25. My 25th Birthday "Celebration"
March 19 1985, 05:28. Date and time a certain SJ (no, not Steve Jobs, [me][1]!) came into this world. Fast forward to March 19, 2010. Today. Yesterday. couple of days ago. 25. I've "officially" completed 25 years of which 22 years were spent in [Mangalore][2], 9 months in [Austin][3], and the remaining time in [Chennai][4].
The day was pretty uneventful, however. My colleague Sweety was the first to call at 12:00, and Zakir, the silent assassin sitting besides me jumped and pounced on me, hammering away - all in the name of "bumps". Few more calls, \loads\ and \loads\ of tweets and facebook messages wishing me a Happy B'day. I actually hit twitter rate limit, on xtw.in and dabr, twice. Dang. Finished off my work ( I'm a zombie, work at nights thanks to my [previous stint][5] \grumble\grumble\ ) left for home. Dad & Mum called, as did few relatives 🙂 Returned to work on Friday evening(\grumble\grumble\), got wishes from Colleagues, and cake facials ( thankfully, no tomatoes or rotten eggs !). Finished off work and got back home Saturday morning. (FYI: Reach office at 5:30pm, leave at 5:30am).
Saturday afternoon I was supposed to be at the [Indibloggers' meet in Chennai][6] but thanks to my working works, I woke up late and couldn't make it (almost). Ankit sent me a message about trying to make it to the Indiblogger meet, and after a li'l coaxing by [Narayanan][7] I [moved my lazy butt][8] over to GRT convention centre, at the best time possible (read: Just in time to eat and to grab the T-shirt). Met [Ankit Agarwal][9] for the first time, after lots of "yeah we'll meet this weekend for sure" tweets. I will definitely catch up with him. For sure.
From there, [Narayanan][10], [Preethika][11], [Ankit][12] and me were wondering what to do, thought of heading off to 10 D but it was only 6pm and 10 D wouldn't open for another hour or so. Narayanan suggested we try out this new place called [9 feet High][13] . 9 feet high [was pretty nice][14], beachside view, great ambience, good music and okay-ish food. Tried out "[Nanu mix][15]" :p ( for the curious, its a cocktail mix prepared by Narayanan - Vodka, green chilles, lime, Sprite - a very unique combination). Our discussion was interrupted by a, er, loafer [very interesting person][16]. Needless to say he wasn't clearly thinking straight and the poor lady accompanying him was rather embarrassed. (Side note: Narayanan mentioned about him sending an SMS [apologizing his behaviour][17]). Moving on, we headed back to IIT-Madras, where we had our fill of food and to end the day, Narayanan dropped us back to our PG. Quite an interesting day it was indeed.
[1]: ../2008/12/13/hi-im-sj/ [2]: ../tag/mangalore/ [3]: ../tag/austin/ [4]: ../tag/chennai/ [5]: ../2008/09/21/onsite-opportunity-beckons/ [6]: https://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23indichn [7]: https://twitter.com/narayananh [8]: https://search.twitter.com/search?q=Rushing%20to%20make%20a%20last%20minute%20hero%20entry%20for%20%23indibloggers [9]: https://twitter.com/ankit_a [10]: https://techspikes.com/ [11]: https://www.preethika.in/ [12]: https://anky84.wordpress.com/ [13]: https://4sq.com/bi4KcL [14]: https://search.twitter.com/search?q=high%20pretty%20awesome%20place,%20beach%20side [15]: https://search.twitter.com/search?q=special%27s%20mix%20-%20green%20chillies,%20vodka,%20sprite%20Lemon%20mix [16]: https://search.twitter.com/search?q=Some%20weird%20dude%20jumps%20into%20our%20conversation [17]: https://search.twitter.com/search?q=9fthigh%20loafer