Xmas weekend in Mumbai

So that's how you get used to things. You wait for something or someone for a period of time and you don't get to see the result in your favour, you are bound to get rid of it from your system slowly. In this case my posts, in some other cases your poignant memories. Haven't one heard of, "Time heals everything"?.

Mumbai Marine drive

The Christmas weekend was in Mumbai. My first outing in the commercial capital after 8 years. The only difference between the previous two times was during my first visit with my parents I was in my diapers still and in this visit I am all out with my friends. That is precisely why I had a chance to relax on the Marine drive till 2 am.

Not your head, but sky taken from the drive

Mumbai is quite relaxed and one can leisurely walk on the streets even in the midnight. In Delhi, you have to be in your house by 6pm in the evening especially in the winters. Ok, make it 10 pm. Travelling is hectic in Mumbai because of excessive vehicles on the streets. The architecture which is more of old fashioned type gives a feeling of the British rule in India. Guys who are already there working in the city can probably find it boring. You like something because you don't have it. And once you have it you do not realise the value of it.

Leopold cafe

Sitting in Leopold cafe, which was one of the prime targets for Mumbai attacks last year made me feel uncomfortable. I was looking around the cafe to identify any bullet driven holes, but the cafe was so crowded that you should be lucky to get a seat. Do not know why it is such a hang out place for foreigners out there, but it surely must have got some history attached to it. Felt good to sit in that place but also felt uneasy looking at both entrances into the cafe imagining the terrorists loaded with guns on that fatal day. You are in a helpless situation when nut heads barge into the cafe' with automatic weapons that have a capacity to fire hundreds of rounds in just a minute.

We headed to that cafe because we were told, "Staa..aaags are not allowed" by the usherer at Red Light disco at 11 pm on Saturday night. Thinking that was not the first time I received egg on my face, I dropped my plans for listening to music on that night immediately. My friend tried to use his influence by calling other friend, who claimed that he went upstairs an hour before in his 3/4ths but to no avail.

View from Pizzera at Marine drive

Before heading to Colaba, we saw 3 Idiots - the movie was rated as the best movie of the decade by Economic Times. The movie is once watchable and the climax scene was over dramatic and hence I say the movie has lost its charm for what is originally meant for. The title did not suit aptly either for the lead characters haven't done anything remotely stupid to justify the title. All three folks in the movie are career oriented, unlike me.

Mumbai Skyline

Just before we set off for the movie, my mate gave his engagement party to us. That was a good sumptuous vegetarain meal for just Rs.300 at Barbecue Nation in Thane. It is unlimited. You also get to eat pig like chance on the deserts as well.

Unforced Errors:

1. Babes near the disco are just as good as you get to see desi babes in US of A. The notion in public is young folk in India are more style oriented than their desi counter parts in the States.
2. Travelling in winter and with very little sleep will lead to a running nose.
3. Google has started its new year count down which I only saw today and someone reduce the font and colour size for crying out loud.
4. Somehow I became a critic of movies and it takes a lot to impress me in movies. Forthcoming blabber on Avatar.
5. I was wearing vest, t-shirt, long sleeve t-shirt and jerkin when I started from here and I could just roam in a t-shirt in Mumbai in the midnight.
6. My desperation for chicks is coming down. That does not mean I am going to the other end of the gender.
7. I have a feeling that you get connected to whatever I dish because you folks are not stupid enough to fall for cheap freaks who talk all the time extra sweet. Ladies would fall ofcourse.
8. I am showing off my Mumbai trip details here coz I had been to a big city.

All izzz well.