Rumble Ramble

Mumbai is getting hot. And sultry. Just the kind of atmosphere most conducive to a startup! Just kidding, I have nothing against Bombay. Love this city. Okay, like this city ;-)

The past week has gone even before it came. The only proof of its existence is the tired legs and the numbing sensation upstairs. Kashyap and yours truly went looking at some more offices/flats today. I guess we have seen/measured/contemplated/entertained close to 15 spaces over the last couple of weeks and what we have faced can be summarized as below:

a. The space is on the Mumbai city border
b. It is bang in the middle of the locality's busiest vegetable market
c. It is so small (both vertically and horizontally) that you cant really stretch your legs once inside
d. It is in such a bad shape, you start imagining those WW prisons
e. The rent is too high
f. The deposit is too high
g. It is not available till April
h. The owner wants an all-cash transaction
i. The society doesn't allow bachelors

I am beginning to get addicted to nimbu-pani, Vada pav's are getting more and more inconsistent in taste across the city.

Went to Leopold's for the first time last week (Leopold's is a pub in Mumbai that finds a lot of mentions in Gregory Robert's Shantaram). Liked the place. They serve beer in these biig vertical test-tube kinda things. Thank god you dont have to drink straight from them! We played a modification of the game Truth-or-Dare. Since neither of us was in a mood to do a dare (sab beer da kusur yaar), we decided to play Truth-or-Truth. We basically tell the other person the truth. That's it. No choice. It went down some very interesting ways (Sarry! Cant reveal details. I see Kash running towards me with a sickle!). Bahut majaa aaya.

Kash's got an iPod as a gift from a close friend of his (lucky bum). Anyone want to do the same to me?

P.S: Anyone who's read Malcolm Gladwell's 'The Tipping Point' and wants to engage in a conversation on the same, buzz me.

Adios.

-Sushant