Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Back in Touch with MG

In what turned out to be a fantastic stroke of luck, somebody sent me a link to 'Names Database'. Rachel had sent this to me previously but I had probably not registered then. This time i did, in the hope of reestablishing contact with Mayukh. Had to give 24 emails to them before they let me use their database but it proved worth it when I found the one Mayukh Goswami I was looking for from among all who exist in the world. This happened about 10 days ago & since then we've had a flurry of emails & telephone calls exchanged. It's great to be back in touch with somebody who was a great friend in school. Thank God for technology!

The Easter + Holi Weekend with Div

Good Friday fell on Friday, the 25th of March, 2005 and we consequently got the day off from work making it a 3 day weekend. The next day was Holi i.e. Saturday, the 26th of March, 2005. Taking advantage of this & also to use up his block booked IA tickets, Divesh flew down from Delhi. Went with Sid to pick him up at the Airport. It took 1.5 hours (2 bus rides & 1 auto ride). From the Airport we headed for STYX, the 'Heavy Metal' pub on M.G. Road. Anupam had given Sid a free expense account worth 2000 bucks & we spent half of it. Sittu missed out as he was finishing his part of the project at Ashwin's O.D.C.

Next day (Holi), Div went for a tour of our campus with Sid as I had got up late. Joined them (Sid, Div & Sittu) at 11 and we headed for Madiwala where we were to meet Ankesh. Harsh came to receive us after some waiting & promptly managed to get lost himself! Somehow, we made tracks to where Ankesh was with some of his B.C.A. friends from B.I.T. The guy was almost totally sloshed out on 'Bhang' & was planning to play Holi with us. The 4 of us soon beat a hasty retreat to 'The Forum Mall' & got ourselves tickets to 'ZEHER' in PVR's Gold Class @ 130/- each! But the movie and its songs + the ambience & the acoustics made up for it. 'Wo Lamhe' would be the background score running in my mind for the remainder of the day & the next.
Post movie we went to 'STYX' again. I had 2 Tequilas (the first time ever) & also managed to convince Sittu to down one. He became caught in the flow & had soon sent Holi greetings to Nivedita via SMS. He's absolutely besotted with her. Followed this up with window shopping on M.G. Road. Chatting up & remembering old times at B.I.T. was a good way to kill time. Soon had 'Shravarma' rolls for dinner & returned.

On Sunday (27th) evening, we returned to the old haunt 'Forum' once more. Div bought a shirt/kurta thing that's so popular these days from Tommy Hilfiger for 3800/-. Returned with 4 beer bottles & the 4 of us drank & chatted on the roof till 1:30 a.m. Div has to take the flight back today at 8p.m.

Monday, March 14, 2005

Project Done

We've somehow managed to complete the initially assigned project. Sid worked his ass off and sometimes made me feel like a non contributing member of the team. And that client visit I talked about in the last post never happened.....all the tension for nothing.

Port 3306 on the live server (isthmus.wipro.com) became a real thorn in the flesh in the path of completion of the part Sittu & me were doing. Took 2 weeks for it to be resolved by WIPRO's IMG dept.

Started listening to music at work since last Monday. Sittu got a great pair of Sony earphones for 190 bucks from 'Big Bazaar'. They sound great.

Stayed in office till 11:30p.m. with Sid on Friday (11th March).

Yesterday was the first time I wished I hadn't started drinking. A bottle of Haywards 5000 really had my head spinning.

Roxettes 'It must have been Love' is a damn good song. The lyrics let you experience the pain of separation from a loved one even if you haven't experienced it ever before. Fantastic!

Am really developing a liking for Rap, Hip Hop & BhangraRap. Artistes: Nelly, 50 Cent, Jazzy B, Sukshinder Shinda. Hope 1 day I have a car with a loud enough music system to play them in.