Between run­ning errands on Mon­day, I finally caught up with the tal­ented Mr Nandi in the after­noon. He wanted to know whether that salu­ta­tion was meant as a com­pli­ment or an insult. Appar­ently, Mr Rip­ley was a mur­derer and imposter in the movie (I haven’t watched it)!

Ah, well. You never know, Arnab; I see a lot of poten­tial in you and it’s good to keep more options open just in case engi­neer­ing doesn’t work out!

I had met Arnab at the rediff.com office over a year ago and that was for exactly 5 sec­onds. He seemed really shy and lit­er­ally ran away after say­ing hello. This time I made sure he got beyond 5 sec­onds! Thank­fully, he liked Just Around the Cor­ner, where we went for a bite.

But I think it was the pretty *sights* (more than the decor) that warmed him to the place!

Like my ear­lier meet­ings with young blog­gers like Anand, Ari, Vipul, Lazy (do you see a trend here?!) what I enjoy most inter­act­ing with these ‘bachas’ (okay, okay, no need to get all riled up!) is their enthu­si­asm. It’s nice to know what young peo­ple nowa­days think of, what they enjoy and what mat­ters to them. I also realise, how much smarter they are than what I was a decade ago :)

We traded notes on blog­ging, hos­tel life, liv­ing in Mum­bai, going to the US and I lec­tured him about how one can learn valu­able lessons from keep­ing pets (when he stated he didn’t like them too much). I think I man­aged to impress him enough to think about keep­ing one when he grows up.

The next day, I went into Ban­ga­lore for the secret ISRO project Arnab men­tioned. The weather was lovely com­pared to Mumbai’s 39 degrees. Jil, you shouldn’t really be complaining!

The good news is that I finally man­aged to get cable Inter­net at home. Yippee! Right now, I am the only one in the build­ing, so the speeds are pretty good. And our build­ing higher-ups man­aged to put their dif­fer­ences aside with the cable wal­lah (they had been fight­ing since we moved here), just in time for the India-Pak cricket series. I seri­ously hope that the matches are worth watching!