Little Ali wins the Race

After that the trip had its usual share of fun. We went to quite many locations. We even had a paddle boat race which i lost to tiny tots Little Ali and Lanky Aman :( I would love to believe that the boat that we had was defective but whatever the matter of the fact is that we lost :-(
Then it was back to bangalore and before i left i bought a bottle of coke each for my cousins and you should have had a look at my Aunt's expressions. She was as if how dare you give my kids that bottle of pesticides :-)

In fact its pretty hilarious the way my family has reacted to my joining coke. Actually the first reaction was from my father who seemed utterly confused by my decision to sell coloured water. My cousin's first reaction was: Oh now you gonna sell pesticides :-))

Then the way back to bangalore was painful to say the least. I was sitting right in the front and to add to my woes the guys were playing an extremely painful B grade malayam movie. And the movie was running at full blast. So neither could i sleep nor look away. To add to the excitment my brother who was sitting jus next to me commented that the movie was actually one of the worst he had seen in his entire life :( So after enduring the movie i was back in bangalore where my parents joined me for my convocation, details about which i will mention in my next mail. Also i will describe the adventures of spending a night out in mumbai central :D

take care
Shijo

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