So now it's been confirmed: our deadline is going to stick to 11 pm.
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Nothing is gonna come in the way of our morals and cultural mores: all of us need to be in bed by 12 every night ufffd only so we're not tempted into an evil criminal life fuelled by alcohol, nicotine and loud music.u00a0
Now we can go back to exploring our belly buttons and jawing about the other mundane things that so matter in our monotony: like whether our roads have improved an infinitesimal jot or not; like whether networking synapses built in Whitefield, Bangalore are better than those coded in White Plains, Denver; and like whether the benne dosa at Halli Mane compares to the gastronomic ecstasies of the raagi mudde at Praarthana's.
I can now go back to my alternate refuge; Facebook, where I live vicariously through people who reside in other cities and holiday in still other exotic cities. Everyone probably empathises with my lack of a life because I get enough invitations to exciting (sic!) events.
DJ Titus is spinning records at 'premium' Club Zero this Saturday. Fashion designer Rajesh Gembla has now come up with the never-before-seen concept of co-showing his special safety pin collection with a stainless steel mart's launch. The Pink Dox is opening a new bathroom outlet and would like guests to come in only their bathrobes. A denim label is cutting the ribbon to announce its new store in the city ufffd and of course, only top models who've previously won accolades like the Miss Jayanagar 5th Cross title and the Vijay Star Look of the Year (sponsored by Mungaru Mallige Dhotis ufffd Making Men Walk Free Since 1924) will showcase the jeans. And the Association of Jilted Johnnies of Indiranagar (AJJI) are wearing their hearts on their sleeves at Sigh Note in an evening sponsored by Johnny Balker.
The party pages the next day will have gleaming unknowns cheek in jowl with quasi-celebrities at the 'most happening party' of the century. While the tired paragraph describing the evening always remains the same: the movers and the shakers were seen at this happening nightspot as the hip and the happening wore the latest and the shortest and the event was the place to be at.u00a0u00a0
Now, I'm not saying that our events, launch parties and entertainment options are going to dramatically explode the moment the deadlines are elongated to 2 am.
But at least, 9.30 pm on a Saturday night won't be a desperate rush to elbow your way through chaotic traffic and uncouth software types so you can wave at a snotty harassed bartender and grab three drinks in the 45 minutes before witching hour.
Sigh! It's getting to me even preferring to go hang at Mr Gembla's unfashionable shows. At least there's nothing to distract the barman's direct vision at your rapidly emptying glass. And no crowd at all.
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