Thursday, November 24, 2005

Free stuff!!!

I am such a sucker for free stuff - watch me as I get all giddy with a 250rs off on a single item at the Mango store - got my eye on this sexy jingly belt which is probably like many-000buckeroos but no, i shall buy becos i get 250rs off. I am also btw a total sucker for all the marketing where they say I am a dear favoured customer.... I mean really you have me at 20%discount!!!

So, it did not take much to excite me when I was making a resrevation at the fancy-schancy Middle-eastern restuarant at the Taj for dinner with husband and Lulu .
The reservation conversation went like this:
Posh voice at other end: was all like oh, is there any special occassion??
Me (in oretend-posh voice, still not having gotten around to having nice manicure and ergo not feeling very BBCish) yes, it's my husband's birthday

Ha, now I know that you get free stuff on birthdays and anniversaries. I got free dessert last year at wasabi because it was our happy wedding anniversary.

So, we went to Souk and ordered some mezze - which is really exotic baby-food. everything is pureed to a nice pulpy garlicky paste. Then on advise of the Os, I recommended lamb chops to Husband and Lulu and I decided to have a vegeterian tagine... which was stupid because the middle-east is not known for veggies except for bloody chick-peas (which is really chole in english) so i lusted after the husband's lamb-chops and sneaked in two bites while he was distracted by the pretty birdy in fake-chanel. To help move this veggy stuff along, Lulu ordered a wonderful apple flavoured hookah - and then we had some nice moroccan tea. Luckily there were no aggressive belly-dancers like at Maroush, the other mid-east specialty retaurant at the far-suburbs in the Sheraton. And then and then TADAHHHH!!!! arrive' the cake at the stroke of mid-night. So we sang happy birday to husband with much flamboyance and fan-fare (to make it belivable) - yummy honey-nut nougat.

heheheh, and it is really being his birday this sunday heheheh - I beat the system. So, we are going to wasabi and gorging on sushi and more free bday cake and hope teh kitchens dont talk.

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At 1:04 PM, Blogger lulu said...

happy birthday to vikram. it was so fun hanging out with you last weekend, nish. you have to post in detail about wasabi including pictures of the food - i've heard so much about it.

 

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