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Had dropped by at friend's wedding reception ridiculously late.... while we had a "serious" gift too, bringing a baseball bat for the bride and a pair of boxing gloves for the groom brought a few moments of levity. Lugging them around office provoked an equal amount of hilarity, particularly when we brought them in as props for a meeting we had :) ...
Spent the evening browsing at the Sunday book bazaar at Abids in Hyderabad! Brought back memories of school days when I'd walk down the lanes of Daryaganj in Delhi, with a couple of hundred bucks in the morning, and just enough money to take the bus back in the afternoon - with a backpack full of books in tow! A little less than a backpack this time - but bought an eclectic bunch of books - Arthur Hailey, Leon Uris, Erich Segal, Roald Dahl... my quest to complete my collection of Tintins and Asterixs was unsated though! ...
Movie marathon at Prasads - Ab Tak Chappan followed by Torque. The first is a typical Ram Gopal Verma movie - a Hindi flick sans songs that is pretty gripping. The second is the biker version of the Fast and the Furious and is entertaining if you go in expecting the cheese dialogues and biking sequences - which is what I'd done!
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Good weekend - played four games of Scrabble (I suck); Finished Driven to Extremes (Schumacher makes for interesting stories!) and One Day in September (never, ever get on the wrong side of the Israelis!).
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Spent a bit of the evening at an opening "do" at cinnabar redd, our town's very own pan-Asian epicurean delight - featuring a Hyderabadi first - a teppanyaki counter. Good sound proofing keeps the pounding music in the bar from spilling over into the dining area... and it's sure to evolve into the town's best oriental spot, if it's anything like Fusion 9, just a floor below. ...
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Went cycling both days over the weekend... ended up trying a new route with a friend and was transported into what seemed like a village lightyears away from the city! Stopped at a small shack and shared a plate of idlis and puris before being adventurous and stopping at a roadside vendor sitting under a tree, peddling fresh, frothy toddy (fermented palm tree juice; village alcohol); couldn't finish the large earthen glasses we were poured, but panted our way back home, still sober!