Saturday, June 27, 2009

It lured me into Temptation

It was a Saturday morning and a holiday and i was wide awake at 8:00 am in morning. All roomies were sound asleep and i didn't know what to do. I had plans for the day, i had to go to buy a second hand bike. Somehow i managed to pass the time till 10 and still everyone was sleeping.

"Chal Varun uth, bike lene jaana hai" i told varun, In deep sleep he told me "Dopahar ko chalte hai abhi sone de" and he was off to sleep again. I went to wake up Raghu "Chal raghu uthja bike lene chalte hai". "Yaar raat ko late soya, dopahar ko chalenge" he told me and was to back in his slumber again. It was a bright sunny day and perfect time to go out. They woke up at around 12:30. I called up Vishal (My Roomie at Symbi for 2 yrs and a very good friend, and a very helping guy) so that he can assist us in getting bike as he is a localite.He was not well and refused to come.

I called up Aniket (Symbi Junior, Read his blog www.theitaxis.wordpress.com ) so that he could assist us in getting the bike as only he could speak marathi. We were supposed to go to Raasta peth (Area in Pune where we get lots of second hand bikes). Aniket would come by college bus to E-Square (Popular Multiplex in pune) and from there we would go together to Raasta peth. Finally everyone got ready and we left at 2:30 from home. Me , Raghu and Model (Varun) were waiting for Bus to E-Square. And suddenly it became cloudy, Black clouds started floating above our heads. "Maine bola tha tum log ko subeh chalo, ab baarish me gile hona" i cursed raghu n varun as they giggled looking at each other. We waited about 15 min for the Bus and there was no sign of it. Finally we took an Auto. As soon we sat it started drizzling. It was raining and Raghu and Varun were squeezing me in the auto from both sides so they didnt get wet. By the time we reached E-Square it had started raining pretty fast.In 5 min Aniket joined us.

It was raining cats and dogs and with mice running in our stomachs we were waiting to get another bus to Raasta peth and it was impossible to go out to see bikes. So we decided to roam in Kakade Center Point(Shopping Mall). We started roaming around going in different shops thats when we discovered a Gaming parlour and Raghu was the first one to rush in. Then we discovered a Pool table and everyone was like "bike ke liye kal jaayenge aaj pool khelte hai aur fir gher chalte hai". You should have seen expression on my face. Then we decided to play for sometime and if rain stopped we will go for bike. We bought the membership for parlour for 200 Rs and started playing pool costing 35 rs a frame. Team was I and Model Vs Raghu and Aniket. First game we lost with my score of 1. Now after loosing i wanted to win the second game. This time after the game started varun potted 4 balls in a row and we were looking good, and suddenly he potted the Black ball, We had lost, The frame was over but before the supervisor could see we placed the black ball back on the table. We continued and lost the Game. Thus we had lost 3 Games by playing 2 games.

It was already 4:30 and rain had stopped. I thanked god for it. This people had made full plans to go back home. Finally we took a bus to Raasta peth. There was some drizzling going on but it was ok. And guess what we reached Raasta peth at 6, it is only 30 min drive, We were completely famished.

There are Auto consultants in Raasta peth who have these second hand bikes, if u like any bike they talk to the owner and you can directly negotiate with the owner. There are lot of consultants and around 2000 bikes lying around, Any bike you want, you will get it. I wanted to get a Yamaha. At first shop there was a Yamaha Enticer and Yamaha RX 100 available. We went on to various shops and roamed for around 30 min and after looking at lots of bikes i finally had 2 options Bajaj Pulsar 180 2003 model and Yamaha Enticer 2003 model, Both costing 23,000. Raghu and Varun took test drive of both the bikes and left the decision on me. I am big fan of Yamaha and decided to get YAMAHA ENTICER. Raghu Negotiated the amount and deal was freezed for 21k.

Raghu and Aniket took a bus and reached home, i and varun went to temple, then gurudwara, got some sweets and went home. Finally i bought a bike after a dramatic day. Thanks Aniket, Raghu and Varun for helping me get a bike. And i am in totally in love with the bike. I feel like King when i drive it. I plan to get into Cruiser Segment only if i plan to get another bike.Have a look at the Pics of the Bike. The guy in Yellow T-shirt is Aniket.

"Yamaha Enticer proved the significance of its name. Yamaha did Entice me (Lure me) to buy the Bike."



Regards
VD

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Short, sweet and quickie

I wish i finish this post quickly. I have finished my dinner and m too tired to write but there is a bug in me which is not letting me sleep n making me write this. By end of second sentence my hands have started getting in motion and my brain refuses to think and my heart is trying to do the brain's work but can't as it ll be short of blood supplies to other parts of my body. Anyways where was i, well forget it.

Ya so i plan to read my novel everyday before sleeping but am too tired when i come back from office and am unable to plan.......so forget reading.....But Leaders are readers.........and i too like them can't stay away from reading:) and ya Blue is cool. Faithless here i come, oh that's the book which i am reading by Karin Slaughter. Excellent book. I recommend it.

Well now my heart is refusing to think, my brain has stopped wrrrrrittttttinggggggg and my hands are refusing to send blood to my heart for writing..........ohhhhhhhhhh...I think i should go to sleep.Good Bye
God Bless All

Yours Lovingly
Vd

Note: This post is an "Upkaar" to my blog and an E-waste. Please Ignore and ya Blue is really cool.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

A perfect Welcome

Its 10:00 am as i write this and its second day at my pune home. Its a 2 BHK spacious flat and 6 of us are stayin together i.e. Abhishek(Jackie), Raghu(MRV), Varun(Model), Vaibhav(Balloooo), Vedik and obviously me:).

I arrived at pune station at 10:25 pm on 5th june, the journey in the train was not much fun so no point talking about it and the was not feeling good as had left home so all this feelings took over me in my train journey anyways. Here i was at station waiting for Raghu and Vishal (Sher - my roomie at Symbi). Then i saw raghu, i cant describe it...i was so happy....i remember hw tough it was when we left the college...and here we were together. we went out an were waiting for vishal at Commesum and we see him coming with couple of bags which i had left at his place. WOW its feels so exciting to meet them after 2 very long months. Vishal had some work at home so he dint accompany us. I and raghu took an auto to our new flat on baner road, we had to pickup jackie from FC road. Met jackie, he was leaving forUS next day for a project. Three of us sat tight in auto with my luggage, 3 Large bags, 1 laptop bag and guitar. We had an argument with the auto driver for the charges (like we have it everytime). I was in no mood to argue and paid him the sum. The area seemed nice and peacefull and here i was at my New Home.

Nice spacious flat and newly painted and yes very good ventilation. A new Tv with Big Tv connection, 2 Fridges only one working;), kitchen full of shoes. We are still to organize the house and some stuff is still to come. Me and raghu had our dinner. Model, ballu and vedik were not there at home. i switched on the TV and we were watching england vs netherland match. Varun came home followed by Vaibhav and Vedik. Vedik is vaibhav's friend and now our friend and he being a gujju it was easy synchro with him:). We watched the match as England lost, upset in first match at worldcup. Balloo went to sleep as he had a medical checkup in morning. We all retired to bed at 3.

i woke up at 8 in morning everyone was fast asleep, balloo had left. I was planning to write all this stuff but didnt feel like writing. i freshened up and played mafia wars for some time. i had tol leave at 11:30 am for some work. Everyone woke up and we had some chat andi started getting ready. Jackie also had some work out so he got ready and we took a bus to university and then took and auto from there to senapati bapat road.

I met aniket and rohit (Symbi juniors and very good friends). i finsied my work at around 3 and it was raining hard. First rains for me this year, i took an auto to our flat and reached there. Everone was waiting for lunch. We ordered food from Faasos. I and raghu went out to buy some stuff for the home till the food arrived. We also got some Cad B (Famous Rich Chocolate dring in punen and our favorite too). Raghu got a call from Varun and told him "Jaldi aao Faasos waala wait ker raha hai". We were surprised why is he waiting for us. But then varun told raghu "Hamare paas paise nahi hai". Fact is we had taken all the money to buy the stuff and this poor Faasos Guy and our friends were waiting for us while we were roaming around and getting CAD B. We hurried home and paid the sum. Then we had petful of lunch and had CAD B afterwards to give the meal a perfect ending.

Jackie was supposed to leave at in evening for mumbai, he had a flight from Mumbai - Frankfurt - Chicago - Kansas City. And we were planning to go to college. It was 6 in evening and jackie was ready to leave. Swapnil (Our Band Drummer), Nehaji and khushboo had come to meet.Everyone bid Jackie a Bon voyage. As we had plan to visit our campus as some of our collegeues are staying there until they get their final locations. Vedik dropped varun to campus on his bike and then he had some work so left. I got in car with Jackie and he dropped me at wakad bridge and Sid (symbi junior, Basist of our band and one of my fav junior) came to pick me up from there. Raghu arrived 45 mins later on varun's bike.

It was wonderfull to be back on campus and our memories got fresh. Met Ashish (another roomie at symbi). Man we had gr8 time at Symbi. I regularly used to update Bhatia (as we call Ashish, Kale bhatia to be specific) on his area of interest (For more details about area of interest contact him).Also met Madhan (Bhatia's competitor), Dinap, Sherry, Ravindra, Arun and mohsin (Star cricketer Ironicaly). Met some of juniors also. Super juniors were playin cricket and i and and bhatia couldnt resist and went on for a match. I felt so good to be on the field after long time especially after losing in semi-finals.

I cant describe the feeling of being back on campus. Met Rahul (kakade) he got placed and seemed very happy. Heavy downpour started and we went on to play Table Tennis. Met Dipen (my gujju friend) he used to love playing Table tennis and basket ball. Met buddha(Barun) when he was back to campus. The first question everyone asked was "Kitni baar bimaar hua 2 mahine me". Met Raagini also and as usual we all started teasing her. Kunal was going to reach late and Maddy (Madhan) was goin to pick him up.

It was time to bid adieu to campus and we all headed back to campus with Bhatia, swapnil coming back and lalaji (Rakesh) planning to join us at home. Everyone gathered at home and we had full plan to watch India first match with Bangladesh. We had nice dinner after lalaji and Bhatia finished with their drinking. Match too ended on happy note with Yuvraj's bllistering knocj and couple of amazing catches and Ojha bagging MoM award for his 4/21 on his debut.

And the Day also ended on a very happy, excitng , amazing and wonderfull note. I am simply short of words. Thank you all for making my day, a day to remember.

Yours Lovingly,
Vd

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