The Alcoholic Smoker

Weekend was just about okay. Some issues bogged me down. The tearjerker me resurfaced. Then I slept over my problems all Sunday. And woke up at 6pm ready to get drunk.
So the plan happened – P, the old friend has returned from London – had a short stint and Mumbai and relocated in Delhi – so he was in town and we went to Hard Rock Café.

Black tunic with red tube, black capris and blood red heels – I felt very Carrie – walked into a surprisingly empty Hard Rock and started the good ol’ catching up over LITs and Mojitos – was initially very disappointed with the strange Arabic music they were playing and then Teenage Wasteland changed the mood and the usual charm to the place was back. Jackie Shroff walked in looking very stoned – he has no neck anymore, really he doesn’t – his head ends and his shoulders start – it’s hilarious – he looks like one of those Russian dolls that have a round head attached to a round body! Being amply amused by him and getting reprimanded by my friend for being “oh-ever-so-mean”, I went back to my paneer shashlik and some strange crispy chicken things. The main highlight of the evening however was the fire-extinguisher shaped lighter that a friend has gifted me and that attracted all the waiters to my table – they swooned and they held it while I fashionably lit up a cigarette and smiled politely at them. P called me an “alcoholic smoker” – yes so I am the type that smokes ONLY when I drink and I follow it as a rule – and no, I don’t drink daily – its more of a once in 15 days phenomenon – so technically I maintain the fact that I don’t smoke. I am a non-smoker, I am I am! *stands at her balcony and shouts out loud*

I think along with Mondy’s, this will be another place I’ll miss when I am back in Delhi. But Café Morrison mostly makes up for the latter – nothing can replace Mondy’s though – and good ol’ Huxley throwing out the letchy man who winked at my friend! Mostly I will miss the jukebox – and my favourite song when I am down many beers – High by Lighthouse Family! I shall miss! I shall miss so much!!

But enough about getting nostalgic already – here I am not even close to getting a job in Delhi and I am talking about missing Mumbai. Shee. Must not and shall not count the chickens before they hatch… for now, the summer of this city and the monsoon that shall soon follow is enough for me to light up another cigarette in grief! Oh but no, an alcoholic smoker I am and an alcoholic smoker I shall always be. STRICTLY and ABSOLUTELY. So here’s to the next trip to Hard Rock or the next weekend in Mondys!
Cheers! *Puff Puff*

Chewing Gum and no work

No, I haven’t been lazy. Just been extremely busy in domestic issues and other such happenings. Haven’t got the time to breathe / talk / write (hence, sorry to all my mitr, dosts for not being in touch - I shall call you soon)!

Firstly, I have been busy deciding where to spend some part of the huge incentive I have got (for god knows what reason – I hardly think I work that much) – anyway, with that mostly in order and the noble noble intention of setting the rest aside for the down payment of a car I plan to buy, I am back on track – and back to the blog shog that I love so much.

Oh also, the net at home isn’t working and blogger was blocked in office until now when I realized that its been miraculously unblocked and joy had returned to the world again. Work is less, office is where I while away time, home is hectic, that’s when I seem to have no time to myself – so in that scenario, this is good news – blogger shall badhao the shobha of my to-do-lists at work and finally I shall be able to comment on my fellow bloggers posts! (And that is such a relief – coz I would read something and the spontaneity of my reaction would be lost when I would go back to commenting on it at night at my pc) – but now no tenshun venshun – all is good – peace has been restored in the world and these corporate hoo-haas about blocking everything seems to be dying out.

Oh, and now I REALLY need to find a job in delhi – come December and I’m moving there – so help help already peeeeepal !!!

Lunch time. Let me munch and return to writing.

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Little bit of Bhindi, 2 tiny chapattis, salad and dahi! Where did my mirchi ka achaar go? Where did the daal disappear! Sigh! I’m still hungry. So I have stuffed my mouth with some 6 pieces of Happy Dents one after the other and now my jaw hurts.

Work is a bitch. For one, there isn’t much to do. But I have to sit around and pretend to work while I blog. Its god sent I tell you- this blogger unblocking thing – or I would have died of boredom! Not like I have much to write right now anyway. There is much happening in life right now. But non-discussable at this point. So shall update you when I can.

I’m suddenly feeling super lazy. Yawn. I think I will meet a friend at the Cha Bar in the evening. Or just go home and sleep. Maybe even watch Sweeny Todd that I still haven’t gotten around to watching. I don’t know. Yes yes, I am lazy. I think I will just go be lazy again.