet him and she lands up at his house in the middle of the night and randomly starts cleaning his room and sits down to wash his clothes..Audience is just left wondering “wat in the world is happening…atleast if they would have shown Rin or Vim bar we would have understood it was an advertising gimmick,,but alas it wasn’t even that!!!!!” Dev tries to have sex with Paro and for the first tym in the movie, our miss hornie refuses and throws in sum dialogues (don recollect exact words but they were on similar lines as above)…wow!!! Ethics!!!!!!!!!!there sure was a lot of that in the movie…
But as the love story or rather the lust story between Dev-Chanda begins to develop, a customer (m using the most decent language I can) comes looking for Chanda and Dev decides to leave it at that….Then the director throws in the angle of drink and drive cases where dev runs over few ppl lyin on the footpath…he is arrested …but released on bail to perform last rites of his father…he then tries to run and all of a sudden when he was almost goin to b killed by a car, he realizes all his wrong doings, starts seacrhin for Chanda and decides to give in to the police…Not convincing at all,,,One jus fails to understand the character of Devdas in the entire movie…
The movie is torturous to say the least…and one can jus feel only relieved when it ends…

And for the characters, Abhay Deol is gud in the movie, so is Mahi (Paro) minus her looks,,,but the movie contains nothing except sex….And the movie reminded me of Life in a Metro which again revolved around sex….and at the end of it (in both movies) u lose a count of who slept with whom??.So now if at all anybody wanted to go for the movie based on the excellent reviews…think again…And if anybody has got excited reading the review, I would suggest watch a porn movie instead…btw 1 positive aspect abt the movie..the background score…twas gud….hey coming to think of it…I actually managed to finish a post in 1 go from start to end after a long tym…..hopefully next post wud b on the Panchgani trip…..

Different Strokes – III

11/01/08 8.50 p.m

Firstly, Wish you all a very happy and a prosperous new year…Quite a few ppl have been asking if there has been any update on the blog and my answer “got no topic to write abt”. And now m getting so used to discussing the daily happenings with V at the end of the day that don’t feel like writin abt the daily stuff….Infact even now nothing interesting to write (I guess after the story-its become difficult to live up to the word “interesting”…post-story blues I guess) but was getting quite bored now, so thought I will scribble down something….

Dusvidaniyan:
After watchin the movie, I had thought of writing down my 10 wishes, but later on scrapped that thought…but now since it’s the beginning of a new year, I guess I would like to write down few things I want to do in this year (short term goals mebbe coz I don think long term plans work)….2007 was a grt year while 2008 was jus abt ok. I hope 2009 has got sumthin gud in store for me. So here goes the list with timelines ofcourse:
1. Learn driving and Get a car – timeline….6 months frm now mebbe…so lemme say before July 31.
2. Buy a digicam – I guess my bank bal shud permit this, so lemme say before Feb 15th (Sudeep pl help me with sum gyan on which cam to buy)
3. Vacation with parents – timeline – donno, mebbe second half of this year. Actually, I now don even remember wen was da last tym I had gone wit my parents on a vacation (except da trips to native place)…gues t was Kanyakumari long long bak….
4. Road trip with friends – Again no clue when this will happen (within first half of this year) no clue which set of frends
5. Learn something new…..mebbe guitar….
6. Pursue an additional course….most probably CFA n wil giv a crack at CAT again, but this tym hopefully with adequate preparations
7. And lastly, always on my agenda: Shed few extra kilos (hehe….target atleast 5 kilos before March end,,don ask wat my current weight is!!!!!)
Hopefully I ll b able to execute majority of the plans above and yes will keep posting as and when anything is achieved.

The Birthday Treat:

8/1/09- Gaurav’s birth day (deloitte friend) . We had decided to give him a treat. The original venue decided was The Barbeque Nation, which much to my disappointment, got shifted to 5 Spice at Bandra….Around 17/18 ppl in all I guess and surprisingly I knew most of them…I jus thought I ll write a one liner on each of them (no offence meant to any1)in the order in which we were seated:-
Ajay: I guess busiest person of us all…well he was da one who used his card to pay the bill, after collecting everyones share but going by PwC standards, I jus hope he didnt inflate the bill and collect higher amts frm us….mebbe I can jus wait for his confessions 1 day..till then fingers crossed….
Gaurav: the birthday boy….so no comments,,,,,jus 1 question- who got the cake for u at hexa????????
Vidhi: I m too scared to write anything abt her
Sulu : was laughin all the tym…sumtymes I dinno y…by the way just remember that u r not supposed to have non veg on Thursdays, henceforth…
Me: no comments (if any1 else wants to they can)
Avani: was supposed to get a chocolate for me but she dint!!!!! So no comments except dat she was basically interested in the photo session n sadly the photos din come out well
Rohit: was only keen on pushing the panchagani plan to the 25th….wonder y??????
Keval: was unusually quiet, I thought (in comparison to when I had met him earlier durin a picnic) or mebbe since he was sittin far I dinno…(hey btw u haven’t sent me the snap u took with some funny background)
Sanjeev: well da only statement he made was (in response to the question that y u aint speaking much) “ main kuch bolunga toh log bhag jayenge”….completely agree with it…got nothing more to add…..
Jay: Has only jain food including jain chicken (I repeat – no offence meant)
Manali: confused!!!! How else would you explain some1 holding a menu card n wondering out loud “what m I supposed to do with this”…m sure u were not thinking of byheartin it, were u?
Rohi: my beshtesht frend …she got US chocolates for me….so no comments
Riten: was his usual self….
Chandni: confused again!!!!! She took almost couple of minutes to say she stays at churchgate…I guess she was a bit uncomfortable out there, though some1 said it was due to the influence of her senior…lol…no clue….
Bhumi: nothing except dat she was wearing an orange coloured jacket (ok mebbe it wasn’t that weird)
Dharmen/ Rajdeep : no comments here…
Well all in all it was great fun….fud was decent and so were the rates…I guess we should be havin such dinners atleast once in 2 months if not every month and next tym it cud b barbeque nation….

The Movies:
A complete movie buff that I am, eagerly awaiting the release of Slumdog millionaire (heard outstanding reviews from ppl). Also heard fairly gud reviews of The President is Coming…And of course our very own, the next big superstar KRK’s (read kamal r khan) blockbuster movie “Deshdrohi”….now dat ban has been lifted on dat movie, cant wait to see it on da big screen ..lemme kno if any1 wants to join me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well not bad…I managed to write whole of 2 pages without having anything to write…now tym for me to hit the bed…have a great week…cya guys…