GoGoGoa!!! on 26.11.2006 (Final Day)

This is the continuation of the previous posts. This is day four in Goa.
Just a re-cap of day 1, 2 & 3 for those who have gold-fish memory or for those who haven't read the earlier parts & is lazy to do so. :-)

Day 1 - 23.11.2006 - Humble self fly into Bangalore from Hyderabad and 9 of us travel in 2 Santros to Goa thro' Tumkur-Arsikere-Badravathi-Jog Falls-Honava-Kumta-Karavar. We had a gruelling 18hours drive when we should have made it in about 12 to 14hours.

Day 2 - 24.11.2006 - Missed Croc Watch Cambarjua Canal but instead visited St. Francis Xavier Church then to Bogmalo Beach and finally to Majorda and back.

Day 3 - 25.11.2006 - Were mis-led to DCH fort (remember, Dil Chatha Hai??) but instead found ourselves in Fort Aguada. Then we jumped into waters of the flatest-shoreline in Arambol Beach. Wanted to end the day @ Club Cabana instead found ourselves discussing outside Vanilla lounge

Now for the final day in Goa.... :-) Here we go....

November 26, 2006
0000hrs: These guys returned from a discussion with the localites and the result was, to quote my friend "Dude, it seems this is where the Goa night-life begins and after some time the crowd moves to the other places. And so according to these guys we are at the right place." "Thats it!! You guys were discussing for like 20minutes & thats it? What a waste of 20minutes," I thought but said "That was quick." And we finally had to pay Rs. 1800/- (Rs. 300 per head) to enter. :-( **To many Rs. 300 is cheap but i am crying bcoz i am tee-totaler and also dont have a gal-friend by my side. So for me its a waste & not an investment.**

When we were about to enter, we were overtaken by a couple. And as always I noticed (only) the gal. And she looked familiar to me. Wow! What a beauty she was. She had a great great structure but a bit too thin for my style though. She was wearing a extreme-black Sun Dress and a small cute single pendant on gold-chain. I was not able to notice the shape of the pendant though. She was white. And the black dress accentuated your looks and structure. Boy! This one gal convinced me that the entry fee is worth it! ;-) She was extreme white. I am sure if white-color had some emotions & feelings then it would enroll itself with a psychiatrist for anti-depression. I have seen fair-skinned or even an white-skinned but her color was way beyond my imagination. So against the extreme-white skin the velvetty full-black was a desirable combination. Also her texture was great. Whew! Lemme stop her, else this post will not be about my Goa trip but about my 3secs standing next to her. Oh! Did I tell her name here? She is Preeti Jhangiani! :-)

Then we were stamped on our hand(!!!) and we were greeted by a small "no-crowd" on an empty dance floor. EMPTY!!! I looked at the guy who said "Dude, it seems this is where the Goa night-life begins...blah blah" **the hell it starts from here. It looks like a graveyard save few ghost-like drunkards trying not to fall hard on the floor.** Guess, I was too cynical. May be bcoz Rs. 300/- was still ringing in my head. Never the less, we ordered our drinks and then suddenly the music started to build up. Wow! Now thats something @least you can move your legs for. Though I would still prefer a geniune pop (or a hip-hop) against this crap. At that sudden point in time I realized the profoundity of the proverb Beggars are not choosers! I shut my trap & went onto the dance floor, which was still empty.

After few minutes of I dancing noticed a small group of babes dancing next to us. And in that one was awesome! A shoulder-less top & was oomph!!! I started eyeing her and was, after some time, receiving signals too. :-) We continued dancing and one point, I was considering approaching her but decided against it. **plz don't ask me why? till date i am not able understand why i missed this opportunity!!** Oh, yeah! I should not forget to add that while returning from the disc, Romy said "Rp, those gals, you remember. Those who were dancing next to us?"
I was like "uhh...uhmm.... yes" **Did ye notice me eyeing them and they eyeing me??**
He said "They were eyeing..." while I was thinking **I know! I know!**. He completed it with "...me and Shashank." I was like "WHAT!!! YOU & SHASHANK??!! No way. It was me." but, again, I said "I know! I know!" I was actually shocked! Those two & not me, yeah?? I tried to think logically to prove my might against their's and after a while I got a logical argument which they cannot refute - "But, what about those times when you & Shanshak were no where near the dance floor??" Now they dont know what happened that time, so this means I have the ball rolling. heee heee Though I never actually used this sentence.

After the dance & few morsels of something-like food we were tired and my mobile was glowing 0145. I wonder how brain works, the minute it saw the time sleep ambushed us. We packed our selves & left the lounge towards our hotel. Just a block before the hotel, we stopped & some of us suggested that we will take a looooooooong ride on the bikes. It was a two-motive stratergy. Primary being, lets burn the excessive petrol, the lender is not gonna bargain on it. Secondary being, this is our last night in Goa & the roads are very inviting. :-) So we hit on.

Sachin with Shruthi(wife) on Avenger. Pinky & me on my Enfield. Shashank & Romy ("But, what about those times when you & Shanshak were no where near the dance floor??") on the other Enfield. We ripped on the high-way kinda clean roads with no traffic. The bugger Sachin would overtake us & would slow down till we overtake him. Again he would lower his gears and rip us out of shape. Arsehole! Enfield is a great vehicle but does not have the pick of Avenger and Sachin knew this pretty well. I am sure, Shruthi must have been a proud wife that day; after all, her husband is giving us a run for our money (literally). Suddenly my vehicle went into the reserve mode & so we all returned to our hotel.

0400hrs: We started playing a card game brought by Shashank. I am sorry I forgot the name of the game. Will try to recollect & post it soon. The teams were Shashank, Sachin & me(SSRP) Vs Pinky, Romy & Shruthi(PRS). We won them by zillion points. :-) Anyways, the losing team, which was undoubtedly PRS, is not gonna agree. But for records, SSRP team won like a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge margin against PRS, whose poor performance out beat India's performance in the on-going SA tour. After the game, at about 0500hrs we hit the sack.

0800hrs: **snore snore**
0900hrs: **snore snore** Lazily we all woke up. And realized the folly of waking up late. We have to leave today & early morn drive was suggested & agreed upon too. :-( Anyways, without wasting much time we got ready. A small group went ahead to make some purchases and few of the more responsible guys stayed back to wind up the room-vacating activity. We cleared that & went for break-fast. Only Deb, Romy, Sachin, Shruthi & Me were present @ the same hotel for breakfast. Others had it at the place of their shopping. After the order, Shruthi went for a small quick jewelery shopping. And the remaining of us played few boards of pool and returned to our hotel. I was sweating like water falls and we finished the final formalities of room vacating.

The idea now was that Smriti & me were to board our respective flight and the rest would continue on their car. So, we split up. Shashank & Pinky would drop Smriti & me and join the rest on NH17. So when I was about to get into my car, I went greeting everybody a "ah! such a nice trip" and stuff. And, when I neared Romy, my thoughts were "But, what about those times when you & Shanshak were no where near the dance floor??" but I said "Nice catch up dude. Lets repeat it for Andaman"

Regarding Goa Airport, I have loads to say but already this post is way toooooo long Lemme say that some other time.

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GoGoGoa!!! on 25.11.2006

This is the continuation of the previous posts. This is day three in Goa.
Just a re-cap of day 1 & 2 for those who have gold-fish memory or for those who haven't read the 1st part & is lazy to do so. :-)

Day 1 - 23.11.2006 - Humble self fly into Bangalore from Hyderabad and 9 of us travel in 2 Santros to Goa thro' Tumkur-Arsikere-Badravathi-Jog Falls-Honava-Kumta-Karavar. We had a gruelling 18hours drive when we should have made it in about 12 to 14hours.

Day 2 - 24.11.2006 - Missed Croc Watch Cambarjua Canal but instead visited St. Francis Xavier Church then to Bogmalo Beach and finally to Majorda and back.

Now for the 3rd day in Goa. Here we go...

November 25, 2006
0000hrs: **snore snore**
0400hrs: **snore snore**

0800hrs: BANG! BANG! Holy Christ! This guy never sleeps and never allows us to sleep too BANG! BANG! Dude! Stop disturbing yaar. I will give my Enfield go for a ride & leave me **snore snore** WHAT! ROYAL ENFIELD!!! No way!! I opened the door and let that idiot to disturb us again. Grrr.... Wish early morning I had the energy to strangle his neck violenty & go back to peaceful sleep. Again, we repeated the same chore and got ready in a jiffy of less of 2hours! :-) We landed in the same shack for breakfast. Literally had the same menu on the same table served by the same waiter but the bill was costlier. :-O God knows how and I left the job to God & did not bother to ask GOD later!!

1200hrs: Almost the same group re-grouped on the same vehicles and today's itinerary was targetting northern Goa. We left on our great vehicles towards Aguada Fort. One amazing character in our group, whom we call the organizer of this trip had mis-informed us in telling this is the famous GOA fort from the film DCH!! We were all geared up and ready to go & take similar stills. When we reached there, we realized this fort is not what we were told. Grrr... all of us were searching this fella who gave us wrong info. Comfortably till our anger simmered down he was lost. Fortunate for him, the anger simmered down very quickly. This fort is awesome. Very very beautiful. The sea on 3 sides & a nice but not-so-magnificient semi-forest on the other. Very pretty. This place is now a part of memory for here we had some of our best snaps. And the best best ever clicked by your humble self. :-) Unfortunately none of the snaps are with me right now, will post the snaps separately at a later date. This is the largest & the best-preserved fort in Goa, built between 1609 - 1612. This is the only fort that remained unconquered during the 450yr Portuguese rule. The fort has an impressive 13mt tall light-house, but tourists are not allowed to go up. This is the oldest structure of its kind in Asia. Among the various historical importances, this fort happens to be the largest prison in Goa. This is a beautiful fort and plz do not miss it.

1600hrs: Then we shot to the next destination. Arambol beach it was. The best ever ride we had. This ride saw us doing loads of stunts. To start with the road is awesome. It was like riding across a hill to reach the beach. Remember we were on 2 Enfields + 1 Avenger + 1 Santo. We did crazy stuffs like Escort the Santro for some distance and such silly other scenes. But the best was yet to come. One guy (Mr. Pinky) suggested that we do a synchronized over-take & escort. The idea is that the video-cam will be with the Avenger pillion, who will be sitting facing the traffic-behind(!). The Avenger will be goin in front followed by the Santro. The 2 Enfields will be following the Santro. At the signal, both Enfields were to overtake the Santro one on each side and come right in front of it & Escort it further. We did this once but we did not get the sync. Then again after few yards we tried again & to our surprise it came to an amazing level perfection. The 1st attempt saw everybody making mistake - the cam, the bikers, the car & everything. But the 2nd attempt was like a computer generated one. Perfect!!! When I get those video's I shall post them here. :-) This beach was awesome, to say the least. It was crowded but yet everybody had enough space to feel private. We immediately stripped ourselves; ofcourse, except the gals & definitely we were not naked ;-) and ran into the sea. The best part of this beach is that this is the flatest sea-shore line I have ever been to. I have no idea even about the spelling of swimming but I was able to walk upto 25 to 30 mts into the sea and still the water was way below my chin!! The feeling of so far into the sea is awesome. I am waiting to learn swimming and enter Arambol beach! And, yeah, I should not forget that some stupid sand particles enter my left eye & irritated me so much that I had to abandon playing and close my eyes to silenty suffer the pain. In fact, when i quickly wink even now, i feel some few particles somewhere inside the eye!!! :-( This beach even has some small 1-room buildings that are available for rent @ 350/day!!! These buildings are about 10-15mts from the sea (mark it, from sea & not from beach!!!). So the next I visit Goa, I am sure to stay @ this small 1-room apartments just to enjoy 'a day @ sea-side'. We had a semi-lunchish-semi-dinnerish-semi-snackish items @ 1900hrs here. Then we left.



2000hrs: We began our journey back hotel. We reached our hotel & refreshed ourselves and it was like 2300hrs before we were all fresh. I am purposefully not putting much details in this time-frame bcoz there are lots to write about 2300hrs+ :-)

2300hrs: We left our hotel; all dressed to kill. **always wanted use this sentence** :-) We were prepared to go to Club Cabana. But in the mean time, Shashank found out that there is a better place closer to our hotel called Vanilla Lounge. Apparently this place is far better and had no extra charges unlike Club Cabana! We zoomed to this place. The minute we neared the place we knew we are in game for a great night. Unfortunately, I am not getting any snaps of this light show. It was not great but was fitting the party atmosphere. It was like a huge bright lamp hitting its powerful light on a ball of mirror and the light gets reflected into the night sky!!! :-) I heard that one can spot this light work even as far as 5-6km. Wow! Then came the shock!! There is an entry fee for guys (only) **unfair world** in this club and the entry is not covered!! :-( And the entry charge was putting us back my Rs. 2000/- + we havent had our dinner. Unfortunately, they would not accept card both at entry & inside!!! :-( This means wipe out every penny in pocket inside & walk out penniless. :-((I was suggesting that we go to Club Cabana. But there was a small discussion on what to do next. The others guys in our group (i mean, other than me) found few localites and went to find out about the other options. We did not want to spend Rs. 2000 for a non-rock music! They were playing some sad pop music! I like pop but this was real sad selection.

I looked @ the watch & it showed.... 2358hrs!!!
I looked up to see these guys were returning with some very nice information from the localites. And, they said...

Time in my watch that exact moment was 2400hrs!!! :-)

REST IN NEXT!!!

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GoGoGoa!!! on 24.11.2006

This is the continuation of the previous post. This is day two in Goa.
Just a re-cap of day 1 for those who have gold-fish memory or for those who haven't read the 1st part & is lazy to do so. :-)

Day 1 - 23.11.2006 - Humble self fly into Bangalore from Hyderabad and 9 of us travel in 2 Santros to Goa thro' Tumkur-Arsikere-Badravathi-Jog Falls-Honava-Kumta-Karavar. We had a gruelling 18hours drive when we should have made it in about 12 to 14hours.

The day two was a picture of few kms of ROYAL ENFIELD + ferry + 1 church + 1 beach. Here is day two for you fella.....

November 24, 2006
0000hrs: **snore snore**
0400hrs: **snore snore**

BANG! BANG! I thought somebody is running in the corridor and I was mildly irritated that my fitfull sleep is disturbed. BANG! BANG! Who the F is this? Cant (s)he run slowly or jog outside. BANG! BANG! For heaven's sake stop it. Its middle of the night. I opened my left eye. And, heard the jogger was even talking loudly over the phone. Loudly!!! Doesn't (s)he understand other humans live in the same building. "Wake up! Lazy bones! Wake up!" The jogger has a familiar voice as that of my friend! What is he doing in Hyderabad?!! I looked around and was shocked!! uh!...er...oh! I am in Goa! I saw the watch. and its not midnight

0800hrs: I opened the door and we (total 3 per room) were beaten up like slaves late for work. We were too tired to even protest. Within a flash (actually it was over 1hour) we got ready for the next day's journey. We went to another of those beach-shacks for break-fast & had breakfast for Rs.1200/- The waiters were afraid to even come near us. Guys were eating anything that was moving or for that matter, still too. Any thing and every thing was the mantra. Ofcourse, there were 3 strict eggitarians around like me. :-) In the mean time we had arranged for 2 Royal Enfields and 1 Avenger for our roaming within Goa. Each costed us a paltry sum of Rs. 350/day!! Because we had gone thro the guest-house where we were staying, we were not even asked for security deposit. We filled petrol and we were on the bikes going DHOOT... DHOOT... DHOOT. Awesome feel riding a Royal Enfield.

1200hrs: We slowly & reluctantly got up from our breakfast table, having cleared our bills. We were split like 6 on 3 bikes & 3 in car. I promptly picked a Enfield and refused to hand over the key even while having bath. :-) selfish!!! heee heee. The 1st place we embared on was Cambarjua Canal. This place is supposed to be famous for its Crocodile Watch. Apparently Crocs come out only in the morning for the birds to clean up its mouth & teeth. This place was like an hour ride from where we were staying, which is Calangute. We went driving & riding and were lost every 100mts. Finally when we reached a place, we were told tha croc watch is poss only in early morning hour! :-( So we dropped the plan but we ferried our bikes across the small stream. The ferrying is done for free!! :-) For Free!!!! amazing isn't it?? The croc watch images are awesome. I have put them here for benefit of understanding. Just imagine a croc right next to you when you are in a ferry!! must have been thrilling.

1500hrs: Having lost our 1st visit to our sleep. We substituted that with a unplanned church. St. Francis Xavier Church. This church is very good. When you enter in you are greeted by a relatively big altar, almost completely gold!! When asked somebody around me said it is Gold plated. Never the less, it was Gold and thats all mattered to me. It was very nice. In this church, they even had the body of St. Francis Xavier preserved and is displayed for all to see! The church was nice and has a huuuuuuuuge front garden. The church was originally built in the year 1545 but later renovated in year 1884. The body of the Saint has been around from 1622, the year he was canonized. Pretty interesting fact! The church is good visit. Its near Old Goa, Panjim. But beware of those road-side sellers, they like get onto your nerves. Yeah, if i dont say this it will not be good. When we were about to enter the Church compound, we were greet by another tourist walking ahead of us. Boy! She was wearing a short bright-red skirt & had such beautiful sexy legs.... man, God knows how to create! :-)



1700hrs: We went straight ahead to the next beach spot, where we were to finish our lunch. This beach is called Bogmalo Beach. Its just 4Km from the Dabolim Airport. While going to this place, I was frustrated by the slow moving fellas. I know that with Royal Enfield @ hand, if you go on 30Km/hr, its a crime. So, I decided to rip. I rode like I was possessed. Smrithi was behind me and she did not complain. The speedo-meter was not working and so I had no fears! I actually missed the left turn & went ahead & waiting for others to catch up. When they reached me, the guy in the car came & freaked me out with a revelation!!! "Dude, I was trying to chase you but you were unreachable. I was on 80+ and you were still pulling away from me! You must have been on 100Km/hr." Wow! Can you believe it? I was on 100 and I did not even feel it!!! Thats Royal Enfield for you guys! :-) Ok, we reached Bogmalo, not a very clean beach. We were hungry like hell, so we gobbled some grub. We played volley-ball for few minutes and played a rough rough mini-football. And my team lost the way India is cricket losing in SA, right now. We were tired almost instanteneously. We saw a guy doing wind-surfing. And it seem like fun. I wanted to do but unfortunately, I did not know swimming and I did not want to risk it. I decided someday I will learn swimming and will definitely do this wind-surfing. Its a target I have given myself. We also noticed that a group of tourist returning on a dingy from an island and we came to know that this service is only for the resident of the star-hotel situated @ the beach. Unfair world!!

2000hrs: We, with the help of the gals, requested one of the hotel fellas to rent a room for 1 hour for all of us to refresh. We refreshed in less about 1hr with just 1 bathroom. A record indeed. Imagine, 9 fellas (6 guys + 3 gals) within an hour sharing the same bathroom! Oh, yeah, this a record only bcoz none of us shared the bathroom together. :-) By the time we started it was close to 2130hrs. We went to the nearest casino, which was in Majorda. The casino is called Treasures. This is open 24hrs and is situated in like a 3-star hotel and is free entry only for the residents of the hotel. For others we need to shell out Rs. 200/- & its not covered either. The casino looked deserted and so was not very inviting. Though we heard that this casino is the one of the most wanted one but we could not find any signs of it. So we left the place immediately. The time was close to...

2000hrs: ...and now we thought this is the time to hit to Colva beach. It seems there is a very good disc out there. I guess we were talking about Avloc and we started our journey towards it. But, mid-way the gang decided that they were tired as hell and we would return to hotel. And we did exactly that! So no disc on day 1! :-(((((

This day was aimed @ south of Panjim. In fact, these area is called south circuit. The important beaches are Colva, Palolem, Majorda, Bogmalo, Benaulim. But Palolem was too far for us, so we decided on the other 3 & finished 2. But I have been to Colva and believe me, its far better than the other two we visited this time. Colva is famous for its Sun-set and also for Martin's Corner, a food joint that rocks. Almost every celebrity who had visited Goa had been to this place. A rocking place and not very expensive too. No one should miss Colva.

2359hrs: **snore snore**

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GoGoGoa!!! on 23.11.2006

This is about my trip to Goa with my friends from Bangalore. This is not my first visit to Goa but was undoubtedly my best.

Some time ago, during mid-August, me and my weekend gang @ B'lore had done a crazy drive trip between 3 states (Karnataka, TN, AP) and 1 Union Territory(Pondicherry) in 3 days. It was a loooooong looooooong drive but we enjoyed it. During that trip, we had decided on our next trip which was to be Goa. So the Destination Goa project began. Slowly but steadily the preparation went on in the background and we started working out the details. The trip was to be made by a drive of over 680Km from B'lore to Goa in a very scenic route. And then hang around for few days and check on as many beaches **and ofcourse, the bikini babes ;-)** and return the same way. Boy! Boy! It was a trip that can happen only once. We were in total of 9 ppl (5 guys + 2 gals + 1 couple). We had 2 Santros and we ripped on.

The chronological story begins...

November 23, 2006
0000hrs - Your humble highness had, unfortunately, moved cities between the Destination Goa's plan & execution Phase. So this amazing self checks into Hyderabad Airport to fly down to Bangalore. The idea is that I will be picked up by my friends @ Airport by 0230hrs and immediately escape the out of city even before the Sun wakes. And thats exactly what happened, we zoomed out of the city by 0300hrs and waited for the other car to join us. We started our journey on the Tumkur highway. The highway was good and the air was filled with enthusiasm & excitement.

0400hrs - We took the left-turn towards ArsiKere. The route further was Kadur-Birur-Tarkere-Badravati and on. The frst leg of the trip did not have much to boast about, i mean, nothing was visible outside to even enjoy the scenic beauty (if any). And so the best part of this leg and also the entire trip were the songs. We were bundled like 5 + 4 in two cars. Each car was jarring with music. I insisted on sitting in the car where only Rock (or at the worst, Pop) is being played. I was a strict "no-no" for any other genre unless its gazals or carnatic, which was a taboo while driving to Goa. :-) Heard a lot of songs, which was much lighter than to my liking but had no choice. As guys around me were little aversive to the likes of Metallica and stuff and many have not even heard the God "Iron Maiden" or "MotoHead" or "Ozzy"!!! **I could'nt believe it** I heard a lot of "Bob M?lly" **not sure of his spelling** and I kinda liked it. Might try 2 listen to him more.

0800hrs - Stopped for breakfast. I guess this place is called Badravati but not sure. Me had nothing, as I have this travel sickness. So was on strict diet of only a cup of tea. By the time the break-fast session was over it was about 0900hrs. Then we switched some places, both the drivers and the passengers. I took the navigator seat and we zoomed further. The next stop was supposed to be only for lunch, but we had like a dozen piss-stops, as we used to call it. And, we reached Jog Falls sometime in the late morning; as per original plan, we were supposed to have a early morning breakfast. :-) The Jog Falls was like a thin strand of white-hair from top till bottom. It was in pathetic condition with no water. But, I have seen Job Falls @ its best and here is the sample snap of how it looks.


1200hrs - We continued our journey in the near fantastic road till now. Suddenly the road seem to attack us. @ 1 point, while driving, we suddenly saw the road ended!!! Then to our surprise, we found a mud road taking off from a near clear road!! Boy! Boy! It was fun driving (...er... navigating for me). We were supposed to reach by 1400hrs in Goa and we are still like 100s of KMs away from the border!! :-( But we did not mind as each of us had our own share of fun. The drivers & navigator enjoyed the hair-pin bends & the ghat-section driving. The other passengers had their share of fun by controlling their pukes. We took the route of Badravati-Sagar-Honava and further.

1500hrs - We hit Kumta, which is still like 100Kms from Goa-Karnataka Border!! We could not manage our hunger and entered a hotel. And I was hungry like no other day. The minute the waiter got me a Slice, I did a bottoms up and request for another. I almost finished the 2nd one too but fortunately, my friend stopped me saying food is yet to come. I dug into anything remotely veg placed in front of me. The plates once placed in front of me can be directly used for the next dish without bothering to clean!! I did a thorough-job. We left by 1600hrs. But by this time, the main two drivers were drunk. The other two substitutes were slightly not sure which direction is west or east. But, yes, this is when the navigator (thats me, ofcourse) had fun. :-)

1800hrs - We continued the journey with me in the navigation seat still and the route was Kumta-Gokarna-Karvar-Goa. Wow! GOA @last!!!! We saw the sight of Goa and stopped the cars just after border and got down to hug each-other. A crazy routine, i should say. I remember that even during our Pondy trip, the minute we spotted Pondy we shouted @ top of our voices. :-) So we did our crazy routine and continued further in our journey into GOA, the promised land.

2000hrs - We @last spotted our hotel. whew!!! boy, everybody was tired as hell. The route from Karvar was simple but had a lot of traffic. Heavy traffic as in city traffic. We hit to our place Calangutte thro' Karvar-Varca-Colva-Dabolim-Panajim-Calangutte. Our drive @last ended. We quickly checked into the hotel and hurried got ourselves freshened up and rushed to the nearest beach-side shack for a heavy dinner. But, unfortunately, we were soooooooo tired that we could not have even half our capacity. We somehow finished the food session and head to our hotels.

2359hrs - **snore!!! snore!!!**
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6 movies in 4 Days!!!

I have lots to write but thought would pen them in one post. No point in splitting bcoz all of them are of similar type. All of them concerns the various movies I have seen. :-)

After a pathetic 3 weeks of house-hunt, I felt I needed a break. A serious break, I meant. But how will I if I have not yet completed what I had started? I mean, my house-hunt!! Fortunately, my college senior gave me the good news of his re-location to my current city - Hyd. Boy, what joy! I no more need stay all alone! :-) **i hate living alone** Since he is not sure of the exact locality where his office would be, we cannot search the house in advance until he arrives, which was @least an week away!! This mean, FREEDOM!!! Now I am free of house-hunting for few days until my friend lands here.

So, without wasting my time. I plunged upon this opportunity & watched like **wait lemme count** 6 movies :-) viz,
1. Apna Sapna Money Money (Hindi)
2. The Departed (English)
3. Snakes on a plane (English)
4. The Great Train Robbery (English)
5. Crash (English)
6. Being Cyrus (English/Hindi)

Wanna know my opinion on these? :-) Here we go...


1. APNA SAPNA MONEY MONEY: Its hilarious movie but depends on how quickly does your humour-bone gets tickled (or not). The cast is an impressive list of upcoming-actors. Ritiesh Deshmukh, Celina Jaitley, Riya Sen, Shreyas Talpade, Koena Mitra and also some veterans like Jackie Shroff, Suniel Shetty. The story as such isnt that great. A normal story with a guy in love with another gal & his friend , a petty-thief, helps him out. A age-old story. But the only difference is that the entire set of protoganist(s) are behind money. Every body needs money. The acting of Ritiesh Deshmukh has been a revelation. He was pathetic in his early films & has not improved a lot. Pretty decent. His acting prowess is shown completely in this movie, esp his appearance as a lady. :-) Hilarious. He has acted very well. For a new comer, Koena Mitra has proved to be good. And, as always, Shreyas Talpade is awesome. A movie worth watching esp if you get quickly tickled on your humour-bone. Yeah, I should not miss it. The music is very good. Esp the title song. Pritam is giving lots of very good scores. And skin-show was @ its peak. Boy! Boy! Koena Mitra & Celina Jaitely will make any saint lose his saint-hood.

2. THE DEPARTED: An awesome movie. The Crux of the movie is how the police infiltrates the criminal gangs & the criminals infiltrate the cop ranks. And the life of these infiltrators! The movie is excellently directed by Martin Scorsese. The direction is such that you know and yet you don't know. He has nicely played with the screen-play to get a high thrill quotient. Guess will try & see his other movies. The star cast is very impressive. Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen. What acting. Phew! Jack Nicholson is so sexy in this movie. He over powers the charm of both Leonardo & Matt, who themselves are very masculine & good-looking. Phew! I am going crazy on Jack! He has a smooth presence on screen. The way he walks in or render his lines with such ease, he makes you wonder if he is portraying his real-life character. A movie worth watching for both direction & Jack.

3. SNAKES ON A PLANE: Another fantastic movie. Though a freaking frightening movie yet its worth the penny. At the end of the movie, I am sure you will freak out every time you see a snake. What a direction by David R. Ellis. He freaks you out. WEAK-HEARTED PPL PLZ KEEP OFF THIS MOVIE. The entire movie is about how thousands of very poisonous snakes suddenly appears on-board a 747. Boy, it was very very frightening. The entire movie is how the crew & the passengers almost lose out to the snakes and finally somehow manage to reach alive albeit only a handful. The start cast is again an impressive one with Sameul L Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips, Rachel Blanchard, Flex Alexander. Sameul Jackson is awesome. What screen presence and the force with which his acts is awesome. He over-powers everyone. Julianna is hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot. :-) Definitely gonna watch her other (if any, interesting) movies. ;-) Check this site

4. THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY: Do I need to even comment on this? What a classic it is. And to my surprise, it is directed by my fav author Michael Crichton. Never knew he was an director too. :-) What a revelation. I love this. And the cast again contains my fav actor Sean Connery among with others like Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down. This is a movie which should go into your collection. I am sure to buy this DVD once I buy myself a DVD-player :-) I dont even have the rights to comment on the acting prowess & capability of Sean Connery or Micheal Crichton. Just watch it & you will not regret it. And did i say its a collectors' item? Hope so. If you like own certain DVDs & Books then both the book & the movie is awesome. I have read the book too. Its worth the penny.

5. CRASH: This is an interesting movie with an interesting concept. The movie is directed by Paul Haggis. The story concept was a bit confusing to me until i realized that there is not much of story in it! The movie is all about how few disconnected people bump into each other & change the course of each-others lives. In short, how the lives of disconnected people "crash" into each other. **got the idea behind the name of the movie?? The movie has so many in their cast that I did not even recognize lot of them. I am listing only the few whom i could recognize. The cast is filled with Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, Brendan Fraser. A good movie. A great time-pass. But not my collectors' item.

6. BEING CYRUS: If you dont get confused @ the begining. And till the last few scenes plz call me. I will bow-down to your abstract thinking. This movie, directed by Homi Adajania. This is a dark (apparently) comedic venture by this debutant director. When the movie ended I enjoyed it. It was a good movie. But till the movie ends you will frustrated on whats happening. The best part of the movie is Saif Ali Khan. Boy! Boy! He fits into any role, I suppose. Imagine his previous movie to this was Salaam Namaste, which was full comedy-romantic role and the very next movie a dark-psychotic role. Mark of a great actor. This movie cast is also very impressive with Naseeruddin Shah, Dimple Kapadia, Boman Irani, Simone Singh, Manoj Pahwa. Its a nice movie. If you like seeing movie beyond whats screened then you will not regret watching this movie.

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(Attempting for a) Blog Template Update!!!

This is inspired by PV & Others! :-)

Actually I wanted to update my template for a real long time. And have been actively updating my template. But I have been updated or modifying only the old version of the template. I mean not the beta blogger ones. So today I decided to jump into the well.
I am (like most of the users across the globe) unhappy with my template. The template provided by blogger is not very flexible from my perspective. And I realized, if I wanna get what I want then I need to work towards it. Obvious. So, now I am working towards it. In the mean time...

You will so many changes that might not be pleasant. Sorry for inconvienience.

btw, to whom I am apologizing? :-) I need not apologize 4 two reasons:
1. its my webpage, i can do what-ever i feel like. :-) thats the 1st reason why we have a blog. to do what-ever we feel like!!!
2. read the 1st again. :-D
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Hyd House Hunting Sucks!

As a prelude to the not-yet-aware-of-this-development readers. I recently hopped my company and this forced me to change my town too. I was earlier in Bangalore, India and now I am in Hyd, India. And, this is about my house-hunt in Hyd. Read on....

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      "Hyd?!! Amazing dude. A very cheap place compared to Bangalore. You will get a 1BHK for a very reasonable rates.", commented 1 guy working for a very big MNC with a $ attached to its name.
      "Fantastic! Its the right break through man. You can start saving a lot in Hyd. A very cheap cost of living. Savings start right from you house-rents.", convinced 1 more guy working for an very big Indian firm & placed in Bombay.
Can these two arsehole come in front me now?? I wanna give a square kick on their butts!!!

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Yep. I am pissed off. Bordering around frustration. What crap are these prices? The rent-rates are mind-boggling. Freak!

Lemme give some examples...
Example 1: Imagine a small 1BHK in an stupid area with buffallos all around & no flooring. Cupboards? Sorry the owner is not aware of such architectural advancements; when he constructed the house way back in June 2006, such entities like cupboards, shower, geyser did not exists.
"Area is very good. You can get fresh milk near by" said the owner. **directly from the buffalloes udder, i suppose**
"You have parking facility for you bike", he goes. **do you think the buffalloes will accept an intruder - my bike - in their yard?**
"The rent is also @ a reasonable rate. Rs 6000/month only" he qouted. **What the F!!**
My face also said the same I suppose, for he tried to reason out saying "Saar, very close to Hitec City, Saar." **So? Do humans live here?** I walked out & realized I should'nt have walked in the first place.

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For the benefit of the ppl, who are not aware of Indian scenario (are there any who will be reading my blog?), here is a gist:
1. 1BHK means 1-Bedroom-Hall-Kitchen. Yes it does not talk about restrooms but we expect the architects to be sensible.
2. Most of the houses are not-furnished. Actually some of them are under-furnished, as in there will not even be shelves. Only plain 4 walls make a room.
3. 1BHK + unfurnished + 350-400 sqft of carpet area is, under normal circumstances, should be about 2-3K/month only!

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Example 2: The broker took me to another place, which in his words is "a very good peaceful place saar." **yeah, i chose that color specifically for his words bcoz all these idiots (read as brokers) spoke in flowery-flowery words** He sat behind on my bike & we started our journey. "just here saar" after few minutes of ride "just little ahead saar" and after few more minutes, the road ended and I obviously stopped. "y did you stop saar? just a little further, saar." **where the hell is the road?** And then I saw a faint mud-path which a few 1000s years ago neantherdal man treaded upon. I went ahead with his directions, which was nothing more than "just here saar" After few more minutes of bumpy ride on a road-less road, suddenly "saar, stop saar. this is the house saar." **...er....uh....where is it?** I should have backed out the minute he said peaceful. Dumb me! And the house, dont even wanna think about it. It stinks! Literally. A small rabbit-hole & guess what? "Rent is a reasonable 6K only!!" **is it rule to put reasonable before 6K always? and is that gonna convince me to take the fuck-all house??!**

I can continue with such examples for ever. But no point. The gist, is Hyd sucks!!. With my house-hunt this is the info I have gathered, if this is gonna be of some use to somebody I will be glad.

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Avgerage Rent Rates:
       1. Central Hyd: **less than 10km from HiTec City**
                     1BHK - 6K - 10K; 2BHK - 8K - 12; 3BHK - 12K - 25K
       2. West Hyd: **less than 10km from HiTec City**
                     1BHK - 6K - 8K; 2BHK - 8K - 11; 3BHK - 10K - 20K
       3. East Hyd: **more than 15km from HiTec City**
                     1BHK - 3K - 5K; 2BHK - 5K - 8K; 3BHK - 7K - 15K
       4. Outside Hyd: **otherside of HiTec City**
                     1BHK - 6K - 10K; 2BHK - 8K - 12; 3BHK - 12K - 20K

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This post is to warn other bakras like me to think twice before you come to hyd. The attitude of the owners here is very bad. This the statement, which shocked me & my aunt (who is helping me), "Saar for no reason the owners are chasing the old tenants and renting it out for new tenants for double the rent saar"

Can those two arsehole come in front me now??
I wanna give a square kick on their butts!!!
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Dinner Debacle!

Me and my friends had gone to a hotel for a round of dinner. This is apparently a treat from my side for getting a job in their home-town. Normally, I would have expected them to gimme treat as I am the guest & they are the host in the town. But the world does not work that way! :-)

We entered this hotel, which was pretty busy. There was only 1 table left and we (3 of us) jumped on it lest somebody will occupy it! We gave a good list of order, starting from soup to appetizers/starters nd stuff. The description of the items' we ordered were yummy and we were waiting to gobble them. We were hungry like a starving lion.

The food was good but the service was pathetic... Lemme explain -

1. The starters came even before the soup! I was surprised. Normally the items come together or @least the soup is brought 1st. Or thats what I have learnt from the zillion times I have had outside!!

2. 10mins aft the starter, soup was got it. The soup tasted as though it has been kept burning for like hours. Yuuks! It tasted nasty. We returned the soup. The waiter questions our judgement!! He insisted the soup is good. He even said "Sir, I tasted it and it tastes good" Wow! He tasted the soup he got for me!!! And he wants to gimme the same soup!!!! Boy, from which village they got him??

3. After about 20mins, the waiter returns empty handed with a news that "Sir, your second starter is not available" What!!! Dude, its 40mins since we gave our orders. 30mins since you got our 1st starter. And, now ye say, the item order is out of stock!!!! Did it suddenly vanish?

4. With frustration, we give him our main course order. Surprisingly, with 20mins he returns with the order. He is about to serve us and suddenly we realized that this is not what we ordered!!! The order was sent to a wrong table! No wonder he got it within 20mins. And after another 20mins, he got the order.

5. But, again, a mistake! He reversed the order of serving. We had order roti-basket (roti is indian bread) and some rice item with a side-dish. The waiter serves us the side-dish and starts with the rice!!! Dude, in my country, which is exactly were we are right now, we serve roti before rice!!! "Oh! Sorry Sir. I shall get the roti now"

6. He gets the roti-basket & leaves the rice right next to us to get cold! It will take us @least 10-15min to finish roti's (which is anyway the stardard roti time). This means by the time we move to rice, the rice is as cold as anartica would be!!! Dude, cant you keep it inside & warm it again???

7. Finally, still hope in our hearts, we order dessert. 2 ice-creams + 1 fruit salad without icecream. This guy gets 3 ice-creams + fruit-salad!! 3 ice-creams?!! "Sir, thats for the fruit salad!" What!! No energy in us to fight. Though our order was without ice-cream, fruit-salad with ice-cream (@least in my country) is served in the same bowl. NOT SEPERATELY!!!!!! **God! Remind me about this incident next time i meet you**

We paid him without keeping tips. Why should I? For what service he did, he should be giving away somr money to get rid of me, if i create ruckus!
On a after-thought, we realized the food was tasty. Some items were very tasty. But the service was so pathetic, we left the place with a very bad feeling & a vow "NEVER AGAIN HERE!" The management should take a notice of such important aspect if they ever want to grow big.
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Company of Women

This is my opinion of khush's book titled same as my heading. i wanna warn the readers of this blog that the following contains some (apparently) un-acceptable words (very few though) and might not be a very impressive article. I somehow felt that i should dispel the wrong notion/misconception about this book so this article.

I read this book this week. I was at Shopper Stop last weekend & picked this book out of impulse. ;-) Started the book almost immediately. Found the book little different. To start with this book has very little story. One can say the story in one sentence: story of a divorced man whose libido is high & dies out of AIDS, which he contacts having various fling-affairs! :-) And regarding the plot or characters, nothing to boast about. The very interesting part of the book is the 1st page! Here you see a very profound statement by the author - I quote: "as a man gets older, his sex instincts travel from his middle to his head." And, he goes upon stating that, i quote, "I started writting this when i was 83 and finished as i turned 85. This more a book of fantasies of an octogenarian" But i believe this book contains more than sexual fantasy. It is actually the struggle of a man to find woman's love.

Ok! Here are my impressions & personal opinions about the book. Read On...

I do not regret having taken this book. or read, for that matter. I found the unsaid portion of the book very interesting. The book never says the following explicitly but thats the crux - "The protagonist Mr. Mohan Kumar is depraved of love of a woman."
      1. He had lost his mother @ the time of birth. was raised by his father.(So no motherly love.)
      2. Never had a steady gal-friend @ his college; only erotic sexually-satisfying affairs.(So no love of a gf.)
      3. Had a pathetic marriage. Where his wife was too immatured @ the time of marriage & her pregnancy immediately after their honeymoon, did not make their relationship any stronger or better.(So no love of a wife.)

All he was lookin for was a good companion. Having started associating female gender with sex early on in his life, he was looking for a companion who can share bed with him. But, unlike how certain reviews have put it, this book is not a soft porn or a book of sex. Its a book about how a man gets frustrated in his life without love of a women.

A man needs it every time of his life:
      1. as a child, needs love his mother.
      2. as a teenager or youth, needs love of his gal-friend.
      3. as a husband, needs love of his wife.
      4. as a old-man, needs love of his wife, again.
But, none of these did Mohan Kumar get in his life. And, so he started getting confused between sex & love yet deep inside him he wants a companion who will like/love him for what he his.

The book is a not a very good book for anything.
      If you are looking for an interesting plot...
            ...no this is not the book.
      If you are looking for descriptive erotic sex stuff...
            ...no this is not the book.
      If you are looking for collectors item...
            ...no this is not the book.
But, if you are looking to fill ur time with something (anything) to read then may be this is not a bad choice. So, if you are okay with some mediocre book then this tops the list. :-)



Reviews about this book that are useful:
Mouthshut
More reviews....
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Ghost Busters (1984)

I visited my friend last night & we both watched this movie on Sony-pix. Boy, we were not able to stop laughing. Every scene was interesting & comical. Every dialogue is so situational & the timing was awesome. So i decided to blog about it

3 scientist, Peter Venkman(Bill Murray), Ray Stantz(Dan Aykroyd), and Egon Spengler(Harold Ramis),gets their grant @ Columbia University revoked (or expired, not sure). They suddenly find themselves job-less. They decide to fight against the world & set up their own business. The business of Ghostbusting - trapping pesky ghosts! They become extremly successful after a dull initial period. And, soon they are a celeb and are also joined by Winston Zeddmore(Ernie Hudson), who is looking for a job with good pay. The story develops further on how famous they become & towards the end of the movie, how they save the entire New York from ghosts. Thats it!! Thats all the story is!! :-)

But the movie has got more to it than this. :-) Read on...

If you read the story, you would wonder - STORY?? WHERE?? Might even come as a silly one. But, you gotta watch the movie. The screen play is good and the dialogues are fab. Esp the acting & dialogue delivery of Dr. Peter Venkman. Boy. Boy. Bill Murray has excelled. He has an amazing attitude & has a very cool demeanour. Fab. His acting prowess has overpowered almost every other actor on screen. His flirtatious moves toward his client Dana Barrett(Sigourney Weaver) is one to be admired. The movie overall is a very good experience. You would not regret watchin it. Every scene is well knitted with the dialogue as funny as it can be. A movie worth spending time on.


As always, I did not want to be a spoiler so not giving the full story. But, unable to resist my tempation, here are some of the qoutable qoutes (actually dialogues but i like to quote) from the 1984 classic.

Quotable Quotes
**For benefit of those who do understand subtle jokes, i shal highlight them. :-)**
1. Winston Zeddemore: Ray. If someone asks if you are a god, you say, "yes!"

2. Dr. Peter Venkman: [surrounded by excited reporters during the montate sequence, which shows the Ghostbusters as a sudden popular culture craze] Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, no job is too big, no fee is too big!

3. Dr. Peter Venkman: I don't have to take this abuse from you, I've got hundreds of people dying to abuse me.

4. Dr Ray Stantz: Where do these stairs go?
Dr. Peter Venkman: They go up.

5. Dana Barrett: That's the bedroom, but nothing ever happened in there.
Dr. Peter Venkman: What a crime.

6. Dana Barrett: [possessed by Zuul] Do you want this body?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Is this a trick question?

7. [Dana is possessed]
Dr. Peter Venkman: I make it a rule never to get involved with possessed people.
[Dana starts passionately making out with him]
Dr. Peter Venkman: Actually, it's more of a guideline than a rule...

8. Dana Barrett: [as the gate keeper] I want you inside me.
Dr. Peter Venkman: [referring to the voice alternating between human and demon] It sounds like you've got at least two or three people in there already.

9. Dr. Peter Venkman: Yes sir, it's true. This man is some kind of rodent, I don't know which.

Interesting facts
1. Before the release of Home Alone (1990), this was the highest-grossing comedy of all time.
2. Voted number 28 in channel 4's (UK) "Greatest Family Films".
3. Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 6 nominations (imdb)
4. It was followed by a sequel, Ghostbusters II (1989), and two animated television series, The Real Ghostbusters (later Slimer! And the Real Ghostbusters) and Extreme Ghostbusters.
5. Mozilla's user interface language, XUL, and its JavaScript debugger, Venkman, are named after Ghostbusters characters.

Courtesy: imdb


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Halloween - an interesting concept!

i being an Indian, who has never stepped outside India, was never aware of halloween until recently. and this year, for whatever reason, i am repeatedly hearing a lot of talk about halloween. so i went about googling & this is what i got out of it. thought would post therm out here....

Halloween
Halloween is a tradition celebrated on the night of October 31, most notably by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting sweets. Halloween originated as a Pagan festival. The term Halloween, and its older spelling Hallowe'en, is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the evening before "All Hallows' Day" (also known as "All Saints' Day"). In Ireland, the name was All Hallows' Eve (often shortened to Hallow Eve), and though seldom used today, it is still a well-accepted label. Halloween is often associated with the occult. Many European cultural traditions hold that Halloween is one of the those times of the year when the spiritual world can make contact with the physical world and when magic is most potent!!! :-)

Trick or Treat
The main event of modern US-style Halloween is trick-or-treating, in which children dress up in costume disguises and go door-to-door in their neighborhood, ringing each doorbell and yelling "trick or treat!" Though, Trick-or-treating resembles the late medieval practice of "souling," when poor folk would go door to door, receiving food in return for prayers for the dead on All Souls Day.

Symbols
The imagery surrounding Hallowe'en is largely an amalgamation of the Halloween season itself, nearly a century of work from American filmmakers and graphic artists, and a rather commercialized take on the dark,diaria and mysterious. Black and orange are the traditional colors of Hallowe'en. In modern Hallowe'en images and products, purple, green, and red are also prominent.


Food **aah, my best part! :-)**
Because the holiday comes in the wake of the annual apple harvest, Candy Apples (also known as toffee, taffy or caramel apples) are a common treat at Halloween. They are made by rolling whole apples in a sticky sugar syrup, and sometimes then rolling them in nuts. **oh, boy, can somebody sponsor me a two-way trip only 4 1 day every year??** A Halloween custom which has survived unchanged to this day in Ireland is the baking (or more often nowadays the purchase) of a barmbrack (Irish "báirín breac"). This is a light fruit cake into which a plain ring is placed before baking. It is said that whoever finds this ring will find his or her true love during the following year. **wow! i love the ring concept**

Interesting facts
1. Halloween is most popular in Ireland, where it is said to have originated, is celebrated Halloween as Samhain, "End of Summer", a pastoral and agricultural fire festival or feast, when the dead revisited the mortal world, and large communal bonfires would be lit to ward off evil spirits.
2. Today in England, unlike other parts of the world, adults often dress up and go to fancy dress parties or pubs and clubs on Hallowe'en night. **and, what do the kids do?? :-)**
3. In the United States, Halloween has become the sixth most profitable holiday (after Christmas, Mother's Day, Valentines Day, Easter, and Father's Day) for retailers **boy, opportunists, yeah?!!**
4. The National Confectioners Association reported, in 2005, that 80 percent of adults planned to give out candy to trick-or-treaters, and that 93 percent of children planned to go trick-or-treating. **well, who funds them??**


Courtesy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

Now after reading about Halloween I wonder what it would have been called if this was in celebrated in India???

Rains. What a terror.

i hear the Chennai is submerged in rains! poor Chennai! it has been raining continuously for over few days; literally non-stop. 24/7!! yet it seem to have the same energy & zeal to pelt down more. phew! its tough to live under such conditions of extreme rainfall. imagine a never ending rain-fall that does not allow you to move out of house. you are under house-arrest. :-(

i have read some time ago that "when it rains, it pours." and this time around the rains in chennai has been a classical example to prove this statement. and this has become a norm oflate. no rains for a real long time and suddenly all of the rain at the same time. its like retaining the water for over 2-3 months & pouring it all-at-once in a single week. now, how in heavens any city can handle this? now no blames on the city-architect for not having planned for heavy rains please! how in jupiter can he/she/they even work out a plan for such a unpredictable event?? whats happening now is more like suddenly THE Rain God woke up from a deep slumber & tipped the bucket & promplty went back to sleep!!! what the heck, I say.

But check the impossible determination of chennaites. check these snaps to know it. and, i am sure this was the case out there in mumbai too. or may be more. hats off to their commitment to attend offices, be present in colleges/schools & meet their lovers. :-)

Lemme quote the yahoo news! "The Met department Sunday said that since last night (oct 28, 2006) Chennai had received 188.8 mm of rain and its outskirts 94.5 mm." phew! thats way too much buddy. way too much for a 1 night. am sure even james-bond would not be belting out this much for an 1-night affair. ;-) **censoring other irrelevant nasty thoughts** ;-D

After seeing about rains i went about tryin to understand why rains & why only chennai, ap (esp vizak, vijayawada) & orissa. Because of my ability to fall asleep everytime my geo lecturer walked in, i did not, to say the least, understand the scientific reason behind rains, low-pressure & stuffs. all i was able to gather was there is low-pressure (tending towards serious depression) in bay-of-bengal, which is the main cause for this incessant rains. Also, i hear that this depression is moving towards AP! **gulp** Hope it does not affect hyd much.

Having said all these I would like to say that Rain introduces a tinge of romantism in air. Rainy season is the best time to catch up with things. Be it sleep. Be it GF (or BFs). Be it with a nice novel. Be it a nice hot spicy mirchi-bajji. :-)

But the best use of rain till date is when you get wet with it. Its really really fun 2 get wet in rain. and its more fun if you get to play a game of soccer. And it is ultimate if your mom back home goes red seeing your wet & dirty!!! Man its fun, unlimited. Mom, I wish I was home.

Phew! At last...

...a post after months. I was busy. Busy in very many things and a lot of restrictions that held me from doing what i enjoyed - blogging. I could reel out what had taken so much of my valuable time that I was not even able to update my blog or even read others blogs.

To start with...
...they had blocked blogspot in my ofc. :-(
...my manager suddenly fell in love with me & never wanted me to even have a minute of free-time.
...a few minutes of spare time i got i tried my best to catch up with my friends. i did but did not do it well enuf.
...weddings, marriages, nuptials & what not. I was constantly out of town attending my friends' most important events
...and, to top it all, i was on a look out for a change of job!!! And, I successful did. :-)

Currently, i am no more associated with my previous company & moved to a smaller firm with, obviously, better pay. The overall experience of change of job was a little rigorous but a learning one. The only hitch was that I had to re-locate my base from the world-known Bangalore to a lesser-yet-known Hyderabad. The thought of moving out of a well-established surroundings to a unknown place was a bit unnerving. In fact, though it is the 4th day in my office, i am still uncomfy & nervous. :-(

Regardin my ofc, here is the mail i had sent 2 my frnds that kinda briefs about my experience in my new place. I shall past it here 4 my e-friends :-) -

Here i am @ Hyd happily yet-to-be settled. The office looks kewl. Crowded with 30 ppl!! Got introduced to the entire office in 5minutes (+/- few seconds). Has got a small cafe which can accomodate one team @ a time, provided team size is two. But, yeah, i am assigned a comp the very minute i walked in. :-) though i was seated @ a place where even a blind man "walking on the road" can see what I am up to; ofcourse, now i am in a bit more secure place (meaning, can do whatever i want) ;-) nd, i am yet to be assigned a email id, work, a buddy or responsibility. fun unlimited! :-D

i think i am wrongly-oriented. this place is not 4 me :-( this place has only 2 females & none in the flirt-category (1 awesomely sexy aunt who does'nt know to smile & another "no comments plz"). also, if nebody asks ye which medium yer company works tell English, bcoz i am in a telugu medium company!!

i am given a sharing-temp-accomodation with a guy who is wonderin why GOD gave him vocal chords & what the word "smile" that he read in the dictionary means!!! Nd, currently, other than VP, no one (including me) knows why i come to ofc everyday. hopefully soon i wil b given something 2 take back home either sal or work.

okie buddies. gotta stop here. do not want a new boss catching a new employee not working even though the new employee is jobless. :-) wil catch ye guys/gals later, sooner & often.

keep in touch.

A Promise. Hope to keep it.

I am xtremely busy now-a-days and dont have time to blog or orkut either. in fact, i did not even go to home-town for more than 3months, which is very unusual. I wanted to keep in touch with my student-friends esp the e-friends for they come & go more quickly then others. I started writting a mail which took a form of a poem. And here i dedicate them to my blog-friends.

       this work life is so damn buggin and boring
       i wish i cud get back 2 my days of snoring;
       un4tunately, 4 another month or so, i cannot
       but work & work till i would 4get wut is a cot!!!

       i am jealous of ye people, the student life
       is like a freedom life without a nagging wife!
       wish i cud return to that life, with no worry.
       no tension. filled with fun, frolic and merry.

       miss do not the times with friends you are having
       aft now there will none who will be even caring;
       life bcomz so bleedin monotonous & xtrmly dull
       wondering when my lucky angel will gimme a pull.

       neways, thinkin its time 4 me to change the work
       else i wud soon bcum the most famous dork.
       as it is i am losin frnds & others 4 lack of contact
       its time i buck time & not sit around but act.

       so with the new found extreme enthu & zeal
       here comes my mail with president's seal,
       which is equivalent to promises by ton,
       that "I SHALL KEEP TOUCH; MORE OFTEN"

Awful Weekend!!!

The just gone past weekend was possibly the most awful weekend I ever spent. How else can I classify a key bunch loss + soaking rain + late for Bde party + oversleeping + snooker series loss???

**Friday**
Friday eve, aft ofc hours, I was requested by my colleague/close friend to drop her on my way home. I, obviously, agreed and while driving down, GOD decided to bless us. He showered down his blessing! Literally!!! Mid-way thro' we got almost wet! I dont mind getting wet; on the contrary, I love to get wet. But this gal is a very sick-prone gal; esp flu seem to have taken a gr8 liking to this gal. When flu gets tired of attackin others, it takes rest in our gal! And, when GOD decides to open up, I was taking her for a ride back home!! Amazing timing! With this history behind her, I was extremely concerned about the effect rain would have on her. If she was ever affected I would not have forgiven my ownself. Fortunately, nothin happened. Thank God!!!
And after I dropped her, I decided to stay @ my friends place, which is about 7-8kms from my home. I chose to pedal down. So after drying myself up I took my bike & pedaled down. Fortunately, rain had stopped. Again, Thank God!!!


**Saturday**
I woke up late and missed my cricket nets practise. I was irritated on myself. I am not of the kind who like to miss playing esp if it means representing my corporate. But, I did miss my practise this time. I was not enjoying the way day began. Actually, the way the weekend began! Reluctantly, I decided to go ahead with rest of my plan for the day. I was getting ready and guess what? I was not able to trace my key-bunch. Entire key-bunch! Holy freaking Christ!!! I searched for hours but in vain.I, ruefully, recollected that this key-bunch is my access to every possesion of mine. This bunch contains key to my mobike, my bike, my house key! Damn God! I, without any other choice, decided to remake them. First & the foremost being my mobike key. I dont have the spare; bcoz the bank from where I took a loan to purchase would not give me the spare till I clear the loan. Interestingly, they were not even interested in giving the key even to make a duplicate! So much for the loan!!! Anyways, I went to a locksmith and made a key for myself. This damn key costed me no small amount. Damn it!
Then comes the best part! This key-making process including searching for it consumed the whole of the morning and half of the afternoon. Grrrr..... I had not touched even a piece of bread from the time I woke up! I had a very very late lunch by any standard. And realized that I had to be a event manager for my colleagues' daughter's bday party!!! I was supposed to be there by 4pm & time now is 4:30pm!!! Also I am still at my friends place! Wow! I was getting repeated calls from my colleague. I rushed up to my place. And, again, GOD wanted to bless me. Another shower! A mighty one! And the poor me was pedalling down on my bike!! Do I need to say more?? Well, I got obviously wet; actually, soaked! I reach home and find that inspite of a jerkin I am wet till the second layer of my skin. This also means that my mobile is wet! Holy Freak! I hurriedly get dressed & go to the party. Just to realize that party is over and I was supposed to be the emcee!! Wow! Just had a piece of cake! And almost ran out...


**Sunday**
Again, I overslept!!! Oh freak no!! Repeated the same mistake within 24hrs! Not that I dont repeat my mistakes but within 24hrs is a bit too much. So lazily I got up and went ahead with nothing to do. I went to the next and same result! Amazing. Then I suddenly realized I needed a hair conditioner and I went to the nearest super-market to purchase the specific brand. As my fate would have it, it was not available! Another day of ill-luck, i suppose! After this I suddenly get a call from my friend to meet her immediately. I rush just to find that it is nothing more than a chat. By the time the chat got over the time was 4pm and I, again, had not had anything more than a sip of coffee. Kewl! I was damn hungry. I went to my friends place and grabbed some junk food, generously provided by his sister. Then we both decided to go for a game of pool. I am not a pro but definitely not very bad either. Compared to him I am not all that bad either. But, nothing surprising, I lost 3 games straight in a "game-for-5".... So apparently my lady luck was following me keenly. Not planning to test "lady ill-lucks" capacity I went back home & straight hit the sack.

Did anybody experience such a lovely weekend ever??
If so please ping me, I need a shoulder to cry on! :-(

Happy BDe "MY LORD PV"

yep this post is regardin my palz bde party. probably a real party aft my hostel dayz. lemme explain better...

        Date: 30.05.06
        Place: Halle Mane
        Occasion: Birthday

It all began as my classmate Chul, working for a leading MNC, had come down to India on a 2-week long vacation from US of A! On his way home he dropped in Bangalore, as all of us are out here. He and me were project partners during our techie days. A brillian traditional telugu villager!! :-D Nice chap, overall. Neways this article is not about him. He wanted to meet us all and we promptly agrred the moment the word treat came into the discussion! :-D

Some of us, who could make it to the destination, after the dinner party by Chul went to our P9-HQ - HalliMane. **For those who dont understand what is P9 read PV's blog or wait for my post!** The time was 11:30pm, so we watched 2nd episode of the "F.R.I.E.N.D.S"! Boy, what amazing s.e.x they talk without using the word!

When the clock struct 00:00, Saka struck too! He struck a match & lit a lone candle on the cake that was brought for this occasion. Well the candle was pretty new and so would not get lit. Poor PV had to blow the flame even before it hit the candle!! Then we sang the ceremonial "Happy Bde PV" song. Oh! yeah, i forgot. Just before PV could blow the candle out Prasad gave a call. He was kept on hold & he too joined us as the chorus ;-). After the cake cutting by PV, MC, whose bde was exactly 1 week earlier was also given a chance to cut the cake & we sang for him too.

Just then Chandu gave a call and wished PV. Well then the fun began. Cake smacking!! Boy! It was fun. PV, was forthcoming in this cake smacking exercise. But MC was so hesitant to lend his face as target that we had real fun in smacking MC!! :-D Then the other part of the party. Birthday Bums!!! We caught the birthday boy - PV and whacked him. These moments make me think like I am gladiator in a roman ring. :-D **Wild imagination, isnt it?** After we were done with PV, we moved onto MC, the birthweek boy. After killing MC, we moved towards the US-of-A return Chul. We whacked him too. Wow! This was almost like re-living hostel. Cake Smacking and Bum Whacking!!!

For other blogs on the same topic, check PV's blog.

Tried hard to post snaps but blogger is refusin 2 accept my snaps! :-( Will try again later.