Gosh.. I feel sooo.. happy

Man.... I really do feel a lot happy today... Am I drunk... Nope... Have I doped? definitely not... Dunno why I feel great!..... Discovering Self course has been a great experience.. Am greatly enjoying it...

Decided to go over to Taj for dinner as they were having a Punjabi Food Fest and we also wanted to show our friends from France who are on student-exchange from ESCP EAP, Paris; a taste of Punjabi cusine... The food was good.. I normally donot like the Taj food, but greatly enjoyed it this time... and we went in the Sumo rather than the usual jeep.. so the return journey with the cold night-time air was intoxicating... man.. I am on a high!!

FROM TOP LEFT...

That's myself; Akshaye; Anchit; Frederic; Chinmay; Paro; Rita; Bala; Anne; Bivudh; Arka & Kiran

Hellew Coffee...

For a change, time is going pretty slow these days. My classes won't begin until Tuesday and so I have loads of time to spare. With Orkut and tonz of movies on the campus server, passing time has never been an issue :)

Anyway, got bored of hanging around the hostel all day and so went to the city with Siam (my friend) yesterday. He had to buy a shirt. Since time was not at all an issue we went to a lot many stores, before settling on a blue striped shirt from the Indian Terrain showroom. Tried looking for a shoe for myself, but got scared off when I saw the price tag on a particular Adidas shoe which I really liked... Maybe in another year, when I start earning a buck, I would get my hands on one...


Many of the shops were still giving out their Onam discount offers in a last minute attempt to finish off stocks.. So, I finally bought an electric kettle. Having subject myself to the horrors of the canteen coffee for over a year, it was time I finally yield to the pressures of my tummy and buy a coffee maker.. Since, a coffee maker was a tad bit expensive, I settled for this 1.8l electric kettle. Bought, a pack of Nescafe and some sugar from the local shop... And now its coffee time!! (even though it is DIY...)


Also, went to Al Bake to round up our trip. We were pretty tired after all the walking and so gorged on Shawerma. Arabic food never tasted better... And today, as I sit typing this, my mind is already thinking of options for tonite...its been raining cats and dogs for the past few days and so going out options are limited...hmmm... praying for a really bright idea to click...

Back with a BaNg... (i hOpe)

Its great to be back... musing at random...

A lot of things have happened in the past few months... Came back from Calcutta.. fell in love in Kerala again... monsoons started... and a hectic 4th term came and went... went for a 3 day trekking trip (though we spent a good amnt of time sleeping in the tents)... Onam came and went... and finally I await the starting of yet another term tomorrow... hope it is not as action packed as the one that just got over... Hopefully I'll get time to breathe (and blog; of course!) coz I have taken only the min: credits this term... hoping to catch up on a lot of things like jogging; sleeping; blogging; movies; calling up friends; movies; books and a helluva lot more...

What prompted me to write today was the train journey from home by the Mangala express... unlike all my previous trips, this time the train was actually on time and the compartment was nearly empty... after reading a couple of articles from the latest issue of Outlook Traveller (yep, I'm an armchair traveller - BIG TIME)... I just started looking out through the window... It had started to drizzle and the landscape was all clean and green... man! Kerala is gorgeous...

That's when nostalgia hit me... about a long lost friend of mine... well, not exactly long lost coz we met sometime back.. but nonetheless long-lost... a friend who meant a whole lot than just a mere friend... we really did connect at a much deeper level... but that was "then"... what happened to all those feelings? somewhere along the way, we grew apart... now the distance is too unfathomabale to revive that old passion we had... friend, I really miss you... friend, I wish you were here with me... friend, I wish we could take all those long walks like we used to... friend, I wish we could talk for hours like we used to... friend, I wish we could play pranks like we used to... friend, how I wish you were beside me at this very moment... Oh! if only wishes would come true... if only....