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
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
Saturday, July 11, 2009
BladeRunnerZZZ
60 Bikes
20 Trips
Longest trip of 1500 Kms-----
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)
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 ....
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
my lappy got screwed up
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 ...
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 ...
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Finally on web
:) 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 .
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 .
Monday, January 5, 2009
Fun Trip – II
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.
Friday, April 4, 2008
FUN trip -I
:) :) :)
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 ...
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 ...
Thursday, March 20, 2008
holi hain .............
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 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 ....
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Yes it is Sunday and m blogging from the office
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 ....
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 ....
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