July fiesta!! Philip's contribution continues...

The July was a month for great parties. It started with a great after work party organized by this

handsome guest contributor himself. Trying various cocktails (non-alcoholic of course) made our taste
buds develop to the next level. A good drink is like a good meal. A combination of the right components

to create flavor that could otherwise not be achieved. Synergy.

The following night our great employer hosted a whole day of “fun” presentations and hired a club for the later part of the day that finished by going to a great techno club. The Hive Club, full of ecstatic followers of electronic music was a great opportunity to dance (no, not naughty dancing) with our new colleagues who joined the project just a few days before.

The next day, Saturday, was the Caliente Fest. A annual, very vibrant festival of Latin

American culture with lots of dancing. Unfortunately, some of us did not attend because they could not

get their lazy bums up or use arguments with this handsome guest contributor as an excuse for being

lazy bums. At least at night they were able to come, albeit slowly due to Namitas ankle injury. Since we

arrived late as usual we all went straight to another amazing techno club, Alte Börse to see the German

DJ Duo Tiefschwarz.

Jyoti and Namita managed to book themselves a train journey through northern Italy –no accommodation booked yet To our all great joy they, after reminder, also managed to accept an invitation to a pre-booked trip to Berlin (readers, I hope you know where that is).

Now, to reach an end with this contribution, I also mention the great Indian night hosted by the two

characters we are reading about here. Maybe because of feeling so guilty of not managing anything by

themselves, or because of pure friendliness, they overloaded the organizers of those various events, trips

and cooking sessions by cookies and Indian snacks that smell a lot like egg. They invited us over, cooked

great, did the dish washing and even thought of some games to entertain us. What did we do on our,

non-Indian guests, part? We fulfilled the wishes of our hosts to dress as Indian as we could. So our Swiss and German guests did, finished by a turban, that made some of them look so cute that they would from now on be the most liked people in the office, but, speaking from experience, that can quickly change from not being the most liked one anymore.

PS: I remember speaking to Jyoti on the telephone when she was back in India and I am sure she said she would cook for me every night. Could that be possible?
Last but not least, lessons learned regarding emoticons used in Europe:
x = chumma

:x = chumma

:-x = chumma
:-* = choti chumma
:* = choti chumma