A New Year and a birthday later…

What beats lying under the stars on a full moon night, with people you enjoy being with, and talking about anything which comes to mind? Not a lot, really.

New Year started out with church. The sermon hasn’t changed so I can’t, in all honesty, say that I paid a lot of attention to it. The streets were quite busy at two in the morning which isn’t very surprising on New Year, I guess.

The real party started at around eight that night. And man, did we party.

It started out with a pizza and pasta dinner at Remy’s place, progressed to some fooling around with the camera and then we had a moonlit conversation about the kind of things which come out only when you're lying under the stars with your best friends.




At around 11:45, KD’s mom and dad took us out to Movenpick, an ice cream parlour in Nungambakkam, where KD’s dad managed to get us in before they closed and got us a cozy little room which was supposed to be the library. It even had a sign which declared in bold letters, ‘Sorry, section closed’. That was a hoot. So, we had ice cream and cut the cake at midnight. Twenty, at last.

We were pretty much high on the way to KD’s place. It was mostly spent in enlightening KD’s dad about Mocha (No uncle, we don’t think the place where you interviewed that guy was Mocha. We think you’d remember Mocha) and discussing what went wrong with a certain affair of the heart involving P. After we reached her place, KD’s elder bro accused us of making more noise than their two dogs and waking him up. He very nicely excluded me from the general accusation because it was my birthday, though. It warms my heart, N. Thank you.

‘Wake up, Sid’ is a really good movie, by the way. I couldn’t help liking it. Not your typical love story. It’s a story of growing up and change, which was very appropriate to the situation. That basically went on till 3 in the morning and then I crashed. My friends watched ‘What women want’ till five and still managed to get up at eight a.m. You know it’s the real thing when they do stuff like that for you.

At noon, we went to watch ‘3 idiots’. It was a funny movie. Clichéd, yes, but funny as hell in the parts where they weren’t crying or being philosophical. Actually, I thought it was funny when they cried too but that’s just me, I guess.

After the movie, we went to P’s place and then headed out to the beach where we ate a little of most of the things you can eat on the beach and talked about Charms’ and Kay’s trip to Punjab and Jaipur, lucky dogs.

Finally, I got back home and put away all the spoils of the day. I tell you, I cleaned up this time. Truly awesome gifts. I just want to say, you guys know me too well.

So that’s the story.
Frankly, this has been one of the best birthdays I’ve ever had because of every one of you who spent it with me and the effort you put in to make it as amazing as you could for me. And it was amazing, hands down.

And apart from my friends, my family totally rocks as well. How many people have an understanding family who doesn’t complain when you go out to spend your birthday with your friends, wearing a Linkin Park t-shirt and promising vaguely to be back ‘sometime the next day’? Thanks, mom.