... the absence of an internet connection at my room has been a blessing in disguise ... the only way 'out' of this 'problem' was a different proxy server address to access FB and Blogger from the office... however it wasn't that fun...
... to cut the month long story short, i used this 'disconnected' time in pretty neat way... first of all, my sleep deprivation was negated... then i finished The Tipping Point and then started Blink and i was so buoyed from these literary successes that i started Outliers parallel to Blink!! ... it was the summer of 2007... only in a different room...
... and though the month started with tragic event... it ended with a dinner with my cousin and her three colleagues at a 'dhabba'... and i hope u have guessed why this post was titled that way... and i think this is only the second time the title and the content are linked directly...
... it was NikkiZ's birthday last week and the verdict of 'Ayodhya Dispute' was expected as well... the verdict, however, was 'postponed'... but u can't postpone a birthday; especially if it was already 'marked' in the calender close to two decades ago... so i picked-up the phone and dialled her number... and perhaps for the first time i heard a 'sleepy' hello instead of the 'longest-happiest-hi-on-the-phone' u can imagine!... so i started with almost formal introduction of mine... and then i got the 'longest-happiest-hi-on-the-phone' u can imagine... apparently she lost her phone on her last official trip... and guess what? she lost all the numbers as well! duh!...
... and then she told that she was 'ambushed' by her colleagues... and got the birthday party... which went on late (i am not adding anything new to the trend, right?) ... and she slept very late so ... well... but she managed to pass a crucial information... that she will be in poona soon and then we can catch-up..
... so just when i was doing the mundane stuff some reading/replying the emails... i saw her name flashing on my mobile phone screen... the venue was same as the previous one... so i can skip the google maps... however in the excitement i overlooked the fact that she and her colleagues (i thought it was colleague!) were planning to go to MG Road... and then without the Internet connection at my room i never had a chance to 'memorize' the route from Sayaji to MG! ... and guess what??
(part 2 on it's way!)
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