Lohagad Trek, Bike Trip. (Lohagarh)

    
Harsh came back from UK. He wanted to go out for a trek and for biking. So we decided, we will go to Lohagad, on a Sunday (25th Oct 2009). Friends had come down to our place on Saturday, so I decided, I will not sleep that night as we had to leave early in the morning. We started at around 0600hrs from Dadar station. We were going at about 70 km/hr. It was very cold and as usual we were not prepared. But we kept going. (Hit me..!) We reached the Lohagad in 3 hours. We could not go all the way up to Lohagad Village on bike, as the road was not very nice. Then we walked a bit to reach the village. Nice Nimbu Sharbat was enough for us to get refreshed and we went ahead. Climbed the fort, wandered all over the fort, clicked a few snaps and took a small (very peaceful, much needed) nap for an hour or so near the Shiv Temple. While I was sleeping, Harsh was busy catching fish with the help of a small net, that he was carrying. He successfully caught about 6-7 fishes. We then left the fort. Came down to the village. Harsh got the bike up to the village with lot of difficulty, while I was waiting at one of the tea stalls. :) Then we immediately left. On our way back we were pretty tired, so did not want to hurry. So coming back took us approx 4 hours. And it was bad. Thanks to Harsh, he had put a hard plastic cover on his bike seat. It was really hard. Imagine sitting on that hard plastic cover for four hours. :(

Kolkata short trip, December 2007

     I visited kolkata in December 2007 on my way back, when I had gone for the YHAI trek to Sandakphu, West Bengal (Darjeeling). In Kolkata, I  stayed at Mr. Partha's place, whom I first met on the same YHAI trek. I visited Belur Math, Dakshineshwar Temple, Howrah Bridge, Victoria Memorial hall, Science city etc. I did not get to interact with many localities, though. I had delicious Bengali fish preparations by Mrs. Partha (I call her Jyotiji). That was the best part of my Kolkata stay. :-) Great company and visit to nice places made my trip memorable.

     While roaming in  Kolkata, during my one and a half days stay, I clicked few snaps and took short videos. Later, I compiled a short video about places I visited in Kolkata and added a nice soundtrack in the background. Here is the video.

Facebook fun.. ?

     This is a very good example of how four people sitting in a room, given an unusual medium of communication, go to a peak of their creativity, to bring crap out of them.

     We were sitting chatting, were supposed to be studying btw.  So Raju thought of putting one of his creative quotes on facebook and ... it all started. Then we went on commenting on it. We started thinking too much, to put some weird comments. Subject of the discussion was lost in the initial 4-5 comments itself. And it kept changing at an average of 3 comments/subject and with no good pattern it kept repeating. We went crazy. Started doubting, if we really are crazy, since then. Quasi, Nipra and Raju were putting highly creative, geeky comments. I kept rotating the subject of the conversation and kept fuelling. It was fun. We expected no one will have the patience to go through all of it, but I was wrong, at least couple of guys did that and they liked it, amazing :-p. It was a shear waste of time, but we enjoyed it.

     Thanks to Quasi for all the hard work, in taking the screen shot of the conversation.
     Ohh yes, if at all you are going through the comments, please don't think that we have disrespected anyone here. Its is just a coincidence, if you find similar persons or situations in real life.