Shootout at Lokhandwala...
...based on true rumors.
May be their box office success will also be based on true rumors. God pray for the soul of the team that made the movie. A high starrer, will again not be a high grosser. Or so I feel. My 1st day 1st show - a sad movie I got to see. No regrets, I did get to meet up with my school chums - Anuj and Pratiroop. Movie done, the camera people were right outside the theater (PVR Rivoli) and Anuj did make a comment - Sad, sorry movie, piece of crap, holy shit. Well, a little strong, but if it comes on camera what the hell! :)
Other than that, nothing much on in life, trip finalized, well, almost :P And, I am now feeling nervous, a fattu that I am ;) Learning, trying to see what not to miss out. Praying. :)
Labels: delhi, Life, personal
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More than a week gone by, I don't seem to be doing much preparation of my trip that I plan to do alone. All I do is eat out at places, make sure my tummy gains an inch or two, I sleep like a log, and watch movies on screen, or on the computer. Life. Aah. Nice.
Saw Life in a... Metro. Everyone bangs everyone - as put by Shaggy's friend Rustugi. The reason why I actually watched the flick, with Priya @ Priya :). At the end of the movie, all I felt was yes - everyone does screw everyone, and that's about it :) Life in a metro - all screwed up :)
I came from one metro to another. Life is screwed up :) Now I go and gobble something, coz my stomach craves for more home-cooked food :)
Other than that, I managed to use my camera on sunday, when I met Akriti over lunch @ Rajdhani, CP. I did some photography while in the auto. Will post some stuff on my
photoblog as and when I manage to download some stuff.
Labels: delhi, Life, personal
Week
A week that's been loaded with R. All over it.
Monday: Cafe Mondegar - Colaba - SD, Ghaza, Honda, Karthik and I. Visited by Reddy, Avate and Sarmistha.
Tue: Train to Delhi
Wed: Dinner at home
Thu: Day out at market. Shopping with the ladies sucks big time. It was my sister this time round. Dinner at Hookah, Priya complex, Vasant Vihar
Fri: Day at CP. Gathering info, and doing some booking for my trip. Lunch at Subway. Movie at Rivoli. PVRs made it look real nice :) Dinner at home.
Sat: Out at IIT with friends. Subway, Barista, and finally IIT Nescafe. Dinner at home.
Sun: Like God, today I rest :)
Labels: delhi, Life, Mumbai
Kar-Na-La
Well, this post comes 5 days late, after the 2nd and hopefully last
trek in the Sahaydris. Well, this happened after lots of mails among about 15 people, and 9 finally showing up on the eventful morning.
The morning - I wait for the woman
Just like any other morning, Sarmistha woke up when given calls at 5.30AM, the time we had hoped for leaving the campus, for the much needed maddu stopover. Having picked her up, we made it to maddu where the rest of the gang - 7 people - SD, SD Jr., Karthik, Jose - the old man, Sandhya, Nivedita, and Bachha were already getting some food packed for the journey. Vadas and a few idlis done, we got to Panvel thanks to the Mumbai local trains.
Train journey
At Panvel, Bachha cut us a deal with the autos, 9 people in 2 autos, for Rs. 150 per vehicle. A 20 min drive, and we were right infront of the starting point at as early as 7.30 AM. A princely sum of Rs. 20 ph, and all of us trodded right over the saying that I always had upheld so far "Vishnoi Doesn't Trek". A few hundred meters up, we saw the map of the complete place. A 3km trail to the fort, or a 6+km trail that showed us some birds (hopefully) and a long walk to go. With three non-trekking people, we chose the "stroll in the park" was what we had hoped for, what it turned out was not bad either. With too much exposing of the newly wed Ash - our trail had burnt leaves on both sides - we had a pleasurable route while we had expected a hot sunny day. Clouds were what did come to our rescue :)
The entry into the bird sanctuary
The map we read
Sarmistha and I at the
Drinks Break ;)
An anthill on the way :)
At around 9.30, we were atop the fort, and encountered nice views, had some food, while SD and Sandhya tried their hands at some rock climbing. Lots of Sriram over the place made us crack loads of Emani jokes, and a happy affair done, we started to walk down the trail we had walked up. Then did the slipping of people, and the injuring of ankles happen, with quite a few slips and a couple or so sprains.
SD - Desperate little kid on the top of the fort :)
The "erection" that SD and Sandhya tried to mount :P
All this happens while we eat :)
And SD poses on the rocks ;)
The
Srirams all over the rock
A peacock in the cage
Done with all this, at around 12 noon did we arrive at the start point of the Karnala Bird Sanctuary, with no birds sighted but in the cages - a peacock, and a couple of parrots. Then came the tough decision for the group minus Karthik, Sarmistha and I - who had decided to head back to IIT with a stopover at Karthik's place. The choice of proceeding to Alibag, or to Karthik's place where we'd order pizzas and his mom's hand cooked food? All chose the latter, and to Karthik's place we headed. 1.30 PM in there, we all gathered up in his library, some washed, some not, and the pizzas in front of us. Dosas also were made soon, and all gobbled up, one by one we all fell down like a house of cards ;)
Some 2 hours later, we all managed to get up, and snacks down the stomach, and a bus ride to IIT home sweet home we were by 7 PM. I made a dash to hostel, picked up the money that'd been lying in my suitcase for long, and to Dadar I went to buy my latest prized collection - Canon 350D. :) Yes yes, I own it now :)
Labels: IIT, Life, Mumbai, trek
