Coffee with ex-roomies at 1am

Until april this yr, i was stayin at G R Jani hostel. The only good thing worth mentioning here is that i met 3 new people, who were my roommates (yes 4 ppl in a room big enuf to accomodate 2 ppl...at double the cost for such a facility in that area). Alok alias kola( he insisted we call him so...cos everyone else did in his engg clg...lol), vishal (tripathi) and ashish (hashish) and obviously me bharat (bachcha-name given by my roomies as i am d youngest among them)

This academic year i shifted with another set of friends to this flat in santacruz...but it is only now that we ex-roomies realise how much we miss each other...y we didnt shift to a new place together is another long story...we'll save it for some other time...

Coming back to the title of this blog- 'Coffee at 1 am'; now that we are spread in a radius of 1.5 km from each other (all 4 of us are stayin in different places), kola tripathi and i meet for a cup of coffee at Barista or CCD or Mocha every once in a while...ashish is busy learning french from a french lady teacher ;)

However, wats interesting is the way we plan it...

Kola generally gives me a call at 12:30 am (he's a nocturnal creature :p) and i can't say no for a meet wid my ex-roomies and then calls up tripathi...

The first time we tried CCD at Santacruz S V Road, but they shut too early for lukkhas like us...so we went to Barista Juhu...thankfully they stay open till 1:30 am...we spend most of the time discussing general issues...theres usually some hot babe havin a cuppa coffee with her brother ;) so our sleepy groggy eyes open up wide before the drive back home (we completely believe in road safety ;))

Last time we met at Barista knowing CCD would be shut as they believe in d saying 'Early to bed, early to rise...makes a company healthy, wealthy and wise)...sorry but u r not gettin any of my money to get wealthy cos u down ur shutters too early...

But Mr. tripathi had some other plan in mind...so we drove to Mocha opposite Juhu beach at 1am and were happy to know that they would serve us before shutting down..we ordered cappucinos and sat down discussing a business idea on tripathi's mind (he really wants to be an entrepreneur)...

We had just started when the manager at mocha told us that he had to shut down the place cos the police would trouble them otherwise...so we left hoping to catch some space on Juhu beach...

We went to the entry point near tulip star hotel hoping we wont b chased away by the beach patrol...but we were wrong, not only were we asked to leave...but the patrol waited for us to start our bikes and go beyond their line of sight...guess finding a place to spend some time with friends at 2 in the nite is not so easy after all in mumbai...

But we weren't gonna give up that easily...so we went to the one place that we cud call our own...NMIMS...

It felt so strange to find our ever crowded quadrangle almost completely empty...so we sat there chatted for almost another 1.5 hrs and finally decided to leave...

Today i tried fixing up a similar program and called up kola at 9:30 pm so that we cud meet earlier...but thats not how it works u know...

It only happens in an instant when kola calls us and i rush to spend another memorable evening with friends i can call my own...

Waiting for your call kola :)