I came across this video while surfing around You Tube. This guy is hilarious and this Act I found is the best ever.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Check out this Video.... Worth a watch
Friday, December 12, 2008
Trip to Mahabaleshwar
After I was successfully married, my spouse and I decided to take time off work and other responsibilities and go for a trip. The place finalized was Mahabaleshwar. So we packed our backpacks and headed for our dream tour for 3 long days. It was winter season and we had notions that it would be cold over there. So, our Backpacks contained mostly of woollen clothes. But to our dismay the cold hadn’t settled in yet. The average Climate in winter season goes down to 8 to 9 deg normally. Though at that time the temperature was between 16 to 18 deg during evening and a little less after the sun had set. But during afternoon the temperature raised up to 24 deg. We had pre-booked a Resort named Ramsukh for our fine stay. It’s the best resort cum hotel in the entire Mahabalehswar, Located in old Mahabaleshwar some 9 k.m. from the main Market. It can so far be termed as the best Resort in entire Mahabaleshwar coz of the Ambience, View and the helpful & generous staff. Also the food here was excellent. The Main facilities provided by the management were Activities from 3p.m movie to 5p.m games to 7p.m Housie to 8p.m activity to 9:30 p.m disco. The view from the hotel was Breathtaking. Check out the image below, this one was taken from my room’s lone window.
If one tilts a little to their right side, one would see the following view from the same window:
The main Part in the entire Jai Jai Ramsukh was the Jungle Trek, provided complementary by the Hotel. This Activity, conducted at 7:30 am, is one of the finest experiences one can have while visiting Mahabaleshwar. And if you think I am exaggerating, then you will find yourself proven wrong after reading even further or at the max it will only take you to believe it is visit the place in person. And it’s worth every penny you spend of your hard earned money.
In the peak of the morning dew at 7:30 a.m. we, me and My Spouse started off for our journey through the midst of the tree clad muddy path with a guide cum entertainer named Mr. Dominique. He was a real cool dude, who made us sweat at a temperature of 12 deg. He was also in charge of the Housie and Activity games conducted at the hotel’s pool side. It was a well decided path that took us an hour for the entire tour Half hour both ways. The following pic depicts what exactly I am trying to say:
And that is Dominique. He was well versed with the entire path, as though it was his second home. If we would had gone on our own we would get really lost in the woods that was for sure. He guided us thru the beauty of this wonderful Almighty’s creation and made our journey worthwhile. Due to the Dew, the smell of freshness was ruling the atmosphere and the sweet smell of mud was tinkling our senses. With every high rise in salary, you all get the benefit of high tax deductions and same was the case with us. Due to the moisture on the rocks, our shoes slipped every now and then and we fell numerous times, but thank to Mother Nature for providing us with trees to save our fall by clinging on to them. Here is another Pic of the scenic beauty that we were swearing too:
Just going around trees and jumping some rocks on our path, we suddenly came to an open ground. This reminded me of one of my favourite TV series LOST. It was like when we were running around trees, between them, under them and sometimes over them and then suddenly reach to a pleatue covered with high grass and no trees, Plain land all around us. This was the best scenario with us. This was even more breathtaking.
Dominique then pointed to the Cliff (from right), far behind in the above pic. He said that it’s our target and we have to achieve it. By this time we were almost exhausted and decided to take a bit of rest. We were as excited as a 5 year old opening his Birthday present, hoping to find great surprise in it. Soon we started for our quest to seek the well set goal, finely visible to each neuron of our pupil. We were enjoying the entire scene so deeply that we found our self noticing each and every detail of the perfect lush green surrounding. At some point in time, we found our self approaching a near dry stream of water, emerging from the top of the mountain. This was the hot spot for rest and some photography:
Not much clear though but a really scenic beauty to watch for bare eyes. Now he tipped us that we are very near to our destination and within no time we were all numb to see what was in front of us. It was not something that can be missed in a lifetime. Something like this should be accessible to all eyes. Take a look for yourself.
I would have jumped from this cliff, if I knew paragliding or even If I would have had a Parachute to support my big leap. But to my dismay, it was time for us to return to our normal world. Heartbroken we began to walk back, but then suddenly Dominique decided to do something more interesting. The above pic was taken standing above the edge of the cliff from where the stream passes and turns in to a waterfall hereafter. So he told us that we are moving upstream, climbing the path of the “to be” river. Since monsoon was over, the stream was all dried up, but the moisture of the morning dew was settled completely on the rocks, that were laid on the entire way, which would make our trek more slippery. But it was worth a Shot and so we went for it. Here is the glimpse of it:
We reached the same spot where we had earlier rested, some while ago, following up the rocks. This particular act made us staggering for more, but now we made our self prepared to call it End-of-the-day. So with this final task also was completed the adventure and now anything remained was to wish goodbye to the whistling winds of the plateau region and keep for our self the wonderful memories that we had gained through the trip. We slowly walked our way back to the hotel room wondering whether to have a hot shower or to go back to sleep. On our way back we were astonished to see foot prints of wild boar, a creature from the local wild life. The final verdict would be to rate it 10 on 10 not just for this wonderful Forest Trek, but for the entire Resort. It is surely the most pleasant trip to Mahabaleshwar I’ve ever had.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Editor Mumbai (Times of India) to the Prime Minister
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
The Interval
With the sudden illumination, the area became a bit noisy. I looked at my right and left and both of my friends looked as puzzled as I was. The Theatre was packed with occupied chairs and I was wondering as if all of the people present were engaged by their thoughts or were really enjoying the movie, coz I heard someone saying “What was that?” from the crowd pointing to the glamorous screen. I had lost almost 4 pounds for watching the movie; from my bank account that is and was still worrying “why did I choose to watch this movie?” But now was the best time of the whole evening with friends stuff, yes the Interval. I was aware that whatever I eat here is going to spoil my appetite for the later dinner and also it’s going to add some extra pounds to my weight, but I was helpless. After watching such a movie and that too only partially completed, I was sure I can have some enjoyment. One of my friends began to rise from the seat, I quickly game him a hundred bucks dictating him my order and made him repeat it so that he won’t mess it up. There I was sitting in an almost empty theater, with loud music banging my head and still the noise from the chit chatting was killing its existence. I was still disturbed by the scenes I saw prior to the Interval, so I moved on to discuss it with my other friend. When I looked at him, he gave me a weird look, as if I had kidnapped him and had bought him here which he felt was like a mass torture room. I could have kept quiet and let the time pass but all I had to do was to say “Wassup!!!” It was then he began to pounce at me with all sorts of bad words and scraps he had learnt all these years. It took me 7 min to calm him down and make him understand that I was as irritated as he was, and offered him some Coke that had arrived to my seat, all credits to my friend. As I was about to enjoy my soft meal, I heard a loud scream from behind. We all turned back to find a girl who had her hands covering her mouth with eyes almost closed and looking directly to something on the ground. I felt something must be really wrong as crowd began to gather around her. We Musketeers also decided to have a look at what misery might had happened. Even I was surprised to see what had taken place. In a couple of minutes two men from the cleanliness department arrived with brooms and cardboard planks at the scene and picked up the mouse which the girl might have killed with her high heeled shoes, poking her heels directly into the mouse’s bottom. The poor rat wouldn’t even have a chance to defend itself. That incident shook up the whole theatre and we were all asked to move outside the hall, so that they can search and clean up the whole place so that such incidents don’t happen in the rest of the movie. It is now that the reputation of the multiplex is jeopardized and the manager realized it too soon to avoid any big tragedy to take place. Before we could think anything else we were all approached by the manager and he ordered his crew to handover a supplement to everyone in the while of his managerial speech. In the final part of his ‘we are this and that speech’, I realized he had bribed us all to keep our mouth shut and never talk of this shit by giving us free tickets for any show anytime and any movie of our choice valid up to the next 3 months. I really enjoyed the entire atmosphere that was aroused and I got extra time of my favorite part of movie. I somehow figured out the reason that there are intervals in the movie for two important reasons – 1) To earn extra income for the theatre by selling over priced snacks and 2) So that the masses can get over their bitterness for the first part of the movie and can be prepared for the remaining part to be screened. As all this was over we entered the theatre to see the rest of the movie. It was then the end of the Intermission.