Nov 18, 2009

The Crazy Ending.

Last time I talked about the beginning of my 10 day long last trip with the wizards. This time Im going to talk about our amazing end to the trip. If Im boring you with all this you can skip this and come back later :) This means sweet nostalgia for all those who were a part of these incidents.

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11th June 2009'.
Location: Dining room of our hotel, Khurpatal. Breakfast time.


The CC's (Comps Chics') are sitting around at the breakfast table, having shaken of some guys after great difficulty :P (Plz! we need GIRLS ONLY timeouts) We sat there discussing WHAT is it with North Indians and Paneer, eating YET another paneer dish and also wondering how come people just dont sleep after eating a breakfast this heavy. I mean our breakfast comprises of Bournvita and Apple slices, maximum some toast, while here we were eating chole bature :P


Me: (glumly poking at my omelet) What yaar guys, the trip is coming to an end.. We didnt do anything fun..
Mona: (firing up) Oh shut up Ta!!! this IS fun!!! (narrowed eyes)
(Mona is extremely touchy about the fact that we all kept comparing the Nainital trip to the previous years Shimla trip which was like WOOOOHOOOO fun!!! She had missed it because she was down with typhoid :( so bad luck)
Me: (retracting) Ufff Na, I mean, we didnt have gossip sessions save the one that happened on the first day. We should plan something.
Mona: (still glowering a little) Like what?
Me: Lets get drunk!!!!! (enthusiastic)
Zai, Varu, Shilpa : Awesomee!!!! great idea!!! so how do we do it!!!
Zai: Didnt xyz (name changed to protect identity :P) have beer last night? Lets go ask him.
Varu : HA HA HA HA!!! lets US go ask HIM? are u mad? :P
Shilpa: (nodding) Lets get drunk.
Mona: Maybe we can ask pqr (xyz'z partner in crime) Hes floored by Zai anyway :P
Zai: HA HA very funny :
Me: Ok so done - Zai get the address of the daaru ki dukaan, in the meantime well decide the plan of action.
Shilpa: (still nodding) Yes Lets get drunk!
Rest of us: Shhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!


*everyone puts head together while Zai successfully gets the daaru ki dukaan ka address. After 10 minutes of deciding all of us wear identical evil grins. :P*



We have formulated this plan - Me and Zai, will slip away from the group while everyone is shopping later that day, and go buy the vodka. Varu, Shilpa, Mona have divided amongst themselves the task of distracting the others and getting the orange juice. When asked by anyone about our absense, me and Zai have gone to buy Cheeries :P

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A few hours later. Mall Road, Nainital.


Team meet . Imagine Mission Impossible music in the background.
Zai: (whispers) Should we go now?
Me: (whispers back) No its too soon now. They will notice us gone.
Karan: (Loudly) Where are you guys going?
Mona: (smoothly) To buy Cheeries.
(We beam at each other, the guys are totally confused)
Varu and Shilpa giggle and wreck the moment :P

It has been decided that we will go boating on the Nainital Lake now.We crib a lot about being in the same duck (they had duck shaped boats) and then ultimately end up in the boats as thus : Me n Mona, Varu n Shilpa, Zai n Karan. And we also decide to hold hands and make our 3 2-seater boats into one 6 seater boat... Conviniently our boats are colored orange white and green :P Soon all people on the lake start taking pictures while we scream and yell and throw water on each other, try to shoot at Anoop (CH - Comps Hunk - SELF Christened :P though we dont disagree :P) and gang with imaginary guns :P I had the distinct feeling that we were going to make it into the headlines of the local news :D

We end up having so much fun on the lake that we almost forget the mission. Its not until, people start breaking away to go buy stuff like show peices and candles (what hello? you go to a place like Nainital and buy CANDLES??!!! I simply fail to get it!) Zai and me are least interested, so we are all set to disappear.

Zai: (whispers) Should we slip away now?
Me: (whispers back) Yes about time. Where are the rest of the girls? They need to cover for us...
(looks around here and there for Mona, Varu and Shilpa.. Spots Mona a few spaces ahead, surronded by CH and his gang, Shilpa and Varu can be heard bargaining for candles (sold 20 a peice :) and shawls from like 10 blocks away :P )

Zai and me depart.
(While 'slipping away') Me: Psssttt... Na! We are goin.. to buy cherries.
Anoop: (loudly) Hey get some for me too!
*imagine glass breaking music in the background. So far this has been anything but secret :P*
Me: (grumbling) GREAT now we will actually have to buy the damned cherries!!

Me and Zai walk around Mall road and finally take a left turn that leads us to a gurudwara and a long lane full of accessories. As expected I stop at everey stall to check out stuff while Zai taps her feet impatiently..

Me: Yeh kitne ka hai Bhaiya.
Bhaiya: 100 ka hai memsaab. Aapke liye 95 mein de dunga.
Me: Kya SHOT de rahe ho! ha! 100 mein aisa 4 aa jayenge!!!
Bhaiya: (wondering what on earth does "shot" mean)
Zai: (tapping feet impatiently while trying to scan the horizon for daaru ki dukaan)

After 10 similiar instances I realise the following things :
-- Shopkeepers in Nainital should be taken to Fashion Street/ Colaba Causeway and taught MANNERS! Hmmmpphh!
-- Eitherways Im great at bargaining :P :D got 4 bracelets for 50 bucks! Yayyy! :P
-- We are LOST! :O

Finally Zai decides to ask a shopkeeper for the right directions.

Shopekeeper: (eagerly recieving us into his pinecones-showpeices dukaan) Madam aapko kya chahiye?
Zai: Yaha pe alcohol kaha pe milta hai?
Shopkeeper: Eh?Kya?
Me: Daaru? Sharaab? Kaha milti hai?
(Shopkeeper looks like he is stuck by lightening. Me and Zai shrug and give each other a look that says "wtf- who-knows-us-here-anyway?!" :P)
Shopkeeper: Aaapko kaunse type ki chahiye? Whiskey chahiye toh yaha pe mil jayegi.
Zai: (business like voice) Humko Vodka chahiye.
Shopkeeper looks tonguetied for a moment and then points us in the right direction.

Me and Zai start walking in the right direction half wondering if at all we ARE in the right direction.

Zai: (exclaiming) Oh this is it! I overheard (xyz) telling someone about this Antiquity signboard.

We turn at the corner and find ourself facing a shady daaru ki dukaan.This place has grills with LOTS of daaru on one side, 2 men inside who look like they have practised selling daaru all their life, and a CRAZY HORDE of men on this side where we stand.

Me: Errm.. Zai .. precisely HOW do we plan on getting in there?
Zai: (drawing money from the bag) You keep a lookout. Ill go buy.

(Imagine MI2 Music.)
After like 30 seconds I get bored of keeping a lookout and decide to go have a look.
The men magically clear the path for me and look at me like I have just crashlanded from Mars.

Zai: (busy arguing with the shopkeeper) Yeh 160 ka kyu hai? Aaapke paas Absolut kitne ka hai? Smirnoff ka bada bottle kitne ka hai?
Me: Buy the big bottle!!
Zai: No! You people will get all drunk and act crazy!
Me: (rolls eyes) You DO know I have had vodka before right? And so has Mona and you *snigger*
Zai: Shilpa and Varu havent so we are buying just one.
Me: Take two!!! pleaseeee!!!!

(Men have a look like their wildest dreams have come true.)

Shopkeeper: (putting out the bigger bottle) This is very cheap madam. And very good also madam.
Zai: (firmly. leaving no room for further discussion) Ek Smirnoff dedo. (a second later) Aapke paas flavoured vodka hai kya?

Men and Shopkeeper : (EH expression) ??!!

Zai: (mutters to herself) Dont even bother.
Me: (does a jig in her head)
Zai: And now we actually go buy cherries

(Calling Mona up)
Me: Where are you? We got the "stuff"
Mona: Oh yayyyyyy!!!!!!!! Errr...We are still at the same place (like 7 kms away :) We are buying candles..
Me: WHAT??!!! YOU ppl are still THERE! Ok come fast. We are like in the middle of nowhere!
Mona: Ya ya we will be there soon!
Zai: (taking the phone) Come fast. We are going to buy cherries now. Meet us here the High Court wala turning. SOON!
Mona: ya ya.. well be there soon.

Me and Zai begin the walk uphill, looking for cherries (which we did get) Orange juice (which we got after a LOT of searching) and Soda.

I stop to recharge, and make an ISD call that finishes off all my balance. Im grinning as I walk towards the spot we were going to wait. And realise people are looking at us in a weird manner. It is SHIT cold and getting wet in the Nainital lake is making me freeze double bad. It doesnt help that the lamp overhead isnt working, people practically STARING at us, even stopping on the other side of the road, and Zai happens to dislike navycut.

Finally Zai calls up Ron and Anoop in a frantic voice demanding they come and rescue us. After a long wait of almost half an hour we see the two hunks come jogging uphill and the rest of the idiots folllowing them from behind. They come and like nice guys take off their windshis and give to us and shoo away all the rowdy people who had accumulated there.

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Back in the hotel room.
Around 12.00 AM.


Everyones nicely dressed in warm cozy clothes after having taken a hot water bath which feels like heaven, I shoo the people out of the room for a while and have my own timeout, Varu comes in just as I was resting idly switching channels between MTV and VTV. Lying beside me she says 'Lets rest for a while and then we will get drunk'. I agree and close my eyes.

The next thing I know is that Im opeing my eyes to our last day in Nainital. I wake up and realise yesterday night everyone was too exhausted to touch all the maal we got!!! :P

I walk over to the bathroom grinning as the others are just waking up to me singing 'I love you.. Im not gonna crack...' :D (Thats Lithium - Nirvana incase you didnt know :P)

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-Annie.
P.S: We are probably the only girls for whom the process of BUYING alcohol was more fun than actually having it (which we did the next night! :D).

P.P.S: Thresholds of getting drunk :
Zai is drunk if she is throwing down JOKERS while playing RUMMY :P
Mona is drunk if she is dancing like mad, jumping up and down on the bed, to "Kyaaaa huaaaa joooo Larrrriiiii chooootiiiii..."
Varu is drunk if she is screeching "Theres something in my haiiirrrrr!!!!"
Shilpa is drunk if she is demanding more shots in high pitched voice.
AND...
Annie is drunk if she is pointing to everyone present and saying 'youuuu areeee drunkkkk!!!! I ammmm nottttt drunkkkk'!
(in my defence this is the rest of the CC's description of me. I DONT get drunk even with 7 neat shots down and I have people who will vouch for that! HA! :P)

21 comments:

Soin said...

so much build up and just lithium..i was expecting..something more crazy..and am impressed that you got ur own stuff..usually girls get one dumb fellow who will get it for them..free

Freelancer said...

haha
u gals rock!! lols!!!

i love the template :)

DeJaVu said...

this is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! you just made me sooo nostalgic about that trip.. n more than that.. us being together..n being..well..us :) it felt so damn nice to be reminded of this fun thing which had sorta gone into some corner of my memory.. i think m gonna take a leaf and start blogging about the trip too. reliving those moments will be the best damn thing!!

miss u ta.. n ur writing is getting better n better!! u now know all the works for building up suspense and keeping readers hooked and begging for more ;)

cant wait for ur book to be out..

buckingfastard said...

dammit...i thot sum drunk chic actions cumin ahead....me sad!!!

u wanted flavord vodka in nainital....hight of aspiration...

i once askd at a liquor shop in rourkela abt raspberry twist smirnoff...he gav black stare fr 5 mins strait...

IceMaiden said...

@Soin,

hehehehehhe!!!!
OFC we get our own stuff! We had to!!! :P NOONE knew we had plans to get drunk! LOLZ :P

@freelancer,

Hell yeahhhh!!! \m/
N btw it is NOT a template :P Its jus the normal Minima Black, whch a lil bit of fiddling by moi :P :D

IceMaiden said...

@Na,

Awwwwwwiiiieee!!!!

Those were some crazy days nai??? I missssss youuuu!!!! :(

Lotsaaa luv,
Ta.

@buckingfastard,

Areeeee!!!! I have already written about what all we did AFTER getting drunk. The link is in the PS part :P Go see! :P

Lolz!! We had gone to Goa in our previous sem and we had high hopes. Unfortunately we had to do with saada smirnoff (whch btw I DONT really like. Absolut is the BEST! :| )

The Wanderer said...

Haha! So the finer points of the story are finally out in public! I knew the complete episode (including some stuff you have NOT mentioned in this post) apart from the missing link of how you actually PROCURED the stuff.. but I should have guessed it - Zai in her typical I-dont-care-who-is-around mood! :D

BTW, are you sure you and Zai got the orange juice too? Coz I was there with Mona when we searched some 5-6 shops for Orange Juice and all the time I was wondering why is she getting so health-conscious buying TWO packs of orange juice :P

The Wanderer said...

P.S. - When I first read the title "The Crazy ENDING", I first thot u'd hav written about the 'African Tourist' antics on Swaraj!

That deserves a post too... what say? Going for it next?

Destiny's child... said...

Lol...that was really interesting...we once tried to buy this stuff but the store was awfully crowded with 'deprived' looking men, so we decided that it was better to leave! Kudos to you. U made it! :D

Penguin said...

Who was PQR? I have forgotten. And flored by me????

Some clarifications- at the mela near the gurudwara, we were trying to figure out where the daru ka dukaan was. We asked the shopkeeper where we could get "wine" and he gave us a wierd look and said "aapke kya chahiye?" We innocently said "humko wine lena hai".

We did not buy the orange juice coz we did not find it in the shops we went to. So Mona bought it.
We DID buy cherries though.

Also- I was arguing (or bargaining) with the daruwala coz he was selling vodka at a price higher than MRP. (consumer court se pooche kya price hai :D )

Nivedita said...

whahaha..when i experimented with alcohol all i remembered was sitting for hours on the terrace hardly seeing anything.

bondgal_rulz said...

I beat you!!!! 8 shots down and not a sign of being even slightly drunk. :P *victory dance* :D :D

Masttttt experience re!!! I'm yet to buy alcohol!!! Goes on my to do list which already has "going to a chemist at an unknown place and asking for flavoured condoms" :D :D

IceMaiden said...

@Karan,

Might think about it next! No time to write these days anyway.

@Destinys Child,

LOL. Yeah we made it! yipee! :P

IceMaiden said...

@Zai,

PQR - The one who shall not be named - :P was the one who played rummy with drunk girls without realising that they are drunk!!! :D :D rem now?

areerrerere NO!!! I remember asking him yaha daaru kaha milti hai! :P and nooo!!! They couldnt find it anywhere! We did! ONJUS remember??!! :P

The cherries were funnn!! :P

n YEAH! jaago grahak jaago :P

IceMaiden said...

@Nivedita,

Welcome here! :)
ya alcohol can do that sometimes :P that or ofc the scenario where you go totally mad! :P


@Isha,

hahahhahahahah!!!!
We can have a competion here (whch we can make Karan judge :P) and then well see :P :D
N I HAVE DONE IT!!! :P :P *collar up* :P

Cheers,
Anniiiee..

The Wanderer said...
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shilpa said...

hey, dats wat i was waiting for...AWESOME post.
missing all u guyz.
plz tell mona to send the video(remember varu ke seductive luks? :P)
....lets get drunk again :P

IceMaiden said...

@Shilpa,

You know I am always all ready for it!!! hehehehhehe!!!!

AND ACTUALLY!!!!
I should provide a link of Varus seductive looks video for all my readers...!!! mast ending hoga...hehehhehehe!!! hi5!!!

Hugsssss,
MISS YOU A LOT!!!!
And kameeni office ke BAJU mein rehti hai!!! *whackkk*

Love forever,
Annie. :)

Anupam Gupta said...

hehehe...awesome...good work annie...and mo...HUMPH!!!!

Da Rodent said...

LOL :) Very nostalgic :)

IceMaiden said...

@Da Rodent,
:P yeah! :)

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