Nothing beats home!

A small proof

Four Fractions had its first official team meet – though nothing official was discussed, we had a ton of fun – pure simple fun.

Chilling over coke! – Sam and myself

The pizza that we destroyed – we sure were the costliest customers that evening – costed Pizza Hut an extra 350+90+70 bucks!
As it turned out – we were served the pizza and garlic bread with onions when we specially requested them to serve it w/o onions. …and ofcourse PH paid the price – a free pitcher of Coke

All the w/o onions thing made everyone so damn hungry!

Mr. Sandy – our chief guest for the evening

- brainstorming -

Ofcourse – he is shadow practicing for the future… just in case!

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Last few days, I was tinkering with Symbian API, trying to grasp how it works – all’ve been possible due to Sameer’s & Sandy’s huge effort to pack my PC & bring it all the way from Delhi to Pune – shoo’ing off a bunch of ticket inspectors who told him that he needed some sort of permission to travell with transported goods!

His stay in Pune was pretty enjoyable – Blue Bell 204 felt like JD-73/A again with Sameer throwing off all the clothes whereever he could – that arguments, those talks… everything! I hope to see my family soon

Thanks Sammer, Sandy

Though the Epoc simulators are bit too heavy for my old chap to run – I sometimes have to wait for minutes together to see *any* activity on the simulator – just to find that the program crashed with an exception! – but hey, atleast I can read the docs & all

& once I get the airtel connection, i’m going to make our apartment a Wifi zone! & Bhalerao has agreed well in advance to support this decision of mine financially

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AFAIR, its been more than 6 months since I had a haircut… last remembered, I visited the babrber in Mundhwa – & that was wayyy back, even before I came to stay with D-25

So this weekend, Me & Rama finally headed to the barber’s & managed to get the trim!

Then… – they perfectly qualified for a pony tail… infact I even sported one for a couple of days before geting tired of managing it everytime… boy! – that was a huge task in itself!

Better… The length’s been shortened a bit – from my chin length to my nose, but still sporting long(ish) hair… (pictures taken @ the barber’s shop!)

As usual – the larger versions are at my Zoto
…thanks to Rama for the pictures

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Pictures say it all… we all got together at Emilia 401 to celebrate Rama’s B’day & it was superb fun! I just hope Anna managed to put those videos (shot from Ratish’s camera) on youtube…

The birthday boy – Rama

Anna, Ravi, Satish (Behind Rama), me & Ratish

Someone had to hold Rama from running around

Poor dude… the cake was all over him! Even the icing could not make it to our tummies…

…Just monkeying around – hahahaha

BTW, just to mention, the credit for yesterday’s party goes to Ravi – who remembered the birthday in first place & organized the cake along with Satish. Good work guys!

More pictures here

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I’ve been missing out on a lot of birthday’s these days… Sandy’s was the last one which I missed & now vishal’s!

Wish you a very happy b’day ass-head! hehehe

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It had been long months before my bike got serviced again. I was shocked to see that I was running my engine without the engine oil – only god knows when did that finished! The breaks were getting loose, the rear shockers needed to be tweaked! Even the horn was not working!

Boy! I literally felt the need today after I got it serviced finally – the engine’s roaring sound completely changed, the breakes are taught!, the horn’s started working, rear shockers are much better now – actually, as per the mechanic, I was keeping the air pressure in the tyres a bit too high – Recommended PSI’s are – for rear – 25 and for front wheel – 21 …& I was off the mark by +4 for each! So earlier, when I used to cross a puddle, the shockers used to almost cry, now they move in a smooth up-down movement

Oh, mentioning my bike getting serviced & not touching upon the adventure trip Me, Aman, Jassi & Ramandeep went would be like missing half of the story.

We started the journey with just a faint idea of destination – as per Jassy’s words – a left turn before Lonavla & another left turn & another & we would be there

A journey without a destination, taken just to enjoy the driving – 6AM in the morning is a freaking idea, but amazingly interesting!

It was shit cold when we started at 6AM! This pic was taken after about 1.5 hours of driving & you can still see how good is my protection – hehehe

Aman (our QE), Jassy (our Punjabi language maintainer – on my bike) & Ramandeep (one of their friends)

Chill wind started to give way to warm sunshine as Sun rose!

This was a small path, carved in-between a mountain’s foot! Wow!

So when we took the first left turn (as per Jassy) & then the second – we lost our way! And we had traveled through such a way that going back was like killing our backs! Almost 25% of the way (when we were up the mountains) was done on the second gear! So what do we do? Finally Jassy handed me the navigator’s charge & we set out to reach Lonavla & Khandala – our backup plan Most of the area had army bases/offices so the roads we travelled were so clean & well maintained that it made up for all of efforts we had put in! Steep turns & climbs worth 2nd gear drive – made our day!

But when we reached Lonavla & Khandala, the only place to see was a dirty shooting point! I know that we were visiting the place in off-season (the correct time being the rainy season), but what we couldnt understand was that what entertainment do people get out of visiting this shit place!???
If you meet someone who has Lonavla/Khandala in mind – slap him! & tell him to go for a trek instead!

All worth seeing here was everything which was NOT a tourist spot -

We found an inlet to a valley just besides the road!

And this Shivling point!

Apart from these, the only thing worth doing here was gunning my bike on those awesome roads! & ofcourse, bird-watching ;-D (WTF!) hahahaha

Long story cut short – Either the people who are so fond of visiting Khandala & Lonavla are complete idiots! or we missed an obvious hang out point! If the latter is true, I would like to make a trip again – just to see what the heck we missed in our 191 kilometer long drive!

More pictures, as usual – on My Zoto

PS: Bike’s on my mind (Original post) – Find it here

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