Raina's Happy Budday :)

Okay, so Mayank Raina's Happy Budday was on the 20th, and I arrived on the 19th and when I reached the hostel at 1900 hrs on the 19th, there wasn't a trace of Mayank Raina's Happy Budday gift or surprise (p.s.: that doesn't mean we don't love you yaar raina ;)).
After frantic running/driving/eating bhelpuri, aQ inc. (Audacious Quests inc. for the uninitiated: Mohit Rodeja, Piyush Goswami and Sahil Dhar Hakim) bypassed crappy Rock t-shirts in sec 22 and not-so-great books in 17 to finally hitting upon the brilliant idea of Champagne (got it cheaper than the market through my bhaiya) and an Orhan Pamuk book. After a rendezvous with a black lancer near the sec 15 mandir that brought with it MDP Champagne and cake bought and kept at rodeja's place in the evening much before that, we were ready. The preceding lines however, are not to suggest in any way, by means of their names' absence, Saurabh Chopra and Sanampreet Singh Sarabha did not play any role in the preparations. Had it not been for their good wishes and timely-ignored suggestions, we would not have made it to the end.
And so it began...
At 2300 hrs or abouts, we left the hostel, collected the cake from rodeja's house and drove towards our destination, half of us already high on beer and Sanam taking the wheel as is usual when half of the mechanchi party is at least slightly high. (Chopra joined us in sec 44 btw)
And the knights of the order of that venerable Mechanchiness rode on...
(just to clarify, there was no riding- in any sense of the word)

Cutting time in raina's society's parking-
(Very deviously necessitated by one Ms. Dhaliwal who got on the phone with raina first and didn't cut the call till about 0010 hrs I s'pose. And she claimed victory in this matter too, proclaiming herself evil on sms)




After all of us had made individual attempts at convincing him we were all conveniently at our respective homes/hostel, we finally decided to act on the surprise at 0020 hrs I think. I made the call, made up some story for what purpose I don't remember and we asked Raina to move down to the parking. Of course, we tackled him way before he could get there-


(is he surprised or acting coquettish?)

Finally off to the hostel...

Raina being beaten :) at the hostel...

Our valiant though futile attempts at throwing Raina off the 2nd floor balcony (sigh)...

Raina's Happy Budday cake...

And the finale- Champagne :)...





This post, quite evidently, does not have pics of the b'day lunch, though one has heard lore of Mayank Raina's jaw hitting the floor on account of the surprise (only to him i guess because he was the only one who didn't know or hadn't guessed that she was in town and not in Delhi) appearance of Ms. Dhaliwal...

And with this, we end the story of Mayank Raina's happy budday....any further additions or continuations (if thats a word) may be done through comments...