another good weekend

a nice social start, by meeting helly for lunch on friday. then of course, a second lunch break with dhruv, followed by the early departure from office.

suhail came home in the evening. we went together to maroosh in phoenix mills and had a dinner of 3 plates of kebab and roomali rotis. dipu joined us, having eaten already at home. we cabbed it to churchgate, met up with shek and shefali and went to not just jazz by the bay. tuhina was there with colleagues. not that it makes any difference to us, but generally, iim-iim bond. plus she's hot. then we had, landing up there, the sbi mf gang, in terms of enthu, raizada, nishit mathur and anoop menon. with a colleague. anyway, heard some jazz/blues.the guy with the harmonica was good, though he hardly played. i had a beer, that's it. kingfishers.

anyway, we left around 11:15ish, and walked over to inox. there we watched the 1130 show of 'juno', a very nice movie about a teenage pregnancy. juno herself was cute.

saturday, i woke early, 10ish. read the paper, surfed the net. went to the gym. from there i walked across to phoenix mills and met shek and shefali for lunch at copper chimney. then we went to heera panna and window shopped for mobiles.
i went home after that, and dipu came over. we played xbox, and soon murli joined us. then dipu left.

murli and i then went to phoenix mills, where we had dinner with shek and shef at lemon grass. it was a nice dinner. good food, good coversation, and good shabab on the next table!!!
after dinner, though we wanted to go to blue frog, due to time and space restrictions, we went instead to ccd at worli. sat there till about 12.15, then walked over to the worli seaface. sat there enjoying the breeze and people, till 1. then murli and i went home, played xbox and slept around 3:30.

i was woken by our soothing doorbell at 945 am, the bai had come to 'clean'. played xbox all morning and afternoon, with dipu joining us soon enough. so much so, that we ordered lunch in and played. dipu and i from dominos, and murli from shang dynasty. i shooed them out around 6 to get ready.

had a company event u see. a fashion show, by manish malhotra. and it rocked!! i mean, the first thing i see upon walking in is the new, tall female in marketing standing in a 1 piece mini. gulp!!! then clients an their families were looking soooooo page 3!!! and then there were the models themselves. it was a good event, lots of eye candy. and so many people knew each other, and i managed to convince a big guy to become our client coz he bumped into someone he knew well, who also happened to be namby's client. for once, private banking seemed to be the pseud thing it was made out to be initially.
also bumped into freddy daruwalla again....he had walkked the ramp, and i had utterly failed to recognize him till dhruv went and asked him whether he was the nivea guy. we had an interesting conversation then after that.
i left around 10:45, took a lift with ham and his petit wife delna to charni road, and took a train home from there. i love mumbaiian weekends

epilogue:
bumped into enthu and nishit again on monday morning, as their cab overtook mine near dadar sabzi mandi en route to work
had an alumni dinner on tuesday, with jj irani at the taj mahal hotel. met dhav and kc there. saw and met some of the legendarily prominent alumni. a very social week