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I am rarely in a position to say that I had a good week or a month, and this is one of those rare moments. After a series of supremely frustrating weeks, I had a week through which I felt good at all times. Work and social life, both, have suddenly picked up. The weekend was good too. 

Milan's farewell on Friday night was fun. Spending time with the girls is actually always enjoyable, but when Vidha tends to get tipsy, things take a more entertaining turn. As for Milan, I will miss her (yes, admitted).

Ruhi was also in town this weekend. It had been over a year since I last saw her. My friend in vegetarianism - read with her I can go for a meal where I am not sidelined with my single vegetarian dish. We ate, drank  and talked for 3.5 hours before I headed for my dance class. 

Yes, I have finally joined dance classes. As of now it is about hard work, being uncomfortable, being challenged, feeling exposed and awkward, but it is fun. Nobody except the instructors are professionals. And it is a very patient and pleasant bunch of people teaching. So I am happy. At least as of now. And my instructor says I have good rhythm. :D

Yesterday's class was rather hard. I spun so much that I could almost feel the margarita and this indulgent dessert spinning too. Wasn't a good feeling. But lesson learnt. From now on it will be early lunch on dance class days. 

Talking about dance, Varun emotionally blackmailed into doing a choreographed dance at his wedding. I didn't do one at my own brother's wedding, but I seem to have no choice here. So this afternoon was spent at his place trying to get a party on my mind but do a lot more than just groove. And while salsa is a lot of technique, this bollywood drama requires some serious movement of the upper body. Phew!

I also realised that I didn't take up the opportunity to call the shots when I had it.

Moving on, the evening at Avan's was rather nice. We didn't speak for three weeks and her world seems to have suddenly changed for the better. Things look promising. Positive updates awaited.

Back home, Suvvir slapped me hard and it was funny. Never saw this day coming. 

In other news, I think I am falling in love with this gentleman here. From the world that he belongs to, it has only been John Stamos and Patrick Dempsey in the past. *sigh*

And now, please make way for Monday blues. See you on the other side.

Four Years Later

After much contemplation, I went to Pune this past weekend for my convocation ceremony. And well, I did everything except get the degree. Don't ask why. It should suffice to know that systems fail in a lot of places.

I flew via Bombay and experienced the city at leisure for the first time. Had always rushed there - be it for flights or interviews. Robin took me to a place called Candies. A nice place, except that I could not help but notice the number of stairs I had to climb.

The evening in Pune was split between Sheesha and Stone Water Grill. Both these places are quite popular with the locals, but I could never get myself to like Sheesha. Starting with the name, it's all too ordinary and less. But Stone Water Grill I enjoyed. Did the much overdue tequila shots and danced till my foot could not handle more. The highlight was a routine with some Korean guys with a robot dance. You really had to be there to know how much fun that was because it was really really fun!! :D

Met a few people that I was looking forward to see, and looked through some whom I really do not give a damn about.

About the new hairdo, from rockstar to power corporate to school boy to downright uncool, I got all sorts of comments. Attention is always good. And you know which comment I loved the most. :D

And a stranger got curious about how I look with longer hair. ;-)

I was glad to half-strip at the Delhi airport security check because of the metal round my leg, and Mumbai airport security I wanted to slap someone for the non-sense they put me through. :-/

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I am now off to Uttarakhand for a week. Covering almost the entire Kumaon area for an official project. Super excited!

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Now I do not even care about getting pictures clicked with people who are important. Not sure if that is because they are not important enough any more or if it really does not affect me any more. But I have definitely come a long long way from the time when I obsessed about these things.

I will hopefully click some pictures over the next week though.

I'll do the new year post once I am back. Looking forward to the reflection hour. :-)

For now, ta!

Happy Ho Gaya Day!

First exam in the morning was design technology. I had a daffy duck to make. I managed it decently well. Well enough to get a B-, I think. Enough for me considering my skill set.

Next exam was for a module called self study. But since it is self study, I hardly ever study the presribed stuff. But to a question about Tata Motors and their market penetration, market development and integrative growth opportunities, I wrote like I own Tata Motors. "Feel aa gayi." :P

Next up, I had money in my account which was not mine. 50K to be reimbursed to people. And I needed cartons to pack my stuff. So I ran and caught the afternoon bus to the city to get the work done. Swetha gave me company. The two of us were all over the place, and ended up not getting time for lunch. Got free by about 4:15 p.m., and we had to catch the 5:00 p.m. bus back to campus. We realised we were very close to Mocha that time. We've been quite the losers this term 'coz we have really visited the city once in three weeks for a couple of hours on an average. Being sweaty and hassled, we looked like ragpickers with all the cartons in our hands. But we had 50K in a bag along with a big bottle of Old Munk for friends who'd instructed us to get it as well. Felt extremely funny.

I went to Mocha after several years and the happiest thing was that it was smoke-free indoors. Remember hating it in GK I. We talked non-stop about the funnest things on earth, had the best of shakes, and ate good stuff too. It's ok to splurge once in a while. But like I was joking that time, "life on the go" isn't fun if it becomes way too literal. We could not even savour our shakes 'coz we had only 40 minutes to spend in the place. But we made the most of it.

Tonight was the farewell for the senior batch. Since I merrily spent half of the last one month in a daze, I had too much work on me to be partying through the night. So I decided not to go. None of my friends were going either. The evening passed. And at about 8:30ish, Ritesh called three of us individually and said the corniest of things to convince us to take the last bus to the party venue. (Yes, our village always has buses to go to various places) We gave in, and then ran in different directions to dig up clothes and shoes and razors and make-up. 15 odd minutes, and we were out. And excited too. :D

The party was fun. I was happy high for a bit. Danced like crrrazy after really long. And I am very happy to have done that. I SO needed it.

I was not carrying my camera at the time of running in the city during the afternoon. So I do not have the awesome frames from Mocha to show you. But I do have a couple of pictures from the party. Enjoy. :D

He thought that the two were lucky to have got this photo-op. They obviously do not agree.

The naach - Robin and Ridhima

Some more of the naach - Swetha

Ritesh, the baap of all senti talk. But I think I am thankful to him for having forced me to go.

We've had the most inane conversations of late. Yesterday we were sitting at the edge of a pseudo balcony of the hostel, overlooking the hills in the distance, and talking of the best times of our past. We had management books open as well. :P

They're a cute couple. :) We were wondering why their clothes weren't colour coded today.

Jamshedpur wale Ranjan ji. :)

Sahil and Swetha

Ye bhi Jamshedpur se hain. Kausik Misra. Aur chhichhore dance mein humare partner hain. Had an obscene amount of fun with him today.

Priyam!! :D

The third one from Jamshedpur. Soumajit. He's been my badminton partner through many games that we managed to win. That is when I used to find time to play in the first half of the term. :|

The party closed. Robin and Priyam made the final pose.

I just realised I have the whole of Jharkhand in these pictures with me. Swetha's also from Bokaro. :)

Eventful days' drama

I had my freshers party on the 30th night. Friends say I was drunk. Pictures suggest I was, but I was just happy. I knew what was happening. In fact, it helped me dance to that non-stop progressive electronic stuff tha the damn DJ played all night. Bloody! Of course, I was enjoying it later, but initially it was annoying. Anyway. So we had fun. Came back to the hostel dead at 3:00 a.m. Slept for EIGHT hours! :D :D Studied on Thursday for a regular Friday feature - test. I might just not flunk this one. I was happy, counting down days for my trip home. And then came a bomb! Meeting and elections for a club. Yours truly stood for the VP's post, and got elected! Event on 15th August, tickets to be cancelled. Cried and cried.. now I won't get to see anyone till almost end of November. It's not even funny! Thankfully, Priyam came to my room and distracted the bloody mind. I don't even feel like celebrating. But now I am okay. Just posting some pictures from the 30th night. No, I was not drunk. :P

Amrah, Swetha, Nidhi, Ridhima and Vindy - All sober before leaving campus

With Maria and Priyam
Ridhima and Swetha - make up still fresh

Ridhima and Akshay; hee hee - me too :P

Swetha, Akshay and Shagun. I wanted drama - spot me! :D


Priyam!

Venky and dearest Sahil!

Yep, Vindy lost it too!