My-Cup-of-Tea

A blog dedicated to Toronto.

Summer, has played a big role, in me, accepting the business trip. Well summers in Canada, its Legen .. wait for it … daaaaary. Unlike during my last two trips, Toronto is filled with green n brown colors and cute babes all around you, wearing minimal, "hep" clothing (the tech word ). Parks/beaches filled with people. Its great to see streets filled with people, for a change, which are usually filled with black ice in winters.

 

That’s Toronto through my eyes mates, a global village, sibling of NYC, Cosmopolitan city. I will provide a link with pictures, soon.

Ciao then. Suffering from JetLag can’t sleep yet

A memorable moment to remember in Toronto: A cute babe looked at me and gave the cutest smile that I ever received for which I acknowledged with simple smile and a nod like Aragon. . Just to have that smile once more, I will visit Toronto again .

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.

 

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.

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.

 

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 !

    Suddenly one fine morning we decided to go out to Troodos. Its a crazy idea, that is why I liked it. So, four of us got ready to go. We took our “Raam Pyari”, its our car, its her nick name .

    Just after 10 mins, we got away from the road to Troodos and gone in some other direction. After, 30 mins of driving finally we reached a place to eat. We had burgers and stuff, road-side mobile cafes gives really good taste. Chicken burger was awesome.

    Finally, with the cafe owners help we got onto the right way to troodos. After, 30 more mins we reached a view point and stopped our car there. It was a great view, we had some snaps taken and back onto the road. It started to rain. The weather was getting bad, but that didnt stop us from going there. Its been a dream for me to play with snow. I thought, this should be it… what ever happends am gonna touch the snow today !!!

    After 25 kms from Limassol, it just started to snow. We first thought they are rain drops, but God!!, it was snow, my first sight of snow. Its like heaven’s shower. A great sight. We started to go further with more excitement and was anxious to see more of it, after 5 more kms , there was proper snow, like little children we got out of the car and started throwing snow balls at each other. We got some snaps and we thought we should go further..

    People coming from the opposite side started warning us to go back.. but, we weren’t ready to do it. So, we went further more, now, the weather got really bad. One of my friends started saying, “lets go back, its really getting weird”. Suddenly, some scenes from “Final Destination” started to play in my brain. Some people warn the hero and co to go back or something like that, but they never listen and they end up dying.

    I started to freak out, the car was skidding pretty bad and people started to warn seriously. I got really freaked out and yelled at one of my friends, I completely lost it. Anyway, I was ok pretty fast and said sorry etc., But, suddenly it all turned from excitement to panic. God, it was skidding like crazy. Finally we stopped at some house [better say, car got stuck] and I took my first step in the snow.. it was like heaven, everything was covered white, it was still snowing, we were 4 kms away from Troodos. A thick layer of snow covered the road [Snow was one feet above the road.] We took some snaps, played for some time and decided to go back while two among us started saying ” We should go further”.

    When we started the car and moved it a bit front we understood its not safe to stay here or go further, just lets go back. We took a U -Turn , it was really a U - turn, I mean only rear wheels were moving and the car was just dragged onto the road. When brakes and hand break were applied the car went four feet further and then it stopped, now that was our position. How can we even stop it ??
 

To be continued… 

Dec 31st :

Worked untill 7 PM [Yes!! I work alot]. Then went home, thinking about what are we supposed to do for this upcoming night, where everyone enjoys it ?? Suddenly, phone from one of our friends, they said "Dudes !! Suit Up ! Will go out, lets party !!"..

Excitement from very deep corners have come out and we started the preparations.. We took day’s second bath [Can you believe it ?  Bath at night !! ].. Party dresses came out of the closets, which were lying like that for some months…. Dinner, we planned it outside… We are 5.. After a long time arguing about where to eat, we finally sat down for some very very tasty burgers [trust me] at my favourite place "The Bayroutes" on the beach road.

2340 We were on our way to witness the well know "city celebrations" for the new year at "Downtown", Limassol.

2355 We reached the place, its very cold, yet there were many people to enjoy the new year eve.

The counting began, 10, 9, 8 ……. 3,2,1 …… things started to happen simultaneously..

 A phone call from INDIA exactly at 00:00 [Missed it, though] .. Friends started wishing me a "Happy new year", fireworks started, camera flash lights.. Music.. God!! it was GREAT !! I met two of my teammates ! Wished everyone "A very Happy new year"… Met most [Yes ! Not all, some were busy enjoyin somewhr else ] of friends in Limassol..

 

But, I was surprised who has called me exactly at 00:00 from INDIA ? Number was blocked… So its surely from INDIA .. But, they stayed awake untill 0330 IST to wish me.. haaan, that was so nice…. 

 0005 What to do now ? Thought for a while and decided to goto a Pub…. Drove a long way and arrived at BASEMENT PUB. Parked my car, phone rang again.. this time no mistake I took the call… It was my dad… I was very happy… They were awake that long just to wish me… The best thing, I wasn’t expecting the call from them coz, I already called them at 00:00 IST.. and wished them.. Hmm., anyway… suddenly we decided not to go inside and go somewhr else and enjoy.. we drove back and came to TEMPO… Its a cool bar.

 

We chit chatted for some time and decided to go to Nicosia and have fun thr.. But, it was night and we were pretty drunk and decided to go in the early morning… Guess what !! We woke up at 2PM…   Anyway, we were motivated, we met at a place and started searching for food like nomads.. but the streets were deserted, everything closed, no food, no water, no beer.. come on !! We felt like Will Smith in "I am legend" .. but here its "we are legend" ..

 

Anyway, finally at 4PM they opened Mc. Donalds and we had our lunch, breakfast what ever you call it.. We waited at their doors for 45 min… ofcourse, we utilised the time for a special sun light photoshoot.. hehe.. We thought even in Nicosia, it will be the same situation, so we decided to goto a movie… We found out the timings and got the tickets and met some of our friends at their house, in the mean time.. 

At 20:20 The movie "HITMAN" started. Its a open air theater [Semi].. Its very cold, they have useless heaters.. The movie was good.. had fun.. Came back to INDIAN MASALA for some spicy Indian Food. Well, from a boring night it turned out as a great night to be remembered… My first!!! New Year Eve abroad..

Thanks to Sampath, Rahul and Dinesh for being with me all the time during these days 31 and 1 … You have given me great moments to be remembered. Also, Thanks to IK aka Reddy and KAMAL.

 

Hmmm., Thats how, I enjoyed my new year eve ‘08. 

Well, I loved this place.. A great shopping place… I got a long Over Coat .. Just wanted to share some snaps of the place.. Hope you like them..

 

 

 

 

 

 

We also went to a church near by ….

 

 

 

Basically this is to promote my mobile phone .. Camera ..