27th November 2010

Birthdays would be my favorite thing ever if it weren’t for the growing older part. 

Started the day cutting Birthday cake in the hostel with my girls, opening the many gifts they very generously got me, bonus points for the picking up the not-so-subtle hints I have been dropping for some time now. I could not get the thought that by next year all of us will be working, dispersed throughout India probably, some even married out of my mind. 

Early morning called for a haircut, nothing like a haircut to make you feel all sexy. Even if it’s for a day.

Then someone sweet enough to remember me telling him reading Amar Chithra Katha is like opening the door to my childhood gifted me the entire set of Amar Chithra Katha ‘Mahabharata series’. And the screenplay of Before Sunrise/ Before Sunset my favorite romance flick, you know the one which always surprises and cheers you up no matter how many times you have watched it. The movie you love so much it could very well have been your baby.

Lunch at Jughead’s with couple of my favorite people in the city and by evening I got all dressed up for dinner at Not just jazz by the bay, the one near Marine Drive, the one which has been up there on our places-to-eat list for some time. After a quick walk along marine drive (which has suddenly sprung to life after I started my wearing specs by the way) we got the best seats there, right at the extreme end, the one facing the sea.

Dinner with all my favorite things combined, and some flowers later, it was time to finally turn twenty-four.

Looking back at how the day went, turning 24 might not be *just* that bad, you know.

Happy Birthday to me!