The drudgeries of life
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Metro-life!
Life has been good for a while, contrary to what I had expected and feared...
Insecurities, I tell you, are a bane! A smile comes to my face whenever I recollect the song's title when Greenday's singing "Time of your life" 3:)
There's something awesome about days starting and ending with the Delhi Metro... looks like this week is supposed to be that way :))
Sunday was the day for the grand reunion at my place... I was jittery though I knew that I'd do justice to my role of the host! It was quite a wonderful day!
Each of the weekdays saw me getting addicted slowly by slowly to the Metro... I got myself a smart card, and thanks to someone making me wait for a long time each evening, I've started enjoying long trips on my own to the far end of Delhi while waiting! And then you blame me for being late :p
Simply love the fact that Chandni Chowk is just an hour away these days... yesterday's visit to Old Dilli was a breath of fresh air!
Last minute plans work out well, I guess... today evening, for instance!
Again covered a major portion of the stretch till CP aboard the metro, before hitting MG Road... the rain added to the pleasantness of the evening!
And thank God for sweet-tooth-edness! First a huuge soft serve cuppa at McD, then a couple of pastries at Bisque, then a couple of cones at Baskin Robbins (my Choco Brownie was much better :p)! As the Mask would hiss, "Somebody stop us"!
Checked out "The Chowk" at MGF Metropolitan... nice ambiance, yummy food, but pathetic service!
Never expected that we'd get a metro at as late as 11:30 PM... but we did! Respect \m/
The meager amount of driving I do these days added to the awesomeness of the late night bike ride.. hated wriggling through those gulli-nukkads though... had you listened to me, you'd have been living in a much better locality! :s
2 weeks more... 3 max!
Time definitely does some listening... it seems to have speeded up on my request!
Good night :)
Labels: Changes, Delhi, Delhi Metro, Friends, Fun, Good mood, Gurgaon, Happiness
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Midnight shower...
... and people told me that it hardly, if ever, rains in Gurgaon!
Wish I had the time to spend the night sitting on my blacony, staring out at the millions of glittering lights that're getting obscured by the incessant downpour!
Wish I had the time to spend the night sitting on my blacony, staring out at the millions of glittering lights that're getting obscured by the incessant downpour!
Monday, July 05, 2010
In a jiffy!
Ok, I'm running short of time!
Why're awesome days shorter while bad days seem to last forever?!
Why have I been feeling like I'm back in college since the end of June?! At times, I'm back to being 200201053 of DA-IICT 2k6, and on other occasions, I'm 08FT-051 of IMT 2008-10! Rest of the time, I'm toggling somewhere in between these two states :D
July seems to have rejuvenated me, contrary to some misconceptions that I've been burning the candle from both ends... I can't seem to feel tired for a moment! *touchwood*
The weather in Gurgaon couldn't be more perfect... the rain-drenched city basking in the mild sunlight resembles a beautiful woman drying her long wet hair after a Sunday bath!! :)
Nothing like braving the rains at dawn to make it to the gym... No pain!!
Someone's absence might've created a lacuna, but someone else's presence immediately filled it up! God tussi great ho! :)
By the way, don't you just love company-sponsored guest houses?! TV, a/c, fridge, comfy beds, bath tub, posh locality, complimentary snacks et al, and all food bills to be taken care of by the company!!!! I knew that I'd be spending my evenings with my best friend, but I didn't expect such perks for the same :P
The joy of expecting a holiday courtesy the nationwide bandh was short-lived! These politicians are useless... they can't even pull-off a bandh properly! :P
There's so much happening, so much to do, such a lot to get done!
MBA could've never prepared me to face such challenges... so learning the art of managing it all on the fly.
Prayer: Make each day last a bit longer, O Lord. Amen.
P.S.: I can't believe today was a Monday!! Are the Monday blues history?! Is the Garfield effect gone for good?! :D
Labels: Awesome, Friends, Gurgaon, Happiness, Monday, Nostalgia, Party, Sexy weather
Sunday, July 04, 2010
Crazyyy Weekend!!
Saturday:
- Field work - All aboard the JCB Backhoe Loader!! :D
- Stupid comparisons and elements of distrust - I'm so glad you'll be away from this all soon :)
- Vapour - Sexy ambience, good friends, monster-sized barrels, huge beer mugs (and their contents :p), tasty chow, total mastiii and futbolllll!!!!
- Late night revelry!
- Mocha - yummy food at ungodly hours, and futbollll reloaded!!
- Beautiful Gurgaon ♥
- Lost in thought
Sunday:
- Waking up at dawn, courtesy my favorite alarm clock :)
- Rain-drenched Gurgaon - simply beautiful!
- Baby when you're gone...
- Sleepy bakar :P
- Lazyyy day!
- Guitar
- Flooded city-side!
- Raindrops ♥
- Rendezvous with best friend! :))
- Sexy evening!
- Wish you were here...
- The hangover it all...
Labels: Friends, Gurgaon, Party, reunion, Sexy weather, Weekends
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Ahoy, weekend!
Some days shouldn't end... this Saturday, for instance...
But they always do... yesterday just ended now... and I miss it already!
One thing is for sure... Gurgaon at night offers a sexy contrast to those who're on the lookout for it!
First there are the malls, and the groovy night life that they harbor... woohoo! I once checked my watch to confirm that this much action could be happening at 2 in the night :P
Then comes the silent streets with not a single living soul in sight... the only signs of any movement were courtesy the beautiful lights from the never-ending concrete jungle that seemed like a galaxy of twinkling stars!!
Gurgaon does sleep... but with its eyes wide open!
Time for me to sleep too, albeit with my eyes wide shut!
Bonnuit.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
We-canned, weekend!
A different sadder-day!
Isn't it a pleasure of sorts when your boss is absent from office for the full day?! And if that day is a Saturday, who'd want to ask for more!!
Chillax day at work. Just the market research.
But being totally vela has a catch: you get lots of time to think :p
Funny how sleep evaded me the whole day today... just like I evaded sleep last night!
Messed up plans courtesy some formalities :s
The gathering at MGF Metropolitan. Finally got to watch a WC football match... go Argentina!!
Realized how the drab and dull days could henceforth be made interesting!
Got a really awesome surprise!! One of my closest friends will be in Gurgaon for a month :)) I'm booked for July :P
Then, a day that was more of a Sundae, literally speaking *yummy*
There's something about Mama's family that always makes me feel like I'm back home, at Fantasia... the awesome feast that Manni prepared for us was yummy! Green peas pulao ♥
Am so gonna miss all the pampering when they shift to Jamnagar :(
Lots of traveling and shopping like madmen... window-shopping too! Feels so good to see the home taking shape bit by bit... *sigh*
The weather in Gurgaon was sexy! It was drizzling and a cool breeze was blowing throughout the evening... wish you were here...
I took time out to do what I always dreamt of doing: sitting on my balcony, up above the SC2 lights that seemed to be flickering in the rain, and strumming the guitar! Thoroughly high-inducing!!
The evening worked out like a dream: the first guests at our apartment, the tour of the entire place, the awesome dinner party, sexy bike ride in the windy night!
Someone remembered the 13-25 pact... it wasn't me, but what the heck! Happy vappy :)
Need to join that gym nearby very soon... enough of this sluggishness!
Thoroughly exhausted... niinii time!
Finally, the end of three awesome days that felt like a long weekend...
Have a nice start to the week, people!
Labels: Family, Friends, Good mood, Good news, Gurgaon, Happiness, Home, Miss you, Sexy weather, Shopping, Weekends
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone...
Fridays somehow seem never-ending when you know that you'll be working on the next day too :|
And then, after talking to someone very special who's going away for a few days, focusing on anything was quite impossible...
How come when you're with me, time flies by and refuses to stand still? And when you're not around, time simply halts in its tracks?!
Tuesday and Wednesday were just like a mock test... the real test begins today!
Hope you have an amazing time! Needless to say, I'll miss you heaps... come back sooon :)
Never anticipated anything being in store for today evening... last minute reunion plans courtesy DK and Chautala did the trick!
We, the DA-IICT bakarbaaz gang thought of watching the World Cup match at some place, but that didn't happen... nonetheless, the evening worked out pretty well!
Instead we did tp at DLF City Ph. 3.
Huge gathering at DK's place: Khurana, DK, Anand, Ankit, Prabhakar, Sandy, Khosla and I... indulged in crazzyyy bakar.
Did a nightout of sorts playing cards, DA-IICT style! lmao total fun it was :D
Let's see what happens on Saturday...
Zipping past the Gurgaon landmarks at the break of dawn was an amazing experience... the city does sleep :)
Back home, just wishing for the next 5 days to get over as quickly as possible! Thank God for the World Cup... it'll definitely help speed up time!!
Totally addicted to an old Atif Aslam song titled "Chor gaye", especially these lines:
hawa tum, nasha tum, meri raahaton ka pata tum...
meri aibon ko jo dhak de, woh paak si ridah tum...
Not feeling sleepy at all. Thoughtful, yes.
Off to work in a while.
Happy weekend, tout le monde :)
Labels: addictions, Bakar, DA-IICT, Distances, Friends, Good mood, Gurgaon, Nostalgia, reunion, World Cup
Monday, June 07, 2010
Riding the wave
Finally a weekend that qualified as a weekend :)
Second 'first salary'! Ok, not a very big deal but still, somewhat special.
Surprise mail. Should I, shouldn't I?
Surprise mail. Should I, shouldn't I?
An early off, but the main objective wasn't achieved.
There was a huuuge dust cloud engulfing Gurgaon... mamamia!!
Sweeping up the house... phewww! Now I know how big a 4BHK really is :P
Long depressing telephonic calls... well, facts are facts.
Awesome evening at CP with Sunita, Anchit, Biren, Rusti, Khemka, Ankur and Punti... totally indulged in nostalgia. Seriously need more such days to get myself a life.
Missed Chandu, Puri and Sid a lot... I wish it were the August of 2009 again...
That late night race back to Gurgaon from CP... covered the distance in less than 30 minutes! What a highhh :D
That late night chat session... sighssss! There's going to be a void in my life throughout June :(
Oh well! Might as well get used to it... but just can't seem to! Any tips? :P
Short short Sunday!
Wanted to do nothing but sit silently in one of the pews of the very beautiful Sacred Heart Cathedral Church... for once, I felt so much at peace.
Wanted to do nothing but sit silently in one of the pews of the very beautiful Sacred Heart Cathedral Church... for once, I felt so much at peace.
Rajneeti ate up a major portion of the day... not a bad movie! Just that it was a well-blended mixture of Mahabharata and God Father... and I sincerely felt that there should've been English subtitles :P
Nonetheless, an afternoon well spent! Plus the company of very dear friends always ensures a high!
Soon Sunita, Rusti and Brainnn will leave Delhi... I'll probably be the only one from our gang to be stranded in NCR :(
The weather of late has been sooo sexy in NCR... overcast conditions, cool breeze, intermittent showers! Bike rides, long walks, night gazing et al never felt better...
Walked for over 10 kms yesterday and was on the phone for hours!
No wonder I was thoroughly exhausted by the EOD... couldn't even wait for someone whom I have always kept waiting...
Soon Sunita, Rusti and Brainnn will leave Delhi... I'll probably be the only one from our gang to be stranded in NCR :(
The weather of late has been sooo sexy in NCR... overcast conditions, cool breeze, intermittent showers! Bike rides, long walks, night gazing et al never felt better...
Walked for over 10 kms yesterday and was on the phone for hours!
No wonder I was thoroughly exhausted by the EOD... couldn't even wait for someone whom I have always kept waiting...
Start of a new week! I somehow get a feeling that the days are gonna be veryyy long henceforth.
Sigh.
Sigh.
Labels: Changes, Delhi, Friends, Gurgaon, Life, Sexy weather, Vacillations, Void, Weekends
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Destination: AWHO
Q: What does a man want at the end of a thoroughly exhausting day at work, not to mention normal days?
A: To go home to the place, which he has been longing for since the moment he left it earlier in the day.
Glad to say that L1106 has become that place already! :)
Whole day long I kept thinking when o when will I get to go back there, take a shower, and then head for the beautiful park! sighs
Yesterday, our first night at the new place was pretty eventful!
All that roaming around (Wazirabad, Sec 56, Mayfield Garden, South City 2) before reaching home, the mismatched timings!
Then you can't even roam around semi-nude in your own home because the place is an open-air theatre, literally speaking! :P
Top priority: purchase curtains to drape the plethora of windows!!
Now where to have dinner? South City 2, it seems, has only restaurants... no dhabhas or normal eateries... ouch, so much for the budget if we continue this way...
Plus drinking water is going to be a grave issue till the weekend... we finished off half-a-dozen mineral water bottles last night itself :O
And then, running into familiar faces! I'm dead sure it was him :P
Next up: running into you?! ;)
Spent a long long time sprawled out on the deserted lawns, staring up at the sky! Ahhh this is the life!!
Kinda loved it when there was a power cut while I was lying down there... total darkness!
Then the view from my balcony was the sexiest sight ever... thousands of lights dotting the landscape, starting from the adjacent B block of South City 2 till the horizon ♥
(will upload the picha soon)
(will upload the picha soon)
Would miss my favorite daily night routine, but will ensure that it resumes soon :)
For once, I felt that tiredness is a virtue!
Opened all the balcony doors (woah! the sexy cross ventilation!!), and hit the sack at midnight! Sleep never took over so quickly...
A new chapter in life... To say that I'm loving it would be quite an understatement ;)
Ciao!
Labels: AWHO, Beginnings, Gurgaon, Happiness, L1106, Life, South City
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Monday Bloody Monday... almost!
Sleepless night.
Early morning. Baddd news. All that work down the drain :x
Last minute work.
The race to Noida.
U-turns and what not.
Greasing palms... fucking corruption! :x
Glad to be leaving UP for good...
Dear friend :)
Loooong ride! Feeling like myself... forgetting the bad stuff ain't that difficult.
The prickly heat. Thank God for the good company... you tend to become oblivious to everything ;)
Bad news again! Shucks. Am I 'bad news' attracting magnet?!
South Delhi. MG road. Gurgaon.
DLF City Phase 3. Yucky houses. But then the proximity :|
A bit of kicking around. Broken glasses.
The deluge of bad luck. That urge to wave the white flag.
Then back to the place I fell in love with of late.
Damn I'm a good salesman! Call me an egotist, and I'll agree wholeheartedly!
I sold the society to Anand; then I sold "us" to the landlords.
Long long day. Nothing confirm.
That chance encounter on the lift. The beautiful house. The instant high! Somewhere I belong!!
Then another set of conditions :s
The fucking maddening heat. The depression.
Then that calm chat at Block B:
I: Don't worry about the finances... it'll be a bit of a strain but I'm more concerned about the distance for you.
A: Don't worry about the distance... we'll manage.
We: Let's do it... the world be damned :))
The lucky call to that broker.
The chance encounter with the gossip-monger... the challenge!
The sales process again!
The wait. The crossed fingers, toes and what not!
The beautiful apartment!!! Mamamia!!!!
The showdown. The thorough background check.
Complete transparency... despite the brokers' urging.
The vacillations. The indecisiveness. The sincerity. The candidness.
The decision.
Closing the deal. That firm shake of hands.
The crazy urge to cry. The euphoria.
The blank state of the mind when standing way above the world and staring out at the city's twinkling lights :)
It's done. We have a place to call our home :D
Things taking time to sink in. SIGHS!
The maddening joy overriding the intense frustration and the crazy depression that ruled during the day...
Love the Delhi roads at night. My one hand became a temporary wing, flapping every now and then! Woohoo!
Ghaziabad via Noida. Love the DND flyway!
Back on campus. The bath. The quick dinner.
The discharged phone. The broken charger :((((
Thank God for the only positive thing in the day... it was all that I had wanted.
The fatigue. Totally wasted. The jumping into bed.
Long day tomorrow too... shifting bases ;)
Labels: Bad luck, Bad news, Deal, Delhi, Euphoria, Friends, Gurgaon, Happiness, Happy Endings, House hunt, Noida
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Good-gaon!!
First impression: Concrete jungle.
Current impression: Whatta place!!!
Rode through a place called South City 2...
Had heard lots about it, but I had no idea that it was so huge... and so beautiful!
Pestered my broker to take me to an occupied house at, as late as, 8 PM!! That the family was too good to entertain me and give me words of wisdom about the place is another story :)
But my dream residence, for now, will be at a place called Army Welfare Housing Organisation. And somewhere up in the sky, at a place where there are 3 balconies at least!
It's funny how AWHO wasn't a place that I was going to ever consider, it being a bit far off and all, but I had just jotted down the name after seeing a pic on the net! And surprise surprise, it's the only place that seems to have remained uncrossed on my original list after 2 weeks :D
Fell in love with the view from that 4th floor apartment at AWHO... Gurgaon isn't the concrete jungle that I thought it was...
Checked out over 10 houses today! Now this is what house hunting is all about...
Oh well! Time to sleep now... the bed beckons!
Long long weekend up ahead... not the kinda long I prefer though :|
Happy weekend, folks :)
Labels: AWHO, Gurgaon, House hunt, South City
