Echoes of Mind

Trip to Bali - Planning

2011-10-01T20:15:00.000+08:00

Soit’s been quite a lot of time since I have been touring, touring as on a bike,the last time I did was during Laos and my brief stay in India around May and theGAP was killing me, killing me like MAD. I tried to check out the options inSingapore and they are DAMN expensive, so I started to look out for options inthe nearby Malaysia, and though it is expensive there as well but a trip inMalaysia is well worth the moolah.

Thereis the Genting and Cameroon Highlands which are a great place to go around on abike. So I started to find the affordable options and luckily for me, there wasalso a 4 day weekend showing in my corporate calendar. Mails started flowing topeople, who had been on bike trips across Malaysia, bike rentals and hotels butalmost around a month before we were supposed to ride, my partner backed off,he thought I was f***ing with him when I said that I am planning a bike rideacross Malaysia and my dream shattered.

Mybudget didn’t permit me to go on the ride alone so I had to cancel it but not untilwhen I started planning a trip to Bali, though this wasn’t planned as a biketrip as I had no idea if it would be wise to go on a bike trip in Bali. Newazthe trip to Bali was working out and I decided to reach Bali and decide if I wouldgo ahead for the Bike Trip.

Iwas supposed to meet some friends who were flying from India for Bali and I hadnever been on a trip with any one of them, leave trip I was like almost meetingthem for the first time so I wasn’t sure if any one of them would think in thatdirection. So after the normal Hi’s Hello’s and Ice breakings I put my point ofcovering all the places we had initially planned on bikes and to a surprise allof them showed interest, but there was a problem, we were 4 of us 2 guys and 2girls and the other guy wasn’t a tourer kind of person but the girls were allenthu though none of them had actually been on bike trips and seeing theinterest of the girls, the other guy also agreed.

Oncewe checked into the hotels we started to look out for bikes, but most of thebikes on rent in Bali were the gearless ones, we also realized that these arethe best ones to tour around in Bali coz of the Traffic, Language Problem andthe lack of directions, using the gearless ones would make our lives easier sincewe wouldn’t have to worry about the problem of riding a geared bike and at thesame time the girls also could ride if they wished. So we decided to go aheadand rent them and we got an amazing deal, if we paid in advance for the 3 days,we could have the bike for free for the first day. We jumped at this option andrented 2 of them, both Yamaha’s 100cc and gearless. All we had to do now wasget a map and fuel.

Inanticipation and fear of how the ride might turn out, we thought we will firstexplore the area so that we get comfortable with the bikes and understanding theriding styles.

Asit turned out, the decision to take the gearless bikes was not bad after all asthe other guy was comfortable with riding it and so were the girls, none ofthem had an idea of what had I planned for them the next day #evil grin

My personal favorite ‘Must Visit Country’ in South East Asia - 2

2011-07-26T11:00:00.000+08:00

Continuing my post on the Must Visit Country/Place in SEA ...

For my last post on this go to Part 1

Singapore

Been here for more than a year now and one reason I am here is coz it gives me a chance to cover the rest of the SEA countries while working :P

Things to do in Singapore

· Merlion Statue

· Clubbing (Clarke, James Power Station, Zouk)

· Shopping (Malls around Orchard & Bugis)

· Gambling (Marina Bay Sands/Sentosa)

· Night Safari, Zoo, Bird Park

· Sentosa Island

· Universal Studios

· Singapore Flyer (Skippable)

· Pulao Ubin (Skippable)

Malaysia

People who have been there go ga ga about

· Genting Highlands

· Langkawi

· Kuala Lampur

I plan to cover these on a bike, soon :P (fingers crossed)

But I personally like the one place I have been in Malaysia

Reddang Island (Clear Blue Beaches, excellent spot for Snorkeling)- Album on my FB

I have 2 more places on my wish list

· Perentian Islands (Budget Travelling)

· Malaca Straits

Will try to cover them soon

Next blog ll cover Bali (Indonesia) :)

Passion

2011-07-18T23:36:00.000+08:00

Does the word ring any bells??

M sure everyone has heard of this from somewhere or the other; in some sessions, advices or wherever.

What we are told is that we should “Follow our passions” Blah Blah... But NO one, mind you no one tells you how to realize what one’s passion is and unless one does it how can he/she follow the passion.

People interpret passion as things that they like to do; things which are of interest to them but passion is not just dat. It is something that keeps you going, keeps you re-charged, and keeps you sail through the shitty work all through the week coz you know that there is something which is awaiting you.

For me passion is much much more than that. It was my passion which made me survive the ordeal at work; it was the passion which made me await the weekends. It was the passion which made me wake up at 4 am on the weekends when I used to struggle to wake up at 9 am on a weekday to go to work.

Even I was unaware of my passion till some time when the work was getting on my nerves, when I felt that I need to quit all this and realize what I need to do ..

And then it struck me, I wanted to get into hospitality... Yes, I wanted to start a Pub/Watering Hole and then the search started … I started searching for a place, an interior designer(made a frn for life), an agent who could help me get a license for F&B … Met a few managers who already were already running pubs and clubs … And the whole process made me feel good .. This whole search made me feel worth of what I was up to. I used to look upto meetings with agent who would help me set my thing up.

But then something happened which made me put my THIS passion on a back foot… But not for long … I ll work on it one day it will open up for sure….

During the same time while when the job was screwing up my mind, I started going on long late night rides, around Pune.. The rides used to clear my mind, make me forget all the worries. The rides make me feel so good that I started going on rides ALONE even on a weekday after office J and then Bladerunnerzzz started. Though I have been out of BRZ for almost 2 yrs now but m still in touch and aware of everything happening at each levels .. But then the whole idea of travel hasn’t changed, I keep travelling across when ever I get a chance .. and have a few trips planned up as well J

So finally, have I realized my passion.. YES .. m I living them .. so so .. But m I happy J J

My personal favorite ‘Must Visit Country’ in South East Asia - 1

2011-06-28T19:44:00.001+08:00

Let me do a country vise list and will start with the places I have been to then will continue with the places I intend to go sometime soon.

Laos

When I came to know that I am supposed to go to Laos for an official trip, more than the fact that I would have to slog my ass off, I was excited that I will get 2 weekends to myself which meant I could cover Laos on 1 weekend and Cambodia on the other.
But my dreams got shattered when I got a Single Entry Visa to Laos which meant that I could not leave Laos till I actually left. And when you have options like Cambodia, China, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam u get broken. And btw Laos has the river Mekong flowing from Tibet and is the 10^th largest in the World.

Newaz the first week at Laos was all work and finding out the must visit places near Vientiane (Capital City) where we were staying. After discussions, research and budgeting I finalized 2 cities of Laos.

Since it was a 3 day weekend, I decided to stay for a day in Vang Vieng and 2 days (including travel) in Luang Prabang

Vang Vieng: This seemed to be a heaven for backpackers in the SEA region. The number of Westerners was far more than what I had seen in Singapore, or even Vientiane for that matter. The reasons for the huge number was

Crazy number of Adventure Sports (Kayaking, Tubing, Rock Climbing, Swimming etc. etc.
Places open till LATEE Nights unlike any other city in Laos
Beautiful Location and Karst mountain
Easy gateway to Vietnam, Cambodia or China
SHROOM Shakes ( though haven’t tried but have seen the effects of it on people)

Took a gearless motor bike to cover the town of Vang Vieng, gas is cheap so you can take one on rent for the time you stay there.

Luang Prabang town is one of the only two World Heritage Site in Laos. LP and was the ancient capital of Laos in the glory days and Vientiane has taken the position now. LP has basically a enough activities which can take easily 2-3 days of yours

The Temples, a lot of them
Museum
Night Market

I took a bike on hire (easily available) to cover the whole of LP and it was AN Experience.

In addition to these towns, there are some other places which are also a must visit, maybe on my next visit to Laos ill start from there J

1) Plain of Jars

2) Savannakhet

3) Wat Phu ( The Angkor Vat of Laos) & Pakse

My Album of Laos.

What I like in a girl and the biggest dislike factor

2011-06-20T01:10:00.001+08:00

Well yesh so as this is my personal favorite list so no blah and boo allowed in the first place: P

I would like to say that I have been in good company of quite good number of female friends so have seen them from close quarters and hence have developed a certain list of likes and dislikes in a female and don’t know whether knowingly or unknowingly but have managed to have majorly all the ‘likes’ around me.

So here let me list some of them.

Thumbs Up

Eyes

I have had this thing for eyes since my childhood days and due to this, the liking has grown intensely to the extent that if I find a female with good eyes, I get lost in them, I lose track , I can’t speak, I lose my confidence, my brain stops working, my inner peace is shattered, I just go kaboom !!! . Strangely enough some of my good friends have had great magical eyes; they have the perfect almond shaped eyes, with eyelids that with each flutter made my heart skip a beat.

Aah …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZweWc-6BKLM&feature=related

And and and somehow I feel the above song should have been “Sharabhi Aankhen” instead of “Gulabi Aankhen”

Lips

I know this might be weird but then brown lips which go with the creamy complexion steal my heart instantly …. Though haven’t met many female with such combination but then whenever I see one, it catches my eye and then the heart J

Thumbs Down

Facial/Bodily Hair

Well I know that one cannot control this, and also the fact that m sure many girls will hate me for this part. But this is the BIGGEST BIGGEST thumbs down for me, and at the same time would not like to get more into this: P

ALERT about Hopeless Romantic

2011-06-19T01:42:00.001+08:00

Hopeless Romantic is moved to a new home ...
Check him out at Hopeless Romantic
and this blog will be limited to ME :P
See u at both the places..

Keep Reading

Letter from Singapore

2011-04-19T10:41:00.002+08:00

*ALERT* ----This is not the continuation of “The Diary of a Hopeless Romantic”-----*ALERT*

The premise of this blog is the reason I started blogging in the first place. To write about me, since it’s been around 50 days that I have come to Singapore, I had to write one to understand this trip coz when I try to introspect, it all goes in the air and there are no solids thoughts L , that’s the advantage of blogging.. U think, gather, understand, write and analyze. So hoping this blog post helps me in doing what I want to J

The trip to Singapore has been long overdue. I had initially joined a project which was being handled from Paris but there wasn’t a clear scope about it. So when I got this opportunity of working in Singapore, I pounced on it, did all I could to firstly get into the project and finally I did.

So come Oct I am told that I need to travel to Singapore SOON, but it never happened till March. What happened in between those 5 months is another story, another post :P.

Firstly, reasons why I was so excited to work from Singapore

1. I had done my MBA from here so have a kind of liking towards Singapore

2. Have a lots of MBA friends and acquaintances

3. Have a few Infy friends

4. I know the place

5. First opportunity to work onsite :p

I think the above mentioned 6 points were at the back of my mind, but till now (the time of writing the blog) I hadn’t actually kind of made a list but now it has suddenly appeared.

Happy that these things were going to happen, I packed my bags and landed at Singapore and utter disappointment awaits me L L L

Eventful Day at Pune

2011-01-13T03:19:00.006+08:00

Today was the most eventful day at Pune. After like 3+ years of staying in this wonderful city it was today that i got to experience the public transport and ALL of it in one day ..

ST Bus, Auto, Company Bus, Tum Tum aarghhh .. PAINFUL ..

Wen will it get off the sling and roll on my bike again ..
Waiting...

Prelude to the FUN Trip

2011-01-07T01:57:00.003+08:00

This is my first blog this year and it is a pretty long one at that, hope I will blog more frequently.

If one has been a reader of my blogs then they must be aware of the adventurous, extravagant experience named as “FUN TRIP”. The First Fun Trip (link) was a great start in many ways it made us decide that be it whatever, we need to meet once a year and chill and the best part, the decision to meet at least once a year didn’t go down like the new year resolution which gets wasted in the first week itself for me L . Newaz so the FUN TRIP continues as and and and this was the “FUN TRIP 4”: P ye ye ye ..

Long before the Trip started, we started practicing for the G2G by visiting Bawdhan Chowpatty, made friends with Satinder, the watch man at the chowpatty so that we would not let anyone park his vehicle and we also discovered a small stretch on the State Highway which would be named as the mile stone for the FUN TRIP.

The preparation for the trip had been going on for months now with every one having own ideas, interests, expectations and issues.

Option 1

It was decided that we go for a cruise for the new years, from Bby to Goa. It would be a 1 Royal Week on the seas, but then we realized that at that expense and some additional budget we could as well go to Malaysia. So we decided to skip this option and look for some better ones.

Option 2

· Hang out in one of the parties at the clubs viz. One, raga lawns, Elysium, Scream , Area 51 etc.

· Leave Pune by @max 5 pm to reach our destination (Kashid, Pirangaut, Kihim, Tarkali) where we had to book a place in advance and enjoy(play in the beach, laze out) the weekend there

· Wake up aaram se, have a heavy BF and push off as Sarvesh has a flight to catch to Delhi

So after a kilogram of mail exchanges we finally decided to go for Option 2.

In Addition to the new year weekend we also had to plan for the week ahead as Sarvesh was supposed to reach a week in advance :P such excitement for the FUN TRIP :P

He reached Pune on 25^th Dec and we went to receive him at the airport with his fav liquid :p took him for a tour across the city and had garama garam raghu ke Aloo ke Parathe.

Date	Day	Activity	Day time	Night Time
25/12/2010	Sat	Sarvesh landing to pune	Welcome ceremony	Local Party
26/12/2010	Sun	Meeting with fraands	Roti n all	Local Party
27/12/2010	Mon	Shopping	Roti n all	Local Party
28/12/2010	Tues	To Shirdi	enroute shirdi	Rest
29/12/2010	Wed	Preparation for new year	Roti n all	Local Party
30/12/2010	Thurs	Chill	Roti n all	Local Party
31/12/2010	Fri	NEW YEAR PARTY	Party	Party
01/01/2011	Sat	Harihareshwar	Reach there early morning, beach party, photog	Beach party in night
02/01/2011	Sun	Return to pune, ok thanks bye (Hisaab)	Senti rona dhona	Lemon, dahi… For utara

Unfortunately I had to visit my family at Bby so unwillingly had to leave meanwhile the guys partied like crazy over the weekend.

Came back on Sunday night and as the guys were out partying with Dilip Bham so I crashed early.

In the mean while we were also supposed to shift to Shaili’s place so over the period of the week, did the shifting as well as met at dinner times and had FUN: p with “Little Little”.

If u have realized this was just the prelude, the actual FUN Trip starts with the new year celebrations and the planned outing... In my next blog

Is Google good enough

2010-12-01T01:44:00.003+08:00

They say u can search for anything using google ..

Is it true ?? Maybe but how do i believe when i am not able to find .. find people ...people who were a part of me, part of my growing up and continue to be a part of my life ...

BTW just realized that this is my second post in the whole of the year just 2 posts ...

What is it dat is eating away most of the time .. Blame Facebook for that ..

And also google for afore mentioned reasons ...

My Ride vd BRZ – Back from the Sojourn

2010-10-14T02:15:00.001+08:00

On April 17, 2008 7:12 PM, when I took the initiative of formulating the group and after the first meeting at Apache, I had never expected the group to survive for this long. But the group has come a long long way since that day …Thx a lot to everyone connected to the group and special the old timers for sticking around.

When I decided to write this blog, I actually intended to do a log on the ride to Narayanpur on 9th Oct, but then decided to do it later. The ride to Narayanpur was on a request of a friend but then the ride to Kas Lake next day was what I was really looking forward to but due to unavoidable circumstances I had to back off. Sorry Ayush for that

The reason I wanted to do the Ride to Kas Lake was to check whether I still had it in me to be a part of BRZ… any more , whether the 18 months break had in any way effected my luv for the roads, for the ride, for the bike, for the nature, for the wind on my face and I realized that I am the same, the luv remains, the enthu remains and the luv for speed has grown even more.

Before the ride to Narayanpur and vd the ride planned to Tarkarli, I was a bit apprehensive of whether I would be able to keep up with the group, they have the same energy levels maybe more, there are lots of new and fantastic riders I hear.

Will I?? Will I be able to pose vd the crazy and funny faces I used to do on all the earlier rides

Let the ride to Tarkarli will decide that …

Till then
Keep Riding...

bad boyeessss of infy [:P]

2010-04-09T05:10:00.002+08:00

Well long long back i mentioned abt how the idea of BRZ came and this log ll tell abt the first meeting... here it goes ..

So after consolidating the list we finally managed to get a confirmed count of 12 bikes ... Yup for me it has always been the number of bikes than the number of people

I remember there was one uncle who had come just to check on us with all kind of ques in his mind
• Who the f**k are these guys ?
• Whether this group will ever work ?
• Let me see what these guys are made up of and all

And I was mostly into evaluating every one who was present there..

We thought abt places we can ride to, experiences and also the name of the Group....

NG was supposed to come up with the logo at that time and it took more than a year to finally come out with a logo ...

Newaz here is the log written by Soumen after the G2G

Finally biker’s gang in INFY is formed…pics of our first meet…

Yep…we met here… 13 was the turnout…not bad!!!

Kurbaan SUCKS

2009-11-22T02:16:00.000+08:00

Kurbaan Sucked BIGTIME.
I was expecting a movie which could make me glued to my seat and wait for the next frame, a racy thriller, a movie I could relish after the end of a hectic day, a movie worth my money. But mark my words, "kurbaan SUCKS", people who read reviews and comments before deciding to watch a movie, do not watch it for whatever reasons, neither is kareena looking hot nor is saif looking dashing .. They both in fact look out of age. And the worst part of the movie was it that it lacked energy. There was none in any of the characters...

The pair though looked good and seemed like very much into each other but they could’nt pull the sluggish story line which was very predictable and lacked pace. The story line seems like a combined effort of the story writers of Fanaa and Newyork . They could have come with a different concept maybe if they wanted to write a movie based on terrorism. Wasn’t the overdose enough in Newyork after Fanaa.

Or was it that Dharma Productions also wanted to make a movie on terrorism after Yash Raj Films had made 2 on the same topic?? They did try to create an emotional connect between the characters of saif and kareena but the audience didn’t buy it coz it wasn’t presented well. The love between their characters was minimal and it looked like the rest of the characters were just supposed to play their part. The characters lacked chemistry which if present would have made this movie a bit better. The only saving grace of the movie was the songs and a great job done by Vishal for the song “Kurbaan Hua”.

Well to end the comment once again. kurban SUCKS..

HAppY Diwali

2009-10-18T20:43:00.002+08:00

Hi Readers,

Though there are very less ..

But all those who do follow .. A Very Happy Diwali .. m sure all who are in INDIA had fun .

Well though Diwali is a national festival at singapore .. but we had classes all dat till 6 so we couldnt plan much .. After the classes, we got the puja ka saaman , did pooja . lighted diya's and then headed for dinner .. (will upload d pics soon )

We had plans of going for bowling after dinner but we all were so exhausted after the long week dat we came back to the rooms and dozed off . Though some of us played cards, poker and ll but dn i retired to my bed ..

Today i got up at ard lunch time .. had lunch .. called family and dn again got to work when a very dear friend, arpita pinged me and we started chatting , we were discussing the diwali celebrations and dn we started discussing about cancer females, i dont know abt all these signs and all but when she started telling me about them .. i was able to join the dots and once i read her blog, my understanding of cancerian women got better .. Now i think i know how to deal better vd them ..

All i need now is a cancerian female ..

Will some one help me finding one so dat i can amaze her vd ll my knowledge ..

Readers help me find one ..

PS: Thx arpita for helping me in understanding D CANCERIAN female better ..

Dilip Bam

2009-08-05T05:14:00.000+08:00

Every Thought Word Deed and Act,
Of Every Creature,
At Every Moment,
is Direkted towards SURViVAL,
for
The Next Natural Reproduktiv Attempt
So as to spread your genes
As Far and as Wide as possible,
and to ensure
That they SURViVE and THRiVE,
As FAR into the FORESEE-ABLE Future
as Possible.

Twitter

2009-08-04T08:24:00.002+08:00

Since the time i have started TWITTER' íng , the interest in blogging has reduced.

twitter is small and u can express ur state of mind instantly ..
But for the sake of my followers, i ll start to blog again ..
the blog about the dry day at dubai ll come soon ..
Till then ...

keep twittering..
Vikas on Twitter - http://twitter.com/vikasbahar

Dry day @ DUBAI

2009-07-24T06:34:00.000+08:00

CAN U IMAGINE ??
Details in next blog

BladeRunnerZZZ

2009-07-11T04:25:00.001+08:00

14 months old
60 Bikes
20 Trips
Longest trip of 1500 Kms-----

BladeRunnerZZZ

Long Long ago there was a time when I had to request people to join me for rides, especially on Fridays nights as they are the most difficult to spend if you are doing nothing interesting. Most of my requests would lead me to the nearest CCD, where after chatting away till midnight I used to retire back to my room and dream of what I could have done if I went riding. Frustrated with this I decided to go on rides alone---

Mind you, riding alone has its own advantages/disadvantages. Riders must be aware of them and the rest of the guys can try to experience it –But for that U NEED TO START RIDING.

Ok, so already frustrated with it, one fine day when the junta on BB leisure at Infosys started inquiring about any such biking/riding group people started commenting on it and every one expected the Hulla Bulla to go down by EOD, but plans were made in some evil minds somehere.... Instantly a mail was drafted, xl’s made and invitations were sent out to the interested people about the first meeting at Apache :P

Apache, the meeting point chosen for obvious reasons :P, witnessed a turnout of 13 people – Is that Unlucky?? Well not for us, most of the best trips have had a count of 13 bikes/riders :) And so we met, we listened, we planned and BladeRunnerZZZ was born . And since then the tiny group has grown to a 60 bike strong community, with rides as brief as 110kms to the longest till date, 1500kms (Pune -Goa- Pune)

From exploring the Kullu - Manali of Maharashtra (Malshej Ghat) the lovely and inviting roads of Lavasa Ghats, to the Tourist Hotspot of India (GOA)

We have done them all. Now when I look back and see how I have fared, I find it quite satisfying. For earlier I used to bug people, telling them “Let’s go somewhere” and now by Thursday’s I used to start getting calls with people asking me “Now where ?? “ ……

Now that i am not at Pune, but still the group has continued with the momentum and has been growing, for the online forum has been created, female riders are being inducted in the group..

Though i will be away from BRZ for almost a year, i am sure the community will continue to grow in size and experience...

As the saying goes "Happiness is: Finding you have another gear left"

So Keep Riding ....

my lappy got screwed up

2009-05-06T05:44:00.000+08:00

Dont be surprised, it s been just a month and my lappy is giving me all sorts of problems.
First the data was lost, then the OS had to be reinstalled and now the hard disk has crashed ..
What more i dont have a lappy to work on my day to day assignments :(
Managed a lappy from the IT's stand by though ...
From the studies front, well m screwed up on that front as well, no marks in the quizzes .
WTF is wrong .. well i need to buck up and start working ..but from when is still to be decided :P
Newaz loggin off now ...

huh

2009-04-30T20:04:00.000+08:00

Another test on QT and failed miserably agn :P
have a comm class now so gotta go

Finally on web

2009-04-30T04:08:00.000+08:00

:) its took me a long time to finally come on the WWW, for all the while earlier i used to blog on my organization's portal. And now tht i have left it there was no option but this ..

Newaz my earlier blogs were mostly on the bike trips but since now that they have stopped so i ll maybe do a bit more sensible blogging .

Fun Trip – II

2009-01-05T19:32:00.000+08:00

09For the ones wondering why this trip is named as FT2, please scroll below to see the FT1

It’s been years since I made this resolution that the New Year’s Eve should not be celebrated at the city of stay (unless of course ur at home). I mean you end up lead the routine life till the time u go out for party which actually reduces the fun of that day. But this year as we had plans of having an extended celebration beyond 31st and 1st so had to stay back at Pune for the New Years Eve.

Sarvesh was coming down all the way from BBSR for the celebrations so had to make enough plans so that he finds the trip as Paisa Vasool.

31st Dec

He was supposed to reach Pune by 9pm so finished the work and rushed to get ‘d look’ as requested by him.

Once he reached, we freshened up and waited for the rest of the gang to reach so that we could hit to a party venue.

Our earlier plans of going to Nikhil’s party at KP went for a toss as the party was supposed to end at 12am, which is too early for a new year’s party to end.

So decided to go to Pancard Club (very unwillingly). We reached there around 10:30pm after much waiting for Shaili.

The crowd inside were already halfway through the celebrations and almost everyone was in the open space for dance. This gave us the HIGH needed to join them and so without wasting much time we hit the floor and got in the groove. Though none of us is a dancer but everyone can shake a hand/ feet/head/belly: P when it comes to dance and especially if it is a Punju track.

Being with friends, acting crazy and dancing stupidly we didn’t even realize when it was time for the clock to strike midnight and our frenzy continued past 1pm w/o any breaks.

1st Jan ’09

Everyone got up at around 11 am and after having a heavy brunch we decided to go to try our hands at Paintballing. This was the first time for every one so everyone enjoyed to the hilt. Hitting each others with the paint balls in spite of getting Out giving sadistic pleasure to almost every one.

Then we decided to see what KP had in store for us on the 1st , headed straight to Sweet Chariot. We waited for atleast half an hour for our order to be served but it didn’t and we didn’t complain either as it was time for dinner.

Punjabi Rasoi, the very famous Punjabi joint at KP was our next spot, after a heavy dinner we headed to the railway station to relish on the Banana Lassi , Basundi’s and Almond Flavored Milk.

2nd Jan

As Sarvesh had some interview so all of us went to our offices waiting for the day to end so that we cld start our journey to the final leg of the celebrations - Water rafting at Kundalika river and then relax at Kashid beach the next day.

3rd Jan 4 am

Everyone got up early packed the bags and started for Vile where the rafts were waiting for us, reached around 8 am, had breakfast and everyone except me went for rafting.

I in the meanwhile killed my time by reading and exploring nature.

Once every one was back, we headed to Kashid where the rooms were booked for our stay. Reached Kashid, freshened up, had lunch and headed to the famous Murud Janjira fort which can only be approached by boat as it is in the middle of sea.

Back from Murud Janjira we went to the Kashid beach to enjoy the night below the stars and moons amidst the sands, the trees and the sounds of the sea.

4th Jan

After the late night chat session on the beach everyone got up late , dabbed the sunscreen lotions and started for the beach to enjoy the white sands. Ball games and swimming in the beach is so fun.

Though I have stayed almost all my life in a city which has a beach but I never get bored of them.

Through with the games, we freshened up and started for Pune.

Once here we went to the chaturshringi temple, KP again and had dinner at Yellow Chillies.

The new year celebrations which started on 31st Dec finally ended on 4th Jan – 5 days.

As they say that whatever u do on the first day of the year continues the year long, well we have celebrated life in the first 5 days of the year and expect to celebrate the whole year in this way.

Happy New Year 2009.

FUN trip -I

2008-04-04T19:29:00.000+08:00

:) :) :)

ok its been 2 weeks since i went to that rafting trip and here you go ..

The day started at 5 am with the driver calling me and telling that he is standing outside my gate :) .
Finally at ard 7 we "raced" towards MUMBAI .....
Yes we had this movie to watch at INORBIT , so after a rushed up breakfast (thx God for making women nice cooks) we started for d multi ...

The movie was all twists and turns ... Generally you have twists in a movie , but this was the opposite ,there was a movie in the twists ... After lunch at 3 (Yes almost the whole day gone ) we started off towards Shriwardhan .....

Ard 7 when it was already dark we reached a place ard 100kms from Shriwardhan , since going to shriwardhan at that time didnt make sense as we had to come back to the same place the next day for rafting so instead we went to kashid ...

Kashid is a lovely place , white sands , clean beaches and courteous people . But this time we didnt get a room , The rooms were all booked :( when we had gone there on new years , rooms were easily availabe at that time . finally after much search we found rooms ... and dinner on special request

After dinner , we went to the bech to take a stroll ... as it was a full Moons night ,the tide was high .. the waves looked lovely and the whole shore was visible ... Some snaps ,yes in d dark and then back to the bed ....

Early morning never comes .. though we were supposed to reach the rafting point by 8:30 :) we started at ard 7:30 for a 100kms of unknown route ..
Finally after Vada Pavs and Bread Butters we reached the place ...

and we were the last to reach there :) ...

We were taken to the rafts and given safety equipments and instructions abt how to deal with the raft .

Once the rafting started there was no stopping .... there were around 10 rabids small and big but all FUN ... all thanks to our instructer who let us do thgs which the others didnt even thinks of ...We got our raft overturned , danced on the raft , threw water on others ....

The rafting was 3:30 hrs and by the time we were out of it .. we ll were thirsty ...but the most important adventure was yet to come ... the search for food ...it was holi that day so all the hotel , restaurant were closed ... No highway dhabas , no small time vada pavs ..

Finally after much search we found a place who served us food ... it is rightly said , when in hunger u eat watever is given to u ...We all savored up what was given to us without asking questions,gulping things down with maaza..

Ok .. important things done .. we started back to kashid ... got down in the beach and played in there till the evening ....

Back to room .. nice bath and we were ready to head back to the beach ...
Luckily the hotelguys over there gave us mats which we spread on the beach and sat down for chats which started with ghosts , to gods and then to all topics ....

Good Morning ..all freshened up and ready to Mumbai ..

Again it was vada pavs who came to our rescue ... reached bby ... went to eat at a place in d heart of the city (It took us 3 hrs to navigate through the traffic)...HAd food .. dropped all my frnz there and back to pune ...

And then at home it was time for my culinary skills ... made dosas ...ate them heartfully and dozed off ...

holi hain .............

2008-03-20T19:28:00.000+08:00

yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
yes m happy .....finally completing one of the things i had thought of doing in the earlier mail ....

Shriwardhan , Hariharishwar , water rafting , alibagh , kashid ...
Yes these are theplaces we are planning to go this weekend , to celebrate holi .. celebrate friendship ...have FUN ....

I m sure it ll be a helluva trip..
will mention d details once m back ...
till dn ...
Happy gd friday , holi ..
HAVE FUN ....

Yes it is Sunday and m blogging from the office

2008-03-09T22:18:00.001+08:00

Hmmm ...
i m here coz of what i didnt do on 7th march .....
Yes it is WORK....
Almost all day i was on calls with frnz , relatives and colleagues .... and when i was through with everythg ... i lost the mood of working :)
Is this not normal ... yes it is
But coming to office on a Sunday is NOT ...

Newaz Its been almost a year since i have been to Rajasthan and i very badly want to go there
Listing the thngs which i am planning to do in the coming few months , and which are stopping me from going to Raj...

1)Trip to Vizag :)
2)Trip to Goa/Kashid/Kihim
3)Trip to Himalayas : courtesy (http://www.yhaindia.org/sar-pass.htm)
4)Bike Trip to somewhere ...(when ll i buy the enfield :()

Confused am i or not able to prioritize thgs ... Dont know ....

And what abt the Guitar classes for which i have left the Salsa , and the squash games on weekends ....

what is it with the media ????

2008-02-15T20:03:00.000+08:00

Where has the ethics of media gone to ....

Ystd on almost all the national newz channels there was this news being telecasted about how some one's boy frn was trying to woo her after they had an argument some days back(mind you , even that was shown on some channels ).

Showing such incidents on national newz channels...is it justified ??
The channels now a days make a mountain of a mole hill ....
The media not only telecasts these non sensical shows but off late to a certain extent has taken part in firing up certain incidents ..

The recent violence caused by the workers of a political party against certain community was telecasted on the channels which got people agitated all over the state and take a part in it ...

Is this what the press needs freedom for ????

PS: For those who missed the wooing part , i m sure there might be a repeat telecast on some channel.

??????

2008-02-04T21:37:00.000+08:00

mama take these guns off me , i dont need them any more ....

is it monday morning blues or is it me which is making my mood $%^&*@#$$

as said earlier .. m unhappy vd a lots of things ... if it sit down to list them ... maybe i ll not be able to list even one , but there are many ....

None of them , i am sure has anythg to do with me , but m not happy...
is it coz of the songs that i listen to .. no,i didnt listen to any depressing numbers today ....

as usual went to shop ystd ... and off late , i have started shopping every weekend ...

am i ready for marriage ??//

knock knock knocking on heavens door ......

MUSE

2008-01-25T19:15:00.000+08:00

Hmmm …
I am unhappy about a lot of things ….
Nothing on the professional front though , but unhappy generally about lots of things, it maybe be due to something as small as ; some 1 not standing in the line for coupon and tell a person just ahead of him to buy coupon, while he can as well stand in the queue to buy coupons TO…….. Global warming…. ….

But do I have to be unhappy about these things????

Why am I spoiling my mood/time thinking of such trivial things??? And yes even I am not perfect ….

What do I do …. Ignore everything???

When will people grow up … act mature....? Do I need to write all this ????