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Archive for December 23rd, 1999

Mocha and Pakoras

23rd December 1999

Yeah, today is the 23rd, and you may be wondering how I might have already lived through it! I haven’t since it’s 3:20 in the morning right now and these things I write about usually happen on the previous day.

I went to sleep yesterday after staying up all night around 10:00 in the morning. Sid was to go to his job at 12:30, so he got up and left. But he was back in about an hour or so, saying he was off for that day! So I slept until 3, and we then went out so that we could at least spend a little bit of time together roaming around London.

Bad decision. I forced him to go with me to see Euston central station, which is one of the cooler underground/British rail stations around here. Right next to that place is ‘Ambala’ which is one of the most finest Asian sweets shop I have ever seen. They have branches all over the UK, and their sweets are damn excellent! So we got Gajar ka halwa, ras malai, jalebis, pakoras and two samosas. We went back inside Euston station to eat. There are so many cafes and restaurants there, from croissant shops to Sbarro to Burger King. I took him to a place where they serve excellent Mocha (coffee with chocolate and cream). Great. Mocha with Pakoras. We are forever desis, I tell you! And we did this while sitting in the restaurant. By the way, I wanted a coke later on and we went into one of the many WHSmith outlets in the station to get one. They asked for almost ONE pound for coke!! I ran out!

Then we went to Foyles’ to get some computer books for uni. and I also bought the recently published ‘User Friendly’ comic book. It is mostly geek humour and not for people who don’t know much about computers. It has been going on daily on the internet for a long time, and was recently published due to popularity. You can go check out the daily comics on the Internet at this address. Sid is hooked. He’s been laughing all evening. I haven’t managed to read it yet!

I went back to sleep, woke up around 1:30 in the morning, right before Sid went to sleep. Anyway, enough rambling. I must get back to studying now. Tomorrow Sid is off from work so we may be able to go out to maybe one of the museums or the zoo or maybe Madame Tussauds … don’t know yet. I hope my camera still works!

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