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Last evening My friends and I assembled at our headquarters...(TRIPLICANE, achut's place ) for the birthday bash.This guy amongst our group had finished 22 years of his life (as of today) and we all decided to go out for dinner.The birthday boy chose to dine at eden , a restaurant in besant nagar and our group of 10 assembled there.Throughout the dinner we had fun,more so with "peter"santosh ..and "prakash" Hari ....playing the jesters.We gobbled up fingerchips,Butter Nan's,Peshawri Nan's,4 different kinds of fried rice,pasta and 6 varieties of ice creams. This was one of the most enjoyable birthday parties I have attended,and more so because of the number of friends turning up.A majority of the gang member's hail from Triplicane , which a 100 years back ...was where chennai city started and ended.Triplicane still maintains the olden days charm of the last century and ideally resembles the visionary city of R.K.Narayan's Malgudi.The triplicane gang 7 in number apart from myself,kishore and vinush....have been friends for years now and it was a major coincidence that a majority of them got into the same college (my college) and the colleges near mine.These guys studied from childhood in the same school(hindu senior in triplicane ) and have a great sense of togetherliness in whatever they do , even if their thoughts are a little too triplicanist.... in nature... I know them ,more so for the past 5 years only...but they are indeed a part of my inner coterie of friends.

Well if u are wondering who the birthday boy was...........IT IS ME ........YES....as fate would have it I was born on this day, the 21st of february 1983 ,22 summers ago..14 summers short of bryan adam's "summer of 69 " :-)