Went Sober, Royally Messed up, Returned Dead Sober!!

mY swan dance with the Bailey's on the run!!

Irish Coffee is the perfect breakfast because it contains all four adult food groups: fat, sugar, caffeine and alcohol.

I had to face one of my worst fears/terrors when I had to go to mumbai to attend my couisn brother's weddin in feb '09!! not just anywhere - colaba - right next door to taj!!

oh wow - it was like visitin the Jalianwala Bagh or the Concentration camp!! the Taj, the Leopold cafe & the Nariman house - - to relive those intense moments of despair, hoplessness - which I seemed to obsses over for over 6 months.

So with all these emotional baggages - I really really needed my drink!!

There IT was - in all its glory at the Doha airport - duty free, waiting for me to claim it as mine with qatar riyals, proper dinars or visa/master card, neither of which I had!! I spent the next 6 hrs with a new obsession!



IT then wasnt available on my flight to mumbai, although the steward tried to make up by givin me 2 types of red wine - which kinda backfired on both of us!! He (or his twin??) ended up bringin me 3 glasses of water.


Mumbai, after 13 yrs, was a slow chaos of traffic, signals, what not!!

I went to my very 1st disco club after being promised the Olive Club, a crowd of celebs & lots of baileys!! All I got was a teeeny glass with less than 1/4 pint of IT(cant find the pic) - that was the last straw !!

With 1 day remainin, my cousin sys found me a bottle of Bailey's syster -some amrulate...a heady fruity mix, at the reception venue(as seen in pic). I had my uncles & their daughters IT under the table!!

Next day, v travelled from Colaba to Bandra, bandra to worli & back to Bandra where v just narrowly missed John Abraham, who spent the whole night holed up in his parent's apt right next door to where v were stayin!!
Alas!! 2 more sips, a sinkin heart, I bid farewell to my 3/4th full bottle & left mumbai(hopefully for the last time)Its truly awesome - the place is so alive, glorious, enthusiastic and a damn brave survivor !!
But somebody please make headway on their traffic problem!!

To Baileys with Love - part 1

Introduction of my Induction :
tHe first I had - was from my dad's stock of johnny walker scotch - dry - my cousin & I coughed a lot & then went on to create our very first chat id - chat2scotch@Y
tHe 2nd was when Anju either decided v were mature enough or when she gave up on that idea ever becomin a reality!! sHe took kavitha & myself to her terace & gave us 20-80% - 7up, vodka, much to my protest!! But come to think of it - to get down, v had to climb down the very narrow metal ring ladder & below were the 2 german sheperds(copper & pepper) kennels after havin my 1st serious taste of liq..!!

aNyhoo, years later when she told me of Bailey's Irish crème, I was sceptical bcause of its coffee flavour. But fell in love with from the very first sip.

bOught my very first drink - Bailey's from dubai airport in jan'07 on my way to India to attend my sister's weddin!! tHere - due to lack of privacy, no room & kidies company, I had to refrain. But after the weddin, when I finally went to get it, it was gone - vanished & I'd had just 2 sips so far - it had accidently gone wit my driver who then mistook it for a cream. Rushed to ngl & was so grateful to get it bac, that I didn’t mind the ants crawlin all around it !! Took two more sips, then gifted it to kavitha - I kno - how generous of me!! It was actually her gift in the 1st place!!
Turns out - I was expectin my baby by then - so God helped me in his twisted ways!!
along with that baileys, I had gotten anju a sherry - which I couldn’t give her & what happened to it? My dad & uncle drank it all sayin at each sip that it tasted bad!!

& thats how my luck goes with these stuffs!! sO close, yet always far!!!!