Had a great weekend (19-20 Sept 2008). Friday night had a great party @ Yellow Chillies at Koregaon Park (the hotel is owned by Sanjeev Kapoor of Khana Khajana fame).
Saturday morning it was raining and that too furiously. It was raining on friday too and non-stop. The climate conditions on friday made me think it would be a boring weekend sitting at home but it was not to be.
Friday afternoon there was a mail from Shailesh regarding the weekend and whether we should meet for sometime and stuff , most of the people were uninterested so I thought the weekend would be a boring affair :)
Early in the morning on Saturday I received a call from Shailesh that shall we enjoy something this weekend by going to a movie Rock On!! and then deciding what to do next. He asked me to contact Saurabh as he was too coming.
Saurabh called me to say that we could goto Mangala @ 5.45 pm show for Rock On! and then have a great evening @ JM road before retiring for the day @ Shailesh's place and Sunday was promising enough with a badminton game in the morning with Abhijeet and Vishal (Builder) and then something else too.
Tanmay had called up Friday that we can meet up on Sunday afternoon for lunch as we hadnt met a long time , so we decided we could meet up after the badminton session and have a nice time.
Deepak had opted out of the saturday stuff because of some personal stuff so he wasnt there on saturday.
I started saturday at 4pm from home , as my pass had expired took the pass at the station and got onto the 4.21pm local at Chinchwad. Met Saurabh and had an uneventful ride to Shivajinagar. The rain had stopped but the sky was still overcast and we were praying that it shouldnt rain until we reached Mangala. We walked the way from Shivajinagar station to Mangala in about 20-25 minutes discussing stuff.
We reached Mangala at about 5pm and took the tickets for Rock On! - I was seeing the movie for the 3rd time and as Sau was seeing it for the 1st time I decided to give him company and also the movie was good so not a problem. Shailesh came in by 5.30pm and we went into the theater and enjoyed the movie. The movie was rocking even when I was seeing it for the 3rd time. :)
We came out of the movie by 8pm and went to JM road for dinner. In between Shailesh showed us the river @ PMC which had a large volume of water thanks to the heavy rains, the river was ferocious and we had a great time seeing the river and the side road which was submerged in the water.
Had a great dinner @ Subhadra on JM and came out. Decided to take ice-creams from Naturals and have a walk along the river side. Came to the PMC bridge and discussed stuff about traffic and Pune and all. Came back to the car-parking took the car and went to Shailesh's home and retired for the night.
Morning had tea at shailesh's place and went to Tilak Road for playing badminton at Marathwada Hall. We had breakfast at Tilak Hotel and went to the hall. We met Abhijeet and Builder there and then had a great session of badminton for about 2 hours by the end of which we were exhausted but felt energetic. We decided to play badminton every weekend or atleast when we were free. Its a nice and energetic game and we needed something like this to break our lazy routine for the weekends.
We came out of the badminton hall and went to Tilak hotel and had vada-pav and sarbat and then parted saying byes to each other and went to CCD @ JM road to meet Tanmay. Tanmay was already there and Veena and Himani had also joined in. We had a great time chatting with them and then went to Aryan hotel near FC road for lunch.
The lunch was ok-ok and we had mexican food , Deepak had joined us for lunch here after doing his work in Pune and we had a great time chatting and eating. Sharayu also came in for lunch. After lunch we parted saying good bye to everyone. Me , Shailesh and Saurabh decided to go to the tekdi near Paud road and Deepak would join us later as he had to meet some friend.
We went to Shailesh's hous again and freshened ourselves and went to the tekdi at 5pm. Chaitanya too joined in and Deepak was waiting at the top at the parking. We walked our way to the highest point (Vetal tekdi) via a jungle path which was wet and slushy. We reached the top and immediately climbed a machan which was erected there. Once on top of the machan the views were simply amazing.
We could see the whole Pune city and all the places. Had a great time here and took some photos there. Came down from the Machan and went to the Vetaal maharaj mandir and paid our respects and went to the backside there to see the sunset. The tekdi was connected to the Pashan and Chaturshringi hills and we could actually trek/hike the whole place as it was connected. I plan to do that sometime.
We took photos of the sun going down and also enthusiastic people :) and started back. Took a bus from the Paud phata to PMC with Saurabh. Deepak on his bike went to Talegaon with his sis.
Walked down from PMC to Shivajinagar station and took the local back home.
A nice weekend to say. Full of adventure and meetings with friends!
Monday, September 22, 2008
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Marathon movie watch
Hey i did a marathon movie watch at esquare on 15/6/08. I am a crazy guy doing crazy stuff.This was a part of that craziness.
That friday a number of good movies released so saturday it was! I reached e2 at 8.30am for the 9am show of 21.As usual vikram a friend of mine didnt come on time bt i went inside d audi and the film started.Later i was joined by him and another friend priti.We were sitting on the first row screen 3!
21 is a nice movie with crisp execution and thrilling sequences.A must watch.Roughly a 2.05hr movie and totally entertaining.It is about a guy who needs to get into medical school but doesnt have the money.He is a genius at maths and some people take undue advantage of him and his talent.I wont reveal the whole plot here you must watch it to know.
My rating : 8/10.Ticket price:50/-
After this movie i dropped priti at home and joined vikram for lunch at good luck,deccan.Had a nice lunch and then again went to e2 to watch "The Happening" 12.45pm show.The movie is about the mystery of plants which release some toxins making people kill themselves without any reason.I failed to comprehend the logic.The film was slow and bore without anything logical and dragged.Full marks to Mark Wahlbergs acting but M.Shyamalan seriously doesnt know how to make such movies.Total paisa waste of 1.45 hrs.We came out at 2.45pm and vikram declared that he has to go home.
After he went i was alone so thought should go home and come back at 10pm for dasavatharam for which i had booked tkts for 7 people from PI. Then i thought that lets not go home and come back as my home is in chinchwad and a good 16km from here.
So i decided to watch a movie yet again.I saw tht d only movie for which tkts available was sarkar raj.I hadnt seen it so went for the 4.15pm show.In between 3 and 4.15 i went to crossword and got some old movie vcds.As the clock struck 4.10pm i went to screen 4.Sarkar Raj was seriously dissappointing.Ram Gopal Verma didnt make it proper this time.The old sarkar was good.This one pretends to be.Story is ok.
The movie ended at 6.50pm.When i came out i saw that it was pouring cats and dogs outside.Now it wasnt wise to venture out at this time and I had 3 hours to kill until dasavatharam.Sadly all movies started 6.30pm so couldnt take any show,had to wait until 10pm.
Left with no choice,had to loiter inside e2.Didnt have dinner too as was alone! Painfully those 3 hrs went by.
By 9.45pm deeps and narayani had come and so did vidyashankar and harish.Bala and Naresh too joined soon.VS and Harish had their dinner there and we went to screen3 where the movie was scheduled.
We went inside the hall and the movie started.Soon dr.Kamal Hasan made his entry in the movie and the whistling started.The movie is based on chaos theory and is very logical.Kamal Hasan has played ten different roles.The film starts with the 12th century shaivite ,vaishnavite clash where KH plays the role of rangaraja nambi,a devout vaishnavite.The movie then goes to the year 2004 and starts off! Its a roller coaster ride and the story is superb.KH comes as george bush,cia agent,tall afghan,raw officer,old lady,social activist,sardar,japanese ninja,normal kh.All the roles played are superb.The characters have well defined roles and come at the correct time.The execution,direction is very good.However the ending is nt gud and the film did drag at the end somehow.The movie ended at 1.30am.We all bid each other gudbye and i came home at 2am.
Whew what a marathon it was! Would like to do the same again.So until next time logging off! Bye.
That friday a number of good movies released so saturday it was! I reached e2 at 8.30am for the 9am show of 21.As usual vikram a friend of mine didnt come on time bt i went inside d audi and the film started.Later i was joined by him and another friend priti.We were sitting on the first row screen 3!
21 is a nice movie with crisp execution and thrilling sequences.A must watch.Roughly a 2.05hr movie and totally entertaining.It is about a guy who needs to get into medical school but doesnt have the money.He is a genius at maths and some people take undue advantage of him and his talent.I wont reveal the whole plot here you must watch it to know.
My rating : 8/10.Ticket price:50/-
After this movie i dropped priti at home and joined vikram for lunch at good luck,deccan.Had a nice lunch and then again went to e2 to watch "The Happening" 12.45pm show.The movie is about the mystery of plants which release some toxins making people kill themselves without any reason.I failed to comprehend the logic.The film was slow and bore without anything logical and dragged.Full marks to Mark Wahlbergs acting but M.Shyamalan seriously doesnt know how to make such movies.Total paisa waste of 1.45 hrs.We came out at 2.45pm and vikram declared that he has to go home.
After he went i was alone so thought should go home and come back at 10pm for dasavatharam for which i had booked tkts for 7 people from PI. Then i thought that lets not go home and come back as my home is in chinchwad and a good 16km from here.
So i decided to watch a movie yet again.I saw tht d only movie for which tkts available was sarkar raj.I hadnt seen it so went for the 4.15pm show.In between 3 and 4.15 i went to crossword and got some old movie vcds.As the clock struck 4.10pm i went to screen 4.Sarkar Raj was seriously dissappointing.Ram Gopal Verma didnt make it proper this time.The old sarkar was good.This one pretends to be.Story is ok.
The movie ended at 6.50pm.When i came out i saw that it was pouring cats and dogs outside.Now it wasnt wise to venture out at this time and I had 3 hours to kill until dasavatharam.Sadly all movies started 6.30pm so couldnt take any show,had to wait until 10pm.
Left with no choice,had to loiter inside e2.Didnt have dinner too as was alone! Painfully those 3 hrs went by.
By 9.45pm deeps and narayani had come and so did vidyashankar and harish.Bala and Naresh too joined soon.VS and Harish had their dinner there and we went to screen3 where the movie was scheduled.
We went inside the hall and the movie started.Soon dr.Kamal Hasan made his entry in the movie and the whistling started.The movie is based on chaos theory and is very logical.Kamal Hasan has played ten different roles.The film starts with the 12th century shaivite ,vaishnavite clash where KH plays the role of rangaraja nambi,a devout vaishnavite.The movie then goes to the year 2004 and starts off! Its a roller coaster ride and the story is superb.KH comes as george bush,cia agent,tall afghan,raw officer,old lady,social activist,sardar,japanese ninja,normal kh.All the roles played are superb.The characters have well defined roles and come at the correct time.The execution,direction is very good.However the ending is nt gud and the film did drag at the end somehow.The movie ended at 1.30am.We all bid each other gudbye and i came home at 2am.
Whew what a marathon it was! Would like to do the same again.So until next time logging off! Bye.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Konkan trip
Had been to Konkan over the weekend of 26-27 April 2008. It was an amazing experience on bike.
We (me and Vik) started from Chandani Chowk at 7.45 am and were cruising at 50kmph. Vik wasnt confident so he told me that we wont speed..I too didnt like the idea of speeding at the start of the journey but was a little apprehensive that we might be reaching late..but anyways we were cruising.
The best part is the roads. I was amazed at the quality of the roads on this route , we were to take the Paud -> Mulshi -> Dongarwadi -> Tamhini -> Vile -> Nizampur -> Mangaon route. I am sure going to try this route during monsoon to see how its like.Except for a few stretches on the ghats the roads are very good.I guess they were laid recently but nevertheless they were good.
After an hour or so we reached Mulshi Khurd where we stopped for breakfast, the time read 9am. Had a good breakfast of misal , vada and chai and started again for the destination. The roads ahead were a mix of good and bad , the good ones were really good and the bad ones were not much. I really hope the roads stay this way after the monsoons :) We made a resolution of riding at 50kmph and it was fun crusing at that speed.
Riding on the ghat was fun and the roads were ok. Reached Mangaon at around 10.55am and had a break for water and cooling off. Surprisingly being in Konkan the heat and humidity didnt affect much because of the cloudy weather we couldnt feel the sun hence the heat didnt affect us, infact i was feeling cool.
We reached Mhasla in no time (18 km from Mangaon) via the SH-98 and it was a dream road all through to Mhasla via the Morbi ghat road. Finally we took the right turn from Mhasla for Diveagar (20 km from Mhasla). The road here is also good. We reached Diveagar at 12.30pm and had darshan at the Golden Ganpati temple and called up the people where we had booked for the day as couldnt find their house. Finally , the person himself came to see us and we went with him to his place.
His home was good and we got a room on the 1st floor , the room was spacious and had the necessary things.Cool breeze was blowing out and we were just sitting out and enjoying. Our stomachs started growling for lunch and we booked our lunches at Patils Khanaval nearby. The food there was tasty and good for 100 bucks per plate. We came back to the room and just sat for sometime before leaving for Srivardhan.
There are two roads for Srivardhan from Diveagar one is via Shekhadi (the worst road i have ever seen in my life) and the other is on the route from Mhasla to Diveagar where we need to tak e a right while going from Diveagar to Mhasla at Borli village. This road is simply awesome and good. We ended taking the bad road via Shekhadi though you get some amazing views on that road of the sea and the sea stays with you throughout the journey.
We reached Srivardhan beach in about 45 minutes (srivardhan is 16km from Diveagar) and went directly to the beach and had a nice time playing in water for sometime and photography.
Finally we just sat there for sunset and had an amazing view , btw srivardhan beach is no longer clean with plastic littered to its length and breadth, it sure is becoming polluted from the number 1 status it had, clearly and influx of tourists plus neglection is leading to its decay.
After sunset we started again for Diveagar via the same bad road (we didnt know about the existence of a better road) and continued. At one place a person stopped me and asked for a lift upto shekhadi which I gave willingly , he was some daily wage worker and was returning home on foot because at that time no vehicle / six seaters pass by. He got down at Shekhadi and thanked us profusely even telling us to come back next day to his place and he would give us a free ride in his boat in the sea. We said our goodbyes to him and came back. The road was hell. It was more of road patches in between craters !
Finally we arrived at Diveagar and went to the room and freshened ourselves and went for dinner. Dinner was good and we went to the room and did some time pass before retiring for the day. Sleep was more or less good partly because we were tired of the day driving and partly because of the bad road :)
Next day morning we woke up and went to the Diveagar beach , I can rate this as a better one than Srivardhan (really) and its bigger than Srivardhan. We spent some time photographing and returned back to the room. Had a nice bath and left the place. The total charges for room and dinner for the day was 500bucks, quite ok. We left for Harihareshwar at 10am and on the way stopped near the Suvarna Ganpati Mandir and had nariyal pani and continued on our way to Harihareshwar. The way to Harihareshwar is via Srivardhan but this time we took the other route not the Shekhadi route. The other road was simply fantastic and we had a great time going ahead. Finally we reached the petrol pump on the outskirts of Srivardhan and took the Srivardhan - Lonere road to Harihareshwar. After Lonere Phata the road looks like an expressway upto Harihareshwar , last time when I had gone the road was a mess but now lo it has transformed to a great road. We reached Harihareshwar at 11 am and immediately had an awla soda....you get these sodas there for 10 bucks, cool stuff.
We went to the temple of harihareshwar and came out and went to the rocks by the sea. The sight there is amazing totally and we enjoyed a lot there. The heat was rising and the sun was too shining brightly making us perspire to our limit as we made our way back to the hotel where we wanted to have lunch. Once at the hotel we had our lunch and finally started from Harihareshwar to Pune at 1.15pm
We turned right at the Lonere Phata and went ahead, the road ahead is two lane only until Mhasla and to add to it the ghats are dangerous there. We reached Mhasla in over 45 minutes , 32 odd km from Harihareshwar and from Mhasla the great SH-98 started , with great surface we reached Mangaon at around 3pm and had sugarcane juice and water.
We turned right after Mangaon bus stand towards Nizampur and Pune (the same route which we had taken earlier while coming from Pune). Riding now we were bored partly because of the stifling heat and partly because of boredom :). We started at 3.20pm from Mangaon and were at the ghats by 4.00pm and reached Chandani chowk by 5.30pm , all in all a great trip. We said our goodbyes and went home.
450 km of pure fun and amazing biking. Would love to do Pune-Ganapatipule sometime, lets hope :) .
We (me and Vik) started from Chandani Chowk at 7.45 am and were cruising at 50kmph. Vik wasnt confident so he told me that we wont speed..I too didnt like the idea of speeding at the start of the journey but was a little apprehensive that we might be reaching late..but anyways we were cruising.
The best part is the roads. I was amazed at the quality of the roads on this route , we were to take the Paud -> Mulshi -> Dongarwadi -> Tamhini -> Vile -> Nizampur -> Mangaon route. I am sure going to try this route during monsoon to see how its like.Except for a few stretches on the ghats the roads are very good.I guess they were laid recently but nevertheless they were good.
After an hour or so we reached Mulshi Khurd where we stopped for breakfast, the time read 9am. Had a good breakfast of misal , vada and chai and started again for the destination. The roads ahead were a mix of good and bad , the good ones were really good and the bad ones were not much. I really hope the roads stay this way after the monsoons :) We made a resolution of riding at 50kmph and it was fun crusing at that speed.
Riding on the ghat was fun and the roads were ok. Reached Mangaon at around 10.55am and had a break for water and cooling off. Surprisingly being in Konkan the heat and humidity didnt affect much because of the cloudy weather we couldnt feel the sun hence the heat didnt affect us, infact i was feeling cool.
We reached Mhasla in no time (18 km from Mangaon) via the SH-98 and it was a dream road all through to Mhasla via the Morbi ghat road. Finally we took the right turn from Mhasla for Diveagar (20 km from Mhasla). The road here is also good. We reached Diveagar at 12.30pm and had darshan at the Golden Ganpati temple and called up the people where we had booked for the day as couldnt find their house. Finally , the person himself came to see us and we went with him to his place.
His home was good and we got a room on the 1st floor , the room was spacious and had the necessary things.Cool breeze was blowing out and we were just sitting out and enjoying. Our stomachs started growling for lunch and we booked our lunches at Patils Khanaval nearby. The food there was tasty and good for 100 bucks per plate. We came back to the room and just sat for sometime before leaving for Srivardhan.
There are two roads for Srivardhan from Diveagar one is via Shekhadi (the worst road i have ever seen in my life) and the other is on the route from Mhasla to Diveagar where we need to tak e a right while going from Diveagar to Mhasla at Borli village. This road is simply awesome and good. We ended taking the bad road via Shekhadi though you get some amazing views on that road of the sea and the sea stays with you throughout the journey.
We reached Srivardhan beach in about 45 minutes (srivardhan is 16km from Diveagar) and went directly to the beach and had a nice time playing in water for sometime and photography.
Finally we just sat there for sunset and had an amazing view , btw srivardhan beach is no longer clean with plastic littered to its length and breadth, it sure is becoming polluted from the number 1 status it had, clearly and influx of tourists plus neglection is leading to its decay.
After sunset we started again for Diveagar via the same bad road (we didnt know about the existence of a better road) and continued. At one place a person stopped me and asked for a lift upto shekhadi which I gave willingly , he was some daily wage worker and was returning home on foot because at that time no vehicle / six seaters pass by. He got down at Shekhadi and thanked us profusely even telling us to come back next day to his place and he would give us a free ride in his boat in the sea. We said our goodbyes to him and came back. The road was hell. It was more of road patches in between craters !
Finally we arrived at Diveagar and went to the room and freshened ourselves and went for dinner. Dinner was good and we went to the room and did some time pass before retiring for the day. Sleep was more or less good partly because we were tired of the day driving and partly because of the bad road :)
Next day morning we woke up and went to the Diveagar beach , I can rate this as a better one than Srivardhan (really) and its bigger than Srivardhan. We spent some time photographing and returned back to the room. Had a nice bath and left the place. The total charges for room and dinner for the day was 500bucks, quite ok. We left for Harihareshwar at 10am and on the way stopped near the Suvarna Ganpati Mandir and had nariyal pani and continued on our way to Harihareshwar. The way to Harihareshwar is via Srivardhan but this time we took the other route not the Shekhadi route. The other road was simply fantastic and we had a great time going ahead. Finally we reached the petrol pump on the outskirts of Srivardhan and took the Srivardhan - Lonere road to Harihareshwar. After Lonere Phata the road looks like an expressway upto Harihareshwar , last time when I had gone the road was a mess but now lo it has transformed to a great road. We reached Harihareshwar at 11 am and immediately had an awla soda....you get these sodas there for 10 bucks, cool stuff.
We went to the temple of harihareshwar and came out and went to the rocks by the sea. The sight there is amazing totally and we enjoyed a lot there. The heat was rising and the sun was too shining brightly making us perspire to our limit as we made our way back to the hotel where we wanted to have lunch. Once at the hotel we had our lunch and finally started from Harihareshwar to Pune at 1.15pm
We turned right at the Lonere Phata and went ahead, the road ahead is two lane only until Mhasla and to add to it the ghats are dangerous there. We reached Mhasla in over 45 minutes , 32 odd km from Harihareshwar and from Mhasla the great SH-98 started , with great surface we reached Mangaon at around 3pm and had sugarcane juice and water.
We turned right after Mangaon bus stand towards Nizampur and Pune (the same route which we had taken earlier while coming from Pune). Riding now we were bored partly because of the stifling heat and partly because of boredom :). We started at 3.20pm from Mangaon and were at the ghats by 4.00pm and reached Chandani chowk by 5.30pm , all in all a great trip. We said our goodbyes and went home.
450 km of pure fun and amazing biking. Would love to do Pune-Ganapatipule sometime, lets hope :) .
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