IN THE LAND OF BIRYANI-RELOADED

After spending about 10 days "studying" for GATE in the hostel it was back to Hyderagood.Those 10 odd days were absolutely awesome!I had absolutely nothing to do.The very fact that I did not have to attend classes at 8 am inspite of being in hostel was the icing on the cake.I purposefully set the alarm at 7-45 am.On blaring ,I switched it off,pulled over the blanket,uttered a few expletives directed towards to the alarm piece,showed it my back and peacefully slept.I seemed to derive some great pleasure in that.Anyways left for Hyd on 14th for a 17 day holiday and should say it was pretty decent.

A new 5 storeyed apartment has come up exactly opposite ours with the balconies of all the flats facing our entrance ,cutting down the sunlight.I hope the balconies offers some other " colourful light" in the colony which has been quite "dark" for 20 years ;).Reminds me of the title song in that 7/G flick.There seems to be a marriage whenever I am in Hyd and this time it was my friends sisters wedding the day i landed and the entire iitm gumbal was there.We had a great time there.The first few days were spent in the usual fashion -meeting old pals etc,eating out ,returning home after 11pm ,scoldings from mom ,promising her not to repeat it and doing the same after 2 days.

Visits to the movie theatres in my holidays seem to be ritualistic .The count has been increasing in some arithmetic progression.It was 3 in the winter and 7 in summer in 1st yr.4 in winter and 13 in summer the next year.This winter it has been 5.The Hindi flick "Bluffmaster" was the pick of the season.Wanted to watch "Aaru" only for Trisha but could not do so due to lack of company.Later heard that it was pathetic ,so no regrets.

I had about 4-5 novels with me and have not completed any of them as i was very busy eating,sleeping,watching TV,roaming etc.There was a new Honda Activa and so there are 3 non-geared vehicles in my house now,one for each of the permanent members.I too have a non-geared vehicle though,my Hercules AXN bicycle.Activa seems pretty good,much better than Kinetic and except for a poorly designed rear view mirror{I use this mirror only for seeing the vehicles behind and not for any other purpose} it was quite good,esp the pick up which is lacking in kinetic and most of my roaming was done on Activa.Dad seemed to be in a pretty good mood as he allowed me to take out the car{Not some posh Lancer or Mercedes,a chota Maruti} on more than a couple of occasions.In return I had to wash it the next day and I accepted the offer gleefully.

It was pretty cold in Hyd,esp for someone who has been in Chennai.The mercury dipped to 9-10 degrees in the last week and my best friend "cold" had already embraced me by then.Cold is my trusted life partner,it will surely never ditch me or leave me under any circumstances.I hope someone creates a rift in this friendship.31st night was also spent with the same old best friend,a hanky and flipping channels till 3 am.A few relatives of my best friend also visited me the next day namely fever and headache.They were so kind,they accompanied me on the train to madras and slowly left 2-3 days back.

It is a new year and a new sem and I dont have any resolutions.The subjects seem to be better than the previous sem,only hope the grades are also better.