started off with church n the marathon Samanvaya Youth Group meeting. many promising proposal for passive people. Lets hope these work. need to change thing big time. the sports meet sounded interesting. looking forward to the badminton part 0f it.
that was followed by meeting up with 2 of my college friends and one more friend of theirs. was good fun, while we were waiting for them brought 2 LP shirts at 30% disc. what an ego booster it was. but it took some time. badi bheed thi. saari duniya shopping ke liye aaj hi CP aayi si lagti thi aur kyon na ho, voh bhi meri tarah end of season sale ka wait kar rahe honge + kal pehli tareekh thi. even the eating joints were overflowing. we then went to an archie's shop. i picked up 2 clipper lighters - one with marlboro and the other one with 555 insignia. the store had a decent looking black zippo for some 1500 bucks. too tempting it was. i also got 2 friendship bands form my friends there. how dumb of me i forgot to buy bands for them. n e way, they understand me i suppose and wud have been expecting this form me. we parted ways at 6.15.
was time to meet next set of friends from school - GA, MG n SS. it was sort of unexpected meeting, fixed up in a real short time but there lay the charm of the matter, cud it work out? i decided to give it a good shot. i wud be meeting MG after 2 years n SS after 7 years. i wondered how it had turned out to be. during school we were just acquaitences, cud probably count the number of times we intereacted on the fingers of my hand n my feet. but some how caught up with SS on gtalk and it didn't feel like we had not interacted during school or the 7 years that ensued. i wondered why did we not interact in school, or more so why did i interact with so few people at school (and fewer of them being girls... what was the whole point of being in co-ed school??). n e ways, the original plan was to meet at m2k pitampura but then GA cud not turn up there n it was decided that all 3 wud reach CP as i was there already n it had better options to eat out. this left me with some more time for window shopping + actual shopping. got hold of a blackberry shirt at 50% disc. it was a plain vanila shirt but what matters at that time was the 50% discount. so materialistic i have become - mujhe apni antar aatma ko tatolna hoga...maine bhi moh maya ke peeche bhagna shuru kar diya hai...aisa kyon ho raha hai... (sounds filmy, will think about it later, abhi toh visa power - go get it) also brought a small toy steam boat.had my eye on it since long. amazing piece of science it is. still have not been able to figure it out how it works. will paint it properly with the shark tooth design (akin the one on the zippo lighter used by pyro in xmen) in the front n a good name at the rear.
7.45 n MG n SS arrive, sans GA. GA had to be somewhere else n said he wud try to join us but in the end cud not make it. the 3 of us decided to have dinner ASAP n head back home for the desert - reprimand from our parents for being out, late through the evening. we explored some options but the regular eating joints where still overflowing with people. we decided to try tao at e-8 connaught place. fine place for oriental cuisine, nice ambience it had. it was more of experimental oriental experience. we ordered won ton (a derivative of dim sum or the more desi version - momo), noodles in mandarin sauce, n beverages (including cranberry juice - its sounded really exotic)
the food was good. we chatted through the dinner on a variety of topics - school days, present status of classmates, matrimony, expected family reaction when we wud reach home beyond our cutoff times etc. we finally left the place at 9.45 to take metro back to our homes.
the interesting part of it was that we 3 actually met. to my surprise it was quite comfortable talking to them and it never seemed that we didn't know each other that well during school or that so many years had passed by since we left schoool. i was feeling a bit funny initially - meeting three classmates (including 2 womenfolk), at such a short notice, with whom i had interacted so little when i had ample opportunity - 12 years at school but now for some strange reason i was looking forward to meet them - tried my best to wrap up my previous meeting in time so that i cud attend the intended meeting at m2k pitampura, waited till the time they arrived at CP. though it was sort of late n all but i thought it wud be worth the effort and actually turned out to be more. may be its never to late to start something good. n what a better day cud it be than friendship day!!
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