On a high after the xmas party we decided to go out on new year's eve too..and we planned and plotted and enquired bout every event in a 100 mile radius...and true to the female race we planned and co-ordinated everythin from our outfits to our accessories to our modes of transport....
Meanwhile i was caught in no-man's land as there were 3 different groups for me to party wid...each wid a different venue in mind...some wanted a nice quiet new years eve...my office gang wanted to go all out on a pigging n binging spree...n my roomies wanted a decent crowd party venue...being da born diplomat dat i am...i managed to coerce/convince all of them to land up at the same venue...
After hagglin over the cover charges and wat all it wud cover we were finally there...wid a gang of around 9 ppl....all of dem different strokes...i knew we were in for some interesting events...
After gulping down the free booze and the free starters the dance gods beckoned us...and we danced to watever shit was being belted out in the name of in-house DJ music...it was den dat we noticed de huge gang of boys in the booth next to ours....one of dem in particular was sloshed and had decided it was his mission in life to come and crash our dance circle...he tried every trick in the book from accidentally dancing his way towards us...to tryin to wish us happy new year by shouting "Happy new year...i love u!!!"....his hapless and slightly less sloshed cronies tried to retrain him by forming a human chain round him and convincing him to dance in the centre....
But the best stunt he pulled was wen he decided to re-tie his shoe laces....now call me orthodox but i have always tawt that wen u tie ur shoe laces ur feet are supposed to be on the ground and ur head in the air....but no...dis guy who was probably a yoga instructor for desperate housewives tawt it wud be cool to balance his head on our couch wid his feet hoisted in the air as he tied his laces....all our male friends/protectors and his cronies were poised to prevent him from doing anything beyond that...as soon as he was done he was unceremoniously pushed back into his own circle of friends and was not seen again...
As the clock struck 12..there were cheers of "Happy new year!!!" everywhere....this however was quickly sidelined by another group next to ours where some chick was doling out free new year "love tokens"....
We continued appeasing the dance gods till 4 in the morning....and den finally we left for home...but our adventure was not over yet...
As soon as i reached home, i was informed dat we were heading to Marine drive to watch the sunrise....the first sunrise of the New year..i was excitedly told...now i am not a morning person...i've seen my fair share of sunsets....but the last sunrise i saw was wen i was a kid..i was on someone's shoulder and had blinked my eyes open...seen the sun and promptly dozed off again..so i politely told my roomies to stuff it and lemme sleep...but somehow they managed to blackmail me into agreeing to this comic caper...i blame the booze for this...can make a nice sensible morning grump turn into a morning lover...
So off we went wid two other pals..who were lured by promises of Maggi noodles...and we went dutifully to the station and took a train and landed up at marine drive after an hour long journey...thrilled by our spontaneous adventure so far..we clicked snaps to commemorate our heralding the first dawn of the new year....
As we waited with bated breath to be a part of the beauty of nature in all its glory we watched the sky lightening from deep black to blue and to grey...we even some some hint of pink clouds over the horizon...but no sun was in sight yet...we waited and waited till it hit us....we were facing west...and the sun is known to rise in the east....the glorious sunrise we wanted to witness had taken place behind us...somewhere in the east....
After having the laugh of our lives..we made our way back home...making blood oaths to keep our lil morning glory incident a secret...we reached home around 8 in the morning and slept till 2 in the afternoon...dats wen Shams entered our room wid the newspaper in hand...w/o a word she held out the front page and handed it to us....There was a beautiful pic of the sunrise....at the worli seaface...taken from the Bandra Linkway..which was half an hour from our place. We looked at each other in silence for a few seconds and burst into uncontrollable giggles...The new year had dawned....and it was special.
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