Bite 1 : my birthday!!

My birthday was very nice..I guess with age I am getting comfy with myself, you know, no pangs with the way I look, with the way I am, I have reached a comfort zone with myself. Yes, I am trying to do a lot of stuff all at once, headed in too many directions, but I am at peace with chaos, complete acceptance: thats who I am. As I write this on the 16th March, I think I can take a step further and safely say, that I like me the way I am. Sure I kick myself, for breaking mind promises made to self, but Id much rather be me. Guess that makes sense in a way.

So anyway, predictably, my silly billy best friend came over with Varun at midnight! yay! The surprise was ST who showed up, with his gang, our gang actually, so we were digging into 2 cakes ( one they got and one my parents) with chips and music and giggle, they left at 2 in the morning! I did the dishes and went to bed. HIGHLIGHTof segment one of 23rd birthday: I got a Worldspace - Shal and ST gifted me one! super super gift!!! :)

Got up, got ready and rushed to office. Worked quickly and cut a cake at work that my sweetest colleagues got. Then as per plan went for Lunch with ST. We decided to head to Joss, for some reason I thought they do oriental cuisine as well as pasta!! Turns out they don't, I had only eaten it in a banquet function there, but the walk in restaurant doesn't do it. The menu: was BORING. Black and white printed on yellow old paper stuck on red cardpaper so that it has a red border jutting out. No dish had a name, instead each item on the menu was a description of itself. For example: Exotic Vegetables with Water chestnut tossed in oyster sauce. THATS the NAME of the Dish!! So basically, I dint want to eat my birthday lunch here! After drinking two glasses of water, I walked up to the manager and said sorry but we want to excuse ourselves, I wanted to eat Pasta and thought that's what this place served. The sweet fella took no offence and we ran out: I wanted to go to the nearby: ALL STIR FRY ( same ol, no birthday exclusivity here)

It is critical to note at this juncture that at work I am allowed  a 90 mins  lunch break and I was down by 40 mins by now, I can safely guess.

Mysteriously, we get lost in Colaba, the lane you turn into to go to All Stir Fry is missing, add to that a lot of no entry and one ways, 20 mins pass and I start to hyperventilate a little, a little haggle haggle happens ( " I am trying to find the place! please relax, don't scream!" " you don't understand, I have to go back soon, All my mistake should have stuck to Joss") and then, TADA we see it!!
With the precise order in mind, I order my dim sums and share my khau sway : delicious. Vijay the friendly waiter, sings happy birthday to me, gives me a happy birthday card and I get a complimentary piece of brownie from the chef!

Vijay's charms made me forget to keep track of time and I am suddenly jolted to reality with a call from office, my favourite agency, Tribal DDB, has been waiting for 15 mins now for a 3 o clock appointment! SHIT! Super hyperventilation kicks in, which is accelerated with my boss's call. Leads to an accident ( no ones hurt) by ST and I somehow make it back to work after 2.5 hours! I am so ashamed and embarrassed!! Break into shpeel of apologies and to make matters worse my agency has got me a cake!!!

Alls well that ends well and the day ends well, Iv missed about 90 birthday calls, my battery is dying with the number of calls I'm getting. Here Id like to highlight that: Social Networking has taken the romance out of birthdays!! Random acquaintances have remembered my birthday this year ( statistically i had a jump of 300% in the no. of calls this year in comparison to last year) and the sad bit here is that I didn't appreciate the gesture, I know they just logged on to Facebook today and hence I got the call!

So I run and come home asap! My parents want to sample food at Aromas of China, I tell them of course I am good with Oriental food, whatever they like ( Shucks! I just had it this morning). So, Switch off my phone and go for a great quite dinner with my parents.

SOOO good birthday!!

Next day I get a big cake delivered at the office, a blast from the past residing in another country sent it to me! So the total count of birthday cakes is 5!! :)

I realise, I cant really keep things straight, I could have written the above day in 5 lines or 50, I always choose the higher word limit!! Pls don't ZZZZZZ, the better part of Feb is yet to come, this time with photos!! Watch this space, Ill write soon.

Love,
PVS

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