Its raining in Bombay(ugh! i'm sick of this....i mean Mumbai :P ) during November.
The mood swings the weather is taking now days I can't even understand. I guess thanks to global warming its like we're not on the same page any more... :O
Well check this out...
Cyclone whats-its-face ruined the cricket match i was supposed to attend. I am pissed!!!
I mean how many times does Australia come to Mumbai for a match against India that I was supposed to attend? Bloody hell ... Grrrrrrr.......Arrrgggh! Yeah that's what I was going through when I got the news about the rain fiasco...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
**nOvEmBeR rAiN**
Saturday, October 31, 2009
**tHe TV AdDiCt**
Engineering students typically have 3months of attending college, 1 month of submissions, 1 month of practical exams and study leave and 1month of written exams every semester. Out of these 6 months, the first 3 months is the only time that most of us attend college on a regular basis (atleast some of us). The last 3 months are super difficult for me. Yup, i have to admit, I'm a TV addict. Be it reality TV or drama, i'm a sucker for all of it.
I mostly blame it on the course i'v chosen. Yeah most people think engineering must be something only super focused people do. Nah, all of us are a bunch of jobless idiots who attend college just for fun the first three months and start actually studying a month before exams start. This is the actual condition of engineering students of Mumbai University. (i'v heard not all states have the same system as ours )
So during the first 3 months of the semester i borrow few seasons of shows i'v not watched from friends and then get totally addicted to them. Also Bigg Boss is super addictive. I mean 13 crazy, insecure and hardly famous people locked in a house full of cameras...how can it not be entertaining?
So this is the list of shows i watch on a regular basis:-
Grey's anatomy
House
Ugly Betty
How I Met Your Mother
The Big Bang Theory
Bigg Boss
The last 3 months of the semester are difficult for me because i try to cut down on the TV watching. :(
Sunday, October 25, 2009
**rEcEnT rOaDtRiP tO LoNaVaLa**
Twice every year my family and myself take a one day roadtrip to Lonavala(a hill station between Mumbai and Pune). The main reason of going there is that my dad and his family have been going to the Karla Devi Temple for a long long time and thus we follow the tradition too. No, I'm not a religious person but there is always a feeling of spirituality that i get when i visit any place facinating and considered holy. The other reason being that we have a family house over there that we rarely visit.
So this temple that we visit every year is located on a mountain and coinciding with it are some caves called the Karla caves.They have a facinating history behind the temple's existence. Karla Caves is a complex of ancient Buddhist Indian Rock cut architecture cave shrines built over the period of 3rd to 2nd century B.C. Even though the caves were constructed over a period of time and the oldest one is believed to date back to 160 BC.
So last Sunday we took our usual roadtrip to Lonavala and these were some of the pictures that i clicked.
On the way to Lonavala
Hiking up the mountain(thats my dad posing for the camera btw :) )
Buying garlands for the goddess
More flowers
Buying garlands for the goddess
More flowers
This place is truly fantastic and totally worth the visit if you ever go to Lonavala
P.S. my picture quality is not that good coz blogger was taking too long to upload the pics in larger sizes...So i uploaded them in small size and then expanded them.
P.S. my picture quality is not that good coz blogger was taking too long to upload the pics in larger sizes...So i uploaded them in small size and then expanded them.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
**(MiS)aDvEnTuReS oF RaBaLe/vAsHi **
This Monday was one hell of a day for my friends and me. We experienced one of the most unbelievably crazy days of our lives. So here it goes...
I say this because we had our Industrial visit to some manufacturing industry in Rabale (Which is a few stations away from Vashi...and we had no idea about this part of Mumbai city which is called New Mumbai). The very fact that we being IT engineers have some Godforsaken subject like 'Manufacturing Processes and Production Systems' is a mystery not only to the students but also to the professor teaching us the subject(Obviously he doesn't think the subject is Godforsaken...but still). So it all started with around 12 of deciding to catch a bus from MIDC bus depot ( Thanks to Vikram and Sagar for finding that out :P) which was supposed to leave at 7.45am towards Vashi. So like good and innocent students most of us managed to reach the depot on time except Shruti who unfortunately missed her 'cool cab' and hence we managed to miss the first bus. Yes some of us were miffed and some of us were trying to control ourselves from going to a South Indian restaurant just in front of the bus stop for breakfast. After around 20mins the bus arrived and we all got i safely and because of Kintu and Forum sat at the very last seats at the end of the bus. In Ritika's words "Our butts spent more time in the air than on the seats" thanks to all the infrastructure improvements taking place all over the place. Fortunately we reached our destination rather quickly. After asking everyone from the passengers to the conductor we finally just got down at Rabale station. Turns out it was a good decision.
The walk from the station super long and confusing. There too we asked lots of people about the industry because even though there was a map there, our bloody industry was not mentioned on it. It sort of feel like we were lost for a while. So after asking some local tapri -walas and a guy who looked senile ( and drunk ) we found our way through the place. The factory we went to was not all that bad, but that was from the outside. we know that because we reached there almost an hour early! So spent the time waiting for our professors to arrive by checking out the outside of the factory :P . This place was a factory which made Centrifuges. So once the professors arrived we hardly had 15mins of explanation about each machine used there and the rest of the time we spent trying to look impressed with everything happening there in front of the professors ( it helps in term-work marking ;) ) Then after thanking the 'tour guide', drinking some seriously adulterated cold drinks (served by them) and taking group photographs(as a proof of us being there) we made a quick exit.
Our next destination was Vashi. So the only convenient way for us to get there was the trains. So we headed for Rabale station where we all had planned to board the general compartment so that the girls and guys won't have to travel separately. But this turned out to be a seriously funny fiasco. As the train stopped at the platform the guys quickly got into the trains but when we girls were getting in some kid in front of Ritika started shouting and screaming at her saying 'mera chappal de, chappal de!'('gimme my shoe, my shoe') Obviously this confused her and she forgot what she was doing! Typically all of us were behind her and we all were stupidly wondering why she had stopped. Now the train had started to move and seeing this i ran towards the next door which was not blocked and got inside along with Harshad. All the girls except me were stranded on Rabale station because of the stupid kid who lost his shoe!
By the time the guys and me got to Vashi we had a hearty laugh about the confused looks on girls faces. Finally after around 20mins they too reached Vashi with along with their goofy grins. We then headed for InOrbit Mall Vashi...Man its huge...Here we fed and watered ourselves at KFC, McDonalds, some cake shop and Naturals IceCream... Unfortunately we had to soon move back into the scorching heat to catch a bus back home( or at least to Andheri).But just before we left a few girls came up to Harshad and said that they had to check his bag. Obviously he was confused and then they told him that they suspected terrorist activity giggling all the while. Poor Harshad opened his bag for the girls and all we did was look at the whole thing wondering what the hell was happening. Yeah we knew it was some stupid dare but the look on Harshad's face was priceless. We got out of the mall and asked the auto-rickshaw guy to drop us to Vashi bus depot ( so that we could catch it while its just starting off). Three rickshaws and 10mins later we all were standing at one of the stops of the depot where the bus no. was written. We decided to take a different bus this time which would go directly to Andheri (w). So after a while the bus arrived, didn't stop and zoomed of in full speed in front of our eyes. We all obviously screamed, jumped and shouted for the bus to stop but that had no effect on the bloody driver and he drove off to a signal which was around 200meters across the bus depot. Kintu had a bright(as a bulb) idea and said that we should make a dash for it while its at the traffic signal. So as much to the bystanders amusement we ran like hooliguns all over the place to catch a bloody bus (we wanted to get back home that badly!). We ran like crazy people holding our bags and pants in place. Shruti almost again missed the bus as she hobbled towards the bus with her glares bobbing up and down and her heels giving away (Thank god for my sneakers). But she managed it this time.
Then we finally were in a bus where we sat and were trying to catch our breaths when in no time the conductor arrived. Siddharth asked for 1 ticket to Andheri and the conductor gave us an almost wicked smile. "Yeh bus doosri taraf jaa rahi hai" ("this bus is going the other way"). That was it. All of us were in a state of shock for almost 3secs. As soon as the bus stopped at the next signal we got off and stood at the next bus stop in sight. There again we asked a few locals who clearly knew that we were lost. A sweet little lady told us where the starting stop of the bus we wanted was and again 3 rickshaws and 10mins later we were at some godforsaken bus-stop which was creepy looking.
Fortunately we got the bus we were looking for and this time it was going in the right direction too. We were relieved, finally. But this bus took us almost 2hours to get to Andheri compared to the other one we took in the morning and it turns out that that very bus had its starting point right in front of InOrbit mall!
I reached home at 5.45pm and was dead tired! What a Bloody unforgettable day...
I say this because we had our Industrial visit to some manufacturing industry in Rabale (Which is a few stations away from Vashi...and we had no idea about this part of Mumbai city which is called New Mumbai). The very fact that we being IT engineers have some Godforsaken subject like 'Manufacturing Processes and Production Systems' is a mystery not only to the students but also to the professor teaching us the subject(Obviously he doesn't think the subject is Godforsaken...but still). So it all started with around 12 of deciding to catch a bus from MIDC bus depot ( Thanks to Vikram and Sagar for finding that out :P) which was supposed to leave at 7.45am towards Vashi. So like good and innocent students most of us managed to reach the depot on time except Shruti who unfortunately missed her 'cool cab' and hence we managed to miss the first bus. Yes some of us were miffed and some of us were trying to control ourselves from going to a South Indian restaurant just in front of the bus stop for breakfast. After around 20mins the bus arrived and we all got i safely and because of Kintu and Forum sat at the very last seats at the end of the bus. In Ritika's words "Our butts spent more time in the air than on the seats" thanks to all the infrastructure improvements taking place all over the place. Fortunately we reached our destination rather quickly. After asking everyone from the passengers to the conductor we finally just got down at Rabale station. Turns out it was a good decision.
The walk from the station super long and confusing. There too we asked lots of people about the industry because even though there was a map there, our bloody industry was not mentioned on it. It sort of feel like we were lost for a while. So after asking some local tapri -walas and a guy who looked senile ( and drunk ) we found our way through the place. The factory we went to was not all that bad, but that was from the outside. we know that because we reached there almost an hour early! So spent the time waiting for our professors to arrive by checking out the outside of the factory :P . This place was a factory which made Centrifuges. So once the professors arrived we hardly had 15mins of explanation about each machine used there and the rest of the time we spent trying to look impressed with everything happening there in front of the professors ( it helps in term-work marking ;) ) Then after thanking the 'tour guide', drinking some seriously adulterated cold drinks (served by them) and taking group photographs(as a proof of us being there) we made a quick exit.
Our next destination was Vashi. So the only convenient way for us to get there was the trains. So we headed for Rabale station where we all had planned to board the general compartment so that the girls and guys won't have to travel separately. But this turned out to be a seriously funny fiasco. As the train stopped at the platform the guys quickly got into the trains but when we girls were getting in some kid in front of Ritika started shouting and screaming at her saying 'mera chappal de, chappal de!'('gimme my shoe, my shoe') Obviously this confused her and she forgot what she was doing! Typically all of us were behind her and we all were stupidly wondering why she had stopped. Now the train had started to move and seeing this i ran towards the next door which was not blocked and got inside along with Harshad. All the girls except me were stranded on Rabale station because of the stupid kid who lost his shoe!
By the time the guys and me got to Vashi we had a hearty laugh about the confused looks on girls faces. Finally after around 20mins they too reached Vashi with along with their goofy grins. We then headed for InOrbit Mall Vashi...Man its huge...Here we fed and watered ourselves at KFC, McDonalds, some cake shop and Naturals IceCream... Unfortunately we had to soon move back into the scorching heat to catch a bus back home( or at least to Andheri).But just before we left a few girls came up to Harshad and said that they had to check his bag. Obviously he was confused and then they told him that they suspected terrorist activity giggling all the while. Poor Harshad opened his bag for the girls and all we did was look at the whole thing wondering what the hell was happening. Yeah we knew it was some stupid dare but the look on Harshad's face was priceless. We got out of the mall and asked the auto-rickshaw guy to drop us to Vashi bus depot ( so that we could catch it while its just starting off). Three rickshaws and 10mins later we all were standing at one of the stops of the depot where the bus no. was written. We decided to take a different bus this time which would go directly to Andheri (w). So after a while the bus arrived, didn't stop and zoomed of in full speed in front of our eyes. We all obviously screamed, jumped and shouted for the bus to stop but that had no effect on the bloody driver and he drove off to a signal which was around 200meters across the bus depot. Kintu had a bright(as a bulb) idea and said that we should make a dash for it while its at the traffic signal. So as much to the bystanders amusement we ran like hooliguns all over the place to catch a bloody bus (we wanted to get back home that badly!). We ran like crazy people holding our bags and pants in place. Shruti almost again missed the bus as she hobbled towards the bus with her glares bobbing up and down and her heels giving away (Thank god for my sneakers). But she managed it this time.
Then we finally were in a bus where we sat and were trying to catch our breaths when in no time the conductor arrived. Siddharth asked for 1 ticket to Andheri and the conductor gave us an almost wicked smile. "Yeh bus doosri taraf jaa rahi hai" ("this bus is going the other way"). That was it. All of us were in a state of shock for almost 3secs. As soon as the bus stopped at the next signal we got off and stood at the next bus stop in sight. There again we asked a few locals who clearly knew that we were lost. A sweet little lady told us where the starting stop of the bus we wanted was and again 3 rickshaws and 10mins later we were at some godforsaken bus-stop which was creepy looking.
Fortunately we got the bus we were looking for and this time it was going in the right direction too. We were relieved, finally. But this bus took us almost 2hours to get to Andheri compared to the other one we took in the morning and it turns out that that very bus had its starting point right in front of InOrbit mall!
I reached home at 5.45pm and was dead tired! What a Bloody unforgettable day...
**I'm aLiVe PeOpLe**
Here I am, yet again apologizing for not being active in the blogging circuit for a while. Well there are many excuses that i have. Firstly, College. Yup, I've been busy attending it! (lol...not that i'm not regular, its just that i'm having more fun now :P ) and we have mid-terms coming. Then there is my lappy(laptop). Its PMS-ing. Well its about time ;) . In reality my lappy has been attacked by a virus OR its motherboard has crashed. Since i am not yet an engineering graduate i don't exactly know yet. (interesting excuse for being bad at what i'm doing) :P
I'm going to post immediately after this post...so don't miss it...
P.S : I voted yesterday...YAY!! except this time i did not upload pictures of me and my fingers as proof :P
P.S.S : thank u Abby and Ant for reminding me to post SoOn.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
**LiFe ChAnGiNg**
You know how once if we make up our mind about something and then due to some weird experience our thinking towards that particular thing changes? I'll take that as a yes. I guess its the same with me when it comes to chocolates and ice-creams.
I might sound like a real loser but the truth is that I've never been into ice-creams. Its like just any other dessert to me. Chocolates are something that I've always had in my fridge because my Dad travels a lot and he always brought chocolates from all over the world for my sis and me. So its not something that I really craved for...ever! Yeah my friends often found this weird and called me kill joy when I never really swooned when they spoke about ice-creams... I had even given up eating chocolate cakes and chocolate ice-cream for almost a year... :P
But i think I've had a life changing experience today. Today I had the BEST ever ice-cream and chocolate concoction EVER!!! 
You see it was in a glass just like this one. Imagine chocolate in it of the same density as in the first picture and a similar color. Then imagine a scoop of vanilla ice-cream in the middle of the glass failing to float due to the heavy chocolate...Oh ya, it also had a thick layer of flaked DairyMilk chocolate on the top... It tasted like Dairy Milk liquid chocolate with ice-cream. OMG it was just too good!
Now I will swoon when people mention chocolates around me... :P
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