Build up for 21st May

My 21st birthday is tomorrow - 21st May, and this happens to be my 21st post. I was feeling the blues yesterday, as this shall be my first birthday that I will be away from my family and my friends back home. I had invited Bhatnagar over to make myself feel a bit better; but he later said that the long journey from Boston to Ithaca might be tiresome, and that he wasn't in the mood for one.

I was ever more despondent, and decided to bury myself in my GRE preparation yesterday as such, as I wasn't in the mood for anything fun, even though it was a weekend. Good thing this though, as this made me finally start my GRE preparation :) So it was - I spent my entire afternoon studying and growing more and more bored. Then Krishna said we better go downtown, as even he and Vivek were feeling a bit miserable. So we went to the mall downtown and did some window shopping. Vivek also bought a TT bat and shoes. Krishna and I meanwhile went to other shops - and did what we like doing best - swearing loudly in hindi amongst all the whites :) with no consequences whatsoever :P It was Vivek's turn to cook yesterday, but we had already wasted much time in the mall and there wasn't a possibility of going home and then cooking dinner. So we dined in the mall yesterday, where I tried Japanese cuisine for the first time. It tasted quite good :)

Vivek and I then started discussing about the recent good hollywood movies that came out last semester. Krishna enjoyed criticising our views... Then Vivek suggested we may as well watch Shrek 3 before going home. But Krishna hates animated movies, and threatened to leave for home if Vivek and I went for the movie. Now the catch was that Krishna said he won't come back to pick us up later, so we had to sadly cancel our plans for the movie. To cheer us up, Krishna said we can hit it out in Duffield playing TT. So we went over to Duffield for playing TT; besides Vivek had to try out his new bat too. Rajeev was there too, and we enjoyed playing doubles. Played till 12 I think (we started at about 10), then came home and I wondered about my day - I was earlier quite sad at not being able to celebrate my b'day with my friends back home - but here I was in the company of some very good friends whom I have known just for about 20 days or so - but still they are quite good friends with me. Maybe my 21st birthday won't be so glum and gloomy after all!

Chatted with my family back home today on gtalk - they wanted to wish me at 0000 hours IST on my b'day! Borrowed a mike from Vivek; felt quite good to hear their voices for the first time since coming here :) So what if I am not with people who matter most to me on this special day? I can make this day special for myself no matter where I am!

P.S. Plans for b'day today: There is a burial ground near our home (on the other side of the barricade). There are no lights there, and there are also quite a few old dying trees which give it that haunted touch. I plan to take a walk in there at 12 tonight! What a way would that be to usher in your 21st b'day!

~Ta tas.