Back2Home
This visit after graduating from GT, will be the longest time I am home after 2014, when I started my undergrad, haha. The plan was to avoid traveling and spend quality time with family! As you'll realize this trip was mostly about catching up everyone.
Grand welcome home, with 'Graduation' cake. with @DipanshJain @YashGoel
Brought back some 'American' board games back!
(Extended) family bonding as I said. Really miss the childhood in Ghaziabad, where 30+ people parties at home were super common. Re-done for my desh vapsi?
Same people at every other gathering ft. COVID!
Chilling with parent's gang?
Met some cousins after like what, 10 years?
@VasuAgarwal @AshwinAgarwal
And also friends, since 10 years.
@AnugrahPrakash @DhanurKhurana
Met people from every time of life - starting from some school friends from DPSG
@LakshaySharma @DhanurKhurana @JhashankGandhi @RisheekMarwah @LakshayGupta @YashVerma
And then ofcourse, friends from undergrad at BITS
@DebadityaBasu @IshantGupta @MadhurGarg @ShikharSaluja
@SiddhantRathore @AbhinavSingh @ShikharSaluja @DebadityaBasu
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And also to the time in France, @JyotiSharma
Stayed to Nani's place after after 5-6 years too, and met the cute little munchkins who have now grown up. @Mummy @VidushiSinghal @VidyanshiSinghal @AasthaMami
And also broke my prized possession - the drone.
And soon enough it was time for a (family) new year party. Was home at the new year's eve after 8 long years - again the first time after I joined BITS.
@YashGoel @Papa @PrabhatMausaji @AnikaRajvanshi @JollyMausi @Mummy @TusharRajvanshi
NYE + COVID = Some crazy DIY cocktail!
Ofcourse - some new year eve drunk games ...
... and drunk dance.
And some sober 'looking' dance.
I thought I am the champion, and here I lost a chugging competition from (g)oldies.
Cheers to the new year!
Meanwhile, the best way to start the new year is with a lazy ass golf.
Celebrated mummy's b'day in grandeur and I was physically with her after so so long.
Good old housie.
Ah, this is how I can summarize my 18 years at Ghaziabad - cricket in the gallery - rain or shine!
And some doll'd up photo-ops with family.
Then I was also lucky to have a sort of private tour (thanks COVID) of the Coca Cola happiness factory.
Ah, the songs of Coke Studio <3.
Seeing the coke production line ...
... and tonnes of Coke - childhood dream come true.
Along with pure Limca with no adulteration of water or CO2, lol
Oh, then finally I was home for my birthday, after 8 long years!
Photo-ops
Was special and very different to celebrate birthday with family after so very long ...
... at a jungle theme restaurant for the junglee family, I have.
Feeling blessed to share moments with (almost) all first and second degree blood relations @RishabGoel @ShubhiChachi @RajatChacha @MintuChacha @DevanshiGoel @GarvGoel @DivyaChachi @Dadi @YashGoel @NavniGoel @Mummy @Papa @AnikaRajvanshi @PrabhatMausaji @JollyMausi @TusharRajvanshi