Ab dilli door nahi

Been a very hectic week for me thus far. Hardly had time to pay any attention to my little space. One of my friends complained that its been a while and I have not posted anything new. With the page counter and regular visitors growing by leaps and bounds, it becomes trifle tough to spare time or find something to rant about on a regular basis.

Usually, I blog from workplace at the time when I am waiting for a deliverable from someone or waiting for the conference call to happen or when I am totally jobless. Blogging at home never happens. Either I am too busy in the kitchen trying to help my MIL or I am watching my stressbuster k-soaps or I am too sleepy after either or both.

Today, its lovely weather outside, cloudy-but-not-quite-rainy types and I wish it continued to be this ways through the weekend. I have to be taking a friend shopping along linking road and such where I need to conserve energy for great deal of bargaining. I wouldn't possibly want it to get wasted by battling with the scorching sun. I also want to watch Hitch and Hazaaron Khwaishen Aisi. I want to drive the car around on nice smooth roads (a far-from-reality dream), I want to eat at Cafe 5 (I'll wait for you to get here, M :-) ). And I also want to take a break and go for a trip.

Talking of trips, I am going to be spending my next weekend in Delhi. I am most thrilled at the thought of visiting the place after 5 years. Would be good to meet up with old friends with whom I have been in constant electronic touch, have momo's and fruit beer in Dilli Haat, junk shop at Janpath, Sarojini Market and Central Market, travel on smooth roads along the India Gate area, have huge hot chocolate fudge at Nirulas, raj kachori at Haldirams, gol gappas at Lajpat Nagar and generally crib about the sweltering 40+ deg heat. Would also like to check out what our dear water-stealing neighbor (who gave us a tough time by err.. stealing water) is up to nowadays. Would also like to see how the college campus looks like and catch up on gossip on which prof is torturing whom and which junior/senior is seeing whom, would like to meet the mamis of the colony whom we visited every vishu to collect money, would like to see in what state of affairs is the metro rail from Shahdara to Nand Nagari (I wouldn't be surprised if cattle travelled with the milkmen in that route), would like to check out the cowshed-turned-retro Gurgaon which boasts of hajaar pubs and malls, would like to see the posh-pseud eye-candy junta around Chanakya and PVR, would like to see if Border movie banner still hangs on Uphaar theater walls and listen to the blueline bus conductors yelling 'baarder' 'baarder" (Thats just the border of Delhi and Faridabad, a place called Badarpur before you connect the calls to LoC or something. I have travelled that route endless times during my spartan-and-broke student days) .. oh my to-do list is endless for a 3 day visit. :-)

Anyways, the bottom line is I am so looking forward to this trip. Would have loved to be there in December. Maybe another trip. :-)