The worst day of my life in February 2007...

Huh.... I really don't know how these things happen... Me and a few of my friends, had decided to go to a movie and before that, a dinner. I wish that I had done nothing of the two.... It was one of the worst movies and dinner ever.

We all had gone to a veg hotel, as a coupe of my friends don't eat non-veg. And so, as me and a friend of mine are not very good foodie people, we decided to order American Choppsie (I am not sure about the spelling.... do tell me what is the correct spelling to help me edit) and Hot and Sour soup. Everyone else had ordered usual Maharashtrian or Punjabi food, but there were we, a couple of bigheads, who decided to get themselves Chinese food in a hotel where even local food is of a very poor quality.

First the soup.... only 2 words, very poor. It was hot and it was sour, so technically it was the correct soup, but apart from that there was nothing in it. Only plain water. We were looking at each other with an expression that I cannot explain in words. But as we had ordered it in one by two quantity, we were saved from the trouble of drinking the whole bowl.

Before the two of us could get ourselves back to normal state, there came American Choppsie. And I am telling you, find a place where this dish is worse than what you get in this hotel, and I will throw you a party. So, we started eating... and I just could not get it down through my throat. I mean, there were some pieces which initially looked to be of potato, but I soon discovered that it was not potato but it was Pineapple. And then there as cherry, Nuts, apple. I mean, it was more of a fruit salad than what it was meant to be. It really did suck. Urrghh......

And nobody even joined in with us, so we had to finish it all by ourselves. (I can't say I would have done anything different than what my friends did..). It was really bad. Then the movie.... Again, the title would be enough to let you know that the day was a bad one for me. It was 'Salam-e-ishq'. I am yet to see any movie (any other movie) with 6 so called love stories which actually are tragic stories. Only the songs were of any relief.

In short, what I learned is that, never order something in a hotel that you have no idea about, and be careful about hindi movies. Don't waste 150-200 rupees. Instead grab a cool DVD, Pizza and some drink and enjoy them in your home with the home theatre system. (Get one if you don't have one!).

Aditya Shevade