Its Nagpur

There are 25 things that will make sure whether u r a Nagpurian.

1. You always look for any smallest chance when you can ask
your friend for a PARTY, and your party will at least have a group
dance and a dinner. For dinner, veg means a chicken dish while
non-veg means the same along with a Bottle .

2. You are always ready to celebrate and for you celebration
means dance and for you dance means waving your hands and legs in
full josh in front of a Sandal .

3. You have a special breed of chicken dish called "Sawaji"
which has equal volumes of chicken and chili.

4. You run to the spot wherever you see a fight, not
to help but enjoy it.

5.You think 'Nag nala' & 'Ambazari 'as nature.

6.You say "Town", and expects everyone to know that this means
"sita-buldi".

7.You speak in dialect of hindi called 'Nagpuri hindi', which
only Nagpurians can understand. You always begin in Hindi when
talking to strangers no matter if he is also a Maharashtrian or
marathi linguist.

8.You say "How" if you want to say "Yes"

9.You spend more time each month ,chatting on "Tapris" or "Pan
Thellas", than you spend at home.

10.You have the following sets of friend: school friends,
college friends, office friends and yes.. "Tapri friends", a
species unique only in Nag pur. Your "Tapri Friends" is always
your first choice then any other group.

11.You use "Mahol" & "Sahi" & Ek Number as your pet words.

12.Only in Nagpur you would find people going to hanuman temple
for "Telangkhedi Samosa & Bread pakoda".

13.You call old people as "Bawaji" and expect out-of-towners to
understand that.

14.You compare "Dharampeth", to New York's Manhattan instead of
any other place.

15.You eat "Imported Santras(oranges)" as yours are exported.

16.The most frequently used part of your car is the"Brake".

17.'Temperature quotes'(specially in summer)are the only things
besides cricket which you follow passionately.

18.You dont drive car on roads ,rather you are driven
by the roads.

19.Blowing horn is absolute useless as pedestrians
are the "King" of roads.

20.What you wear is Fashion.

21.You have M.I.D.C.,..with ' I ' being silent. ...... no
industries you see.

22.You have huge Fly-Overs ,..which opens twice a day: once
for Morning walk & then for Evening walk.

23.You have 'Animal park'(Maharaj Bagh),.but the animals are 'Two
- legged'.

24.You have ponds like.. "Ambazari talao" for specific purpose
like.. "Suicide".

25.You have the only university named after a person..
"Kohchade university" (Kohchade is one who did blunders of fake
degree certificate

I got this in a fwd mail and I can so relate to it. Even after
being in most happening cities of india (mumbai for 2 years
and in bangalore for almost an year),
i do miss nagpur, not juss for my family but also for
saoji and for PP and tapri and endless evenings we ve
spent there sitting and faggin..It
is the place which holds all nagpurians together..Tapri is the
place where we made most of the important decisions of our life.
Chahe hum kitne bhi bade ho jaye, dil se nagpur wasi hi hai...

Thin Line....

I have always wondered that there is a thin line between liking sme1 and gettin
infatuated and a even thinner line between infatuation and love. Recently i realised that the line gets even thinner if the other person is not in the same place as you are. In fact, the line totally disappears. When asked the difference between infatuation and love, some of my frens replied sayn that infatuation is the early phase of love, Generally when you love some1 its juss infatuation for the first six mnths after those six mnths only it shapes up as love. I was kinda surprised with this theory and
really doubt the authenticity of it.

So how do u decide if its love or infatuation or mere liking. If you are thinking about a person day n night, 24x7..the last thought b4 u go to bed and first thought when u wake up is dat person..after wakin up u hurry thins juss to go to work early so that u can chat with her, the only thin u want to do when u r alone is to message her or call her..everyday u want to go out with her for lunch or dinner or juss find out reasons to see her (no matter how busy u r)..everytime u meet her u get this adrenalin rush in ur body..every time b4 callin her u think wat r u goin to talk..u make conscious efforts
to make her laugh (even tho u knw dat u suck in makin jokes).. u dont want her to go thru any pain..u constantly worry abt her when she is sick. u advice her to work thins with her BF but actually some part of u is glad...u watch her pics n videos 10 times a day..still u cant get enuf of her.. u secretly see her when she is sittin away and pretend dat u were not lukn when she sees back..When sittin next to her all ur energy goes in controllin to stop urself from holdin her hand...

So when u do all that does it mean love or infatuation or wat? I thinks paritionin ur feelings by a line dsnt make sense... its the feeling, its the satisfaction u get after doin all this matters, its the feelin dat u like sme1 so mch dat matters..
Its the fact that u can do anythin and want to be there for her whenever she needs some1, shld matter..

Nite at Honne Paradiso

The fun didnt end in my last blog..it started only in the nite...after the suppunch and shower we went back to r rooms, put on sme new good clean clothes...n there we were all excited again abt the nite since we were goin to spend it in the tents in the island..initially it was scary coz even a thght of sleeping in the jungle wthot any lights scares the hell out of me...also it was unlucky for the person who was goin to sleep wid me...coz the only place wer i feel i m the king of the world is while i m sleeping ...n i sleep also like a king with my arms n legs streched out...n i also talk a lil in my sleep... sme ppl ve also seen me dancing and making faces..but neways i was all excited..i wass hopin dat i dont miss dat sme1 special... but her thghts came rushing back whenever i tried to push it away..



we reached da island at abt 6:30pm...the caretaker came wid us..after reaching the peak we started building the tents coz it was gettn dark...also gettn the firewood was r job..so we like musketeers went into the jungle for the firewood.. it was pitch dark..we hd no idea where we were stepping...othr ppl wer scared of snakes...but for me it was still dat weird person standing in the jungle n lukn at me...fortunately i didnt see him..after strugglin for abt 1 hr we did manage sme thin branches of firewood...we wld burn max to 15-20 mins..but dat was the best we cld do..we came back till dn most of the tents were done...i put the mattress on the land and juss lied watching the stars...sme ppl also tried to show their solar systems knowledge by identifing a few constellations...i was never intersted in dat...



i was juss lukn at the stars, wid the thght of ma girl in the back of my mind...it was amazing..if it was not for the jungle i cld ve lied there lukn at the stars whole nite...but u never know when dat weird guy wld cme out of jungle n start staring :D...







after dinner we sat there for sme more time...fortunately few ppl decided to sleep outside the tent, that mde sme place in the tent n we cld sleep peacefully..mornin when i woke up i went to the peak...the panoramic view of the backwaters was absoxxxkinglutely amazing...standing on the peak i asked god to make me a mountain in my next life so that people cld climb me and see the entire world ;;)
after taking a full round on the backwaters...n doin sme serious photography..we returned back to the mainland... after dat it was trek which was not so interesting...i was hopin dat after so mch hardwork n struggle i lose sme weight which i m tryn since long...

the journey back to shimoga was also not very interesting since we wer all tired
to death...

we reached bangalore at arnd 5am in the mornin...

A trip to Honne-paradiso

So it all started on 29'th April at Majestic, well actually it had begun long b4 as i cld smell the excitment of our trip to honnemarudu from many of my colleagues even b4 the tickets were buked.. With me it was kinda mixed feeling of excitement, missing some1 and loneliness..As i had committed (by payn already) i hd to go, which i did...We all started at 11pm from majestic..After gettin into the compartment first thin i did was to reserve the upper berth, my fav berth since childhood..Wen i was a kid my parents never allowed me to sleep there, wid the fear of me fallin down...Actually the fear was not of me falling, but me fallin from height coz i used to fall down even from
lower berth..neways, so after cracking a few jokes n sharing a few laughter comments we all went to sleep..usually wen i m on upper berth i sleep within 10 secs...but dis time the mixed feeling was troubling me and kept me awake for abt 1 hr thinking abt ma gurl.. finally at abt 5pm we reached shimoga..b4 gettn down nature started
calln me...i cldnt meet nature in da train coz dr was a fear of train leaving the station and me left with the nature...so i decided to control 4 smetme n finally at shimoga rest room i cld meet nature in peace...only dn i realised why it is called the 'stone of peace' :D...



I dint know dat journey frm shimoga wld be so adventurous..we travelled
in a meter guage train, a bus rather..the train was more like a bus with juss 2 compartments..n limited seatings..and as we hd gurlz in r grp, i decided to offer my seat to dm..modesty u knw.. but it was worth it,coz i got to sit on the door of the train...da journey started at dawn n it was still a bit dark, so i cld nt sit dr coz of da fear of sme1 standing in the jungle n staring at me..so i decided to sit wid my
frens till dat sme1 disappered from the jungle..Wid the first ray of light i got up n sat at the door...the environment was so welcoming with the fresh air tickling my chin n running away...it was kinda teasing me..it was a gr8 picturesque of green fields n mountains covered wid a thin layer of mist...the bumpy and soothingly cold ride
was juss a start of wat was abt to come..on the way a few unfriendly villagers wer tryn to climb on me to get a seat.. for dm it wasnt a fun ride at all, like coding isnt fun anymore for us....i cld make dat ot from their faces...



We landed in tallagappa at arnd 8am..i was kinda upset coz i was a lil hungry..n one of the hardest thin wid me is to convince my abysmal stomach :D..honnemarudu was abt 10 kms from der...we were supposed to go by sumo, but we ended goin in an open air truck.. by dis time the feelin of loneliness was gone.



we reached honnemarudu at arnd 10am...I cld hear the vast strech of back waters screaming and askin me to come so dat it cld embrace me...all i wanted to do is remove my clothes n go into the waters..but the care taker hd some other intentions..he was busy tellin us the rules..i dont remember any, coz i was not listenin, i was too engrossed in my thghts... i wish dat special sme1 was wid me at dat
time...one rule i remember was of no smoking :(...wat a waste..sucha amazing place and smoking not allowed...still to b on a safer side i carried a pack of gudan's...



I never knew dat rowing wld be so mch fun...but only for sme time..i swam for abt 2 hrs...helped 2 of the gurlzz to cross the strech of water to reach the island..my stomach was also streched to its very limits and all the rats inside it started demanding food...all i cld gv them was some water from the lake..we rowed back to r mainland...had sumptuous lunch at arnd 4pm...well it cannot be called a lunch,
a suppunch (supper + lunch) rather...nevamind i m not really gud in cracking jokes...



I think the post is gettn too long so i 'l share the night experience
in the next post..it was even more exciting...so dont go anywhere. i 'l
be back soon :)

My Ist Trek: "Cld it be any more adventurous"

The Real Heros

Well so it all started at 6am on 21'st 2003...Siddhagad is a mountain 982m high, detached from the main range of the Sahyadri The top offers good views of the Konkan, and Gorakhgad-Machindra.

We started tredding along a simple path which wound through fresh green paddy fields.There was lot of slush along the path, as the result of rain. After our first few attempts to avoid the slush failed, we fearlessly tred right through it, we could see the most beautiful panoramic view. Beautiful green paddy fields all around, and in the background the majestic hills.Those massive rocks were our opponent. We were taking on the challenge thatthose hills offered. Of course, the sight of the hills also suggested thatnow some serious trekking will start.

But the fun part started when we lost track and took a more dangerous path alongthe stream, which apparently turned out to be more adventurous and challenging.Obviously the challenge was to climb the hills, but we accepted this new challenge...the biggest hurdle were the girls, who sometimes used to scream and shout and obviously fall ;) ...

Fortunately, all of us made it out of the waterfall safely.
I wish i cld der wid my girlfren all my life :)

We reached a village on the plateau by 3:30pm (i.e) 6 hrs of serious trekking) ...we started heading back at 4pm and again lost track while returning and took a circuitous path(this time it was definitely not fun) ...we landed in iit at around 10pm, all very tired and with our bodies aching all over.The only thing i desired for was a peg of vodka with orange ;)

Its never too late

So here it comes, my first blog..Year 2003 was said to be the year of the blog,
i guess i m way behind time. But as some1 has rightly said "its never too late"

1 weekend got up early came to office in major enthu to do some work but
after orkut and 360 login i got interested in one of my frens blog and one thin
led to another and that day i ended up readin other ppl blogs and creating my
own blog id...dat was quite n achievement..the hardest part was to give a
name to my blog..n then a punch line...i had to decide on an interesting line
coz ppl wld cme and read my blogs n i ve always sucked in writin but definitely
i dont want ppl to know dat..

It seems dat this blog thingee is not a total waste of time...was reading
one of my frens blog and after reading all of them, my interest in her grew
quite a bit..so i figured out that if i start writin blogs it may do some magic
in my single life too...

Actually earlier i was a bit scared abt writing blogs coz i had read an article
abt Google and Amazon using my blog to find out my interests and use it
for their marketing strategies..but who cares, if such big shots are lukn for
my blog to market i guess at some pt i may be in a position to sue them and earn
a quick buck :D..well dats a very far fetched idea...nevamind..

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