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