Sunday, July 29, 2007
Road Trip
Team: Chussi, Parmar, Bagla, Misra and Me!
Day: Sunday
Result: Pune missed!
Pics available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/midnightsaint/
Friday, July 27, 2007
River
Weekend log
(based on true fiction)
Location: Kolad
Time: Timeless
Characters:
Amandeep – Arsenal’s no.4
Ankur – smiling Buddha. The smile continues even when he has just lost a cellphone!
Ashwin – the drunkard
Deependra – dancer!
Faraz – The lost brother of Pogu, the deer.
Murtuza – weird
Jimmy – dummy cat
Nagpal – the man who knows everything. But, ofcourse!
Harshvardhan – The foot-bomber
Rebecca – The newsreader
Meenal – Girl with the candy
Sandeep – The kid on the new block!
Shantanu – dumsy boy
Shomik – tiger in the den
Suresh - dreamer
Subrata – the guy who lost everything in the stock market
Prince – the prince
Milind – sensitive girl
Harsh – businezman and a scuba diver from
Dhwani – the princess
Sneha – two tea spoons of sugar
Samir – watchman at a chemical plant who needs to shout just to feel he is alive
Amit – guest appearance
Vinit – guest appearance. Avid reader of books and magazines. Also likes to talk about this habit.
Saturday, 21 July, 9 AM, Vikhroli
Talking about music, I have a sub-story. The title is “Ashwin- the drunkard”.
Below is the conversation between us a day before.
Ashwin: dude, whatsup? I just started drinkin. But wil meet u guys tomorrow morning!
Me: Ok!
@ 12 midnight
Ashwin: dude, am really drunk. There is a lot left! I don’t think I will make it tomorrow morning.
Me: dude, I need you tomorrow morning. Just drink slowly whatever is left. I will wake u up in the morning
Ashwin: Ok!
@ 2 AM
Ashwin: dude, am drunk. In a very bad shape. Am driving to pune with friends
Me: WTF!!! Dude, just go back home.
Ashwin: my friend is crying. I can’t go back. I will start at 4 in the morning and reach u guys.
Me: Ok!
@ 6 AM
Ashwin: dude, my car broke down. Am stuck in lonavla.
Me: Asshole!
The traffic got worse. Everybody was sweating pretty badly. Milind started with his theories on how we could have avoided the traffic if we had started early. All I could do was listen and hope!
Traffic soon cleared.
Hope works!!
The bus started moving at its maximum speed which was around 40 kmph. The urban world soon started fading away and rural
Prince started burning his chimneys. Samir started shouting. Sorry, talking. Shomik was silent except when he had to make some fun of harsh. The group of freshers in the back seats were trying to cool down from their boiling points. Slowly but surely, things were a changing!
Saturday, 21 July, 6 PM, Sai Farm, Kolad
Everybody settled in. It was too late to visit the waterfalls. Guys chose to play cricket instead. It was a lot of fun! Especially the part where people go to fetch the ball for long periods of time.
The light got poorer by the minute and flood lights came out. It started raining.
It was time for football, ofcourse. The real fun didn’t even begun.
Jimmy drove down with his car along with a fat guy. They call him Ashwin back in the jungle. Imagine a guy, heavily drunk from 2 non-stop days, walking with swagger. He started hurling abuses at everyone and anyone from the moment go. He almost bet Subrata in darting at 10-5 but subbo came back strongly to beat him 20-13!
Sunday, 22 July, 5 AM, Sai Farm, Kolad
Sunday, 22 July, 6 AM
The guide kept on shouting instructions from the back and in the moments of thrill and laughter, they were often missed! It landed us in precarious situations. Ashwin and Milind managed to miss so many of the instructions that after a while, the guide stopped shouting at them!
The hands started tiring. Our team luckily had 7 rafters which meant that only 6 could raft at a time. That gave us room to take some quality rest!
We soon reached the shore. We had to lift the raft onto a small hill and walk further upwards to reach our bus. Luck, as it usually happens, turned a blind eye on us! The bus wasn’t there and we soon found out that the driver was sleeping somewhere away unreachable. We fortunately found Amit’s driver nearby, who btw reached the rafting spot separately in his car, early morning on Sunday. According to him, he got very lucky as he got to raft separately with this beautiful bunch of ladies from
They were not huge waterfalls but were big enough to cool your eyes and mind. Shantanu soon found a hidden spot and I joined him to research it further. He taught me a few things about science and award winning photography and I started admiring his presence of mind!
The cameras started rolling and the flashes all around make it look like a movie shoot!
Sunday, 22 July, 7 PM
The light was fading away. It was time to leave Kolad. The bus started its way back and we soon realized the hunger again! Man, we ate so much!!!!
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Walk on water
especially, if you don't know how to swim.
And if you do, make sure it's not a holiday for the rescue team.
enough of instructions.
now, please go jump!
Sunday, July 15, 2007
the one who must not be named
Not the dealthy hallows (its scheduled to be released on july 21), this is about the movie, order of the phoenix! the movie does rock and roll and more.
are there any people who don't like harrypotter and the story? well, i do know that the count is greater than zero. and this is for all those who still are not bitten by the bug.
at the end of movie, harry has this to say,
"we do have something that voldemort doesn't. something to fight for!"
For all those who are rock-hearted to not like harry, here is what i have to say, "we atleast have something to wait for!"
Monday, July 09, 2007
It's not about the book
But it is more about the man who wrote it and also about his bike.
There are two kinds of super humans.
The one kind, the extraordinary, do fantastic deeds.
But, at the bottom of your heart, you get the feeling that you might have done it too given the time and space.
There is the other set of humans usually referred to with words akin to 'genius'.
Lance Armstrong fits into this set.
And, they do write autobiographies to help other mortals realize that greatness can be achieved.
I read the book. 90% of it in the first sitting.
To be Cont....