I am Back ...again...

I am beginning to feel very predictable and boring..lately all my posts have been just posts about my weekend and so is this one for lack of anythng better...
The weekend was the usual one..partying on Saturday and relaxing with family on the sunday and back to the Grind on monday...

This Sunday was an experience however..Me and two of my friends had entered a quiz competition in our club.. I was very sceptical about us making it to the venue..let alone qualifying.. We had al reached home at around 1:00 on Sunday morning and the quiz was at 9:00 am..and it was not like all of us had been drinking pepsi the whole night...:)

9:00 am saw Sourabh messaging me that he might not be able to make it.... a few frantic calls later all of us were up..and stumbled to the venue... The others must have misinterpreted our looks to be fatigue from preparing for the quiz..now that would be a laugh..Coffee revved us up. and we were ready to take on the quizmaster.. Since we knew the organisers we were trying to pull a few strings..unsuccessfully in the end..

We had about 30 min to answer 40 questions.. And we would be lucky to get 10 right...
We decided to have fun in the quiz and not tax ourselves too much... our answers were as far from the truth as possible...
One of the questions was " who was the last man on the moon" and our answer.."the guy who went after Neil Armstrong".. There was another question about some king of england..and we knew that it was one of the Henry's..so our answer was.."King Henry V/VI/VII/VII" ..I guess you get the general idea of how we fared..
After turning in our papers we were all given the answers..and this was the best part..after every answer was announced ..me and my partners would start giving each other high-fives.and after all the answers were announced we were all yelling so hard and celebrating... Those people are sure going to be one surprised bunch when they don't see us on the stage in the finals..

I just remembered a joke that came up on Saturday night..This one had us in splits for a pretty loong time...
A lady at a party: " Oye Sardarji..zara susu karne ki jagah dekhao."
Sardarji: Oye naughty..pehle tum dikhao"

Ahh..finally I am blogging again..

It has been such along time since I blogged. It has most definitely not been for the lack of material, but just for the lack of time..but what matters now is..I AM BACK

This weekend will be remembered for a long time..It started off on friday itself with a visit to the new McDonald's and a good loong drive, and with good company to boot..I felt like I was back in college and bunking classes(which i absolutely love to do)

The Saturday started off with something I like to do best..RIDE MY BIKE..
Was riding with three friends. Sharan was riding pillion with me and Ragu and Sandeep were on the formers's Pulsar.Our initial plan was to ride to Shivanasaudram to catch the beautifull waterfall there.When we were pretty close to our destination we saw a board to a place called Mutatthi.On an impulse we decided to ride there and boy.. was it a good decision or was it a good decision..The roads were pretty narrow and we met more cattle and sheep than the number of humans we had come across for the day.The road kept sloping downwards, and we were enjoying the fabulous ride. The roads were in good condition too.We suddenly realised that we were in a jungle and soon we could hear the river Cauvery.We suddenly came across the river and it was just fabulous to see the river in full force.We were so enamoured by the river and the beautiful roads that we kept riding and did not realise that we had passed our destination. It was too late to turn back and so we kept riding hoping to hit the highway soon. The roads became more of a dirt track after this.
At one point our bikes were pretty deep in slush and we were hoping that they would not stall or pushing our bikes in this slush would be nothing short of a mudbath. After we hit the highway we took a break and only then realised what a state we were in. Our trousers and bikes had enough mud on them for us to make people stare at us. Here we decided to turn back to Bangalore without visiting the falls.
Visiting the point would set us back by at least another two hours and it was vital for us to reach bangalore before 3:00 pm as Sharan was working that night and needed to get ample rest. Sadly we had to make this decision and save the ride to Shivanasamudram to another day.

Now I was thinking what better way to top off this wonderful ride. The answer was a visit to STYX with my friend and his girlfriend. This place has to be my favourite hangout... Was in STYX almost until they closed down for the night. The three of us were completely blown away by the fabulous music and had a whale of a time. S was however always concerned about how much we two guys were drinking, as we had to drop her back home.We finaly dropped her off at around 12:30 and we guys reached home at around 1:00 in the morning.

Now after all this sunday was a day to just relaxxxx and go zzzzz. Woke up in ime to see how India was faring at the chennai test. Met up with a few friends and was back home for the Sunday Famiily lunch.Surpise surprise.my favourite uncle was visiting us..Felt really good catching up with him after a verry loong time.
The only downer was that I had to catch up with some friends and had to meet S whom I was not ready to meet as yet..guess it will take some more recovering before we can get to a stage where S and I can talk.But this did not cast the shadow that I thought it would..guess that means I am well on the path to recovery..a few months ago, this would have left me in bad spirits for a day or two..not now..

Overall a fab weekend with the right flavours to make it balanced....

Vroooooomm

Last week i had to run an errand for my dad..i had to collect some dues at his previous clinic...I jumped at this, since the place was a good 40 km away and I would get a chance to ride my bike too..to top this, the weather looked pleasant enough for a ride..So..I set off in the morning,thinking it would be along day, but had finished all my work by noon..Thinking this might be too early to return home I thought I'd ride back through devanahalli, to be able to add around 20 km to my ride back home..It would also involve going through some good rural roads with a good lush, green view..I reached devanahalli and saw a signboard poiting the way to Nandi Hills..and guess what?? I decided to ride there..Always thristing for a ride....yes that's me..It was one impulsive decision that i thouroughly enjoyed..
The ride up the mountain road was exhilerating as I was scraping my footrest at every other curve...There were hardly any traffic and the view from the hill was just too good. Reached the top of the hill and stoppped for a break..the parking attendant was gaping at the bike and I sat down on a bench near him..bought a guava and was munching away on it..He thought i was expecting some more people to turn up and so was just killing time..his jaw almost dropped when i told him that i would be heading back in another 10 minutes..the look he gave me said it all..he even gave me a discount on the parking fee...apparently, the only people who come here are couples or people who want to spend time drinking and looking at the view..It was definitely not the nandi hills I remember as a kid...

The ride back was pretty uneventful, except for me bruising some pulsar guy's ego in front of his girl..The road was just amazing and i was testing the top-end of my bike..there was this group of couples' "ripping away to glory"(as we bikers like to say)..The leader of the pack was concentrating hard and was at full throttle..and must have been doing close to a 100kmph..imagine the surprise he got when i honked behind him and passed him at close to 120kmph..i happenend to look and i saw the girl giving an envious glance..that about summed it up..and the poor guy's bruised ego must still be recovering...

This impusive ride has started me thinking and i think I will visit my hyderabad friend next week..but I think i have to ride alone as my riding partner, Sourabh has his exams coming up and I will not be in bangalore by the time he is finished with it..but this ride is something i am looking forward to.....as usual..

make a wish...

This fact had enamoured me alot when I was a kid. I always wanted to feel that kind of power when you could wish for something. And I was always waiting for somebody to grant me my rightful three wishes. The best part was that I had already planned what I would ask for. it was not money or any such thing..
I had decided to keep saying" I wish for 3 more wishes" from morning to dusk..and I would have wishes to last me a lifetime..Me and my naievity....This always made me wonder why none of the stories I read at the time had never had such a wish in them..This someow would inflate my ego and I would feel very clever, that i had thought of something no author had thought of until then..and this would be my secret....


While I am at wishes..I am not normally a superstitous person, but always used to succumb to the eyelash-wish one. In this, if you happenend to shed an eyelash and somebody saw that waywatrd eyelash still sticking to your face..they would put it on the back of your hand..you would then have to close your eyes..make a wish..and blow it. If it was gone when you openend your eyes..you would get your wish..And I always have wished for a bike, every one of those times...recently a friend of mine happenend to chance upon an eyelash that had parted ways with me..and subjected me to this wish thingie..and guess what??? I wished for a bike, even though it has been the good part of a seven months since i own it..made me realise how much i wanted this bike...

Make a wish

When i was young( not that i am old and need a cane to support me now), one question that always mesmerized me was "what would you want if you could have three wishes".
I had come up with this unique solution. I would wish for three more wishes over and over again. Seemed to be a novel idea at the time. Realize now, how hazardous it could have been. And I always wondered why no stories had the protagonist use this method to be able to have a lifetime supply of wishes.....

There was this eyelash superstitions among my friends. Whenever you shed an eyelash and somebody noticed it , they would put it on the back of your hand. You were supposed to close your eyes, make a wish and blow it. If it was blown away, your wish would come true. Every one of thse times, I had wished for a bike(which I presently have). Even though I am not particularly superstitious, I always somehow did this whenever somebody found an eyelash that had decided to part ways with me.
Recently my sister was subjecting me to this make-an-eyelash-wish thingie and i inadvertantly wished for a bike, though its been some time since i have it now. Maybe that is how much i wanted it...

Philosophizing.....

Just had this weird thought..

If all the soothsayers and our Pandits can see the future, then has it already occured? For them to see something, I guess it should have happenend.So, if the future has occured, are we living in the past? Then what would present mean? Nothing i guess. Or maybe you can consider the present as just one fleeting second, because the neaxt second would make this the past...
If the future has occured, then what is the point trying to change it? and if they had seen the future in the past, then would they have seen themselves trying to see the future?
Isn't it futile then that we have some practices, to help us change our future? Can we really change it? What if my future was to live to a hundred and I commit suicide someday..would that be like throwing the spanner in the works of the Supreme one? would my future affect some other futures as well.What if I was to buy some vehicle or some other commodity and I wasn't around to do so. What would happen to it. Or to make it more personified, what if I was to marry and have kids and wasn't around till then. What would happen to them? What would happen to the future kids?? wouldn't it be like cutting off the lives of lots of people.
I think that if you want to change your future, you would be responsible for that of a few more people at least. in your existence you would obviously come across a lot of people and touch their lives in some way or the other, and vise-versa.
So, with so many possibilities, Can we really say that we can change the future?????

And while I am at this, I really can't understand this theory of re-incarnation, heaven, hell, re-birth until you attain Nirvana. The theory goes that you have to be a good soul and only then you will have a gate-pass to heaven and would not have to endure earth. If this is so, then why does our population increase. Considering all of us are sinners, the population still would have to be a constant right?? Or is our earth like some intermediary stage in this whole gameplan between heavan and hell????

Things like the above are what have made me an atheist. I believe that all these myths and religions and GOD were created so that we humans had a moral code that we followed. Our ancestors were very clever people, who saw the need for such fears, such as GOD, heavan, hell. and such things, to be instilled in us. They made these rules to keep us from treading a path that would harm us in the long run...We do not give our ancestors the credit they deserve..We have all been just twisting their rules to suit our personal needs and that is the cause for unrest in so many of us...I believe that our ancestors had a thought process much superior to ours and were mush more open to ideas. how else do you explain the kama-sutra being born here, and now every bit of such a thing is considered taboo, and if you even utter the related words, you are branded a pervert. I might even be branded so, for even daring to post such an opinion. But, what the hell, it is my blog....

I guess I should stop my philosophising, before I am labelled as some weird guy....

The fine print

Here is alist of the small thing that make me smile.
--> Coming home after a hard day's work and I see that mom has made some of my favorite stuff
--> You are involved in an almost-accident situation but you are in a good mood and just smile at the other person and he smiles back at you.
--> Walking down some road you see this good looking girl and smile, and she returns your mile.
--> Come to the office and find some mails that praise your work for which you have put in a lot of effort
--> go visit your family at a time of the day they don't expect you and the look on their faces is soo satisfying
--> You call up a friend after a long time and when you are deciding when to meet up, you ask them to turn around and you are there.
--> Meeting friends after a loooong time and you are engrossed in talking and hardly notice the time, and realise how long it has been since you guys have talked.
--> Somedbody whom you have been just a friend to, says something really nice about you and you realise you have judged him/her wrongly
--> Other people have more belief in you than you yourself do, and tell you when you really need to hear it.
--> you have this need to talk to somebody and can come up with more than 4 names.
--> Having a patonic relationship, that you can always fall back on, without any hiccups
--> you suddenly remember a funny incident and cant stop smiling, and the people around you think you have lost it.

and many, many more.....