IM Mumbai Meeting on 29th July at Bagel Shop, Bandra.

IM Mumbai Meeting on 29th July 2006 at Bagel Shop, Bandra West.

Date - 29th July 2006.

Time - 5 - 7 pm.

How to get there:

Take a look at this link for directions: http://www.junctionsocial.com/images/directions.jpg

Its a five minute walk from Pali naka. If you are coming by auto, get off at Pali Naka and walk down the lane which has the vegetable market - You will pass a whole bunch of veg shops, grocery shops... Soul fry restaurant, Dr. Nanavatis clinic.. Keep going straight till you pass Arjun Khanna boutique on your left. You will then come to a circle... Go straight downhill from the circle.. and Bagel shop will be on the right side..

If you are driving, you cant take that route as its a one way. Take the lane between Basilico restaurant and Gold gym called St. John's Street. Come down that lane and take a right at the end of the road and go uphill till you reach another T junction. Take a left and reach the circle and go downhill till you reach Bagel shop.

Please confirm your attendance by posting here. Thanks.

Cheers,
Aadil.

count me in provided am free from office

Subjective to work.. can update by Friday only.

Saturday 5 - 7 PM not possible. Full working day for me.

Ronak.

Last reminder for those wishing to meet up for some nice bagels and cold coffee followed by some travel talk as well as general chit chat!!! Lots more coming from the other websites like Couchsurfing.com, VirtualTourist.com, Hospitalityclub.org, etc. so make it a big evening even if it rains for lots of fun this wet weekend!!!

Cheers,
Aadil.

A report from Navin (Navinkurian2002) on the IM/CS/VT/HC meeting on the 29th July:

Another rocking meetup at da bagel shop

The evening was pleasant with a slight drizzle and a nice cool sea breeze at Carter road Bandra. I was rushing for the meet up as I was late.
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And lo and behold the guy who puts up the map for the meet up moi! Cannot find the place haha. After talking to Taher I finally find the small quaint coffee shop tucked into a nice
villa.
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Yesterdays the Couchsurfing meet up was bigger than ever!!I gasped when I entered the room at the bagel shop to see it packed to the hilt!!
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I was not sure if i had come to the right meet up haha.

There was a discussion already on moderated by Aparna (My fav India ambassador )
On issues affecting Couchsurfing India and how to make our bonds stronger. While feasting on yummy bagels and chocolate milkshakes and coffee latte .
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The meet was attended by APARNA SHEKAR ,AADIL Desai,Sheila Sivanand ,Paul Nazareth ,ABSTRACTMIND (Murtuza Baker),Taher Balasinorwala ,Torsten Janke,Navin Kurian,Swapan Mukherjee ,Aditya Ravikumar,Josiah Hart,Federika and her friend,Apurba Sengupta ,Rekha Laxman ,Silent Spectator (chandru Malkani),Veena Mehta ,Nabonita,Esben Blaakilde
Waseemullah Khan and his wife,Mitesh (India Mike ) and his friend .
Please Fill me in on the names I missed


There was an introduction round where everyone go acquainted with each other
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After the intense round of discussion .We went in for another round of tête-à-tête to know
each other better .Leena and Rekha had a lot of cool info and going to take their help when I make another trip off the beaten path . Apu and josh got to see you guys on more meets we gonna party (though I don’t really know how to party apart from trekking PJ ) .
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Waseemullah Khan showed some of the guys his Couchsurfing trip photos to Switzerland and some place Called Lund
now now hold one en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lund
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Josh and Taher helped get the billing mess sorted out. thanks guys! Appreciate it
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Most of the guys left of the day for other urgent appointments :> .
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Missed the mumbai foodie Vibhu www.indiamike.com/india/showthread.php?t=21786 on this food out meet

But the next meet up was just beginning ~~ . The Bacardi in the rains meet up .By da

Organised the one and only Life of the party Paul! or as he is called in chat Rubberbroke hehe
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Torsten and Paul bought the bacardi and Murtuza bought the rains
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Aadil enjoyed some "non-alcoholic beer " .I enjoyed the pure eau d’ mineral (aqua fresh )
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Swapanda and chandru enjoyed the fresh salty breeze from the Arabian sea.
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Paul and Bonita enjoyed "only" Pepsi with some white colorless ,odorless stuff which is the fav drinks of the Russians
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Mot and Taher were enjoying seeing the others enjoy haha . I think they drank some Pepsi
(without secret formula) .
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It was getting really late and we were famished. So on Taher’s recommendation (looks like we
are going to all da places recommended by him lately ) we headed off to Tavaa in a rickshaw
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when we reached tavaa
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There was a fascinating hooka it was jam packed and we have to stand outside and wait.
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So the guys decided to order on the side walk
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Taher and murtuza orders some yummy stuff by we had to wait for 25 minutes till we got to tear into the food hehe. Shane the captain over there was pretty helpful getting us a place and also said on weekends its always gonna take time We finally got down to the chow
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The chicken baida rotis were awesome . Good choice mots and taher also the chicken an rice
and rotis and some other chicken dish (don’t ask me the name cuz my mind wasn’t working at that time ) .
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Taher or mots would remember the names .But the food made them horney oops hungry too .So dunno if they would remember.
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Swapanda and paul were too hungry to speak.And quitely licked the yummy chutney and baida roti
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We topped of the dinner caramel custard
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and swapanda ordered some falooda with kulfi (looked yummy)
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Paul getting all hot over his custard
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Yummm that was one satisfying meal!
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Another rocking meet guy!! Thanks for makin it happen

Hope to see you guys next time How about tomorrow lol j/k

Cheers
Navin

Please post your experience on the meet up here . Would really love to hear your experience !!

the meet was indeed cool but a outing would have been apt

let us organise something around aug 12-aug 15.

i am thinking of goa

dunno yet?

more inputs/suggestions plz

m

Excelent idea mite. Could you post a new thread with the place and the budget , hotel .then we can build on your idea.

or you can post it here
http://www.couchsurfing.com/group.html?gid=1910

ummmm....all i can say is .... really missed the drinks time haan!! Alas!!!

mumbai meetup has always been huge and full of fun yeah!!
enjoyed the pix Navin!

felt good to see aadil, swapan and all.....something like being there... thanks for those snaps mate! and yeah... glad to see Torsten as well... kinda regular he is

cheers!
Amyl

btw where is ANIL????????

he got married i suppose for this disappearing act here....

He was back in town after a trip to Ladakh region for some time!!!

Cheers,
Aadil.

hi,

Amyl

Hows u ...I have been back from ladakh for nearly a month but tied up with family and work.

Hence I havent been around.

Guys we should meet up one of these days.


Lets plan a outing with our avid trekker and aadil.

Anil