Have a blast !

Oops.. That was what my friend told me for the weekend. But Bangalore & Ahmedabad experienced some different kinds of blasts over this weekend :(

So.. watch out when you tell this again..!

PS: For b'days, I always tell... Many happy returns of the day ! Have a blast !

Kismat Konn?

After much hoopla (& my adulation of VB), I went to Kismat Konnection y'day at Cauvery second show with the same goa gang. Only thing after seeing this I want to say - Thank God, it got over for just 70 bucks! NCK was right, now we knew why we got the tickets. The story is absurd. I felt sleepy for sometime. Vidya has blown up like a baloon. Her shortened hair doesn' suit her. And again, she continues to be with oldies (didn't get better partners in life?). Shahid is ok, like always as his kiddish face. Hasina Juhi is wasted. Crap. Boman Irani..? A perfect man for ending of a hindi film. Songs are ok. And for all the sentis involved, it has miserably failed. Didn't get the purpose of shooting in Canada. Bombay has lots of old age homes, could have cut down on cost! I would say its a mix of LRMB & JWM. Ooph.. did I say more than Rajeev Masand? He was considerate enough to give a 2/5. I would have thrown an egg!

All I'm thinking of now is... when will my Kismat Konnect? ;-)

Chapter 7

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'What's up?' I said, more to improve communication than the sight of her smudged eyes.

'Nothing,' she said in a broken voice.

A girl's 'nothing' usually means 'a lot'. Actually, it meant 'a lot and don't get me started'. I thought of a suitable response to a fake 'nothing'.

...

...

'She told me last night she would SMS me in the morning. It is afternoon already, and she hasn't. She always does that.' She said.

'Why dont you SMS her instead?' I asked.

'I am not doing that. She said she would. And so she should, right?'

I looked at her blankly, unable to respond.

'She is in this hi-fi PR job, so she is too busy to type a line?'

I wished that woman would SMS her so we could start class.

'Next time I will tell her I have something really important to talk about and not call her for two days,' she said.

Some, I repeat only some girls, measure the strength of their friendship by the power of the emotionally manipulative games they could play with each other.

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Excerpts from Chetan Bhagats new - The 3 mistakes of my life.

I agree.

Frozen

You only see what your eyes want to see
How can life be what you want it to be
You're frozen
When your heart's not open

You're so consumed with how much you get
You waste your time with hate and regret
You're broken
When your heart's not open

True Madonna...

Kitchen King

Today was a special day for me. For the first time since my return from UK, i took over the kitchen. Thanks to my parents, they had gone for some marriage in the morning. They gave an option for us to either go to a hotel or cook ourselves. I preferred the latter, as it was too cumbersome to go out for lunch as it was sunny. The deal was - I'll cook and my bro will wash the utensils later. Took a good 1.5 hours for cooking 2 dishes - rice & sambhar. First cut carrot and beans which took 1/2 an hr. Then cooked them along with dal & rice in separate containers. Then added all other ingredients - salt, sambhar powder, tamarind water, chilli powder, tadka etc. It turned out to be good infact! Check this out -

Well appreciated by parents when they had it for dinner. London has thought me a lot :)

Goa Trip - Day 4

Our last day in Goa started off on a good note, with first settling the bill amount and then going to Vasco. Oh ya, I'd forgotten to write about this - as soon as we landed in Panaji the first day, we got return tickets booked to Bangalore through Paulo travels, Ac bus. I'll come back to it later anyways. And also we had the train tickets booked, but it was still in waiting list. So had to cancel it before we incur any further losses.

It was a 1.5 hour drive to Vasco from Calangut and me and Bond waited in the que to cancel the tickets, while NCK and Kirthi went around shopping for cashews, as we were told that cashews here were cheap (hell it was cheap!). We next had a glimpse of Vasco port and still were thinking where to go next as we had nearly 3 hours to return the car. It was there we had the group photo sessions - drivers (Bond & Kirthi), navigator(myself) and antakshari winner(NCK) ;) (The favourite letter to end a song was with 'L')

We then relooked of going to the missed out Aguada fort, and came back to the fort after another hour drive. The tower and the place where the trio of DCH sat were thoroughly shooted. We spent around an hour there and came back to Panaji and returned the car at 430 PM.

Then we had light snacks at a nearby restaurant and proceeded to catch our bus back to Bangalore which was at 6. The very first look of the bus made me skeptical as to we will reach Bangalore or not! It was AC/Non-AC bus, with the first half being AC, a door in the middle and the rear half being non AC. Phew! At least we thought we were in a better position as we had a sleeper in Ac. When asked the driver as to where would he stop for breaks, he told - dinner at Karwar, breakfast at Sira. ??!!?? What ?? A stop for breakfast! We really had not thought of bunking office on Monday. Well, anyways, as the bus started, (at 7), within half an hour, the AC and the lights were turned off. We were happily playing cards, and then had to switch to 20 questions. The crew of the bus was horrible and they were not accepting any requests to turn on the AC. What crap! And, they stopped for dinner at 10 at a dirty hotel in Karwar. My goodness, the return journey was horrible. We continued our game till 1 and then slept off.

Next day morning, I woke up only at Sira for breakfast. Sure, I had to bunk office. Thought of taking a snap of the bus and publishing it-

Well, reached home at 12ish, had lunch and slept off again. Overall, it was an amazing trip and we thoroughly enjoyed it. The next time I go to Goa, I'll ensure that I take along a female with me ;) Goa surely rox !

And people, anyone thinking of Paulo travels..? Give it a second thought!

Goa Trip - Day 3

After a real good sleep, we woke up on the saturday morning at 9ish and went for breakfast at 935. But it turned out to be a mess, with the breakfast getting closed at 930 only. This resulted with an argument with the manager and then he succumbed to pressure and finally agreed to provide the breakfast specially done for the four of us. Good hospitality :)

Enough of the beaches, we enquired about any waterfalls nearby with the manager. He suggested one Harvalem water falls, which was around an hour journey. We left for that place taking directions which were in the map and enquiring at many places, since the route to that falls was not that clearly mentioned. On our way, we saw a signboard showing DoodhSagar falls, and for a moment we thought we will ditch Harvalem and go to DoodhSagar. But since the latter was further an hours journey from a place nearby Ponda, we decided to go to Harvalem only and later go to DoodhSagar. We reached Harvalem at around 130 PM, where there was a temple(dint go) and a small waterfall, which was around max 50ft. But, this place wasn't that crowded at all, and we could peacefully take photos to put in our orkut profiles.

We left that place in half an hour and thought of going to DoodhSagar. But, as we drove, DS appeared to be not reachable only. We had our lunch at 4PM near Ponda at a Udupi restaurant - that was the best lunch we had in goa. Then, after a brief discussion, we thought of going to Colva beach, as we had got reviews from many friends that this was the best beach in goa and not to be missed. We reached Colva beach at around 530PM where a huge lot of people had gathered. It was totally packed and there was little watersports. The beach also wasn't all that clean, still I was wondering what was there in Colva ! We then had to drop the idea of getting wet.

So what next? Where do we go next? This was haunting all our minds. I suggested we go back to Baga, have a couple of drinks on the last night in Goa and doze off. But the other three were not in unison, and all were vouching for Palolem beach, which was in the extreme south of Goa. I knew this would take much of the time in driving and the evening would be wasted, but people didn't agree and we drove to Palolem beach. Me full modd off :(

We reaced Palolem beach at around 8PM and nothing much was there to do. As NCK was telling, there were a lot of foreigners who were busy in the shacks having beer, but what for us! Ya, could have done something if we had reached early, but no point at 8. We just walked thru the shore like lone wanderers for sometime and came back to our car and started towards Calangut. A good 2 hour journey. An evening wasted. Bad planning.

Back in my room, I ordered a port wine and hit the bed.