Friday 31st Dec 2004 to Sunday 2nd Jan 2005

Friday morning I had planned for Marine drives jaane ka whole nite. But alas! lotsa work re. So dropped the plan. Khair! Afternoon mei ek school mate ka phone aaya that she was in town, and did not know where to go for a few days as her paying guest was outta town . Akeli ladki mumbai mei types! Me being the humble soul, said she can come over at nite to our place. I intimated her, that I wud be late and so she shud call me before coming. I landed calling her at 5:30 and I come to know that she is sitting outside our house! huhh! I then called up the aunty who stays in a near by flat and told her to hand over the keys to her. I was relieved , that atleast she was inside the house now. But then nooo.. she was not able to open the door for quite sometime and expected me to guide her on phone! huhh! it was getting on my nerves, I had a code delivery to make till evening, I was damn busy and on top of this I had no new year plans for the first time ** sob sob**..Neways, I eventually made a move by 8:30 company bus. I had planned to have a nice dinner with aclose friend, who is in another TCS office. He was to come our hamesha ka restaurant. But as luck would want it , the bus got stuck in traffic. It was one hellova commotion! I called him and told to proceed. Poor me, was on verge of crying. My cell was abt to discharge.. indicating"battery low".. aagh! To top it all, my roomies were trying to call me, as they did not know what to do of the school mate!!@#$!!??. They had to go for a party organised by an uncle ,who stays in the flat opposite to ours. I ofcourse, told them to go ahead and I wud accompany Roshni(the schoolmate.), It wasnt just this.. Roshni is a bit wierd, if I can use that word. She keeps staring and staring and staring.. hardly talks.. seems mentally disturbed. My poor roomies got scared. Now in bus, my brother calls me up!A BIG surprise for me :-). He was in town.. my cell wasn't ready to support me.. time and again , I cud c the battery low indicator, so cud not even talk to him :(. Neways, eventually I reached home at around 11 pm.Imagine 2 and 1/2 hrs in bus when it actually takes just 45 min.. but thats wot mumbai traffic is all about!! I cooked some khichdi, which was a MAJOR disaster, with lots of water. Dont know how did I manage to spoil it that bad. I think it was the days work . Gave the remains of the so-called khichdi, after removing all the water, to Rosh. To escape from the realisation, which had slowly began to dawn, that I am alone at home with someone I am getting scared of (the stares and glance ) , I planned to sleep before 12. But then, smses and phone calls wud not allow me to! At 12 o clock, Dhanraj uncle(where my roomies had gone) called up and foreced me to come over. I was more than glad to atleast be in a get together. I had this notion, that the party wud have been over and wud wish them and come back. I told Roshni that I wud be back in 1/2 an hr. Man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anticlimax. There was this huge party at uncle's place.Aunty, their three sons, Bhuaji-fufaji, didi-jijai, 5 more cousins , 2 kids and we 5 of us!! Loud music, lots of colddrinks, pav bhaji, cakes, et al..!! What a pleasure seeing a rocking party, when u had not expected the least! We danced away to music and played a few games till 3:30 pm. after that was dead tired. Returned home.. hehehhe. But new year doesnt end there. * Dene walaa jab bhi detaa detaa chappar faad ke**. All my roomies wear lenses, so their eyes were burning. We rung the bell and realized that no one was listening. I mean, the bell was switched-off from inside. We banged the door hard. By hard, I mean literally!! no response !! :O.. There is this grill outside the door, so it was diffcult to bang the inner door. We tried our cellphones, sandals, rings and anything which wud make loud nosie! But sigh! no response. We began wondering, whether she was at home!! she was not even carrying a celll . Tired, we eventually, went to terrace, sang songs, gappe maarey, only drinks hath mei dene ki der thi ;-). Then got up to try our luck again .. My roomie got hold of a broom, and applied all her energy, but spared the door yet! finallllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyy!! the door opened at 5:30 in the morning!!!!!!!! believe me, nothing like seeing ur house again after two hrs of banging !! We finally slept at 6 am! Thats it in short! o yeah, in between , I skipped, that a friend from b'lore was in town and I was suppose to meet her next morning.So thats how saturday began, with an hours sleep. There is this Ayyapa prayers going on, just down our flat. To top it, my room happens to be near the amplifier speakers they put and I do not understand a word of what they recite!It starts from 6AM in the morning and continues till 12 AM at night ..just imagine! Hope it ends in next few days! Anyways, Then was toh continuous phone calls, and smses.. Saturday evening, we roomies with a few other guys went to joggers park and played games. Then went to linking road to do lukkha giri. Then I made a move to a friends place. We were having a get together of college friends, as one from b'lore and other from pune had come over. so an all-girls party saturday nite :D:D. had tonnes to talk. but yeah yeah.. nothing runs smooth! I had planned to take some time out for my brother on sunday,. But lady luck is not always happy. At nite 1 o clock I get a call from atlanta, my onsite female tells me "I want the entire team in office tomorrow morning!!".. shock!! she called on my cell, so ought to be serious! but our team comprises of 3 members, of which, one is out of town. So that leave my PL and myself. My PL's cell was not reachable! yes,, that leaves ME alone... ** sob sob**..Next day morn, I reach office at 11 am. Luckily I did get through my PL's phone at 3 in morn. He came to office after 2 hours of when i reached. I had not eaten anything since morning, my head was spinning! I then played some nice music, started off with serious work! Actually coming to offcie on sundays is fun, hardly neone arnd, music playing, not much stress of seniors arnd,its seriously fun! khair! The problem was almost resolved by 8pm. I chalked out a plan of meeting Kushal(my bro) outside the office. Left a bit early, as SEEPZ office is huge and it wud take arnd 10 min to walk till the main gate and I did not want to keep him waiting. My legs were aching badly, I somehow made it to main gate in 15 min. Know wot?? The gate was closed !!!!!! ** sob sob**. My bro was standing on the other gate, which is again at a 15 min distance. I crawled all the way back to that gate. My bro, applying his little brain, had started to move towards the main gate.!! aaghhh! eventually we met after arn 1/2 an hour, exchanging locations.. lol.. Then had a lavish dinner at a nice near by restaurant :-) :-). gifted him a shirt. I was carrying it with me since friday, as I knew how unpredictable my schedules are! O yes, I forgot to mention, I was on a bare minimum of a sandwich for whole day :-( and my roomies had made gajar ka halwa, and full fedged lunch at home for some friends of a roomie. Anyways, all is well that ends well!Now, Monday morning, I am back to work!! That was it, about the three days adventures! I am sure I might have missed a few incidences,, but nonetheless, if you reached here, it means u have got patience man!;-). Pat on ur back :D:D..Chalo , now I better start off with work.. my onsite dame has gone to sleep, leaving me to work on the application!