The Long Weekend - Games and Fun, Gautham Kalra

Woke up after a wonderful nourishing sleep after the previous day's PT exercises....here are details, Biker Rajesh (don't have his blog URL) dropped in to my home at HSR layout. The plan was that we play Table Tennis at the club. We ended up buying a set of boxers, and swimming at the club for 2 hours.

Rajesh made me do the "Iron Man" where you lie on your toes and elbows. That pains at the ab.

And later we ran for some good time on the thread mill. That was really really tiring sheesh!!!!

With so many calories burnt,
With the Srilanka - Australia final match being displayed by a projector,
With Rajesh leaving to singapore in 2 weeks,
With the club offering 1 peg free with every 2 pegs of black dog whiskey
With our other biker friends partying at Yelagiri (Tamil Nadu) with the madras bikers,
With my Oxodo Aviators crushed by Rajesh's pathetic ass,

We decided to celebrate !!!! And this was reason GOOD enough.

The match was delayed due to rain and we got drunk watching the last match's highlights. So pathethic..... this is worse than the P.E's ;)

So I Woke up after a wonderful nourishing sleep after the previous day's PT exercises and saw an ad in the news paper, Gautham Kalra dressed in a Tartan Tam, Shoulder bag and a black cloak.

the ad reads "HE CAN GIVE YOU A NEW LOOK AND A NEW GIRLFRIEND."

Anyways i thought let me go see this hot shot.

but o-wait i had to drop the crushed-oxodo-aviator at Shades residency road... Now parking is a real problem anywhere in central bangalore, so i drive in to the Taj Gateway, residency road and park the car, visit the reception, say hi to the guy at the counter and get to the shades-shop. The parking in Taj is never utilized so guys please make use of it.

Oh enough of this shit... lets go on.

So i get to commercial street.... the parking is a real problem there too... oh phuleeze.

So i get into the indigo showroom and i meet gautham, kevin and an Indian Air Force Chick (She's good, smart and can give you a great smile). Well gautham came out and shook hands with me. Gautham made me try a few formals, helped me get rid of pink-o-phobia. Met kevin too who helped me with some tips for my "long hair" experiment. Gautham (all 36) and single, lives in delhi/noida, tells me he loves living life full. He makes his own clothes. Used to stay in koramangala, He has no pets, He has all the time for his customers, and he definitely has at least 50x times the time for "his" women.

Started leaving to home at 9 pm, Guys honking, driving like a rabid dog (hehehe that should be a nonsensical original).

and reached by 10:30, that my friends is about bangalore traffic.

That's all for now, thanks for your wasted time (hope that wasn't rude) !!!

The himalayan ride - status

Jug met me at my office today and we charted out the plan for the Himalayan ride. Its finally happening. This ride, i plan to deploy a better camera than the one on the last Himalayan ride ( Its a cannon A80 ).

So i post up a message in my group:

I am in need of a camera that's state of art, digital and has at least a
10x ++ optical zoom .

Picture details should be good (towards the better). i should not have have problems like bakery did for switching lenses (he mentioned Nikon)

thanks a lot !

-adarsh

and hear this.. Arun replies

"Sorry sir, your demands are too high. What we recommend though is a mobile phone and a magnifying lenses. You are welcome J"

OH MY GOD ! I JUST CANT HELP LAUGHING AT THIS ONE !

Bheja Fry !

Woke up at 11 to a nice not so bright sunday morning. I spent the previous night watching documentaries - The Iron Wall (Its about Palestinian apartheid, Zionism) and a conspiracy theory of the CIA and the Nazis. Life seems so easy for us huh... we are so freaking lucky

Called up kam and asked him if he would wanna join in for lunch, which he gladly accepted. As usual we did a COP and headed to innovative multiplex in my car to watch a movie called provoked. The idea was to see Aish while she was still single ;) We would have to wait 3 hours for the next show, so we settled for a movie called bheja fry (bheja is brain (colloquial) in hindi)

I could relate to the hero of the movie Rajat Kapoor, the friday parties with friends, the party 1st campaign. What he does in the movie almost juxtaposes with the way i am with my wife....deja-vu!. The remarkable Vinay Pathak did an amazing job playing the bloke. Sagarika is HOT HOT HOT! Milind Soman, and his infectious laughter makes me feel really good. This is a definate must watch movie. Definately too good for Sagar Ballary's directorial debut.

Win-E's pics

For all of you asking for pics of my son - Win-E , Here's my brother Aditya, Win-E and me!

PS: As usual win-e is looking at the "migrating" birds without permits

Picture Courtesy: Uncle Seena, Somewhere in sankleshpur

This is win-e with pook-e at my hometown. Pookie is a gachibowli bred sweetheart (she is the begaum of nampalli!!) . She beats win-e in speed.. in fact she thrashes win-e in a fight. Call it female-dominance ;)

And thats proud Win-E with his nose up!

PS: He does know when to bend down to a female of his species.

PS: And i never take my wife's comment on "learn from win-e" too seriously, LOL

Rambling on

One of the riders are dropping out.. Rajesh is opting for a job in singapore. Best of lucks, rajesh. I'm gonna miss a great football teammate and a great comrade at the bar-stool. Hope those cute cross-eyed singapore babes are really worth this ride.


The blue lakes, the deserts of nubra, the cute DOGS of khalsar, the excitement of this ride is keeping me awake!

No name yet for the yearly himalayan episode

Well i still don't have a name for the yearly Himalayan biking episode. There are NO promising suggestions out of the many i got!

The way i would love to describe this adventure is a "ride that churns out adrenalin which fuels your adventure and die hard, tough get going attitude". What we need is a proper name.

Just noticed that Win-E has put on a few kilos. And he has a paunch. That joker keeps sleeping the whole day. When i woke up this afternoon, i found him sleeping on his back, with his 4 legs up!

In Win-e boy's interest, i had a run with him from HSR Layout Club, thru NIFT, AGHARA Lake, back thru BDA complex and to the club. As memories come thru, At chang-la i could just run (I felt my lungs were burning) half what i could in bangalore.

I plan to do the same again this ride, infact here is what i hope to do.

1. Run a few kilometers in shorts at khardungla ;)
2. Swim in Pangong-Tso Lake ;)
3. Sleep on ice at Tanglang-la ;)
4. Visit URI in kashmir !!!! :)

( ;) )COLD is the least common denominator here

The himalayan biking adventure - revisited

With the magic magnetic powers of Pangong Tso, the contours of Nubra Valley, the altitude of khardungla still in my head, i just decided to revisit the place again.

This time i weighed the option of a solo ride.

The advantages of a solo ride is quite clear:

• You ride fast.
• You can stop where ever you want and photograph the place.
• Its all fun until your bike breaks down ( Click here to see normal human reaction when the breakdown is trivial ;) )

The disadvantages:

• You are lonely, You get depressed (when nature weakens you off) and when you are alone.
• You tend to sleep... you need to keep working in your brain.
• Stay/Accommodation is costly
• No high altitude party's
• Other motorists tend to push you off the road...
  

I called up my biker pals Rajesh and another guy called Jag and told them of this plan. Rajesh asked me to book the plane tickets to delhi... Well i still have a lot of pressure to put on the home ministry to persuade them to allow me to visit some "forward" positions.

This looks like a perennial craze and I am thinking of giving it (this event) a name (Can some one suggest me a name)

June 1st 2007 is the potential date i plan to embark on this trip.