The thing I love and hate about our lifestyle in Bharat is the total disregard for time.
Take for example, my current road trip .
Well as it goes, it was supposed to start yesterday, that is saturday early morning, but thanks to the changing weather, some colds, unavailable and delayed spares, a typical lack of organizational trait and also, a troublesome engine which coughs up a complaint at its whim(road worthy or raid worthy:P), and other inexplicable reasons, we stand delayed by a day and a half.
To put things into better perspective, I am typing this on sunday at 1:30PM and I am still home :D.
This is turning into a road trip which I made without knowing the route I was taking, how long would it take, how much fuel would we burn, and when would we hit home turf: Simla/Chandigarh.
Will we cover the distance in two and a half day, three days, three and a half days... well my guess is as good as anyone else's.
Personally, being the navigator in the team, I should take it a little more personally since i m supposed to be the brains behind this maths, but this is different.
And then again, the silver lining here is that this is the most unplanned and uncertain I have ever felt, and I m enjoying every moment of this insane feeling of losing control.
Maybe all trips should begin once you hit the road!
P.S. "Grow Up Aman! !"
Evil Grin
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Thursday, September 21, 2006
D Day
Well the preparations are in full swing and I am getting ready for the road trip of my life,
in the Next two weeks I'm planning to travel 6000 kilometers across India, 4000 out of those would be by road and the rest by air.
reality check: Earths circumference is 40000 kilometers. its definitely the craziest thing I have ever attempted to do.
For the readers of this blog here is a summary of the itenerary:(It's still sketchy)
Sep 23
Hyderabad Shimla road trip
Sep 28 Scrutiny begins
Sep 30 Raid Begins
Oct 7 Raid Ends
Oct 9 Hopefully back to work and normal life
Distance 2000kms(Depending on the highways taken about 2000)
Estimated time: 3 days(Again, I cant really say)
Here's a map that sheds some light on the highways in India, a long ignored topic.
I would love to take the road west(we always wanna take the highway westwards innit) to End day one in Daman And Diu.
Day two would Destination Udaipur and Day three Destination Chandigarh/Shimla.
However to reflect the sanity in us and to make good time, and under the pressure from some "friendly advice", we might(and the probability of this happening is more) make a saner trip down the middle of India to reach Delhi.(See map)
This would still be a crazy trip, nonetheless.
Will keep the story of my survival through the centre of India as a topic for my next post.
Please excuse the lack of exciting language in the post. Its been written in a hurry and does not reflect the emotions in their true form, or so I would say.
in the Next two weeks I'm planning to travel 6000 kilometers across India, 4000 out of those would be by road and the rest by air.
reality check: Earths circumference is 40000 kilometers. its definitely the craziest thing I have ever attempted to do.
For the readers of this blog here is a summary of the itenerary:(It's still sketchy)
Sep 23
Hyderabad Shimla road trip
Sep 28 Scrutiny begins
Sep 30 Raid Begins
Oct 7 Raid Ends
Oct 9 Hopefully back to work and normal life
Distance 2000kms(Depending on the highways taken about 2000)
Estimated time: 3 days(Again, I cant really say)
Here's a map that sheds some light on the highways in India, a long ignored topic.
I would love to take the road west(we always wanna take the highway westwards innit) to End day one in Daman And Diu.
Day two would Destination Udaipur and Day three Destination Chandigarh/Shimla.
However to reflect the sanity in us and to make good time, and under the pressure from some "friendly advice", we might(and the probability of this happening is more) make a saner trip down the middle of India to reach Delhi.(See map)
This would still be a crazy trip, nonetheless.
Will keep the story of my survival through the centre of India as a topic for my next post.
Please excuse the lack of exciting language in the post. Its been written in a hurry and does not reflect the emotions in their true form, or so I would say.
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Friday, September 01, 2006
Wake Up Sleepy Head
Things to do to keep from getting bored
Read subjects you are least close to: cognitive psychology, javascript,
Genres of Photography: (my favorite: lomography)
Aesthetics ergonomics
Common Rail Diesels
Play a sport
Watch constructive tv
Go for a jog
Exercise-hit the gym
Swim
Learn a language
Larn to play the guitar
Walk
Learn to Empathize
Learn to be charming
Participate in raid de himalaya
Dun have the dough try mtb himachal(tour de himachal)
Own a bullet, you can try and participate in the royal enfield trip to leh, and hopefully get featured on ndtv as well
Wanna be good at stocks, play moneybhai, real stocks with fake mone
CrossWords
Su Do ku
Martial arts classes, tai chi, taibo
Hit the kitchen, try a new cuisine: heard about googling leftovers in the fridge for a new recipe?
Learn to red 12 digit bar codes and ISBN nos
Lucid dreams
Astral projections
Out Of Body experiences
Altered state of consciousness
Order your synklini
ESP
Travel with a partner, you will know urself better, so will your partner. Also, your tolerance will surely increase
Take a hike, I mean a hike across a track
Learn to DJ if you think you have a sense of music
Prepare for CAT
Take your GRE/GMAT
Prepare and take the Mensa Test
Really Bored: how about the IAS
Really really bored: keep reading this blog :P
I am kidding about the last one, Anyways I am open to suggestions on how readers spend their time?
Disclaimer:(This is in no way a complete list, and is not an endorsement fo what i may do , plan to do or may be doing)
Read subjects you are least close to: cognitive psychology, javascript,
Genres of Photography: (my favorite: lomography)
Aesthetics ergonomics
Common Rail Diesels
Play a sport
Watch constructive tv
Go for a jog
Exercise-hit the gym
Swim
Learn a language
Larn to play the guitar
Walk
Learn to Empathize
Learn to be charming
Participate in raid de himalaya
Dun have the dough try mtb himachal(tour de himachal)
Own a bullet, you can try and participate in the royal enfield trip to leh, and hopefully get featured on ndtv as well
Wanna be good at stocks, play moneybhai, real stocks with fake mone
CrossWords
Su Do ku
Martial arts classes, tai chi, taibo
Hit the kitchen, try a new cuisine: heard about googling leftovers in the fridge for a new recipe?
Learn to red 12 digit bar codes and ISBN nos
Lucid dreams
Astral projections
Out Of Body experiences
Altered state of consciousness
Order your synklini
ESP
Travel with a partner, you will know urself better, so will your partner. Also, your tolerance will surely increase
Take a hike, I mean a hike across a track
Learn to DJ if you think you have a sense of music
Prepare for CAT
Take your GRE/GMAT
Prepare and take the Mensa Test
Really Bored: how about the IAS
Really really bored: keep reading this blog :P
I am kidding about the last one, Anyways I am open to suggestions on how readers spend their time?
Disclaimer:(This is in no way a complete list, and is not an endorsement fo what i may do , plan to do or may be doing)
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