My-Cup-of-Tea

I was pondering on the thought, how come I never wrote about my trips in Cyprus ?. So, am here to pen down some of my recent visits around Limassol.

Anyway, after returning from Toronto, my friend has asked me to accompany him to kalavasos, since it would be his second last weekend in Cyprus, I couldn’t say NO.

Kalavasos,

Main attraction was the Dam, the surprising thing was that, this time for a change, there’s water in the dam, which made me believe that drought is certainly over, for a minute, until, I found out that it was only 4% full. It suddenly turned from sunny to cloudy, which added much more beauty to the already spectacular/picturesque view. There were few rain drops, which couldn’t stop our enthusiasm to tour around.

After enjoying the beauty there, I had the best lunch after 52 days of egg/bread/cheese in Toronto. We then had our lengthiest photo session for couples by Sareen. After forcing them to drop it, we moved on to Copper mines, abandon ones of course, Which was boring for me to say the least. I was not much amazed since I lived near by coal mines, back in my home town. Since its cyprus it was AwESOME, to see the proof behind the story [among many], why it was named Cyprus. You may like it, if you weren’t living near by any sort of mines. I heard they will restore the mines for tourists, probably in a year or two. In Cyprus time, I think that will NEVER happen .

We then drove to the KALAVASOS village center, the pleasant breeze followed us, all the way from the dam. We roamed around the village, we saw many old faces who were probably wondering, what the hell we were doing there !!. The small stores placed along the round about with a Chruch at one end, shows a typical greek village’s style. The freshly brewed coffee, the old sharing their jokes and laughing out loud, certainly, reminds me of my village. We then searched for the small train [supposed to be the only train in cyprus] which was mentioned in one of the famous blogs, well, we did find it in a park dedicated to Maria. The train was used to transport the copper, from the mines mentioned early near the dam. I once again, visited my childhood by playin on the see-saw, cradle etc., with the children.

The following week end, we went to Lofou for lunch. Read/heard/learnt about this place for its famous traditional Cyprus Meze. We were six in number and ordered 5 Chicken and 1 vegetarian meze. The only difference for chicken and Vegetarian meze was that they gave mushrooms instead of chicken, can you believe that!!. The food was amazing, it was alot for 6 of us, probaby 4 would have been sufficient. The Meze was amazing, though the chicken didn’t play much part in it. At the end, the serving lady, who was cute , has brought us Lukumi, a traditional sweet dish as desert. At first I thought she was saying look-at-me, lol.

A british lady was kind enough, to capture us in the below picture. There were many jokes cracked during our lunch, including the owner’s, which were quite spontaneous and hilarious. We then argued about whether RUSSEL PETERs should/shouldn’t make comments about India. Anyway, a nice lunch with friends is always a great moment to have.

Lofou is a beautiful village, on top of a hill, the climate around, has added more beauty to the valley at the end of the village by turning into cloudy from sunny. Now I do understand why old people prefer to live a peaceful life on hill tops.

On our way back to Limassol we stopped at a place near kouris dam, where two different streams of water, from different sources merged. Some people were playing with their 4Ds and dirt-bikes there, which looked DAMN cooool for my boring s/w engineer life . We drove all the way to the other end of the place and found ourselves amazed at the sight of many mobs down there, near the water, fishing. Had another photo session there.

On the next day after searchign for a place until 2 AM, we decided to go to some medieval bridges far away from limassol. But at 1200, near KFC we decided to go to AGROS. I love spontaneous trips. Started to search for Agros on my sixth edition of Cyprus Tourism book, since, I was the proclaimed navigator for our little mazda familia. Followed the B8 and took a right for Agros 16 km after a village, on the way to Troodos.

The sun was very bright for April, but after that particular right turn into the mountains, it was suddnely cloudy and then started to rain. We stopped at a beautiful cliff for snaps, the houses on top of the hills in front of us were very beautiful. True, that the natural trails on these mountains would be very picturisque as mentioned in the book.

Little did I know, I was still searching for agros in the map, when we reached that place . Stopped at Kouros fountain for some snaps, while it was still raining. We then drove, drove and drove til a dead end, waited there for some time and had a small photo session, while two israels lost their way like we did and talked with us in HINDI, which was very cool, since they liked India and were tryin to speak with us in thir cute accent, YES ! they were gals.

We searched for ROSE GARDENS just to find out that there are far too many places/apartments/streets which begin with the word "ROSES". Finally, a kiosk owner has enlightened us, that, it was not the season for roses and there were not many roses at the garden, but we can see the rose water factory near by, which we were not interested in. We started to go further up, to Chandria, in search of the tallest peak where we can see troodos and Limassol wine villages, which we were lazy to go after finding where it was. Back to Limassol after watching the eartherned resorvoirs near the same village. The road from AGROS to Chandria and then to Troodos was awesome, filled with full of green valleys and brown and amazing houses on the hill tops.

Worthy places to visit, Kalavasos/Lofou/Agros/Chandria during April season i.e Spring.

 

Am back in Toronto for a month & a half, only 9 more days to go.

This time I got not much of time to go around places, well, anyway nothing much left to go around here. I spent one whole afternoon in Dave & Buster’s, Vaughan. It was awesome, may be the first time I spent money with not putting much thought into it. For 50 bucks, it was good entertainment.

Got close with many people here, made some cool friends. Now I can say confidently that I have some cool friends in Canada .

Past five weeks were pretty busy, just couldn’t make it anywhere. At last, took two days off and got some peace.

Watched some quite good movies, friends here suggested some really cool movies, watched at their home. Gran Torino, The great debaters, Lake view Terrace and Knowing. Knowing was great to watch in the theater [If you saw the trailer, forget about watching it]. Doomsday was left, well, I got one more week to go. Planning to go a musical this week, lets see.

Last Friday was great, went to the Knowing and then roamed around in Downtown Toronto around 11ish PM to find "Last house on the Left", well, seems like they don’t screen at that hour. Then went to a restaurent/bar NEXT 7 on Yonge St. It was cozy and nice. May be I am bragging a bit more, but, it felt like HIMYM bar with 4 friends, 5th one will join soon .

On a final note, this time Toronto trip is way AWESOME than the last time and yeah am learning a lot about my work .

ciao.

 

P.S: When you rent a car check then and there whether the GPS system is working or not. You are not some genius like me, to drive all the way to Montreal with out GPS from Toronto. That damn thing didn’t work at all, on the way to Montreal:((.

Montreal :

Toronto to Montreal is a 5hr drive, including a break at Tim Horton’s, near Kingston. Started at 4′ish [’ish - stands for "around/like" in Canada] in the morning and reached around 9′ish. Met my friends and had some Coffee and began the day.

Destination was Olympic Tower, Bio Dome and Botanical Gardens [Yes!! You guessed right, I never even had the thought of getting into Botanical Gardens].

BioDome was awesome. Its a completely closed structure. From outside, its just a regular building with different structure, but inside an amazing little world awaits you, with beautiful creatures and plants (everything inside that small building [Should I say, little world ??]). It was amazing. After entering the biodome, it felt like, I was in a beautiful valley filled with many wonders of the mother nature [best part no pollution]. It was no more just a building full of birds or plants for me. Its worth a ton, to visit.

Olympic Tower, well know for its stylish structure. It was good. But the Panoramic view of Montreal from the top was simply beautiful. I felt for one second, to settle down in Montreal forever. The city was built, well planned.

From there we moved to Old City. There we saw Nostradamus church and then we roamed around the old city. I felt like I was roaming in Europe again. After a while we found ourselves in a garden with a panoramic view of the young and growing city. We had a photo session there, then, we went back into the old city for a bite. Back to Tim-Hortons [same medium sized French-Vanilla and a Roasted cheese bagel, I don’t know!!, am not vexed with this order, yet.]. Then we moved towards the lake side, it was freezing like hell, -5C was not bearable with my long coat and a muffler. But, it was worth.

We then, drove to a mountain top to see the beautiful Montreal in the maroon light of setting sun. Well, we missed that by 5 min, may be, but Montreal in night with its own sources of light, was not bad either.. ha ha .. well it was great. But we missed the other part. Actually, from that mountain top we can see Montreal in 360 deg. But we didn’t find that spot. You can try to go there and find the other spot.

On the way back to my friend’s place, met some acquaintances, bid my adieu and went for dinner at an Indian restaurant. Prakash was planning for the Quebec City Iteninary, while we retired for bed.

Quebec City :

Woke up at 6 AM in the morning, that was the first and the last time, I woke up so early in the morning. Temp was -5C. We got ready and left for Tim-Hortons [Yes !! You guess right, its the same order again ! ]. First we got the GPS thing right, ultimately it worked . Its a three hour drive, its good that my friend took the job of driving for the rest of the day. I had a small nap on the way. Quebec is a very beautiful place. We reached Quebec by 12ish.

Destination was the water falls. It was awesome. I climbed up to the falls and climbed down to the bottom of the falls, where everything was frozen. The water was very cold. It was fun climbing down, but really a pain in the a** while climbing up. There were around 300 steps, of which, last 100 were covered with ice. It was slippery and very tough to maintain our balance, but it was worth going down to the bottom.

Then we went to subway for lunch. P.S In Quebec City mostly, they speak only French. Not even single person there in subway understood us. In the end, we got what we wanted by pointing our fingures at the menu, like kids pointing at a burger, when her/his parents asked for what she/he want to eat. Never even think of trying to drink PEPSI ZERO or DIET PEPSI, am not sure which one was it, but it was horrible.

We then went to the Ferry place, where ferries transport people from Quebec City to the Island next to it, every ten minutes. Just in front of that place is the old city and some nice panoramic view points etc., We went to the old city to see a church and some building, completely painted with a scene from a market place. It was nice, I saw something painted like that on the whole building. We moved to the scenic points. Quebec City and the river looked so fabulous, during sun set. We then walked around the old streets of the Petit Champlain in Quebec City. We walked further to see the beautiful Frontenac Chateau. We also enjoyed the ferry to Lévis for beautiful views of the Chateau Frontenac and the Lower Old Town. We got some awesome pictures of the Quebec City at night.

We said good bye to such a wonderful place, having a thought, to come back and visit again. Mahesh took us back to Montreal and then after a small chat, me and Pankaj left for Toronto [5-30 Hrs with one break after Kingston at Mc. Donald’s] and reached at 1AM. Dropped him at Holiday Inn and myself at Del Suites, Scarborough, Toronto.

P.S A three day trip to Montreal and Quebec City will be Awesome and worth. Well, do post me if you are planning to visit there , I have some tips to help.

Peace out, signing off,

Prashix. [Next Niagara and Niagara on the Lake]

Continuing the story as promised for the first time . Dedicated to Pappu.

 

Prashix Entertainments present,

Special thanks to Dundi Jn and Ashish Pappu

JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE HYDERABAD. [A tale of four unlucky youth tring to reach their sweet homes]

Starring,

Prashix, Venkat. Pramod and TT.

Story,

decided by FATE

Producer,

Indian Railways

Directed by,

Destiny .

 

So, back then, when we reached the station we found out that all trains were redirected to Dundi Jn. and no train is coming to Pune from Mumbai. Because of the heavy pouring on the saturday and sunday, some rail tracks went missing in the floods. Our train to Hyderabad has to come from Mumbai. Several thoughts just flew into my mind, bus, train, flight or stay back in Pune and then travel some other fine day.

Anyway, luck [is it ?] appeared in front of us in the form of station-master, he guided us saying that, a train is about to leave for Dundi in 10 min, take it and you can catch your train at Dundi. Awesome, we thought and looked for the fourth person, [TT, Pramod, venkat and me], Mr. Venkat, he has to arrive yet. We ran all the way to that flatform like mad dogs, we waited and waited, yet the fourth didn’t arrive. Train was about to leave, some friends came by to say bye-bye. We helped some other losers to get in to this train, explaining them why they need to do that.

Finally, just before departure Mr. Venkat has reached the station with a pale-face, questioning, what the hell is happening here. It took us around 15 minutes to explain my dearest friend about our luck. He was all excited, mentioning the fact that he has never had any adventurous trip in his life. I don’t know how he guessed that it was going to be adventurous. Anyway, after stopping 3 times before reaching Dundi, it took us around 2 hrs to reach there.We made some jokes and tried to catch up with everyones life and whats our future and all .

Dundi, its a small village. We expected our train to come in two or three hours, but surprisingly the station master there suggested its going to come in 6 hrs.  So, that would be around 2AM in the morning. We thought it would fun to stay over here and we started to roam in pairs, the entire station. We scanned the station completely for chicks and moongfali [groundnuts]. Trust me, it didnt take much time for us to find groundnuts and for chicks, dont even ask !!.

Then when pramod and venkat patrolled the station they found that they have some more friends who are also stuck the same way… [losers !!] for the same train. I have started reading FRIDA, which TT gave me after begging for a while. Its a disgusting book which made no sense or what ever. [May be this review is biased with my frustration about our luck], he talks about this crappy forest, bridge blah blah .. They both brought us some food. Venkat has not changed a single bit and his love for chicken is still has the same intensity. He brought some chicken, I forgot what kind, but it was tasty.

Then me and Tejaswi went to get some ciggies. It was around 10PM and the whole village was literally closed. We went like 2kms all the way and found a bar where they dont sell ciggies [What kind of a loser bar doesnt sell ciggies !!! seriously!]. After some searching, we found a small Pawn [kiosk] shop where we finally found some ciggies. TTs face glowed with a feeling of achievement. What a loser !! . Then we went back just to hear aweful thing that the train is delayed indefinitely. No one has no information about the train.

After losing a lot of patience and after completely worn out I retired for bed, ohh sorry, there was no bed, I retired on the station floor, covered it with papers. 40 pages on FRIDA was completed, then I shifted to the GOD FATHER and then I felt bored of it and started reading a magazine. I informed about this awesome trip to my bro-in-law and to my parents. After sleeping for a while, Venkat woke me up for my turn for watching the luggage. Suddenly there was one train in front of us, which was leaving for Banglore. Many thoughts were discussed among us, for figuring out the right direction of this train to board it. But, we neglected the thought since, we have to again sleep on the train floor and we exactly dont know whether its going to goto hyd or not.

In the morning around 6 AM they have announced that the train is going to arrive at 8 AM. All the frustrations and anger on Railways suddenly, disappeared. Since, it was a small village it was tough for us to find a place for us to perform our natural activities in the morning. I have to stand in a queue literally for an hour and half [the longest waiting time in  my life, felt like 6 hrs]. Once we are done, we refreshed ourselves and had some coffee and all. Anyway, the train has arrived at 10 AM, another round of irritations and swearings at railways has taken place before its awesome arrival [ for 2 more hrs of waiting]. 

So the total waiting time at that station was 16 hrs. After reaching outskirts of the Hyderabad we came to know that a Goods train was derailed on the way out of Hyderabad. Awesome luck !! I thought, Can it get any better !!. Pramod and Venkat got down at that station and they took a bus to home. Me and Tejaswi talked about his achivements in Israel [The genuinity of what he said is still debatable]. Then at a whim I decided to get down at Secunderbad station and take a bus to my home town.

At around 9-30 PM, I got down and bid my farewel to TT and conveyed him my regards for his MS and other endeavours to come ahead. I took a local bus to reach the Jubilee bus station. It took around 30 min. I bought myself some stuff to eat and drink and reserved my seat for Mancherial. Looking at that ticket made me feel like a kid who just opened his christmas gift. After 6 hrs of awesome night bus journey and 15 minutes of walking, finally I reached my sweet home. The most comforting moment. My parents were happy to see me and their sympathetic and sarcastic [mixed] looks made me realise that we always have to hear to what elders say. [They suggested me not to go with this plans since the weather conditions are not fine].

 

 

TT has waited for 3 more hrs in Hyd station and then travelled for another 14 hrs on the same train to reach his home town. After a month he went to US and now has successfully completed his first term at STAN. He recently has a trip to LA.

 

Venkat as usually continued his love for chicken and his lady love. Has partied in B’lore for the new years. And this trip is still a confidential matter at his home. Its still a secret

 

Pramod went back to home and he had a nice christmas 08 and he was looking forward to get married this year.

 

Yours truely, has flied back to Cyprus and then to Canada for a three month trip. He never went to Tirupati that year. He is presently in Cyprus, living the same bored life.

 

Hello, Punjab Power, Lighting up your life ji !!  [U gotto see the movie for this]

Well, Rab ne banaya Di jodi, is a fantabulous movie, to say the least. For the first time, I liked, no wait, I loved Shah Rukh in a movie and of course I loved the movie too. May be I enjoyed this movies so much, I have no knowledge about the movie before I watched, I mean the star-cast, I dont know its King Khans movie, also review etc.,

The movie starts with a tragic story but, then falls into very smooth and original comedy, with in the story itself, {I mean, no third person as comedian and not with a completely separate track from story line, for comedy}, which is a rare thing to find in any known recent flicks. I was so impressed by the way they presented it. Every comedy scene was dealt with such a perfection, its really amazing. It was handled with so ease. They are just classic jokes with no double meaning dialogues or no rude sarcasm or no criticizing, its more like old time Jandhyala movies in Telugu. The comedy was so natural that the audience reacted so great in the theater [where I watched it, Cineplex Odeon - Yonge-Sheppard, Toronto]. I for the first time felt like, that the whole theater full of people, of all kinds, ages, enjoyed the funny scenes.

Shah Rukh was great as both an ultra - modern [country-side modern ] hep[Raj] and a simple, sweet introvert person[Suri]. He dealt with both these characters with so ease, of course, he has to, he is fkin King Khan for Gods sake. After, Chek De, this movie tops his performance, in recent years. He is so hilarious, in the scenes esp, in Suri’s Role.

Anushka a new actor though, performed very well beside the King Khan, with such an ease. She acted [shd I say lived in the movie, too much hunh ??] as a beautiful, country side Wanna-be-urban-posh girl. The on-screen chemistry is what I liked the most between the two lead roles. Of course, Shah Rukh has out ran her in every scene, but for a newbie, still a good performance. For heroine lovers, she is cute and homely and certainly you wont find her hot, because of the role she played. She is 24 and definitely doesnt look 30, as my colleagues described. [I cant believe one of them thinks she is not good beside shah rukh in the movie, I mean just, HOW RUDE !!]

You gotto watch this movie twice, go to your local screening today, ok! may be I am demanding too much, atleast watch it this week end, its always, better late than never. To Genre freaks, I catogorize it as Romantic-Comedy, but, it got the sentimental touch that we Indians want, of course and I give 4.75/5

This movie has created a wonderful memory for me, in a theater .

Note : This is not a review for the movie, its just what I felt.

Note 2: It topped my top hindi romantic-comedy list beating Jab-we-met.

Note 3: Enlighten your family’s evening with this wonderful movie.

Bye… oops, wait you always have to say,

hum hain raahi pyaar ke…phir milenge….chalte chalte

So, I was watching too many movies lately [span last 2.5 months] and am loosing track of them, so, I thought I would archive atleast their names somewhr.

What place is better than my own blog, hunh ?

Lets go,

• 27 Dresses - [Romance (4) - Good one]
• Be Kind Rewind [Comedy (3) - You can kill your Time, but, trust me, you can find better things to do]
• Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay - [Comedy (4.25) - Hilarious]
• Harold and Kumar Went to White Castle - [Comedy (4.5) - You will like it]
• How to lose friends and alienate people - [Comedy (4.5) - Just awesome]
• Made of Honour - [Romance (3.5) - Good one]
• The chronicles of Narnia -Prince Caspian - [Fantasy (3.25) - You can watch once]
• Burn after reading - [Comedy (3.5) - Its good, different and dont get into the story, just love the movie]
• Beauty and the Beast - [Animation (4) - Am much into Animation so may be am a bit biased here ]
• Bridget jones diary - [Romance (4) - I loved this movie, good performances and nice way of presentation ]
• I now pronounce you chuck and lorry - [Comedy (3.75) - Nice one, to say the least good performance by Adam]
• Quantum of Solace - [Action (3.25) - I personally feel that they are screwing James bond here … Could be better]
• In the Land of Woman - [Drama (3.5) - Sweet story with a great way of presentation, nice capture of real emotions]
• Clue less - [Romance (3.5) - Worth watching]
• Picture Perfect - [Romance (3.25) - Really a over hyped romance movie]
• Amelie - [Drama/Comedy (4.5) - One of the Best movies I watched]
• Disturbia - [Thriller (4) - Good one]
• What happens in vegas stays in vegas - [Romance (4) - Its hilarious and entertaining]
• Super Movie - [Spoof (3) - Could be way better]
• Wall E - [Animation (4.75) - Great story and the hype is worth, seriously]
• Love Actually - [Romance (4.25) - Suggested by friends and I loved it]
• Chintakayala Ravi - [Comedy (3.75) - Forget about the story, its another inspired one , comedy was good]
• Fools Gold - [Comedy (3.25) - Entertaining]
• Horton hears a Who - [Animation (4) - Time pass]
• Rock On - [Drama (4.25) - Awesome story and great performances with great music]

So, from last one month am staying in Toronto, Canada. Came on a business trip, well, earlier weeks were loaded with work, but now, I can buy some time to write a post. So, lets talk about Toronto.

Well, anyway, I came through Amsterdam. Well, at first I was surprised the moment I landed in Amsterdam. I thought I was in China, rather than in Holland. The Schiphol airport was tightly packed with Chinese people. I thought my travel dept messed up and sent me to china instead of Canada. After sometime I have realized that I was on the right itinerary, because, I never saw any noodles stall or bugs being fried or any Mandarin speaking Chinese ppl near by [ poor joke huh ? (Inspired by Russell ) ].

So, after 19hrs of traveling and waiting, I have finally arrived at YYZ [search airport codes for this]. It was night and I was awfully tired, because, I couldn’t sleep in the plane [KLM has provided us with like 300 movies, many series and much more music, who would miss that, for an incomplete nap ? not me! ]. Russell peters once made a joke about Indians working at North American airports and how they are different from terrorists and all, actually its not a joke, its a fact. The moment I was out of immigration area [they were so..so … pita. They questioned me for like 30 min.], there were so many Indian taxi drivers, waiting for their clients for that night. Mr. Singh has offered me his service, and ofcourse he charged me, the most, 65 Euros.

TORONTO AND NIAGARA FALLS

Anyway, my first weekend was fun, I have friends came from Montreal to Toronto. So, we went, like, to CN Tower, then took a cruise to Toronto Islands and then to Downtown Toronto, Dundas Square and all. Then the best part, we had buffet at BRAR. That night we continued our ride to NIAGARA FALLS. It was just awesome at night with all the lights and all, memorable experience. The falls were furious, making loud noises, drenching every person who tries to go near by it. Just spectacular. We had a [only] nature capturing photographer, so we have to wait for him to complete his 360dg Panorama scan of NIAGARA.

Later, we went to pub near by, which basically, denied an entry for us, pointing at one of my friends sports shoes. Then, we moved to CASINO. Yet, another surprise was waiting for me here, there are Chinese people all over this Casino, not working, but spending their money. I saw very less whites, no Indians, of course, but Chinese. Why in the hell would they come to Canada and spend their money in this Casino !! Pondering with my little brain about it, I have retired for bed.

People in Canada, love Tim-Hortons. Where ever or what ever the place I go, if am at Tim-Hortons, it was just, fully packed with people and the queue for getting any thing, is long. But, the French Vanilla [medium sized] coffee is the one which you gotta try. Bagels are famous for snack/breakfast whatever it is for. Egg Sandwich is also great. Give these a try. 

Next day, we went for the famous Maid-of-the-Mist cruise, which took us near to the Niagara, like 600ft near the falls. At that point, you cant hear anything except the noise made by the falls, you can see nothing except the bright light of the falls and of course you can shout like hell and nobody’s gonna hear you anyway.

On the Toronto metro everyone loves to hear music while traveling. So, no loud noises, no LOLs and no ROFLs, just ipods in your ears and everything’s very silent, like Lahari’s C Class… So I didn’t enjoy much traveling in the metro, so just avoid it. .

Ciao., will be back with more soon.

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Up on Request from Pramod.. Dedicated to the same and venkat, my best friends from IIITA.

It all started with a phone call from Venkat sayin that we r gonna have a blast at pune, next weekend. Trusting my old mate, I prepared for the party at pune. The journey began at 7 PM on the 8th of August.Plan for us was to meet at NIMS hyd and then mark our presence in the s3 [Correct me Venkat] couch of Mumbai Exp at Nampally, Hyd. We, three guys, should come from three different places in Hyderabad and meet at NIMS. It began to pour heavily just 15 minutes before I started from my Cousin’s home. I can’t miss the train, so, me and my cousin left the home to experience a great adventure, it was to drive on the road, filled with water upto Knee-Length. What a great skill my cousin had at driving !! Simply awesome, a true Hyderabadi.

Finally, I reached the common Point within 15 min, the NIMS. I was drenched quite well under the heavy pourin of the Hyderabadi skies. I thought atleast I saved my bag from getting soaked, how optimistic of me !! , its not a Waterproof, you can guess what have had happened with all my clothes . Well, I was the first to reach, surprisingly. I waited for around 15 min, there was no sign of my friends. I called Venkat, he wasn’t taking the call. Then I called Pramod, he said, he started just a moment ago.

I was waiting in front of a Pawn shop [a small Kiosk], then this guy came suddenly from no where and started talking about selling his mobile phone to the kiosk owner, reasoning that if he carried it outside, it might get soaked and spoil. I thought, " What the hell !! ". There was 20 min of bargaining and finally the kiosk owner asked for its charger and the guy said that he had lost it on the way. Hmm, then it was clear that he had stolen that phone some moments ago and he wanted to sell it asap. This business is a lucrative one in Hyd. Anyway it was nothing, then I started to get calls from both of my friends saying that they are at that place, this place, blah, blah.  

It was like as if we were soldiers behind the enemy lines and were trying to rendevous to plan a mission or something.. The conversation was something like.,

Me:: Where are you ?? Over.
V:: Am at central, over.
Me:: How long would you take to reach here ? Over
V:: 10 Min Over and out.

P:: Where are you ?? Over.
Me:: Am at the rendevous point. Over
P:: Good, Ill be there in 2 Min. Over and out.

Lol.

Our mobiles became our walkie-talkies. After 20 min of enquires and stuff, Venkat came to rescue me from that aweful Pawn shop. I have to walk 50 mtrs around, to get to the auto and I got drenched again. After 15 months, we met again. It was nostalgic. Hmm, anyway there was some lady sitting beside him, I never saw her before. Then there was this sign language went between him and me about this lady and I understood that he has to help her and there was no other choice for him.

We picked up Pramod next and as expected, he was irritated to see that, that lady has occupied his place. Like a never ending telugu soap, a new trouble has showed up to the already existing one, this time it was traffic jam. There was like absolutely no movement in the traffic. Just a tip, never enter the Ameerpet to Khairatabad road, when its raining. It took us around 80 min to travel 3kms. Thank god, we got so many things to discuss and we completely forgot about the traffic-jam, except for that lady, who was so worried about whether she could reach a local station or not. How ironic !! we were feeling no tension, even though, we need to catch a inter-state train, there was like 15 min and we have to travel around 5kms more.

Suddenly, there was a call for Venkat from his home. He was shocked and feeling nervous, I don’t know why and when he replied to his mom that he was going to Pramods to have dinner, I realised that he never told his parents that he was leaving for pune that week end. Anyway, we crossed a signal, thats it, theres no more traffic on the road, like the roads in an abondened city. We dropped off that lady at a local MMTS station.

Finally, we reached the station just in time to make it to the train. We boarded the train and simultaneously my parents called to enquire whether I made it to the station in time or not. They were like 250kms away but it was like they are in hyd and knowing what was happening at that very moment. Thanks to TV9 news channel.

We changed our clothes, I found some dry clothes, but, rest of the bag, novel, all got wet. We babbled about all the gossips like, how one of my friends got broke up, and how one of them became devdas, our future, our friend’s futures and all. We took a hell lot of time to try to catch up with 15 month’s events and ofcourse, we couldn’t in the end. Next morning when I woke up, I saw venkat writing an alogirthm for his company… What a geek, I thought. We reached Pune at 9AM.

We had a great time in Pune on saturday but, on sunday it was all raining again. We paid our adious to all our pune friends and thanked the hosts for holding sucha great party and left for train station to catch a train to get back to Hyderabad. When we reached that station we found something ……….

Our bad luck haunted us again, the adventure didn’t end but just began …..

To Be Continued ….   

 

Well, its been a while, since, I have written anything. For starters, am a bit busy… yes !! it has become a buzz word for me, these days …

My father calls me …. I say, "Dad ! Am busy, I cant talk to you right now ! "

My Friends invite me over, to hang out… I say, "Dudes ! I have to fix bugs in my project"

My GF wakes me up at night for ….. [You know what I mean..] … and I still say, "Babes, I have to work tomorrow…." and I hate that look on her face….. [Nvr mind, Jus happened in my dream… ]

Best thing in the past two months……………, I have been to Germany, Paris and Switzerland babyyyyyyy !! That has been a   W.. O.. N.. derful  trip .. with my old geeks… [No offense those guys have grown too much technically… and what ever they said, I just heard… Blah Blah and more Blah…. I used to understand ‘em before, not any more ].. Well, I met a guy, who is really confident and determined to establish a start-up in INDIA … a mobile based… Surprisingly, [which I know you guys can’t believe] that was my idea too.. trust me, I even did a project on the same [I really did………….. ok I tried……………….. ok I just downloaded some parts of the project and ………….], but, my point is, I did have that idea in ma mind…

 

Enough of side tracks, anyway, of all the places, I liked Strasbourg, let it be gals, monuments, museums… or what ever…. I just liked that place very much. Heidelberg, I liked its castle … the view of the city was great from the top of the mountain there….. [and I didnt climb it, I just took a train.] .. What can I say about PARIS ?? Enough is said about the place by many great genius people… Switzerland was just soooo… well, its different then the rest of the places.. I have no time to explain those now… But I’ll soon.

 

Life’s getting interesting these days… Tourist season has just started in Cyprus and we are having our share of fun … If you know what I mean .... I have been to the same places where I went before where I couldn’t enjoy because of many reasons ……Well, this time I did…..

If you guys are still wondering about the title … I just wanted to say that 7 of us have played Mini-Golf and I won … I didn’t win a trophy or some bucks.. But, I did had the pleasure of winning some game on my won.. Its always not about the money or winning trophies guys, grow up, would you !!…. … I also went for bungi jumping, but, I have missed it, its closed untill July. Well, I think I am pretty much reaching the eligibility for the AWESOME HUNK title.

  

Am having strange dreams these days.. some are PG rated, some R and some .. he he . One more guy from my batch is leaving soon… the active member of the group...... I cant be mad, atleast, he has a clear idea about his future… am not sayin that I dont… but they are still, STILL in design phase [there is no need for you to be some kinda engineer to understand what I meant ..]…

 

Aah, forgot to tell, I have gone though this crazy blog about making cannibalism legal… I dont know why, but, I was pretty much convinced for a moment, but, come on, eating your own species…. eeww.. Do I have to say anymore about this ? I still feel guilty about eating chicken, but, I forget that while eating ..    

 

If I get time, I surely will write about my trip to DE, CHE , FR. I can’t write it now, guys, you see, am BUSY !