Awesome weekend

What happened??? Beer happened!!

New York

Wooh!..boy did I have an eventful week! I had loads of work over the week but I managed to have plenty of fun over the weekend! It was President's Day on Monday, hence, we had a day off. With the long weekend in front of us, we decided to go for some sightseeing (finally!). 

Plans for New York were already under way since last week. Although there was no news from the guys for the initial part of the week...we finally got together on Thursday over beer and decided to go ahead as planned. 

New York was really fun. Although it wasn't the perfect weather to roam around..but coming from Delhi..we are pretty used to roaming around in lousy weather. So, regardless of the bad weather we ventured towards Princeton Junction in our cab. The weather in Princeton was pretty good..it was sunny with mild breeze. However New York welcomed us with cloudy skies and wind speeds of 30 mph - 60 mph! (it was on display..am not kidding!). Anyways, we boarded the metro towards South Ferry Island from Penn Station..or at least we thought we did. We actually went the opposite way. We realized this at the next station but we were not quick enough in getting down. So, we had to go 1 more station in the wrong direction. Unlike the awesome Delhi Metro, the New York Metro is old and noisy. When we got off the next station, there was no bloody crossover!! We sought the help of the station master and asked him what could be done. Being an Indian, he pitied on us and let us through the emergency exit and told us to get off at the next station which had a crossover. Going 3 stations in the wrong direction is certainly not a perfect start for a trip but oh well..wat can you do? 

We finally ended up going in the correct direction and reached South Ferry Island by 10 a.m. We walked a bit for the ferry towards our first stop - The Statue of Liberty. Being very miserly ppl, we dint go for the audio tour and just went there to "see" it. The Statue of Liberty was pretty cool..but what was better was the ferry ride.

Next up, we went to see the WTC site. We went walking this time, since it was nearby. New York streets are pretty cool..narrow roads with HUGE skyscrapers. In fact they are soo huge, it barely gets any sunlight. On the way, there was the NY Stock Exchange..something which the others were very excited about. I dint know what the fuss was..it was just a building and nothing else! Anyways, the WTC site was huge. I cant imagine how it must have been when the towers came down. We also went to the WTC memorial where they kept all the remnants of the tragedy. Some ppl were soo emotional that they were crying seeing the videos on the giant screen.

Anyways, we stopped for lunch at Subway - the one place I dint want to eat! I wanted to have hot dogs from the street. But as usual, vegetarians always spoil the party :) . After lunch, we boarded the train for 42 Street Bryant Park. The Empire State Building and Times Square was on our agenda. It was 3 p.m by the time we reached there. We stopped at some malls on the way. I bought an awesome Wolverine action figure for myself. They had Batman too, but it was funny looking. This one is really mean! Anyways, after some shopping we went to see the Empire State Building. Here too, we dint go in...we just "saw" it. Oooh .. imagine all the money we saved right!?! It was pathetic. I mean, nobody was interested in going up!! And it pissed me off a li'l. I dint see the logic behind just seeing the building from the outside. 

But anyways, it was getting dark already and the weather was becoming even worse. It was sooo cold and the winds were literally making our hands and faces numb. But we walked towards Times Square nevertheless. And it was awesome! The entire place was lit up and the atmosphere was pretty exciting. Since there was very li'l traffic there, roaming around was pretty fun. We walked around the place before finally going to TGIF for some dinner. We had to wait for like 20 minutes inside before we could get to our seats. We were cold and hungry and the sight of hot food was making things difficult to handle (the waitresses however, made it a li'l better as far as the temperature was concerned). We were finally escorted to our seats. We had a couple of beers and relaxed our aching feet. We dint realize we were this tired..but the moment we sat down, we dint want to get up. Anyways, after a nice dinner, we headed back. Everyone was tired and slept most of the way back to Princeton. We all reached  back at around 11...and went straight to bed. The trip was nice..hopefully there is more in store for us in the U.S. 

Awesome Sunday

It had been a while since the "gang" hadn't been on a booze cruise. Well..today was the day. We had planned to go to Chandni Chowk for some parathas and then to Gurgaon for some beers, today. However, since the paratha ppl weren't interested, we ventured for the beer nevertheless. I had asked everyone to assemble at 12:00 pm at the Mayur Vihar Ph 1 station. We were to leave for Gurgaon on the metro. Partha called and told me his friend Shauvik would come. I was like..sure..the more the better. But, he suggested it would be better if we go by the car or a cab. Since my bro was on his honeymoon, his car was available. I told 'em that I would get the car. So the plan was rescheduled. We were to go by the car to gurgaon...a place which is virtually unknown to me. However, Shauvik knew the place. So we started the trip at 1:00 pm from Partha's place @ Sec. 50. The drive to Gurgaon was amazing! The DND..and the airport road were awesome to drive. On the way we discussed bout how howzatt was and stuff...and Shauvik (who had been there) told us its good..but Rockman's Beer Island has more variety of beer. We started wondering which one to go....when I came up with the idea to go to both since whenever in doubt..we should go for both!

We reached Howzatt at 2:00 pm and were very impressed  by the place. The chairs were pretty comfortable and the music was awesome. They played AC/DC at 2:00 in the afternoon which I had never seen any other pub in Delhi play!! The food too was excellent. Howzatt is a micro brewery and their stout beer is pretty good. We ordered one pitcher of stout and 2 pitchers of normal draught beer.

At about 5pm, feeling decent amount of high"ness"..we left for Rockman's beer island. After going around twice, we finally found our way into Ambience mall where the pub is situated. We entered to find really fancy seats inside the pub..I mean there were barrel shaped booths for ppl! We took our seats and ordered a strong (relatively) beer pitcher and some sausages to go along with it. Now, the name suggests, the place is all about rock (Rock man)...but sadly, the place - musicwise...is shit! The DJ was playing old ... really sh*tty pop songs! I went to the DJ..asked him to play AC/DC..he said no...I asked him to play Van Halen!..he said no..I asked him to play Gun's and Roses!! and he said no he couldnt for some f*ckin reason. Upon complaining to the waiter, he told us we were in Barrel and Kegs which is not really a place for Rock. We should have gone to some "Bavarian" or some such place..which altho a part of Rockman's beer island but played rock! We were too lazy to switch places and hence decided against it. The beer altho was pretty good. We had a pitcher of strong beer and 2 pitchers of wheat beers! Before we knew it, it was 10:00 pm. We left from Gurgaon..had an amazing ride all throughout and reached Noida at about 11:00 pm. The cold winter air of Delhi was sooo awesome that I just felt like driving and never stopping! I dropped off Partha and the others at Sec. 50, Negi @ Mayur Vihar Ph 3 and myself :) at Mayur Vihar Ph 1. I reached home at 11:15 pm.

Although dad was a li'l pissed off..he dint say much to me (maybe I would have it tomorrow!). Anyways. it was an awesome sunday..a sunday which had never been for a quite a long time!

Mini Vacation

It had been a year since me and my friends went for an outing together. The last trip was to Manali ... when I was thin ... which makes it a long time back. Anyways we had started planning ages ago for an outing. In fact, it used to be the only topic of discussion during lunch breaks, beer time and anytime we all were together.

One fine day, my friend CP, gave us the news of his marriage in Kotdwara (pronounced as Kotdwar). Since it was on a Saturday, and for once, everyone was free...we decided this could be it. Hence, the planning began. Subhash...our quintessential travel guy...was in charge of the itinerary..the travel booking..the booze, basically everything. After some last minute back outs by ppl, travel agents, EYL ppl..and loads of shouting at them over the phone for our advance money, me and Subhash finally contacted the HCL cab vendor for a tempo traveler. We were to start on Friday night, reach Kotdwar at around 6:00 a.m, roam about at Lansdowne - a hill station about 40kms away, attend CP's marriage in the evening, come back to Delhi via Rishikesh. It was a hectic schedule but it had to be done. The bus driver gave us some nervous moments when he arrived an hour late than he had to. He finally reached Mayur Vihar which was our assembling point. The journey began with all of us opening our beers...and some really loud music thanks to Viral's portable Bose speakers. Although I couldn't play much of metal on it...but the beer kinda made it easy to enjoy the bollywood playlist. We were all high in no time..and after our dinner at a roadside dhaba...we found 3 more bottles of beer in the box to our utter surprise. We thought we had finished the entire thing. I swear nothing was more blissful than when Amaresh uttered those 5 sweet sweet words "Abhi 3 aur baaki hai!!" After finishing up...things went crazy and fuzzy. All I could remember was there was a lot of dancing...loads of crazy laughter..and loads of "gay"ish activities by some of my friends which really creeped me out! We all fell asleep by 4 am...I think.

We reached the venue at 6 in the morning..with our body still in the sleep mode. We checked-in to our hotel and slept for an hour or so before being woken up for breakfast. We cleaned up..and I swear we were all a bit high even at7:30 in the morning. After breakfast, we headed towards Lansdowne. The drive was pretty cool...the view was excellent and gradually the temperature became cooler and cooler. Lansdowne is the home of the Garhwal Rifles and they pretty much maintain everything there. Its a nice clean place, very peaceful and quiet. We reached a place called Tip-in-top which is one of the tourist attractions there. Frankly, there's nothing much to see there..just a place called Suicide point from where you can see the entire town. However, the experience the place provides is awesome. You can totally chill out, spend time with friends..chatting up and relaxing under the deodar trees..just soaking up the moment. We did just that. As it is we were pretty tired from the journey. We just sat and joked around the entire time. Lunch was simply awesome at a restaurant called Holiday. The waiter however was an angry young man. Maybe it was because we ordered huge quantities of food or something, the guy somehow dint like it when we ordered our seconds..and thirds and our fourths.

Finally, with our stomachs full, we rested for a while, sipped tea and headed to an artifical lake (dont remember the name). The lake sucked big time. It was nothing much to see. It was a waste of time really. The lake was very small. In fact the Sanjay Lake in Mayur Vihar Ph 2 was better than that.

Next up, we headed towards the Siddh Bali temple in Kotdwar. Its a famous temple at Kotdwar and being high up, it offered a nice view of the town as well.

It was soon time to head back and attend the marriage. We checked in to a different hotel, had a shower and 4 quick pegs of Vodka. We wanted to be high since there was dancing involved and our feet dont move unless we are high. We danced the night away at his marriage. CP was very nervous and tense. He was like a stick. He dint talk or smile or anything. I have never seen someone this scared in my life. We dint get much time to talk and stuff...we just danced, had our dinner..wished him and went back.

Tired as hell, we all went to sleep at 12:00-12:30 am. We had to reach Rishikesh by 10:00 and hence had to start early, at about 6 am from Kotdwar. We eventually started at 6:30 the next day for Rishikesh. We stopped for breakfast at 8:45 and were pretty confident that we would reach Rishikesh before time. However, the restaurant guy had other plans. We were in this restaurant called Anuradha Palace which looked pretty decent but it sucked big time. They took almost 45 minutes to serve us. And the food was sooo bad and overpriced. It cost us time and money. We had to reach Rishikesh at 10...and it was 9:45 already. We were stuck in a jam and finally reached Rishikesh at about 11:00. We had to go for Rafting and the rafting guys escorted us to the starting point.

Rafting was sooo f*cking awesome. It was a 26 km course and stretched up to 3-3.5 hours. The rapids were named by Edmund Hillary and sounded pretty cool too. The first one was called Black Money where our instructor made us stand on our raft. It was sooo cool. Then there was "3 blind mice" which is a set of 3 rapids one after the other, "Roller Coaster" which literally throws the raft in the air and back down again, "Golf course" and many others. Each one was fun. There are some rapids which are called "Bodysurfing" rapids, where we can get down from our rafts and swim in them. That was really fun. Our instructor, impressed with the way we were handling the entire thing, let us body surf on 2 of the rapids. It was scary and loads of fun. In between the rapids, when the currents aren't that strong, we can float on the river. Floating on the river Ganga was a peaceful experience. The calm waters and the awesome scenery made it a blissful affair. I almost spent an hour and a half in the water just floating and soaking up the sun. The excitement of the rapids and the peaceful experience of floating in the river made the entire episode memorable. In between there's cliff jumping. We had to jump from a decent height into the river. It was an exhilarating experience. You experience almost 2 seconds of free fall..which literally scares the sh*t out of you...but the adrenaline rush that you get makes up for everything. After a short break we continued our rafting adventures and ended the course at 4:00 pm. We waited for a while to dry ourselves and headed back to Delhi.

The return journey was pretty hectic. We had the vodka for company though. After dinner however, the roads were pretty bad and we were stuck in traffic jams constantly. We reached back at 2:00 in the morning and I went to sleep right away with my body aching mostly due to the posture that I was sitting in. I woke up at 12:00 in the afternoon today!! I had to take the day off...I don't remember anyone waking me up! I slept like a log.

It was an awesome journey, very hectic but an awesome experience. The Rafting episode made this trip the best one among all my trips. Hope I get to do it again soon.

A full weekend

After almost 4 weeks of half/no weekends working in the office...I stumbled on a full weekend this week. I somehow managed to finish my work before the deadline (or so I believe..we will find out in 10 hours from now). Anyways the weekend started pretty well. All of us went to Superstars on Friday to booze the night away. The crowd was pretty hot that day too. We had a nice time staring at the pretty girls and making fun of how their boyfriends looked (you say jealousy..I say f*ck off!) After our usual number of rounds (which is quite large).. just when we thought of winding up..the hip-hop loving DJ started playing Maiden! That was it man!...we sat down for 2 or 3? (faint memories) more rounds of beer and the music became better and better. I reached back home at 1 in the morning after dropping off my friends. I straightway dove into my bed and woke up at like 9 the next morning with a li'l hangover. I also couldn't really remember whether I had locked the car or not. I frantically ran downstairs to check to see that everything was fine. I gave a silent high-five to myself and came back without letting anyone know why I came down in the first place. I have really come to believe that I become more careful when I am drunk.
Saturday was spent in getting my laptop fixed and some other mindless chores around the house. I went for a run in the evening...and basically spent the day doing nothing useful. You could say that it was a typical day in my life.
Sunday was nice. We had planned to go to Chandni Chowk and have them famous parathas at the Parathe waali gali. With the metro and all being a stone's throw distance away from my home..travelling has become an easy affair. I met up with my friends at the station and headed towards Chandni Chowk. We reached the place at like 11:00 and straightaway went to a small restaurant where we saw pictures of Nehru and Indira Gandhi having parathas. After trying about 9 varieties of parathas..a lot of us were reasonably full (I dont come in "a lot of us"). And so we headed towards a lassi shop where we had some lassi and rabri. We went for a nice li'l stroll till the Red Fort to ease our stomachs a lil. And thats when the other guys were "too tired to go anywhere". I was really irritated. It sucked big time. I was in no mood of going back home sooo early after coming such a long way. So me, Viral, Negi and Harry thought of staying back and spend some time in CP. We reached CP and headed to the United Coffee House (which happens to sell beer as well). Inside the coffee house we had everything but coffee. I was kinda excited to see them serving pitchers. We had 3 pitchers for the 3 of us and a measly ice tea for Harry. We stopped eating at 5 in the evening and decided to head out. We went to this nice li'l park called the "Central Park" where we heard some band playing Summer of 69 and subsequently Greenday's Boulevard ... . The guys pretty much sucked..and then stooped to an all time low when they started playing songs from Rock On and the "Gay"street Boys. As it is I was irritated by the Backstreet Boys coming to headline Rock In India .. the songs were like a slap on my face...blech..puke!! Anyways, we lay down in the grass..saw the sun go down...made fun of Harry...a lot! and then headed back. Back at home, I had more food and lay down in front of the TV before dad drove me off to my room.
All in all a really cool weekend indeed...the right mix of laziness and fun..like a well made cocktail (I should really stop relating everything to booze!)

Holi Day

As I had mentioned before, a bunch of us were planning to play Holi this time around since they were all available and had nothing better to do. The plan was to assemble at Subhash's place in Mayur Vihar, have bhaang, play Holi, have more bhaang and finally lunch. As expected, nothing went as per plan.
Firstly, the jugaad for the bhaang was not successful. Subhash had to fight his way to the local shop to get some booze yesterday at the last minute. Since its a dry day on Holi..the entire MV had come to the theka. However, he managed to get a bottle of Romanov Vodka. Although we were a bit disappointed not having bhaang and all, but as the story would unfold, we would get over it soon, after 2 quick shots, the following morning.
Today morning, I reached Subhash's place sharp at 11:15 am (as promised). We wished each other a happy holi in our own style (3 words: quick vodka shots). We finished breakfast but there was no sign of anyone else. I called up Abhijeet who had just woken up (because of my call I guess) and was whining about how late it was and how difficult it is to come to Subhash's place. I tried my best to make him understand how cool it would be and stuff but the guy just did not stop whining. I finally gave up and called up Partha who was not picking up his phone! Me and Subhash were really pissed. So pissed that only vodka would have cheered us up. After promptly cheering ourselves up, we tried to think of what could be done to save the day. That was when we decided to screw it and go to Noida (Needless to say, it was the vodka talking). I had brought my super sleek Wind 125 today after almost a year and was kinda feeling as if I was driving a Tobu cycle (no offense). However, I have to hand it to the Bajaj guys; after a whole year of non-activity, it took just half a kick to start it. Anyways, there was one small problem. It had no petrol and I had come without my wallet or my phone or my license or my helmet since we were supposed to be in MV!! That was the f*kcin plan!!. Anyways, Subhash had the license and the helmet, so he did the driving. I was the pillion rider, secretly taking sips of the vodka which we had neatly distributed into 2 ready to drink bottles. We traded places as soon as we reached Noida cuz the policemen are quite laid back there...and also cuz Subhash caught me finishing up the vodka and wanted some of the action. Anyways, we reached Abhijeet's place and rang him up. He dint believe us at first and it took some nice crisp profanity laced arguments to make him believe that we were really there. He came out his usual smiling self and was promptly colored. We wished each other, shared the vodka with him...and thats when we realized we had already finished one of the two bottles. We made a mental note to go slow...to which I heard my inner voice go like .."HA!!". Anyways the next stop was Sec. 50, to Partha's place. However we were facing a dilemma. There were 3 of us and my super sleek Wind 125. As it is, it was choking under my weight. Then there was Subhash who is like average. To top it, there would be Abhijeet who is as big as me. However there was no stopping us today. We went tripling on the poor bike till Sec. 50. We saw a multicolored Partha already ready for us. We went to his place..and met his roomies. Then all of us went down to the ground where there was some pretty loud music. We played Holi for quite some time. By the end of it..we were out of Vodka...fully drenched and barely recognizable with the color on our faces. We headed back to Partha's place where he surprised us with bhaang!! Now that was a surprise which was worth travelling all the way to Noida. Already high...we took it to the next level. We had some bhaang and some food and decided to visit our friend Kamaraj at Sec. 82. He had never played holi and we wanted to make him a part of the experience. Fortunately we had an extra bike at Partha's and we did not have to put my bike in misery anymore. We played some more holi and went to Vivek's place who stayed nearby. There was a swimming pool at his place where we saw ppl celebrating Holi in it and stuff. There were some chicks there as well who were needless to say .. really wet. It kinda helped us make up our minds to go into the pool ourselves. We quietly went down and since no one could recognize whether we actually lived there or not, we had the guts to jump right in. We swam for a while (in jeans mind you)...and came out for some late lunch. After lunch, it was time for us to ride back home. We were still a bit high and the entire dusky atmosphere made the drive really enjoyable. There was an empty road in front of us with the sun gradually setting into the horizon. It was beautiful. You dont normally see scenes like these everyday. Usually your mind is always occupied by the traffic, the yelling and more traffic. Anyways, I came back home at 6:00 pm in the evening ... out for almost 7 hours. I had a quick shower and a maggi. I dont know whether it was my natural apetite or the bhaang or both which made me eat barely minutes after my lunch. Anyways with a full stomach and an entire evening before me..I would laze around in front of the TV before tumbling into my bed. Needless to say..it was an awesome day.

Happy(est?) New Year

Wow!..these past few days were awesome. Initially I had thought of reminiscing about the year that was and writing it all down...you know the conventional "new year day blog"..but I dropped that idea..mainly cuz it was a mixed year for me. Many good things happened (and I am grateful to god for every one of them) and plenty of sh*t happened as well..but the

amount of sh*t >>> amount of happy.

Therefore, I would write about all the fun that I was having these days.

Gang-up!
My pal Shruti was here in Tokyo all the way from Kobe. A job which is not easy and full marks to her. She has always been gutsy...ever since I had known her. I kinda resolved that I would not make fun of her anymore and say good things about her as much as I can....yup....I was drunk! But since I am not anymore (sadly) and since she has gone back, I can return to my normal "mean" self. Anyways, so, me, Sumit, Vishal and Shruti were together for the entire week. Had an awesome time.

Hakone
All of us went for sightseeing to a place called Hakone. Its a hill station kinda place which offers an awesome view of mount Fuji. And yup..it was truly magical! Too good for words. Even my not-so-amazing camera was able to churn out awesome pix. But the best part was the cruise. It was soo freakin cold! but it dint matter cuz "we are all hardcore yaar" (Damn, this line has become our tagline for anything and everything we do). Anyways the cruise on Lake Ashi and the ropeway over the sulphur springs were the best. .. not to mention Shruti's company (I really need to be in control of things I say when I am drunk! *homer - doh* ).

Tokyo Dome
We went to Tokyo Dome again. We had an awesome time when me, Sumit and Jain went there for the first time. The rides there are fabulous. The best part was that the waiting time is really less. Anyways I relived those scary moments again...mid-way in a free fall..the steep drop of the roller coaster Thunder Dolphin.. and the pace of the Linear Gale. Whew!..I am getting goosebumps while I am writing it!

New Year Countdown
Me, Sumit, Shruti and Vishal headed back to Shruti's place for celebrating the new year. And damn what a night..the last train for Shruti's place was at 11:53 pm and the train back to our place was at 12:21 am. The night was spent opening up some beers..making fun of Shruti..bitching about office etc. etc. and soon we realized it was 12:00. So we wished each others and stuff..and realized it was already 12:10. The place is like half an hour from the station (walking). So thats when we all did what we could ..run our a**es off! It was weird ... me and Vishal had these beer cans and were running in the streets! I had never imagined that I would be having my first jog of the year along with my first beer of the year! Anyways we covered the distance in 10 mins! My half marathon training definitely helped...and I came first! Anyways by the time we reached the station the train had reached the platform. We jumped in..took some pix of our accomplishments and last but not the least finished up our beers (I dont think its allowed here in the trains).

Dinner
After the Hakone Trip, all of us were really tired. Thus, we decided to spend the last day..their last day .. doing nothing :D . Shruti came over at 10:00 am and the morning was spent in sharing the pix that we had clicked and random stuff. Me and Sumit decided to treat her with our new found talent in cooking. But there was nothing at home .. so we went to the local grocery store and on the way back we had awesome ice-cream from Cold Stone. The best ice cream I have tasted till now. These guys are really cool..they make the ice-creams like bartenders make drinks. And they sing while doing it :D . Anyways it was already 4 pm so we decided to merge our lunch and dinner together. So we came back..made "awesome mushrooms" and "awesome aloo" with poori, paratha, pulao and ..phew raita..and halwa. Damn!..we had soo much fun finishing everything up. Ohh I forgot to mention there was soup as well! Phew!..we clicked some more pix and roamed around near the riverside...my teeth chattering away..it was soo cold! We finally dropped off Shruti at the hotel and came back and dozed off.

I am just back after seeing off Shruti and Vishal at the station and I am missing them already. The house is strangely quiet. But things would be better soon..esp after lunch and daaru at Syam's and Anwarul's place ... yaaaaay!

Let the good times roll

After finishing up making paranthas (yah I make paranthas now..and awesome ones too)...me and sumit started our dinner at 12:15 am...ohh merry christmas to all btw. Thats when sumit had an awesome idea. Ideas like these are kinda expected from him since he has more head than me and all (literally..he's balding away like theres no tomorrow :D) . Anyways so he goes like "lets watch tom and jerry". And I was like ..f*ck yah..why dint we think of that before. And damn..the next hour was spent laughing..laughing like there's no tomorrow...2 grown men literally squealing like li'l kids...tears in our eyes..tummies aching ..phew!..wat a nice time. We watched the old ones..the Fred Quimby ones..Trap Happy..The Flying Cat..Jerry's cousin! Whew!..needless to say it got me reminiscing about my childhood. The time when I used to get up at 5:30 in the morning to watch Tom and Jerry on Doordarshan every weekend. I remember the days when I used to miss it (due to some reason or other) my dad used to get a Tom and Jerry video cassette from the nearby shop. Those were the days man! Continuing with the madness I just put "The Jungle Book" on the download. I dont remember loving anything more than cartoons. I am just addicted to them. Due to this I am constantly "exampled" as a "bad example" (or as my bro puts it .. social embarassment) by my relatives :D . On being constantly ridiculed that my li'l cuzin (in 8th) is too big for video games..he takes my example as his counter-attack. But its all good..infact I look forward to spend some quality time with my li'l cuzins watching cartoons and playing video games all day. One of the reasons I am the coolest bro among all my bros :D . Anyways had a really cool time..nice way to start off christmas..however things are gonna get rough...have to go to the office in another 9 hours...gatta get some sleep.