cleanliness is NOT next to Godliness, it is GODLINESS. - BVN
will write about it soon...just posted the side heading to remind myself.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
06th November - thunders and sparks
I am so ecstatic that I got my ROYAL ENFIELD THUNDERBIRD TWINSPARK delivered today. Lets call it TB.
It has been pouring cats and dogs...since a week or so, but somehow I made it to the showroom around 5:30pm, the delivery process is all done in just less than half-an-hour...but no way out for me...it was like as if some one made a big hole in the sky, there is no stopping and no signs of that either...njoyed sometime from balcony and sometime going thru automobile magazines...and finally sick of all that.
I waited till 9pm...and bored to hell..atlast I told the showroom guys to show me the way with my TB. TRUST ME...It was fun driving in that hell like RAINNNNNNNNNN...its heaven infact. I was changing gears so very carefully, as if it hurts him and he will cry...when I reached the third gear...the legendary throttle sound propagated into the air and then on to my ears...so soothing it was...In just a minute...there was no dry place left on my skin...its like you are driving under a waterfall...roads are like small ponds and some ponds are really big you know... the focus of the headlight in that rain is worthit to experience. I should not be crossing 40kmph till i complete the first 500kms...but driving this bike at 40kmph in 5th gear is like buying a mainframe computer inorder to execute a quick sort program. I have to cross 5000kmph asap...to keep the world behind me :):):) But after 2000 kmph Im allowed to cross 60 kmph...that itself would make the heads turn I suppose... As if I care for those heads :):):)
Back home around 11pm, on the way backhome...there is a ganesh temple just a few yards away from my home, which was closed at that time (obviously)...parked my bike right infront of Ganeshji and asked him to have a look, did a namaskar & ran away...and then ...
changed everything...took a hotwater headbath...and waited till 2am for the rain to stop and to CONQUER ROADS WITH MY BRAND NEW BULL...and and and that can be considered as one of the best moments of life...huh...hardly anyone on the roads...literally played with my bike up and down the flyovers...till 3pm...travelled around 40kmphs at a stretch within the city...on the very first day(night)...
backhome around 3:10am...only because it started to bristle again...otherwise i had no plans to get down from my bull atleast till I finish off that 500rs petrol...:):):)
hit the bed around 3:40am...got up around 6am again and went running to look at that smarty(TB) from the balcony, without even checking what I was wearing during the night...thankfully I have some clothes on. As there is no separate parking place :):) my bull had to stand on the road (inner roads...ok)...there are dozens parked out there...satisfied to see that it was safe ...
it was still raining..slept again...and got up at 11 am...it was still raining...
hmmm i got to know finally that life can be so very interesting with this so called brand...royal enfield...
may be oneday i will grab that 500cc bullet classic as well...im just 20 days early to pay the advance to this handsome guy (TB)...otherwise i would have opted for that WAR MACHINE for sure...
but there is no doubt this "ROYAL ENFIELD Thunderbird Twinspark" brought thunders and sparks into my life...
...thats it for now...chalo then...njoy your weekend in your own way (don't copy mine..he he )...it is still raining huh...
damnit 6:48pm...im waiting since 4 hrs to getout of my room...its raining...
It has been pouring cats and dogs...since a week or so, but somehow I made it to the showroom around 5:30pm, the delivery process is all done in just less than half-an-hour...but no way out for me...it was like as if some one made a big hole in the sky, there is no stopping and no signs of that either...njoyed sometime from balcony and sometime going thru automobile magazines...and finally sick of all that.
I waited till 9pm...and bored to hell..atlast I told the showroom guys to show me the way with my TB. TRUST ME...It was fun driving in that hell like RAINNNNNNNNNN...its heaven infact. I was changing gears so very carefully, as if it hurts him and he will cry...when I reached the third gear...the legendary throttle sound propagated into the air and then on to my ears...so soothing it was...In just a minute...there was no dry place left on my skin...its like you are driving under a waterfall...roads are like small ponds and some ponds are really big you know... the focus of the headlight in that rain is worthit to experience. I should not be crossing 40kmph till i complete the first 500kms...but driving this bike at 40kmph in 5th gear is like buying a mainframe computer inorder to execute a quick sort program. I have to cross 5000kmph asap...to keep the world behind me :):):) But after 2000 kmph Im allowed to cross 60 kmph...that itself would make the heads turn I suppose... As if I care for those heads :):):)
Back home around 11pm, on the way backhome...there is a ganesh temple just a few yards away from my home, which was closed at that time (obviously)...parked my bike right infront of Ganeshji and asked him to have a look, did a namaskar & ran away...and then ...
changed everything...took a hotwater headbath...and waited till 2am for the rain to stop and to CONQUER ROADS WITH MY BRAND NEW BULL...and and and that can be considered as one of the best moments of life...huh...hardly anyone on the roads...literally played with my bike up and down the flyovers...till 3pm...travelled around 40kmphs at a stretch within the city...on the very first day(night)...
backhome around 3:10am...only because it started to bristle again...otherwise i had no plans to get down from my bull atleast till I finish off that 500rs petrol...:):):)
hit the bed around 3:40am...got up around 6am again and went running to look at that smarty(TB) from the balcony, without even checking what I was wearing during the night...thankfully I have some clothes on. As there is no separate parking place :):) my bull had to stand on the road (inner roads...ok)...there are dozens parked out there...satisfied to see that it was safe ...
it was still raining..slept again...and got up at 11 am...it was still raining...
hmmm i got to know finally that life can be so very interesting with this so called brand...royal enfield...
may be oneday i will grab that 500cc bullet classic as well...im just 20 days early to pay the advance to this handsome guy (TB)...otherwise i would have opted for that WAR MACHINE for sure...
but there is no doubt this "ROYAL ENFIELD Thunderbird Twinspark" brought thunders and sparks into my life...
...thats it for now...chalo then...njoy your weekend in your own way (don't copy mine..he he )...it is still raining huh...
damnit 6:48pm...im waiting since 4 hrs to getout of my room...its raining...
Monday, November 2, 2009
"2 States" by Chetan Bhagat
sunday evening...took lunch and then been to that second hand bookshop, if im at home on weekends, it will be evening by the time i take lunch. CLEANING CLEANING CLEANING.
I had nothing in my mind about the books for that day...just thought of going through the racks...and ChetanBhagat's latest grabbed my attention, since I have already read his last three books.
He is cashing more on the INDIAN-Student(or)Youth-Romance factor most of the time, i suppose, there is very little in him to compare with international authors...but still...it is a timepass kind of stuff...nothing serious about it.
I saw the price, it is 95rs...i asked the shopkeeper for a discount...im used to this habit in bookshops since my college days. In response...Interestingly the shopkeeper pulled a book under the desk (it is hidden intentionally somewhere )...and said..."this copy is just 65rs"...i was like wow !!! how come he had a duplicate so soon, because "Two States" is pretty new...hardly a week i suppose. The shopkeeper continued ..."same same...everything same as the original...just the paper"...he said.
I said..." duplicate should only be 50rs, isn't it?"...in reply...and to my surprise ...the shopkeeper replied..."ya you are right, that will be 50rs for sure...but 2 weeks later"...i could not stop laughing loud at him, I liked his attitude...finally he agreed to deduct 5 rs...and the deal done for rs 60...
Since Im not intending to be a modern Gandhiji and I dont want a great paper quality for a chetanbhagat's book...and hence i hve selected the duplicate copy...(the only difference is the paper quality...rest everything has been copied to perfection, including the cover page, color, etc)...
Poor Chetan...definitely losing money here...sorry dude...35rs makes more sense to a smart Indian...!!!!
if that is AYN RAND OR JEFEREY ARCHER...i dont mind 100 bugs more to grab an original copy...because i can read those books many times in my life...
I cant help !!! Im born like this :-)
I had nothing in my mind about the books for that day...just thought of going through the racks...and ChetanBhagat's latest grabbed my attention, since I have already read his last three books.
He is cashing more on the INDIAN-Student(or)Youth-Romance factor most of the time, i suppose, there is very little in him to compare with international authors...but still...it is a timepass kind of stuff...nothing serious about it.
I saw the price, it is 95rs...i asked the shopkeeper for a discount...im used to this habit in bookshops since my college days. In response...Interestingly the shopkeeper pulled a book under the desk (it is hidden intentionally somewhere )...and said..."this copy is just 65rs"...i was like wow !!! how come he had a duplicate so soon, because "Two States" is pretty new...hardly a week i suppose. The shopkeeper continued ..."same same...everything same as the original...just the paper"...he said.
I said..." duplicate should only be 50rs, isn't it?"...in reply...and to my surprise ...the shopkeeper replied..."ya you are right, that will be 50rs for sure...but 2 weeks later"...i could not stop laughing loud at him, I liked his attitude...finally he agreed to deduct 5 rs...and the deal done for rs 60...
Since Im not intending to be a modern Gandhiji and I dont want a great paper quality for a chetanbhagat's book...and hence i hve selected the duplicate copy...(the only difference is the paper quality...rest everything has been copied to perfection, including the cover page, color, etc)...
Poor Chetan...definitely losing money here...sorry dude...35rs makes more sense to a smart Indian...!!!!
if that is AYN RAND OR JEFEREY ARCHER...i dont mind 100 bugs more to grab an original copy...because i can read those books many times in my life...
I cant help !!! Im born like this :-)
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