Washed out weekend

Went to Soumya's on Friday evening. Raghu's bought himself a Daschund pup & named him 'Lucky'. Everybody in the house ..... Soumya, Arvind, Satish, Animesh & his girlfriend Dipti have taken to fawning over the little thing. It was raining really heavily .... heavy enough for me to delay going back to my place ..... a distance of about 50 meters.

Saturday afternoon found Prateek, Sittu & me on S.P. Road looking for cheap deals on Discmans. The cheapest one we spotted cost 3500/-! The place is good for computer & hardcore electronics hardware, but consumer electronics ain't it's forte. Went on to Majestic which too turned out to be useless. Back to base at Forum, inside which we had to stay standing for about an hour and a half as the rain outside just wouldn't relent.

Sunday afternoon & Ajay had to buy a book on ABAP, for which we decided to visit M.G. Road, not aware of the fact that most bookstores there are closed on Sunday. Drew a blank & had to take shelter under a store front since ..... yes, the rains were back. Took an auto back to Forum. The meter's speed matched that of the auto's & we were royally ripped off of double the fare. Onto Madan's then for dinner & a round of drinks & back home, the rain being a constant background presence throughout.

There were some high points though .... Sania Mirza reached the 4th round of the US Open where she faced Maria Sharapova & predictably, lost. But her wins made big news, so much so that India's ODI victory over New Zealand while chasing, yes chasing 280 was reduced to a side story. Now how often does that happen? Also, I got to hear Car Crashes (by Standfast) after a long, long time on Radio City. And, .... umm, yeah, that was it for the weekend.