I am not one of those 'travelogue' persons..i kinda like to live in the moment, when i m outdoors i.e. and feel it the best way i can..but i want all of u to try this, hence this attempt :)
(hope it inspires some of you !!)
I went 'white water rafting' today !!!! yipppeeee !!!
yeah i know it was on my list of fun things to do..and believe me it was much more than that! :)
{ i dont know how exactly u write these things, but m going to be random..like the rapids we faced today :D }
me with a group of friends decided to go for white water rafting at Kundalika River.. yeah i know rafting in this season and that too in the dry region like maharashtra !! but the place where we went is pretty interesting ! The river is fed by excess water from Tata's dams, mulshi and bhira project..the dam gates open early in the morning..the gushes form an ideal rafting route for beginners (class 2 - 4, just to give some jargon :D)
these facts and figures apart, the itinerary started on a pretty bad note..we were supposed to reach the starting point at 7.30am as the water ie released during that time..but r driver decided to make a fool of us (otherwise he was a decent fellow :)) and dint fill up diesel the earlier night and told bout tis crucial strategically important (!!!) fact when we were almost outta the city :x
patiently played the wait game till 7 am as petrol stations out of the city start selling petrol at 7 !!
after the bad start, it had to be a roller coaster ride to make it just in time..
being eons late to reach the starting point (1.5 hrs at least) somewhat heartbroken we carried on.. to r surprise, the dam people had opened 2 gates and that too an hour late than usual !!
yipppeeee... (TATA ke ghar der hai par andher nahi !!)
we were provided with the full rafting gear :) then followed a brief training session on rafting and pedaling basics,calls for drastic measures :D etc..the trainers were really interesting, experienced rafters, who have done rafting in major rivers across India..to top it with some strawberries, our team was really cool; addu,sunny,me,lee and vasu :) our trainer (yes, there's one trainer in every raft) was a bit strict guy, who insisted more on technique (which was best for beginners like us) which slightly reduced the fun quotient ! (i have realized lately, that, fun quotient depends on a lot many things, one being the company ur with :D)
Mann, the real fun started when we entered the waters..r entry into the first rapid was like a newly wed girl, all hesitant and scared..but it was no looking back once we got all enthu and all drenched :D
the maneuvering needed to steer the raft was a bit professional for amateurs like us (the rowing experience back during college days indeed helped !!!) so we left it for the trainer :D
the rapids that followed were damn sport ! they needed sufficient skill but r trainer saved the day and we just sailed under his guidance :)
the rapids had interesting names too :D like morning headache, jhatka (means a jerk !), ratrani (its a flower), bloody ****er (whoa !!!) etc.
in a particular rapid the raft s supposed to flip, but thanks (or no thanks) to almighty, we had hefty company in r raft and hence saved the trainers lot of energies (in saving us i say :P)
but the over enthu us wanted to try that out too, so came back to the same rapid thrice (yes u can do that but, of course, with a lot of effort as u have to peddle against the flow) and when we finally succeeded, the raft dint flip but 3 members just fell out (the weight quotient :D again) It was a sight, on the trainers face i mean! the 3 who fell must have had the time of their lives (i dint fall cos i had held the rope too tight..sigh..)
there was one stretch of continuous rapids for 20 mins which was thoda tiring, but after that the river kinda slowed down and we were left with swimming ka option..
this was again a wonderful experience (especially for people like us who have never swam beyond a square box of 50*5)
we swam. we peddled. we floated. we played silly pranks too.. tell u life was never so relaxed and satisfied !
it dint end there..we had to peddle almost 2 kms to reach steady banks and come back to the starting point (by vehicles of course !)
me says, everyone should try this as its not very risky and not very tiring! moreover its something totally different and new..
im planning to go again in monsoons, for the current then will be more exciting!
well, all said and done, it was a completely 'river wild' experience..had never been so close to the nature (rivers i mean !)
feels just incredible !
btw my next destination should be the 'ganges', wot say ??? ;)
P.S. u can find out more about the site here :).
lets get weirder !!
ahem..
life s been humdrum for the past few days..
before it takes its toll on me and i get sucked in the routine, here s my to do list to make things weird and after all altogether fun !!!
now on..
1. try various adventure sports.. first in line s 'white water rafting'
(if i come back alive, i want to try bungee-jumping next..rest can wait for their turn :P)
2. cook weird dishes (obviously when no one's around..i cant risk others lives, of course :D)
3. write poetry (heehuuhaaaa..obviously again it wont be published :P for reasons unknown..i have always thought there s this tender side of me, who can appreciate the nuances of life and give them words..i hope to fail myself :D)
4. learn kick boxing (the urge to kick people has been overwhelming lately :D)
5. write blogs in French :D (i appreciate ur concerns, but most of my fan club s hindi speaking, so wont give a damn bout the topics..though i will write on various grave issues the world's facing ranging from why cow milk s better for health, why saarukh bought a cricket club, why sarkozy is the way he is (French articles ought to have some related stuff :P) and all that..real serious issues u know.. :D)
6. learn bhangra :D
7. make collages (come on now..this is going to be fun..i am halfway through the first one!! :))
ahem (again).. these things will last for a long time me thinks..
till then..get weirder..
and if u have anything in mind, then u know how to get in touch with me or better else, just involve me in the fun activity...
P.S. my fun quotient follows a sinusoidal curve :D
life s been humdrum for the past few days..
before it takes its toll on me and i get sucked in the routine, here s my to do list to make things weird and after all altogether fun !!!
now on..
1. try various adventure sports.. first in line s 'white water rafting'
(if i come back alive, i want to try bungee-jumping next..rest can wait for their turn :P)
2. cook weird dishes (obviously when no one's around..i cant risk others lives, of course :D)
3. write poetry (heehuuhaaaa..obviously again it wont be published :P for reasons unknown..i have always thought there s this tender side of me, who can appreciate the nuances of life and give them words..i hope to fail myself :D)
4. learn kick boxing (the urge to kick people has been overwhelming lately :D)
5. write blogs in French :D (i appreciate ur concerns, but most of my fan club s hindi speaking, so wont give a damn bout the topics..though i will write on various grave issues the world's facing ranging from why cow milk s better for health, why saarukh bought a cricket club, why sarkozy is the way he is (French articles ought to have some related stuff :P) and all that..real serious issues u know.. :D)
6. learn bhangra :D
7. make collages (come on now..this is going to be fun..i am halfway through the first one!! :))
ahem (again).. these things will last for a long time me thinks..
till then..get weirder..
and if u have anything in mind, then u know how to get in touch with me or better else, just involve me in the fun activity...
P.S. my fun quotient follows a sinusoidal curve :D
we don need no education !!!!
some 20 years ago, in a remote village in India, a girl gets married at the age of 14..
she becomes mother of a child at the age of 16..
her husband dies in an accident when she s 18..
she s given the horrible treatment of a 'vidhawa' (widow) for the rest of her life..
appalling !! her life turns haywire in a matter of 4 years..
the tale becomes even more appalling when life comes a full circle..
after 14 years ....
her daughter gets married at the kacchha age of 16 (this must have been sometime in 1998)..
she s declared infertile after being not able to produce a child for 2 years..
her husband willingly (will of 'his' family i mean :-\) marries another girl who produces two kids in a span of 2 years and now his first wife takes care of all of them and they live together..
JUST PLAIN APPALLING !!!
a woman was not allowed to remarry when her entire life lay ahead of her and another's husband remarried just because she could not grow the family tree ahead .....
(other people were taking decisions for them and i felt like shouting at the top of my voice, 'wake up !!!!')
then a whirlwind of thought attacked my mind..
when are we going to treat people as 'individuals' and not some typecasted non sense 'male' or 'female' , 'aadmi' or 'aurat' per say??
Just because someone's 'gender' is masculine guarantees him unlimited freedom and bending of rules ??? and someone is feminine guarantees her a life full of sacrifices and commitments ???
i feel so sad for the mother, who even after facing a life full of 'not-by-her-own-wish' sacrifices, did not care enough to get her daughter married at such tender age ..
and then another thought came in my mind, that may be, when her husband died (and the times she was in..) the decision of staying with the family and being labeled as a 'vidhawa' must have been a safer option..and to get her daughter married at 16 by a family who looked after her orphan (not having a father is enough to term one as 'orphan' i guess ..) daughter must have been another safer option..
but when i think of her daughter, in the so called 'modern times' i feel utterly terrible !!
how helpless can one become ?? she let others take her own decisions which in these modern times is totally ridiculous..my other mind (i tell u its very soft :-/) said that dear not every woman is privileged enough to be on her own.. Indian women have to think of the society and family first before thinking of oneself !! this was again correct..
the 'educated' me thought the educated way.. may be education would have helped her case..helped her take just (or better !!@@) decisions !
and then i thought, i dont need a trip to Afghanistan to get to know the condition of women !
(after reading 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' i was moved beyond words !!)
its the same every where.. sigh ....
this is because, we dont motivate ourselves to take decisions for ourself.. we consider and reconsider people rather than thinking about what we want.. believe me the complications and dimensions of a problem become manageable when one really gives a thought to what one wants .. i really mean it..
P.S. on a broader perspective my observations can be generalized .. guys r u listening ?? :)
she becomes mother of a child at the age of 16..
her husband dies in an accident when she s 18..
she s given the horrible treatment of a 'vidhawa' (widow) for the rest of her life..
appalling !! her life turns haywire in a matter of 4 years..
the tale becomes even more appalling when life comes a full circle..
after 14 years ....
her daughter gets married at the kacchha age of 16 (this must have been sometime in 1998)..
she s declared infertile after being not able to produce a child for 2 years..
her husband willingly (will of 'his' family i mean :-\) marries another girl who produces two kids in a span of 2 years and now his first wife takes care of all of them and they live together..
JUST PLAIN APPALLING !!!
a woman was not allowed to remarry when her entire life lay ahead of her and another's husband remarried just because she could not grow the family tree ahead .....
(other people were taking decisions for them and i felt like shouting at the top of my voice, 'wake up !!!!')
then a whirlwind of thought attacked my mind..
when are we going to treat people as 'individuals' and not some typecasted non sense 'male' or 'female' , 'aadmi' or 'aurat' per say??
Just because someone's 'gender' is masculine guarantees him unlimited freedom and bending of rules ??? and someone is feminine guarantees her a life full of sacrifices and commitments ???
i feel so sad for the mother, who even after facing a life full of 'not-by-her-own-wish' sacrifices, did not care enough to get her daughter married at such tender age ..
and then another thought came in my mind, that may be, when her husband died (and the times she was in..) the decision of staying with the family and being labeled as a 'vidhawa' must have been a safer option..and to get her daughter married at 16 by a family who looked after her orphan (not having a father is enough to term one as 'orphan' i guess ..) daughter must have been another safer option..
but when i think of her daughter, in the so called 'modern times' i feel utterly terrible !!
how helpless can one become ?? she let others take her own decisions which in these modern times is totally ridiculous..my other mind (i tell u its very soft :-/) said that dear not every woman is privileged enough to be on her own.. Indian women have to think of the society and family first before thinking of oneself !! this was again correct..
the 'educated' me thought the educated way.. may be education would have helped her case..helped her take just (or better !!@@) decisions !
and then i thought, i dont need a trip to Afghanistan to get to know the condition of women !
(after reading 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' i was moved beyond words !!)
its the same every where.. sigh ....
this is because, we dont motivate ourselves to take decisions for ourself.. we consider and reconsider people rather than thinking about what we want.. believe me the complications and dimensions of a problem become manageable when one really gives a thought to what one wants .. i really mean it..
P.S. on a broader perspective my observations can be generalized .. guys r u listening ?? :)
lovey dovey tales ...
how many of us believed (and still believe :D) that there is someone somewhere made for us..the perfect one..the only one!!!
well, i believe...
just that the definitions have been changing over the times and the 'someone' has become a remote impossibility now, cos of his (my 'inclination' proves many things!) dynamic nature ! :D
in my early teens i hopelessly used to believe that a knight will come , riding on a white horse and sweep me off my feet!! i wont have any option but to fly away with him..in the clouds..
sigh..some animal rights activists rushed in..confiscated the horse and the rider too !!! and my dreams were shattered...
then SRK came into my life..roaming in the alps, crooning love ballads, with a damsel clad in chiffon sarees swooning in one hand (she kept on changing though :-\) and stars in eyes..that was perfect romance for me..used to go weak in the knees :) at times i still do :D
but that was lala land..sigh again..when i landed on earth, there were no alps around, no muzik and above all no SRK !!! wat the **** (hell :D) i never knew i had such good imagination :D sigh.. sigh.. sigh..
twas time that i came off age and started respecting the real, actual living beings around me..and not some stupid fool who dint even know wat he was doing right at the top of the mountains in the damning cold, with a female clad in bare minimums :D
hmmm...reflecting now me thinks, not dreaming and BEING in the real world is a bit problematic..cos u dont know of the many dimensions and complexities of human nature! on the other hand, dreams and hindi films r so simple !
take 1 : boy meets girl, after some hiccups girl agrees, then a stupid fight against society and finally everyone unites and happily ever after
take 2 : c wat happens in fairytales..shrek rescues the princess..she falls in love with him and after fighting some really funny malefactors, its happily ever after again..
hmmm (again!)i suddenly realize that many of my fans(!) who r reading this, might think that nightflier's had a heartbreak or she s lost hope !
no madames and sir(s) of course :D, neither m i heartbroken nor have i lost hope..i write these incoherent thoughts as i find people around struggling and desperately trying to find out the right one for themselves!
mind u 90% of the people my age want to get settled in life and the search for the right one has taken its toll !!this fact comes from the observation that, people already in relationships want to get settled and lukkhas (like me :), me not included though) r seraching!
the ones who want to settle down have got bigger problems on their mind..where,why and most importantly how ??? the lukkha gang is working on trial and error..
i really dont know how do u know, when u know, that this is it !! is it the same feeling u get, when ur searching for pink pyjamas and right there in the corner of the shop, lying below heaps of other assorted stuff, u find it ! or is it something you feel when u r seeing off a long acquainted friend and sense a void forming inside u..guess its a feeling which is something very ordinary but inexplicable!
people around r going through a lot of chaos..2 years back the same lot were giving engineering exams (yeah..others too :)) and struggling through them..gosh !!! hope they then knew that this is just a stroll in the park :)
i hopelessly wish that everyone finds what they have been searching for !! after all coming back to my point, someone somewhere is made for u ! :) (not sure if my wishes work, but then somewhere i must be some god's favorite blogger !)
in the mean time ll get back to SRK and the swooning ladies and hopelessly wish for someone to sweep me off my feet and gimme a chance to make him the center of my world !
p.s. mind u, SRK might be old now but still does it with panache !
well, i believe...
just that the definitions have been changing over the times and the 'someone' has become a remote impossibility now, cos of his (my 'inclination' proves many things!) dynamic nature ! :D
in my early teens i hopelessly used to believe that a knight will come , riding on a white horse and sweep me off my feet!! i wont have any option but to fly away with him..in the clouds..
sigh..some animal rights activists rushed in..confiscated the horse and the rider too !!! and my dreams were shattered...
then SRK came into my life..roaming in the alps, crooning love ballads, with a damsel clad in chiffon sarees swooning in one hand (she kept on changing though :-\) and stars in eyes..that was perfect romance for me..used to go weak in the knees :) at times i still do :D
but that was lala land..sigh again..when i landed on earth, there were no alps around, no muzik and above all no SRK !!! wat the **** (hell :D) i never knew i had such good imagination :D sigh.. sigh.. sigh..
twas time that i came off age and started respecting the real, actual living beings around me..and not some stupid fool who dint even know wat he was doing right at the top of the mountains in the damning cold, with a female clad in bare minimums :D
hmmm...reflecting now me thinks, not dreaming and BEING in the real world is a bit problematic..cos u dont know of the many dimensions and complexities of human nature! on the other hand, dreams and hindi films r so simple !
take 1 : boy meets girl, after some hiccups girl agrees, then a stupid fight against society and finally everyone unites and happily ever after
take 2 : c wat happens in fairytales..shrek rescues the princess..she falls in love with him and after fighting some really funny malefactors, its happily ever after again..
hmmm (again!)i suddenly realize that many of my fans(!) who r reading this, might think that nightflier's had a heartbreak or she s lost hope !
no madames and sir(s) of course :D, neither m i heartbroken nor have i lost hope..i write these incoherent thoughts as i find people around struggling and desperately trying to find out the right one for themselves!
mind u 90% of the people my age want to get settled in life and the search for the right one has taken its toll !!this fact comes from the observation that, people already in relationships want to get settled and lukkhas (like me :), me not included though) r seraching!
the ones who want to settle down have got bigger problems on their mind..where,why and most importantly how ??? the lukkha gang is working on trial and error..
i really dont know how do u know, when u know, that this is it !! is it the same feeling u get, when ur searching for pink pyjamas and right there in the corner of the shop, lying below heaps of other assorted stuff, u find it ! or is it something you feel when u r seeing off a long acquainted friend and sense a void forming inside u..guess its a feeling which is something very ordinary but inexplicable!
people around r going through a lot of chaos..2 years back the same lot were giving engineering exams (yeah..others too :)) and struggling through them..gosh !!! hope they then knew that this is just a stroll in the park :)
i hopelessly wish that everyone finds what they have been searching for !! after all coming back to my point, someone somewhere is made for u ! :) (not sure if my wishes work, but then somewhere i must be some god's favorite blogger !)
in the mean time ll get back to SRK and the swooning ladies and hopelessly wish for someone to sweep me off my feet and gimme a chance to make him the center of my world !
p.s. mind u, SRK might be old now but still does it with panache !
adventures of No. 1,2 and 3 - I
there r days..and there r no days..
on a particular sad 'no day' u r mind craves for adventure..
specially if ur caught up in the dungeons of the dark lord (i revere him a lot :D but its not always fun to be in his 'company') !
so, the three death eaters (the protagonists, we will call them No.1,2 and 3 for the sake of simplicity), the rebellious lot, u see; bored of the mundane ramblings with the dark lord, decided to flee on this particular sad 'no day', and enjoy the sunshine..
the monotony of dark lord's tyranny (misnomer for 'no work' :D) had taken the fun out of their lives and the adveturists were looking forward to this escapade !
the plan was purrfect (this is exactly wat the order also thought when they had rescued potter from the dursleys..muhahaha...)
(in the fake version u see :D)
the idea was this : they had planned to watch a muvi (thats wat muggles call the high octane drama, in which people love,hate,fight,dance and manage to do a lot of activity, in a matter of some hours!) Well, r death eaters had a softer (read melodramatic and emotional!) side to them and loved doing these humanly activities (like watching muvis :) ). But no one had an easy escape from the dark lord's eyes!
the only hitch in the plan lied in getting away from the dark lord's citadel in a hushed manner! that involved a lot of courage u know, as they were all bound by the dark talismans, which tracked their activities inside the citadel! this needed a master plan, but these rebels had none..
so while trying to decide on what to do, they came out of the fortress just like that! plain!
no one noticed them escaping! (proves one thing though, all these, talismans and all are mind games :D) Still not believing themselves, they first decided to apparate! but no one took second chance with the dark lord! they decided to go the muggle way and took an autorikshaw. Now its an interesting means of transportation, given the three wheels it has to balance its somewhat rotund shape and the black box inside it, which constantly changes numbers more than the rate at which dark lord turns people to his side (thats astonishing, thought no. 2, must tell this to his excellency to gain his confidence!) More interesting was the species who drove that thing, thought no. 1. He was making a never ending raucous about the money (thats wat they use to buy and sell stuff in muggle land!) they needed to pay for the journey. (Must enslave him as the specimen of the annoying muggle, thought no. 1, who was in charge of 'educating-death-eaters-on-muggle-kind') No.3 being a bit short tempered thought about cursing him with freezing charm, but no. 2 wriggled 3 out of it, as life offered more exciting adventurous, according to 2!
They reached the muvi hall in what they thought was eons compared to their standards :D
and in half desperation to not let No.3 curse the irate driver and get their identities revealed and land up in trouble!
They took some time to get accustomed to the muggle atmosphere and entered the hall looking as innocent as, a person, who has farted in public and thinks no one noticed ! :D
The muvi appealed to these poor souls given their emotional range of a tablespoon! They were howling with laughter at every stupid joke and singing and clapping loudly to every song! When they left the hall, they were the last in a crowd of 20!
Wait up! It just contentedly does not end here!
There is one twist remaining in this awe inspiring tale of courage and determination! :D
No. 2 s secret beeper started beeping, it was an emergency message from the dark land..they were being searched for there, for a task left unfinished by dumb No. 2! Oh no...they could not apparate, as twas only one way! this was a catch 22 situation..No. 2 knew she had left her task of testing new muggle burning serum unfinished, without documenting the results. But as she had also wanted to go for this adventure dint tell it to anyone! Totally sympathizing with her case, 1 and 3 decided to take the chance and started their way back on to the dark fort! As lord lucky singh was on their side, they caught hold of a nitebus. As they say "with the grace of lucky singh", the driver was new in this land, and knew nothing of them, so without any doubt transported them back to the fortress! The royal guards of the fortress had thought that 1,2,3 had outer world duty that day, so had no questions about their whereabouts! (2 fell in love with lucky singh that very moment!)
No.2 quietly finished her work and returned to sanity!
the escapade had been eventful and successful and a great adventure indeed! :)
P.S. this is an animated version of the incident when i along with my friends bunked office to go for a movie and were caught up in a soup! :) i know readers dont mind the torture! :D
on a particular sad 'no day' u r mind craves for adventure..
specially if ur caught up in the dungeons of the dark lord (i revere him a lot :D but its not always fun to be in his 'company') !
so, the three death eaters (the protagonists, we will call them No.1,2 and 3 for the sake of simplicity), the rebellious lot, u see; bored of the mundane ramblings with the dark lord, decided to flee on this particular sad 'no day', and enjoy the sunshine..
the monotony of dark lord's tyranny (misnomer for 'no work' :D) had taken the fun out of their lives and the adveturists were looking forward to this escapade !
the plan was purrfect (this is exactly wat the order also thought when they had rescued potter from the dursleys..muhahaha...)
(in the fake version u see :D)
the idea was this : they had planned to watch a muvi (thats wat muggles call the high octane drama, in which people love,hate,fight,dance and manage to do a lot of activity, in a matter of some hours!) Well, r death eaters had a softer (read melodramatic and emotional!) side to them and loved doing these humanly activities (like watching muvis :) ). But no one had an easy escape from the dark lord's eyes!
the only hitch in the plan lied in getting away from the dark lord's citadel in a hushed manner! that involved a lot of courage u know, as they were all bound by the dark talismans, which tracked their activities inside the citadel! this needed a master plan, but these rebels had none..
so while trying to decide on what to do, they came out of the fortress just like that! plain!
no one noticed them escaping! (proves one thing though, all these, talismans and all are mind games :D) Still not believing themselves, they first decided to apparate! but no one took second chance with the dark lord! they decided to go the muggle way and took an autorikshaw. Now its an interesting means of transportation, given the three wheels it has to balance its somewhat rotund shape and the black box inside it, which constantly changes numbers more than the rate at which dark lord turns people to his side (thats astonishing, thought no. 2, must tell this to his excellency to gain his confidence!) More interesting was the species who drove that thing, thought no. 1. He was making a never ending raucous about the money (thats wat they use to buy and sell stuff in muggle land!) they needed to pay for the journey. (Must enslave him as the specimen of the annoying muggle, thought no. 1, who was in charge of 'educating-death-eaters-on-muggle-kind') No.3 being a bit short tempered thought about cursing him with freezing charm, but no. 2 wriggled 3 out of it, as life offered more exciting adventurous, according to 2!
They reached the muvi hall in what they thought was eons compared to their standards :D
and in half desperation to not let No.3 curse the irate driver and get their identities revealed and land up in trouble!
They took some time to get accustomed to the muggle atmosphere and entered the hall looking as innocent as, a person, who has farted in public and thinks no one noticed ! :D
The muvi appealed to these poor souls given their emotional range of a tablespoon! They were howling with laughter at every stupid joke and singing and clapping loudly to every song! When they left the hall, they were the last in a crowd of 20!
Wait up! It just contentedly does not end here!
There is one twist remaining in this awe inspiring tale of courage and determination! :D
No. 2 s secret beeper started beeping, it was an emergency message from the dark land..they were being searched for there, for a task left unfinished by dumb No. 2! Oh no...they could not apparate, as twas only one way! this was a catch 22 situation..No. 2 knew she had left her task of testing new muggle burning serum unfinished, without documenting the results. But as she had also wanted to go for this adventure dint tell it to anyone! Totally sympathizing with her case, 1 and 3 decided to take the chance and started their way back on to the dark fort! As lord lucky singh was on their side, they caught hold of a nitebus. As they say "with the grace of lucky singh", the driver was new in this land, and knew nothing of them, so without any doubt transported them back to the fortress! The royal guards of the fortress had thought that 1,2,3 had outer world duty that day, so had no questions about their whereabouts! (2 fell in love with lucky singh that very moment!)
No.2 quietly finished her work and returned to sanity!
the escapade had been eventful and successful and a great adventure indeed! :)
P.S. this is an animated version of the incident when i along with my friends bunked office to go for a movie and were caught up in a soup! :) i know readers dont mind the torture! :D
odyssey of the unwaba ....
Unwaba revelations (third part of game world trilogy) is released sometime in dec..
an all india release is not done/planned by the publisher..dunno y?? :S
so i go to the nearest bookstore (odyssey by dunno who) and ask for a copy..
fine its not available..so i place an order..they say within a week the book will be available and i ll receive a call..
i dont get any call..and as m dying to read the final installation of the fantabulous book, i go to the book store and inquire bout status of my order..
i m told to wait for another week as the book s not available (though the publishers have a store house in my city!)
for two more weeks i dont contact them..
and when today finally i go and ask them about its status (trying to act angry..at which i was badddd :() i get confused (actually smirks..cos of the book s name :-\) looks from the store people..
amazingly they dont have any record of my order in their computer database (from where they actually track the books and orders ) though they had one in their so called register..FANTASTIC!! i must say..
{
hate their guts when they open such big stores and provide null customer satisfaction!!
what on the face of the earth were they thinking while opening the shop..
}
i scrap my order..come home in a furious state and place an online order immediately..
the thing i should have done 3 weeks back..hoping to have my hands on the copy by this weekend!! :)
in the mean time ll catch jokovich-hewitt clash tom..
its going to be one heavenly encounter :D
till then..ciao :)
an all india release is not done/planned by the publisher..dunno y?? :S
so i go to the nearest bookstore (odyssey by dunno who) and ask for a copy..
fine its not available..so i place an order..they say within a week the book will be available and i ll receive a call..
i dont get any call..and as m dying to read the final installation of the fantabulous book, i go to the book store and inquire bout status of my order..
i m told to wait for another week as the book s not available (though the publishers have a store house in my city!)
for two more weeks i dont contact them..
and when today finally i go and ask them about its status (trying to act angry..at which i was badddd :() i get confused (actually smirks..cos of the book s name :-\) looks from the store people..
amazingly they dont have any record of my order in their computer database (from where they actually track the books and orders ) though they had one in their so called register..FANTASTIC!! i must say..
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hate their guts when they open such big stores and provide null customer satisfaction!!
what on the face of the earth were they thinking while opening the shop..
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i scrap my order..come home in a furious state and place an online order immediately..
the thing i should have done 3 weeks back..hoping to have my hands on the copy by this weekend!! :)
in the mean time ll catch jokovich-hewitt clash tom..
its going to be one heavenly encounter :D
till then..ciao :)
love actually ...
saw this movie for the umpteenth time today..
can not stop smiling :):)
the movie is so endearing that it makes u feel gooood just about everything !!
may be its the simplicity of 'love', shown through an extremely complex set of stories and cast which are interwoven intelligently, that, it clicks !
the story of aurelia and jamie clicked most to me..though its a bit fairytalish types (dreamy me cant help falling for such stuff u know :D or may be its the charm of colin firth!) the story is just beautiful..makes u believe in true love !! :)
the father-son (daniel and sam) and singer-manager (billy and joe) stories stand equally close..i give both of them the second place..the platonic love between billy and joe is something u hardly get to watch these days..and the father-son duo are just too cool to get ignored..plus the way their relation's progress is shown is too believable, considering daniel s the step father of sam, both fighting for their own love, one's lost and one's budding !!
well after this i dont have any personal favorites :)
though Hugh Grant is charming as always with his thick british accent and as the young, dynamic statesman..oh the Prime Minister !!
the treatment to the plot is superb..laced with witty,funny,sarcasm bhare dialogs its the perfect british film! it aught to be actually as most of the janta in there is British :) and plus the point that its set around x'mas season, makes it even more adorable..the spirit of the festive season is shown just in the right way..with the xmas lightings shown in and around every corner,the carol singers,the nativity play,the gift shops..oooh the excitement is overwhelming !!
Richard Curtis (the director and screenplaywriter) is well known and appreciated for his talent..this is the golden (may be platinum, heard its rarer and costlier :D) feather in this chicken's hat !
its one of those wonderful movies which raises ur spirits and makes u believe that..
love actually is all around :)
can not stop smiling :):)
the movie is so endearing that it makes u feel gooood just about everything !!
may be its the simplicity of 'love', shown through an extremely complex set of stories and cast which are interwoven intelligently, that, it clicks !
the story of aurelia and jamie clicked most to me..though its a bit fairytalish types (dreamy me cant help falling for such stuff u know :D or may be its the charm of colin firth!) the story is just beautiful..makes u believe in true love !! :)
the father-son (daniel and sam) and singer-manager (billy and joe) stories stand equally close..i give both of them the second place..the platonic love between billy and joe is something u hardly get to watch these days..and the father-son duo are just too cool to get ignored..plus the way their relation's progress is shown is too believable, considering daniel s the step father of sam, both fighting for their own love, one's lost and one's budding !!
well after this i dont have any personal favorites :)
though Hugh Grant is charming as always with his thick british accent and as the young, dynamic statesman..oh the Prime Minister !!
the treatment to the plot is superb..laced with witty,funny,sarcasm bhare dialogs its the perfect british film! it aught to be actually as most of the janta in there is British :) and plus the point that its set around x'mas season, makes it even more adorable..the spirit of the festive season is shown just in the right way..with the xmas lightings shown in and around every corner,the carol singers,the nativity play,the gift shops..oooh the excitement is overwhelming !!
Richard Curtis (the director and screenplaywriter) is well known and appreciated for his talent..this is the golden (may be platinum, heard its rarer and costlier :D) feather in this chicken's hat !
its one of those wonderful movies which raises ur spirits and makes u believe that..
love actually is all around :)
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