Ruse, Muse, Obtuse

Ingredient 1: At least one equally or more insane buddy


R&A managed to do it again and this time it was bigger, better and more chaotic!!!!

Destination: Moosurie
Scope: Eat, Yak, Eat, Yak, Yak....and oh yeah see a couple of places

R by the law of averages managed to get to Delhi ahead of schedule. On account of which blogger managed to make R wait a good 40 minutes at the bustling railway station.We head over to CP for lunch since we had 2 hours and 55 minutes for our train to Dehradoon. R on seeing civilization after several months could hardly contain her excitement. We had good lunch at United Coffee House, a lovely old restaurant in CP whose interiors are probably from The Raj era, though carefully maintained. After managing to stuff on ourselves with the awesome sandwichs we wandered about CP during which blogger reminded R that they should leave for the station by three and R promptly disagreed. (R likes to cut it even finer than me) besides i wasn't wearing a watch and generally was averse to taking care of logistics.
We wandered closer to the metro station and R still wasn't ready to go to the Railway Station. So we wandered even further and came to a delightful bakery called Wegner's. It is dessert heaven!!! A definite must stop for all foodies. I loved it absolutely!!!!! we wolfed down a lemon swiss roll...yum yum. And finally R consented to head to the railway station. We reach the new Delhi metro stop but there was some major problem with the exit gates owing to technical glitches and ignorant and pushy people on the gates. We finally manage to get out..and i notice the metro time and point out that R's watch is behind by 5 minutes.We make it to the station and I look for the platform our train is to be on. When R points out that departure is at 15:25 and not 15:35. I tell her to keep moving and ask her to check the time on our ticket. Hee hee ... we arrive at a gloriously empty platform and on checking with a few people there it was confirmed that we had promptly missed our train by two whole minutes!!! I was laughing and R was simply stunned. NDLS is jinxed for her she has on all occasions either missed her train or arrived really late. her expression was priceless and I was amused that this was the first time in my life that i had missed a train for no apparent reason.
It was pointless to try and board the train at the next station as Shatabdi has very few stops. Ah well we headed out to the nearest internet cafe and book our tickets on the night train. We had a good seven hours to kill before making it for our next train.
We headed over to see the Nizam's jewellery exhibition. The jewellery were on display after a gap of six years and are worth over 2000 crores. He was a connoisseur for emeralds and pearls. Some serious B L I N G !!!!!the emeralds are the size of walnuts or even bigger. Just looking at all those diamonds and emeralds was blinding!!!!. The Jacob Diamond is one serious piece of rock. WOW WOW WOW R and I were finally able to see why women would marry nawabs ;) I loved some of the pieces which had minakari work done on the back of the jewellery and the engravings on some of the emeralds.Despite the size of the stones the work was very intricate with an eye for detail. A primary design feature was pea-cocks. They are incorporated so beautifully. Hard to believe that someone could be THAT RICH..way back then just by ruling little piece of land.
After this we headed over to CP again and parked ourselves in a movie theatre to watch "The Loins of Punjab" (no typos there!!) The movie is average it got a little boring before the interval. Had a good amount of jokes on the NRI culture and some decent digs on Gujju's. I guess the NRI movie goers might enjoy it more. On the whole I would suggest waiting for the DVD to come out. It is'nt a moive that's a must see in the Cinema.
We still had some more time so we were wandering about wondering what to do when we passed by a new Restaurant called @Live which featured a live acoustic band. We wandered in the ambiance was really good and i loved the interiors. R is a singer herself so she absolutely flipped. After some good numbers we finally left for the station.
This time we reached a full half hour earlier and endured the rain of insects as we awaited for the train's arrival. It thankfully left on time and R&A promptly fell into blissful sleep as we knew we were finally getting to our intended destination.

Final Ratings of the day
United Coffee House: A-
Wegner's: A
@Live: B+
Loins of Punjab: C+