Folks, Happy New Year 2010

My best wishes to all of you for a very happy and prosperous year 2010.

My new year start was quite eventful. Previous year i had spent the countdown in one of the downtown clubs of Atlanta. One of the best remembered memories of the night is a scuffle that one of the American Blacks had with the bouncers and how he was dragged and tossed out (there was no shootout as earlier, thankfully).

This new year's eve, we had gone to this club called Barasti which is a beach bar located in the heart of Dubai marina. Considered one of the finest, there were no second thoughts when we bought the tickets at 150AED per head (more than 52 tickets were spposdely sold to SP Jain students). We reached the club gates at around 11.20PM. Once outside, I found the event management of the famed club to be quite horrendous. There was a complete lack of planning by the organizers to control and regulate the new year crowd. There was this single gate which was shut and the people were allowed in one at a time (no idea why). And with close to seven thousand (estimated) party go-ers waiting for the bash, there was a lot of shouting and gate crashing. In fact, by the time we finally got into the club, it was already new year (Amen). My room mate Saurabh (aka Goel), was left outside to celebrate his first desolate moments of the year all by himself.. :). He came in later all storming and fuming.
Once inside, there was another queue to get into the main grounds (H'alleluia). Finally in, i was famished and rushed towards the food stalls [;-)]. The rest of the night was spent either lazying in the beach or walking around the club (checking, yet again, the night crowd of Dubai). Around 2am, we called it a day (it was an early retreat) and came out to search for some cabs. The night was cold and windy so the girls went home first. By the time we reached our rooms, it was 3am.

There were some really funny moments witnessed though. One was when Saurabh (once again) tried jumpimp across a divider and failed miserably. He came down kinda hard and but was up and walking hoping no one had noticed!! Another one was that of Amol (Joshi). From a CLEAN Soul, he became a NEAT Soul ....target readers would understand!!!

My resolutions for 2010...
Continue writing my blogs
Prepare a To-Do list....
& find more resolutions.

(Famed) To-Do list so far:
Sky Dive in Dubai
Go for the Burj Dubai Inauguration
Have a BBQ while its still winter out here.
Interested parties may join!

HNY once again!
-TJ