Honk Honk

I was out with a friend recently, a ride on his pulsar. It got me into this cynical thought of an average drive/ride-r's mentality while on road when caught in a zig zag, cross-wired jam.
The first thing that hits the mind is to Honk.. honk honk as if the other person aage peeche saamne is waiting to barge on him and put a knife on the neck or probably the 3 legged cat/dog at home is dying without milk or there is too much sun on the neatly grown grass lawn outside the apartment and this person will be rushing to save one of those!

If this is one side of the coin, there is the side, that has people who honk for no reason, just on a plain quiet road the way this person honks is way too weird.
Reason being this person is too scared if somebody would fall on his way and that he may land up spending the rest of his life eating only the salt less porridge in vellore jail!

This person has a chart of where how and when to honk which I think should most be following.
How to honk? - a hard, full deep press on the button (a trumpet picture is the indication) on the bike for a continuous 2-4 non stop minutes until the pillion rider's ear drum tears off.
When to honk? - Say you are driving at a time, when only those zombie state creatures wander along the roadside, around 2-3.30 AM of the night-day, a gush of air piercing your ears and no other noise could be heard apart from your vehicle's.. never mind honk!!
Where to honk? - on a clean plain quiet road where you do not find anything of a similar kind to you for about a 30ft neither in the front nor at the back of yourself.. could even consider residential areas of the city.

Now there is another friend who says that in foreign countries honking is considered as too big a thing to do on the road. Think a training or a 20-30 days of drive with the person I mentioned above would improve this guy's trait. Truly speaking, even I have noticed such a stuff while in Soton.

So, What I think is there would be 3 possible reasons that a person end up on this continuous press of his trumpet button
1. Annoyed by the congestion, madly angry on almost everybody around including those who have parked their vehicles on all 8 directions around him in a so called cross wired layout of traffic
2. Too scared of the not-existing-somebody turning up on his way
3. kya bada reasons chahiye yaar.. time pass simply! Bindass :):)

******************************Added Later**********************************
I was so happy to know this. "Mumbai's police marked World Health Day, April 7, as a "No Honking Day."
They were trying to build awareness of the effects of noise pollution in India's financial and entertainment capital, where it sometimes seems as if the city's 1.5 million vehicles are honking their horns at the same time. "

WoW what an after-effect of my post :)

yuMMy!!!

Its time for an yummy post this time from my side. a long promised one in fact..
yeah.. Daily Bread - its all about pastries /ice-creams chocolates and of course the bread varieties here.
the first outlet which i visited was one in JPnagar near Dollars colony, the place was serene, richly interiored and pastry-hued :) and the second one was in Jayanagar, not so great an ambience like the other one, still worth a visit.
Actually the total variety of food has been cut into 2 here.
The daily bread part of it serves mouth-watering yummy pastries, sandwiches, breads and some squash kinda bottle liquids predominantly. And my choice always are the chocolate cakes, the ultimate ones! But we even have this experience - screwing up the order once when we opted for a salad, ended in some highly mintish-chilly dish that was not-so-appealing to our taste while some whites in the next table were enjoying the same food. so be careful while doing your mix and match, that's really important for the taste you expect!
The ice-cream shop is named Deluca's. I believe its the same authority who runs both just with two different names. now they have one in Forum too. There is one in Sigma mall as well, since around 2 years in the corridors, immediately once you enter towards your left.

It was of pretty unusual kinda history of finding this place for me. a slightly drizzling Saturday evening, weekend mood as an icing on the cake, i was lazing around while 'v' was busy with sis who had been hospitalised then.
the previous day or so, a message from him that there is something which would excite me and its kept as a weekend surprise for me! i was happy and just the glance of the message gave me a trigger and i was keen to know what's such a thing.
so now the surprise has been kicked open, around 6PM v asked me to get ready for reaching out to not too rich a place closeby. we were there within no time, then on I'm a fervent admirer of Daily Bread !! And know what, he got to see this place on his way to the hospital one day then it seems.
A portion of the credit goes to me as well! because it was me who found another branch of it, and this too carries an amazingly unexpected story of landing up. Just another day on a casual ride to the JPnagar outlet, i got to notice this one in Jayanagar to my surprise, near the Oxford book store, opp Barron's Inn. uhuh!!! we were screaming the gush out, totally instigated! We together have several such sweet memories of exploring/spotting variety of places in this city!
And that was his first and foremost finding of such a thing over the 2 evergreen years!! Boy believe me, it will always remain an overwhelming memory to me!!! :) Later he too started becoming an expert in this field! Of course when you are with a great mind, there minimum would be a slight influence of it in you :D

Now i let the pics do the talking for you..



so go, get in, get impressed!! :)

Sale Sale Sale...

So much in the city! End of Season Sale all over...
Globus, Pantaloons, Central..
Our favorite Tommy ..
In Lido, the new mall, now fully constructed - off MG road, Fame, a 4 screen multiplex attached with sofa seating within!! I'm expecting a lot out of it :)
sofas are something so elegant n comfortable that interests me like what an Aishwarya Rai's call sheet would do to Rajnikanth :) At least this one is lil unusual instead of what the usual pvr/inox holds for us..
Everyday I get to cross one of this busiest roads in B'lore city, looking out of the car window just to add to my mournful stint! Now this is what I call paradox!!
Weekends having so much for me n With Feb 14th in pipeline..
I'm missing it all :|

Waiting for the new re-arrival :)

All

One thing I realize quite often these days is that I tend to forget so many things that has happened in the recent past/present, so much that I had to surf back through my previous posts to put my writing hat ON :D Also reading back those posts told me that its been a long time since you've given a juicy post! Hoping to give one this time..
One side of life seems like those nocturnal zombies of I'm Legend which keeps haunting this lonely survivor, Robert Neville, in the streets of NY city. I wish he gets to come across this KR Puram traffic atleast for a week/month in his life, I'm sure he would prefer gettin on with the years long lone research, though the lady in the book stall refuses to tell him a hi even after he cries on losing his 'Sam'. But its highly dumb when it comes to risking their own life for the pets. I'm sure no indian will do that!! On the other hand, there are quite a few things that look as cool as him reciting about two minutes worth of dialogue from Shrek with even the simplest sounds like ahh, uhh... n al that. Yes, I'm so impressed!
Now, those that fall under this 'cool' category are tend to be forgotten so easily i feel. For example, a small lesson learnt from a not-so-prominent incident, though it is of high value and reveals a unique culture, some kinda good proverb or saying from a not-so-popular source, yet so meaningful.. few things even if u forget it doesnt matter, but der r a lots that I've been forgetting, so much.. so soon!! planning to start writing diary as a daily practice. but if something happens like what it comes in the real 'Billa', then things will mess up. will find a better solution soon :)

now am back to square 1, running in the morning to catch the cab, walking cut, skipping start; listening to fm which most of the time roars at a higher intolerable pitch, next time I goto his shop, will ask him if he's related to Rani Mukherjee by any chance, without which there's no chance of it singing so, may be he'll direct me to Philips for that query. work is ok, yet not started so seriously. client has put it on hold, waiting, till then let me blog. Dunno why this waiting and me are glued so well!!!

celebrated our 2nd anniversary (don't ask 'of what') on Jan 15th. I was getting ready big time for yet another D-day! yep! Jan 15th dawned with a big question '2nd anniversary is here, will there be a 3rd?' Still it was a moment of pride for us that we've carried each other so well all along through 365 days = 8760 hrs = 525600 mins = 31536000 seconds, Yes, we lived every moment of it!!, without letting down each other at any cause!, though I was bloating up at certain point making it tough to lift with something like what would resemble a Karan Johar's physique :p, you dint let me down anytime. Good try! The exuberant dinner @ Ebony groomed our day, + is that place is on 13th floor and of course, our presence was an added honors to the place :) the feel is really awesome, sitting atop, physically & mentally, that too with someone who is even more wonderful! No.. we dint make everything :)
took several pics which one by one is getting on into his gtalk display pic ;) will write a review on the place soon with the pics. my hsbc bill 1700 waiting to be paid off :D
As I always say life is so shrunk without *, not much of IIT-IIM stories, no discussions on those public issues/figures that only both of us talk bout on the entire world, NDTV n CNN IBN trying to fill your absence.. life eez tuf n when is soon!? hoping (moi) shall try.. ppl r busy with so many things right from work - onsite blah-blah, don't know if i'm cheating myself. but 1 week time can be of big help when it comes to 1 lifetime! Just noticed your blog is opened to invited readers only!! ATB.
will be off soon...

Days ... 2 dark days!!

The Monday dawn of 17th Dec ’07 did not do good to me. The dark layer of the dusk prior night stayed… an abrupt hiatus that we had to put for this uncertainty, solution-less problem, the gorgeous nightmare… the love - supposed-to-be eternal love!
3 months time to get over 2 years of affection, kindness.. the happy days.. mischief, grace, charm, poise… trust, dignity, composure. the two-in-one feel!
those 2 days, your strength, character and spirit were my reason for waking up in the morning till drifting off to sleep.. every inch of my thoughts carried something so light being so heavy, it kept shouting at me “Let's go back to the way we were”! For me you’re my better half and we make each other whole! But tell me your side of it--I'm listening.
I felt so lost and wondered how you would have handled the same! But I could find you matured enough unlike how you were in our early times. I dreamt of scrapping somebody in Hindi, you were my reviewer there and opened my eyes to see everything empty around. Hassan buys Amir a handbook of Quoran on his birthday, and Amir would read stories and the poems he writes to Hassan, under a pomegranate tree - I don’t know the correlation but somehow remembered you in each word of this part in Kite runner…
I missed you! To the core. To the extent that no one could envisage!
tho the cute lil candle that I tried to lit in the shell where I dumped myself gave a room full of light, yet I could see just the shade that was leftover.
And in the shade, it was You whom I could spot… along with myself! Now the one (me) has broken into two :(
It dint take me more than 2 days – to break this dreadful silence between us.
The moment I saw a message creeping in my mobile phone, 'I'll be late today' tears gushed out and the moment next it was me back, I couldn't control asking you to come to me!

But whatever, its this we know, we have to take it. Now the rest life is for crying, cribbing those who were not for us. The amount of respect that we give them to the level we try not to hurt them, they don’t really deserve it. They are just old, so though they do injustice to us, it’s their age and we are not supposed to hurt them now. Let them be contented for the rest of their lives that we dint go against them. Here, we stand taller than what they do! at every aspect of life… spoiling our own selves to see them smile! and this life, its pathetic to fathom what it would be like without you in it!