Monday, May 19, 2008

Today's activities

Today me, my roomie Arvind (the idiot), Maddy and Anant had gone to Nalapak for lunch. Nalapak is one of the nicest veggie hotels in Minneapolis. After a long time I had the opportunity to devour authentic south Indian lunch. I was craving for it.

Sitting in the hotel with my friends, suddenly my mind went into a flashback mode :

Flash back to Philips era - I used to drive daily to Ulsoor. Me and my dad on my good old splendor. I used to drop him off daily at his bank, have a munch at Amrit Darshini on St Marks Road and rush to my office. The Idlis there just melted in the mouth like butter. With a fine blending of spicy Sambhar or Chutney, the hot steaming idli used to give an out of the world experience.

Flashback to PESIT - Me and my gang sitting at Vidyarthi Bhavan gossipping about all the people in the college, pulling each other's legs and planning our regular trips. Vidyarthi Bhavan's Masal dose is "Avarnaneeya" - one that cannot be described. It just has to be experienced. It is still a puzzle to me as to how the dosa there is kind of thick, but still so soft on the inner side and crispy on the outer side. aaah! the red color dosa with an inner filling of Potato curry and the white coconut chutney - just exotic.

It was a weird feeling that the stuff which not so long back were mundane, are now delicacy and rare.

After I came back from lunch, I viewed my grades. It was a happy news! I got an A grade in Adv Algorithms course. Thanks to my good final exams, I could go past the required 95%, by just a whisker.

Then i slept like a log for 4 hrs. As usual, my sleep was filled with weird dreams. I was dreaming about having a fight with Nalapak waiter for delaying our lunch by 3 hrs and making us miss the bus and suddenly me and Ashwini Ranganath (My High school friend with whom i was out of touch for 7 yrs) , had taken the same course (adv comp Architecture) and were discussing about our grades. I woke up with quite a heavy head. Started planning for my internship packing. Realised that i dint have much clean clothes to take there.

OMG! I just remembered that whatever clothes i had left in the washing machine in the basement are actually still lying there only. They have been there since 4 hrs. I forgot to put them to drier and take them back.

Enough for today. I will try to post again..

3 comments:

Preeti said...

I miss Nalpak akki rotti, GTR idli masaledose, vidyarthibhavan masaledose .. miss those college days .. miss those times when we celebrated results ...
oh! u reminded me of those golden days! :-)

Some Little Greens said...

'A' in Algos .. Great !!! Are you doing MS/BS in computer science ? It would be nice if we share our interests.
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Operation Crazyhouse said...

hhey ssuch a good post... U have made me nostalgic too.. BTW so nice that u hv found a nalapaka there.. now I'll look for the one in bay area too..!