Sitting In A Chinese Garden With Madhu & Anil

So I hope my Muslim & Arab friends have had a nice Eid celebration at the end of Ramazan with some good food & eats. I didn’t have any plans for today but that changed when Anil called me in the morning just around 9am and said that he would be available at around 3pm and if me & Madhu could join him this afternoon it would be great. I said ok and arranged with Madhu to meet up at that time at Coffee Beanz.

Breakfast for me was courtesy our neighbours in the building – we were given poori & potato masala for the morning meal and some payasam. I had a little breakfast and lazed around till 1pm, when I shaved and took a shower. I had a light lunch and then settled down to watch an episode of Buffy that I had been waiting to watch for a long time. Anil message the both of us saying that he was held up till 4pm and we were to meet up at that time at the same place. So by 4pm I met Madhu at Coffee Beans and we ordered lattes while we waited for Anil to join us. He did at around 4:15pm and we sat in the cafe for 30 minutes as we sipped our coffees and decided what we were going to do.

We thought we’d do some window shopping in Bay Pride mall just across the road and checked out a couple of shops there. Anil wanted to buy a nice leather case for his brand new HTC phone and we looked for one in vain. The best option was to go back across the streets and check out stores in Penta Menaka mall. Now being Eid most of the mobile stores (there are dozens in the mall) were closed but there still were a few open. While Anil looked at pouches and selected one, I ambled across to another store that sells computer accessories and asked them for a speaker set. My old creative speakers had died on me and I need to buy a new pair. I selected a sleek looking one, sleek compared to my earlier chunky ones and got them for much lesser than what I had expected to buy them for.

That done we went to Ravipuram for some chinese food at the Golden Dragon but found them to be closed. This hotel closes at 4pm and reopens only by 7pm in the evening and it was only 6pm when we reached there. It was either wait for an hour or find another place and that’s exactly what we did! We went to Chinese Garden – some what same in prices but less tastier dishes that at the Golden Dragon place.

While we ordered for our food we sat and joked around. I snapped a pic of Madhu who sat next to me. The red light effect is because of the red lamp shades that they have all over the restaurant and NOT because we were in the red light district! Although Madhu was cooperative, Anil seems to have become bashful in his old age. Marriage sure has mellowed him a lot. Here he is below, hiding behind the menu.

We ordered bowls of sweet corn crab soup for appetizers, followed by two bowls of fried rice, ginger prawns & schezwan prawns which we shared. Food eaten we then had small bowls of ice cream – Anil had strawberry while Madhu & I enjoyed mango flavoured ones.

Pretty soon after that we came out into the pouring rain and made our separate ways home. I’m now i my room listening to mp3s blasting through my new speakers. I think they look rather snazzy.