le de salsa ...

Exactly One week after CAT .. I wanted to freak out as mush as possible. Loads of things happened in this week. Both good and bad... Had tonnes of plans for the week. Started with the Casino Royale on the D-day. Altho didnt understand much out of the movie, it really kickstarted me for the so-called freak out week.. Started off pretty well with one movie for 2 days. Meet the parents (Awesome), Sivapathigaram (Pathetic)...R.V, E to follow on... Got some time to spend with friends and with my flute... Fortunately or unfortunately my Flute teacher is delayed for 3 more weeks from her U.S trip. It gave me some more time to blow off the dust particles hidden inside the instrument... Dreams of Salsa Workshop was also high on the list for sunday... But then the so-called "Yes, Have no problems .. so far" said partner ditched me which was pretty much expected. Thirstily was searching for partners, found another who again didnt last for more than 2 days. Atlast the day before I found another partner who did finally manage to stick on.

Although Dindu's chennai ticket glittered in my eyes, I forcelly put it off for the next weekend, owing to the inclination towards learning salsa. Had dinner with Vetti one day along with Sheikh and Dindu. They tried their best to pull me into the dinner talk. But somehow that day I was not really willing to share much. I tried hard imagining what my wud be would be. I think my power house shut down that time owing to disinclination towards the topic. I was always enthusiastic talking abt the future life partner, but somehow that day, am still not able to figure out why I cudnt recollect any of those hidden misteries. Mabbe my focus has so much shifted out that I have been trying hard to fulfill the fun stuff that happens in day to day life... I completely washed myself away from the topic of discussion. I did feel that I could have done better that night, but it soon got over.

I was very anxious to see off friday soon. End of friday I knew how exactly am gonna spend the weekend. Oops the 2 days was filled with event after event.

For Saturday morning, I got myself engaged into the Project LOTUS initiative of Broadcom in conducting drawing competition for 3 of its adopted government schools. Thoroughly enjoyed the freezing morning drive. Met a whole bunch of school kids who were completely disconnected from the urbane life. I have never seen such a small school with not more than 3 closed rooms but housing from std 1 till 5. Government schools are the schools of least priority when it comes to upgradation, better infrastructure, etc. Unable to recognise even one word of what they spoke, felt like a stranger in a foreign land, I started to learn to communicate with them thru hand signs. I found that there are very good souls in my colleagues who took the real hard initiative to go and give back something to the society. Whether its serious or fake, it doesnt matter. I felt at cloud of nine when the competition got over and was about to take off, all the school kids came towards us wished thanks and shook hands with everyone of us. It cannot get any better than that. I joined my ex-roommates for lunch and ofcourse the whole important midday sleep. Met Guja in the evening, drove to the srinivasa temple with him. Came back to gluttonise the pizza ordered and delivered at home. Took loads of pics and went back home with sweet memories.

Somehow, I was desperate to learn salsa over the weekend. Although I was let down by 2 partners, I knew the fact that we really need not bring our own partner. I really thought that the weekend did not want me to learn Salsa. But finally it happened that way. Sunday as usual started with morning 7 kriya followed by breakfast at murali's house. Had a quick lunch and started off 15 mins to 2. Myself and Madhurima in my bike and sheikh and raji in another. After some wandering, waiting for the lost bike/route we managed to find out alliance franchise. Was not able to stop myself in goin for a sugarcane juice. Hit the dance floor soon after the registration process. Altho I initally had problems with a few steps, managed to pull in, but cud not avoid myself getting tired very often. I guess I was supposed to partner with Ashwini, but i did partner with everyother girl there. Salsa steps were quite interesting and didnt require much of an effort (especially the 1-2-3-5-6-7). Steps were not so difficult at all. However, I cannot forgive the instructor who damaged me openly as we were making too much of a noise there and also in making us do the same basic step atleast a thousand times. They didnt really teach us the whole of salsa rather just bits and pieces here n there. The original dance looked awesome. Frequent visits to rest room for freshening up and the quick 10-minute break sessions which saw india lose miserably against southafrica in a yet another debacle combined with meeting a few bitsaa ppl marked the whole day with fun n frolic. Nikhil too joined us for a good dinner at Palm grooves. We made our way back to Zero G. Probably I can proudly say that atlast after working for 9 months in the same building I got a chance to slip in Zero G. End of the day we took a long trip midway to coimbatore to Raji's house. Had a refreshing chai to hit back the house for the next week. With the nostalgic memories of hang over of D.W 2K4 (for which I was the so-called D.W Coord), the week jus started and the journey continues....