Love All

When you are in control of a coin, you are too busy watching one side of the coin that you don't really know what's on the other side until you lose control over the coin and coin is tossed up and it kinda boomerangs on you.... Only to let you know it hurts, a lot actually... When I started writing this blog I never intended to hurt anyone.... Not even Gooda....

Anyways the blog was one of best things happened to me which helped me understand my writing potential... But now that same thing justified my decision to stop my public writing for a while... It took a last punch below the belt to make me understand that but now that I had enough of this fame, I would like to quit as a writer on this blog.... This is my last post on this blog, This time without a proofread :) .... Thanks everyone who read and appreciated my writing... Love you All...

"Love All" is where people start the game, I am just ending it there.....

आकाशवाणी.....

चाहे बारिश हो, तूफान हो,
भूकंप हो या कोई मर जाए.
मैं इस weekend पुणे मे नही रुकने वाला,
Unless पुणेकी कोई लड़की मुझे propose कर दे... - God

Gadgets or Girls.... Dilemma in a Geek's life

Today i saw a forthcoming book "A nerd's guide to dating"... Well some people think Geeks are just into gadgets and they don't care about girls.... Well though gadgets are our first love, we do care about girls ...just don't know how to express it ....and even if we do it, the "Invalid Protocol" error always welcomes us.... so here's some things which i learnt in the encounters with these species (or rather when i tried to encounter....)

Girls and Gadgets.... These are the two G-spots of a nerd's life and today i am going to touch just those....

It's not easy to remember all the encounters but and it's better to forget most of them when you are at my place... but some like the first times cannot just be forgotten... it was class 7th and being a junior scientist you already have what a certified geek needs.... other boys just leave you alone.... and then suddenly out of nowhere there is this girl... a new girl.... so you just rely on your area of expertise to impress... and that's science

So there i was in chemistry lab.... carefully chosen a place near her... Hmmm... just when she is looking I played my ace card.... emptied my pen's ink in the test tube... made sure she is looking... but in that process also attracted too many people's attention... now I mixed acid to ink it turned brown... then i simply put the alkaly to the mixture... and guess what I got my blue back.... I looked at her....she was amazed... score +1 .... I opened my greedy bloody mouth to score again ... "Which reaction is it.... Chemical or Physical ?? "..... She replied.... "Is that in Syllabus???"

And the last thing i heard was everyone laughing....

.............. (I fainted.... score -9.9999e6823... Just think how many Chemistry sessions needed just to level the scores.... So i simply stopped playing this game atleast in the school)

1st Lesson Learned : Do not go out of Syllabus.....

Then came college and i got introduced to my first love.... Gadgets... and just when you think this life you'll live happily ever after.... girls come and create new love triangles and you have to face the unfathomable dilemma which you've never experienced...

So first things first.. Dating is never easy.... especially for geeks.... it's like a java programmer trying to debug an assembly code...

but here is the most important tip... go ask yourself.... don't use any tools specially IM... you cant really be sure who is sitting on the other side can you?? and how to ask... I leave it to your imagination... try not to be technical.... technical love letters just look good in forwards... they don't really go well with girls...

The date is very very important... whatever you do just don't be normal.... everything will be fine ... I know you just cant refrain from noticing their gadgets but just keep the conversations to non technical subjects.... cause may be ARM is just a physical organ for her ... she doesn't have to know which ARM is powering her latest iPhone.... even if you mention it, you may end up RISCing your date....

If she mentions her iPod and the new Bose headphones then what we have to understand you got yourself a techie.... don't be excited... the risk is actually doubled.... just whatever she says about the gadgets, just try to ignore or change the subject.... cause for her best gadget is may be the cutest or the most popular .... you don't have to start the debate on the SNR of iPod and the costliest isnt always the best.... may be you could try to listen to her iPod for a while just to divert your mind from the better and cheaper alternatives of iPod and the Bose...

If the date was successful and you are seeing the girl... she'll need many suggestions from you.... such as which PC to buy.... just don't go on using your technical expertize to get her a high end gaming PC when she can still do well with a refurbished Dot station.... and that's even cuter and cheaper....

Sometimes even in your expertize you just have to surrender it to the fate..... electrical appliances are just those things...... just leave them to the girls.... just accept they know it better than you...just in case your ego does not allow your to shut up, give meagre comments like "Hey that looks better na?"

And there would be moments you just wont be able to take it..... the geek inside you wouldn't just keep quiet at that moment try not start debate like geeks do.... What i mean is just dont argue like this....



you must be thinking who is this guy??? Well guess what even after so many tips and trick am still searching... may be this new book will have enough tips and tricks to get myself the latest version of a GF.... till then i'll rely on the reviews of the others GFs....

Bike, Babe or a Beast.....

When i came to Pune 3 years back.... one thing was clear, I am going to buy a bike... cause Pune doesn't leave much of a choice.... and I wasn't swapnil to buy a car so just like a normal punekar I bought a bike which had the best mileage.... but after a while i grew fond of the biking trips for mainly 2 reasons
1) Compared to Mumbai, Non existent public transport in pune
2) After 1 hours drive in any direction from pune, you can reach some historical fort... Dam... or at least some ancient temple...

During my trips I realized, I need a better machine... something which offers me both comfort and power...a cruiser... So the investigations began...

finally I was left with 2 options ... 1) Avenger 2) Thunderbird

Now gooda brought home the first option and remembering the shayaries and ads written on raj on the same topic, I decided to go for the second... and countless number of people who were intrigued by this bike convinced me that The Thunderbird is the perfect option.... there was just one problem.... In one review I read "I's not a bike, She is wife... treat her well and you'll enjoy her.."

So finally 5 months back i married the bird.... and when i brought this babe at home... i thought bringing home a real girl and introducing her to my Mom and Dad would've been easier... Dad : "That's one really big bike.... don't you think Majaak majaak me tumne bahot badi bike le li hai" may be he was right... he could not picture his son on this 183kg bike... and Mom on the other hand "Tata Nano would've been cheaper.. " and then she moved to some regular topics like my marriage.... now being just married I could not think of another marriage....

Next day I instantly started getting the Royal respect which was given to an RE biker... I found any two RE bikers connect very easily with each other.... whenever i came across any such biker... they acknowledged me ... which other bikers do that other than RE or may be the RD350 (they must be saying.. you use RD350 and still alive??... Well done dude...)

From Kelshi Bike Ride

Talking about the connection... First time from Mumbai to Pune on this bike I stopped and couple of bulletiers from the other lane stopped for me just to check if everything was OK... and that was just a beginning.... one policeman stopped me once just to ask me price of this bird.... in harihareshwar I befriended a whole group of bikers for just one reason.... and these are just a few of the incidents...

Now i am used to all of this.... The wait on the signal has never been better.... Now I spend that time talking about my bike.... and i don't even have to start the conversation... The people in the conversations are categorized in 2 types the Enthusiasts and the Users... The Users talk about the new engine which is installed in Thunderbird.. and Enthusiasts have just one reaction... It's a beast... how do you manage to tame it...

Well i dont really have to.... Do you really believe the rhythm in the thump can be achieved from an untamed beast ?? Chheda once said... This bike has changed your style of biking.... you are treating it with respect now.... may be yes.... earlier i just wanted to go fast.. now I just want to enjoy the rhythm which this bike makes.... I just want to feel that thump in my blood....

Not all people are that enthusiastic .... especially girls ... One of my friends asked me if this has the better mileage than my earlier bike and i simply laughed at her ignorance.... but very few girls drive the bikes(Not scooties) and even fewer drive these beasts.... may be it's a girl thing... girls usually have issues with other girls you know... I have never seen any girl driving RE and only couple of ladies i know drive this bike are already in the news... one was a lady who traveled in himalayas on this bike made her way to woman's day special newspaper and the other is Gul panag... people call her rebel cause she drives a Royal Enfiend.... It was my dream to marry a biker girl but i dont think Gul Panag would be interested.... Sometimes a GF missing in my life makes me upset but when only the bike makes so many people envious... why you need a GF??....

Quote of the day (06 July 2010)

I am a dog by profession, not by choice - Sid

The Ex Roomie...

I reckon you already know who am i talking about.... it's Deepesh Shah.... उर्फ Chheda.. now in VJTI I kept my distance with this guy... may be even he kept his.. but the destiny had some other plans in mind ... at first when he told me the story behind his name "Chheda" , obviously i did not believe him.. that's one of his qualities...people just don't have the ability to determine the truth in his words... specially when he is serious....

when you meet this guy ... his hairs lurking out of his shirt will greet you first... i mean if ever Anil kapoor needed a skinny body double... this is the man for the job... and may be that is why people call him "Baalu... "

This guy can also be called a "Psuedo Gujju".. Most of the time I heard Gujjus in the local train compartment... if 2 of them meet, they'll bombard each other with the words like "Interest.. byaaj.... takka... capital..." and as neighbor you have to take most of the heat from that bombardment... like all Indians can make out Punjabi.... most of Mumbaikars can make out Gujarati and of course Marathi... and always the gist of the above conversation is money... I survived such occasions most of the times but the precious half an hour's sleep which we mumbaikar crave for in the local train's compartment is already lost.... and here i met a gujju (I even doubted that at first).... who does most of his talking in Hindi... and almost never said above mentioned words... and may be he was one of the first guys who called me "Aap".... and i was like "WTF?? Do i really look that old?? A little less hairs does not mean i am in the "Aap wala" category...

before coming to Pune i heard so many things about chheda.... "The master of triangle conversation with swapnil" and the "Best interpreter of the language gooda" are just few of his early achievements... But soon his popularity saw new heights when he was awarded with the title "Kamina" by the god himself ... even vishal bhardwaj was tempted to make a movie on such a title....

So when i came to pune i saw his hidden passion to bargain was surfacing with every broker he met... though he seldom talks about those 14 days ... I believe he lived his life in those 14 days.... here i found Deepes bhai in his fullest form and trying his bestest to get us a room... chheda has this knack of gifting the new words and phrases to the language.... Bestest is one of such words... Well i can say chheda can write his own dictionary....

whenever someone mentions chheda.... he cannot refrain from talking about gooda.... even the superhero needs a supervillain likewise gooda had his share with chheda... but in this case chheda seems to be hiding kryptonite underneath his hairy body.... what else can be the explanation of god's defeat.... their early conversations were extremely fruitful to the Hindi language... so many idioms were produced during the intercourse between the two.. and the conversation ended with "Chheda kamina hai..." it was always chheda who had the last laugh.... Waisebhi Jahan AP khatam hota hai wahan Gujarat shuru hota hai.....

Chheada's affection towards the south-indian states... it started with shiv... it florished with gooda and it saw the peak when he met praveen kumar V... Now praveen is one of the guys who'll never believe what chheda has to say.... even in chheda's farewell party he was not convinced.... and the problem with chheda is that he understands south indians very well but may never be able to convince them....

Photo which Jeetu bought for his collection

This is the guys who takes share market very very seriously... We know what not to buy when chheda does the share shopping... though he looses most of his money in the share market he never quits it.... that "never say quit" attitude is not only limited to the share market.... but he even shows that quality in some other areas... sometimes for 100 $.... madness of course but only chheda has the guts to do it... and sometimes due to this attitude , you can even find him sleeping in between the door and his bed.... sometimes while asking the names of the girls even to their mothers... and sometimes eating papad from a total strangers plate... he tried to keep that attitude even in amdocs but while working behind the enemy lines of C, he could not keep up with his own attitude... Still i'll say this is one attitude which'll make him successful in future (Just trying my best to be good...)


Listening is one of his hobbies.... he listens to whatever is there in his hearing range... with a playlist which never ends... he is always listening something.... When i felt frustrated about a whole lots of things... he was always there to listen (again just trying to maintain the goodie goodie)... and when he stops listening... the critic in him is awaken.... and then you'll never have any diplomatic replies... you just have to face the wrath of a critic... after listening to each of the roomies he motivated everyone enough to quit the company before him but all his efforts were in vain .... and then suddenly he left.... just like that.... whatever i thought of doing for over 3 years... this guy did it...

Drinks usually bring out the true feelings which are burried in the bottom of the hearts... and therefore the applause and the salutes Chheda got on his farewell cannot be forgotten... Chheda... a vegetarian who survived with a bunch of pure non-veggies just cannot be forgotten.... (This is my bestest effort to write good for him... hope he does not forget it and keeps a place for me in his company once he is a successful entrepreneur....)

पुणे

पुणे... खरं तर ह्या विषयावर खूप काही लिहिलं गेलं आहे पण तरीही मी माझा वेळ ह्या विषयावर आज वाया घालवावा म्हणतो... पुण्यावर लिहायचं म्हणजे मराठीतूनच लिहावं लागणार म्हणून आज खास सवड काढूनच लियहायला बसलो आहे आणि जर तुम्हाला काही पुलंशी साम्य आढळलं तर माफ करा कारण पुण्याविषयी कितीही लिहिला तरी पाया पुलंचाच राहणार.

तर तब्बल ३ वर्षांपूर्वी इथे यायचा नक्की झालं.. तरी आमची फॅमिली पक्की मुंबईकर आणि त्यात वर मालवणी असल्याने अगदीच पुण्याच्या विरोधात... "काय करायचे आहे पुण्याला जाऊन, मुंबईत नोकर्‍या काय संपल्या काय रे" पासून "घरच्यांचं ऐकेलं तर तो सिद्धेश कसला?? " पर्यंत ऐकूनच मे पुण्याला निघालो.... पुण्यात जायचं असल्याने मराठीचा व्यासंग वाढावा म्हणून पूल आणि चिवीं सारख्यांची अनुभवाची शिदोरी घरी आणली... आणि थियरीचा अभ्यास पूर्ण झालयावर आम्ही प्रॅक्टिकल कराव म्हणून पुण्याला निघालो....

तसं पाहायला गेलं तर माझ्यासारखीच इतरांनीही मराठीची तयारी केली होती.... पाटेसारख्यांचा सहवास लाभल्याने गुडा तर आधीपासूनच तयार होता... पण कधी कधी ध चा मा जरी करता आला नाही तरी ध चा द पासून ढ पर्यंत कुठेही पोचल्याने पुण्यात त्याचा निभाव तसा अशक्यच होता... छेडाला मराठी जरी समजत असली तरी त्याच्या बाइकप्रमाणे मराठीही त्याला कधीच बोलायला जमणार नाही बहुतेक... एकच सर्वांना पुरून उरु शकणारा होता तो रीदवान होता... मराठीतून प्रश्नावर तितक्याच खुबीने कोकनीतून उत्तर दिल्यावर समोरचा स्वतःच हिंदीतून बोलायला सुरूवात करत...

पुण्यात पोचाल्यावर आमची पहिली गाठ पडली ती रिक्षावाल्याशी... तसा आम्ही पोचल्यावर गुडा पुर्णं तयारीताच होता पण आम्ही मराठीत बोलायला सुरूवात केल्यावर रिक्षावाल्याने ईंग्लिशमध्ये बोलून एकाच बॉलवर आमच्या दोघांची विकेट घेतली.... आता बॉलच्या एवजी जर उद्या कोणी हातबॉम्ब टाकला तर पुर्णं टीम गारद झळ्यास नवल ते काय.... आणि पुण्याच्या रिक्षावाल्यांबद्दल पुलंनिही काही न लिहील्याने आमची थियरीही फेलच गेली...त्यामुळे पुढे ह्या सब्जेक्टमधे आम्हाला आमच्या निरीक्षणांवरच अवलंबुन रहाव लागलं... बहुधा सर्व रिक्षांचे मीटर एकाच वेळी कसे काय बंद पडतात हे प्रत्यक्ष ब्रम्हदेवालाही एक कोडच असावं..... हा पुणेरी एकदा रात्री एकटा घरी जाईल पण ५ रुपये कमी करणार नाही.... कधी कधी नको त्या विषयांवर खूप वेळ हा बोलू शकतो आणि वर त्या वायफळ उपदेशाचे पैसे जोडायला मात्र तो विसरत नाही..... आणि हो मुंबईकरांचा भाड्याविषयीचा आचरटपणा त्याला बिलकुल चालत नाही.... पाऊस पडल्यावर तर तो मुंबईकरांना (मीटर बंदच ठेऊन) सांगायला विसरत नाही ही असा पाऊस मुंबईत तरी पडतो काय... अरे मुंबईसारखा पाऊस जर इथे पडला तर तुला बहुतेक बोटच चालवावी लागेल .... हे आपलं आम्ही मनातच म्हणतो कारण भर पावसात रिक्षावाल्याशी पंगा कोण घेईल...

तशी पुण्याला ऐतिहासिकतेची काहीच कमी नाही पण तीच ऐतिहासिकता लोक जेव्हा लोक विसरत नाहीत तेंव्हा सर्वात जास्त प्रॉब्लेम ट्रॅफिक मधे होतो... पुलंच्या पुण्यात लोक साइकल तलवारीसारखी चालवत होता तर तेच लोक आता बाजीप्रभूच्या आवेषात बाइक चालवताना दिसतात... आणि नखशिखांत झाकलेल्या राणी लक्ष्मीबाई तर रोज दर्शन देतच असतात.... आणि ह्या सर्वा गोंधळात रिक्षावाले घोडदळाच्या जोशात जेंव्हा गाडी हाकतात तेव्हा एरवी मुंबईत शनिसारखा वाटणारा ट्रॅफिक पोलीस इथे देवसारखा भासु लागतो... पण शीटीसारखा निश्प्रभ अस्त्रं हाती लागल्याने हताशपणे बघण्याशिवाय तोही बिचारा काहीच करू शकत नाही....

ह्यात सर्वात स्वतंत्र अस्तीव कोणाचे असेल तर ते पुण्याच्या दुकानदाराचे... पुण्याच्या दुकानदारांबद्दल आजपर्यंत बरेच नाही लिहिलं गेलं आहे तरीही अजुन खूप काही गोष्टी कवर करायच्या राहून गेल्या आहेत... जसे की पुणेरी पाट्या... पुण्याच्या दुकानदारांचा मराठी भाषेचा अभ्यास तर आपल्या परिचयाचा आहेच पण तरीही तोंडावर अपमान करण्यासाठी हजरजबाबीपणा असावा लातो आणि ह्यावर तोड म्हणून पुण्याच्या लोकांनी दुकानासमोर खास लोकांच्या अपमानाच्या पाट्या लावायला सुरू केल्या... बहुतेक त्या न लावल्यास तो फाउल पकडला जात असावा... कारण अगदीच काही नाही तर लोकांनी "आमची कोठेही शाखा नाही" अशा पाट्या लावायला सुरूवात केली... एका ठिकाणी तर त्या मजकुराच्या पुढे कॉपीराइटचे सिंबलही लावलेले मे बघितले आहे... आणि ह्यामुळेच पुण्याला World's funniest city म्हणत असावेत ... funniest च माहीत नाही पण पुणे weirdest तर नक्कीच होऊ शकते....

माझ्यासारख्या मालवणी माणसाचे माश्यांचे दुःख पुण्यातल्या लोकांना काय समजणार... जिथे आमच्यासाठी एक पूर्ण आहारशास्त्र तयार होतं तिथे पुण्यात फिश् ह्या एका शब्दात त्याची अवहेलना होते... एक तर इथे ताजा मासा हा २-३ दिवसांपूर्वीचा असतो... दुसरं फिश् तंदूर मधे टाकायची ह्यांची सवय कधीच जात नाही... आणि एवढं केल्यावर बोनलेस म्हणून माश्याचे काटे काढायची पद्धत तर मालवणी माणसाच्या गळी कधीच उतरत नाही... किंबहुना २-३ काटे गळ्यात अडकल्याशिवाय तृप्ततेचा ढेकर आमच्या नशिबी नाही हे पुणेरी लोकांना पचतच नाही... एवढा असूनही मी पुण्यात मासे खायचा आटोकाट प्रयत्न केला पण शेवटी एकदा ताज्या माशांच्या नावाखाली सुकट खाऊन मला हा नाद शेवटी सोडावाच लागला...

पुण्याच्या विक्षिप्तपणाबद्दल जेंव्हा मी पुणेकरांशी बोलायचा प्रयत्न केला तेंव्हा "काय राव, फक्त जुने लोकच विक्षिप्त आहेत" आणि जुन्या जाणत्यांच्या मते "नमुने फक्त सदाशीवपेठेतच आढळतात" अजुन मला सदाशिवपेठेतला जाणता माणूस भेटायाचा आहे... त्याच्या मते बहुतेक मी मुंबईकरच विक्षिप्त असावा...

आजकाल मात्र मला वाटतं पुण्याबाहेरच्या लोकांनी ह्या पुणेरीपणाविरोधात कारस्थान रचलं असावं... ह्यामुळे एकंदरीत पुण्याची संस्कृतीच धोक्यात आली आहे.... आजकाल टूरिस्ट वॅनच्या धाकाने रिक्षावले चक्क मीटरवर यायला तयार होतात तर तिथे ट्रॅफिक पोलिसांनी पण नवीन आलेल्या कार जमतीला जरा धाकात घ्यायला सुरूवात केली आहे.. तर कुत्र्याच्या छत्रीप्रमाणे उगवलेल्या मॉल्समुळे पाटी संस्कृती धोक्यात आली आहे... हे असच जर चालू राहिला तर ही पुणेरी संस्कृती टिकणार तरी कशी... तेंव्हा पुलंच पुणे जर टिकवायचं असेल तर पुणेकरला नक्कीच कंबर कसावी लागणार आहे.....

The power of 7

It all began from Jeetu's office in VJTI..... Finally we had the joining date... 20th Aug 2007 was the date... List was confirmed and we 7 were about join Amdocs India from VJTIMCA 07.... and after that what people did with the list is an another story...

I always thought the class @ VJTI was the weirdest possible combination of people and a subset of 7 cant get any better... but little that i knew was that when acquaintance is turned into the friendship.... it creates an awesome flavour....

So on the 19th Aug the fate was sealed.... we found ourselves on the way to pune... We knew each other very well but we all belonged to different regions of the class.... Everyone had their own characteristics... but the only thing we had common was madness....Everyone had their own share.... meanwhile we have stayed so close to each other that now we can feel that the characteristics are overlapping these days....

Starting with the honeymoon period @ amdocs when everyone lived in the dreamland.... we were fast and furious... We wrote Shayaries, poems and gave presentations :P ..... and those who could not write, simply added the commercials in the mail chains.... We even had the lunchtime agendas of "how to kill sid?" when all 7 together had lunch together and even though it was about to kill me... that's a thing I've missed for many days and in future will surely miss it.....

Just like the dreamlands were shattered... The amount of exuberance with which the company was joined.... equal and opposite was experienced by most of us just after an year.... but as no one wanted to take the lead.... and the bond prevailed...

And how can if forget all the madness.... how can i forget all the parties, picnics and our knack of discussing the world in official mails and technical discussions during our leisure time... We had our differences, we fought, we had our silences but we've got over it... and that i think makes this group special.....

Meanwhile we even tried to create a T shirt for the grp but the even after the successful design we could not bring that T shirt in reality... So the lesson learned "Project is not over till it goes into production...."



and here is something mitul wrote for the grp


One would be the greatest but still lonely,
Two would be a couple but it would still ignore the rest,
Three was never a company,
Four will never be company,
Five would always be on a high,
And Six would still need another taste,
We are 7 Names, 7 colours, 7 Flavours!

Each with highs, each with issues,
Each different, but incomplete by themselves,
Blends well but each has its presence,
Not too sweet, Not too sour, Not too spicy, nor too bland,
A perfect taste, each in its right quantity,
We are 7 Names, 7 colours and 7 flavours...

We are The 7..... We did not do anything extraordinary but still we enjoyed the time together and will separate in future and that is why cant help it to feel nostalgic about it but one thig is for sure.... we'll remain friends... friends for life....

A small Dedication To Siddhesh

orkut ke har friend list pe tujhe check kiya
Matrimonial ke har site pe tujhe search kiya
na idher na udher na kidher tera chehra nazar aaya
Kya bhala jupiter mein ab tak internet nahi aaya ????

A day without God

A day without Gooda is always a नीरस day... and sometimes the days we loath, arrive and that's life ...you have to face them ... It requires lots of activities to call it a day.... Last time we tried it, we ended up in an unforgettable night... However the lack of enthusiasm to call it a day made this a special day....

It was usual Thursday and I had no plans to wake up but ridwan took it as his duty to wake me up and acted as an alarm... after may be an hour of constant songs from him, i finally got up and realized today is the day Gooda is going to his native place... I did not have to look for gooda as our Mr alarm had already chosen his next victim....

it was around noon so I bid goodbye to gooda and left for office but could not refrain myself from thinking what to do when gooda leaves.. Should buy a TV or make some other plans to pass my time during these days? When i am at dilemma i prefer to sleep... So here at around 4 I declare my office day as half day ... and came back to room and found no gooda in it ...

As Gooda is not in town so I took a few snaps of God's distinctly ahead Avenger teasing my Royal Enfield... but soon realized it's too boring till you hear a couple of reasons from gooda Why avenger is better than Enfield...




SO left that effort.. Then Saw rainbow in home and played with light and camera for some time.....



Got some good shots but when the critic is not in town you cannot really enjoy that too.. The world looked so colorless that i decided to go to my dreamland and may be after an hour in dreamland chheda woke me up and told me you are coming... Where?? Hello even i have a Right To Information... but soon adi joined forces with chheda and i had to surrender after a few arguments...

Chheda and Adi took me to Doolally, a microbrewery in town. Doolally is an awesome place to spend the evening. they brew 3-4 types of beers there... bartender gave us basic info about the brewery.. soon we realized the pipes above us are not just adding to the beauty of the place but the are carrying beer.... The beauty of the place was doubled in our eyes.... But somehow we just controlled ourselves... Due to lack of appropriate transport we kept thorough enjoyment of this place for future and just tasted it for now...

Then to have dinner we went all the way to "Veer da Dhabha" near Baner.... for 3 years, I've been hearing about the place hence the curiosity... To start with we just followed chheda's instructions and as expected lost the road... finally took a U turn from Wakad and reached the place.... The place is too famous to at least have a board of it's name.... But soon we had to face the disappointment.... Food was not worthy at all... May be they make food which tastes better with alcohol... neways today we were in no mood to try that option.... though that was a disappointment, bike ride was all we enjoyed for this part.

From there we moved for Cold coffee @ Durga in Kothrud, yes they don't have any branch elsewhere ;-) But they are the ones making one of the best cold coffees in town... that too for just 12 Rs(After recent 20% hike).... Traveling till kothrud seems to be too little for this coffee at the given price....

Riding bike from one place to another place to another place was awesome fun..... So after around 100km on bike and 3 famous places in Pune we called it a day... A day without God....

Checkpoint

One day in a meeting with a beautiful HR Manager:
Ridwan: (In a very upset angry mood)
HR Manager: Any Concern ...
Ridwan: This is almost three years and now enough is enough.
Dekho ek to meri salary badha do nahi to mujhse shaadi kar lo
Kyonki itni salary me, main house wife toh afford nahi kar sakta !!

Quote of the day

"There are only 3 seasons in India...... On season, Off season and Marriage season" - Rid

Happy Mendicoat Day

To,
The Head Master,
The Government of India.

Sub: an application to declare 10th May as National Holiday and to celebrate it as Mendicoat Day.

Dear Sir/Madam,

I request you to include the most auspicious day of 10th May in list of National Public Holiday and also amend a rule to celebrate it as "You-Know-Who Jayanti" or "Mendicoat Day". This is the same day when India's first war of Independence began in 1857 but another most important event of the day is that God of Mendicoat himself came to earth.

Please make sure that it should be celebrated as a "Wet Day". No, no need to take a bath to get wet ... that's optional ... but each and every member of the society should and must consume few drops of vodkam, beeram or whiskum as Prasadam and they must play a game of Mendicoat without saying Pass. It is already observed that many people from western part of India are already started celebrating this and they greet each other by saying "Happy Mendicoat Day".

Due to your deficient knowledge, you must be wondering who is this great personality and why you are still in dark till now. Let me enlighten on this ...

By now, you are already aware that he is a God and even Sachin's additional glorification is because of him.

He is an inspiration whose personality influence dumb people to sing a song, recite poems, write essays, capture images, buzz the bandwidth and even dedicate blogs.

His so called superiors are so thankful to him that they always get recognition in each quarter without writing a single Unix command because of him.

Though not sure but it is heard that youth author Chetan Bhagat is trying all his wit to get a small appointment for important inputs to make his fourth book interesting. Obviously Nagarjun will do the lead.

J K Rowling always hide the crucial fact that "He is so feared that even Voldemort don't dare to say his name".

Only he has the capability and can dare to tour Gods own country on sick leaves only. As 10th May is not the holiday so he has to take sick leave to celebrate his B'Day :(

So please consider my request blindly and do the needful for benefit of whole nation and yeah don't forget to play the Mendicoat game.

Thanking you,

Yours untruthfully insincerely unfaithfully,
Chheda.

P.S.: Many Happy Returns of the Gooda and Have a Great B'Day.

Mendhicoat Premier League....

Once upon a time when we were Freshers just out of college and new to Pune... Did not have the bikes to enjoy the Nightlife in Pune.... We relied much on cards for entertainment

It was the best of times and it was worst of times when people lived more in their fantasy world and we had to play our cards to bring them back to the reality and the cards had the most probability than any other method....

Initial days were the days which when everyone wanted to take out new games from their arsenal.... Mitul tried to teach us the most complex ones for which the 100 page rulebooks will not be enough.... People were even keen to learn "Bhappo".... may be they even learnt that in their fantasy world.... In the end only one game survived and dominated and that was mendhicoat.....

Mendhicoat or mendicoat where no 10 is called a Mendhi means sheep and you have to collect all the sheeps and create a coat for the opposition.... the Coat of Humiliation..... and then there is Bavanniya Coat which is the total annihilation of the opposition.... We Bagladeshis of this game are proud to disclose that we scored *the-only-bavanniya-coat-scored-till-date* against one of the legends....


Though i've played mendhicoat all my life... it reached a new level when came to pune.... and following are reasons for that....

1) Gooda is to Mendhicoat what Sachin is to cricket... and no one questions that and as per ridwan this is the statement glorifying Sachin....
2) Ridwan is the Dravid who is always in sachin's team and always plays second fiddle.... Probably he is playing this game since he was born..... But still Gooda is natural and therefore Sachin
3) These 2 guys are always in my opposite team.... and generally they are the mighty Australians playing against poor Bangladeshis..... I pity Bangladesh since these legends started playing against me and Raj...
4) No Under age is allowed to watch the game due to the Brutality and Ruthlessness with which Gooda plays the game...
5) When they play individually..... a white wash is ensured..... but we have the best chance of winning when they play together as they play for domination.... even against their own partner....
6) The player coordination is always important.... and the above guys end up either confusing each other or try to dominate the game themselves that they end up in the Coat..... that can be on either sides.....
7) Out of the legends, the maths graduate makes use of all the mathematics.... Permutations, combination, logic and may be multivariable calculus .... He uses an imaginary black-board for all those calculations.... we as opposition hardly care but it surely confuses his partner whereas the IT graduate simply makes use of the extended memory and then uses the priority algorithm which is some sometimes overridden by the natural instincts....
8) And when there is a Coat on the legends.... That is the times we experience the the War of cards.....


The best part is the dialogues.... you'll always have one card drawn out followed by a dialogue "Main yahi card dalunga"... When you play your card the drawn-out card will silently be pocketed....

The game is not just about us 4 players but there are some more players.... My other usual partner is Chheda and the opposition was Mitul with either of the 2 legends.... Parag could be seen on either sides.... Well all the players add their own flavours to the game but none can be compared to the legends.... And these legends were my Idols until VPT (Vinay Prasad Tamta) entered the Arena (That story some other time....)

Above are only a few memories... if i capture all the moments of the glory then the existance of this blog may fall into jeopardy

Still all the game... wins... losses does not matter (Unless i have to pay for the winner's Cad-B) so whenever we find a lack of excitement.... Or the Picnics and parties bring too much excitement in our lives we go back to mendhicoat.... It's one of the glues which still binds us together.....


Disclaimer : As usual people insist on me writing this and as the perspective may differ with each character....hence is the disclaimer

Memories....

Memories...... Last time when i used the word it was for an unforgettable night.... controversial but still an amazing night... where no one really questioned the series of event but the perspective

Anyways that was just one memory and we have an unlimited supply...

Starting with parties.... cant really go into details of those due to the objection from "He who must not be named" but when each of characters have multiple personality disorder and the hidden personality is being boosted by the booze... we have trouble....

When we booze... We have people who dance on weird songs.... people who remember the childhood days and cry.... people who call their leads to discuss some important things at 2 am.... and then we have people who turn into action heroes and cannot be handled by 3-4 people together... In that situation I feel the pain of the villain's assistants who are in a herd but still not able to control the Hero.....

Still these are just incidents we even have a main storyline which runs along with all the madness... The story has it all.... Drama... Emotions... action.... lots of comedy.... and love but no sex (This is not a Chetan Bhagat story...) and we can even turn this story into a Book if properly exaggerated....

But the only problem here will be the perspective.... As per Raj.... Life is too simple to have an almighty.... as per shailendra.... Life is so stupid and almighty is out of context.... As per chheda.. I am a stupid scorpion and gooda is an almighty.... as per Rid... I am a character and gooda is an almighty.... As per myself... Rid and Chheda are a duo and Gooda is an almighty (Party conditions apply...)

But the only thing we can agree on is that We have a story... at this moment its too close to our heart to disclose.... but still there will be time when we'll tell you that.... till then you'll have to survive on all the madness...

Quote of the Day.....

Expert comments are of no use to Developers.....

An unforgettable Night.....

It was Adwait's party last Wednesday... it was an awesome evening but cant go into details of it as our common CPP and Unix resource (Correction Expert) has asked me not to mention his name anywhere on internet... Cant upset my CPP resource even though i am not working on CPP.... neways what happened after the party reminded me of an incident.... It was an unforgettable one....

It was Dasara holiday in 2008 and it was falling on middle of the week... Expert was in UK .... parag had his own reasons for not staying in pune... and don't remember anything about the IBM guys so we were 4 in pune that day, Me, mitul, rid and chheda.... previous night we went to sufi's with Ksheer (Rid's friend from Delhi who knew about all the happening places in Pune)... we came back at around 2 am.. now lack of girlfriends in our lives spares us a lot of time for ourselves... so we brought our cards out and started playing Mendhicoat.... now we have to understand the fact that we 4 cant create any of the colors which Gooda brings to this game but still we decided to give it a try.... we went on playing till morning 7am then we did pooja of our bikes.... and went to sleep...

The day had it's own excitements for all of us... first me and mitul went to mitul's place when to get some of things... sometimes i wonder why he brings his things to our place... first he leaves them behind..... he totally forgets about those things and when reminded after some days he refuses to even own them... neways that day was no different for mitul when we came out he had already left the keys inside .... and guess what.. he had already lost his own key and the keys in question are gaurang's keys and just when i started my plans to break into the house he found the same keys which are supposed to be inside in his own bag.... now that's too much mitul for you and it freaks me out....

Chheda and rid had their own wake up timings... and when they did wake up they brought Milk, fafada and jalebi .... to eat with our beloved half VJTIan praveen... now we are talking about praveen here... if he worked in movies even rajnikanth(correction Mohanlal) would be craving for the kind of popularity praveen kumar v enjoys... neways the point is rid and chheda should've taken an appointment first as praveen pissed them off by saying the same thing.... In simple words he had his own plans...

so there we were eating fafda and jalebi at our home and like the disappointments we had that day were not enough we decided to visit mathura... an authentic maharastrian restaurant on Jangali maharaj road... pune's affection towards weird names is well known so the JM road cannot be an exception... So we four left on chheda and mitul's bike and reached there at 9.30 and found it was packed.... Man we should've known... but chheda declared "Khaana to Mathura me hi khayenge" so we got our names into the waiting list and the person assured us to get a place in 20 mins.... Hmmm how to pass 20 mins then... FC road which is parallel to the JM road is always full with the best babes in town... so we decided to go there and get some eye candies for ourselves which we had enough ;) so after 20 mins we came back to mathura and again were assured a place in next 20 mins.... now how to pass these 20 mins.... hmmm a big question... "Swargate" rid said.... these two (rid and chheda) really has a knack of coming up with some really weird solutions knowing that they wont be accepted and when we don't agree they would just say we were ready if only you would've agreed... and next best thing they'll do is to never agree with each other so following the tradition chheda said i am ready BUT only if sid agrees.... Hmmmmm now the ball was in my court... just then rid said "We'll walk and the person who says 'no', will pay for all" now still the ball was in my court and i wanted to smack it as hard as possible I made my mind not to say no at any point tonight So i said Yes..... looking at their faces i knew the battle was won but little i knew that the war was just looming large on us.....

So we left our bikes there and started walking towards Swargate (about 4 kms)... but before that the duo decided to implement their last solution.. The only person i thought oblivious to the situation was Mitul and they tried the trick on him .... I was relieved to find he too agreed now Duo had no option but to walk to swargate....

It was october so pune was cool and due to navratri there was plenty of light on the Tilak road.... so there we were all four of us walking... On every turn me and mitul were shown the places from where we can go back to the JM road... still noone wanted to say no so we continued... at around 11 we finally reached swargate.... So now what.... Mitul "Lets eat here" .... Chheda "Khana hai to sirf mathura me..." so we decided to take a bus back to JM road... it's not really easy to find a bus at 11 in pune so chheda started the calculations.... Wouldn't it be better if we just take an auto the fares would be the same - chheda expecting me to stop an auto... not to be not today... so no bus... noone is ready to stop an auto... Suddenly someone said.... we have to go walk back....out of nowhere mitul came back to earth from his own world and said.... If we walk back to mathura i'll pay the whole bill.... I could not refrain from just smiling... but the next moment the smile disappeared....

The duo had started walking back.... and we found ourselves following them ... So we were walking back.... just when an autowalla who was going to JM road said just come with me and give me whatever you feel.. There was something different in the air that days... even autowallas were acting weirdly... Hmmm as usual dual wanted to show the were not interested so they sent the autowalla to us... and we here turned him down.... so there we were... again walking as fast as we could.... finally we reached Mathura at around midnight.... what were we thinking when we agreed upon walking back the restaurant was closing.... chheda tried his best to convince the owner to take us in but even he is no match for pune's shop owners i guess...

When we are with rid we know there'll be always some place he'll take us to eat... So we went to the khau galli which is below the Z bridge... and to our dismay police just visited the place and everyone there was packing... they were ready to give us parcel but noooo we wouldn't agree... There we again came back to our discussions... this time we were counting the available options.... 1) comesome 2) yummy tummy just then rid said I have one more option .... Chheda "Now you'll say mumbai" Rid "Wow, that's a good option.. Taj's restaurant is open all night" and just when we started rolling our eyes he added "If we reach there i'll pay the bill..." Now we found ourselves on the ways to Mumbai...

Hmm mitul and me on his bike and rid with chheda on the other bike... So we started. after traveling a bit chheda "realized" we did not have helmet to go mumbai.. and may be we should eat something before we go to Mumbai ... It was a good one from chheda.. when we could hear our stomachs crying for some food...But he found opposition sitting back of his bike .... As per rid there are no half dinners for him.... Mumbai or Pune the option was left to us... there were too many balls in our court that night so how can we miss this... so we obliged... Mumbai was the call....(We had decided if only the duo agree within them selves we'll stop the game here itself) but what about helmets... So we were to go home fetch helmets and leave for Mumbai as Mitul declared..... Now when we were coming back the duo again started showing us the way to comesome... a 24 X7 restaurant @ pune station... but when things go wrong they really go wrong.... they missed the turn which led us to comesome... and we found ourselves on the way to our homes...

Now we reached the home when we finally agreed that it cannot be done (Before that chheda tried to lure me into getting my bike... could not....) and suggested we should go and meet praveen at least... may be he really wanted to meet praveen or more that praveen he was interested in the Bhelwalla who runs the business all night near Praveen's place but destiny had already closed all the doors on us ... the bhelwalla was nowhere to be seen....I thought that was the end of the day but we still had to get a last punch......

We reached home and on the gate itself we stared "discussing" the culprit.... The duo was insisting that we were but the could not agree within themselves... when the discussion was in full flow suddenly our landlord appeared .... Gave us a handful of gaalis... and threatened to throw us out if we were to continue the discussion on the gate of the society....

We entered the home from the backdoor and settled our selves in our beds..... After so much trouble for food we ended up half- hungry in our beds (After eating the whats left of milk, fafda jalebi and some of the dates).... Next morning after the breakfast we realized what we had done....It was truly an unforgettable night.....

Disclaimer : This event is written as seen by my eyes .... The duo mentioned in the post may not agree to it.....

"Karwar trip" bible

hey !

Probably this one of my first public blog!...

So this blog is abt my latest trip .. to karwar .. probably might turn out to be the last for the next few months :)

To start off I should confess

1) I m no blogger ....got some reason to blog abt this trip .reason will come later in the same blog :)

2) I am not a good planner or the truth is.. i never plan .. its just that i know the place to start from and the end place .. baaki sab runtime mein . This statement holds good for both my writing as well as my trips :)

Ok .... The main reason for writing abt the karwar trip
firstly) We got "OUR" own Gooda's blogspot to contribute to
secondly) Prbably this trip would be forgotten by me n others after sometime :-| .. so i m writing for my owns sake !!

It all had started with "me" ..yes it was me ... suggesting ppl that the karnataka coastal strip looks better than the goa strip. This was after the Ratnagiri trip in Dec 2009 ..
It so happened Sid's sis in-laws are from Karwar . He got real nice reviews abt it from her. So the talk abt karwar was goin on for some days between me , Gooda and Sid.. But no trip was on cards because i was planning to head south to Kerala and ya Gooda too was a part of it !

yikes !!! The moment of truth .. For those who ever tought Kerala trip was Gooda's mastermind or he had anything to do with the planning of it .. Or if you have heard any such songs sung by Gooda .. gimme a buzz !! You wud luv to hear it from me . :P ... Anyways the blog is abt the Karwar trip !!

Ok back on track .. So infact no trip was on plan .. But Sid too started to plan for a Kerala trip .. Now we had to do something .. coz We were already leaving for Kerala in few days n Sid is not on board for sure :) .. so we had divert his mind to Karwar .. n ya even if he wouldnt he wud have to after some days eventually!!

Yes after the Kerala trip !!! Sid knew that he had to prepare for Karwar n not kerala !! Dates were fixed by him . The mahurat was of the last weekend of Feb since 1 march was a holiday and 2nd wud have to be a sick leave

Siddhesh was totally tuned in.. planning day n night... skipping supper . :D

We were to see the Dandeli wildlife sacntuary , Karwar ...

Now comes the turning point .. yes yes..its well before the trip ... story mainstream se thodi hatke hain
The trip was shortened because it would be Sid's first day into a new team on 2nd Mar and Gooda couldnt afford to take a leave on Friday ie 26 Feb.

The plan was out from Siddhesh

> Day 1 : Starting from thane at 7.15, We’ll board the bus at around
10.30 in pune and will be reaching karwar next day @ around 9 in the morning
Day 2 : Devbagh beach (I heard we can do snorkeling there )… lunch @ devbagh, and then in the evening we’ll go to Navy museum (If interested) We’ll stay in karwar
Day 3 : We’ll be going to sadashivgadh and after lunch towards goa we’ll spend an evening @ the palolem beach
Day 4 : Go to Butterfly beach have lunch and leave for nearest place where we can get a bus to home…
Day 5 morning : Home and office…..

Dandeli ... where did Dandeli go ..??? oh oh ... This made Gooda real furious .. i still wonder Y.. but thats a different issue ..Again Goa .. we goin Goa ?? Y Y ... Gooda couldnot take this ... He hates Goa .. aah .. Gooda hates Goa ...

Again Moment of truth . Gooda just hates Goa for the very simple reason that for the past sooo many months b4 he had even gone for his project event to Goa i had brainwashed him that Goa is worth-less . .. yikes ... anyways .. lets continue...

Gooda wasnt ready to hear anything ... we had to shut him up.. But now "Gooda had nothing to do with this trip"
Sid had decided to cancel the dandeli part since we were 1 day short now and the dandeli forest department themselves in their site have mentioned not to visit the sancturay to see big animals coz u wont c one!! Again we do have plans for a seperate wild-life sanctuary trip (any takers ?? contact sid now!!)
Ok now we had 2 options either go south of Karwar or north to south Goa .. we decided South-Goa ..just for the mere reason of easy commuting to madgaon!
(the previous 2 We represents me n Sid )

But But But .. Gooda was all upset .. He has nothing to do with this trip now... So wht we decided .. ok lets try if we can make it to dandeli / Anshi National park ..But we will keep it a surprise to Gooda!!

Day 1- (Starting from Friday night)
Now comes the day ..its Friday ..the travellers are (I , Gooda ,Siddhesh,Noor (my Bsc College frnd))
Noor was supposed to get a Karwar bus from Vandana,Thane at 7 according to Sid's master plan ....
but that bus never turned up .. rather he got into a Belgaum st bus and came Pune

Inquiring in Pune we found there are no buses to Karwar .. so we decided to head towards Belgaum and get a Karwar bus from there .
We did so .. and reached belgaum at around 6-6:15 ..around 6 hrs journey from Pune. Got a Karwar bus from belgaum between 7-8 which was supposed to go via Anshi National Park . we had told Gooda ok we are goin to Anshi for his sake .. n not goin directly to Karwar ..

After some 2-3 hrs bumpy road travel we reached Anshi ... We found that we had to do bookings in Dandeli in order to visit the park.. but the officer was nice and gave us the permission without goin to Dandeli office... the main camp was around 3kms from the check post and we had to walk all the way .. it must have been between 11:30-12:30.. while going to the camp we saw a bunch of monkeys (added this line so to tell yes we saw something)

We took a 3hr walk package (75 rs / head i guess) . We had such a nice experience in Thekkady but here it was total opposite no bird watching nothing .. it was just a mere 3 hr excercise ... haa saw some snake n thts it .. some trees n ya spider webs , ant homes (Sid hasnt uploaded the pics yet i guess!).. came back . Had Dal-rice as lunch there (thts inclusive of the package) .. and back to check post to get a bus to Karwar ... Anshi was a total disppointment n to top of it .. "Gooda had nothing to do with this trip" so it made things worse!

Before i continue ..i would like to add ... Gooda's mind had been set .. its the worst trip of his life .. n ..n .. yaaa .. "Gooda had nothing to do with this trip"

fine we got a bus to Karwar from Anshi at around 4:15 ... reached Karwar at around 6:30 i guess ..
Probably Karwar is the only place on NH-17 from where we can see the seashore along the road (dont knw abt the ratnagiri-malvan corridor tough).. we got down and headed directly to the beach ... it was RT beach. enjoyed the sunset .. and now needed to hunt for rooms .. I wasnt tht keen in bargaining 2day and yes ... "Gooda had nothing to do with this trip".. so money wasnt a issue :) ... we singled out on one quickly ... it was a good1 ... 4 beds Rs 950/day with TV .. nice deal without any bargaining .. ya actaully it was 1000 Rs which i bargained to 950 :P ..

anyways we had found there is one nonveg hotel .. Amar .. n its best in the business in Karwar .... after searching for it we left hope ... no1 knew where was Amar .. the things was ..it wasnt Amar.. it was Amrut :D .. i had heard it wrong ...... went to amrut ..Ordered whtever was possible.. wont go into the details of it .. but it was all seafood ... n yaaa.. Amrut is best in its business ... one thing to be shared is i have never had such a juicy n tasty crab than i ate at Amrut..

So the day was over ...... "Gooda had nothing to do with this trip"

Day 2 -
we got up i dont knw when .. got ready..after fitness training from Fitness coach Noor ...had breakfast ..as far as i remember it was around 10:30-11:30 we headed towards Sadashivgad .. we got down at a place from where u can c it ... but unfortunately we cant get to the fort from here ... after seeing such a small cliff ..our own mordern day Shivaji Maharaj from AP decided yet again ..."he had nothing to do with the trip" ... we decided to skip the fort for time being and go gor the beach.

so we decided to find a way to the nearest beach we could see .. did some1-2 hrs tp all in vain..we had no route from where we were to go to the beach we were seeing

now we were kind of dissapointed (atleast Siddhesh was).. it was not working .. Ppl dont want to go to the beach ..no1 is interested for the fort ..wht to do??
so it was done we were goin to some beach now ..which1??.. whichever public suggests

Finally somehow we reached Devbagh beach ....No1 was there in the beach .. total empty .. obviously ... 2 at noon kaun rahenga beach par ... anyways .. I ,Siddhesh n Noor enjoyed a lot on the beach.. Me n sid learnt some basic swimming .. but Gooda didnt n y wud he after being on the beaches of Malvan!!!! ... anyways "Gooda had nothing to do with this trip"
Got back to hotel - every1 took a bath - went for lunch ... but amrut was closed .. had a veg lunch .. Noor left for Udupi n we went for the musuem .. saw the museum and enjoyed the sunset on the beach .. it was the Karwar beach

Ok.. then came Sid's sis In-laws .. it was a nice melodarama ... just cant shop laughing thinking of it ...Anyways we had 2 dinners :) 1 at premier and another at Amrut

We had to stay at Karwar that say since they insisted that we couldnot go to Goa after 6.!

Day3

So next morning we got up real late ..Sid had left for his sis in-laws place ... But i n Gooda didnt go there .. Sis's saasuma had made n no. of items for us .. all had to go in the dustbin ...
well ya ... something that all 3 of us here need to learn
-Gooda : shaayad kabhi apne usool ke aage jugoge toh chote nahi hojaaoge
-Me : How to say "no" in such situation
-Siddhesh : How to get matured :P

Well this is my view point .. maybe all of us are right at their own places .. but one thing i knw.. all the work of Aunty n the food goes not vain... thts not right in any sense!!!

We reach Palolem beach ... it was very crowded ... but superb beach ... n the best part is .. Gooda felt like swimming .. arre bhai .. koi isko batao ... goa hain yeh .. he hates Goa ...
enjoyed the time there ... then had lunch .. i was insisting ki apun kidher aur lunch karte hain (i had some fear in my mind) .. but then we decided to eat it there itself .. n yes My fears came true .. it was the worst sea-food we ever had .. Forgot to add Sid bought 2 "Royal" t-shirts :) for 200rs each
psst... they dont make Avenger tshirts ...

Now we took a bus to madgaon .. n from there bus to belgaum .. yes in Madgaon i have something to share

I was in my shorts n decided to wear my tracks .. so i went to the sulab shochalaya there ... i changed and came out . i didnt even use any toilets/bathrooms .. The "Bhaiyya" there started demanding 5rs for it ... got into some tu-tu main-main with him.. anyways i didnt pay him anything n if i wud probably my dad wud have killed me if he wud come to knw tht i was looted by a toilet-keeper Bhaiyya (.. n ya i wish Shantanu reads this blog) .. All Bhaiyyas are ... err leave it .. i keep it to the Thackerays .... unka bread n butter chalta hain Bhaiyya topic pe .. haha .. dont get confused folks about whose side i m .. I m a Maharastrian muslim Kokni :)

In belgaum .. we had our dinner at Niyaaz just outside the depot .... food their is mindbloggling ..

word of caution : when i say mind-bloggling... be sure its not a 5 star hotel ka khana .. so my IT friends can stay away i guess!

So from belgaon to swargate to ved villa .... reached around 4:30 i guess ..

Trip over ...
overall comment:
lotss n lotts of hiccups .. but cant say a bad trip.. it was enjoyable!!

but ya 1 thing tht i learnt from karwar even infact Kerala that it is high time now tht Maharastrians stop living Shivaji's era !! .. Again its my statement if u can digest and understand wht i mean good else Ridwan aise bahut dialogues maarta hain . agar Ridwan ko seriously looge toh log tumhe paagal samjhenge!


over and out
Adiuos!!

Quote of the day

"Kudiyon ko coffee nahin to na sahi, Laundo ko Daaru to peela hi sakta hain" - Chheda

This Too Shall Pass (Gam Zeh Yaavor)- The Road to Recovery

Out of curiosity as to what this phrase meant,googled it and found some interesting story which gives you insight about the wisdom behind this quote. The story goes like this.

King Solomon, feeling blue, asked his advisory to find him a ring he had once seen in a dream.

"When I feel satisfied I’m afraid that it won’t last. And when I don’t, I am afraid my sorrow will go on forever. Find me the ring that will ease my suffering." he demanded.

Solomon sent out all of his advisory, and eventually one of them met an old jeweler who carved into a simple gold band the inscription, "this too shall pass." When the king received his ring and read the inscription, his sorrows turned to joy and his joy to sorrows, and then both gave way to equanimity.

Leave home and fly with bird

For the joyous moment of buying a new bike.... A Thunderbird....


I am no god and neither do I wish to be ahead of anyone,
I just want to mount my Royal beast and make it roar,
I want to feel it's thump in my blood,
I wish to experience the cool breeze against my face,
I just want to Leave Home and fly with my Bird....