this weekend was fun !!!

spent most of time outside home… and below is a list of things i did..
~ saw two movies.. back to back…
~ went to gurgaon for a night out with friends…
~ enjoyed the ride of a Yamaha 350D LT at 110 kmph on the Highway…
~ test drove a car for a friend.. and looked at a few more…
~ went out to my maasi’s place…
~ talked to richa for 29 minutes and some seconds which she says is a record…

the details follow…

first movie… Mistress of SPICE

one of the most masaledaar movie ever in Bollywood… and it wins because of the sheer amount of spices in the movie… i mean most of the movie has been shot inside a store which Aishwarya Rai owns… called Spice Bazaar… and Aishwarya Rai is called TILO in this movie…

now comes the interesting part…. Tilo says that everyone has a spice for him/her.. which is a fair deal… and all the spices which are in the Spice Bazaar… talk to Tilo… and as soon as someone enters the store.. Tilo finds out what spice he/she wants… there is this lover boy who wants to woo his girl… so she gives him recipes and spices that help.. and then there is this young Surd who is not one of the most popular guy in the neighborhood.. so she hides some daalchini in his turban.. and in a few weeks.. he comes back all dude-ish and all.. with a crew cut and all…

and so on a so forth..

the real excitement begins.. when Tilo starts liking this guy called Doug… and does not give him the spice he should get.. but gives him sometime else.. Tulsi to be specific… for remembering things.. and then he comes back to her to share what he remembered… and then to make him come out with his inner deepest secrets she gives him limewater with Pepper… so that he shares his secrets.. and because of all this.. the Spices get angry with Tilo and start reacting in a way they should not.. things go beserk…. WHY… because Tilo broke the rules… phew !!!

and then she decides to get out of her business.. and then gets ready for a night of passion… related to Red Chillies for some reason… and she does.. whatever she wants to do that night.. and then burns herself.. and the store is all destroyed…. the next morning however she lives… without a scratch on her body !!!
and then i guess the boyfriend and this spice girl live happily ever after.. I GUESS !!!

and this movie was a li’il too hot to handle for me… which meant that i had to watch another movie to come out of the state of shock… so what do i do… i go to the ticket counter.. and buy the tickets for ICE AGE II…

i loved the part I and II did not disappoint either…although the part one was better… it had a better ishtory.. which looked natural…
this time it looked like more of an attempt to make ppl laugh… not that it was not successful…. my favorite Sid the Sloth still remains my favorite… Maddy the Mammoth did things he did not feel comfortable in for the other mammoth chick… and the squirrel SCRAT.. who was nuts after the nuts.. was still nuts after the nuts… Diego… overcome his fear for water as well in the part II….

and the new characters are
Ellie… who thinks that if someone says that she has a huge butt.. he is sweet !!!
Crash and Eddie who are possums.. and are maha-shararti… and nasty !!! to start with they made life kinda difficult for Diego and Sid…

loved the movie… loved it loved it loved it…

also ate.. an over-expensive parantha… which was less of the parantha.. and more of the stuffing…

so much for the movies…

the evening was spent at home.. more or less.. and moved out of the house to reach gurgaon around 1900 hrs… was in gurgaon by 2030 hrs… this was the last party at Aro’s place… U24/25.. this house has seen more years and parties then any other house in Hughes gang !!! so we talked.. ate…drank… smoked.. till morning.. and came back… it was a total fun !!! its surprising how even after changing jobs… being in different shifts… making new friends.. the entire batch 1 and 2 of Hughes BPO ( which is no more there) is still together…and a parallel party was there in Banglore.. arranged by subbu… with Arun, Sammy, Sushant, Amit Junior and all… I guess Kailash was there too…

me and Narang went to his place around 2200 hrs to grab the video card i needed.. and that is when we put the rest of the bikes and the cars and the trucks to shame @ speeds over 100 kms per hour… Narang is a tech freak.. and it shows in his computer and his bike… ask him anything and he knows… i am so proud of him.. so so proud of him !!!

so that was saturday !!! spicy to start with… funny in the middle.. and happy in the end !!!

Sunday started late… around 1100 hrs… and then a quick 20 minute drive to Mausi’s place where we discussed the blueprint for her house… which they started constructing.. and back by 1600 hrs.. Amit came over by 1630 hrs.. and we went to see a few cars for him…

the first one.. Ford Ikon flair… at a on-road price of 5.08 lacs this approx 78ps car looks a decent buy… it looks like the most spacious in its category… however they say that maintaining a ford is kinda tough.. and a few of my friends know this by experience…

the next car was a Indigo.. where we were greeted by a useless Salesman.. who did not know shit about the car he was selling…. so that takes Indigo out of the compeition atleast as of today..

i also wanted amit to try a Petra.. which most of the ppl do not know about… in the same 5-5.5 lac category… this car is the best technically… and otherwise too.. compare the power, mileage, maintenance, space, safety.. whatever… Petra wins in and out… anyway.. we could test drive a Petra or see it on display either.. so hard luck..

the last stop was Rohan Motors… Swift and Esteem… Esteem gives a low quality feel… not really worth a test drive even.. Swift looks good… and feels good too…. smaller windows make you feel that you are sitting inside a box.. and gives a sense of security too.. less glass on the car makes it better for summers in India… however it probably is not the best value for money… but then.. its a premium hatchback.. and ppl who have that kinda money should definitely spend on swift…

back home in the evening… after a quick stop at the TeaShop… and then i got down to changing the Video Card for my computer… now i have a nVidia GE Force AGP Card in my computer which is powered by a AMD Sempron 2400+ processor ( 1.7 GHz) with a 512 MHz SD RAM… i was trying to download some CPU utilities too for my machine yesterday.. but could not… they were for AMD Athelon.. though the site said that they will work on a Sempron too… anyway…

Today was just like any other Monday.. hectik… coming to an end though….

lets see how the week goes…