We, the rowdie gang, met up at Navneeth’s house at around 6 30 PM on May 29th 2008. The purpose was Raja-Sundar joint birthday treat and PSP leaving to Mangalore for MphasiS training.
Raja was the first to reach Navneeth’s place, I guess.
[Somehow always Raja and Navneeth end up being together most of the time. No! I don't mean to imply anything here. Just thought of the coincidence 
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I called up Raja from Adyar depot and he came down to pick me up. We vrooomed to Navneeth’s house in Navneeth’s Scooty
Navneeth’s parents had got a new Tata Sky connection that morning only. Before you jump to conclusions, this was purely a reward to Navneeth’s bro Nithin who did well in his 12th boards. Navneeth is only a beneficiary of his bro’s achievement
Raja, Navneeth and I were watching some old cricket matches on Star Cricket. Meanwhile, Sundar had arrived at Thiruvanmiyur Bus Depot and, unfortunately, Arun couldn’t pick him up. Raja had to drive down to pick up Sundar as well. But then, given the fact that Raja doesn’t do any work normally, this was more of a compensation and nobody was prepared to pity him!
Finally, Sudhir and Rafi arrived (individually) and we were waiting for Arun. There were about 30 minutes for Arun to come and we walked down to Bessie Beach to eat some Bajji. It is to be noted that Navneeth lives about 100 meters from the beach on a perpendicular road which houses CCD and a few other joints as well. Hence, We had, conveniently, appointed Navneeth as the sponsor for the Beach Bajji. Not jus this once. He has always been buying us Beach Bajji all the time!
Arun finally arrived and we headed straight into Navneeth’s place again. We had planned a surprise farewell cake for PSP. It can’t be called a surprise actually (me, sundar and arun mentioned it when PSP was there itself. he was dumb enough not to notice it!). We had asked the bakery to write “Miss u, PSP Esh*, ~RG~” on the top of the cake. Then, we had fun with the cake, put the cream on each others’ faces. Then came the best part. We made PSP eat the single piece of cake which had PSP Esh* written on it. Arun even took a snap of it but is yet to make it available online. Although we had generously reserved a couple of pieces of he cake for Navneeth’s bro and dad, nothing was left in the end. Can’t blame anyone. The mood of the party I guess.
Finally, we realized it was getting late and headed to Eden, in Besant Nagar. Much to our awe, Eden was not full at all! At 7 55 PM IST, one of the best family restaurants in Besant Nagar had space for an 8-people-group! You won’t find this surprising until you go down to that place. It’s very small.
We had a great time mocking everyone from the waiter to Manmohan Singh to Gopinath (Leaf King). The food, however, disappeared as soon as it came. We took a lot of pictures in weird poses. I’m waiting for Arun to put them up on Flickr.
Finally, the time came and we had to leave. I rushed with Arun to Thiruvanmiyur Bus Depot. I was lucky to catch the last bus that left the depot towards my area! I reached home around 10 45 PM IST.
We all missed Naveen that night. Unfortunately, he couldn’t make it.
Yours Skeptically,
uleadin
P.S. I forgot to urge the crowd into taking the Ubuntu pose photo. Dammit!
