SACHHHHINNNNN....SACHHHHHINNNNNN..!!!!

Whoaaa..!!! What a match...what a thriller...ohh my god....it just cant get any better....for all those(like my bro) who missed it, i feel pity for you...you dont even deserve the highlights of that innings...!!!!

First the bench hammers the so called regulars in every nook and corner of the park,and then we see the GOD...a real masterstroke...Any words would be small for that short but big guy...

Nobody does solos better than Sachin Tendulkar,except Brian Lara.Nobody has endured as much heartbreak during those solos, except for Lara. I just cudnt stop screaming.... SACHHHHINNN...SACHHHHINNN...!!!! during the match, and now i feel miserable....am just about in tears for that poor chap....they cudnt even score 19 of 17...that son of a b*** jadeja....wasnt he taught how to run....how can u run when the fielder has the ball in his hands...he dint think even once of sachin...???

It just reminded me of the horrors of that Chennai test...the same saga got repeated and Sachin was left deserted...again...Then he had left 18 for others to score and this time it was 19. Why hasnt he realised,he shud complete his work and rely on others...No wonder, why we Indians switch off our Tv sets when Sachin gets out....No wonder, why any Indian feels lucky if the smoke from Sachin's Ferrari even touches him...No wonder,I got excited when I got to know that my bhabhi's brother audits the IT files of Sachin...No matter we have Sehwags,Dhonis or Yuvrajs...no one commands that endurance.......no one even comes near it...At 36, he is still the only hope for the Indian team.

Well...What a gem of an innings...it even eclipsed the new record of 17000 runs amassed in ODIs...people were praying for him to get only those seven runs....but whoa,today the God was watching the other God create history....records are just a plaything for him....i bet there would have been innumerous crimes committed tonite....for today even the Lord was busy somewhere else..!!!

As is the superstition for every Indian, the same holds for me...I just kept quiet,even put my whole hand on my mouth,for I feared that if i spoke even a single word, something nasty might happen...i just forced everyone in the room to keep themselves shut...for sachin was batting...but still it happened,and it happened even though i did not remove my hand,.(i wish to kill that ass**** who removed his hand from his mouth if i find him)...(i know it is superstition,damn it)..and once that happned, i did not know how to react...i just threw the pillow against the wall and came out of the room banging the door as hard as possible(had to take care of dad'wrath also...).

Okk,let me (try to) control my emotions...First of all,all credits to the aussies for an awesome display of their batting and bowling skills,despite of the fact that it was a flat batting track...Even though,the aussies have a separate team of Unfit 11, still they managed to send chills down the spines of the regular Indian players...Munaf and Nehra elegantly showed how they can beat Ishant in giving away runs....Aussies bowled to the plan but somehow cud not get better of Sachin..he maintained the required run rate,even though wickets kept falling at the other end....though he found some company in Raina...

Who says the ODIs are dying...The younger aussie lot must have been bamboozled by the noise and the crowd in the stadium...it was just deafening....for they would not have seen such mammoth crowd in their whole lives....for they dont even find so many people in whole of australia...the crowd did not come to see aus bat,or even india bat...they came to see sachin score 17000runs...and he obliged...respectfully...but they still gave a splendid performance,unnerved in the end and providing a sweet but hard earned(despite the 350) victory to their team.

Watson must not be cribbing for not getting the Man-of the match...for he witnessed a much bigger stuff...something he may never witness again on the field...He setup the game for the aussies with blistering 93 and splendid, tight bowling,sending Yuvi and Raina back when it mattered the most...His efforts were almost a footnote on the night...

Hopefully, now those who speak of Sachin's retirement would lie low for some time....hopefully, the sehwags,dhonis and yuvrajs learn something from the grandpa(dadaji ke nuskhe..)....

I just cant control my emotions..i will have to go....let me see whr to vent out my frustation....

1 yr at inductis

Its been a long time since I wrote about something. Last time I had posted when i left cisco in bangalore and now am writing after I have left EXL(Inductis) in gurgaon.Rather I have my last day tomorrow though officially, I am no more a part of EXL(my official last working day is 30th Oct). 2 jobs in2 years...But this time its not for any other lucrative job or family or blah blah reasons(read,fundae given to others).....i had always known that working for someone is not my piece of cake..i had been telling this to myself for the past two years...but finally took this brave decision to quit and do something of my own or rather to say, something on my own.


Going into the flashback...when i joined inductis...nice pictures of staying with ma...niteouts with friends every weekend flashed in front of me when boarding the flight to Delhi.Soon I realised the dreams(atleast daydreams) are not meant to come true. There were no laptops provided to be broken, no routers to be damaged as in cisco...First day travelling on NH8 looked really cool...driving in 5th gear at speeds of 100kmph after those slow and sluggish rides in bangalore seemed thrilling.But the thrill was shortlived... boss gave a deadline to be in the office, arranged for a daily meeting at that time to ascertain who's "not" yet reached the office....and it seemed the whole world wanted to reach office at that time only....and u start remembering bangalore and India Shining again when u spend 16.67% of time on road.



The first project looked very exciting...though it has its crib of its own.....learnt lot many things about trading..infact generated a completely new interest in trading..the interest had been such that i was trading more and working less....was giving trading tips to the whole team...discussing stock market with every other person i met....thinking and calculating profits and losses on each trade the whole day....until the project ended.... It was also one of the best learning projects for me...working under a shrewd,successful manager(read CEO), working in a startup, working on a cmpletely new domain..there were so many firsts to this project....talking about some crib also....we were not allowed to attend the annual offsite of the company.....the security guard would search you(even your lunchbox) at the end of every day....gmail was "officially banned" but we always had ways to show the IT guy who we are...

but that was the end of the happy part...the next project was a complete opposite of the first one...US economy was in recession,the client was in doldrums...almost on the verge of bankrupty and everyone in the team predicting the "fortuitous" date...no chance of offsite, the manager saying everyday,"naya aur exciting kaam aa raha hai ladke",and since then the whole team has changed, but finally naya(not sure if its exciting.!!) kaam aa raha hai...finally it seems itni kurbaniyan kaam aayi...

Inductis to outsiders gives an image of a very good work ex and a very easy flight to US/UK,specially when u see ur frens travelling to one country after the another.and here I was..telling my ma and bro...see..am soon to fly off to US anytime now....!!!!

even these dreams had a story in this project when we just mocked about the other person catching the lufthansa flight to US in the luggage cabin.infact,each three of us had a near miss in making a tryst with destiny...

a no of exciting things happened even during tis project...found some good friends, found ppl who took my sarcastic banter too seriously and cribbed to the upper management....got in touch with ppl i had been wanting to get in touch with for past few years...

there is lot more to write about my year here...but may be some time later. have written after such a long time....so do not want to keep it too long....

but now have to concentrate on my studies for one month before i leap into a cmpletely new world of business where I would be my own manager, i would be working for myself.....and so much more....

the motivation to write came from my friend rajat....who wud put any crap on his blog to vent out his frustations....and he had innumerous things to crib about...i just hope wud again start writing blogs to vent out my frustrations....to use my personal space much more wisely...

Farewell...from my Bangalore friends

Its a bit ironical in the manner i ended my previous post and the manner i am writing this one.I have just returned from a "surprise" farewell given by my "elite close group" of friends i made in Bangalore.It began on an expected very lite raillery but ended on an unexpected heavy one.The bantering commenced as it had to, but took a bit serious turn by the end of the dinner when everything became sorta....something i am really bad at.


after it became all final that i wud be moving back to delhi very soon, the close grp started a mail thread about organising the surprise party(read treat) of which i came to know very soon, thanks to one of the members(and FYI..guys speak!!).A long discussion went on about whether whose treat was it, about the people, timings and place.It was proposed to be my treat for i was to return home in few days, but with the fairer sex on my side, i had little to worry about.They nicely took care that it turned out to be a farewell to me instead of a treat from me.so after long hectic discussions, the date and place was finalised for the "surprise" party. the whole process deserves a mention but may be not now.

the dinner began with the recollection of the past memories of one year with an intention to bring out some open secrets.It started with a demand for a farewell speech from me, which i resisted and tried to avoid till my last slice of parantha. i was told to tell abt how i felt about the guys individually...and to give the whole process a momentum, they began by how they felt about me.and then came my turn... i knew i am bad at these things...cant say all those senti much-much...always end up saying something wrong...which hurts the other person...but with everyone pressurizing, i caved in...they wanted to make me feel comfortable!!!!

Recollecting from the past, sometimes people blow minor things out of proportion to the point of embarrassment without realizing its consequences, that u start feeling as to why were u even a part of it altogether.it starts with pretty much good intentional humor on you which even u dont mind and enjoy with them but is stretched so much like a rubber band that it breaks, in the end hurting the people involved and i have already been party to this twice.why has it to be like that? why dont people understand that humor and sarcastic fun is always accepted and enjoyed but overdose of anything is bad for health.just because u think u are good at some satirical fun,which u may be not, u open the pandora's box..and still keep on continuing on that without caring about the end results.


i usually dont have a really "close" grp of frens. one, especially if she is a gal, needs to have at least one thing spl to be in that grp...and to ask me what that something spl about that person is...its a heinous crime u have committed....for it is impossible for me to express that in words...and in the process i end up saying something which shudnt have been said..the real thing remains buried...it always will be...

And the story was repeated again today.


the things mentioned above might be very obscure to understand but this is the only place that i can vent them out, i dont have to face anyone here...i dont have to answer anyone here...i dont have to see the expressions i would have to if i say that on face...its my space...i own it.


Generally, i think i am pretty good at reading countenances but i really wish I was wrong when i read those faces before leaving the place.

1 year at Cisco....

so finally last month i somehow completed my one year at Cisco. I have mixed feelings about my "work experience" in the past one year. this being my first job, i dont have much to compare with,except with my friends in different companies especially in Delhi.

The journey started with a 15 day accommodation on company's expenditures in a 3 star hotel suite along with a fantastic group. I would say that would be my best days in Bangalore till date.Made a whole lot of new friends, and learnt a lot about some whom i already knew before coming here.Got the first hand experience of how disastrous it is to be in company of notorious friends when in inebriated state and little consciousness..Though i enjoyed every moment..every drunken line said..."tu to mera bhai hai...saale wo teri bhabhi hai..." and the best one..."saala aaj se daaru band".

so the job started with orientation about the company work and policies in different star hotels.The food there sucked big time...after all door ke dhol sirf suhane hi hote hai...all other seemed pretty nice all that month..but now with rare parties and offsites, i can certainly say..bakre ko halal karne se pehle khilaya pilaya jaata hai.. ;) (Yahan to khana bhi barbaad tha..). The two types of trainings we had, had minimal learning and maximum fun... The seriousness could be gauged by the fact that people were watching obscene content even while the class was on.Infact, even today when my mentor asks me about what we were taught in the trainings, he would just get a deadpan expression from me...hopeless fellow...wondering what... had i even attended a training session also!!!Then there were some other "incidents" also during that time(making me infamous among the new hires) which do not deserve space here.

the actual work started after one month of training got over and we got to know about our managers and mentors. I had a change of 3 managers in a single day before evrything was finalised. The first meeting with my manager scared me off completely.First his vry serious looks with no smiles on the face and then with all his interview type questions in introduction....please let me go, i have to play!!...i started wondering about the veracity of statements people make about their bosses.But after knowing him for an year now, I can certainly say, he would be among the best in disguising people, though the real picture would be out there in a few days(ePM results awaited!!)... To quote a friend when he first met his manager: Yaar, he is awesome, really cool...i am going to have a great time now..awesome team, awesome work and now awesome manager.... and today he would be he most cribbing person about his work and manager among the new hires..looking to change team/company at the first opportunity he gets.

even the first meeting with my mentor was daunting.he handed me over 200 pages of documents to read over the weekend about some hardware i was to work on. Over this, he told me about the hard time the new hires generally have in the first year at Cisco, even working on weekends..delineating a very gloomy image for me.the day ended with we people playing some
carrom(finally, i got to play!!) and making some noises in the otherwise silent office, me sucking at the game..my worst show at carrom!!!

So I went through some of the pages over the weekend with no idea of what i was reading when on Monday my mentor again stumped me. He asked me to go through some quizzes and stuff..and then came the diaster...my first victim..The laptop fell from my desk and the screen was damaged...and i was found running here-there looking for some solution..some escape..wtf...will i get a new laptop..was all that on my mind!!Fortunately, everything fell in place...I got a new laptop within 2 days but made a decent dent in my BU's cofers... and i was ready to select some other targets....had already been bestowed with the "compliment: "mere hath tikte nhi hai...".

Soon I was getting used to the work environment...going thru the code with mentor's help...understaning the hardware architectures...solving customer issues..sometimes eluding my mentor with the alibi that i was not in the city and sometimes really coming to office on weekends.He would scan the code in seconds and ask me if we were going right....i wud just be humming "yes" at his every call...how would i know if we are going right...i would be left in no man's land when he would ask me to execute what he had said..i just had to run back to him with the question,"What and where do we have to make the change finally???"Now it was his time to show a deadpan face...


Speaking about the work culture here, I am definitely sure, you wouldnt find one better anywhere else.complete freedom to work anywhere, to speak out any of your grudges in front of seniors.."quite informal" environment...and many others say it all. Compare this to companies my friends are in where in you are allowed maximum 1 hr for lunch and even your entries are logged...

Though the initial six months were complete cribbing for me..so much that i had even scared people coming to Bangalore..reasons including the disatrous food(cant compromise over that)...the "frugal nature" of the company...but majorly due to factors external to cisco.But with all this in stride now i completely enjoy my stay here...the best part has been the birthday bumps..i have been giving some severe kicks to people who know me even remotely...noone forgets to call me during the bumps session but now i realise that very soon my ass would be on fire...for all those will be ready to avenge those hard hits.I know how i saved myself last year...

The maximum time of a software engineer goes in checking mails and sending forwards and i am no different...i get tons of fwded mails from my friends in/out cisco...Infact, the majority of mailbox space is filled up with those fwded mails than "important" mails..over this the Outlook has a poor searching algo...!!You see people getting senti over trivial issues..screwing someone just asking links for free hindi songs(that poor chap..would never ask again anything!!)...then clamoring over ethical and piracy issues and what more...no matter if they themselves be using pirated versions...you are simply horrified over stand people can take to convert even silly banter to sensitive issues...On the lighter side you see people going gaga over any gal, even little cute or pretty they see in the office...they change their timing of work, of play(yes, now they get time for this also!!), even for drinking a cup of coffee...they make funny jokes which she wud consider silly and has to bear...they try their level best to be even a driver for them...no wonder how busy a software engineer is...!!


Anyways...it is great feeling to complete one year at job...must have done something good to be still there...the whole team is asking for a treat...but then i have someone in my team to take care of this also...

One year away from home has finally passed quite slowly and there would be lot many stories to tell about my stay here..but maybe sometime later..this post is getting too big...The work and efficiency improves sporadically(only when my manager starts threatening me..!!!) though it would still not be a surprise if you find me napping in my cube in a proper sarkari fashion with legs on the table...

I am loving it..!!!

Terrorists and the Indian resilency

Headlines in various newspapers screamed:

Bangalore Bombed...
Bangalore,Ahmedabad..Who'sNext?

At one end we are celebrating our new iconic status in the world arena and at the other we are impotent enough even to protect the basic fundamental right of a human being-The Right to Live....

The frequency of striking at will is increasing at a pretty decent rate.Also is the fact that the terrorists are freely choosing the targets to strike,beginning with Kashmir, followed by Delhi and Mumbai and now the Tier-II cities too are now open to them....These guys seem to celebrate Diwali multiple times a year....at their own wish...

speaking of stats, the casualties were in hundreds with around 60 of them parted from their families for ever.Surat was lucky enough to get away with 26 live bombs defused, not a single of them going off...The Indian Mujhahideen claiming responsibility for all and warning of more such acts.


The modern terrorists have been improvising with great consistency and have been regularly beating the expectations of the security forces.with improvised devices, improved communication systems and networks and with highly skilled "recruits", the organisations hiring them are on a roll.add to this fact that they consider India to be a soft/impotent state...in other words..an empty vessel making just too much noise....and our hollow claims of being on the verge of superpower. Such has been the audacity of these organisations, that they now send emails beforehand informing of the blasts and mentioning the reasons along.Except in ’Bollywood masala movies’ Indian intelligence has rarely unearthed any of the terrorist plans. We get clueless after the attack and even fail to get hold of those who are sending emails before the attacks.


They have shown considerable dexterity and astuteness in selecting the target cities.the low intensity blasts in Bangalore show that the motive was just to create panic in the Indian minds, to create a pyschological fear in the minds of IT companies here and to strike the backbone of the economy. Ahmedabad was chosen to avenge the Godhra pogrom.The chosen areas of Ahmedabad were the places where the Muslims were the most affected.Then came Surat, the diamond polishing hub of India.All the bombs in Surat were found near the diamond industry -2 stolen Wagon Rs laden with bombs and 27kg of nuts/bolts--- macabre to even imagine the cataclysm had even one of the cars went off...How much are we prepared for this???


So what has been the government doing all along while these guys are having fun and making mockery in their own way??..Ah!!I think its a little busy..busy in securing votebanks of the minority communities in the next election...Probably that is why, we still have punishments awarded to the terrorists to be executed...Yes, I am speaking about the hanging of Afsal Guru. Are we waiting for another hijacking to take place so that this time some other Minister escorts him safely to the hijackers.i guess Shivraj Patil would be the best suited to do a Jaswant Singh next time this happens.The government gives a derisory argument in favour of dilly-dallying the issue:More than 15 petitons are currently pending before the MHA and it processes the applications in first come first serve...What a crap..!!!..are other crimes committed by those 15 people in line awarded capital punishment on par with terrorism??...These same so-called intelligentsia which was on the verge of being wiped out on Dec 13 2001, today does not even have time to pay homage to the martyrs in that attack...seem busy scheduling their next foreign trip !!!


We lack a political will, a political consensus on the issue of terrorism.These guys can have a discussion only after they get some free time from fighting amongst themselves...Even after the blasts, we continue to see the blamegame among the politicans...a preposterous and outrageous allegation goes as:"...the ruling UPA government had a conspiratorial hand in the blasts to divert attention from the allegations of bribery as well as to gain Muslim votes..." Please Take a break..!!

Every politician expresses "shock" after the blast,I wonder shock over what???As if they dint know it was coming!!! Everytime we are hit, we run crying to the US or the UN blaming the "foreign powers", censuring our neighbours for few days till the hoopla settles down and soon we are back to our normal business..forgetting everything..forgetting that such a thing ever happened...What a resilency the Indian people have..I have become a fan of it!!! I was ashamed to hear the innane platitudes from the mouth of our spineless PM about not bowing to terrorism & maintaining peace.Listen to our honourable Home Minister after every blast..I bet you, there will not be single word out of its place...its exactly the same what he would have said the previous time. To summarise:"The Indian people cannot tolerate such violent acts of terrorism any more(someone please explain me this line..).this was an act of desperation and these terrorists wont succeed in their disastrous acts.I praise the resilency of the Indian people(in other words..their short memory!!)".Compensations are announced along with the news of the blasts...I wonder, it would not be too long when we see the announcements even before the blasts occur... the resilent nation moves on..to get prepared for the next wake up call...

With every blast the question arises: How long will we be continue to bear this violence..and so comes the answer:Ohh yea, we can take one more in our stride...

I feel tht time has come to realise the importance of an Indian life now.. on one hand i can see Israel showing its clear determination to root out terror when just 3 of its soldiers are captured, here we hv 200 innocent civillians dying n no one even bothering to even think of taking an action..Our neighbouring state sends its condolences after the blasts n the time may not be far off when we receive such condolences in advance, just before the incidents even happen.I wont support all US policies against war on terror, but point worth taking a note is tht no terror incident happened in US after 9/11. Someone said

'Khasma shobti us bhujang ko
jiske paas garal ho
uska kya jo vishrahit,
vineet or saral ho'

( Forgiveness can be shown by only those snakes which have venom & can bite. Those who are weak dont deserve to give forgiveness to anyone)

So rather than mouthing innane platitudes about restraint, criticism & looking towards other nations for help. probably the time has come for indians to take charge of their own destiny.

I will end with what my room mate consistently sings at the end of every movie he sees: "Bharat mata ki Jai".

In the Line of Fire-A Memoir

So the other day, i was reading the (in)famous autobiography from Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf-In the line of fire- A Memoir.The book has already been in controversy since its launch last year.People from different sections and different countries voiced their protests against the incidents mentioned in the book thereby giving the book a notorious fame.So that also created an interest in me to read that book.Incidently, the name of the book coincides with an English movie about a psychopath who tries to kill US president.

Uptil now, I have read about half the book but have found it very difficult to digest it even after going thru the first 50 pages. No, the language is very easy to understand,infact, i think a normal 12th grade Indian english student can easily give the Prez a run for his "language".wat was difficult was the content part.

The book starts with a thanks to God for saving his life atleast 6-7 times uptil now. A prime example of the phrase "allah meherbaan to gadha pehelwaan". Then he describes his strenous journey from India to Pakistan during Partition and continues the story till date.In the process, he describes the events that took place in his life.He describes how a mediocre child transforms into one of the most coveted brains of Pakistan with successes in every field he steps into.His story of bravery starts when he was 5 and continues till date.He was one of the toughest boys and used to lead street gangs(no pun intended!!).

So later, the lad joins the army and climbs up the ladder due to his bravery and leadership skills. he mentions how the Paki army thrashed the Indian army in the 1965 war...ironically something which even the retired Paki army generals have jeered at."ek limit hoti hai chodne ki". he rarely mentions of the 1971 war..here also partly blames India for the second partition.and then comes the kargil war( a complete chapter to this) and needless to say,in the terms of the Prez, the so called mujahideens successfully dented the Indian army security cover and easily forced India on the backfoot and it was only because Nawaz Sharif accepted the ceasefire at Washington that shifted the defeat claims across the border.He insists that India has always suffered heavy losses whenever she encounterd the Pakis. Fortunately, he accepts that his military was no match to the US one when he was threatened by Colin Powell to be bombed back to Stone Age after 9/11.After reading the book, i feel that it would be nearly impossible for any country to have a soldier as brave and as successful as our dear Musharraf...Lucky Paki army!! And no wonder he claims the Pakistan Military Academy to be the best in the world....the field decided could be negotiated!!

He mentions how thru his leadership skills he inspired the young guns under him and instilled in them the confidence and the will to win.No matter where he was posted, success would always be at his feet. one instance of his skills is worth mentioning.he was in command of a regiment called "Men in Crisis". The unit was known for its bravery but though somehow lacked in sports.It performed badly in almost every sport it played. But after assuming command, our lieutenant colonel did the impossible...he transformed the team from a bunch of losers to winners of the championships in just one year...wat a great stride!! i wonder how he cud not meld the Paki cricket team into a team...may be the guys do not have in them..not our Prez's fault!!

The Prez then mentions how he reached the top of the ladder in the army and how he became President of Pakistan which was about to be declared as a defaulted state, which was overburdened with debt and corruption was at its peak thanks to the existing "democracy" and the corrupt political leaders like Nawaz Sharif and Benezar Bhutto and later how he transformed it into one of the fastest growing economies in the world through his terrific leadership skills.

The general remembers the dates of even minute events that happened 20-25 years back or even more...and at some places even the time in minutes(fortunately, not seconds!!)...this is something which any girl boasts of but here also, he can give her a tough fight and she would certainly have something to learn from the Prez.

At different times while reading, i felt of throwing away the buk filled with so much jactitation..but its the "charm" of Pervez Musharraf which forces me to continue reading it.

I somehow have managed to reach upto this point...it would be a wonder if i complete it.the book is 350 pages of complete self praise...about a person who never failed in his life(atleast the book story implies so..)...about a person who reached astonishing heights in whatever he did.Again its no wonder that the book was scoffed at by a large section of society even within his country.It is a must read for die hard every Musharraf fan or even for every strong critic..

rock rock rocking at india gate!!

Its engi time again..!!though this time it was spread over for more than a week...So the whole group was at the college for the fashp nite.For the lesser mortals engifest is the cultural festival of DCE and the paridhan-fashion parade is the most sought after event of the fest...for very obvious reasons!!It was a sort of reunion for all of us after a pretty long time.the stage was given a new look altogether.the already created dais(OAT) was reserved for the "highly esteemed" guests while a new stage was setup for the models to catwalk.

Like every year, the event was very successful.the students from the medical and the engg colleges put up a very gud show and infact we were able to utilise amber's new cell to its full potential.For the first time a DCE video and a music album has been launched and they were simply enthralling...just waiting for someone to upload them online!!The video and the album perfectly exhibited why any dceite would be proud of being a dceite...the outsiders need to have a look at it!! the event was follwed by a jam session, shortened by an altercation over a girl...as usual!!

It was already 1130 pm when we all started to disperse when all of a sudden (again!!) a plan to visit India Gate came into being.The most surprising part of the plan this time was ajit...the first surprise of the nite was his presence at the fest and then to add to the fun he "eventually" agreed to be the part of the "group". seems the guy is changing or quoting Rajat.."meri sangati me rehke thoda sudhar gaya hai".With 3 cars and my scooter the whole group of 9(this time aman missed out!!) moved towards the India Gate -some 25 kms away though we managed to reach there next day only(at 00:30 am)!!.

It took some time to find a suitable place to park the vehicles and when we found one authorised parking, the thulla asked us to leave for our home for a peaceful nite.par hum kaha manne wale the..!!A while later nipun found a different and safe parking spot...and we could spot some girls roaming even at that stroke of hour(unsafe delhi!!). A whole group of 8 ppl walking together would always seem threatening..the real threatening came to a guy, bargaining there for a colourful nite,when we all decided to race on the lonely road..the two were just terrified in horror and fear.Amit won the race,though his claim was very much disputable...he counted 1 2 3 all while running...the surprising runners up were Romit(good pair of legs) and Rajat(ohh man..how can he run so fast!!).Just to make it a bit clear, it was nearly impossible for 4 of us to even lift Rajat to give him birthday bumps a week ago.However,the result was so only because our "athlete" nipun did not participate in the race...he and amber preferred to walk down the lane.

It was already 130am and no one wanted to leave for home...that nite was certainly to be remembered for a long time...as the group would disperse after 3 months for their job or other responsibilities...but the memories wud remain last long..