June 23, 2015 | Awake & Dreaming

Ah, weekend fun. Last Thursday and Friday I was doing a late work shift – late as it starts at 11:30 am and ends at 8:30 am and so I reached home only by 9:45 am, due some cab delays. That was ok. I went to my room and watched tv till 1pm when I had lunch and then went to bed. So Saturday was mostly sleeping and watching some tv shows. Sunday I had decided to get together with my cousin Sujith and we arranged to meet just before noon.

We hung out at Cafe Coffee Day for an hour and a half just talking and making jokes. We tried out the new Snowy Vanilla Frappe, which was not bad but not that great either. I will have a video of the review coming up on my Youtube channel soon. We had a late breakfast of sandwiches at the cafe as well.

Late we went to have some beer. Sujith had informed me that they had a new one at Couchyn, the Budweiser Magnum lager which is new for me too. It was good, better than the normal Bud and we sipped our beers at Couchyn and hung out even more.

For a late lunch we went to Chinese Garden. Our original plan was to check out BBQ Square for some “Turkish bbq” and we were really anticipating them but for some reason the closest outlet to us was closed till 5pm. That meant a wait of almost 2 hours and we couldn’t wait that long so we went for some Indo-Chinese instead. We had chicken noodles with pork roast & Hong Kong chicken. Good meal and post that we went out separate way by 4:45pm.

What was your favorite plaything as a child? Do you see any connection between your life now, and your favorite childhood toy?

I can’t remember one single thing that I enjoyed playing with as a child. I was big into collecting toy cars. I had a bunch of them and loved playing with them. I even had a mini KITT & a model of the Starsky & Hutch car as well. I loved those. I had a bunch of other stuff including, I vaguely remember, a fire engine. And some bikes. Harley Davidsons and the ChIps bikes as well.

Others, I can barely remember – I had a laser gun kinda thingy which made several noises. Infact I must have had numerous guns. A Lion head belt that also made many noise. I was fond of the He-Man universe figures I had at around age 10 or so. But mostly I loved board games because that meant hours of fun with my cousins. Monopoly was my favourite to play with my cousins (there was an Indian version of it called Hind Trade which was equally fun).

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