Friday, February 06, 2009

Football, Cafes and a Movie

It started with a small mention of Mumbai FC to Ambujesh. This led to a series of events that has become the most memorable that I will have in a long time.

Two football players - Ambu and Me and Two Basketball players - Chetan and Anirudh left for Cooperage by the 25(bus) after getting done with classes. After a drowsy bus ride, we arrived at the ground 20 minutes into the game between Mumbai FC and Mahindra United. Got decent seats on flimsy stands that seemed like they would crash anytime. But the game was fun in its own way considering it was the first LIVE football match that I watching.

Although it ended in a draw, the game was pretty exciting, Mahindra United hitting the framework with some excellent play from Steven Dias on the right wing. Mumbai FC had a disappointing day although Abel Hammond showed sparks of brilliance time and again.It was fun yelling, clapping and discussing football with strangers.

Then we trotted along to grab a bite at the illustrious Leopold Cafe. After filling our tummies there, we went and sat on Marine Drive and just soaked in the sea breeze. Then it was off for dinner at Sundance.

Anirudh had to get back to college, so we put him on a bus and headed for watching Dev D. Its been long since I reviewed a movie, so here I break the trend. Dev D is old wine served in a spanking, stylised, good looking bottle. Kudos to Anurag Kashyap and his team for serving us with a visually stunning and bold movie. He has ushered in the Bold New Face of Indian Cinema.

From tomorrow its back to work, we are organizing B Cube, an event for MBA aspirants on Sunday. So if you want some gyaan about the various verticals of management, GD/PIs or you just want to win some prizes at the business quiz, come down to NITIE campus.

PS:Things I forgot to mention (which Ani's comment reminded me) - The many cute girls that we saw throughout the day, the tear-jerkingly spicy Hakka Babycorn at Leopold, Ambu's friend Karthik who joined us after work and Anirudh's encounter of the different kind ;) I also ran into a guy from school Prithviraj during the movie

13 comments:

Chetan said...

had a very eventful day man...good food, good booze, good game and a fairly good movie...overall a jolly good time...what else do you in life...now wait; dont give me that same s**t we discussed on marine drive :p

Vasu said...

was a superb movie alright :)
and yeah it's 11 am now. get up and start working for B cube :P

p.s: adi is sleeping right in front of me!

Ambujesh said...
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Ambujesh said...

Next week's menu....
Kala ghoda fest :)

nativealien said...

I wanna be in Mumbai as well! :(

Unknown said...

God! you guys get to do sooooooo many fun things!! Me jealous of you! I worked so hard last week, that my brain almost fried! It ain't fair! but alright, have my share of fun too! :P

Anonymous said...

Waah.. elite audience for the football match! such rare moments of enjoyment amidst hectic b-school life!; )

Anonymous said...

yeah.. it was an awesome evening.. actually, the evening turned out better than I had expected.. few things you missed.. 5 cute girls at Leopold, heavily spicy food, ambujesh's friend karthik who met us at the Marine Drive, the *Q&#&@#$(*& that I met en route to Church gate (;)).. on the whole, another nice trip which we will discuss about 5 yrs from now..

Anonymous said...

aah cmon ! stop getting off on a trip .. you four buggers are so happy patting each others backs ::yuck::

Quicksilver said...

chacha, you're just jealous you couldn't come.

Manoj said...

@Anirudh & others: Did you guys meet an eunuch en route to Church gate? Oh yes, surely you'd discuss this 5 years down the lane... haha... ;))

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