Travel cafe

Yesterday Vishal, Mudit and myself had to spend to spend the peak afternoon time waiting @ Hauz Khas village for Vikas to come back from his office where he is interning for the summer.

The hands down choice was Kunzum Travel cafe (http://kunzum.com/travelcafe/). Now to admit the truth I had no idea what the concept of a travel cafe was or how was it different from a normal cafe. :?

So, it was a small cozy place with pictures sent in by travellers adorning the wall, travel books which one can either read at the cafe or buy. Free wifi and the unique concept of this particular place - you can have coffee and cookies and pay whatever you want...

You can sit the entire day and laze around, use the wifi and there is no compulsion to buy anything...you can  sit on the sofa, the cane chairs or even on a comfy rug on the floor.

Spent a couple of hours lazing around talking about nothing in particular and wishing I could work from home from this great place. :)

Puff Away

CIGARETTE: A roll of paper with fire on one end and a FOOL on the other....

On this Anti Tobacco day 2011, suddenly everyone except the smokers themselves was talking about quitting. A radio channel 104.8 FM went even further and invited listeners to leave messages to get Shahrukh Khan to quit smoking...bhai uski cigarette, uski marzi...and infact why persuade just him to quit, there are other actors who smoke..why don't you take messages for them as well..

What is the use of someone telling someone else to quit. I have a senior in office, very hardworking, and he has been blessed with a daughter some months back. But he needs breaks every couple of hours to go out to the shops just outside the office to smoke. Now he is educated, no doubt knows about the ill effect of smoking...I don't think he needs someone else to tell him smoking is bad before he quits.

Yes, you can tell about the ill effects of smoking to people who aren't educated, but since the tobacco lobby is so powerful in India, the plan to introduce pictorial warning is yet to see the light of the day after i guess 3 postponements. The next date is 1st December. Lets see what the next date after that is...

I feel that it is up to the smoker to realize how they are harming themselves and their families with their smoking...Nobody can do that for them.

Reverb

Date : 25/05/2011

Venue : Reverb, The Great India Place Noida

Reason: Team Party o.O

Meet was supposed to give us a prty @ Reverb some years back when Vishal was in Delhi oops Dadri :P , but Vishal ka woh sapna sapna hi reh gaya :)

Lets hope the place lives up to its reputation..

Swim Season

And swimming season 2011 officially starts today :)

Chat mangni pat shaadi

Well, everybody has heard this phrase, but I saw this happen :)

Thursday : Girl meets boy ( who is the son of family friend but this is the first time the two meet..)
Sunday : Girl meets boy's parents.
Next Thursday : They are married  :)

Congratulations guys..Wishing you a very happy married life..

Earth Hour 2011

Well, its that time of the year when we switch off unnecessary lights for 1 hour on the last Saturday of March and feel proud that we are saving electricity and helping Earth..

Grow up...

Just one hour of switching off electric appliances for 1 day of the year doesn't make you a savior...do your bit everyday...it isn't that difficult.

Read my views on the same topic at Earth Hour 2010 and Earth Hour 2009.

Samskruthi 2011

Today, we had Samskuthi...the annual carnival at CSC and the atmosphere was simply electric...It was like we were back in college.

Lots of stalls, lots of activities but the best part of the evening was the performance by the Hindi Rock band Musafir (http://www.musafirtheband.com/). They were amazing and belted out back to back power packed performances including a censored version of Sutta :)

And when they started playing Sutta, the crowd matched thier energy and sang along...poore college type wala mahaul :D

Now I do not know music..but as with most of the performances that I have seen, the energy is infectious and the efforts by the band members is what scores with me..

And listening to Musafir, I was suddenly missing Vishrut, Vishal, Angad, Govi, Abhay, Meet, Pandey, Phodu, Govil, Nimit, Purnoor, Puneet, Maddy, Rao, Popat, Sagar, KK and everyone who made those numerous DJ nights in college amazing fun...