A la carte...

À la carte (also à la carte) is a French expression meaning "from the menu", and it is used in restaurant terminology



Last friday night the menu read...Prehistoric sandwiches from CCD...Or 'Cockroach Fantasy' from Barista...I was depressed...I decided to refrain from excercising my palette on these remotely delectable items..


[A] Dude...I want home food..Now..Now..


[Me] Buzz off..Go catch a flight..Go home..Hog and come back tomorrow..


[A] No dude..I'll find a way out..Lemme rack the seething moonlit corridors of my mind..I'll surely come up with something...


[Me] Ya..Ok..As you wish..


[A] I already know what to do...


[Me] Wonderful..


[A] Lets hit Aks' home for food..


[Me] Buhahahaha.Ha Ha Ha..Why dude...Why the trauma n all.??..


[A] I'm gonna cook..So nothing can happen..


[Me] Ya right..I'll drop you there..Cook, eat and then call me..I'll pick you up..


[A] Utter waste you are dude..


[Me] I know..But I'm not taking any risks..


[A] Ok..

5 mins later...

[A] Dude you gotta be kidding me when you say you dont want to eat home food...and that too when I cook it!!!

[Me] Hehe..Dude...I know you're missing sam n all and want to cook badly..But remember the final chef's touch n all is only cos sam is present...

[A] DUDE..I cooked for 3 months when I was in Denver...

[Me] Did you eat it too??? :-O

[A] Ya dude..If you cant believe get lost... I'm going ok...

[Me] Hehe chill dude.. Lets go.. Even I don't mind eating some home food. But I so wanna finish this interface dude.. I've got some really bad deadlines, and the tunnel is not synchronizing properly..

[A] :-O .. Whats all that dude.. Teach me also..This weekend???...Anyways lets hit her house today by 9..What say?? V for Vendekka???

[Me] Done macha!..

8:00 pm... A becomes machan n all now... So beware!!...

Machan is busy with a call and wont budge...Me finished with all the stuff and rearing to hog on some good food.. Even though I put up a facade of disapproval and sarcasm its very often just a show.. ;-) ..Nothing more.. I evince this glee that I see when sarcasm hits intended target with supersonic velocity n all... So I know A cooks well.. But there's someone else too... Aprehensions creeping up now!!...

8:45 pm....

[Machan]: Don't worry V.. I'll handle all the pressures.. I'm the offshore lead na.. My resources will put in extra efforts through long hours and weekends at office.. 3 objects na.. Deadline when??? 15th ah! .. No way...I'll have to push my team little too far..I'm not upto that.. 14th is perfect... V is more than glad.. A's team glares at him in fury...

[Machan]: Don't worry team.. We can make it if we work as a united force.. This is a test of how dynamic we are as a team and how strong our basics are.. If we prove that we are a team that puts in the best and smartest efforts, we'll go real far and gain that irrestible thing called 'Consulting Acuman" ...

[Team member]: Sir "Acumen".. [Actually Insulting Acumen.. thooo..]...

[Machan]: Nice... You are right!.. You are so close to that my man!!...

[Team member]: But we'll need your experience and support with client interactions...

[Machan]: Totally boss.. The reason is because I need to foil plans of the client team to take all tasks off our plate (I'm so hungry!!...Bloody its 9...)and do it themselves... They tried it once too many times.. Now its time for V for Vendetta n all.. (actually V for Vendekka.. but you guys work... Mein to Chala.. )

[Me] Dude.. We got to push off.. Its pretty late...

[A] I was adressing team dude.. They need a role model n all...

[Me] I know!!... So you are not coming right? I can have home cooked food for myself.. Yippeee...

[A] What??.. You said you were not coming...

[Me] Dude you know me... I insult but I never mean it... I though you would take it personally and not come n all.. Then I could have had some peaceful time by myself...

[A] Ha ha ha ... I'm so not going to allow that!!!...

[Me] Hehe.. Ok ok.. So come along.. I'm packed... Lets get your fav vendekkas.. (and see what the hell comes out of them...)

[A] You rock dude!!... Lets go.. (in an alto!!)

[Me] (FISH !@#@#@#%.... Cant you keep your RBSPJs to yourself...)

[A] What did you say???

[Me] Nothing nothing.. I'm hungry... Lets go... Lets call her n ask what stuff we might need dude..

[A] Ya ya..

[Ak] Oi... Enna da.. Its 9 already...

[Me] Hey... Got a little late da... What are we cooking dude??...

[Ak] Something and all dude.. You are gonna work right??.Why should I tell you n all.. Give the phone to A...

Me] Okies...

[A] Ehhh.... Vendekka!!!... Pulllaaarrikithu paaa.... I wanna soo eat vendekka dude...

[Ak] Ya da... We'll make it.. Just watch... It will come out so well that bloodyyy fellow would have his mouth watering...Paaru..Paaru..

[A] Heaheahehaehae...I'm so game...

Zoom past some open municipality trucks carrying garbage and crows... Some trucks carrying buffalos... Some on the road itself...Race past paddy fields...Past a waterfall...Past a earthen road...Through gorges...and streams on the road...Quadrupeds howling in unison in groups...Some cave men strewn on the road.. Some wierd creatures... Some old brick houses...Then caves...Then some dodos...Then nests...That too many...Ohhh...

Got carried away... I was basically in Kondapur... Nearing Aks' place..

Sorry... Can see lotsa buildings around.. Got confused which is which... Finally got the correct one.. There's some inscription on the building in some native language.. Swahili I think...Never know..

[Me] Oi..Machan lemme just call and find which building dude...

Dialing...

[A] Its ringing?... HA HA HA ...

[Me] Ya ya ...

[Ak] Hoiii... Enna daaaaa...Bluddddeeee u r so late... :-X ...

[Me] Dude... Which one is your building da... All look the same.. I totally dont remember...

[Ak] Enna da loose... You cant even remember which one it was??? Its the one called shilpa dsfkjasdfkjasf dude...

[Me] :-O Once again please... What is dsfkjasdfkjasf???...

[Ak] Aaaarggg... Dude... A ta koodu.. Nee waste da...Who wants to talk to you da!!...Buzz off... Give it to A..Now...

[A] Enna maa!!.. Ennna panre... Sambhar lam ippove vasanai varthey!!!...

[Me] ....

[Ak] Aman da.. Onnakaka panni vechachu.. Inge vandu saapta porum.. Loose.. Avanku onnum saapda kudukkakoodathu..He wants to work from here a!!Bluddddddeeeee..!!!... Done?.. Game??

[A] Totally.maa.. Here we come.. Floor 20 na..!! 2nd flat to the right of the lift... Done.. Vandachu.. Appram pakkalaaam!!...

[Me] :-O

[Ak] Boiiii....

[A] Ok...

[Me] ...

[Ak] Hoiiiii....

Me n A step into this heaven like room... Man... Stuff in its place n all... We
were like amazed... This was what a house could look like???... Phew...

Cooking and eating disasters to come!!!.....First digest this much... :-P ...

[Me and A] Hii...

[Ak] Vaango..

[A] Pasikardhu...

[Ak] Ulla vaada.. Vella ninunde enna panre..

[Me] Heyy...Bean bags...Wow..Thats a big teddy dude...Reminds me of my dog... :(

[Ak] Ok you have fun with it.. I really dont like it... I shouldnt be saying it actually.. :-) Was like a gift daa..

[A] Hey kitchen enge da.. Ennaku romba pasikardhu... Rice dal lam panni mudichache???

[Ak] Aman da.. Elaam mudichachu... Ini sapta porum.. :-P

[Me] Hey ennakku comp connect pannanam.. Mgr ippo IM check panni if he doesnt find me I'm screwed..

[Ak] Lemme remove my comp.. Damn... New Dell a?? Evalavu memory da?? 2 GB ya!!.. Man.. Mine too.. :-P ...

[Me] Hmmm...

[A] Seri seri avan work pannatum.. Just stand back and watch the master chuff in action... ;-)

[Ak] Ya man.. Lets make some awesome sambhar.. He'll like totally forget the Sambhars that he has had...

[Me] Buhahahaha... I'll forget how Sambhar all together tastes like dudes... Spare me... :-P

[Ak] Hmpffff....

Both of em stomp into the kitchen.. I can hear some voices.. Something about onions already been cut and just waiting... I decide to just step in..

[A] Dei.. Enna panre.. Anda patram la eppidi sambhar pannuve da???

[Ak] Last 6 months aa ithula thaan sambhar panninen da..

[Me] Ha ha... Thats what you've been thinking you made last 6 months... :-P Aarku theriyum sambhar a vere ennamo pannineyaa...

[Ak] Ivan romba pesraan... Poi vela paaru da.. Loose..

[A] Ehh... Puli fulla podreyaa!!!... Athu tumbler la pottu smash pannavendama???

[Ak] Illa da... Naan ipidi thaan sambhar panuven... It comes out well only.. Dont worry...

[Me] heaheahae...that piece better not land on my plate... (Eventually it did.. :-( ) Its freaking hot here dude... How do you manage to cook here???

[Ak] Aman da.. onnakaga inge cooler fit panni tharen.. Po po.. Vela paaru..

[A] Hey close that door da.. Its open..

[Ak] Ennamo da.. Its not closing.. Keeps on opening.. :-(

[Me] Hehe.. Scary kitchen... All the plates are like trying to run out...

[Ak] Ennaa??

[Me] Onnu illai.. Me getting back to work...

I get back to my work...Can hear some calm, angry, scary, boiling noises... Wonder what food they are making that gets so noisy!...

[Ak] Ho maaan... Its so hot in there... Almost ayachu.. Vendekka la en da sambhar podi lam potte??? Nee fulla saptudu..

[A] He He... 3 months da.. In Denver (Me>>Here he goes again...)... Everthing I made, I put sambhar podi.. It so rocks... Yaarkite vennalum kelu... I cooked really well..

[Me] (Sniggering..I remember we used to make maggi, panneer, tomato, potato, any curry on earth with sambhar podi as the staple ingredient... One more hopelessly trapped unsuspecting victim...)

[Ak] :-( My pulpy orange is over.. :-(...I can soo see a full one...

[Me] Take it dude...:-)

[Ak] Waste da nee... Anyways I'm taking it...

[A] Oi.. Ennalamo kitchen la kodichindirruke..

[Ak] Ayachu da... Sambhar readddy...

[A] Paruppu paaru.. Nanna araichirukkanam.. Its there all throughout the Sambhar...

[Ak] Avlo porum da...Vendekka is freakin spicy hot dude... :-(

[A] Hehe.. It is... Magic of sambhar podi...

[Me] Aman aman.. 3 months of blah blah blah...

[A] Ask madhu da.. He knows how well I made stuff...

[Me] Ya ya .. Totally...

[Ak] Hmmm, plate a kaningo...

[A] :-O enna periya respect lam da!!!...

[Ak] Oh sorry da... My mistake da.. I shouldn't show respect n all to him...

[Me] Ya ya .. You guys cook n then experiment on me.. You ought to show some respect... :-P

[Ak] Avlo than da... Major rubbin on wrong side of me...

All of us eating quitely... And I never eat quitely unless the food is real good.. and it was damn good... Reminded me of mom n all.. No.. Not that major a scene... :-) ...But I can swear I'll eat again given a chance...

Rest of it later...

Note: Its a kind plea from me to the protagonists of these tales to keep being themselves..The way they are!!! This is just plain world as I see it everyday :-) ...

Foresight...

Thoughts running through my mind,
Sights flashed across leaving me blind;
Along came a fork, and the signs whispered left or right...
And my prickled conscience said walk on straight...

She begged, beseeched…Its a quagmire that you'd find ahead,
But I trudged along paying no heed;
Racing down the trail came a white steed...
Beamed up and rose; With all its grandeur against the rising sun...

Mythical was its silhouette...
I knew the challenge that was up ahead of me..
Dreams…desire…Affections;Heaved out her amorous afflictions from my soul...
Her screams died and left my mind...

Flamboyant and radiant was the steed,
I was left gaping with awe...
Beckoning to follow, my diffident steps trailed on;
Between bushes..trees..dense forest..I treaded along...

Green surrounded me all around...
Birds chirped the sweet songs of sunrise...
Solace and calm filled my confused soul...
And pacified the deafening uproar that shrouded it for long...

Suddenly amidst the trees came a clearing...
And the cosmic horizon engulfed us in its serenity...
I could feel the clouds caress my outstretched hands..

And then I heard a familiar voice...

I turned around and found her...
The steed with its sinuous mane was gently prodding her comely face...
She whispered sweet nothings in its ear...
And them both plodded along towards the horizon..

Never to be seen again...

Homely Bound...

Bhaiyya...Chetta...Ekkada pottunava...
Wind up the windows and sit tight...
Look at your phone...
Type furiously...
Make sure you dont make eye contact...

Rewind...
12 hours back...
[Ma] Da..When are you coming???
[Me] I told you na, I'll be home last week of Apr...
[Ma] That's too late...You should come here before that..How long has it been since I saw you...It's not fair...
[Me] I know...Client pressure na..I have to really justify with strong reasons if I'm taking a week off...
[Ma] I can't understand your blah talk da...If you say so then its ok...
Within 5 mins...
[Dad] Daayyyiii...Enna panre??You are in office even now???How come??? What are you doing anh??..I think I should come there and check how you are n all..
[Me] Noooooo...You'll never get to see me..I'm not a normal person I say, I sleep by the day and am superman ahem super coder in the night!
[Dad] Appidiya...I know you are working hard and all..Aana odamba pathukodaa(take care of health da)..
[Me] Ya..I just had an interview with ma 5 mins back...Why don't you guys sync up your calls and speak at the same time.
[Dad] Oh is that..Next time I'll do that.
[Me] Ok..Thats the 100th time you've said that.
[Dad] Da...We're concerned for your sake, thats why I call even if ma has spoken to you..
[Me] I give a damn...Please..I'm in office...I'll talk later...
[Dad] Bangs the phone down...

I'm totally pissed off...

I need to talk to someone...I feel like I can bang my head on the wall...whaaaaaaaaa.......Who can I speak to????

I start nibbling through my contact list...

Anand?? Naa he flings abuses like crazy when he's 1. Drunk, 2. Sleeping and 3. Drunk and sleeping. Its in ascending order, and happpens to be Friday night. So no points for the correct answer.

Home?? Ok let me call...

...
...
No one picks even after ringing 20 times...
Pissed off level 2..

Meet up some folks from the floor...Talk general rise and fall of tides in the market..ahem..Kidding...Talk about how depressing it is to code at 2 in the night...

10 mins...

I'm back alone again...
Nibbling through phone list...

Cousin...Ya she would have slept..But its ok to call...
So I call, and vent a lot of frustration...Poor girl listens to all the crap half asleep and dozes off..

By that time I'm in transport area and looking for my cab...
I get into a cab thats designated to go to my area...Its almost full..
Some lady comes by and asks..

[Ladie] Is your name on the list?
[Me] No its not.
[Ladie] You better check with transport.Because some of my guys [:O] will come in this cab...I can't drop all of you and then get dropped...I stay a little far you know..
[Me] Ohhhhhk...How many of them...
[Ladie] There are many...
[Me] I mean, How many of them, as in number of your friends, are coming...
[Ladie] Many..

I dont think she understood english. So I head out and meet Javed Bhai..

[Me] Sirji...Ameerpet ke liye cab chahiye...Woh ladki bol rahi hai ki cab full hai..Abhi sirf char log hai woh cab mein...
[Javed Bhai] Aap fikar nakko karo bhaiyya..Unich caban mein beitto saab ji..Jagah nahin hai tho aur bhi cabaan hai hamare paas...
[Me] Teek hai sirji..Thanks...

I head back and sit in the same cab..This time I go and settle in the back...There's a spare tire under my leg and just 1 more person can fit in the back...
Ladie not very happy...

I call up my roomie and swear in english like crazy about how employees are not co-operative with folks who work for the same firm and have just done 16 hrs of work...come and sit tired in the cab and are supposed to fight for the cab...

Ladie frantically calls up all her 'guys' who 1 by 1 drop out saying they are not coming...

Cab leaves and almost reaches exit, when ladie stops the driver and says one of her guys are finally coming...
We wait and wait and wait for 10 mins...No sign of her guy...

I loose all my patience...

[Me] How much more time will this guy take?
[Ladie] FROWNNNNNNNNN....
[Me] Ok, you know what, only 1 more person can fit here anyway, and that security has to come for your sake...So I'm going in another cab if that's what you want..Thank you..

I get off the cab..Bang the door shut...

[Javed Bhai] Kaa hua saheb???
[Me] Woh cab abhi nahin jayega...Wohi ladki cab ko pakad ke rakhi hai..Mujhe time nahin hai boss uska khel khelne ke liye, dusra cab de do..
[Javed Bhai] No problam dosth...

I get an Indica, and it goes past the cab with the ladie...
2 folks jump out of ladie's cab and flag my cab...
Cab stops and they get in too...
We all reach our destinations in 20 mins, thanks to some good driving skills of the driver...

Saturday 31-March..Morning 10 o clock...
Call from home...
[Ma] Hey I found many calls from you yesterday night..Was it anything important...
[Me] Forget it...I'll never make a call again... I was just wondering...If it was an emergency and you guys never pick up calls...What is this??...I'll never make a call again...Listen I'm not very happy..I'm going to call up at 630 in the evening...
[Ma] Ok..I'll be there...Won't go out anywhere...

Afternoon 3:45...
I board IC 618 to Mumbai...

Evening 6:00...

I'm in the cab and moving through the multitude of roads in Mumbai..
The cab stops at one of the traffic signals..Two people approach clapping their hands (with resonating effects, guaranteed no sleep for 2 days)...and then clasping their hands..

Bhaiyya...Chettaaaaa...Ekkada pottunavaaa(Telegu..Maybe by reading the tag on my luggage; Thats how smart he/she is)...
Wind up the windows and sit tight...
Look at your phone...
Type furiously...
Make sure you dont make eye contact...

I somehow reach my destination...

MY HOME!!!

I get a call from home...I'm right outside my house door...

[Ma] You said you'll call at 630..Its already 700...

[Me] Yeah..I said so...Right now I'm driving the car...I'll speak in 5 minutes...I can hear the doorbell ring, open the door...

[Ma] Ya, someone is here. Call back in 5 minutes...

Keeps the phone down..

Opens the door...

Hell breaks loose...

Pushi Tales 2

"Dude the drive is not supposed to be like that..Its got 4 diodes in opposing circuit with the RLC load...and thats when you have to do the load analysis...cos the parallel capacitor adds the smoothing effect..."

Duhhhh...This sucks...

[Ab] Where's R man..His 10 mins is already crossing the 2 hr threshold...I've had enough of studying...Let do some counter tracking on the comp...
[A] Yea...Lets check it out...

We hear knocking sounds up the stairs...No two guesses why the knocking sounds are happening at regular intervals;i.e.,with every step...
R steps in looking all weird and confused singing songs in a basal nasal tone..."Yeh jo dessss haiii meraaaa.....burp...Swadessss hai mera...."...licks his finger and stops abrupt...Sees both the comp geeks closing windows pretty quick...
[R]..Bey...What are you guys upto...Why did you close those windows fast...Whats the pie graphs that I saw???....Tell me..tell me..
[Ab]...He he ...Nothing dude...Absolutely nothing...I was checking up on our project report page 6, where we are supposed to draw charts for the rate at which houses in town have been burgled in this year..
[R]Ha ha ...You expect me to believe that...No way...I know you people are nowhere in the project to come up with a report...ha ha ...buhahaha....
[A]..Dude lets just tell him about what our scheme has been for the last 1 year...Its time we let him on our clandestine project and made him a resource...
[Ab]Are you serious?...I mean there are serious implications...The art of procedural algorithms which I taught you was not meant to be divulged to any tom dick ahem...I guess the natural counting statistics and IP bludgeon logging is not a simple tool...It can be badly misused...
[R]You mean you don't believe me???...
[A]Ha ha...Full marks to you dude...You guessed right..Now !@#$ off...

R reclines, topples on the bed and knocks up a couple of pillows to sleep away...

[Ab]Today was a little tough dude...Less hits on the IP...But I did get an analysis...There was 12 % from California...I was thinking who it might be...I couldn't detox the cookie clean enough...
[A]Do you think it might be....!@#$....sssss....

Volume real low...We can all see one eyelid open up and give a quick glance at whatever the hell we were upto...R is not amused...
Suddenly gets up and shouts...

[R]This is not fair...now c'mon...You people should let me also in in this...I think I know what you guys are upto...I'm also going to start my own procedural IP BP whatever...Hmpfff...At least I'm done with my project...3 phase induction stage analysis...Take that...

[A]Yeaaaa right....We all know what you did on your project...How much time did it take???...and what did you do???...
[R]yaa...baaa...mmm...I made the report...It was tough...
[A]Ha...lets see the master exclusive report that you made...
[R]No...Thats a special report....I cannot show it to you...HA HA...
[A]Buhahaha...Yea yea...you made some NASA exclusive report that normal humans like us can't see right...Ha ha..
[R]Yea..Whatever...At least I'm not punching my phone whiling away time singing Har Ghadi Badal Gayii Hai...n brooding away about some distant romance...Buhahaha...
[A]Yaa...Jassi Jaisi koi nahinnnnn...Hahahahahaha....
[R]Aaaaaaaarghhhhhhhhhhhh....Take that...
[A]Foooooooolll....How dare you pinch me...Take that...
[R]Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh....You hit my elbow....It pained like hell....Aaaaaaaaa
[A]Yea right...Now it will make some noises like your feet..Big deal....
Pillows fly about in the air...Couple of rough records get in between the rough n tough...R is totally angry...
Leaves the fight mid way and walks off home...
Peace reigns the den with some hard feelings flying about the Sony hill lane around the dead end...
Alls not that well...Ab decides he should get going...
[Ab]Dude...I'm packing off...Cya..
[A]Hey..What happened..Lets study something...
[Ab]Naa...Lets get together tomorrow and do something solid...I'm not in a mood...
[A]What happened I just saw you speak on your cell...Any problems...Don't tell me..
[Ab]Yea whatever dude..Chill we'll meet up tomorrow...
[A]Cool...Lets go to the temple tommorow evening...
[Ab]Yep..I was planning on that too...
Walk down to the car...In reverse...Morose R walks out...
[R] Hey dude..cya tomorrow man...Lets get something solid done tomorrow...
[Ab]Cool...Done...
Phew what a day!
Ab reaches home to be greeted by his ever cuddly wolf...
Day 1 winds up...

Next---Beauty and the champ...Epic drive to the beach...Featuring north eastern
stars vs the new dawn of hope...

Pushi tales...

Time : Mid September...2004... Location : The den which had become my home away from home...(To the extent I dint know which was my own home.:-D)... Characters: A, Ab and R.
[Ab] Hey dude…Me coming over to the den…
[A] Cool…Lets crack the university together…I’ll call R over too…

Ab gets up and drives over to the den.
Den:
Both computers on and me and A get down to some serious browsing. Thick ‘Power Electronics’ books lying on the bed well used of course, by R who’s busy snoring away dreaming about red roses and his dream girl…Singing himself hoarse to a few lines from ‘Lakshya’.

“Kandhon se milte hain kandhein
Kadmon se kadam milte hain
Hum chalte hain
jab aise to
Dushman ke dil KHILTE hain”

Cough Cough…He is awake…He just overheard us talking about some software on the comp that I was ‘coaching’ A to use…

[A] Dude don’t you think the cookies ought to synchronize with your algorithm in place so that your accuracy is not affected by much. I mean the IPs will..
[Ab] Shhhhhhhhh…Dude R is awake…He might hear what you are saying…

R gives out a lazy yawn and looks outside through the window, dazed and wondering what is happening around.

[R] What?...Cookie?...I’m hungry…

Three of us lunge out to the kitchen where aunty lays out a feast. Time to indulge…
And uh oh!...
Time to watch Kal Ho Na Ho yet again…

Let me fast forward for 35 mins.

Shahrukh spreads out his arms…And in the background, music fills the room and the neighbours house as well…

[Jaya Bachan] Bhagwan ek farishta bhejtha hai…

More music..Lights in Shahrukhs balcony and Sharukh is basking in it like a farishta would have done when in heaven. Music reaches a crescendo and fades away into the busy LA street filled with ABCDs doing undesi stuff.

Turbo fast forward.

Sharukh shakes from head to foot and reads out loud from an empty sheet to Preity with Saif tongue tied and dazed. BTW..Our very own Saif will have an applause worthy entry in one other episode. And our Narayanamurthy friend will also join us in a later episode. Did I miss out Mr Dawn???...No way...He's kicking in some fun too...All in one episode next...(Beauty and the Beast - The eternal drive to the beach featuring stars from the north east...) Aaaarg back to this one...

“Mere naina sirf Naina ko dhoondtey hain. mein ankhein band karta hoon toh tumhe dekhta hoon.. Aur jab ankhein kholta hoon toh tumhe dekhna chahta hon!! I love u Naina i love u very much!!!”

Suddenly voices come from outside and we hear someone climbing the stairs. Movie is almost over and an episode of “Jassi jaisi koi nahin” starts on Sony.

Hero dude from the neighbouring house decides to call game and we assemble outside to hunt down the 3 crooked stooges and the bails.
More colony friends troop in and we all start playing.
Play starts off in vigorous mode and we are once more joined by another friend who troops in, in his sedan, elegance personified.

Play continues. Histrionics in the battle field. Only to be stopped at frequent intervals by a very senior IT lead in a very reputed firm who kept going in and out in his car.

R gets his leg pulled at regular intervals by a hulk of a guy in the gang. There are videos in http://www.youtube.com/ I believe testifying to this effect.

A’s mobile keeps beeping in the mean time, and we decide to call it a day.

Lord Victor in the sedan troops back home and hulk and bro get back to their mundane chores.

Senior IT lead is seen quiescent in his reclining chair probably thinking how to wield the axe on the unbecoming youngsters who just spoilt the serene noon nap he is so entitled to taking…Phew...

Dusk falls and R gets back home to have his early dinner.

Swears to join us in 10 mins (means 2 hours- get used to it buddy).

Ab and A go on for a walk and Ab starts shelling out unwarranted advice on a poor A who portrays a typical Hamlet. Only that the situation is related to replying to an sms…Duh!...’To reply or not to’…

Ok cut the crap…

[A]Dude don’t talk so loud about IP tracking and the algorithm and the advanced tracking, synchronizing and processing tool that we are configuring..
[Ab] Smirk…Ok…I’ll make sure R doesn’t get much of that info…We’ll consider this as a clandestine operation. Hehe..

To be continued…

Shek n friends..Tales of a bygone era...

To come in couple o weeks...Thrilling episodes...Sarcastic retorts...Major events...Ideosyncracies...Guaranteed laughter...