Yes it's been a long time and now also i am not very happy about the topic i am writing. As many of as might have forgotten as i have done THE "Saraswati Vandana". From last two three days i was trying to search few nice violin scores. During the search of those 3-4 minutes music wonders i came across a concert recorded by Ustaad Sultaan Khaan (Great Sarangi player) and Ustd Zakir (Tabla player). i started to just get the flavour of Sarangi as well. I started without paying attention on the length on concert recording but this over an hour length of recording was great pleasure to listen and same time i was ashamed of not listening this earlier.
Apart from the guilt of not able to listen that earlier there was another guilt and that was the forgetting the roots. In mid of the concert Ustad Zaakir hussain stops the people from distrubing them from continous photoshoots. Which makes a point that few people still don't go for these concerts for listening them playing, they just simply want to show off. So lame !!! While Ustad Zaakir hussain stopping others he took the ref. of sarswati vandana. Which make me recall, YES recall i have forgotten that. As now a days we people take every art is just as medium of fame and money. Today i have a reason why our musicians are not so popular as from other countries because they get pleasure in there sarswati vandana. For these mastros sarswati vandana is their music. They really don't care about fame and money.
And sucha a shame for we people that we still didn't heard many of those maters of music in this country. At least i feel shameful for this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPQU9Egoe2Q Link for the concert which hold me for over an hour while musicians like Samvel Yervinyen and Yanni wasn't able to grab my attention for 2-3 minutes.
Please do go for these concerts atleast if there are any near you. Not for telling people that u have been to such and such concert, But to listen and experience the legends.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Saturday, April 17, 2010
The jail and Poseidon's place
It's nearly 12:00 am and I am in The Jail... Yes, it doesn't come as a surprise to me that i am in The Jail; though you might wonder about it. I always knew this day will come someday but I never expected it to come so soon. I was accompanied to Jail by 3 of my friends - mohit, atul and abhishek. While sitting in there, I recalled the time when once i asked a small-shop keeper "Bhai jail kaise jaate hain ??" and he replied to me "bahut aasan hai, kisi ka khoon kar do". And I told him "Kuch tod-phod par bhi jail ho jaati hai na, lekin mujhe to jail jaana hai".
Oh, I guess by now you people might have guessed it. If no, then let me enlighten you that 'The Jail' is a place here in mumbai to eat and drink. This place has theme of Jail, waiters are dressed as convicts, Managers are dressed as cops. Overall, a nice place to visit. Later I managed to come back to home around 1:30 am and slept around 4:00 am.
While sleeping i felt something was scratching my feet. At first I felt it's a mouse or something else. I opened my eyes just enough to grab a glimpse of what's there on my foot. But i had to open them wide enough to grab full view of Vivek (my roomie cum college Junior). I tried an unsuccessful attempt to go back to the sleep after letting him that I wanted to sleep (I think it's was around 7 am).
But he said it's serious and he made a blunder. It was time to pay attention, obviously, when he woke me up in morning there would be a good reason to grab my attention is such wee hours. I thought, It better be. I jumped from the bed to talk to him with all of my attention but holy god, what was that? I was in Poseidon's place!!! Everywhere was water (let me stop for a moment and tell you that the flat we live in, is on 2nd floor). This discarded the possibility of flood at once. I asked him few questions which he answered without delay. I was informed about a tap of our kitchen which was left opened when water supply was not there. That bloody f***ing tap !!
And to get you guys some extra but relevant information : there is a 1500/- fine in our society over water lodging + some 1000/- plumbing charges. So taking these things in consideration my roomie looked a bit tensed. By now I was rolling my eyes on the surroundings which included my newly bought desktop cabinet which was on the floor in nearly 3' water with the home theater lying beside it. Suddenly I got the chance to look on the black thing in my roomie's hand it was my 5 years old laptop dripping the water line. It was enough to stop looking for the losses. I tried to look stable than angry to avoid increasing the tension around. While, Vivek tried to avoid it unsuccessfully by letting me know that water was flowing out of flat.
After analyzing the situation I was in the action mode. I had to start doing something to show myself that situation can be controlled and it's progressing. I asked him to grab a clothe and start pushing water in bathroom. While, he was doing this I went to the kitchen and opened the choked sink by removing the plate covering the vent. This gave me a bit relief that something was happening to smooth our pains. When i joined him back to guide water-flow towards bathroom. We had a small discussion about getting wiper which was ruled out by me within nano-second by considering there was no way we could get one in morning 7'O clock.
I used my bathroom sleepers to join the rescue mission and used them as wiper. Which worked quiet well. Being an Engg. it's the benefit, I guess. Within next few minutes, water level was reduced and to confirm it I asked him to check if water had stopped flowing outside the flat. He nodded in a 'Yes'. I asked him to use my hand made wiper which he refused to use within less than 30 second after giving it a shot as he was not able to use that. But he kept pushing the water with the cloth he was using earlier. I pushed water to the toilet with my self-made instrument. After some time I asked him to use the cloth to soak the water and then rinse that in bucket. And then we came back to the living room where I found that every thing which was lying on the floor was flooded by then and most of the papers ( including my schooling and degree certificates) were drenched.
I was not angry at all, I don't know why but I was laughing. I was laughing for no reason for next few minutes and then I came back to the work of getting water using towel soaking and rinsing in bucket with him. Within 1:30 hour we cleared the water from flat. And without saying even a single word we both went back to sleep as we were too tired to discuss anything.....
P.S. Desktop got saved because motherboard was high enough inside the cabinet to avoid water. Laptop and home theater are still in getting dry. Certificates are not so damaged as we thought at first.
Thanks to @Viveky for doing some editing on a short notice :)
Oh, I guess by now you people might have guessed it. If no, then let me enlighten you that 'The Jail' is a place here in mumbai to eat and drink. This place has theme of Jail, waiters are dressed as convicts, Managers are dressed as cops. Overall, a nice place to visit. Later I managed to come back to home around 1:30 am and slept around 4:00 am.
While sleeping i felt something was scratching my feet. At first I felt it's a mouse or something else. I opened my eyes just enough to grab a glimpse of what's there on my foot. But i had to open them wide enough to grab full view of Vivek (my roomie cum college Junior). I tried an unsuccessful attempt to go back to the sleep after letting him that I wanted to sleep (I think it's was around 7 am).
But he said it's serious and he made a blunder. It was time to pay attention, obviously, when he woke me up in morning there would be a good reason to grab my attention is such wee hours. I thought, It better be. I jumped from the bed to talk to him with all of my attention but holy god, what was that? I was in Poseidon's place!!! Everywhere was water (let me stop for a moment and tell you that the flat we live in, is on 2nd floor). This discarded the possibility of flood at once. I asked him few questions which he answered without delay. I was informed about a tap of our kitchen which was left opened when water supply was not there. That bloody f***ing tap !!
And to get you guys some extra but relevant information : there is a 1500/- fine in our society over water lodging + some 1000/- plumbing charges. So taking these things in consideration my roomie looked a bit tensed. By now I was rolling my eyes on the surroundings which included my newly bought desktop cabinet which was on the floor in nearly 3' water with the home theater lying beside it. Suddenly I got the chance to look on the black thing in my roomie's hand it was my 5 years old laptop dripping the water line. It was enough to stop looking for the losses. I tried to look stable than angry to avoid increasing the tension around. While, Vivek tried to avoid it unsuccessfully by letting me know that water was flowing out of flat.
After analyzing the situation I was in the action mode. I had to start doing something to show myself that situation can be controlled and it's progressing. I asked him to grab a clothe and start pushing water in bathroom. While, he was doing this I went to the kitchen and opened the choked sink by removing the plate covering the vent. This gave me a bit relief that something was happening to smooth our pains. When i joined him back to guide water-flow towards bathroom. We had a small discussion about getting wiper which was ruled out by me within nano-second by considering there was no way we could get one in morning 7'O clock.
I used my bathroom sleepers to join the rescue mission and used them as wiper. Which worked quiet well. Being an Engg. it's the benefit, I guess. Within next few minutes, water level was reduced and to confirm it I asked him to check if water had stopped flowing outside the flat. He nodded in a 'Yes'. I asked him to use my hand made wiper which he refused to use within less than 30 second after giving it a shot as he was not able to use that. But he kept pushing the water with the cloth he was using earlier. I pushed water to the toilet with my self-made instrument. After some time I asked him to use the cloth to soak the water and then rinse that in bucket. And then we came back to the living room where I found that every thing which was lying on the floor was flooded by then and most of the papers ( including my schooling and degree certificates) were drenched.
I was not angry at all, I don't know why but I was laughing. I was laughing for no reason for next few minutes and then I came back to the work of getting water using towel soaking and rinsing in bucket with him. Within 1:30 hour we cleared the water from flat. And without saying even a single word we both went back to sleep as we were too tired to discuss anything.....
P.S. Desktop got saved because motherboard was high enough inside the cabinet to avoid water. Laptop and home theater are still in getting dry. Certificates are not so damaged as we thought at first.
Thanks to @Viveky for doing some editing on a short notice :)
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Encounter with snow [Episode 2]
Ram wanted to go by walk and see what's blocking the road. So we started walking but after not more than 10 or 20 meter i relaised this is foolishness and i told ram to walk back. Ram took this seriously and agreed with me and we headed towards bike. now Because of mud we were not able to move bike back but somehow after 5 minute we were able to rotate bike 180 degree and we were heading back on the track towards karsog. We were tired hungry but if we would have stopped we couldn't have reached karsog on same day. Point to be noted we had breakfast at around 9:30 in morning and since afternoon we are hungry & riding. Now on this way back to karsog i was on rider seat. I was having only one aim reach karsog before it even get drak [Main reason was we were having very less money to afford food and accomodation]. I started riding bike at 3:30 Ram was riding bike from 8:30 in monring and he was tired enough to not on rider seat. It took me 5 hours to reach karsog and i didn't stopped at any place just to reach karsog ram was asking me to stop to loo. But i just kept asking him to hold on till karsog. Finally we reached karsog at 8:30 and everything was at halt. Very rear shops were open. Some how we we got few person on road to ask about accomodation. While asking the hotel we again fallen down. This time my knee doesn't supported me and i couldn't support bike while it was on halt. I start blaming ram for this fall but i knew this was sole my fault. Anyway ram didn't reacted harsh [Later in hotel i confessed ram that was my fault].
Sooner we reached karsog we withdrawl enough money for the trip and kept that with us. Later we found a costly hotel (according to locals rent was 500/- very nice room but it's costly). There we saw that there is pipe unjoint at one end hanging from bike. Trouble again but we left that on morning task and went for dinner. I purchased few warm clothing which really helped me. We got nice food in hotel and slept nicely.
Next morning 6'0 Clock we started our journey towards manali via sundernagar and kullu. We drove for hours but during this ride we saw very beautiful nature we saw jungle. So many curved roads. We were so in touch with curved roads that when we got straight road we were riding on speed of 30-40 only. Later we realised we can go on some high speed. Around 1 we reached mandi. Which was only 110 Km from Karsog. We had lunch and again started the trip. We encountered very beautiful road ahead very sencenic. Beas River was adding more charm to this road
. There was an 2-3 Km tunnel in between which was also a great pleasure to ride on. While driving we stopped just before kullu to swith the rider. That time ram told me take a look on road sode snow
. Now as ram was on rider seat he started to get bad road and he was not so happy to ride on. But there was no other way. After some 10-15 mintue ram applied a sudden break while i was enojoying the nature without any clue that ram is going make a sudden fall. I just managed to jump before we fall again. Within seconds we managed to get bike on wheels again and riding back on road :). Ram was pissed off by now as few junkyard eligible trucks was fooling around on road. Finally off there this and that we reached to manali. And i tell you ram was back in full "Josh" as he was heading towards rohtang pass. Which didn't said anything but we took stopped to see manali natural beauty
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Now ram was riding with aim of rohtang pass which i was not in accord but i didn't told him. We saw some really bad roads and this was nearly 4 after noon. i was worried about night stay. Ram was riding with his aim then later saw some really bad road where we were not able to move
. Indian Army was on work to make it clear. some people were in hurry
. But we utilized this time to enjoy the nature
. We headed again on roll. Reached to shilong. This was the real natural beauty which were aiming for. Now this was satisfying this much long journey
. We reached to the place where snow games were going on. People were enjoying the sking and paragliding. Some couple were happy with snow only. anyway worthfull to come this far. Ram were trying to go ahead but locals told there is no way furthur road is blocked due to snow.
We stopped and done the paragliding which earlier ram was not ready to do so. But finally he did.
. Later we made frds with rinkoo the guy who arranged the paragliding for us. He told that we can do skiing in the morning around 8 as we were planning to leave manali in morning. He showed us one beautiful, shortcut (bad road) for manali which was really helpful for bike riders
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Later came back to manali nearly 6 was on clock. We decided to watch "My name is khan". We had dinner and taken some rest in hotel. At 9 we reached at mall to watch movie. Movie started ok and in interval as expacted on rash thing happened. Some local couple were on seats infront of us. Ram tried to take out his mobile from his jeans pocket and his shoe hit the seat back infront of him. And this lady sitting on that seat got rash. This i tried to make her quiet but things went wrong. Not only wrong way wrong too much. His mate got angry for various reasons (might be for talibans also but i have no clue). Locals also came in support of those couple. Justg because of this i think "chadyaan di joon buri". It's an punjabi saying which means bachelorhood is worst. One uncle grabbed my collar and dragged my out of hall. I was in shock all was happening so fast. Ram was asking everyone to stop it but i was not i mood to avoid the collar drag.
Later somehow uncle who grabbed my collar taken me with him to lower level to watch the movie infact he seated next to us and watched movie along us. He was actually protacting us. from thos locals who were in chance to take some cheap advantage in there city and in eyes of there girls. Later in end of movie uncle again dragged me by holding my hand with him towards his car. Ram also approached me uncle dropped us to our hotel for avoiding the problems which could have happened. Thanks a lot uncle.
Next day in morning ram was not in mood to go for skiing but he got ready some how. We headed towards skiing aread and called rinkoo to be ready there. We reached to shortcut rickoo was already there to help us to reach skiing area. We reached there and done skiing. Nice experience
. Later head back on our long and boring jouney to back to chandigarh. We started around 11 in morning and reached chandigarh at 9:30 in night. After mandi full journey was very boring. but over all total trip was great...
Sooner we reached karsog we withdrawl enough money for the trip and kept that with us. Later we found a costly hotel (according to locals rent was 500/- very nice room but it's costly). There we saw that there is pipe unjoint at one end hanging from bike. Trouble again but we left that on morning task and went for dinner. I purchased few warm clothing which really helped me. We got nice food in hotel and slept nicely.
Next morning 6'0 Clock we started our journey towards manali via sundernagar and kullu. We drove for hours but during this ride we saw very beautiful nature we saw jungle. So many curved roads. We were so in touch with curved roads that when we got straight road we were riding on speed of 30-40 only. Later we realised we can go on some high speed. Around 1 we reached mandi. Which was only 110 Km from Karsog. We had lunch and again started the trip. We encountered very beautiful road ahead very sencenic. Beas River was adding more charm to this road
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Now ram was riding with aim of rohtang pass which i was not in accord but i didn't told him. We saw some really bad roads and this was nearly 4 after noon. i was worried about night stay. Ram was riding with his aim then later saw some really bad road where we were not able to move
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We stopped and done the paragliding which earlier ram was not ready to do so. But finally he did.
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Later came back to manali nearly 6 was on clock. We decided to watch "My name is khan". We had dinner and taken some rest in hotel. At 9 we reached at mall to watch movie. Movie started ok and in interval as expacted on rash thing happened. Some local couple were on seats infront of us. Ram tried to take out his mobile from his jeans pocket and his shoe hit the seat back infront of him. And this lady sitting on that seat got rash. This i tried to make her quiet but things went wrong. Not only wrong way wrong too much. His mate got angry for various reasons (might be for talibans also but i have no clue). Locals also came in support of those couple. Justg because of this i think "chadyaan di joon buri". It's an punjabi saying which means bachelorhood is worst. One uncle grabbed my collar and dragged my out of hall. I was in shock all was happening so fast. Ram was asking everyone to stop it but i was not i mood to avoid the collar drag.
Later somehow uncle who grabbed my collar taken me with him to lower level to watch the movie infact he seated next to us and watched movie along us. He was actually protacting us. from thos locals who were in chance to take some cheap advantage in there city and in eyes of there girls. Later in end of movie uncle again dragged me by holding my hand with him towards his car. Ram also approached me uncle dropped us to our hotel for avoiding the problems which could have happened. Thanks a lot uncle.
Next day in morning ram was not in mood to go for skiing but he got ready some how. We headed towards skiing aread and called rinkoo to be ready there. We reached to shortcut rickoo was already there to help us to reach skiing area. We reached there and done skiing. Nice experience
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. Later head back on our long and boring jouney to back to chandigarh. We started around 11 in morning and reached chandigarh at 9:30 in night. After mandi full journey was very boring. but over all total trip was great...
Encounter with snow [Episode 1]
Hmmm..
This time i will be wrtiting about my road trip to Manali. Thanks to RAM to arranging everything from start till end. I reached to the Chandigarh on 17th even and according to the plan we had to leave for shimla. Ram has smsed me that he will be picking me up from tribune chawk. There i had to wait for some 10 minutes with no sign of RAM as he wasn't expacting me so soon. Anyway he came in full formals directly from his office without taking off so he has to go back to office. We headed towards his office. There again i have to wait for few more minutes as he went to make excuse about his absense and off for the day to his leads. Now we were free to go... (oh yes one more thing RAM didn't took leaves formaly for this trip). Now as per RAM's plan we had to leave tomorrow morning but i insisted and made it possible to leave as per plan. And around 5 of clock's we started our journey towards shimla (YES.. shimla !!.) As we wanted to enjoy more so our trip was not directly towards manali. We decided that we will be going to shimla->Kufri->Narkanda->Luhri->Ani->JaloriPass-> Kullu->Manali. (In actual we were forced to change the path :) hehehe)
We filled the fuel and headed towards shilma it was about to take some 3 hours (110 KM) and Ram was riding the bike i was on pillion seat. Sooner then expacted we got sign board pointing SHILMA 90 KM. we got happy atleast we have started. Again after 1 km we got same sign SHILMA 90 KM. After 2 more KM we got SHILMA 90 KM. Friends you will not believe we got more than 4-5 milestones which all were pointing SHILMA 90 KM. After this incident we agree on trusting our bike's trip meter instead of Inidan Govt. After this nothing exciting and unusual happened apart from we were not reaching to Shilma. There were not much milestones and no sign of having shilma near by and bike's trip meter was telling in 1-2 km less in 100 KM. Chilling wind and dipping temp was the biggest hurdle in riding bike. (Ram was wearing thermocoat but poor me was there without any prepration of this chilling weather). My Knee started paining because of low temp. Luckily ram didn't stopped before reaching to shilma. When we reached to shilma suddenly ram stopped and told me he is not going to ride futhur. So now it was my turn to ride on. It was not big deal as we have to just search for the place to stay and then go for dinner. We got the place for 500/- and then we had dinner at one local dhaba as most of the places were closed by 9. After dinner we reached to the place for sleep as we had to start our quest to snow in early morning. I am telling you the truth even in the room it was not warm everything was chilled. Pillows were freezing where you keep your face only that place was warm rest were freezing, but blanket was too good (Ram termed that as Sher-ki-khaal ka blanket). After some time we slept because we were tired.
. This was better than Kufri but still we needed something more. We headed towards JalohariPass. As we start this time i was riding the bike and immediatly we got BLACK ICE. Yeap friends BLACK ICE. this one is the scariest thing i got encounter on my road trips.
This is the thing most of the ram's frds bewared him. They told to drive on black ice is not a joke. Because it's difficult to control bike on slope with curves and over that black ice make it almost impossible to avoid skitting. On first patch of BLACK ICE we were saved by god as speed was a bit more. But just few meters ahead when i was explaining ram what had happened and he told this was BLACK ICE. I lost focus and when i regain the focus we were lying on the road rubbing ourself. Luckily we were on hill side not on valley side (scary huh). Within 5 minuted we were back on the bike heading towards jaloahri pass. When we reahced next village we stopped to check if there sumthing wrong with bike or everything is just fine. I thought of utilizing this time by asking the road for next stop. People were taking sips of tea at near by road block. We headed there and started asking about next stop. There was a strange fellow among them he was an daily traveler from chandigarh to senz. This was not only irritating he was also not aware how to talk to strangers. This guy told some wierd thing which is pointless to write here. Moral of mentioning him is someone discourages us to move on towards destination very badly.
Anyway we left the Theog and headed towards narkanda. There we got more snow but still this was not we were travelling for. We kept on and on. That strange guy followed us and in between he start talking to us again some 15 mintues he given advise us to take the root for Luhri to karsog but as par plan we have to head towards jalohari pass. which was oposite route. In Luhri we stopped near satluz
. We spent some 10-15 minute here. Then we decided to go for Jalohri via Ani. This road were to scary and dengerous that i will not advise anyone to go on that road. We kept movign as it was 1 in noon and we doesn't has much time to cross jalohri pass if that's open otherwise we need to take alternate route via karsog (which was advised by irritating uncle). We crossed Ani there people told that pass is closed due to snow but ram was in mood to see that closed road. Now i was not at all convienced with that view of ram but didn't said anything to maintain his enthusiasm. At last we reached to the place from where we can't go furthur
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This time i will be wrtiting about my road trip to Manali. Thanks to RAM to arranging everything from start till end. I reached to the Chandigarh on 17th even and according to the plan we had to leave for shimla. Ram has smsed me that he will be picking me up from tribune chawk. There i had to wait for some 10 minutes with no sign of RAM as he wasn't expacting me so soon. Anyway he came in full formals directly from his office without taking off so he has to go back to office. We headed towards his office. There again i have to wait for few more minutes as he went to make excuse about his absense and off for the day to his leads. Now we were free to go... (oh yes one more thing RAM didn't took leaves formaly for this trip). Now as per RAM's plan we had to leave tomorrow morning but i insisted and made it possible to leave as per plan. And around 5 of clock's we started our journey towards shimla (YES.. shimla !!.) As we wanted to enjoy more so our trip was not directly towards manali. We decided that we will be going to shimla->Kufri->Narkanda->Luhri->Ani->JaloriPass-> Kullu->Manali. (In actual we were forced to change the path :) hehehe)
We filled the fuel and headed towards shilma it was about to take some 3 hours (110 KM) and Ram was riding the bike i was on pillion seat. Sooner then expacted we got sign board pointing SHILMA 90 KM. we got happy atleast we have started. Again after 1 km we got same sign SHILMA 90 KM. After 2 more KM we got SHILMA 90 KM. Friends you will not believe we got more than 4-5 milestones which all were pointing SHILMA 90 KM. After this incident we agree on trusting our bike's trip meter instead of Inidan Govt. After this nothing exciting and unusual happened apart from we were not reaching to Shilma. There were not much milestones and no sign of having shilma near by and bike's trip meter was telling in 1-2 km less in 100 KM. Chilling wind and dipping temp was the biggest hurdle in riding bike. (Ram was wearing thermocoat but poor me was there without any prepration of this chilling weather). My Knee started paining because of low temp. Luckily ram didn't stopped before reaching to shilma. When we reached to shilma suddenly ram stopped and told me he is not going to ride futhur. So now it was my turn to ride on. It was not big deal as we have to just search for the place to stay and then go for dinner. We got the place for 500/- and then we had dinner at one local dhaba as most of the places were closed by 9. After dinner we reached to the place for sleep as we had to start our quest to snow in early morning. I am telling you the truth even in the room it was not warm everything was chilled. Pillows were freezing where you keep your face only that place was warm rest were freezing, but blanket was too good (Ram termed that as Sher-ki-khaal ka blanket). After some time we slept because we were tired.
In morning we started getting fresh get then i realised if you have to get fresh you have to do that with icey water (i termed that ice cubes). Don't get confuse there was warm water but in toilet only icey water was provided. Soon we were on roads heading towards kufri in excitment (in hurry we ignored all the ATMs which was a big mistake in sooner than expacted future). After 21-22 km we were talking that in shilma people told in kufri we will surely get snow but still we havn't seen snow. Suddenly ram told just watch on side of road there was snow with mix of dust we got excited and as soon as we took next turn we got a great view and the snow
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. But i tell you we were expacting more so we planned to go on.. and nearly immediatly we left kufri. Through Thiog we headed towards NarKanda ( actully ram was [mis]informed that in theog someone was seen snow). These roads i tell you were among some of the best roads i seen beauty viz. In Theog we got snow again
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This is the thing most of the ram's frds bewared him. They told to drive on black ice is not a joke. Because it's difficult to control bike on slope with curves and over that black ice make it almost impossible to avoid skitting. On first patch of BLACK ICE we were saved by god as speed was a bit more. But just few meters ahead when i was explaining ram what had happened and he told this was BLACK ICE. I lost focus and when i regain the focus we were lying on the road rubbing ourself. Luckily we were on hill side not on valley side (scary huh). Within 5 minuted we were back on the bike heading towards jaloahri pass. When we reahced next village we stopped to check if there sumthing wrong with bike or everything is just fine. I thought of utilizing this time by asking the road for next stop. People were taking sips of tea at near by road block. We headed there and started asking about next stop. There was a strange fellow among them he was an daily traveler from chandigarh to senz. This was not only irritating he was also not aware how to talk to strangers. This guy told some wierd thing which is pointless to write here. Moral of mentioning him is someone discourages us to move on towards destination very badly.
Anyway we left the Theog and headed towards narkanda. There we got more snow but still this was not we were travelling for. We kept on and on. That strange guy followed us and in between he start talking to us again some 15 mintues he given advise us to take the root for Luhri to karsog but as par plan we have to head towards jalohari pass. which was oposite route. In Luhri we stopped near satluz
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Saturday, January 9, 2010
Bungee Jump Recall
Today i was going through my some of the old videos. There i found this kewl bungee jump video i did last year in january. And here i am back with some logging of my old memories.
This recalled me some of the nice and bad memories of my thailand holidays with bro anupam. Bad memory first as i want to get those over fast. Just before the jump i had a sheer argument with my bro which spoiled the mood which is refelected throughout the video.
When reached there mood was totally spoiled but thanks to the god i didn't dropped the idea of jump. Later instructor took my weight. One of my frd asked can over-weight people perform bungee jump (she thought she is over-weight but she wasn't, how < 60 Kg considered as over-weight). So here is the info for age and weight criteria for bungee jump. 45 kg to 110 kg and minimum 10 year of age is required for bungee jump. With this specification any healthy human can do the bungee jump with a little courage.
Ok later instructor kept some foam padding on my legs to avoid rashes. tied the hook having rope at one end with the padding at my feet. After this i have jump like frog to reach on the plateform from which i have to jump. From this point onwards you can see the video. In video one can see i am trying hard to smile and trying to communicate with instrucator cum video grapher. His name was 'A'. After 1:42 minutes A asked me to come to edge of plateform and jump from there. Here i am telling you the truth the point i reached to the edge i got scared. Even i knew i am not going to die i have all the safety measures. I am not going to jump on hard earth surface there is a pond just below the plateform. But this all was not enough my mind was telling me to jump but hands was not letting it go. My hands just got firm on the grip of railling of plateform. By this time 'A' started conviencing me for the jump. But it took full 40 Seconds to convience my self for the jump. And let me tell you as soon as i jump i was a level above from what i was before the jump. I have broken a specific barriar in my mind related to fear to doing something unusual.
Enjoy the video
Virat
This recalled me some of the nice and bad memories of my thailand holidays with bro anupam. Bad memory first as i want to get those over fast. Just before the jump i had a sheer argument with my bro which spoiled the mood which is refelected throughout the video.
When reached there mood was totally spoiled but thanks to the god i didn't dropped the idea of jump. Later instructor took my weight. One of my frd asked can over-weight people perform bungee jump (she thought she is over-weight but she wasn't, how < 60 Kg considered as over-weight). So here is the info for age and weight criteria for bungee jump. 45 kg to 110 kg and minimum 10 year of age is required for bungee jump. With this specification any healthy human can do the bungee jump with a little courage.
Ok later instructor kept some foam padding on my legs to avoid rashes. tied the hook having rope at one end with the padding at my feet. After this i have jump like frog to reach on the plateform from which i have to jump. From this point onwards you can see the video. In video one can see i am trying hard to smile and trying to communicate with instrucator cum video grapher. His name was 'A'. After 1:42 minutes A asked me to come to edge of plateform and jump from there. Here i am telling you the truth the point i reached to the edge i got scared. Even i knew i am not going to die i have all the safety measures. I am not going to jump on hard earth surface there is a pond just below the plateform. But this all was not enough my mind was telling me to jump but hands was not letting it go. My hands just got firm on the grip of railling of plateform. By this time 'A' started conviencing me for the jump. But it took full 40 Seconds to convience my self for the jump. And let me tell you as soon as i jump i was a level above from what i was before the jump. I have broken a specific barriar in my mind related to fear to doing something unusual.
Enjoy the video
Virat
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