The Saturday started like any other day. I woke up at 9 AM. Nobody else was up yet. There was no live telecast on TV, nor were there any fav TV series (read Roadies….everything else is just bullshit, but more about that in future posts). Still it was an important day, I mean even Gabbar was querying about it the other day. It was Holiday, i.e. Holi Day. So I started waking the others up from their slumber. With some people this task is pretty easy. But with some other like Poo, P and M Jr, it is like getting Sachin Tendulkar out. Anyways after some hard work, put in by D and M Sr, all of them got up.
Then M Sr and D went to get the Rang. Requirement was very specific. No colour, only Gulal. We delivered as per the specification. But like every client, Poo changed the requirements at the last moment and raised a change request (she wanted some pichkari and balloons too). After much deliberation and brain storming, we decided against the change request and asked everybody to manage with the current config. So we played Holi with Gulal (later on Poo brought some colour too, which she had brought from Kolkata). Till this part of the day everything was going fine. We were enjoying the holi. Keeping with the tradition, we even went to a bakery and had samosa, cold drinks and desserts.
But once everybody washed the colour down the drain and were ready to enjoy the rest of the day, the god of bad luck decided he has no other work and will spend the rest of the day with us. We went to Runway 9 (for new comers in Hyderabad, this is the carting place). But by the time we reached there, it was already raining and the carting track got closed down for the day. Still we hoped may be the laser gun game will open up and hence to do some TP till then, we played snooker. But the rain didn’t stop and hence no laser game happened. We left the place with a heavy heart (as our evening plans were ruined) and went to Mocha.
Mocha as everybody knows is a great hangout place and we generally enjoy our time there. It has a closed roof and hence we were sure, nothing could have gone wrong there. But as they say, Murphy’s Law never disappoints you. Between our chitchats, M told me that he can smell something burning. I thought kisika dil jal raha hoga (remember dil jalta hai to jalne de). But just 2 mins later, a stampede started in the coffee shop. Apparently there was a short circuit and the safety equipments were already burning. So we had to leave Mocha without having anything. I was thankful to God that nothing disastrous happened. However after I saw people leaving in a hurry, I thought, oh shit, only if we could have had something and then this incident would have occurred, at least kuch to fayda hota (khane ka khana and no payment). You see the Monisha (Sarabhai fame) in all of us never dies.
After 2 utter failures, we were left with hungry stomachs and loads of time to kill. So the next target was barista crème. When we reached Barista, M in his car was just in front of my car. Just as M entered into Barista, the sky turned red, a dreadful lightening struck somewhere near and the power for the whole area went down. Although nothing else happened, but due to the power failure, poor souls in Barista had to manage without AC the whole time. By this time we were suspecting that all these can’t be coincidence and there is something wrong.
To verify this, we went to Ohris for mid night desserts. We enjoyed our time there and rejected our theory that there is anything wrong with our luck. However, Mr. Bad luck was sitting right next to us and laughing. While returning from Ohris, a portion of the hussain sagar (read the pothole on the street) got splashed onto 2 bikers by Poo (accidentally). Unfortunately, the riders were John Abraham and Uday chopra (Dhoom fame) in disguise. They chased Poo’s car till her place (in between they fell down after crashing on another pothole). Once they stopped Poo’s car, they started sharing their knowledge of Telugu very politely and created a scene. By the time we reached there in my car, the atmosphere was red hot. After half an hour of climax fighting, a settlement was reached and we all came back to M & P’s place. No one was ready to sleep yet. A long discussion about the incident, about Sriram (a character we met during the climax fighting, more about him later) and game of LIFE were waiting for us.
Then M Sr and D went to get the Rang. Requirement was very specific. No colour, only Gulal. We delivered as per the specification. But like every client, Poo changed the requirements at the last moment and raised a change request (she wanted some pichkari and balloons too). After much deliberation and brain storming, we decided against the change request and asked everybody to manage with the current config. So we played Holi with Gulal (later on Poo brought some colour too, which she had brought from Kolkata). Till this part of the day everything was going fine. We were enjoying the holi. Keeping with the tradition, we even went to a bakery and had samosa, cold drinks and desserts.
But once everybody washed the colour down the drain and were ready to enjoy the rest of the day, the god of bad luck decided he has no other work and will spend the rest of the day with us. We went to Runway 9 (for new comers in Hyderabad, this is the carting place). But by the time we reached there, it was already raining and the carting track got closed down for the day. Still we hoped may be the laser gun game will open up and hence to do some TP till then, we played snooker. But the rain didn’t stop and hence no laser game happened. We left the place with a heavy heart (as our evening plans were ruined) and went to Mocha.
Mocha as everybody knows is a great hangout place and we generally enjoy our time there. It has a closed roof and hence we were sure, nothing could have gone wrong there. But as they say, Murphy’s Law never disappoints you. Between our chitchats, M told me that he can smell something burning. I thought kisika dil jal raha hoga (remember dil jalta hai to jalne de). But just 2 mins later, a stampede started in the coffee shop. Apparently there was a short circuit and the safety equipments were already burning. So we had to leave Mocha without having anything. I was thankful to God that nothing disastrous happened. However after I saw people leaving in a hurry, I thought, oh shit, only if we could have had something and then this incident would have occurred, at least kuch to fayda hota (khane ka khana and no payment). You see the Monisha (Sarabhai fame) in all of us never dies.
After 2 utter failures, we were left with hungry stomachs and loads of time to kill. So the next target was barista crème. When we reached Barista, M in his car was just in front of my car. Just as M entered into Barista, the sky turned red, a dreadful lightening struck somewhere near and the power for the whole area went down. Although nothing else happened, but due to the power failure, poor souls in Barista had to manage without AC the whole time. By this time we were suspecting that all these can’t be coincidence and there is something wrong.
To verify this, we went to Ohris for mid night desserts. We enjoyed our time there and rejected our theory that there is anything wrong with our luck. However, Mr. Bad luck was sitting right next to us and laughing. While returning from Ohris, a portion of the hussain sagar (read the pothole on the street) got splashed onto 2 bikers by Poo (accidentally). Unfortunately, the riders were John Abraham and Uday chopra (Dhoom fame) in disguise. They chased Poo’s car till her place (in between they fell down after crashing on another pothole). Once they stopped Poo’s car, they started sharing their knowledge of Telugu very politely and created a scene. By the time we reached there in my car, the atmosphere was red hot. After half an hour of climax fighting, a settlement was reached and we all came back to M & P’s place. No one was ready to sleep yet. A long discussion about the incident, about Sriram (a character we met during the climax fighting, more about him later) and game of LIFE were waiting for us.
3 comments:
hehe...subah se application server down hai so me quite vella.
Seems like Murphy has some inferirity complex, else y wud it need to prove himself so many times.
btw...am abs. a believer in his law...actually had posted sumthin on it long back incampus...isliye kabhi pange nahin leta...if things dont seem right the first time...just go home and sleep :D ;-)
"ran out of luck"..."as luck would have it"...do u need any more phrases??? ;) btw...i must say your blogging has improved manifold...good going :)
awesome post mate !!
and seems like you had a blast this holi... good, bad or ugly, time spent with friends is invaluable..
keep up the good work.. happy blogging..
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