Christmas, Nightmares, Lamborghinis....

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Ah, no, I have not retired. Trouble is that i am always behind schedule. While the semester is on, I am behind schedule in terms of assignments, and after it I am behind in terms of sleep. Making up leaves little time for posting. Add to that the season, catching up with friends, and you will realize that half my day is spent outside home and the other half sleeping. If you don't find that funny, you should join the club my parents are about to start-they don't find it funny either.

In other news, I have been exploring Kolkata further ;D After KFC the last time I posted, I visited Sourav's on Christmas Eve. I know this one's been around forever as well-it's just me who hasn't been!!! It was an Ok sort of place, actually slightly better than that-fairly decent. Just that it really didn't have anything really out of the ordinary. Followed that up with a visit to St. Paul's around 10 30. Place was decked up and looked really nice. It always does, of course, but usually you won't find it swarming with the number of people as on this occasion. Proceedings began once the governor arrived. We left about 20 minutes later. Quite impressive, though, to say the least.

A did come down for the vacations and it was great to see him after a year and a half. Has thinned down!!! Still quite huggable though :D Had him stay over at my place last Thursday(I think, or Friday), following dinner at Tandoor Park. And all you people who claim to have been through every eatery in cal, lets see how many of you have eaten there??? ;D

Anyways, after swapping stories through the dinner, during the course of which we mistook a man for a woman (err, no we, hic, weren't drunk, just that that guy had the locks to put old Rapunzel to shame), and then late into the night, both of us fell asleep sometime while watching Sahara.

We were due to meet S and G at Tollygunge Metro station. More discoveries in Cal for me. Hardly expected the Metro to be a hot-spot, but there were as many well-dressed, good-looking people outside that terminus as in any restaurant at any point of time in any day. S arrived in due course and promptly proceeded to amuse us by standing right in front of us, and scanning the crowd directly oppposite. I now realize most of my friends are very huggable!!! Think it was our guffaws that gave it away in the end. G called up to say he wouldn't be able to make it to Tolly Metro, so would we please go to City Centre instead??? Hardly reasonable, but we did anyways, and were rewarded with dinner there :)) Thankfully, any conversation that went on there will never leave the place, for it was the most inane and senseless ever. Thoroughly enjoy this kind of inane break with everyone at top form with their PJs.

Oh, and there was a performance on at City Centre. Bangla rock, it seems, is the in-thing. "Jhi-er pete Ma-er jonmo..." (or the reverse, can't remember) screamed the lead singer at the top of his voice to the accompaniment of an impassioned guitarist and a frenzied drummer, and we beat a hasty retreat before he consigned Baba to the same fate. I am sure the lyrics had a level we never reached, and this is not to hurt anyone who might love the song, group or any one or more of the artistes, but you cannot ignore the situational humour. Santas swarmed about the place to the extent that I felt slightly guilty for not having anything red on.

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Saw Bardaasht-yes, I do seem to be THAT jobless!!! Thought Lara Dutta looked more attractive than I have seen her yet.

Apparently Lamborghini is launching in India. Prices in the region of Rs. 1.5 crore only. Unconfirmed sources-dont kill me if it is wrong. I dont mind a gift if it is right though.

Andre Nel dropped Ponting on 17 but made up for it by taking his wicket. Didn't let Ponting add more than a 100 after that.

Milan Baros must have scored the most blatantly "handball-ed" goal ever against Everton today. How the ref dint notice was beyond anyone.

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The dreams don't leave me. Every sleeping hour is like a movie(w/o tickets fortunately). Weird dream after weird dream- they just keep on coming. Worse, nobody gifted me a Lamborghini in any of them. No fun. You had any??

Sunny side up

By all accounts, it was a miserable semester. While some things (dont ask me what, take a long time to think!!!) went somewhat according to plan, a whole lot just implemented some kind of random "next move" theory. In spite of that, just one aspect of my life almost fell into place right at the end of it. The academic aspect. And then it didn't. A terrible display of inane grading habits by a couple of professors(well, 3 actually) ensured that what probably should have been a 9 remained an 8+ only. What hurts is not missing out, but missing out when you deserve it.

And of course the other side. Somehow, all my life, I relished situations where people told me it couldn't be done that way, or this won't work out, or there's no chance. It was sort of a kick battling the odds. Not that I made miracles happen, but simply go against the odds to make a possibility a reality. My friends are somewhat used to me doing crazy things at times. Nothing outrageous, just unexpected.

In spite of that, they asked me "Why??"
"Why this, after what happened just one month back??"
Surprise was a common emotion. And I smiled and said that I was basing my conclusions on the results of some tests. And that if it worked out, it could probably change my life!!!

Not many agreed, but they didn't go beyond the warnings because they knew I wouldn't change my mind!!! And sadly enough, I proved them right. Now I know why we need to take 10 readings and not 1!!!! Not that it helps coz I will have to start from scratch again. But what astounds me is that of the 5-6 parameters I had judged, I was wrong on every count. Just the sort of thing that makes you feel that you are in the wrong profession!!!

And Venugopal and the whole CSRG group might just kill me. HALP!!!

On the sunny side, had a bit of adventure early in the hols with a drive to Kgp to get my comp back. 145 km each way, and I had to drive the whole distance, coz only Baba was there and he can't drive!!! Total driving time of 5 and a half hours. We started at 4 in the morning and were back by 12 for a lunch invitation. Ma must have called up 20 times.

A couple of friends coming down for the winters and so I expect to have a good time.

Oh, and I guess staying so long in kgp is the reason I'm so late and I'm sure everybody's already been there, but if you haven't, go check out Kentucky Fried Chicken at City Centre. Awesome.

Mama, I'm coming home!!!

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On my way home.

WHEW!!!

A disaster of a sem behind me...

But at least made up partially by a couple of projects that I am excited about at hand right now, the prospect of great food, free chocolates(err, not free exactly, but not my money!!) and a great winter on the cards. Will probably have to come back again sometime next week, because the TAs were too lazy to put the marks on the site.

Could have taken the 2 30 train in the afti... but the two of us are still looking for two others so that we can play bridge on the way back... taking the 5 30 as of now... hoping we can find two ppl who can play the game... :D

suddenly life doesnt seem all that boring anymore...

YO!!! home after 12 weeks with only a snatched 20 hour drop-by in between...
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