had quite a wacky puja this time! it started off wit the on a horrible note wit the rains on saptami but i guess i more than made up for that on the following days.

ashtami was fun. pooja n i decided to go to north kolkata. we rode the tram after soooo long! n mayb we werent the only ones who dont take the tram regularly anymore, coz we noticed that we were the only ones on the tram (except the conductors) !

we walked, took buses to places didnt know, asked for directions from the north kolkatans who kinda smirked at us 'south kolkatans', walked, took buses n then pooja's shoe snapped! it was probably the highlight of the day (either this or the sadhu we saw clad in a pink dhoti!!). she walked with one shoe on till we found a cobbler! n then she posed wit the cobblers son to take photographs! it was the cutest craziest thing ever!

went out pandal hopping at 4 am on nabami to avoid the crowd. saw some amazing pandals at behala n around. came back n crashed. went out again in the evening.

ever heard of a coffee shop that doesnt serve plain coffee?? n that too wen its called cafe COFFEE day?!! we were so completely disgusted n taken aback wen the waiter gave us this stupid 'puja menu' wich had none of the regular stuff n everything was horribly over priced. shouted at them, ordered nothing n left! headed for maddox square. i was so disappointed wit good ol' maddox. went there after 2 yrs just to find how it had changed. the old charm was replaced by unbearable noise, tv crews everywhere, beggars n wat not! my friends n i concluded that mayb we were becoming old, coz the school n college kids around us seemed to b having a gala time n we cudnt even tolerate it!! sigh!

left maddox n headed for park street. walked out of 3 restaurants. never thot walking out of restaurants cud b so much fun but we just cudnt deal wit the weird weird weird 'puja menus'. wats wit the puja menus anyway? very irrritating it is. finally had soup n starters at golden dragon n as usual laughed at badly dressed ppl around!!

its dashami today n am feeling sad. tho it didnt really feel like the pujas this time (before n during), am starting to miss the festivities. n this puja will b memorable for a no. of reasons...shall write abt that some other time. till then lemme go wish everyone subho bijaya.