Coming Home

Dear reader,

I apologise for not being a consistent blogger in the past few weeks but then again, i have been really busy first with admission and not having internet access and now, trying to spend as much time as i possibly can with my friends, near and dear, before i part ways and head to college. Just the thought of it burns up a hole inside of me and meeting all these people is so far the best remedy to it... And i have had to fight a sudden outburst of tiredness so its all really just uphill right now.

And ever since I've returned from an unusually dull trip to Maharashtra, I've had quite a few eventful days in the home state - Ah! GOOD OL' DELHI! And for those of you less familiar with my friends, you should know that i have a few groups of friends.. not all fond of each other, but still meaning the same to me.. most of 'em atleast.

See, there are a few of groups from school. The ones i would hang out with a lot and spend most of my time with, and my closer(est) friends - Daksh, Marshel, Tejesh, etc - the guys who study way too much for my liking and hence, find me absent from any conversations that are remotely linked to any text books - Akaash, Angad, Arjun, etc - and there are the other friends, people I've known for most of my school years, now much more than acquaintances but still not the closest to me - Too many people to name here. Then, there are the Bash Brothers, a gang of friends from Mayur Vihar, the ones I've hung out most with in the last dozen months - Bonny, Prasid, Niloy, TinTin, Adarsh, Dushu, etc. There are people from other schools that I've grown really close to as well - Surabhi, Mansha, Shweta, Mriganka, Apeksha, etc. I have people from various tuitions and classes I've attended and so on.. So basically, there are quite a few groups, and not all the people are ok being around people from other groups but they all mean just as much to me as friends.

And basically, i have a lot of people i would want to meet before going away from this city, and i dont have all the time in the world to do that. And of course, something or the other comes up and screws some plan of mine every now and then.

(left upto this point as a draft last time i was blogging. CONTINUING...)

So anyway, like i was saying, i have to fight this tiredness of mine and go meet as many people as i can, as many times as i can 'cause the futures of everyone at present is pretty uncertain and i might not get a chance to meet quite a few of these people, perhaps, ever in my lifetime (DAMN! The thought of it sucks too!)

And from the day after i came, i got straight to it. Now, I've been so occupied meetin all my friends, hanging out all day, stretching it till the evenings that i cant recall most meetings in details and have almost forgotten how each day passed!

The highlights, however, have stuck to my head... This is the stuff i CAN recall well (sorry for having a loose memory of the other stuff.. but its all been fun!):

I came back on the 22nd.. The first real time i went out wid frnsd was with Akaash, Angad, Arjun Masters and Vansh... Met @ KFC, ate a chicken bucket @ 11 AM :P went bowling (2 awesome games), had a couple of cold drinks, went to angad's place.. played one on one FIFA for a while.. then went downstairs and played football (i made angad's hand numb from my kicks, which were weirdly powerful) and went back home.. That was t be the last time i saw Arjun, who has already left for his Law college in Raipur. Everyone else will follow outwards soon..

The next big outing was the stupidest and one of the most fun times off late...This one is with Bonny, Tintin, Adarsh and Akash. We guys (excluding adarsh and incl. Dushu) had decided to watch the Spain vs Russia EURO 2008 semi-final together and akash volunteered to host it. We reached his place at 11.30.. loaded up bowls of ice-cream and sat to watch the match. Almost halfway through the game, the score being 0-0, everyone felt too hot for comfort (the room was non a.c. and the fan was just NOT enough) and we had started looking for alternatives (p.s. it didn't even take 5 minutes for the ice cream to melt!!!). Now, the same day, my mom had gone back to pune 'cuz a couple of my documents still had to be submitted (by hand) and she wanted to take some rest from all the berserk traveling and decided to extend her stay there so she could rest at her cousins place. So, i called my dad (at almost 1 am) and asked him if it was ok if the guys and i came home 2 watch the match and that all of us would leave (supposedly for a movie) the morning after and half asleep alright, he agreed. And so, we all boarded tintin's car and headed to a place i call home and were just in time for the 2nd half's kick off.. By this time, everyone had a few thousand rats in their stomachs as a result of which, most of us ended up brishing up on our cooking skills in the kitchen, preparing some really good pasta and omelette's :P We'd peep into the TV everytime some scored or came close to doing so and at about the 80th minute, took our seats with the food in our plates and watched the game out. Soon after, all us tired boys took refuge under blankets and prepared to wake up early next morning so as not to miss out on the first day first show of HANCOCK (or so we thought we'd get to see).

When we did wake up next morning, most of us at 9 am (we had thought we'd go see the 10am morning show :P ), we opened the newspapers only to then realise we were a week early for hancock and there was really just a choice of Hulk and another movie we later decided not to watch at all. We did go to the mall, but ended up each eating 2.5 burgers, spending grand money at Amoeba and its video games, and drinking the best fruit beer and WORST soda pop's (bought from the dollar store) EVER! I mean, a couple of flavors were really just plain pathetic but we gulped em down anyway. Oh yea, funny story... We had to go into archies to buy something (bonny wanted this cool beer mug with a cycle bell on its handle :P) and were asked to enter without the drinks and decided to leave em at the gate. Now, this store had 2 exits. We entered from the one far from the mall's exit and obviously, since we had to leave after getting out of the store, headed out from other gate. Tittu and I realised we had to get the cans from the guard and took em, and not realising it, walked back through the store and while taking a long sip from my can, i realised and said, "Oye tiittu, you realise you're not supposed to bring eatables inside, let alone DRINK em here!" after which he laughed and his soda went up his nose :P

But yea, we left the mall and stood at the bus stop hoping the next bus home would be one of the beautiful new low-floors we went to the mall in. It wasn't. And getting to sit in a seat where someone must've thrown up at the window, with nowhere else to go, for about 30 mins was nothing short of horrible and just plain horrific!

But it was all part of an experience, one that has taken quite a bit of time to pen down here and has now made me tired enough to choose to publish this for the time being and continue this story at a later time. There's more fun in store in the next few days so i gotta go live it up and soak it in.

Till next time,

\m/.rock.in.peace.\m/