Boston

ok... 26 hours in boston... a day well spent.. finally i met shweta n vikram... was so happy to see em... am so glad that somethings never change!!!

the drive to boston was great fun... "lotsa fun n lil sleep".. but chinar n monto shall beg to differ on the sleep part.. for my part of the story..since chianr had a version of his own. we left annarbor at 8 pm..all geared up n slightly skeptical abt the weather.. n then clicked our first snap.. all smilessss... monto drove till abt 130... we halted at around 10 for food.. in ohio... then hit the road again..the weather had cleared really well by then..no snow n very lil rain.. n awesome music to keep us going... thanks to monto's ipod!!! n my CDS... china clay took a nap from 10 -1:30 ..while i was awake givin monto company.... so how many hours of sleep for chinar does that make already? at 1;30 china clay took the drivers seat.. n monto promised that he can keep china company for a couple of hours till i take a nap... but then.. well i tried hard but fell asleep.. n monto tugged in cozily in the back seat with all the jackets n pilllow to keep him warm took to sleep... so poor chinar.. n am really feeling horrbiel now for having dozed of sitting right next ot the drviers seat..but wht with not havin slept for 4 prev nights in a row ..jsut couldnt keep my eyes open.
once again we stopped for coffee at 530.. .monto took the wheel.. n then chinar went back to sleep.. .. the drive was great.... dawn happened around 7 ... lovelyyyyy!!!

n then at 830 chinar came back to drive ... so now how much did chinar sleep? why am i feeling guilty? we hit boston around 9am. finding shwetas hosue wasnt a tough task...it jsut got spic"ier" with chianr getttin into a one way n then we scurring out through the rain sheepishly looking around n hopin that the cops dont catch us.. but thanks to thanksgivign the city was dead...

then i met shwetaa... what fun!!! ... ya monto... good fun!!!

the weather ws really good..cna u belive it 60F... on nov 25th ? n so mr. vikram gets all excited n makes us walk for miles.. but that was good..we walked through copleys square .... n around.. this city is a gret blend between the old and the "modern" .. n even the post modern.. i was quite amwzed with the fact that stnading at one poitn of the road i could actually see a combination of renaissance( or gothic? am confused).. pure modern architecture( brutalist.. i lvoed it but all these guys were like eeeks!!!!) n then there was the post modern lot... standing tall in your face..some respecting geometry..some defying it!!! ..well i would surelyyy vote for the latter!!!

the nwe walked around the place.. u know the city was dead due to thanksgiving.. guess everyone was back to their families... so i dont know if i am in position to say that i grasped the character of the city..yes i did of the architectural vocabulary but not of the city and its people... the public spaces were there ...but with no life... n whts the city without its people? today probably we shall see the "alive" city...

n thn we went to an indian place for lunch..called bhindi bazzaar..since everything was shut. as i write this i feel like having thai food so adly!!!wonder why!!!had good food
... batata wada... after 4 months.. it was actually nice.. n then we had the usual moghlai khana.. n then sooooo full again got ourselves to walk to shwetas place to pick up the car...

ok 3pm n we head out to see MIT... ahmmmmmmm... it was great to step in to the campus of one of the most revered institutions in this world.. well i was feelin elated but not as much i thought i would be...

the next stop was Harvard.. 5pm.. n it was pitch dark!!! n raining..yucky!!! so much for praising the weather being relly pleasant all day.. the harvard campus was dead... wet n dark..couldnt see much ..shweta was sure the harvard square would be bustling with acitivity n we could get to see some thign..but yet again..thanksgivin time ..the streets were empty.. but we had fun... walked back to the car in the rain n then monto chinar n i were soooooooooooo sleeeeeeeeeeeppyy.. went to viks house n crashed for three horus... waking up in time to go out once again...

Vik made some yum dal rice.. finally i agree that he can cook.. n then we went to ths place called "jillions" ... played a game of bowling..damn i wa s so bad at it!!!
n settled down in a nice lounge there for a few drinks..just a couple!!! i was 2 am by the time we head back home.. oh i forgot to add that while we were out bowling n chilling wwe got several calls from our "dear" friends in ann arbr..who were in an absolute " happy " state.. i coudlnt gatehr as to what anyone was saying except sids remark of missin us.. hahaha..maybe i wanted to remeber only that one..well i can see sid frowning at me as he read this!!!

well it was 5 am by the time i actually went to sleep.. n now its time for another day in boston.. shll write more abt it.. but i promise that wont make it so explicit cos i wonder who actually is gonna reach the end of this blog ... its become unexpectedly longggggggggggggggggggggggg