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Life mein Twist hai !! - Part II

The next day started late .. we had no plans; had breakfast and then Nimish made some calls to his friends . . it turned out that we were going to R-Mall from where Nimish would leave . . R-mall trip was pretty enjoyable too .. its been a long time since I’ve surfed any market . . .neither me nor Shubham are shopping freaks, so we visit markets only for our essential needs and never indulge market surfing when we move out in Mumbai . . but Nimish is a different guy . . he not only shops but makes shopping a wonderful experience by cracking jokes at every small and big item he notices . . .Nimish finally found his shoes here and also bought some other stuff . . one of his friends from his company was also there . . then we moved to Nirmal Lifestyles and had lunch at Smokin’ Joes.. well ‘twas time to c off Nimish. . .
When I returned to campus, I found the badminton court buzzing with activity and all were waiting for Mixed doubles starting. Here I must mention that Sports Meet was on since Friday evening in NITIE. I was disappointed that I would loose another day to spent on the court since matches will be on.. then suddenly an idea struck!! Why not participate?? but there was a biiig problem! I didn’t have a partner and most good playing girls had been paired already. I asked Snehal who seemed the only one in IM10 who was free and could have played! She instead talked to Chhavi and talked me out to partner with her! So here were we on the court facing “Dinker and Sugnadha”. We were both out of practice and so we lost. But the fun for the day was yet to start !!

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