Valentine's Day

February 14th Valentines day, Like the past 22 years even this year I was single on Valentines day. I have no regrets what to so ever about it. But this year my friends made it special for me.

There was lot of apprehension about V-day celebration in Manipal because of the Moral policing activities in Mangalore and Karnataka overall. They had claimed to move in city with priests and marry any couple they find in park, pub, streets,etc. My friends were wondering if they should go out that day with their guy/girl and risk getting married. LOL.

This theme I have classes even on saturdays, and as it would be I spent the first half of day in college attending lectures. Had dinner at college mess and Watched "how I met ur mother-Season 3, episode 16 to half of episode 20". Why would someone watch only half of season finale of HIMUM? Well as it was to be my friends were waiting down at hostel for me. I forgot we had planned to go out for dinner. But it was only 6.30PM!!! As it was to be they had planned something more than dinner.

My partners in crime today and as always were Anshul(I call him Zorro), Jai Todi ( All call him Jodi) and Neha. Off late we four have hit off well and hang out a lot, especially at COX and MOX which we call "CNM" and call ourseleves CNM Gang.

In no time I am ready and down meeting them. We first move to China Valley, the only place which serves HOOKAH at Manipal. This is first time we I have had hookah in Manipal. Though the flavour was not very strong, Hookah rocks any given day. We spent the next one and half hour smoking hookah and eating snacks. When we four are together there are some secrets revealed and some stories shared. And today was no unusual. Of course we had planned to take Jodi's trip today. But as always Jodi was very calm and composed, and his stories very lame.
Neha and me had more fun pulling Zorro's leg, teasing him about his latest crush in college.

As expected the CNM was jam packed, with people standing on road and on pavement on opposite side. Seemed like the best people of Manipal had come down to CNM, and we only added to the cause. We four did our ritual work at CNM, in CNM style. We wanted to dedicate a song to CNM Gang, and my suggestion was sealed- Yaaron dosti,badi hi haasen hai (RockFord).
We sang out loud, with Zorro literally dancing. Truth or Dare game bought out more secrets. Was surprised to know that one amongst us was committed and another was single while I thought the other way around.

As we have been doing more often recently, we parceled food at Parata point and went back to college. On the way back stopped at Peacock point. Spend around 15 minutes there chatting with seniors and admiring the view.
We had food at "TAPMI Greens", sharing food of 4 amongst 10 others. We never say no to anyone, in fact it is fun sharing and eating. Had a walk after food and I was back in hostel soon after.

This day was special and will fall short of words describing it. Or should I say some things cannot be explained in words. Yet another glorious day in Life at TAPMI.