the break in the drudgery

yoohoo!!!! i love weekends!!! especially those with non-working saturdays!!!
the highlights of this weekend....(with ruchi now in delhi and shef visiting home, it was a pack of wolves let loose...)

1. friday lunch was at royal china, fort, a treat for the entire RM team by od for her promotion. some 35 of us, and a bill of almost a lakh. no alcohol. had duck for the first time, and ate like pigs. jha and sahil were amusing. spoke mainly to shruti and sat. after a 2 hour lunch, half the people went home. those of us who returned to office, spent the time playing text twirl and golf.

2. friday evening i spent an hour on marine drive with suhail and murarka. the night was spent at dome (after a cheap dinner across the road from churchgate station), with shek and dipu as well as murli & suhail. had a nice absolut screwdriver, and loved the class of the place and crowd. slept early at 1:45

3. saturday morning, woke, read the paper, did the laundry and went to the gym (5th day this week, a record!!). after getting ready at home, had lunch with shek and suhail at atria and then went to nariman, where with dipu and murli watched a 3:15 show of shaurya. afterwards, while dipu and suhail went to dadar for xbox and murli went home, i went with shek to worli where he had to do his laundry, and spoke to him about careers.

4. for saturday night, we then went to dadar, and the 4 of us went to ITC grand central to check suhail in and have dinner at hornby's pavilion. and we didnt have to pay the bill ;) from there we cabbed over to hawaiian shack, where we danced ourselves mad. i had 2 beers, a vodka and a tequila shot. the crowd for once wasnt great, though dips had his first experience of a girl coming on to him!! near the end we bumped into a couple of seniors, including meera, mukim, and shravan sampath. after the shack, we went again to the ITC, and sat around having chai in suhail's room. earl grey, twinings....aaaahhh.... finally got home at 2:45, lounged online and slept around 4ish.

5. sunday morning, i had switched off the mains. so my annoying bai couldnt come and wake me come 930 am. not that it made much difference. a procession woke me at 1015. read the paper, gave clothes for ironing, oiled myself and had a bath. then went with suhail and shek to maroosh for a lunch of kebabs and tikkas. shek was veg due to navratras. bumped into akshay hiranandani there. then went to lifestyle's ccd and had our customary coffees. mine was obv frappe. dipu joined us meantime, and then we shopped. guiltily, i blew up 8k in 1 hour, mostly on unnecessary stuff. in pantaloons i bumped into vishu anand from GS. took me a while, not just to recognize him, but to make out whether he was a cousin, a senior from campus or what!! also had ice creams from gelatos

6. then went to ITC, to suhail's room and had chai. i love it. presently, dipu's company was traded for murarka's. watched a bit of evan almighty, then played 29 till 9pm. then went back to phoenix mills, shopping bags and all, and ate at noodle bar. finally got home by 1115, and i finished watching evan almighty by 12. surfed online, read, etc etc, and slept at 1:45. end of nice weekend number 34523914734