The countdown has begun!!!
Was the best! stays that way!
Tag: radha
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How long = f(time) or f(distance) or f(fun)?
If someone would ask me how long it takes for you to travel to work, I would have a few options to respond with..
Takes me X minutes, or its X kms, and you figure, or interestingly, I could respond by saying that it takes me 24 songs to reach my office 🙂 or maybe 36! It was almost this number when I used to drive the 45 kms to work in about 90-120 minutes one way every day! I don’t miss those days at all!
Last night, it took me 1 song to reach home! Radha running like a dream at a 3000 rpm (guess the speed, if you’d like), windows rolled down with the nippy wind hitting my face, and queen playing in the background at a volume and quality that would put a lot of car audio systems to shame… “I want to break free“!
Some Queen songs are just unbelievably detoxifying! This one is one of them! Not to forget that the artists of yesteryears seemed to real! So Analog! (There is something going on in my mind about Analog and Digital for weeks, and I have to write it down before I forget)
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7xmH-Amt2k]
On a side note…Veda, when you are old enough to get a license and drive, I am going out on long drives with you! Our favorite music, our favorite roads and a destination unknown!
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Single hand drive
My car is a single hand drive and literally so!Its rare that I use both my hands for steering.. One of them is usually on the gear stick!
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Nine and Zeroes
Its been a long journey and a bond that has only strengthened over time. Radha completed 90,000 kms recently and is still going strong!
With some minor denting/painting done last week, she is shining like new, and gives a lot of new hatchbacks a run for their money!
Thank you FIAT for making such a brilliant car! Hope you keep doing the same for years to come!
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damn! i am back!
- 1 weekend
- 3 days
- 1 car
- 2 people
- 650 kms
- 2 states
- All weathers… hot, cold, rain, sun, hail storm, almost snowfall
- All terrain… road, no road! hills, plains, village, town, city, national highway, state highway, no highway!
- 1 feeling!
When am I doing it again! 🙂 -
Happy Monday!
Driving to work with Radha! She never ceases to amaze me on our drives!Finding Calvin and Hobbes on Google Books!
Bill Watterson! You are God! -
65001
Yesterday, me and Radha complete 65000 kms of our togetherness after a fantastic drive to and in the hills!!! Will write about the trip sometime later though!
She has been like an angel looking after me all these years we have been together!!! Thank you Radha and thank you uncle God for these wonderful times!!!
Like I like to say, Life is great!
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Good ways to spend an evening – 1
1. Leave office on time (ok, a li’il late works too)
2. Get a tank full of gas (short for gasoline, and referred to as petrol and diesel in India) [abe firangi]
3. Find a direction to drive in…
4. Set a countdown timer (e.g. I will drive for 90 minutes, and look for the first nice place to have tea)
5. DRIVE
6. Stop…
7. Eat and have Chai
8. Come back!I managed to do a 100km drive last night with a couple of friends and went till Dharampur… about 40 kms before Solan and 13 kms before Kasauli!!!! the hills are suddenly a lot closer than they were for the last 18 months!
I love it! Life is uber cool!
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of driving and drivers
You can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he drives on the road!I was told this sometime in 1999, when I had taken a lift from Mayur Vihar to Pragati Maidan and then the gentlemen went on to talk about some of the drivers and how they were handling their vehicles on the road… It was a very interesting 30 minute discussion, and the thought has been there in my mind ever since! I notice how people handle and drive their vehicles, and map it back to how they are, including myself.
My theory is that while you are at the steering wheel, over a period of time you are driving with your sub-concious mind. This is the reason why the clutch, the gear shift, the horn, the dipper, the brake, the accelerator seem to be working together seamlessly while you become a part of the car, in a way!
And if my way of driving has to tell anything about me, it is that….
1. I have stopped rushing into a lot of things… an empty road does not mean a hard press on the gas!
2. I feel very contented with where I am, I see the road ahead and am more than willing to take the journey, and I see the rear view mirror to see the distance I have covered
3. I still get very annoyed at displays of irresponsibility and recklessness. I think Angry is a more appropriate word!
4. I am agressive in my approach
5. I do not get bothered by the surrounding noise. Even if I do, it takes a while for it to get to my head. Mostly I am involved in my own thoughts for the noise to be irritating
6. I like to give way and be patient.
7. I like to be protective and possesive of the things in my perimeter.
8. I hate being judged because of a few instances. Observations, alright! Judgements! get lost!
9. I do not mind changing pace depending on the situations… I do not have not go at the same speed always, and its ok to slow down
10. I ENJOY where I am!
Most of these seem to be hovering around the same point! interesting!
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Wake me up when September ends!
Knowing how much I love Radha, it would be a shame if I would not write about a milestone in my relationship with her! right?thank you Vaishali for pointing that out!
There are so many memories that have been associated with her that I would not even know where to start and end…
- The first time I saw her, I knew she was going to be mine
- The extreme personification of something that a lot of people would call just a car
- The fact that most people who know about her call her Radha too!
- That I was using a Rs. 250 radio to listen to music for the first few months because I was totally broke after I got the car
- That I feel the most secure when I am driving around with her
- That she probably has one of the best audio quality that I know of… what else do you expect from a combination of Sony, JBL, and Blaupunkt?
- That it has saved my family from an accident which would have been a nightmare in any other car
- That she is one of the finest machines, one of the safest cars and of course one of the smartest looking cars that runs on Indian Roads
- That she is a perfect example of what friendships should be like
- And that she still looks as beautiful as she looked the first day I met her 🙂
and a lot more!
This September is a special month for me! a lot of things happened including Chai ki Dukaan celebrating 5 years, some things and thoughts moving at the personal front, and my EMIs for the car getting over! now I can start saving for the Enfield I have been eyeing for a while! 😛Speaking of cars, this weekend I drove the largest SUV I have been in, so far! A Toyota Sequoia. It was a 4.6 litre, 32 Valve V8 engine which produces a mind boggling 310 bhp@ 5400 rpm! The pictures below should tell you something about the size too!
Title courtesy : Green Day
Photographs with me in them, courtesy : Pritam