Come together! Right Now!

Yeah the Beatles were 4 when they wrote that song and we were five! Well, should have been six really but then Debjit aka Dabba decided to do a last minute volte-face and ended up ditching the rest of us.

If you are still trying to keep up with the blabber, rest assured that I am talking merely about our infamous DTE (D-Top East in Patel Hall, IIT KGP, you uninitiated baboons) reunion! Seeing as how this was a long long affair, I am gonna break this into 3-4 parts, following the example of the great loin of the cyber-jungle Madda aka Bharath Ramesh aka Bharathchandra Maddopadhyay (who had once performed the infamous belly-dance wearing his white towel --- uhh, nothing but a white towel --- to the auspicious tunes of Pink Floyd singing, interestingly enough, "We don't need no education" in the background.... but that's a story for another day!) in his own superbly written google-map-direction version of our travelogue at "http://krosswindz.blogspot.com/".

Before...
everything began, it was planning. A massive 150+ emails were sent back and forth discussing every nitty-grity of the upcoming reunion for months in advance. Now my dear wingies would know this very well that in the matters of taking decisions where places of a) interest b) food and c) movies are concerned, we take more time to decide than George W takes to spell pulchritudinous (and hehe... that should probably be counted in units of hours!). But all's well that ends well... due to the meticulous google-mapping and atlas-gorging by the abovementioned immensely resourceful Madda, we finally had a plan of action:

1. July 01, Fri: everyone flies into Las Vegas by midnight... we shack up at the shady Motel 6 until next morning.

2. July 02, Sat: We drive through Zion National Park into Bryce Canyon and then drive all the way to Grand Canyon by nightfall and stay at Holiday Inn.

3. July 03, Sun: We check out GC by morning and drive back to Vegas where we reach by evening and then, ahem, partake in entertainment of the kind only Vegas can offer.

4. July 04, Mon: Partake in said entertainment only Vegas can offer till evening after which call the reunion officially over.

Now the five studs and one cyberstud that were supposed to be part of this enterprise were (in decreasing order of their notoriety): Vivek (aka Vivs aka Khassi aka Azzu Bhai), Biplab (aka Billi), Nari (aka, uhh, Nari), Bharath (aka look-above), Debjit (aka Dabba) and your's truly (aka Mojo aka Boka). Dabba, as mentioned before, pretended to be busy with his work (whilst official sources say he was vacationing in Hawaii in his latest multi-colored polka-dotted undies) and finally couldn't make it. SO it was left to the five of us to make this affair one huge success!