A Tale of Two Cities

Yes, yes…I know I’ve been horrid – putting up this blog almost a month after the TT night! My bad – but I’ve genuinely been bogged down with work. And that, by the by, I’m utterly delighted about! Yeah, I’m one of those. *silly grin*

By the by, I’ve realized I leave ‘Truly Thursdays’ in the title of each post. Kinda lame, since this blog is dedicated to TT! :D Mistake rectified for future posts, including this one, but will not go back and change the others. Time constraints, remember?

So what did we get upto on 26 November? For starters – it was a public holiday (it was a long weekend, thanks to Eid)! And for reasons I’m not particularly sure I understand, we tend to skip TT’s on public holiday Thursdays. So yeah, we didn’t have a particularly clichéd TT night.

Having said that – we had two sets of separate TT events that same night! :) One set was a boys-only night, where our TT boys (minus Rohit) went out on their own and kicked some…er…balls! :) While yours truly was in a city far, far away from Dubai! *giggle*

Now, this post will not be like the other quick-sentenced TT posts since it wasn’t a traditional TT night. I will, however, get into details of what happened.

To start off: an extremely dear friend, family member, guide…I could on, ya know? We’ll call him ‘Uncle’ from now on. That’s what I call him anyway! :) So, Uncle had invited me to Abhishek’s (his son and my friend from college) wedding pretty much as soon as the date was finalized. Now, for obvious reasons (read: work, no leave, work, some more work) Rohit and I couldn’t finalize our tickets. It wasn’t until Wednesday that we figured out that there was no way both of us could go. To cut a long story short – Rohit convinced me that I should go on my own since there was no way he could make it! It took very little convincing to get me to agree! Now, the glitch was in trying to get a ticket – everything was overbooked thanks to the long weekend!

And then came into picture our very own wonder woman – my mother in law! *salute* She made a few calls and before long, I had particulars of my flight with me and was rushing home to pack to head out to Calcutta! Oh, Calcutta! *smile*

The days that followed deserve a separate blog post which I will get to sometime soon *fingers crossed*. So, I reached Calcutta on Thursday evening and had a fantastically chilled out evening with Uncle, Aunty, Abhishek, Nana and their close friends. I was introduced to and very briefly spoke to Anandita (the bride to be) who should’ve left to go back to her place, but waited around to meet me! *hugs* There was a lot of strumming, singing (Abhishek played Iktara!) and a little bit of dancing! The mood was…oh so fantastic! Aunty looked stunning – but what else is new? *smile*

Here’s a glimpse of that lovely evening – my very special TT, and the first with Uncle!

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Abhishek Banerjee!

My favourite wall in the house! :)

Poet, singer, guitarist...what more could I possibly say! An absolutely delightful woman to whom I owe one of my poems!

Childhood friends. Can't you just tell? :)

There he is - Uncle. :)

Finally caught one of Aunty's blouse! Yes, yes I know - she's gorgeous!

My second favourite wall in the house!

While some sing along to the tunes being strummed...

...others enjoy the ambience with a drink.

Pensive!

My-mehendi-your-mehendi moment?

The lovely, glowing Jia! :)

Moving on…

So our boys – Claudio, Ryan and Avinash – decided to honor our TT tradition and step out for some random fun. They decided to go to the relatively new entertainment centre at Dubai Mall – Sega Republic! *rolling eyes* And to think they’d be a little less predictable.

What did they get upto? Oh, nothing much – just the fighting-it-out at various consoles. So why start a new paragraph about that? *hehehehehehhehe* Well, that’s because the night wasn’t entirely uneventful! As is customary for anyone who goes to Sega Republic, these boys went on the roller coaster. They didn’t think they’d had enough with the first round, so they decided to go for a second time around.

Now, I’m sure the boys aren’t telling the whole story but I’m sure they did something horrible to tick off the guy manning the roller coaster for as soon as they sat, they realized that it seemed a tad bit notched up! So they went roooooooound and roooooooound and rooooooooound faster than they had the last time! A regular twin-session in any roller coaster is enough to throw anyone off their balance, and these boys got the extended, rough-ed out version the second time around!

Needless to say, they were a little disoriented. So much so that as the wobbly trio was about to get off the coaster there was this heart-wrenching scream from very close by! As Claudio and Avinash looked about to see who got stabbed, they realized that Ryan had doubled over on the floor. Not only was he letting out painful moans, but, they realized, he was curled up on the floor in a foetal position, holding on to his *ahem* crotch!

That’s right, y’all! He knocked his nuts! And pretty hard, I might add! *tearing from laughing real hard*

Needless to say, boys being boys dinnae take any pictures. But here’s what the roller coaster in Dubai Mall looks like:

YAOOOZA!

Ok, I have no idea who those two people are - I just got this picture off Google!

Aaaaaaaaaaanywho…! So that’s what happened last on 26 November in Dubai and Calcutta! :)

Yes, I’m literally just gonna start typing out the blog for the following TT. :) We’ve missed a couple of TT’s, but I’ll mention those in the next one!

And guys – there is a ‘comments’ tab below each blog post. *geeze*

Soon. Toodles!