Sky Diving

Someone missed their flight today.

If I hadnt had run around back and forth between American airlines and American Eagle desks in time, that would have been two. If it wasn’t so, I wouldn’t have had the luxury of using the pull out tray that’s next to me which came in handy to use my computer during the flight, and ofcourse to write this.

If it wasn’t so, I wouldn’t have noticed this girl sitting on the other side of the aisle, who, from my outrageously illogical analysis, must be getting married soon.

Even if it wasn’t or it was, I would have noticed this woman in grey and black stripes. To her right there is a dad who denied onflight beverage to his son. I can see this kiddo everytime he leans towards his right . To my right, I don’t really see anything as its clouded below(yes.. below!!) and I don’t really know if you can see anything from 36000 feet even if it wasnt. But at 10000 feet, I do know how the land looks like when you see it from a plane’s window. I do know know how it looks like when you see it with the hatch open. I do know how it looks like when you see it, free falling at a speed of 120MPH. I do know how cold it is before you jump off. This should cover all the possible things I can do involving planes I guess. But if I am missing any I should be able to find out soon considering the fact that I had my first flight three weeks ago.

This is my first trip(to Boston) after I came in here to Rocky mount, NC.

[This ends the spree of posting the old drafts :)]

Road trip

Well, based on the fact sheet that never existed, this thing worked out only because of one reason. We thought about it on Saturday night at 11 and the next morning we were on a 200Km Road trip. Eight hours may seem enough time to plan for a trip unless you spend 7 hours sleeping and an hour to get ready. But, I guess this is the reason it worked out quite well. Surprisingly we were enroute without much delay in the morning. I had little problem keeping up with Harsh's car as it powerful than mine and also(i should have mentioned this before) I missed some(most) of my driving lessons. Truly speaking, I had only one hour lesson just one hour before my licence test. I went for driving classes for about a week one year prior to my licence test, which gave me an idea(only) about the four gears in the car(He didnt even allow me to shift the gears then). I came to know about the reverse in that one hour class on my test day. But somehow I magically passed the driving test and in my 4month 4000km course of driving, there is not even a single sctrach to my car.

PS. Just another post that was saved a while ago.

Godzilla and cricket

Once in a while you might have tried to figure out what was so funny about that particular day or person or incident, for which you remember that you have laughed your beeps off, but dont remember what exactly it was. To me, i remember there was something about godzilla and cricket during my schooling. That was so funny. But it takes a bit of time to figure out what exactly happened there. Well for our godzilla(a.k.a our english teacher), playing cricket is definitely out of question(we wouldnt have named him so if it was so), so it wont make any sense digging out something in that direction. But it takes a while to realize what we were laughing at.

That was 1998 and we were so much worried how we're gonna bring ourselves a world cup. We used to have study hours from 7 till the actual classes begin. But like all the good boys I used to wake up to a stupid elephant alarm sound by 5. The good thing about this clock was it used to say good morning when you put off the alarm, but still what the heck, you are already awake. Yeah, back to being good boy again, so good boys usually reach early. So when it says 7, we used to be there by 6. Ok now.. enough of this good boy stuff, we used to reach there early not really to be early but actually to play cricket till we see godzilla coming. I mean, its not like we realize that he is coming by seeing ripples in stagnant water or something like that, but you know if you can see someone even from a distance of 2km you must either a hawk or that must be a godzilla. We didnt know about the latter but we were pretty sure we were not hawks. So that was a logical choice. Now there is this obvious series of actions in which we run like crazy into the study rooms, trying hide the Bat and ball and sit like dummies with the books in our hands. Just like any other day we ran like crazy and threw the Bat inside the desk which eventually send the top edge of the desk in a downward projectile motion. This could have been better explained if we had a top angle camera set up right above us. Just in case if we had a camera panning sideways, that would have definitely captured the unfortunate moment of godzilla getting into the doorway right in front of the desk at a distance slightly less than the height of the desk.

Now fellas... how do we know that he was standing at a distance which is exactly slightly less than the height of the desk, for sure?

We wouldn't! not unless it fell right on his toe crushing his fingers. Thats right, the way we threw the bat inside took the top edge of the desk along with it, pivoting its legs. Now everything happens in slow mo. Desk falls on his toe crushing his fingers. First he tries to put an angry face, fails to do so since the extreme pain out-emoted his anger. He would not like if we'd found out he is in pain, so he walks out slowly. Comes back in again, asks us to leave for the day.

Everybody leaves. only the guys from the first bench looks back. Evil grin.

PS. This was one of those drafts that I saved up 2 years ago. I remembered this only because just then I came to know that one of those three guys from the first bench has passed away. Sad.

Rain

As a matter of fact it didnt really rain today(yet), or yesterday, or the day before. I dont know why it didnt rain the day before yesterday, but I believe I know why it didnt yesterday(and this assures that this post will have at least one comment by you-know-who). Well, this guy didnt show up for some reason and his 'AP Govt. Special cloud seeding crappo' alternative was not taken out. But I believe he likes it this way, having seen him desperately trying to go back home when it was raining heavily on the day when we did 'you-know-what' with his orkut account. I think he enjoys driving when its raining. And now, having a bike that helps him live his dream, that too every time he gets out for a ride, its just so 'you-know-what'. Having said that I dont see any reason why I shouldnt be talking about the little story( anyway he is gonna -K- my -A- for everything) about his bike. The first time he took it out, he went to see his friend on his new bike. But dude thought its better(or safe?) to have his friend drive him back home. So they come back on the same bike. Now dude gets his old scoot out, drops his friend back home and comes back. And we didnt make it up..ok? P.S. Dude, show whatever you got to in the comment section, its all yours ;)
But rain wasnt this predictable a while ago, say a 15 years back. we always used to wonder what rain is. We guys used to come up with explanations. I remember one of the explanation goes like this, and hey this explanation may not be suitable for some of the people out there, but come on, neither can I go back in time and stop that little 7yr old from saying that nor can I find him now to have him in the dock besides me, as he was 7yr old when I last seen him(and Im not even sure if his name is Rahul). Anyways, Dudes got a point. Its about 3-Crore entities up from the sky doing some horrible thing on us. I guess this explanation is pretty much common all around. Even kishen said someone in his school had the same opinion. However, I dont know how I came up with my explanation, but it seemed more logical and foolproof(in fact it made me famous in class 2). Its like, our dear god have the water stacked up in the cylindrical containers. whenever he feels like it should rain, he rolls over the drum(the container), the sound of which we hear it as thunder, which certainly breaks open with a lightning and water gets out and you know, it rains. Some dude added up with the point that gives the logical explanation for thunderbolt, which is actually that the container just slips off the hook and falls off on the ground.

Permanently Offline

Suddenly, the crowd goes silent. The speaker exchanges a frightened glance with the person to which he just adressed as Late Mr.(Name cant be shown)., switches it back and forth with the crowd. Now the undead dude who was sitting just right beside the speaker, regains his compossure, puts up his left hand on his chest ,raising his right hand towards the crowd, so as to show his 'not dead yet'ness to the crowd., yells "Im here". well, thats how the things actually started out on the first day of da college.
Since then, there aint no stopping.


"Bolo kunal bhai, superman ya corporate"

I can hear shravan talking to kunal on the phone.He called me from the office landline and asked for kunal.

"chalo vamshi ko poochengey"

me?? how do I decide. I have no clue if they are even released or not.

"Phone tu dega ya mein devu?"

This is where the fun begins.

"dono deyngey"

And thats how we ended up while waiting for PO today at his office. Sure he is a busy man, too busy to put his hand on his face and pull up his pair of glasses which slid more than halfway down his nose. And way too busy to find out who is (mis)using his phone at office. He arrived after one hour and obviously I wasnt surprised, cos I had better things to get 'colon-O'ed.
One more last day at college. This time to get a consolidate memo, damn thing is almost A2, cant keep it inside the file, cant hold it neither. So what would you do?
you either call nine-eleven or SARS, calling the latter saved the day. He took care of them. There is one thing to tell about consolidate memo. I was really dissappointed after looking at it. You suffer for four years, write a 7 sets of exams and you get one and only one piece of paper which is oversized awkwardly , that you can neither fold it nor put it in a folder, and hey, that cannot be taken photocopy in one piece either.(saved as draft on June 30th,2006)

Well, this is where I stopped it a couple of months back, saved it as draft, left it unattended which I seriously think I shouldnt have. I dont ever remember what I was thinking about how to end this post. I may have been offline for such a long time, but I will never be permanently offline, and I mean it, not unless blogger is down, or I am gone.

Tuesday , the 13th

Ok now, its not a sequel to friday the 13th. After a few real dumbo days, suddenly comes a real kick ass day. And obviously kunal- the culprit(again read it like kull -the conqueror) is behind this. He planned for a movie and wanted us to be there at da quarters by 2. Out of no where, my sluggish schedule which includes lazing around at my house (and only that) changed into fast paced korean kung fu movie without subtitles.

Time: 6am Location:Home
woke up, switched on the computer and logged into msgr as if someones gonna die if I dont do that. And there it is, the same smart offliner from kunal,"everyones coming..are you coming?". Left to play football, and there is a considerable improvement in my football in last three days. From 1-self goal, to no-goals on second day, to 1-goal on third day., improvement!!

Time: 10am Location:home
Came back home. lazed around for a while. But wait.., I have to be there by 2pm and it takes 1hr from my house to kunal's. and I have got some work from 11 to 12:30. And there in the middle of it comes the international crisis. My lunch..yeah,what about it? So, jumped onto my system to find him online, told ma problem -got the solution.

Time: 11:30 Location: a couple of kms south-west to my house
Spent time with my 10th class buddies for about 45min.

Time: 12:25 Location: A comparatively good looking petrol pump located towards south of NIIMS
Got some kind of entry form for a some contest for filling up fuel. Forgot to return the coupon, so no chance of winning anything.

Time: 1:10 Location: D-22 ,da quarters
Almost done with my food crisis now. Lets talk about something else. Its a proven fact that my brains dead meat. It stopped working since the last at college. Infact I had no clue why kunal called all of us , I thought it was just the same old reason he calls us once in a while, just to have fun!! Then Kiran called me up and asked for kunal on the phone. Even that did not ring the bell in my head. I look at my watch and found the date to be '41' , damn thing is stuck b/w 14 and 15, I think about todays date , its 13.. yeah thirteen, then it struck to me that its kunal's birthday. Damn my brain.

Time: 1:30 Location: A couple of miles north of da quarters
A series of obvious events to create some confusion which sends maanas back home from watching a movie.
Some movie. Story of three dudes who messes up things around them, story somehow looses track(if there was any..i wonder!!) ,events spins as if they were put in a garbage recycling container and ends just when you feel you are about to feel something.

Time: 6:30 Location: Back to the base, D-22, da quarters
It was kunals 6th birthday, oops, he celebrated it as if it was his 6th birthday, with cake and all in the presence of just arrived 'movie missed' maanas and the new microsofty harsh. Spun the frisbi til 9.

Time: 10:30 Location: Home
*yawn*
zzzzzzzzzzz...

Crash Landing

Phani was very much worried that the pilot did not take the U-turn properly. What the heck? However, there are two unanswered questions here. Who is phani and what the heck does he know about flying. I said those are unanswered, so stop looking for the answers!
It was 10 in the night, when we ended up at tadbund(no issues regarding the spelling) road, watching planes taking off and landing(obviously not at the same time!!).
There is one person behind this. One person behind everything that happened last sunday. Kunal , the culprit(read it in the way they call "Kull-the conqueror"), he is responsible for all this.
Just like Zack Mooneyham says 'we were stuck in the dumb dayz', til the day before that. Then the magic man, here its obviously kunal the culprit, he planned for a whooshin 60km bike ride to-fro sanghi temple. Everyones expected to be at da quarters by 2-o-clock sharp, and you know what sharp means. I spent one hour cleaning up my bike(for the first time), had by brunch(infact its dinbrunch(dinner+breakfast+lunch), cos I didnt eat anything the night before that) at an obvious place at koti(first time w/o friends).
I wonder what makes the corner table so special for Rudy and Deck, I took one and guess what, there is no difference except ..what!? ..that its in the corner!!
I reached kunals house by 2, harsh reached there by 3-something, pavan and phani(oh... no!!@phani) arrived at 4-something. Now define sharp..hehe. So four bikes, six people, and we have got company , it started raining after a while and things never gonna get better than this. The ride was truly amazing, I have no words to explain that. It was raining heavily while coming back, definitely not for us though.
Pavans gotta leave in two days, so he wanted to give us one last treat before going. So few 'hello's and 'make sure to be there's fly by. In the mean time I gulped gupchup..hehe, along with phani.
We decided to meet at kishens apartment, where everyone came crashing, shravan,maanas,sars and hey..kishen too. Then moved our issues to nanking by a truck(aka Maanas's safari), and there, we struggled completing the ordered food, man, thats when I got sick of american chopsuey(check my orkut profile now).
Now what, me., since no ones at home (they're on vacation), I didnt wanna go home, so thought if we can go watch planes. The last time dudes been to watch planes , I wasnt there. Stayed there for two take offs and two landings(No crash landings though, cos Lauchpad McQuak doesnt work for commercial airlines). Reached home at 1 in the morning, hoping that my mother didnt call the home phone.