i cannot come out alive of the summers in delhi if the following are not there :
Why do we get married…?
Why do your parents really want you marry as soon as you start earning a decent amount… at times as soon as you start earning (in cases of some girls)
Kanu said for every why, ask a “why not”
I asked why… and then I asked why not too… lemme see what came up as a result…
Why get married…
Get emotional support from your better half… if i may call her
Have someone to get back to…
Start a family…
Your parents wish…
You found the right girl… or maybe you just think that you found the right girl…
To become financially more dependent… to start planning accordingly with her…
You cannot wait any longer… you’ve been a virgin all your life… and marriage is the only savior now…
And now… why not?
Coz you are not ready…
Coz you think you are scared to take up this big a responsibility
Coz you are afraid that it’s too big a gamble…
Coz you want to live your life just a li’il more then what you have yet…
Coz you are an independent person… and really are not looking for a partner…
Coz you do not think marriage is going to add any value to your or your life…
I do not know how many of the above mentioned things are valid… they are just thoughts that came to my mind… and I do not necessarily agree to one or some or all of them… but then marriage I think is much more then answers to these questions…
When I think… I think only about a lot of whys… and surprisingly we do not ask anyone why when things are going great… we only ask a WHY when something is wrong… and then we go ahead and say that we are honest and true ppl….
I do not know WHY I wrote this post… 🙂 see another why :)…
I am not angry with myself… am not too happy either… there is nothing troubling me right now too… I am at ease with myself… and still when it comes to it, I can think of a million things which are not good and still happening to me… and I can things a few 100 things that are wonderful and happening as well…
God bless…
And I just got a comment from the client…
“Prashant knows what he is talking about… and is one of the most confident ppl I have met… but he should smile more when he is talking…”
I know that I smile less when I get into the work mode… i need to work towards taking care of this… and quick…
you never get to find out how the weekend and the day after that get over… the only day that takes longest for me is Monday… and this time it got over in a second too… maybe because I did not get time to see the time… meetings after meetings.. Presentation preparations and more and more…
activities done over the weekend:
~ nothing was done on Saturday… the hardest and the slowest thing to do it this!!!
~ Sid the smartie sloth went to watch Da Vinci Code on Sunday and almost understood the movie except for the 5403 words that they used… which means he needs to work on his English…
~ Sid also met another cartoon on Sunday… and spent about 4 hours with her… which was fun.. Initially both of them did not know what to talk about before they realised that both of them were cartoons and insane… and this is where the conversation picked up from… this cartoon with Sid was a very nice one… she looks good… Talks nicely… and told a lot of things about herself… Which were all nice… so Sid is now looking for bad things about her… he for some reason is not interested in finding what’s good about her… I guess that comes on its way automatically.
Weekend ENDS!!!
MONDAY came… and WENT… as quickly as you read this line…
Tuesday phew… early morning alarm…. 0500 hrs… I rushed to the airport to catch the Mumbai bus… uffo… airbus 🙂 and trust me Volvo’s are better… at least there is no expectation to see a hott airhostess… here you first enter the airport to see some nice faces.. which you do not… and then the aircraft in a dying hope of having the company of some short skirted pretty chicks… which obviously does not happen…
and I think the chicks on the INDIAN airlines were better then this flight of JET !!! The breakfast was ok sorts…
Pune Airport is pretty small… Bangalore is smaller!!! Huh!!!
Got a cab… rushed to Pimpri just to realise that the meeting was delayed by a good couple of hours… so did not have a phone… did not have the net… and did not have anything better to do then spend time going through the same prez which I was working on for past two days…
oh.. And I saw the largest ever canteen in my entire life there in Pune!!! Phew…
did not forget to mention that the weather was excellent… I am sure Delhi was burning when it was raining there in Pune… went to the guest house in the evening and slept peacefully before waking up at 0600 hrs today… rushed to catch the Volvo to Mumbai…
and today … all my charm for the Volvos came to an end.. because of the very badly kept State Transport Volvo 🙁 dirty bus, shaking seats, leaking AC vents, what not) and to make things worse.. They had dark film on the windows… which meant that I would not be able to enjoy the view of the so called one of the best expressways in the country properly…
anyway… couldn’t help it much…
it took about 50 minutes before we hit the actual expressway and I reached Mumbai in a li’il less then 3.5 hours…
two things that I loved about the journey…
~ the 10 km stretch before and after lonavla…never see this wide roads on hills…
~ the road quality… I am sure its going to be awesome driving with Radha on this road…
the view was ok sorts…. I have seen better…
went straight to JJMEHTA & Sons in Dadar(W) to return disappointed as they did not have the lens that I was looking for.. The one that they had was overpriced because of the unavailability…
now in Malad…. have the return flight around 2200 hrs… can’t wait to get back to Delhi…
Nidhi…”i am not sure….“
Nikhil…” i am…. i cannot see tears in your eyes… i cannot imagine you crying… i cannot think of a day when you are not smiling… “
Nidhi…”why…“
Nikhil…” because the only person i want you to be with when you are crying is me… the only shoulder i want your head on when you are crying is mine… the only fingers who wipe your tears away when you are crying should be mine… the only arms that hold you tight when you cry should be mine… and I know this can never happen.. so you better not cry….“
…this is a scene from one of the movies I am going to direct sometime in my life….
I have an alarm to get up at 0630 hours… but i do not remember when i really got up when the alarm rang for the the first time… i keep snoozing it for 5 minutes till it does not give me the option anymore… and then i have to get up !!!
Today… when I got ready and came out of the house… it was very hot… not because of the sun because there was none visible in the sky… there were clouds and some mist…
It was hot like you are standing inside a room which is being heated… the entire air was like that… Something felt wrong…
It was a very depressing weather… and I am going to talk about things which do not make me happy for a while now…
To start with the disadvantage India has with its politicians…. the power that has been given to these guys… so while we all are angry with Arjun Singh… and not happy with the decisions the Government is making… how many of us have actually promised ourself that we are going to vote the next time there are elections.. and also would ensure that we ask as many ppl as we can to vote…
I know of so many ppl who have enjoyed vacation when there were election days and also crib about the government at the first instance…
so while I think the country is being run by a handful of idiots along with some intelligent powerless politicians… Its we who also have a major role to play in this entire drama!!!
Now!!!
When I am depressed because of anything there are a few things I want to do… the first of-course is drive and listen to music… which I did… Radha is the PERFECT companion when things do not seem right!!! And music in the car obviously does not need any mention here…
So what do I listen to today…? Mehfuz… Euphoria’s new Album… wonderfully made… a lot of effort is there in the tracks… and the band seems to have matured with time a lot… but there is something that disappointed me… There was not one song that could cheer me up the way “Dhoom” or “Maeri” or “Gully” or “Kaise Bhoolegi Mera Naam” did… which means that I am not going to go back to this album when I need to be happy!!!
that brings to a happier thought… what all do I do when I want to cheer up…
~ I drive…
~ I listen to music… some of the songs in particular are “Kabhi Aana Tu Meri Galli”, ” Kaise Bhoolegi Mera Naam”, ” Meri Pyaari Bindu- Original”,”Jaaneman Jaaneman Tere Ye Do Nayan, chori chori Lekegaye Dekho Mera Mann”, ” Ek Ladki bheegi bhaagi si”, “Ek Chatur Naar”, “Getting Jiggy With it”, “Summer of 69”, “Sweet Child o Mine”, and lots more…
~ I eat… and my favourite places are street side stalls or dhabas… I am just not a restaurant fellow… Streets it is for me 🙂
~ I talk… there are a few friends I always can think of when I am not feeling too good…
~ I sit alone… and look at the sky… not that it cheers me up all the time… but then it relaxes me a lot…
What do you do to cheer yourself up?
i did not get time the entire day today to write about the weekend… what a shame… and i was saying that i was not busy with a lot of work… chi chi…
anyway…
a lot of time today was spent in orkutting… and some regular office work… but what is interesting was the weekend… and here is the weekend-o-logue
Saturday started early because of some long overdue catching up to do with a few friends…
met Sayan first… and showed her some of the photographs that i have clicked in the past one year… she is the person who is going to give me a break as a professional photographer and that makes me very proud of her and myself too…
next in the line to meet me was Richa… and she looked HOTT with her nose stud!!!
next we met Deepu….. second time after he has come back from Chennai… the dude still looks super cool…
and then Rohit… the same S and F fella….
oh and by the way… Rohit and Richa are pyaar se called Kidda and Kiddi… i dunno who has given then these names… but the names are very cute…
and after we climbed up the stairs of Taste of China, Abash aka amtg joined us with a badly bruised left hand… some assoholotic car driver was responsible for this halat of this dude…
and then something very interesting started… my childhood friend Ankur while trying to find the Taste of Chine roamed around the entire CP and finally reached the “flavours of China” before he realised that he is in front of the wrong restaurant… and then called me to find the correct place… did not understand the direction even after two calls… however managed to reach ToC about 45 minutes after the scheduled time 😛
while this was happening.. Prashant Bhardwaj and Om for some celebrated his birthday with some of this best online pals… a cake cutting ceremony was there… followed by some nice singing by everyone around… and on demand “babuji zara dheere chalo” was also chanted… once all of this was done.. everyone ate the cake and lived happily ever after !!!
So Ankur and with him Anku also joined us !!!
a series of discussions followed which included…
why is October associated with the number eight.. and why octopuses are most horny in the month of October…
we learnt and practised a new grammar where in if you have to use the work Fcuk… you use it in front of the word.. and if you have to use the $uck you use it after the word with an $ at the end… e.g. Fcuk the glass… and the glass $uck$… we guys even thought of taking over the workshop that Sayan was going to attend and change the topic to Rohit’s new grammar… kidda got offended a li’il but he was fine after a while…
we talked about the food…
we talked about ODMs… Anku did not know what ODMs are.. so her knowledge was increased with some Gyan on it…
we talked about a lot of things other then the above… and that meant a whole lot of fun… which finally came to a temporary halt after the money for the food was collected…
next we said ta tu to sayan who left for her workshop..
and then ta tu to Anku.. who left !!! she did not tell us where was she going… and it might have offended her if i asked.. so i did not ask either 🙂
and palika is where we reached next.. bought a few movies…
Matrix Triology
Munich
MI – III
The fast and the furious/2 fast 2 furious/ XXX and XXX2
and one more.. ab yaad nai kaunsi !!!
went back home soon after that…
evening was spent at home taking care of the construction work !! things are kinda shaping up at home right now..
Sunday was spent in some regular home stuff… going to the market to buy some electrical sockets.switches.etc.etc. discussing the stairs in the house.. and a lot of other things…
and then comes Monday.. the sabse ganda day of the week after Sunday !!!
the best part about the day was…
~ getting some compliments from Anku 😛 and getting into some conversation with her about instructional designing and all 🙂
~ getting angry over some things in the office and telling a few ppl about how things should work… getting angry and taking that anger out at the right ppl is so satisfying at times…
~ completing the work i had thought about in good time…
~ and being able to write this post..
to abhi chalta hoon.. phir milta hoon 🙂
bhagwaan hum sabko sadbuddhi de 🙂
Oklie doklie doks…
on our way to triund
in triund or on triund… i dunno 🙂i did not think twice before i deleted most of my landscapes… *is rohit happy 🙂* and i am not too happy with the people that i have clicked this time… why.. because most of it was not thought of… but clicked very very quickly…
a monastery near our hotel…so a lot of fotos deleted…
some of them ignored…
some out of focus and useless..
and the rest… have been uploaded…
from the dalai lama temple…getting jiggy with it 🙂 *4-10e*and i am happy 🙂 you can click here and be happy too 🙂
so basically i would be found somewhere on the streets when i am traveling next… just clicking more janta…
guess what did i do today…
ok.. forget it… i will tell you…
i used to think that ABS (Anti-Lock Brakes) means Disc Brakes in the rear wheels… and was wondering how come the Swift and the Accent Viva have Drum brakes and still claim to have ABS.. while a Corolla has a Disc Brake and also has an ABS ( which looked right to me )
so i finally decide to research and read about it…
the first stop was the yahoo answers site.. i have been looking at its banner for a while now on the DND.. but it did not have a lot of good content in this context.. and next i went to the site where i get all my answers… not about life though…
jai ho howstuffworks.com ki
so i read about
ABS
and then I read about the
Disc Brakes
and i now carry some more knowledge then what i had about 2 hours back..
and hey…
i also read about Toyota Innova today… i love that car…
so if you want you can talk to me about three more topics now…
am i cool or what 🙂
oh… and this is how my house is looking these days….
“Day 0: Wednesday”
i really really wanted to take Radha along.. but looks like Goddie had different plans and he made us take a bus.. actually not “A” bus but multiple buses on our way to Dharamsaala…
the Volvo leaves ISBT at 2000 hrs and was full… there is another bus at 2015 hrs which apprantly was cancelled…. so we could not take it either.. another funny thing that happened was that the guy at Himachal Bhawan told me that the buses leave from there.. but the buses are from ISBT which meant that we got late for both the buses and were not in a position to take any of them either…
anyway… a look at the queue for the ordinary bus to Dharamsaala made me almost cancel the plan… too many ppl… and rotten buses… so we decide to find out private buses to Dharamshaala… we managed to get one… which we boarded at 2130 hours from ISBT… it then went to Lal Quila… and then again to the IST.. and then again to the Lal Quila.. before it took at U-turn to stop on the other side of the road in front of the Lal Quila again…
i so far have never spent this much time in a bus ever without the bus going anywhere… oh.. and about the bus.. this was a sleeper class bus… someone which is kinda common in Rajasthan.. infact the bus had a registration on Jaipur as well…
we finally moved out of delhi around 2300 hrs… and then stopped at the border for fuel… and then again for some Tax related issues…. the bus finally picked up some speed after crossing the border which was around 0000 hrs… and it reached Chandigarh is about 4 hours only.. including a 30 minute break near Pipli…
“Day 1: Thursday”
most of the time in the bus was spent sleeping.. so i am not too sure of the route that the bus took after Chandigarh… however we had taken this bus till Pathankot and we managed to reach there around 0800 hrs… took a private bus to Gaggal from Pathankot and completed this distance of about 80 kms in about 3 hours… and then another bus to dharamsaala from Gaggal… and then one more bus to McLeodganj… our final stop !!!
her name is Zema which means beautiful… isn’t she?on our way we got some valuable information about what do to and where to stay from a guy too… so we decided not to stay in Dharamsaala and moved to McLeodganj instead… which actually turned out to be better…
i broke my favorite shades on the trip.. now left with only the frame 🙂took a decent room for 350 bucks a night… and then moved out of the room to walk around… Tushar suggested that we should do the local sightseeing the same day.. which meant hiring an auto for 200 bucks… and a visit to nearby places like the Dal Lake, St. John’s church, some view point, and finally the Bhagsu Nag Temple… we also went for a short long walk from the temple to a nearby waterfall… spent about 1.5 hours to and fro… got into an argument with the Auto-wala because he said that we should not have spent more then 30 minutes there… anyway…
a view from our hotel…the small hump that you see on the first mountain is Triun…went back to the hotel… and then went out again for food and all…
McLeodganj is a very very neat place if you want to experiment with food.. there is so much to eat… i had Spaghetti with Cheese for Lunch, India Food (though i did not want to) for dinner…. all sorts of Italian, Tibetan, continental food is available.. and not too expensive either…
Another highlight of the place:
Figures to kill for and Skins to Die for… so many firangi chicks around… and if thats not enough.. there is more !!! the Local Chicks are more or less awesome too…
I was certainly feeling out of place… there were either Tibetans or firangies around.. anyway…
so after a long day.. i slept while i was talking to tushar… and then i guess he went out and sat in the balcony for a while.. before he slept too…
our room…nice.. clean…Day 2: Friday
We had done some homework to find out about the bus back home the last evening… and managed to get a ticket for the Saturday Volvo in the morning…
next on the agenda was a trek to Triun… we could see it from our hotel balcony and it looked far away too…
the breakfast here is worth mentioning.. the farmer’s breakfast and the JJI breakfast.. at the JJI cafe.. will talk about it later too…
we took an auto till Gallu Temple.. which was a good 6 kms away… and the roads ( well thats what i can think of calling that path as cars, jeeps, autos etc. are supposed to move on it) were scary… something that needs a good 4 wheel drive was being negotiated with a 150 cc three wheeler…. with all the weight at the back.. increasing the chances of going down the hill on the small mistake.. anyway.. we were lucky.. and managed to reach the place where we had to start off with the trek…
in about 10 minutes we reached a T point.. and had to choose between one of the two directions… and no one to guide too… i chose one… and it took us about 20 more minutes to reach a point which looked like a dead end.. crossed the mountain with some support from the rocks at the edge… and managed to move to the other side.. we had to be careful not to slip… we did not…
and after walking for a good 2.5 hours on a path second to the worst i have walked on.. we reached the top of the mountain… Triun… the pain was worth it… i cannot explain what it looked like with words.. maybe the picture would help…
Triun…lots of foriegners… and a few shops… this was the best place to spend a couple of days… the only sounds were crows or air.. and an occasional cheer of the ppl around… lovely.. beautiful…
Triun again…
on our way back to McLeodganj… the walk took over 3 hours… phew… it was tough..the walk back was tiring.. and longer.. as we had to walk those 6 kms done in the auto on foot this time… managed to reach McLeodganj around 1800 hrs… had tea and mango lassi in one of the roof-top restaurants… went back to the hotel… rested for a while.. and then came out for a walk…
somewhere….just walked around before i wanted to sleep… came back to the hotel.. and slept in peace…
Day 3 : Saturday…
Saturday started late… packed our bags.. checked out of the hotel… went to Dharamshaala.. found the Kangra museum of Art closed because of a local holiday… came back to McLedoganj… spent the entire afternoon in the JJI’s cafe… about this place now… JJI is a name that comes from the Initials of the JJI EXile Brothers… the cafe is a small shop with 4 tables.. and about 10 chairs… awesome music.. wonderful food.. and the best place to spend time in, if you want to just relax… had the best Honey ginger Lemon tea there… had some great Farmer’s breakfast… and some delightful Pasta in Tomato Cheese Sauce…loved it…
took the bus back to Delhi @ 1900 hours… wonderful bus.. a semi sleeper to Delhi… reached delhi in 12 hours.. and home around 0800 hrs on sunday…
The Trip ends !!!! AWESOME… LOVED it…
time for some tips/statistics….
~ Total money spent in Travel : 1400 bucks per head (Private buses Delhi-Pathankot, Pathankot-Gaggal, Gaggal-Dharamsaala, Dharasaala-McLeodganj; Back in a Volvo 750+ bucks per head)
~ Stay : 350 a room per night…
~ Food : depending on what you want to eat.. the food however is not expensive at all… a meal for two should not cross 200 bucks even if you eat a lot…
~ This is a place to just relax.. and chill.. and go for a couple of treks… if you are interested in treks… ensure that you carry some good shoes, some medicine, water, and food…
~ Enjoy the variety of food available…
and HAVE FUN…
p.s. i will have the pics by Wednesday.. hope to upload them the same day too…