Lancelot's Take

Monday, December 26, 2005

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??

15 Comments:

  • At 6:17 PM, Blogger Acroyali said…

    ei je, lets get meeting... wat say u? and do take care...

     
  • At 8:34 PM, Blogger Teleute said…

    merry christmas! and happy new year :)

     
  • At 11:05 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    kya be poora time khaate jaa raha hai? New Year Wishes C U in KGP

     
  • At 3:20 PM, Blogger rainbeau_peep said…

    Tandoor Park serves kNacha mangsho and a decent bloody mary. I say, this is important! Do u happen to know any .. yennyyyy shop at awl in South Kolkata that's keeping Pure Magic bishkoot? Maa kazme, every shop i go to is out - i shall die of deprivation very soon. :-[

     
  • At 7:23 PM, Blogger Lancelot said…

    @acroyali: :)) will do...

    @teleute: merry christmas and happy new year to you too... when r u going to enable comments again??

    @venu: thanks and same to u... see you

    @rainbeau_peep: all shops in jodhpur park are out of pure magic and have been for over a week now... trying times!!!

     
  • At 7:37 PM, Blogger Dipanjan Das said…

    ishh.. keezmas time and first time i am not in kolkata. enjoy the holidays.

    @rainbeau_peep: lots of lou for using maa kazme. hope you find the purest magic soon.

     
  • At 7:52 PM, Blogger Rimi said…

    okay, okay, you win! i haven't eaten at Tandoor Park (and thank god, i hate bloody maries), happy? but where at City Centre did you eat?

    this Pure Magic thing seems to be affecting the whole city. none near my place either! (but then, i DO stay ekkebare graame...:()

    oh, and nearly forgot...HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

     
  • At 11:05 PM, Blogger Sue said…

    Is this the Jodhpur Park Tandoor Park? Because I have funny memories of that place.

     
  • At 11:07 PM, Blogger Sue said…

    Oh and guys... I have Pure Magic at home. Just thought I'd mention it.

     
  • At 12:30 AM, Blogger Dreamcatcher said…

    I have pure magic - chocolate flavour. my cousin loves it so my aunt likes to stock up. she still has some 5 packets left. used to like Tandoor Park till the time they served us a fly in the fish types thingie my cousin was having and she got sick and u dont need to know the rest

     
  • At 12:20 PM, Blogger Lancelot said…

    @dd: yes but keezmas is just as good if not better where you are.

    @rimi: we ate at a kathleen right outside for snacks. Dinner was after city centre at his place.

    @sue:yes it is. What funny memories?? and thanx for mentioning it-grrr

    @ dreamcatcher:my god, does everbody in the whole wide world have pure magic except me( and rainbeau peep)?? and has everybody in aforementioned world been to tandoor park?? god, i live a 100 yards from the place and went thr for the first time, only coz it was such short notice and so late!!

    @everyone: happy new year

     
  • At 7:31 PM, Blogger Gee said…

    happy new year to you to lance

     
  • At 10:55 AM, Blogger shaunak said…

    shudhu kheye beralei cholbe !!!!
    what happened to all the work you were supposed to do here ???

    anyways good to see you finally enjoying :P

    btw, who is G ?
    Happy New Year :)

     
  • At 7:36 AM, Blogger Casablanca said…

    The dreams don't leave me

    Tell me about it! I wish I could have some real peaceful sleep, and if there have to be dreams, can they be reallllllly pleasant? Like involve Brad Pitt or someone? :p

     
  • At 10:19 AM, Blogger Lancelot said…

    @herenow: thanx

    @shaunak: yes, yes, i know... phire eshe dekha jabe!!! having too good a time :D

    @casablanca: exactly... why cant i wake up feeling like a million dollars instead of the kind i wake up to...

     

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