Happiest New Year!

dear blog
happy new year!

let me tell you how i welcomed 2009...

i was in nagpur at that time. Two of my friends were there too. They were Mr Recently-Committed-'RC' and Abbs. we had planned to go "somewhere" on eve of 2009. and nobody knew where!

we first met up in a multiplex-cum-mall. It was the same one in which we had seen ghajini just a day ago. now too, i was the last one to reach the place.there, my friends had already occupied a table at a very 'strategic' place. although i was half an hour late, they didn't feel bored-thanks to the location of the table. that day, Nick had also come. he was a school friend of RC. so i reach there half an hour later than the decided time, at 8:30 pm , expecting to hear a lot of things from them. instead i found them enjoying themselves just looking at people in the mall.

we had two bikes between us. so from there, we went to CCD. That CCD was stranded. so we decided to go to another CCD, about 5 Kms from there. We spent about half an hour there. Meanwhile, Abbs tried his best to get us a cheap entry "somewhere". The whole time he boastfully conveyed that the DJ at a hotel's party was his next door neighbour! he also claimed that the bouncer at another party used to be his classmate! so, we were pretty sure that we would have a destination soon.

then Abbs realised that he needed more cash for the night. so we went in search of an ATM. Nagpur's markets are quite cluttered. ATMs are quite hard to locate. while Abbs and nick filled up their pockets, me and RC took Abbs's bike for a ride. that night, the roads were very deserted that night. seemingly all nagpurians were in some party or the other. Only we were on the road.


while waiting for the neighbour-cum-DJ to call back, we stopped by a pav-bhaji shop and ate it very slowly. we took 45 minutes to eat half a plate pav-bhaji each! It was already 9:30 pm. RC had to go home because many relatives were at his place. so he too was expected there. later, he also confessed it was his dog's walk-time. so he also had to take his dog out for a walk! and people say that only dogs are faithful!

nick stayed near RC's house and had also come on his bike. So both of them had to leave. now, at 9:45 pm, only me and Abbs were left. We had one common feeling- that we have to rock that night. he tried to call his 'contacts' one last time. as expected, they didn't pick up. so we decided to go to a fun park-just 10 Kms on the outskirts of nagpur. our budget was Rs 300 each. but the tickets there were of Rs 1200 'only' . so we came back to nagpur. we went to a Hotel after that. There the entry fee was affordable-Rs 500 for two people. but it was strictly for couples. we even looked around for any 'single' girls to strike a deal, but didn't find anyone in the next five minutes.

so we were on the bike again. we thought that we would spend the last minutes of 2008 on a bike. just then, passing by a farmhouse, we heard loud music. it sounded like a good party. we stopped there. its entry fees was Rs 300. we waited for some time outside its gate. meanwhile a person agreed to sell us the tickets for Rs 100 each. Thrilled, we bought them. atlast, we were going to a party!

The farmhouse had a grand entrance. We were convinced that it would be a good party. at 11 pm,we entered walking briskly. what we saw next, made us laugh for the next two hours. It makes us laugh even now. It was the sight of the party. It was just a lawn. there was a stage, where the 'DJ' sat. there were two speakers on each side of the stage. loud music was being played. there were about 80-100 people. But there were no girls!!! the only one, whom everybody seemed to be ogling at, was with the DJ on the stage! as soon as we realised this, we started laughing out loud. we looked around again- there were no girls! it was a totally male party! Abbs even rolled on the grass, laughing. laughing, we started to beat each other. It was really a funny moment.

well, once inside and dancing, we decided to stay there itself. already it was 11:30 pm. we laughed and danced our time to midnight. The DJ was playing good songs. That was a consolation. soon it was midnight. the DJ welcomed 2009 by releasing balloons. that added to the fun in the situation. we couldn't control our laughter. it was all unexpected. we had expected to go to a hi class party, where the DJ welcomes the new year by a display of fireworks. we just laughed and laughed the whole time at what we got!

well, the good thing was that we welcomed the new year looking at the sky, laughing our hearts out! That's quite a positive start for a year!