Life in a metro, is like a race. And especially if you are a proud resident of Amchi Mumbai, your battle against time, will be a never ending one. Balancing your professional, personal and cherished will be quite more than tough. Frankly I think, the traffic inside the brain is heavier than on the roads. It might take an hour more to reach home, fighting for space with enormous number of vehicles that run on the city roads, but it takes hours to get prepared to face the road. Hence I believe, in cities like this, recreation and rejoicing with the right people, in the right place and never pushing a plan for the right time to come, is kind of essential to survive the rough mavericks. A good and understanding group of friends, make life worth living. Often we forget about the shortfalls and absences, and completely indulge into fun, frolic. It is important to let the aroma of friendship touch, it is important to open the gates to free-spiritedness.
Completely unexpectedly, this city has given me more reliable and lovable friends I could think of. All of them are treasured to me, and so are the moments spent with them.
Wherever in the world, bongs meet they tend to form a group. That does not necessarily mean, we shy away from others. It is just that being from one state, binds in terms of food habits, festivals and choices. However I firmly believe friendship has nothing to do with origin, because most my great friends are not bongs. However in Mumbai, we have small group of bongs, of similar age group and taste, we have named ourselves “Badly Bangali”. Our group meets on several occasions, celebrating our friendship and food is the most important ingredient of all our gatherings, after all bongs are born foodies.
Our recent meet was in Powai, in Aromas Cafe. A gathering for brunch. I kind of loved it, in-spite of not being in very good health, I enjoyed every moment of the morning. As usual not all of us were on time, including me and my husband Avishek. The decided time was 10 am, we reached at 10:30 am, however the brighter side was there were more late comers. And by 11 am, ten adults and three kids, had gathered under the same roof, occupying the central table and transforming the restaurant to a brighter and livelier one. Giggles, food, coffee, nostalgia, remembering the past and dreaming of the future, time passed beautifully. The three angel like kids Darshu, Hridi and the youngest Googly stole the show, with naughtiness and cuteness. A completely well spent morning.
About Aromas, I would say the food and ambience was good, we had ordered some smoked salon egg Benedict and chicken rosti, along with several types of coffee, all of them tasted great. However they could include some mocktails and fruit punches, because many like me, love fruity things for breakfast.
However, food and ambience are important. But more important is the urge to celebrate life, believe me there are many ways of doing so. After my life-style management session in office (read-Life Style Management), I have really learnt to appreciate the gravity of being happy, which actually is the key to good health, the best of all doctors.
Make friends, love them,be yourself and be happy!
Aritra Chakrabarty Sengupta
Some of the pics taken on that day are as given below, unfortunately only the pretty ladies and bright kids were captured, the hunks were missed out ;-)
Posing outside
Another one, inside this time
Yet another lovely capture
Smoked Salmon Eggs Benedict
Chicken Rosti
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