A series of birthdays

My calender for the months of September and October are full of circled dates representing all the birthdays and anniversaries of people I know. This time round I also got invited to quite a few celebrations. Like the saying goes, “when it rains it pours” but I’m not complaining.

Michelle’s birthday on the 29th marked the beginning of a week of parties. She was having dinner at her place. We were working that day so decided to go out and out from work. She warned us not to turn up too early, so killed some time on the streets of Bandra and then headed to her place. Did I mention she looked ravishing that evening. See for yourself.

It was a homely party with dollops of fun. Didn’t quite realise what a big family she had till I met quite a few of them. We played games I’ve never played at any party before. One was a modified version of “dog and the bone” and the other was a verion of “peek a boo” with our feet! Dinner followed but not before we had the most amazing chocolate walnut cake her Dad made. It was coated with a layer of chocolate that was to die for. Dinner was delicious with some of my fav food served.

Came back home in the morning as it got too late the night before. Sunday passed in a whirlwind of activities and before I knew it the day was over. However managed to make Priyanka’s card and bake her cake. I iced it Monday morning as Ryan was going to come pick it up latter in the day. I must say I was pretty impressed with the way it turned out.

Work was as usual and in the evening Michelle, Witty and myself headed over to Pri’s place. We were the first to arrive and promtly ploped ourselves in her bedroom to put the finishing touches to the cards and presents we had to give her. The party was a hilarious affair. I haven’t laughed so much at a party in some time! The fact that the electricity kept coming and going added a whole lot of fun to the party. There was dancing and dumb charades and we were even asked to put together a ‘naughty’ honeymoon package for Ryan and Priyanka. It was quite late by the time we had dinner and after most of the guests had gone we sat down to ‘help’ Pri open her presents.

Chetna was really sick by this time and so decided to call it a night. We attempted to watch a bit of “I dream of genie” but were fast asleep before 10 minutes were up.  Woke up by around 9.30, had breakfast (yummy chicken curry) and headed to Bandra with Priyanka and Michelle as I had to go onto Andheri for the next party!

Reached Crispin’s house at around 12:30 and as usual I was the first to arrive. It was a double celebration as it was Crispin’s and Giselle’s birthday. 

Crispin has been a childhood friend and a “chaddi -buddy” in the truest sense of the term! Born merely 2 months apart, we’ve grown up together and kept in touch over the years, first because of our parents but now I think we hold our own. He is the funniest person I know and there is never ever a dull moment when he is around (except of course when he decides to get a ton of sand in his pants and it decides to hurt him so much that he can hardly walk) I don’t know how many of his girlfriends I have freaked out with questions to him about his “sexuality” and the “other woman in his life” oh and not forgetting the famous “memorablia from his exploits” question Have fun CL and if you ever wanna get rid of an irritating ‘good friend’, you know who to call

A. June’s cooking was outstanding as usual (I wonder how people get so good yaar). It was a Chinese treat and yummy chocolate cake to go with it. I was really tired so decided to leave soon after lunch. Headed back home and made my Mum’s birthday cake as it was her birthday the next day.

Mum decided to stay at home on her birthday after many years. I think she enjoyed herself better that way. I managed to get her prety yellow flowers of the variety she loves. The best part about them is that they last for ages. We had a candle lit (after ages) chinese dinner, cut her birthday cake 5 minutes before midnight and called it a night.

And so ended my series of birthdays. I don’t think I’ve ever partied so hard in a lon, long time! But like I said I enjoyed every minute of it

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