The so called obstacle out of the way - for now - and that was followed by two big pieces of news. Unsurprisingly, both were related to cricket; one, we are seven of us going to watch the Mumbai Indians play Bangalore RCs at Wankhede, and rather surprisingly, I am the common link between all. No one knows each other!

There is a blog friend - sorry Anjuli, had to call you that - there is a school friend, a grad friend, an iSport friend, and a couple of them from MBA. So, it promises to be weirdly funny! Unfortunately, with cameras not allowed inside the stadium, it is going to be a little dampner.

Somehow, every time this plan's come up, I have not been able to resist thinking of the previous ODI that I went for to Wankhede. Shockingly, Peeya had enjoyed it, and that was much to my happiness! I wanted to move out of the stadium thinking that the match is over and the lady may get bored, and here she was, exhorting me not to leave the seat till the last ball is bowled. That is because she wanted to watch the 'cute' R.P. Singh bat! R.P. never got a chance to bat incidentally.

The second big thing that's happened, has actually not happened, but is in the process of happening, and so, will update it when it really happens. That should be in around a week's time.

That said, IPL begins tomorrow and I can barely wait. I mean, not that I am expecting too good a cricket, but the hype and hoopla surrounding the event makes it the much sought after one. The packaging has been good, now for the content. That is the question that would be on everyone's lips, would be about how well does the excitement manage to rub onto the masses in turn making the event a hit. The e-mail forwards on various IPL squads and the schedule of the same has already started circulating. I have got four such mails - which has an excel sheet attached with the same details - so far, and I am dead sure of another half a dozen till by the end of the first week.

Convocation is just under 10 days to go. Not that I am terribly excited, and based on the cricket assignments that I need finish, I may even give it a miss. But then, a convocation is another event which is probably as overhyped as IPL, and so by the same stretch of logic, I should not be 'bunking' it. Lets see, will cross the river when I come to it.

Apart from that, the last two days were spent in college. I had no option but to be there, and it was not as bad as I thought it would be. Had a nice little 'gibberish' talk session with a couple of the guys, and then was onto Brios' for coffee with another friend.

The coffee wa great, but surprisingly the electricity kept going. The last I remember, it had assumed the mantle of the disappearing act, four times, and in the end we decided to leave. For me, Brios' - in Juhu - is a better coffee shop than the other two, CCD or Barista, simply because there is a better seating arrangement than the latter. The variety, incidentally, is as good, if not better there as well.

Now for tomorrow.