Bombay by Night

How can you love bombay and not love the humid breezy bombay nights? Well, you can't! The only time when the streets aren't overloaded with cars and auto rikshaws. The only time when people aren't walking in herds trying to push each other over to get from one place to another in a hurry. Nights are the only time you get to admire the city lights that cast a little spell of sorts against the pitch dark sky. When little bicyle vendors are surrounded by Big cars trying to buy the last cigarette of the night or sipping a hot cup of coffee before passing out.

How can you miss all that?

My friends dragged me to a place called Kino 108, a quaint looking exterior for a buzzing lounge, tucked behind the crazy metro construction and between two very shamelessly unkempt buildings. The tiny elevator takes you to a really dark room bustling with some very trendy hipsters grooving to the blasting house music while sipping some seriously yummy cocktails. The night was perfect as was the idea of going back in an auto at 3am, wih rain gods showering us with their blessings(or wrath!)

A perfect night called for a perfect outfit... since, simplicity is NOT my middle name.. I ditched my boring denims and tees to slp into a newly found dress. When you pack light, you end up finding yourself without any accessories to match your outfit of choice. this is the exact situation where a lovely little magic trick comes to your rescue.

If you haven't figured out already ... I mean a red lipstick. If you've ever used one, you know the power it posesses.. it makes your skin look flushed, your eyes darker and your smile... well, only stunning! Okay, okay I'm sure you get the picture.

Dress - Dark Waters, Shoes - Bata, Hairband - Twisted, Lip Color - Nina Ricci

This was also the night I was supposed to catch up with two lovely blog buddies ;)

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Hope to see you soon girls as soon as our schedules magically align :D

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PS - I'm so thrilled that you guys liked the hair cut...!!! It was first time in a long time I decided to grow my hair only to get them brutallly cut (once again!). With the thickness of my hair, its very hard to even imagine the amount of shampoo, conditioner, leave in, serum expense it would require to maintain... and then the hours spent taming those tresses... ha, this haircut is totally wash and wear :D

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Much Love,

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Pink, Really???

The only thing that i like about pink is... well, mmm... the namesake singer?

Okay, no, well its not like I hate pink or anything... its just that I've never been one of the pink Ladies, if you know what I mean.

Fuchsia though somehow has been trying to intrude my wardrobe... damn, that color has no place amongst the blacks and greys and purples...


my clothes are rebelling they are trying so hard but the univere is NOT happy till the time I wear PINK!!!!

UNIVERSAL INTERVENTION #1 :

How can you ignore this sign? How cute does that girl look? How bright is that color against grey roads and cloudy skies?!


UNIVERSAL INTERVENTION # 2

How can one ignore when one's OWN sister puts on this shade that shall not be named henceforth?

that too so ridiculously well?

What is one supposed to do?

Resist?

Really?




UNIVERSAL INTERVENTION # 3

What's a girl to do when? Its the universe, I tell you! I hate you pink... I hate you.

You Dont believe me?

Dress - Janpath(modified), Jacket - Groggy, Bag - Nainital, Shoes - Not Visible ;)

Much love...

You spin my head right round...

Yes, I've been away for a long while and Yes, I missed you all soo much!!

I was so busy during the days building up to the Bombay Trip that I just couldn't leave you guys a note. My apologies for being so careless. And while I was ticking off my things-to-do-in-bombay list the first 2 days of my travel, I realised that the whole idea feels kinda sad when you have a 'list' to live up to! So my list was gone and my arms were open to embrace whatever great 'totally spontaneous' idea that may walk my way... I ended up doing way better and a lot more than all that was on my stupid list!!

The trip was very introspective (surprisingly!) ... The old things that you get used to... Change!
The favourite places.. change, people you love... change, people you think you love... also change, some for the better and some for worse. I made a trip back to college, the walls I spent 4 most significan yrs of my life in, also changed... I yearned for somebody to scream out my name or give a high five or flash me a smile of recognition, I wondered if any of those trendy hipsters was one of my old friends or if the tall cutie walking down the steps was an old crush... But I was only left feeling silly and Out-of-place and totally unrecognised.

Other than that, thank god for my awesome friends, I had a crazy time partying, shopping, whiling away evenings gossiping or playing dress-up-for-the-fashion-week (which I did squeeze in on the very last day of my trip), Driving around the town... falling in love with the city more and more with every passing day and dreading the last day of the magical week!

A whirlwind of a week, a dizzy sweet nauaeous after-glow of totally enjoying the ride!!
I love bombay and I absolutely love my Friends... If it wasnt for them I wouldn't be half the freak I am (I wud only be a complete freak)!

Play that again..... 'You spin my head'....... .... .... (its the background score of the last one week... It was playing everywhere.... at the club, in the car, in 'The Ugly Truth', in the Fashion Week and in my HEAD)!!

I'm back to being a good blogger now. (I promise)

P.S. .... what did I miss??


much love.