The Soulful Atom

An so the grind begins tomorrow! As typical as it can get school, graduation, post graduation (still not sinking in) and immediately joining in a multinational. Though I somehow manages to go through all the stages pretty smoothly, at every juncture i was unaware and doubtfully about what i really want to do.. The academic part of it was a totally "just for the heck of it" or "parents and friends brainwashed me" sort of stuff..
But then i realized that the decision of doing MBA, marketing(though brainwashed) was a good one and it did really help me learn a lot.. Many things happened which made me change my perspective and look at the brighter side of "learning" which still continues, apart from just the text book learning, which i realized also helps if we do really try to apply it practically.. (certis parbus) ;)
Anyhow, how the student mode has ended, rather the academic career..
Even taking up the job was something I was very unsure about, since I still had not decided what i really want to do, which is the case always no matter what the thing. But thanks to the persuasive powers of a certain friend, I thought about it seriously and with his help got in too.. So the grind begins tomorrow..

The last 2 days was a short trip to Mumbai. The first time I took such a (shopping) trip with my bestie was 7 years back.. And then there were a few more.. It strange when you grow and some things always remain the same, so this is one of the things which will remain the same..

Though this time we hit this (made famous- by the bestie) restaurant at Lokhandwala called Red Box. The food was said to be very good and so the cocktails, cause she had loved them when she had visited it the previous time and she is one of the people whose taste you trust.
So we went there and sat outside, which was pretty icky though there was a wall mounted fan, which didnt really do much to take away the heat (at night too. i would've preferred sitting inside) and so it failed to give the impression of a nice lounge which i was expecting after listening to her descriptions.

First came the mocktails and cocktails. They seemed to have completely changed the definition of a Mojito, somehow all we could taste was lemon syrup!! Even after having told him to change it, it was the same. So somehow we managed to gulp down the lemon sharbat.
The lemon margarita was good, so was the window lady and a certain peace breeze (too sweet again, vodka with peace soda or something), and the pinacolada.
The mocktails virgin mary was also good, though a certain love dream (which the bestie swore by) was a mixture of corex syrup and kalakhatta sharbat, so we tried to gulp That down too..
The starters were bearable, chicken shish taouk (like it was spelled) and a lemon and thyme bbq chiken (this one was good).
Bbq chicken which charcutiere sauce was nice, properly sweet and served with rice veggies and mashed potatoes, though the amount of rice was meager comapred to the chicken n sauce served.
The baked vegetable be better in Darshan
The pasta (don't remember the name, which was also recommended) was not upto the mark, and pizza hut serves much better (for obvious reasons)..
Thus all in all the quality and taste of food was only mediocre compared to the rates and the hype. Surely many of Pune's lounges and simple restaurants serve better food that that on, baring the selection of dishes.
However, we did enjoy the night in the company of close friends. :) so all the rest can be conveniently ignored. :)

Anyway, on the shopping front it was all good, picking up good stuff at cheap rates, always a woman's delight ;)

And now that my 7 days vacation after the MBA finals is over, I gotta gear up and start the routine tomorrow.. Hope i'll be good at what i shall be doing!!

End of an era.. And the beginning of a new one.. Hope for the best!! Cheers!!