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Saturday, January 08, 2005

On what happened on new year's eve

On the new years eve ( As planned a month in advance ) , we got drunk in the hostel. Here is all that happened :
It was G's birthday on 1st of January and he was the one sponsoring the drinks. We were 5 ppl and so he got 5 quarters of drink. 1 backed out at the last moment and so we were 4 ppl left with 5 quarters of drink ... J , G , N and me. Now the drinks had been procured , we had to decide weather to to get drunk and then enter the new year or weather to enter the new year and then get drunk. Orginal plan was to start at 12 sharp , but G said that his folks may call up at night to wish him , so we shifted the plan to 12:30. At 12:30 , finally we sat drinking. The first peg was a Patiyala + Ludhiyana (Read really large) , in coke. Finished with it , we began looking at each other and started making funny faces. Finally I got up to fix another round. To our dismay ... we fell short of coke. Coke was left only for 1 more round of drinks and so we reserved it for the last. So for the first time , we took alcohol in water. Tasted yuck ... but we desperately wanted to get drunk. So we gulped down the second round and I poured out the remainants of the whisky bottle for the third round. Then we were left with a quarter of rum and some coke. G insisted we finish that off as well , but the truth was that we had already had enough. The truth was that we had already started dancing with the glasses on our heads and J was lying on the floor , rolling with laughter. The truth was that we should have stopped there and then. I told them to stock the bottle of rum for some other time. But they were drunk ... and so was I. The bottle was opened and we had our 4th round for the day. Finally ... each of us had had a quarter of a quarter more than a quarter (Read that slowly .. and u'll get what that means) of alcohol and were quite drunk (Though I guess I should mention here that I took half of peg less of Rum , so I was a little less drunk ..). Finally , exhausting all the alcohol , we set out on the college roads. First came the hostel gate with a guard. I guess we managed to walk straight (or so it seemed) , and without making much noise , we got out of the hostel. Then we went to this particular point on the road where we had sat down the last time we had gotten drunk (That was the only the second time , just in case u start thinking that I am a drunkard). We sat there for a while. J started speaking in his drunk-english which means english without words like in , the , a , are etc. Meanwhile N came to me and started explaining me what it takes to be a freind , in his bihari-english , very funny indeed. G was as usual calm and started talking about his crush on this girl in our class. And me ? I became very quiet ... as usual (Usual when I become drunk , otherwise , I can out-talk anyone).
But unlike always , we were over-drunk. After about half an hour of sitting and saying and hearing all kinds of nonsense .. we got up to pee in the nearby bushes. G got up first , went to the bushes and fell in. All of us started laughing , but actually , we were so numb that we took a lot of time to get up and help him up. Finally , when he got him up .. he told us that he had lost his chappal in the bushes. After some time , we were all frantically going through the bushes , drunk and numb , trying to find G's chappals. Finally I found it (Told u I was the least drunk ... ). Then as we started going back to the hostel , N puked. J took him to the hostel. Me and G then sat down and started talking. . Then I lied down alone (on the footpath!) and G began making calls to probably everyone he knew ... his balance dipped by at least 35 bucks that night. Then we went back to the hostel and met J at G's room. Now I was standing in the balcony , when G puked , in his room , all around the bed. I ran out of the balcony , out of his room , and finally I met J at J's room. Now both N and G had been put to sleep , and J was telling me to run to the bathroom at the slightest feeling of puke. Then we just sat outside his room and kept on talking about other nonsensical things and stopped when we finally slept at 4:30 in the morning.
This is how I celebrated the new years eve.