New Year

Dim red light.... Bollywood songs in a plasma TV..... wavy interiors.... spotted lights in the celling.... smoky environment..... an ideal Bar. Exactly what I wanted..... let me rewind first. today is 9th day of a new year and i have no resolutions and no directions to look ahead ( or backwards ). People celebrated the new year like a new beginning ( though every day is the first day of the rest of your life ) but I have celebrated it like a drinking festival. It started on 25th December ( the song LAST CHRISTMAS I GAVE YOU MY HEART, THE VERY NEXT DAY YOU GAVE IT AWAY and bla bla bal...(yes BAL) is very symbolic and dear to my heart and I do make it a point to be in touch with my emotional core that day ) and has been continuous since then in the name of various occasions. Some day it was with my roommate taking a break from the hectic life of the boredom and some day it was just free wine/whisky/beer/vodka in someones room( a price you pay to listen to the nonsense that people want to let out of their trapped soul). some day it was a picnic and some day it was a party. Some parties were birthday types, some were given by companies ( Pharmaceutical companies give us parties so that we write their products.... we write the products thinking of the good times we had). And of course we had the New Year party on 31st.

But today was different. I have been having some trouble in the last few days..... I had a fight with a senior in my department when i was drunk ( the point was logical but i was drunk and hence condemned) . I regretted and talked with him the next day...... God knows if he understood or not. Next I had a fight with another good friend of mine. She hated me, cried and our friendship almost came to an end. I think we recovered but something in it died. And then yesterday i scolded a junior who was once my student very badly..... reason ? I am still tiring to figure it out....

So I realised that i have been drinking too much and this is the time to check. That's when I met Tony ( Tanoy Bose ) who has been a part of my drunk fest who said "Lets go to a bar". YES was the answer and next thing I know is I am with him in this beautiful bar H2O. Tanoy is a RKM student like me ( Ramkrishna Mission Vidyalaya....he was in Purulia and I was in Narendrapur). We both had a very disciplined schooling and a very rigorous training that makes us a little different from the crowd. We both are Scorpios and hence very competitive in nature. We both are Bengali and hence very shroud. We both are doctors and hence very patient. We are posted in MU VII and hence frustrated.... Only thing is that he is going to marry his girlfriend on 23th of this month and my girlfriend is going to marry her boyfriend very soon. One of my another friend whom i met in Delhi is going to marry on 17th feb....

We entered the bar expecting to drink beer and talk stuff..... just adda. Once inside we ordered two strong beer and plunged in the lounge. Suddenly he took out a smoke ( he is a chimney by the way.... i think his lungs are like mosquito nets.... arteries atherosclerosed like Indian roads in rainy season ) when I remembered that they have HOOKAHS here. " hey Tony, would you like to have a Hookah ? " " Why Not ?, lets try..." so came the Blackberry flavoured Hookah, Strong beer, department, life, girlfriends, to be wives, could be wives, others wives, smoke, beer piss, more beer and more hookah..... resolutions took a back seat and various experiments of taking hookah became the interesting thing to do.... fast breaths, slow inhales, half inhales, deep inhales...... the dim red light became sparkling and wavy and the girls in the plasma TV became bar girls..... then suddenly came a video with topless girls and we had meiosis. Pupils dilated and so did the eye lids... I grabbed the hookah pipe from Tony's hand and took a deep breath, pulled it and accidentally the long pipe of hookah pushed the beer Jar in the floor..... crash.... it fell. We did it again.... We have now become experienced in breaking Glasses in Bars. I was saying Sorry but my eyes were still glued to the plasma TV topless girls..... we waited for that song to finish, checked out the next song ( if it has some more masal or not ?) and then gracefully paid the bill ( we also shamefully tried to pay for the broken glass but they refused .... i paid extra tip to the waiter and a 10 buck to the darwan ). we came back to the hostel and played Table Tennis. I watched a little porn and went to sleep.

New years come and go...... Resolutions are shit until u r in deep shit. Men will be men.... philosophy is good in books and even better with beer/whisky/vodka/rum..... rest of the life is in the moment... life is worth all of it.