So orkut finally meets in Delhi… some faces some ppl who i had met virtually came alive… had read them for sometime.. but seeing them in person was a thought that made me nervous, that made me excited, thoda sa tense… if it was not for aseem, who i know for more then an year now, I would have been really uncomfortable meeting this new gang…

so there I was in Ansals plaza, at 1850 hrs… well 10 minute ahead of time.. and as expected, there was no one to greet me as a celebrity in the Barista 🙂 so i got up and went to place where I feel at home… Music World… looking at all the movies that I want to watch, and the ones that I want to buy… i picked up Lakshya, i like that movie a lot… but later i kept it back… at the end of my 20 odd minute visit to the music world I came out happier with Top Gun, Face Off, That thing you do, and the hindi comedy Masti….

back to barista around 1925 hours… ask the counter fella if there are ppl from Orkut there… and he looks at me with a face which tells me that he has not heard this word ever… anyway.. i order my fav. Mango smooothieeeeeee.. and settle down on a table near the rear exit of the coffee bar… meri kismat.. the only newspaper i could manage to get to read there was “financial times” i do not have a clue about what was written that paper..except that one article about cars and insurance caught my attention and helped me learn something more about the entire insurance thingie… while i was reading that.. some guy came and asked for the paper.. and took that greek of a paper away from me 🙂

anyway… called up aseem to find out where he was and he with jassi praji and the night nisha managed to reach there around 1940 hours… IST is it? Indian Strechable time 🙂 and talked for a while.. after the introductions and were joined by Bhaskar and another friend of his… Can’t remember his name… did he even tell it? can’t even remember that… anyway.. i finished my smoothie… we took a couple of pictures of the gang… nisha and jassi went to the bookshop to get some tarot cards, and me, aseem, bhaskar and his friend continued talking.. it was good to see that there was a good amount of comfort in that meeting…

Getting bored of sitting in barista, we moved out to the amphie theatre… and sat there for a while, before jassi and nisha joined us back… now we decided to eat… offered jassi some south indian food, and he hated the idea.. hehehehe.. he has been in banglore for a while now.. and going to hyderabad.. what else do you expect… nisha wanted to have a burger… and she wanted to have it from pizza express for some reason… bhaskar and the friend, were open to eat anywhere.. i suggested bangali sweets in south ex. but that did not click.. so my next proposal was to go to my fav. restaurant in the India Habitat Centre, Eatopia… i just love that place…. so we all agreed to meet there again… in a while ofcourse… CUT !!!

Dilli meets in eatopia : Scene II : we met again… took some pictures again.. and talked… aseem and jassi and nisha went and ordered some food and got it later too.. so that we all could eat… nisha maidam got some nachos and some sauce.. which would now be famous as “Papad ke tukde and Tamatar ki Chatni“… and we also ate some tandoori rotis and makhni dal 🙂 masta food i tell you… spent about 45 odd minutes in there.. and then decide to call it a day… hoping to meet again soon… for another wonderful evening….

here is something about all the ppl i met

Aseem : still the same cool dude always good with words and has a lot of energy…
Jassi : very calm quiet and a composed fella… very talkative on orkut and a completely different individual in person for starters i think.. i think i takes his time and starting to speak…. thoda bolo par achcha bolo.. aisa wala hai wo !!!
Bhaskar and his friend : Engineers in making, bhasker from NSIT, and his friend from DCE… good fellas..nice company.. good to talk to…
Nisha : dominating and authoritative lady… does not understand what is written “agar hum hindi ko english mein likhen…” 🙂
and finally me: as good or as bad as ever… talked to everyone, was nervous in the beginning, though i am sure no one noticed…and quite comfy later… a part of the gang !!!

chalen.. bas karte hain… this was all about this meeting on the April Fools day.. turned out to be one day I would like to remember for a long time…
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This day also reminded me that it was one complete year that i had left Hughes… time really flies by….i feel good that I still am in touch with a lot of ppl there.. and have not lost out on the gem of the friends i have made in that organisation…
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chalo chalta hoon.. aaj saturday hai.. chutti ka din.. ma badaulat thoda aur aaram karna chahte hain 🙂