Saturday, December 29, 2007

the memories r still fresh in mind to cherish

18 months it has been since I left tht aashiyana...but its still der somewhere embedded in my mind...it brings a smile on my face when i think abt the happenings out der for those 11 months of my life..
ab log sochenge khali pili senti ho raha hai subeh ke 6 baje :D but not senti but i just got up today early morning and flashbacks of the early morning jogging days of shikshak came pouring down...

nothing much to write n blanket looks very tempting at this moment so adios for now

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Those memories refuses to die

Pune... part of my life for 2 years... 2 years in a 26 years long journey.. but it seems more than it.

First 2 years of my working life... where i have money to spend on things which i liked... time to think... still there was something more than this suddenly achieved freedom.

These two years were spend with some of best pals from college... made some new pals in company... in the journey to rewind those moments...

First few days in pune... staying in a hotel provided by company... got anupreet as a room partner. Anupreet... a simple person from thoughts... but not from my college... some how we got mingled... dont know what we liked in each other in those few hours.. but after those seven days... he is sure on one thing... wanna live with us... it added to our confusion initially but i m happy that he did that.

Initially we are five... (in bhawani park) me, anupreet, kapil, chinmoy and neeraj (except anu.. all are classmates..).. neeraj tries his luck in huges nd after few days of fun... he is all set to gurgaon... then we are four... nd anu is my roomie... has deep love for human feelings... but more deeper sense of humor... milk is his favorate dish... for breakfast, lunch and dinner... got his own share of sentiments... still remember the number he has stored in name of "PAPA"... we always wondered... how come his "PAPA" sends so senti SMSes... but i hope he has to do that... to keep us away bugging...

Still remember one night.. i have old samsung set... which alerts of SMS again and again until you read... chinu's one friend sent one SMS nd i forgot to read that and slept in deep thoughts...(looks good when you say thoughts...:D)... at midnight... i got awake on sudden discomfort... anu is walking all over the flat.. holding tat stupid piece in hand and shouting..."Abe ise chup karo koi..." he was awake all night ...

Suddenly chinnu got transfered to chennai for 2 months and we felt... lets have some more members... it brings durga nd vijju... nd yes... best time was just about to begin... we loved doing "kambal pitai"... starting wid vijju.. then followed by everyone... vijju nd anu shared amazing love-hate relationsip... in morning anu will move to rest room only wen vijju was about to move... followed by frustrated banging by vijju on the door again and again... just some of the moments...

mohindra, kapil nd tau are also in pune... resulting in frequent visits of ther n my house to add a twist in daily fun... to add there were paro, jha, anshul were in mumbai...just a call away... those weekends were full of life.

these days are no where related to life in 205... but were a great prologue to a life that was about to begin... vijju was outr new neighbour in 206... but a great fun... we loved to ring his door bell and run away...naughty kids...(me nd durgi to be named culprits)... most of the things including dear dhobi nd good luck tea store continues to be part of our life even after shifting to sanewadi.

Now... anupreet is based in Dehli (at present in US)
Jha and paro in Noida ((at present in US)
Mohindra in Pune (in US frm last one year)
Suri, chinnu, Vijju in Pune (but they are not neighbour)
Durga nd ulti in IIMC
Me in bangalore.
Neeraj in IIML
Kapil based in Pune (but ins swis..)

and al the memories back in Pune...

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

D unforgettable HOLI

Every holi is unforgettable... but only holi we played together at 205 is always top on the list... (Suri missed all the fun as he was in dehli at that time..)

U mite get impression that my all post are ULTI dominated... but i cant help... he is such a dominating creature that nobody can help in that.

Before that... a little story. There is a gal in our infy office... She is training mate of Suri, nd transfered to pune while Suri was in Chennai... so it was moral responsibility of durga to take a good care of her.nd he did "rise to occasion" very well... (after that we never introduced any gal we knew.. to durgi.. ;) ). Durgi later introduced her to everybody... except ULTI d great.. dont know why? he can better answer that... but it made ulti.. eager to meet her... and i dont know if it that eagerness ever got over...

Ok.. come back to Holi... ULTI did got colors for us.. nd without ulti... (waking up before 12 PM is against human rights of ulti... ).. me, mohindra nd durga went to celeb it... wid our infy nd college frens... infy frens included Garima also... (above mentioned gal). after 2-3 hours when we are back... ulti is in all flames for not being invited... but he has his own plans too... to make our holi "unforgettable".

We went to Rats (replace with Ratika... now onwards) house... just hoping to wish nd perhaps some gulal etc... when we reach there... we are greated with some water... mohindra is smart... escaped saying that he has to play with his old roomies... me nd durga are helpless... "jaye to jaye kahan...." as we are old rommies of each other...

So we grabbed two corners of house nd watching ulti nd other gals playing wid water... but... water does not differentiates between people on the basis of cast, creed, name or being good enof to sit in corner... so we got more than our share... my Nokia mobile also get his share... perhaps that was the last time i saw him working... (after that it came in indian cricket team mode... all parts will never work together...).

Water is good... but then there was talcom powder... (u bet it is resposible for atleast 1% weight of those gals... ;) )... matched with water... we were looking like statues.... (thank GOD there was no pegion around...)...

so...somehow we managed to enter in bathroom.. to get clean... and that was biggest mistake of ours... we were much safer in room... (gals cant make their room as dirty as we guys can :) ) but bathroom... they are not far behind... nd now it was our turn to be treated with tide...(yukkk...)... more water... more talcom powder...(they must have made their kirana wala proud of them... but not our shakar bai... who got to wash our cloths...).

Somehow we thot... enof is enof... and started to do tit for tat... nd please... u cant expect us to tell gals not to shout... so that invited mr. guard. We were forced to hid in bathroom... nd he was forced to believe that 2 gals nd one ulti were all resposible for that mass...

yes.. that guard was our saviour... hence he saved both of us gini-pigs from some more discovery of coloring agents... (i hope u have assumed so far that pepsodant also had played his part in between...wid some branded shampoo also...)... that was a bright day for nearby kirana wala...

to all said and done... YES.. ulti also faced the same fate... but he was not in suffered lot...

Nd dont expect from me that i can explain any of the face expression that came on people when we were returning to home...

nyway... that holi was enjoyable... nd made more enjoyable by some special food by our beloved shakar bai...

Friday, July 20, 2007

ok let me start off frm d reasons for renting 205, shikshak society.....the other option we saw was a pigeon hole n it was in dat part of Aundh which can make even mumbai local trains look peaceful and the foremost reason was it had a park n JOgging track in front of it...and we all being health freaks it was d most obvious choice( i hope all wll agree to my point)

now getting ovr to Mohindra aka bakra...bhaggi, ulti n me at pizza hut after a tiring day of house search...suddenly i said "humein wohi ghar lena hai bas"... fir kya bhaggi fone uthaya aur mohindra ko call lagake bolta hai humein charon ke liye ek accha ghar dhund liya hai nxt weeknd ko shift karna hai....
M sure mohindra soch raha hoga 4 koun hain but soon d bitter truth seeped into him....It must have been a heartbreak for Mohindra jaisa dharmik insaan to leave Osho Ashram area n come over to this part of city as he had no other choice, as somebody has rightly said "choices are illusions created by those in power (bhaggi, ulti the power house) for those who dont have any..

to be contd...

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

D orkut days...

Mohidra had PC since his college days...(in college days... we have used it to watch all kind of movies, to play games, for project reports nd all... in short... part of our life since college days...)... nd we all have decided to get a broadband internet connection for the same.

Although internet is house of many interesting sites... still orkut was favorite of all of us. We loved to run through all kind of profiles in orkut...(using visibilty off... i know u have guessed much before), but we simply loved those profiles which had lots of picture in their albums... nd we also loved the profiles which had good number of good looking friends... nd yes... any guy's profile were never visited as a unwritten rule, which everybody followed religiously.

But we really hated those guys who used to scrap regularly in our favorite profiles... nd we had our ways to teach them a lesson too... :)... no i wont give any tip to anybody here... but we simply loved it... a good time pass for many days...

And among all of us... ulti had the higest number of friends... fans... (of course in orkut...)... scraps... testis... God knows why? but we simply loved when he used to ask his roomies..."Aur kya macha rahe ho is week end pe?"... what a great way of communication with room mates... by the way we have dedicated a whole community to ULTIism in orkut... "Ulti: You just can't ignore him"... (many few people knows that the name was orignated from a very high quality discussion between me and suri... using infosys msn...)... nd there are many devoties there... One day my ex ML sandeep has asked me..."Is ulti real? how come he has a community in his name?"... answer is... ULTIism is beyond any human understanding so... he is beyond humanity nd deserves more than a profile... so a whole community for him.

One find day... durga nd me are doing orkutting as usual... nd some thing comes in mind of urs truly...(i admit i have highly furtile mind when it comes for mischievs... nd durga is always more than happy to be a patner in my crimes...)... we cut every thing from desktop and copied in C: drive... then made the task bar auto hide... then only thing that was visible and open was orkut...

Somehow suri nd mohindra also got the hint... but they remain outside... jsut putting their ears on any slight sound... now we did one print screen of orkut in open position nd... it is our wall paper now...

Ulti comes from outside...(cant remember from where exactly...)... me nd durga are purposly doing orkutting.... ulti wanna checks his profile... durga distracts him for a while nd... i did minimized orkut screen... nd everything is gone... except the orkut wall paper...

Utli... click on his profile... nothing happens... then he clicks on home.... nothing happens... then he does F5... nothing happens.... then... came the words... "lagta hai HANG ho gaya hai..." by this time it was too much for me nd durga... nd a blast of laughter came out.... soon to be joined by suri nd mohindra...

We loved orkut... nd still do.

Monday, July 16, 2007

The Kitchen shopping nd D Big-bang

After having a nice place to stay... we came to second thing... food. All decided in favor of kitchen.. so shopping started...

Laxmi bazar was d place decided... nd me, ulti, mohindra, anupreet...(our old cute big hearted roomie, we took him together nd told that he will get free juice.... but he was not aware that he was there for holding all the stuff we were going to purchase...), tau nd bhabhi... (Durga was not there.. he was returning from home on that day only...)... set for shopping... no.. i m not going to explain shops nd item we purchased... but while returning back following are the companians... tau nd bhabi on tau's passion... (tau used to ride so slowly nd safely that you can even balance one egg on another egg while he is driving...), mohindra with anu, me nd ulti... (Anu was with ulti in forward journey... but on back journey... he insisted to be wid mohindra... cant say the reason... lets assume he liked mohindra very much...). Ulti is driving nd me sitting at back. Then in between_____Blanks#1____________________________________.... and we all reached home. I was driving nd ulti is sitting back. (Yes... this blank is necessary to keep the story going on... for the time being just read that there was a journey involved back to home....).

So visualize the scene at home... durga is resting in his room, mohindra nd anu has reached home much early then us... tau nd bhabhi went there home for some thing... but were supposed to be there. Me nd ulti reached there... greeted durga... ate sweet he brought from home... showed him things we purchased... nd....

And.. gave him the bad news that his bike is a little scratched... (his new bike... barely 2months old). Durga is in a shock... but he manages in his usual style... wid a smile on his face.. but eyes behind glasses are speaking alltogether a diff story.... ok... he went down nd checked his bike... his handle is a bit banded... one indicator is broken...(to be completed by durga itself) nd reason for all of this is...??? in busy traffic some cow pushed his bike while standing... nd all of this happened...(as it was told to him)...

Then we chatted for some while nd i droped anu his home...(a trivial line it seems but it will make a big sense later on...). Tau nd bhabhi came and we had a nice round of chat. They left nd meet ulti in between nd __Blanks#2_______________.

Its a perfact kind of day till now... but wait... night is yet to come... Its 12'o clock... nd my right hand wrist began to pain... unable to sleep... i called ulti... (just for a background info... mohindra is my roomie nd ulti nd durga r roomie). applied some move... took some pain killer... but pain refused to go away... one hour past but not at all bearable... till now everybody is wake up... durga, mohindra, vijju (our old roomie nd new neighbour), pandey ji.(roomie of vijju).. reason of pain...

Reason of pain is... I went to bathroom nd fell... so it is a big jerk in my hand.. everybody is thinking how big jerk was I? nd i was thinking.... to be honest i was thinking nothing... pain is too much too think anything. So at midnight... everybody is headed towards some reputed hospital called Medi-Point... after one pain-killer injection... i am able to smile... on nothing but on my condition. They took X-ray nd advised to come in morning....

Till morning... effect of injection is over... so we are there... before time... nd the doctor suggest that... it was some displacement of minor bone nd we need to go for surgery... all of us are horrified... surgery for a falling in bathroom??? nd me... ok.. me also included in that horrified lot. But yes... ulti keeps cool everytime... nd suggested that we take some second advice... everybody agreed nd me... happily agreed.

Search for a better hospital ends on jahangir hospital... ulti is there too wid me... (he is a guy wid golden heart... u can count on him on every need...), nd after one more x-ray it is clear that there is one minor fracture... so... we came back after 2 days... wid plaster on my right hand. After that... starts a herculas effort to explain everyone... how it is possible to fell in bathroom nd get a fracture... every body is puzzled... nd durga... more than puzzled... (guess why?). Between there was nothing serious for 2 days... but we decided to stay for safety nd medical clam purpose...(who wont love AC hospital luxary room for free?).

Nd that small fracture lasted for 3 and half months... wofff... during that period i learnt to do almost everything wid left hand... nd tried my best to convince everybody that you can get a frature by falling in bathroom... but durga is still puzzled.... reason??

Reason??
a. how come bike nd bhaggi fell on same day?
b. how come bike got that much affected by just a push of cow?
c. how come a person fell in bathroom nd got his hand fractured nd his roomie mohindra never heard ny sound?

He is simply puzzled...

To resolve the puzzle for you...
Blank#1... ulti nd me met wid some accident... bike got broken... nd me too... but i felt ok type nd drove d rest of road...
Blank#2... bhabhi just confirmed wid ulti that he is ok... (bhabhi... just a too much of caring heart)... ulti now knows that info is out somehow...

Getting it all together

It was month of April-2005... 7 ppl were staying in 16, Bhawani Park-A, Aundh. It was a 2 BHK flat...(now dont think how come... it was some strong bond which was binding as all together so no one will fall out of that flat..)... a lovely place and area to live... somehow a desire came into mind of ulti, durga and bhaggi (urs truely...) to find some more space... (and continue the bond... with out sharing the same place...)... So we started looking for aashiyana...

Now before we proceed some points to ponder...
1. All of us from infosys first year... now i dont need to emphasis that we didn't had any heavy wallets. (although ulti some how got big bank balance.. but not at all ready to spend on his boyfreinds... ;) ).
2. Everyone wanted lots of space.
3. Still we were 3... not a very good number... so searching for one more potential partner... no... i am not saying bakra... but if u insist.. u can use this term.
4. Our dear ulti is in love wid dis place called aundh... dont know why...(but after some time everybody knew why... :D).

So keeping all these points in mind we started searching... in this search we (read durga and bhaggi) found one house in kharki...(too congusted.. to live), one house in Nandan van...(a good 3BHK.. but out of budget... constraint#1), one in planet millenium... far from aundh... constraint #4..., one in sanewadi... constraint...illogical rate (no number... our brain was not accepting it).

Finally search came down to 2 houses in aundh... one 1 BHK... second 2 BHK... me nd ulti loved 1 BHK... 2 BHK was a bit old kind... but somehow durga fall in love wid that old house... so things got close to our dream house... but there is one more contraint.. read #3... and here is the entry of mohindra...

To give a background... he is living in Koregoan Park... one of the most happening part of pune... (i must admit... i stayed most of my weekends in my earlier part of pune stay wid him there only...)... but he is very good friend and a person of good heart (here comes the catch...)...we called him nd told that we took the house only counting in you... nd here is the 4th person in the team... nd the house is final... (after that... it means that was a cheating wid mohindra... but we loved every moment wid him.. so happy to cheat...)

And that place is called... 205, Shikshak Society, Sanewadi, Aundh.

A beautiful place (it was old house as we mentioned... but we got TV, Fridge, Bad, kitchen, Pardas to window... nd almost everything.. to make it happening place... a big thank to ulti... who loves shopping...)... very green nd peaceful environment...

Now the real fun begans... so stay tuned.