An awesome weekend!
Friday July 1st started quite innocently. It was my Mom's birthday and I duly wished her in the morning (and woke up my earliest ever on a weekday ~8 O'clock). I had no big plans for the day and apart from the fact that I had a TGIFish feeling, nothing great was expected. Was being the keyword.
It was aound noon when I called Thota to fix up our meeting at Forum in order to settle some unfinished financial accounts pending from the Hyderabad trip. He seemed hesitant to agree to this idea and was trying to postpone making the decision til later, say 4 o'clock. I was perturbed by this but agreed thinking of possible reasons why he would rather tell later. I did have an inkling that he wanted to go to the Siemen's Day which he upto now was rather reluctnt to go, now that our man is a 'changed man'. So at around 4, I call only to get invited to the Siemen's Day! Amazing. I didn't need no second invitation for free food (and no I did not go there for the free booze even though there was sooo much of it). So after a short auto trip to BTM Layout and then another quite a long meandering one, we were in the Palace Grounds for Siemen's Day. One thing I must say is that the whole thing was such a gala event with Leela Palace food, Leela booze, dance entertainment and last but not the least a DJ with a cool sense of music. And after thulping the food and the dessert (my count of the gulab jamuns was 5 , rasagulla's was 4 and I had a HUGE helping of the chocolate thing whose name I can't remember let alone pronounce ;) ), we hit the dance floor (ya baby!). And we danced, and danced and danced and ,what do you know, danced more! With but the infantile style of dancing that we inexperienced suffer from. And the best part was we were both dry! (As in sober not the antonym of wet which we were, not because of the refreshing rain that was falling outside, but rather drenched in sweat, which is quite gross in retrospect) The night ended as breathtaking fireworks graced the night sky as one by one they rose from the cleared parking lot only to explode into magnificent sparkling stars of green, purple and other such brilliant colours. Laying back on the green grass exhausted from all the booty shaking (:P) and gazing at the celebrations, I thought to myself, "Thanks Thota!". And yes, I did convey the sentiments across to Thota too.
Saturday July 2nd was quite the opposite to its yesterday because there were plans for the day. Big plans. Unfortunately quite early plans too. For today was the day we would go to Wonder Valley for a whole day of fun-filled activities the nature of which we were mostly ignorant of except for the fact that it dealt with ropes. But a whole day of activites with a sore neck :( as a result of the previous days' events. In any case, the bus ride which was for an hour or so was quite enjoyable as the interns were treated to amazing music(soo much sarcasm it could actually fill up all the empty space in Dubya's brain) by the bus driver who was forced to switch on the same unable to bear the musical talent of Ankush (I get you back for that God-Aweful forward you made me pass on :P). We reached there in time for a quick breakfast and then headed for our first round of activities.
Looked harmless enough the round hoolahoop-like thing. We were initally asked to fit ourselves through the same first one-by-one, then pairwise, then 5 at a time and finally, get this, ALL of us at once. (For all non believers and/or those-who-think-Im-exaggerating, the loop was really just a piece of elastic, like a tyre tube, but only the size of a hoolahoop. And if still arent convinced, I have pictorial proof :D) Once that task was accomplished, we went to an obstacle race after being split into two groups. This race was quite a difficult one with various catches and tricks and after nearly an hour of strenous working and inspired groupwork (and in my case infinite embarassments :( ) the teams both completed , though our team just got edged out by our competitors. And like true sportsmen we accepted defeat sorely and went on to complain that we were 7 and they were 6 , so actually....
So on to the second exciting task. After lunch, we hit the rope walking part of our day! This was truly the best part of the day as we took to the trees and with the help of some safety harnesses and some balancing rope walked on a iron rope tied between two trees, all by ourselves!! And the guy in charge made us fall backwards when in the middle of the trip just to provide that extra "oomph" to the already "oooh" experience. (Needless to asy , your truly made a fool of himself just trying to climb onto the tree though the rope walking part was surprsingly a piece of cake however 'adrenaline-racing' the whole thing was)
The last leg of our day was to be one for the hydrophilic. A home-made raft, with but its barrels of air and bamboo framework, and some jarringly yellow-coloured life jackets, we set out in 2 groups of 8 , one team after the other, rowing in the most ridiculous way one can stroke synchronously. "Left full reverse! Right full forward! Left stop rowing! Right please row! " enveloped us as we traversed the tawny coloured lake which truth-be-told looked dirtier than the water that results from a bath I have after playing football in the quadrangle in the rain... As we "Dum lagake- Ailasa"ed the breadth of the lake and back, the next team got on to row themselves to glory (and more importantly, for photos that they can show off later :P).
As we returned to the guesthouse, all tired out by the days' activities and the inexplicable energy with which we sang hindi film songs, english songs, tam songs (;) ) and even advertisements all the bus ride back, four of us decided to dinner on pizza mostly because were too beat to go out to eat. And so we ate pizza and drank pepsi ; so much pizza and pepsi that after everything was done, we were left with four glasses of pepsi, half-filled, unable to complete it ! (and a rather light wallet :( ) It took us a good half an hour before we were able to drink the pepsi with but small sips. I always said pizza and pepsi is the complete meal! Ah satisfaction... we ended up talking upto 4 in the morning when the more fortunate of us braved sleep to watch Godfather... (I ended up sleeping some time soon after realising I wanted to go to office early next morning to check mail as is my habit of late)
July 3rd Sunday (I wanted to change the format of the date 'cause its getting too monotonous...) I did get to office but only by 11. And by 12 I was outta there 'cause I was to meet up with an old school friend, Radhika, who too is in Bangalore interning til almost the end of the year. We ended up having great Italian food (mama mia, really good food ... and filling) and we talked about friends both old and new. Brough got back memories of school and how unbelievably incredible schoollife was for me. How much fun we had in school...too much. But people change. Amazing how someone can change so much so fast. And yes she had changed too (:P). We exchanged gossips about school friends (read : she told me everything about everyone ;) ). We walked for a distance before we took an auto to Forum where we parted ways. Ah school...ah life.... ah nostalgia
And finally I ended up in the office, thinking I could get some work done. But then realising that it would be better to pen a post while the memory of everything is quite fresh in one's memory, I sat down to write a post.
And after it was all done I wrote :
THE END.
It was aound noon when I called Thota to fix up our meeting at Forum in order to settle some unfinished financial accounts pending from the Hyderabad trip. He seemed hesitant to agree to this idea and was trying to postpone making the decision til later, say 4 o'clock. I was perturbed by this but agreed thinking of possible reasons why he would rather tell later. I did have an inkling that he wanted to go to the Siemen's Day which he upto now was rather reluctnt to go, now that our man is a 'changed man'. So at around 4, I call only to get invited to the Siemen's Day! Amazing. I didn't need no second invitation for free food (and no I did not go there for the free booze even though there was sooo much of it). So after a short auto trip to BTM Layout and then another quite a long meandering one, we were in the Palace Grounds for Siemen's Day. One thing I must say is that the whole thing was such a gala event with Leela Palace food, Leela booze, dance entertainment and last but not the least a DJ with a cool sense of music. And after thulping the food and the dessert (my count of the gulab jamuns was 5 , rasagulla's was 4 and I had a HUGE helping of the chocolate thing whose name I can't remember let alone pronounce ;) ), we hit the dance floor (ya baby!). And we danced, and danced and danced and ,what do you know, danced more! With but the infantile style of dancing that we inexperienced suffer from. And the best part was we were both dry! (As in sober not the antonym of wet which we were, not because of the refreshing rain that was falling outside, but rather drenched in sweat, which is quite gross in retrospect) The night ended as breathtaking fireworks graced the night sky as one by one they rose from the cleared parking lot only to explode into magnificent sparkling stars of green, purple and other such brilliant colours. Laying back on the green grass exhausted from all the booty shaking (:P) and gazing at the celebrations, I thought to myself, "Thanks Thota!". And yes, I did convey the sentiments across to Thota too.
Saturday July 2nd was quite the opposite to its yesterday because there were plans for the day. Big plans. Unfortunately quite early plans too. For today was the day we would go to Wonder Valley for a whole day of fun-filled activities the nature of which we were mostly ignorant of except for the fact that it dealt with ropes. But a whole day of activites with a sore neck :( as a result of the previous days' events. In any case, the bus ride which was for an hour or so was quite enjoyable as the interns were treated to amazing music(soo much sarcasm it could actually fill up all the empty space in Dubya's brain) by the bus driver who was forced to switch on the same unable to bear the musical talent of Ankush (I get you back for that God-Aweful forward you made me pass on :P). We reached there in time for a quick breakfast and then headed for our first round of activities.
Looked harmless enough the round hoolahoop-like thing. We were initally asked to fit ourselves through the same first one-by-one, then pairwise, then 5 at a time and finally, get this, ALL of us at once. (For all non believers and/or those-who-think-Im-exaggerating, the loop was really just a piece of elastic, like a tyre tube, but only the size of a hoolahoop. And if still arent convinced, I have pictorial proof :D) Once that task was accomplished, we went to an obstacle race after being split into two groups. This race was quite a difficult one with various catches and tricks and after nearly an hour of strenous working and inspired groupwork (and in my case infinite embarassments :( ) the teams both completed , though our team just got edged out by our competitors. And like true sportsmen we accepted defeat sorely and went on to complain that we were 7 and they were 6 , so actually....
So on to the second exciting task. After lunch, we hit the rope walking part of our day! This was truly the best part of the day as we took to the trees and with the help of some safety harnesses and some balancing rope walked on a iron rope tied between two trees, all by ourselves!! And the guy in charge made us fall backwards when in the middle of the trip just to provide that extra "oomph" to the already "oooh" experience. (Needless to asy , your truly made a fool of himself just trying to climb onto the tree though the rope walking part was surprsingly a piece of cake however 'adrenaline-racing' the whole thing was)
The last leg of our day was to be one for the hydrophilic. A home-made raft, with but its barrels of air and bamboo framework, and some jarringly yellow-coloured life jackets, we set out in 2 groups of 8 , one team after the other, rowing in the most ridiculous way one can stroke synchronously. "Left full reverse! Right full forward! Left stop rowing! Right please row! " enveloped us as we traversed the tawny coloured lake which truth-be-told looked dirtier than the water that results from a bath I have after playing football in the quadrangle in the rain... As we "Dum lagake- Ailasa"ed the breadth of the lake and back, the next team got on to row themselves to glory (and more importantly, for photos that they can show off later :P).
As we returned to the guesthouse, all tired out by the days' activities and the inexplicable energy with which we sang hindi film songs, english songs, tam songs (;) ) and even advertisements all the bus ride back, four of us decided to dinner on pizza mostly because were too beat to go out to eat. And so we ate pizza and drank pepsi ; so much pizza and pepsi that after everything was done, we were left with four glasses of pepsi, half-filled, unable to complete it ! (and a rather light wallet :( ) It took us a good half an hour before we were able to drink the pepsi with but small sips. I always said pizza and pepsi is the complete meal! Ah satisfaction... we ended up talking upto 4 in the morning when the more fortunate of us braved sleep to watch Godfather... (I ended up sleeping some time soon after realising I wanted to go to office early next morning to check mail as is my habit of late)
July 3rd Sunday (I wanted to change the format of the date 'cause its getting too monotonous...) I did get to office but only by 11. And by 12 I was outta there 'cause I was to meet up with an old school friend, Radhika, who too is in Bangalore interning til almost the end of the year. We ended up having great Italian food (mama mia, really good food ... and filling) and we talked about friends both old and new. Brough got back memories of school and how unbelievably incredible schoollife was for me. How much fun we had in school...too much. But people change. Amazing how someone can change so much so fast. And yes she had changed too (:P). We exchanged gossips about school friends (read : she told me everything about everyone ;) ). We walked for a distance before we took an auto to Forum where we parted ways. Ah school...ah life.... ah nostalgia
And finally I ended up in the office, thinking I could get some work done. But then realising that it would be better to pen a post while the memory of everything is quite fresh in one's memory, I sat down to write a post.
And after it was all done I wrote :
THE END.
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