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Friday, October 30, 2009

The Accident !!



A year ago……

Winter started in Gurgaon and I could have a pleasant sleep as the noisy ceiling fan in my bedroom had to rest. It’s October and a not a bad time to visit a hill station…

We (office friends. I hate the word ‘colleague’, don’t know y) had planned to visit ‘Nainital’ .After several discussions and plans we finalized a long weekend for a comfortable 3 day trip.
After ‘Bhai’ dropped himself at the last moment, Saurabh, Nilesh, Thrinath and I booked a Tata Indica, and started our journey on a Friday night. Saurabh sat next to the driver as I could not sacrifice my sleep.

It was a wonderful journey from Delhi with winter winds and fog travelling together.
The road was hardly visible and the drowsy driver made sure to steal our sleep.
We reached Nainital the next morning.

After visiting few of the local places we had to travel some distance on a scenic ghat road The driver assuming himself a Michael Schumacher drove as fast as he can overtaking every other vehicle on the road. It reminded me of the climax scene of “Tokyo drift”.
Our frequent efforts in reminding him, that the Ferrari hez driving is actually a Tata Product, went in vain. This bloke was very good with his steering, but how many times have we seen cars crashing on a well built F1 tracks? And this after all was a stone studded tar road…

We had a break to have Chai and it was my turn to sit next to the driver.
 A Toyota Innova was coming in the opposite direction .This foreign branded car with a couple of newly married couples was speeding towards us. Within no time our car and theirs collided!! Banggggggggggg!!!!!!!!!!!

All the mountains and the long trees watched this collision silently. Silence prevailed in both the vehicles for the next one minute…
My head struck to the windshield which eventually cracked. I got down the car and had spit a spoonful of blood. For a moment I thought that my head broke into two.
Obviously it wasn’t!!
The radiators of both the cars were blown out and the jaws of both the drivers hammered.
The guys sitting behind were safe (enough to take a photograph of the wreckage) and had minor scratches.I could hardly speak…

The couples in the other vehicles were also injured. What a Honeymoon!!

That day could have been my last day had our Desi car’s strong body and trust worthy brakes failed! Thanks Tata.


This accident of mine did not find a place in the next day’s NEWS. May be because Rahul Gandhi wasn’t travelling with us or may be because it wasn't a BMW. !!!



Sunday, October 18, 2009

Happie Diwali....!!!

Diwali comes and a long weekend too...
Give up the bombs..just Diya's will do!!.


Enjoy the festival of lights...
Happy Diwali!!

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Life in a Super Metro !!

It’s been 6 months since I came out of Gurgaon and now I feel like writing something about this city, a so called “Super Metro” or “Millennium City




The resplendent express way with sky scrappers on either sides, fantabulous malls and not to mention beautiful and hot professionals (read as “*****”...well u know what to read).

Gurgaon, a super metro in the making welcomes you with the Asia’s longest toll plaza and “The Ambience”, India’s biggest mall (with 1 km shopping on each floor).


The city is mostly owned by Real estate giant DLF owning about a property of 50 thousand crores…there’s is no wonder if some one calls this city as “DLF-Gurgaon”.


I started my IT career from this city. I met surprises from day One. The peddling rickshaws,
September’s heat (42 deg), Power supply lasting just 6 hrs a day, and daily headlines about robbery/rape/murder … Staying in “The Vikram Lodge” for 2 days was the worst experience of all.
One can imagine what the situation of a guy who travelled 1000 miles to stay there cud have had.


As time went by, nothing but I changed.....
New friends, fun at work and the mall culture helped in getting along with the city.
I still remember the movie “Chak de India” as my first movie in Gurgaon, rather than a shahrukh starrer. Walking 5 km @ midnight enjoying the December cold (2 deg) from “Sahara mall” to “Jalvayu vihar” after watching “Taare Zameen Par” with Krishna was a thrilling (rather chilling) experience.

My weekend travel to Delhi, passing time at CP, Sarojiini market,waiting for a bus in Dhuala-kuan and adjusting in an auto-rikchaw at IFFCO Chowk…….kya mazedar lyf tha….


Woh Gobi ke paranthe @ Sec-41 Mkt, Veg Momos, OM sweets  ...…..Metropolitan, City Centre, Grand, Ambience, MGF…and finally.. DLF Silokhera :) 


Don’t think ki …”yeh saaala gurgaon kaam karne gaya tha ya…khane peene aur maza karne....” ..nahi..maine kuch khela bhi hai
The practice sessions for the Cricket Tournament, Tasty snacks at Jitin’s residence and a Man of the match award….and many more moments to cherish..,


Well I don’t miss all these things …but I definitely will never forget them.
Wait did I miss something??......
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Yes
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”Bluedart” I Miss You :(