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Life mein Twist hai !!

Saw this tagline on a hoarding the other day and discovered it happening to me too ... he he .. life has been fun since Diwali break ... I have spent another weekend today roaming around Mumbai. Last weekend I was roaming around with my Bro Abhishek but more on that later .. abhi I am just back seeing off Nimish to Pune.
On thursday came an offer from ashii to go to ISB . . . I thought why not? After all this might be the last B-school event for me .. I had almost decided that I would go when news came that 2 tickets were booked. .. now Ashita and Milind had plans to go on those tickets .. and since Payal had almost given up on going so I was left alone without travel plans .. all my plans melted away .. I felt as if this weekend wud b a waste , shud say I was sad for the day.. . but soon came in a call from Nimish declaring he was coming to Mumbai . . . and thus started the bonanza
Me and Shubham had plans to visit Elephanta Caves since long .. . Nimish gave us the opportunity .. . the next morning we took a ferry to Elephanta from Gateway of India . . . the journey was enjoyable . . .one could see giant Navy ships, Indian oil’s refinery and the Babha Atomic Research Center (BARC). We were back by 1.30 to the gateway.
Nimish wanted to get shoes for himself so we decided to move to Parel where most factory outlets could be found. Shoes to nahi mile we ended up in a Garment Store after seeing “3 T-shirts in 299/-” tag outside it. Once inside Nimish turned to a section of Spykar Tees and I too ended up buying one that I liked . . . for the first time in my life I did what is called ‘impulse buying’. . . it was evening by then and it seemed a waste of time to return to campus before night . . .we hunted for a newspaper in a Petrol Pump and found that the movie HULCHUL was showing in Premier Cinema a 100 meters from where we were standing . . . so that’s the way we spent time till night. . . getinig back we dropped in Hiranandani for dinner .. . that was all for the day .. . today was a bit different . . . the next post details …

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