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Outside the Koshe restaurant I spotted a billboard, which had posters of drama happening in the town. How come I have been walking through there and never noticed it. I will be on the look out for a worthwhile performance.
Watched Dhurandhar 2, a well written movie with good cinematography. But the justification it says for the choices Modi made as a PM and saying the losing party lost because of shortage of funds from Pakistan is kinda baseless allegations which might just confuse people now. Who knows, maybe that’s what they want.
Found a badminton club, The Baddy Club. I entered the court to see a huge 3x3 court with everyone in matching jerseys. The jerseys looked too plain to be the club's own. A lady with a list and whistle told me this is a tournament and we are not part of the baddy club. I did feel shy when saying," Are you from Baddy club?". I rushed out to the door, where there was a guy in a T-shirt with the pink Baddy Club logo on it. Followed and found the rest of the members waiting. Turns out we start at 10. We start at 10. Did my warm-ups alone without any embarrassment. After a short wait, we made a circle with 3 organizers, college kids, in the center. The T-shirt guy started. “ I founded this club to have fun and find more people, and here we have 3 volunteers who will help us out today”.
The girl standing next to him came forward. She instructed light warm-ups for everyone. She lined everyone up in two rows facing each other. A game. The call-out person shouts a body part, then we touch it, and on the call of “SHUTTLE,” we pick the shuttle, a reflex test. With this, they broke everyone into 4 groups and set us up to play matches. After every 15-point match, we shuffle. The organizers wanted everyone to play with everyone. But people made sure they stuck with their level of play. In one way, this is good. Once, I ended up in a match with the pro players by mistake. It got me all worked up until the organizer noticed and pulled me back. It might sound like this creates cliques. It doesn't; I even got a chance to ask some of the pro players for racket recommendations. After 1.5 hours of shuffles, they split us into 4 teams. Like the good old days, four captains took turns picking players, and no one picked me. I was among the last four who were the team pick with no choice. It was embarrassing, but at least I was not the last. Then we played a 2-court match, 5 people on each side. After a while, they switched it up to a 2-shuttle format. In a 2-shuttle format, you'd serve both shuttles at once, and to score, both had to land on the opponent's side. It was fun, I had a good time, and I forgot the embarrassment. Forgot to mention, we did get free electrolytes.