World is small enough -2007

Sounds like the bond-movie huh? I guarantee you; it’s not even close to that.
First of all, this is Shantanu who is writing this blog... why here? If you notice, in “amishan”, there is some presence of “shan”. Anyway... forget about this crap..

No other title would be best suitable for this blog. I’ll tell you why. The last weekend happened in my life, has shocked me so much with the truth that the world cannot get smaller than this.
We planned to go to Chicago downtown and gathered some information about the local sight-seeing. To our knowledge, Kapil Mistry, our old friend from Selectica lived in Chicago. We called him up supposedly to ask about sight-seeing info... but it ended up in Kapil inviting us to stay at his place. That of course sounded great! But Kapil just became a daddy which defiantly must be keeping him very busy... so we were not sure whether we should accept the invite. Also we never met his wife Anuya, and Kapil’s mom-in-law was also there... hmm should we go? I think it will be good. Ok... if you say so…

We left for Chicago early morning and went to the first decided destination “The Sears Tower”. That thing was huge!! 103 floors?? Yes... (Photos uploaded as a proof…) and we went to the top… which they call the Skydeck. You cant imagine the view... I mean... of course if you have been in a plane :D But great experience. Then we went to Millenium park and Navy pier… good places… then we left for Kapil’s place.

8pm on Shaumburg station: We borrow a cell from a stranger (total garibi), called up Kapil and asked him to pick us up. After 5 minutes... just both of us were left on the station. Spooky... it was dark... not a hint of human life, nor of Kapil. The public phone not working! Hard time... new country... no one to help, it was dark too. We waited for an hour or so... finally Kapil showed up... phew!! I should confess… we got frightened for a while.

He took us to his home where we met Anuya and Kaku, and of course cute Mr. Ved Mistry. We had a great dinner... thanks to Kaku. We discussed about food, then non-veg, then of course my dad (he’s a great cook). And guess what, kaku knew my Dad. Moreover she knew my Mom too and reconfirmed me as her friend’s son. Kapil was like... "Okay... I am already side-lined :(". This is not enough… she told Anuya and I used to be childhood friends when we were in kindergarten… scary... Then of course we found lots of common contacts… Kapil was still like... Okay. We just forgot... Kapil had got us here… Sorry Kapil :P

The weekend was great, it was over and we went back:(! Anuya’s husband or Kaku’s son-in-law dropped us at the station… hehe... (sorry Kapil :P). We went home and relaxed… Amita called up her friend Poonam... Poonam was busy so Prateek came on the phone and talked with me... I told him I went to Chicago for weekend... he said “I have a very close friend in Chicago... he’s name is Kapil Mistry” @#$%^&*(