Nirenjan’s Space

I left my place today at 3.30 in hopes of catching a route 4 bus to Peters Road and get to Amethyst on time. As always, the bus service in Chennai is the most unpredictable and unreliable one. I finally wound up catching a 23C and getting down at the Sathyam bus stop, only to find out that I was 4 signals away, in the backward direction!!! I managed to catch an auto and I wound up at the MBM v4 held at the Amethyst just on time and was having a bit of a lost look, trying to find somebody I knew.

This time atleast, I wasn’t lost and recognized quite a few fellow Bloggers, among them were Anand, Chandru, Guru, Pleo, Suds & Sat. While we waited for the other bloggers to show up, we had a look at the menu. My heart leaped to my throat as I saw the prices - Rs. 25 for a cup of coffee (which as Kribs said was probably the size of a thimble!!!). And that was the cheapest item on the menu. Anand & I decided to restrict ourselves to the first page (everything else was in triple digits).

The rest of the meet was spent in generally yakking and cracking jokes. One of the surprises was seeing SK in person. From his comments on my blog and others, my impression was that he was a pretty young guy working in some IT firm. Imagine my shock when I see a relatively old guy who says he’s employed (not working) by the Railways. I wish I could get his job though!!! ;-).

The other interesting item was Prashanth’s n-Gage. I couldn’t figure out which side you spoke into. But it looks damn sexy. Oh and also a rather embarrassing moment regarding Krib’s small and sexy phone. The rest of the crowd were more embarrassed than Kribs.

Finally, after depositing our URLs with Alex, we slowly and reluctantly broke up. Pleo gave me a ride upto Saidapet where I had another bitter experience with the pathetic bus service. The 47G which was coming behind us didn’t even stop at the bus stand. After waiting for almost half an hour for a bus back home, I finally would up catching an auto and reached home with a considerably lighter wallet but a considerably heavier - and happier - memory.

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