How is the winner decided?
Is it you or you?
How is the winner decided?
Is it you or you?
I have been waiting too, and finally I have managed to upload the ones from Tushar’s Camera… most of them are clicked by Tushar himself except the ones with an “*” in the title
Click HERE to check them out… or click the link in the phototrips….
And now the real world…
How many of us really live up to that claim?
Do I ?
Just some words from the sentences that happened over the weekend…
Oh and some pictures from the Phool Walon ki Sair and Qutub have been uploaded to flickr… you might want to check them out here !!!
Lets stop calling our “mistakes” mistakes…. Lets start referring to them as “Improvement Opportunities“…
Anyway, we, in the layman terms, call this game “Let’s jump to a conclusion”
Rules of this game:
Here are a few examples…
Rakesh: I am not really feeling like doing anything today…
Rampal: “which means” that you are feeling bad about something?
Rakesh: No buddy, there is nothing specific…
Rampal: “which means” you do not want to tell me OR “which means” you do not consider me a good friend of yours anymore” or “which means” that you are doing something that I should not know about “which means” I have to know about it someway or the other “which means” that I got to make some effort to investigate everything…
Nidhi: Rahul dumped me today
Nisha: “which means” he is available now | “which means” I can ask him out |
”which means” nidhi must’ve been a bitch to him | “which means” Rahul is such a bastard | “Which means” they did not have a good sex life | “which means” I have to dump Rakesh if I want to ask Rahul out and more “which means” and more “which means”…
Mom: How is life in the office these days? Do you feel good working?
Son: “which means” she is thinking of getting me married | “which means” she has already thought of getting me married to Sharma’s auntie’s geeky daughter | “which means” my life is ruined
And I do not even remember how many other innings of the game I remember…
“Which means” I have bad memory? Eh!!!
But then on a serious note, I do not really support this game… But for some reason I see most of us around are a part of the fan following for this game…
What about you?
The plan almost got canceled, I was not sure if I wanted to take a chance with the weather…But then it did not get as cold as it usually gets in November… I, however, kept preparing myself by not using warm water to take a bath… Kept using cold water and infact enjoying it, to condition myself to the cold in Rishikesh ?
Saturday started pretty early… around 0300 hrs… with a few phone calls, packing ( yes yes I am a last minute packing person)… picked up Tushar from near his place and reached the Radisson, NOIDA where we were to meet the rest of the Gang from Aseem’s company… Aseem was delayed by 10 minutes, but we were still not late… He had his share of drive in the morning… Faridabad to Gurgaon to NOIDA… I think we can call it another “Golden Triangle”… What say?
Anyway, a total of 11 people, in two different cars left NOIDA Radisson around 0445 hours. For some reason, this Qualis was SLOW… though it left like 10 minutes before yes, and because we had to turn back to get Aseem’s jacket we took another 10 minutes… I managed to cover these 20 minutes and add atleast 45 another minutes to my advantage on the entire route with two breaks… I like it & Radha ROCKs…
After Meerut, thick fog welcomed us, and I was forced to drive very very slow for a long time… it was only after Muzaffarnagar Bypass that I could pick up some speed… Oh and two things worth mentioning here…
1) Anjie spent a good 15 minutes in the bathroom in the morning… When asked, she told us that she had done everything possible in the bathroom
Please ask Anjie for a reason why this information from her is so important
2) I remembered Aseem where he had Pee’ed away his 6600 to glory… this is the railway crossing on the Bypass !!! And the incident happened on one of our rafting trips only !!!
A quick pee break near Khatauli, a tea break after Muzaffarnagar… no traffic jams… thick fog… ensured that we were in Rishikesh around 0900 hrs… in a li’il over 4 hours…
What followed was some chitchat… and a lot of wait!!! Aseem and party come around 0945 hrs… some of them were not adequately dressed for rafting , but were enthusiastic enough which more then made up for the rest of the things…
Next I had to wait for Anand and his two friends; meanwhile we changed our clothes, called Pradeep (our rafting guy), roamed around, and had breakfast…
Around 1130 hrs, we finally left for Shivpuri… The water was cold, but the weather great !!! And finally we started… and here is what happened:
Got off the raft and decided to retire in a hotel near the Parmarth Ashram… The Raj Palace is where we stayed… Good rooms they were… once in the rooms we did not really feel like getting out checking anything else Conversations followed… And then dinner… very very nice Italian Restaurant…
Anjie was the first one to sleep, followed by the rest of us.. And was the first one to get up on Sunday…
And here is what she managed to do that Sunday morning:
~ Bug all the three guys…
~ Make unsuccessful attempts to wake all three of us up…
~ Roam around Rishikesh and sit next to the Ganges for an hour before coming back to the hotel and try to wake all of us up…
~ Take a bath early morning before 0700 hrs… Phew!!!
We finally got up… and then pondered over the idea of trekking to a waterfall… and because Tushar and Angie pushed the idea with a lot of force, Me and Deepak agreed!!!
And AM I HAPPY OR WHAT!!!
We had breakfast at Chotiwala, and then moved to NeelKuddu, from where our trek was to start…
We walked for about 35 minutes on a way which was steeper then most of the treks I have done… and then reached a place which was amazing… a nice clean waterfall, which a made up hugggggggggggge bath tub… and Angie again was the first one to enter the water… Tushar followed and then me and Deepak… we spent a good hour and a half in the water playing around… clicking pictures taking videos… and some of the pics are worth sharing… the rest I rather keep it for public viewing…
we managed to dry ourselves in about 30 minutes, walk back to the car, and then drive back to Delhi…
Two pit stops…
One @ Haridwar to get Ganga Jal
Second @ Roorkee, which included some fantastic Lassi and Chole Chaat…
A long drive with music followed… the music genre shifted from Rock to Hindi Happy to Retro !!! and that kept the tempo up !!!
Dropped Deepak @ 2130 hrs at the Welcome Metro Station
Had a quick bite in Dilshaad Garden with Anjie, met Rohit, talked for a while, and then rushed to NOIDA to quickly grab a bite again with Tushar… Thankfully, the sector-25 Rolls-wala was still open and we could eat…
Finally reached home around 2300 hrs and surrendered to sleep…
I am sure I was smiling all night with the happiness I brought with me…
Bindiya
: ya right!may be continued…
Do you remember?
If someone had asked me this question before last Saturday, I would not have an answer… but today I have an answer… I was a kid this Saturday… 4th of November’2006… here is what happened…
I missed out on the Photography meet in the morning… no camera, myself needed at home, work to be done… multiple issues kept me away… and Pinks aka Priyanka suggested that we should not miss the last function in the “Phool Walon Ki Sair”… it made a lot of sense… I mean so many years in Delhi and I have not even been a witness to Delhi’s one of the best functions… bad bad…
I thought it was just perfect… I missed out on the morning show… lets check out the evening then… picked up Anjali badi Manjali aka Booboo Singh from Noida more around 1630 hours and rushed to Qutub Minar… Pinks and Deepsie were already in the Qutub taking pictures…A quick round of helloes… and Anjie’s and Priyanka’s introduction to each other… My introduction to the D70S Priyanka was carrying… and we were ON!!! Pictures, talking, fun, laughter… and trust me this was just the beginning of an evening I will remember for a long time!!!
We moved out of the Qutub in a while and then asked our way to the JahazMahal, Mehrauli… where the main function was supposed to be… decided to leave my car behind and take only one car to the function… finding our way was not too difficult… When we reached there the function had not begun and people were still settling down… we did not have any passes which meant that we could not get inside the audience area… which inturn meant that we were to stand on the other side of the road and enjoy the proceedings… which we did… and to keep us company were Gupta Caterers from Chandni Chawk… YES!!! Food from the walled city… Chaat, Golgappe, Tikki, Kulfi… yes ISHTIK Kulfi and mango Kulfi… with that some pictures… some laughter… some good moments in the camera…
We then decided to move from there, and go to a local MELA… Priyanka was already kinda scared of the fact that she was supposed to sit on the Giant Wheel, and I was super happy to know that she was scared… its fun to be with someone who is scared of Rides in a park
We were quick to take the tickets and force the chick to take a seat… and her reactions, the screams, the expressions were more then a picture or a camera or any words can describe… totall funnn!!!!
Next was a ride which was kinda strange… it was a big platform which would rotate and then had smaller seats for two in 4 which would rotate freely other then the platform… I cannot even tell you how interesting and exciting this was… Deepak almost got killed because of Anjie baby sitting next to him: D and we screamed out lungs out in this ride!!! When it finished, I had a headache and a stomach ache and a throat ache thanks to the spinning, and the screaming… but it was FUNN too!!!
Our next ride was the Columbus!!! Bigger then the biggest I had sat on… and the rest of the three now totally in the mood wanted to sit on the extreme end seats… which they did… and it was funnnnnnnnn again… laughter, screams, hair flowing around… it was fun to see how Priyanka’s long hair would all go at the back when we were going down on that ship… and how they covered her face otherwise…
We saw this Maut Ka Kuan… the Well of Death where there were Ladies in Men: D and then we saw these chicks dancing on a stage… all of them doing a different dance step and trying to be sexy… trust me TRYING to be sexy!!!
Also there was a magic show!!! And then the two girls tried their hands on shooting the balloons… I am not very sure they were able to aim right or not… but then looking at all the guys around them trying to see how they perform with shooting was great… looks like that these two were the only hott chicks in the entire fair area !!! And we two hunks were lucky to be with them: D
And then we went to this photo studio… it was kinda sad to find out that these guys did not have a car and an airplane where we could click a fotu!!! But then they allowed to get inside the studio and click some gooood shots: D
And this is how the mela came to an end!!! Fantastic evening this was… and we all came out tired of laughing and screaming and enjoying…
Back to Qutub Minar only to realize that the car was locked in the parking and we had to go the Police Station to get a slip to get the car out… Mehrauli Police Station which was about a km away is where we went and the people there were more then helpful in sending someone with us to get the car…
Our next pit stop was Dilli Haat… good Chinese food from the Nagaland stall… and beer… ya ya… fruit beer!!! And then everyone suddenly had the urge to have a drink or two… a small discussion on the pubs around… and we reached a consensus that DV8 is where we were going… quickly reached there from Dilli Haat.. The roads were pretty empty at that hour… and had our share of drinks… and more fun and more laughter… and some damn good music… and it was pure fun to see Angie HIGH!!!
A walk back the parking lot at 0030 hrs in the night in CP is something that I would love to do any day… rather any night ? quick ta tus, and bye byes and hugs and we moved in our directions…
Only to meet again and have our share of happiness from the lives we touch!!!
1. Dirty Shoes…
2. Girls whose cleavage shows and is a delight to watch…
3. The too loud and gaudy belt buckles…
4. Corporate Politics… people trying to use someone else’s work for their numbers…
5. Times when I know when my friend is in trouble, and is not sharing the thought or the situation…
6. Females with unshaved arms or legs that show…
7. Thick wallets… full of cards and cards and more cards… visiting… debit…credit…discount.. cards and more cards…
Some of the above itches, I just cannot scratch… Some, I try… but my hands cannot reach them… and some I am scratching while I am writing this!!!
There are many more…but then I guess for today, I am good with sharing these Itches… any lotions suggested???

धीरे-धीरे रे मना, धीरे सब कुछ होय । माली सींचे सौ घड़ा, ॠतु आए फल होय ॥
मेरा गाँव मेरा देस
आई एम् फिरोम पश्चिमी उत्तर प्रदेश
नदी किनारे साँप है; अकेले अकेले चाय पीना पाप है
काली माता आएगी, उठा के ले जायेगी !!!
दूध चीनी रोक के ! चाय पत्ती ठोक के !
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