How to write a letter

This weekend was one of those where there are no plans at all, the type that’s spent wasting away at home. I stumbled upon a link to this Google group we had during our college days. We used to have a lot of fun posting messages to that group during our exams, everyone used to stay online for hours, replying to each others posts, fighting, and having a battle of wits. Among those posts I found one with an apology letter that we wrote to our profs. We were caught for not writing notes, throwing paper balls when the profs back was turned, and making a lot of noise. The dean barred us for giving the exams unless we wrote a letter apologizing to the prof. So there we were, around 20 of us, sitting on the stairs of the auditorium, writing our first apology letter. There were another 2 letters we wrote later in the year, but this was the first. All of us chipped in with the best words from our vocabulary, and the result was - One really professionally written apology letter, I am not even sure that the profs understood it completely. Click on the picture below to read it.

There were times where we had around 200+ posts every week, with people ripping on each other for any stupid reason. To give you and idea of the stuff that was usually going on in the group, heres one incident. There was this one time I was pissed off with a "Mr. X" and thought he was being really self centered and had a little of the "I am better than you" attitude, so I made a couple of stupid jokes on Mr. X. Here is a sample of the jokes.

Q: Why did Mr X cross the road?

A: He wanted to proove he was better than the chicken

A duck and Mr X walk into a bar

Duck: quack

Mr X: quack quack i can quack more

Q: What did Mr X say to the apple and the banana?

A: I can talk and u cant.. im better

Ps: Mr X isnt a bad person, we are still friends and meet up on weekends.

College days were fun. After reading for around 2 hours, i still have a lot more to complete. Reading the posts brought back all the memories of the last 2 years.

Feel-Good Friday

Thanks to my net, this post is a few days late

Fridays have always been good. It is a day when you will notice a smile on everyone’s face in the office. There are many reasons for that, the weekend is few hours away, everyone is in casuals and so is the atmosphere, with people roaming around everywhere having fun. We had a team party too, with lots of cake. Its been a good day for me, mostly because i got rid of half of my workload today . By completing it off course, not by dumping it onto others (I don't have that high a designation yet :) ) . I also made a donation towards the Bihar flood relief fund today. That adds a lot towards the Feel-Good factor of the day. But apparently the day wasn’t so good to this friend of mine who had loads of work, so while leaving she suggested we take the longer route home and stop somewhere for ice-cream. We were off to find a ice cream parlor at 11:30 in the night. Wiped the rain drops off my bike seat, started the engine, hit the road and a little further ahead, there’s an ice cream parlor and a coffee shop right next to each other. We could have gone to the naturals ice-cream parlor. But no, we decide to have coffee at this place called 'Beans and Beyond'. Nice place, good coffee. After finishing my cafe latte with hazel nut flavor, we headed home at around midnight. I always liked coffee but there’s just one minor problem with midnight coffee. Yes you guessed right, you'd be sitting up in the wee hours of the night writing blogs instead of lying in bed where you rightfully should be. To make matters worse, my nets down again so i am writing this post in notepad while listening to pink floyd. With no net, there goes the number 1 way to kill time. If you’re lucky (make that - if I am lucky) you will get to read this first thing in the morning. I think I’ll watch some south park episodes while I wait for the caffeine levels to drop.

A musical day

Today begin just like any ordinary day, but little did we know that it would turn out to be a real fun day. The day revolved around music. To start of, we made a last minute decision to go watch rock on. A couple of phone calls later and 3 of us (craig, anirban and me) were in for the movie. Come to think of it, its always been just the 3 of us for the last minute plans, may be because we are the only people that have nothing better to do while the others always have some excuse ready on the tip of their toungue. As usual i was the first to reach the theater and not wanting to miss the start, i brought the tickets and took my seat. 15 minutes into the movie the other 2 showed up. The movie was great, not your typical bollywood movie with couples dancing around trees in the rain (this one had men jumping around on the stage instead. and before you think of any wisecrack - No, thats not why i said the movie was  great). To be honest i found some of the lyrics a little bollywood-ish considering its portrayed as part of the rock genre, but the music was good. After the movie, we were off to celebrate another friends (varuns) birthday at SBX. I had suggested this place because i like the ambience there since they play my kind of music. They played tunes of artists like pinkfloyd, aoasis, audioslave, staind, santana, robbie williams and Without much delay we got started to work our way upto that 4 figure bill. Its amazing how given the right amount of alcohol guys can start debating on any given topic like they have been studying it for years. We had a whole lot of topics to discuss, starting from politics, to relegion and god, to how to enjoy life to the fullest, to the all important women. Offcourse sticking to the 'code of conduct' none of those discussions can be revealed to those that were not present at the time. Some of us (read: Anirban) were getting quiet philosophical too. I was more intrested in the music and wasn't listening to most of the conversation there. We called it quits when we were at the quarter mark to a 5 figured bill. I was bent on having coffee from one of those road side cycle guys that roam the streets at night. But since we didnt find any coffee stall we had our midnight coffee at a nearby CCD outlet and then headed home. I reached home at around 12:30 that night. It was a fun night and i must thank Varun for the treat.