trip trip trip!

By the way this post is too late regarding the mention of this awesome trip that i had during 14-15 march. But the awesomeness of this trip made me put some mention of it( BTW i also didn't get any time for this :P). So during the very early hours of 14th, 6 guys, 2 cars headed towards rishikesh. For me this was my first car-driving-on-my-own long trip, so i was really very excited. driving during early hours (4-5 am) on the ghaziabad-rishikesh stretch is pleasurable.
By the way the two other oldies FA and MS were just missing the fun and sleeping while i was driving my i10 :) . I tried loud music, opened all four windows at a speed of 120 km/hr to make them wake up, but you know, old majdoors just won't wake up.
Out first stop was at Roorkee. FA was as excited as a kid on reaching there, he took us all inside his old beautiful campus of IIT Roorkee, we had a tea at his favourite prof's home also :) .
Finally we took off from there and reached rishikesh at around 11 am, clicked some pics with our feet in the chilling water of ganga.

Then headed out for the thrilling rafting at around 1 pm. We reached shivpuri and then started on our raft. The rapids out there are really amazing and adventurous, at one of the rapids we almost had our raft overturned(with me and AJ on the front seats of it). Then came the most interesting part of it, the "cliff-jumping". I just ran towards the cliff like an excited kid and took a jump off that 30-35 feet high cliff into the deep water. I tell you, those fraction of seconds when one is in between the cliff and the water, are so so damn thrilling! One just thinks -"man! where the hell has the earth gone"!!Its just like one of those dreams when you are falling and falling (everyone must have experienced that nightmare i guess :D ). Well , jumped for one more time, with AJ also being brave. FA, RM and MS were so damn scared that it took them almost 20-25 minutes to jump. lolz!
Finally we reached after 16 kms of tiring and amazing rafting, with FA saving a girl(And me being the kabaab me haddi as usual ! lolz!) Finally we reached, ate our food like monsters, and by the time we reached the hotel, we were so so tired, that we could just not lift a hand to get water :D !
BTW on 14th, we had decided to go for the 27 km rafting on 15th morning.But all we tired monsters woke up at 11 a.m on 15th and then it was not possible anymore. Anyways, after getting out of hotel, and having fresh ganne ka juice , and then again coming back 6-7 kms to the hotel to get MS's special cap from the hotel that he had forgotten there, we headed towards hardwar. Reached there safe, played a lot in the chilling water at har-ki-paudi(with AJ's new inventions to dodge water stream) , checked out some hot girls ;) (with FA's hot-girl-radar beeping everytime! lolz!) .

In the evening we set out towards ghaziabad, driving was a bit difficult with lots of traffic and bumpy roads every now and then. Finally we had our last meal of the trip at domino's at some fancy mall in meerut and MS gave us an ice-cream treat at nirula's (and again forgot his special cap there! WTF! :D).finally we reached ghaziabad at around 1130 pm.

Overall it was a spontaneous, fun-filled adventurous weekend-out. Looking forward to some more of these kind of fun-rides ! I hope FA gets to find the girl that he saved, MS forgets to forget his special cap, and i go for that 27 km rafting very soon !

Something to share...!

Life is full of things that are totally uncalled for, unexpected, unfortunate. Your loved ones leave you, some by their own wish, some by the wish of god. But how does it really help the life of some folks on this very earth? Yes it does.... just coming today on my way back in the van ("swarg yaan") after bidding the farewell to my grandpa at the crematory, my thoughts wandered off to the little details of the day-to-day life of those people out there(crematory) who earn from the death of people! By the way my grandpa, a respectable man, i wish god blesses his soul and he gets the moksha ! Coming back to my thoughts..The workers out there..The pandit guy who manages his responsibility just fine among the hue and cry of all the depressed weeping crowd, the guy who carries the firewood upto the cremation place, the sweeper guy that sweeps off the remains at the place, the van("swarg yaan") driver who books numerous bodies to their final destination. Well, this was my only experience of that place.and what amazed me was, that at the place where even the numbest of robots may break down into sobs, those folks were really calm. Normally, in the society that we live, its not that fortunate to have someone lifeless around. But what about the guy who is around so many lifeless corpses the whole day, for years? does he really believe in this game of fortune and misfortune, what does he really talk about his day to his wife by the way?(hey i saw a body today, and i tell you what......) . How focused the pandit guy is, who just doesn't have to console the crying people, who is not expected to really join them, but to make them do what is needed at the moment. Have these folks made themselves immune to the sufferings, to see each day several lifeless faces very closely?What is the definition of propitiousness to them? And finally, what leaves one clueless is, when those guys ask for a bribe openly. The guy just said "sahab! hum koi shaadi ya khushi k kaam kar ke nahi kamate, kriya-karam kar k hi yahin kamate hain!" At that emotional moment, i really felt like punching him in face, but after coming to think of it again, i felt sad for him. I mean, his "work life" is really not that superb, he is doing it only and only for money, and that's what he was asking for!
Well, my thoughts really wander off to unbelievably strange dimensions at times, and this was one of those moments.Robots are strange..

A week Not to remember!

Well last week was full of so many ups and downs . Well it started with the tiredness of the last weekend, when i drove to gurgaon in 3.5 hrs(50 km max) ( thanks to thousands of couples tying their respective knots all across the delhi)[ups=0,downs=1]. Never mind, the sloppy monday welcomed me(as it always is). But the next two days proved rather productive at my dukan . Mr FA was so happy with the productivity that he tagged it as the most productive week.[ups=1,downs=1] By the way, FA is always seen indulged in winding up other's activities rather than his own at the dukan. So this feeling of accomplishment for him was a result of his believe to end up the long stretched-beyond-deadline work of many people, including me, AK and M. Any ways, here came wednesday and i met KS after a series of making and cancelling our loads of plans to see each other. Well, it wasn't as exciting as much as i was waiting for it for so long[ups=1,downs=2]. Maybe thats because its the time when the numbness in my veins has taken over every emotion...Again, never mind.Then came thursday, with the productive week still bypassing all the records of productiveness :), the shock was yet to come. There we got the news that M had to leave the dukan[ups=1, downs=3]. well it's a matter of handeling unbelievable surprize and shock.FA went home early (surprizingly!) . On friday, it was only suffocation, silence and sorrow at the dukan.We made an effort to make the atmosphere rather sentimental by writing good luck messages to AM, SG and our favourite M, who we were not going to see anymore at dukan. Mausi was gifted with a sapling(she likes green things), and here smile after recieving this farewell made everything a bit better[ups= 1.05 downs=3].And it's tagged as The most productive week,Ended on a sad note. A week not to remember!

A new beginning!

After thinking lots and lots of times about writing some thoughts of mine (though most of them are extremely random), finally i have started with this blog! New year(And some months in the 4th quarter of 2k8) has come up in my life with lots of new things ! Most of them pleasant, some in a short term, other(s) in long term. Suddenly i can feel all the energy that was not being used (or being wasted somewhere else) during the college time, back in my veins.! New life(office office!),New friends, my first new car(my shiney i10), my new guitar(well, one fine day i just felt like i should learn guitaring! :|), new gymming bug(after getting tired of carrying those extra kilos on my belly after being a corporate)..That's enough of the new things that can be handled at a time i guess, after living a totally inactive 4 year span of life in college!By the way, i don't know if its the new companions, or the lively atmosphere in my new surrounings, or the urge to remain occupied 24x7 (to NOT think the crap that goes in my idle mind)that has gotten me into this.well, being 'alone+idle' is the deadliest combination that can make me go crazy and depressed, but now the most joyful part is only that i m never idle :). For me, its THE new year, another beginning and i am loving it! :)