Picture Perfect

Last weekend, I "managed" a trip to Bangalore. It had been a long time since I had met up my college buddies.

Dear Chaitra treated us all (Anu, Nitin, Vidya, herself and myself) to a posh lunch (as is her wont) at Sahib Sindh Sultan. We had great fun and food there, especially the gulab jamoon with brandy! Nitin, you owe one to me for the choice!!

You can see the gulab jamoon, it was on fire a few seconds ago, burning with brandy! Look at Anu (in the denim jacket), she is trying to hypnotize the waiter who took the snap!

The same evening I met up with my college buddies at Mojo's. It was great talking to them!

L to R: Jaan, Nitin, me, Pomchi, Leelu and Andu!
Had awesome discussions on company appraisals to the MBA hype to Cristiano Ronaldo's penalty to IIT campus life. Now, this was one hell of two hours we spent together! All the uncleanliness seen on the table is due to Jaan and Andu.

The unanimous comment on me was that I had grown thin. Well, no way better to say it than through this picture ( thanks to Chaitra).

I could freeze all the three days in memory, for life. For Ever. It was picture perfect. Well, almost.

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1. Nitin has developed this Paris Hilton - like plastic smile. Its the same in every snap!
2. Chaitra put a lot of pressure on me not to put the first snap. She looks "ugly, fat, stressed out in lyfe!" in her own words.
3. Pomchi still writhes when smoking, in spite of beginning to look stouter than a cigarette. Look at this snap below!

Nothing much happening...

Of late nothing much has been happening around to write so I just thought I shall indulge in some arbit ramblings.

I have watched quite a few movies ever since my internship began. Most of them have been good - comedies like The Rat Race, The Pink Panther and A Night at the Roxbury; and a very cute romantic comedy - Love Actually. But the best of the lot has been The Shawshank Redemption. Now this is one movie that is so very captivating and meaningful, that you will feel at the end of it that there is a way out of every deep shit in life.

Amidst all these movies I have also managed to watch the one dayers between India and the West Indies, from start to finish, all but the first one. ( I am not the lucky mascot for the Indian team!!)

Andriy Shevchenko has moved to Chelsea. I do not know how successful he is going to be. Somehow my loyalties are going to be stressed. I am not a Chelsea fan, but I am Sheva's. Some time in the future my F1 loyalties are also going to undergo same fate when Kimi joins Ferrari. Talking about F1, Monaco race turned out to so much of an anti-climax. But I liked the way Kimi chilled off on the yatch instead of going to the paddock, after his car stalled.

But in the end, no team had more fun and frolic than the Red Bull after they got their got first ever podium finish through David Coulthard. Just look at them!!


I was also reminded recently of this funny, actually the most ignominous goof-up ever in the history of journalism. The photo below shows Harry Truman holding aloft Chicago Daily Tribune, which carried the wrong headline that Truman had lost the elections to Thomas Dewey, which he had actually won!!

Thomas Dewey incidentally was the first US presidential candidate born in the twentieth century.


I have also returned to playing FIFA 2005 on the computer. Its great fun really, much better than those shooting-killing type of games like the Counterstrike. The best part of the game are the awesome background soundtracks. They egg you on to play better and have fun!! I have begun to really like Spanish songs a lot now!!