Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
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.....
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.....
Saturday, March 6, 2010
"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!!
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!!
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
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