Rejoining LA … with Oscars … & friends!

The Oscars – (thats me behind)
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Been to LA last weekend on a 3 day escapade to meet some good ol friends and for skiing, realized I did less skiing and more talking in the trip! Met an ex colleague, Gorkey, couple of friends from PESIT, the ‘WalkYourOwnPath’ Naveen Mandava and Sanjeev. Its always good to see ol friends, you forget thay you’re a 27 yr old grown up (jeez., am I 27 yrs old?).

The first couple of days went by driving around the posh Orange County, Irvine … straight to Beverly Hills. When you start realizing that you have indeed walked some the lanes of big wonders of the world, every new ‘finding’ pales into yet another “Oh is that all?” sigh. Really, we humans have more power in the imagination and mind than the physical projection. The same happened to me when I was walking on the Hollywood walk of fame.. It was just another road. Happened to see the Kodak Theatre getting ready for it’s 79th Annual Academy Awards, it all happens in here, right here!

Life, I tell you … is just so Deja Vu!

Checked out the famous Rodeo Drive@Hollywood, must have seen some really good looking women (read outrageously rich), Reminds of my days in engineering where I used to think twice before buying a 300 rupees shirt and today it doesn’t necessarily make me conscious before buying a 250$ jacket. I guess, its too hypothetical to say what we think we are, unless we go through it. But I still don’t think I will ever feel like buying a 500$ designer shirt. It’s not about money I think its where you want to draw a thin line (which each one of us will realize…)

Coming back to Naveen’s place on Friday night, it was the most typical bachelors day with a full serving of Bacardi 75% alchohol (I swear, I’m not gonna touch it again, I lost it) and there were talks about …. well, no guesses – what do 5 guys talk when they get drunk??

Cmon, even a 4th grader would tell you, it would suspiciously be tales of Love, Hatred (read women), Breakups (Wonder why we guys have sad stories full of ‘bad girls’ back in college and now), who got married, who is getting married, the price of virginity … not necessarily in that order. Well don’t get me wrong, I’m just being honest., we do have topics of Politics, technology, passions, Ideas, Life (& Women again), so there you go. It is a well established fact that alcohol and women go together (its not our fault)

Sanjeev is always a good host and a man with ideas, I’m sure we two would do something together one day, even if its a backpacking trip to Iceland. We must have driven a 100 miles that day all over LA .

I wanted to go for skiing for a couple of days but only managed to goto Bear Lakes Skii Resort near LA on Sunday. I think, I like skiing, mabye I’m bad at sports but this is something that fascinates me, lets me overcome my fears. It’s really good. We had to walk 2 miles in the woods back to the parking lot as the last shuttle was already out and it was one helluva walk, I was already dead tired and managed to breeze 40 mins before my departure time to the airport and when I suck back to my seats I wonder how time could be so relative, its amazing everytime you realize this while you travel ….

LA is fun but its big, I mean real BIG, I don’t know if I would ever think of settling here but its got a lot of variety, lucky for the people who like it.