Another brick in the wall

Some how the excitement, the anticipation, the celeb-a-tory emotion of a Birthday is just not there anymore....
Earlier, in school it used to be a big event..cakes, chocolates..
then in college it was goin out, havin a party, going dancing, etc...it used to be a big event , probably the biggest day of the year....something to wait for....something to look forward to.

But nowadays, i wonder if that b'day has lost its charm. The feelin i get is less of an "Archie" and more of an "Garfield" (Groan' another year gone by.)

The biggest lament is the lack of excitement.... could it be the process of growin up ??
As a grown up i can go parting, drinking any day of the year..

Anyway this year too, thaere was no significant exitement, had no special planz on my b'day.
but i was in for a surprise !!...couple of my old buddyz happen to be in town that day.... and an imprompto meeting turned into one wild nite.
Hence,
old' buddys (+) meeting after a long time (+) in same town (+) (=) One Rockin nite
;-)

After another loong day, was leaving for home when i got a call... and within seconds we had set up the time/place and location for the evening (guyz r pretty uncomplicated-any place that serves booze is a gr8 place) ......i'll try n recollect what transpired that nite.
(in flashback mode)

Well, we met up around 10 pm, at Phoenix, had a quick strategy session in the parking lot and took an executive decision that our core competence is drinking n shaking booty on a dance floor..this is what we do best n we decided to stick with it...
So went to sports bar...they were having some happy hour on that day, i.e. - twice the booze.
after couple of hrs in a happy(hour) kind of an environment, the rest of the night is kind of a blurr..
i do remenber laughin a lot...drinking a lot.... earlier we had 2 cars on the way back i m sure we all were in one car (hey, what happ. to sumeet's car ??) anyway, as we stumbled back, had another (dash) board meeting regarding our next course of action...
again dont remember much...but our friend from Punjab volunteered to drive (aggresively snatched the car keys and declared he will dive...peroid.) anyway he has many years of experience in drinkin n driving (cars, vans,tractors,etc) so it was ok.

We were feelin kinda hungry hence like our ancestors we left our cave (parking lot) and went searching for food in the mean and dark jungle (streets of Mumbai). Our journey took us through many a mountains(flyovers) and the sea (marine drive) .....bzzz bzzz next thing i remember is eatin something delicious at Bade miya...i do remember driving around my office bldg. at round 3:40 am, doin something (no idea waht so ever)...n driving on marine drive...do recollect something bout a car chase (trouble with authorities ??) any way we met again near Phoenix and smoked something, n finally reaching home (in one piece).

The kind of fun a person has, is directly proportional to the kind of hangover that is felt the next day....needless to say had a HUGE hangover...so guess must have had a blast.

The anticipation, and other detailed planning for that special day might not have been there..but we did end up having a great time and me a Happy Birthday.