weekend warrior

well, this time i had a really good start to the weekend.



i left office early, around 3:30, though it was for a meeting in yucky kalbadevi!! the meeting was ok. it got over at 4:15, and i took a cab to go to pay my reliance bill in dadar. with my luck, systems were down, so i went home having wasted money and time.



got ready, shek came over and we left via train for the iron maiden concert. we were dressed as wannabe college dudes, in three fourths, and wearing our chains and wristbands!! took a train to bandra, from where we took an auto to the mmrda grounds. our copassenger in this ride was a freddy darruwala, grasim mr. india-world 2007. seemed a down to earth guy, though he made us feel properly ashamed to be bankers!!

we reached the ground around 645. parikrama was just winding up their last 2 pieces. through coordination via smses, we met up with shaggy, kartik and basu. we also eventually met bania, butalia, soumak, kartik prasad, suchai, srini, gaurav raizada, and rohit jain. also there were venkat, bala and abhinav though i didnt meet them

maiden was awesome....played vintage pieces like trooper, fear of the dark, wasted years, iron maiden, rime of the ancient mariner, aces high, can i play with madness, clairvoyant, powerslave, number of the beast, revelations, hallowed be thy name, etc....and they had good props and costumes for diferent songs.

there was a mosh pit with people bumping into each other, girls smoking up, girls abusing and kicking guys for excessive contact. we almost caught a drumstick thrown toward us by the band, but werent able to hold on to it.



after the show shek and i went to phoenix mills and dined at copper chimney with the intent of having beer. we got home early, and i slept by 145 coz it had been a long tiring day!!

saturday i woke at 930 and read the paper, went to pay the reliance bill finally and got ready. at 2, i went to churchgate and met dipu. had some stuff to eat at croissant. then went to oxford book store. suhail ruchi and murarka joined us, and we watched american gangster in eros. nice movie, though very complicated.

then murli went to meet a school friend. suhail ruchi went shoe shopping. dipu n i walked to theobroma and had some pastries. then with suhail and ruchi we went to crossword in kemp's corner. murli joined us there and i bought 4 books. after that we went to crystal at chowpatty and the 5 of us ate like kings for a total of 350/-!!!

then after a nice walk to peddar road, we went to phoenix mills and settled in sports bar. checked out the awesome crowd at play, shot some hoops, had some beer, met raghavendra, saurabh, shatanshu, TJ, shalaut and arkaj. came home around 1ish, played xbox till 4 and slept off.

sunday we woke at 1130. went to imax wadala, lunched on some oriental shit at the food court and watched 'we own the night'. also a nice movie!!
we came home and i settled in when shek and shef arrived. after pottering around a bit, we went to tamnak thai in shivaji park for dinner. it wa nice n upscale (and expensive!), and shek made an embarassment of himself. the food and budweiser were smackalicious!!
followed up with a frappe at ccd in prabhadevi.

i finally slept at 3am. turned out to be a sleepless night. now i'm tired, but happy.
coz i just went to bkc for a meeting, and met up with rohan for an hour. i like meeting people, and rohan is a good friend. and it's been long....