Scrabble Scramble

Yes... For the words & tiles we did scramble,

To get the high-scoring words always right.

But picking the tiles was the biggest gamble

As we non-chalantly played late into the night.

If the above rhyme doesn't give you a hint of how I spent last evening, read on...

After visiting the SS Music Office & Savera Hotel to present my Mimicry CD, I had ventured along the Nungambakkam High Road with the thought of visiting 'The Park' as well. But as I neared the building, its aura & magnitude gave me such a complex that I just drove on. It then occured to me that my BITS Junior Lavanya & her hubby Parameshwar were staying in an apartment complex nearby. After a mobile check, it took me 5 mins to join them in their apartment.

What started off as a brief chat over a cup of coffee had the curtains coming down only after a good dinner & a round of Scrabble. The Best & quite mysterious evening, I'd say, for the following reasons - I hadn't stayed that long (around 4.5 hrs) in a friend's place, I was basking in the hospitality of PRP (aka Parameshwar) & Lavs (thatz the way he calls her) and I never knew I could get hooked to a game of scrabble that I finished my dinner at record speed.

The game that started off a bit slow, coz I was playing it at snail's place, took off when I 'tile'd INTERIOR using all the 7 tiles I had got. Now that I had an additional 50 points & the lead, I cud afford to outbabble the game of scrabble (I'm writing this line just for the rhyme).

While this was happening & my mind was placing bets on my flair for alphabets, I couldn't help but notice PRP & Lavs shuttling between the drawing room & the kitchen taking turns at getting the dinner ready. Though I didn't have the right tiles, certain words whizzed past my mind - UNDERSTANDING, CARING, LOVING & HOSPITABLE - which wouldn't have garnered any points in the game but I knew how to win another :) Thanks, Lavs & PRP.