Pud ... ! !
Rem , i told you about hero hiralal...
Here he goes ...
Well..our hero , urf shalu , urf shailendra chabbra is an ulto mast guy from trical or tronics !!...IT BHU.
As by pathak he is a major extrovert .But beleive me he is dangerous .
You want reasons .. just try walking with him on paris streets ....or in the metros ...or under the effiel tower ! !
A 5 ft 4~5 ,he is a potpourri of enthu , chill , frankness, simplicity , and a desire for sexual fun .....in short a packet of dynamite .He is more pale then thin ....wears spects ...and carrys a pack of cigerattes , which he dosent smoke , and condoms .( he has been advised not to roam around in paris without condoms ! !)
If it still havent touched you that hes is dangerous ....i can tell you what he has done to me . When i'm with him…he gives me an urge to dissappear ...to melt ....or rather to evapourate from the scene when he is at work .For Last few days , we have been guiding people in the city .... asking people if they work in sun microsystems ...trying to lite our cigrattes from some other cigreattes in beautiful hands …asking aunties , the location of nite clubs ....bending indian-americans for sex advice .....and uff...what not ! !
His task is to use fully ....the pack of 13 condoms that he carrys….
And the only thing left to try is to go to a girl and ask :
" hey babe ....wanna have sex ! ! "
The only reason I'm moving with him is my fear for such deals ....I want to get rid of that fear ...a social kind of fear.Probably trying to shake the introvertness in me or to improve on my incompatibility with girls .
I dont know whats in store for the weekend ..but i surely dont see the end of shalu & me ! !
Pud...pud ...
Friday, June 28, 2002
Tuesday, June 25, 2002
night out !!
Yaar i have been real busy these days. But i think i should sneak in a few times and update you all...
...so much happening here.
Yesterday i met a american who has an indian dad and a cecilian mother.American.... because if the person in question dosent speak " fuckin' " at least 3 times in a sentance ...he is not american .but he was .Nice fellow though...a student of films .inspired by gandhi ...rest is better not said .
And i met a guy from Himachal ...running a restaurant here ....nice guys…nothing to much about him though.
This Friday ...as i told you …France celebrated the " fete de la musicqu ".The annual music festival welcomming summers in true europian style. I hit the streets after the office hour …only to return after my first nite out on paris streets .
Rest as they say ...was amazing ! !.I was with pathak .And it was here that I met " hero hiralal " .well if you rem the movie you will realise the personality which needs a full diary entry to summarize.His real name though is Shailendra Chhabra...urf ...shalu. ( wait for more ! ! )
We also had another sharma with us.Abhishek is a simple guy quite straight forward and likes to RUN ....bad thing being he likes others to run with him.( you will realise shortly)
I saw the whole city on streets that nite …which was when we were exploring the roads ...stopping accross groups of musicians and enjoying french , spanish and other european forms of lovely music.Every single soul in paris ,who thinks he is ,or can be a musician ( except me) was there with his instrument or vocal cord to do his bit .not for reccognition but for the fun of it .
I also developed an interesting theory which goes on like ...if you r a musician on such a nite ...no girl has the rite to refuse you.Though i saw this theory being put to test many times ...it was scary enough not to try it on myself .
So i went along ..with these guys ...through the streets ...below the bridges …over the bridges …accross thez squares .. and the roundabouts….listening , staring and enjoying the city of music in lights .
In between ...Mr sharma realised that he has a train to catch and has read the timmings incorrectly...leaving him 10 mins to run accross 4 kms on a nite when there wasnt any metro .So he did wat he likes ...he RAN ....and so did we.
Fortunately...we were able to make him safely board the train and be sent home ( toulose )....And came back gasping like dogs.
We ran when we had to ....we stood when we wanted to .....we danced when we had company ....we sat when we got space ....we slept when we were tired .
It was 5 in the morning when it was time to go home ....the time for the first Metros .with the musical memories of paris imbedded in our minds we returned to our beds only to wake up at 3:30 in the evening!!
ciao !!!
keep reading ....
...so much happening here.
Yesterday i met a american who has an indian dad and a cecilian mother.American.... because if the person in question dosent speak " fuckin' " at least 3 times in a sentance ...he is not american .but he was .Nice fellow though...a student of films .inspired by gandhi ...rest is better not said .
And i met a guy from Himachal ...running a restaurant here ....nice guys…nothing to much about him though.
This Friday ...as i told you …France celebrated the " fete de la musicqu ".The annual music festival welcomming summers in true europian style. I hit the streets after the office hour …only to return after my first nite out on paris streets .
Rest as they say ...was amazing ! !.I was with pathak .And it was here that I met " hero hiralal " .well if you rem the movie you will realise the personality which needs a full diary entry to summarize.His real name though is Shailendra Chhabra...urf ...shalu. ( wait for more ! ! )
We also had another sharma with us.Abhishek is a simple guy quite straight forward and likes to RUN ....bad thing being he likes others to run with him.( you will realise shortly)
I saw the whole city on streets that nite …which was when we were exploring the roads ...stopping accross groups of musicians and enjoying french , spanish and other european forms of lovely music.Every single soul in paris ,who thinks he is ,or can be a musician ( except me) was there with his instrument or vocal cord to do his bit .not for reccognition but for the fun of it .
I also developed an interesting theory which goes on like ...if you r a musician on such a nite ...no girl has the rite to refuse you.Though i saw this theory being put to test many times ...it was scary enough not to try it on myself .
So i went along ..with these guys ...through the streets ...below the bridges …over the bridges …accross thez squares .. and the roundabouts….listening , staring and enjoying the city of music in lights .
In between ...Mr sharma realised that he has a train to catch and has read the timmings incorrectly...leaving him 10 mins to run accross 4 kms on a nite when there wasnt any metro .So he did wat he likes ...he RAN ....and so did we.
Fortunately...we were able to make him safely board the train and be sent home ( toulose )....And came back gasping like dogs.
We ran when we had to ....we stood when we wanted to .....we danced when we had company ....we sat when we got space ....we slept when we were tired .
It was 5 in the morning when it was time to go home ....the time for the first Metros .with the musical memories of paris imbedded in our minds we returned to our beds only to wake up at 3:30 in the evening!!
ciao !!!
keep reading ....
Friday, June 21, 2002
21st June ...
guys,
Today is a very interesting day .Its the longest day you can have .
I have got a P ! ! ! at my place now.Ideally it should be used to run VARITY (see footnote).but i hope there will be interesting implications.And it will surely improve my efficiency .
I have come to know that i cant come back home before 22nd july .which is bad .No seats before 22…aaakk ! !.
Today is " fete de la musique " the annual music festival of France when they welcome summer ….rem today is the longest day of the year ! !….start of summers
I was reminded today in a meeting of my class room lectures.and al. I must confess this in my diary that Never in my life i have been able to stand any lecture ,recietals , or orations….including corporate presentations . I sleep through them ! ! . And its painful that you MUST take notes (which i have never done )..otherwise you 'll be sleeping in the next meeting or the discussion at the cofee bars …. " not good for your career ! ! "
Enjoy the you day ! !
FOOTNOTE : VARITY is a million Francs software which is capable of data mining and data mapping .When asked about these terms , The fundu compsc iitians and someother doing internship in same field had no answers except … "you dont define DM & DM …you realize what it is when you work on it .( something like suban said in CS130…. " you dont define OOPS…every (fuckin ) soul in jia sarai knows it …you realise when you work on it " ). Well…for begginers …its grandpa of google and does all sort of searching , crawling on internet given a few parameters , and then give catagorical results .( good for americans and germans ).
Today is a very interesting day .Its the longest day you can have .
I have got a P ! ! ! at my place now.Ideally it should be used to run VARITY (see footnote).but i hope there will be interesting implications.And it will surely improve my efficiency .
I have come to know that i cant come back home before 22nd july .which is bad .No seats before 22…aaakk ! !.
Today is " fete de la musique " the annual music festival of France when they welcome summer ….rem today is the longest day of the year ! !….start of summers
I was reminded today in a meeting of my class room lectures.and al. I must confess this in my diary that Never in my life i have been able to stand any lecture ,recietals , or orations….including corporate presentations . I sleep through them ! ! . And its painful that you MUST take notes (which i have never done )..otherwise you 'll be sleeping in the next meeting or the discussion at the cofee bars …. " not good for your career ! ! "
Enjoy the you day ! !
FOOTNOTE : VARITY is a million Francs software which is capable of data mining and data mapping .When asked about these terms , The fundu compsc iitians and someother doing internship in same field had no answers except … "you dont define DM & DM …you realize what it is when you work on it .( something like suban said in CS130…. " you dont define OOPS…every (fuckin ) soul in jia sarai knows it …you realise when you work on it " ). Well…for begginers …its grandpa of google and does all sort of searching , crawling on internet given a few parameters , and then give catagorical results .( good for americans and germans ).
Tuesday, June 18, 2002
chapel ..
Life is running along. This weekend i went to a chappel for a change .....dont worry i'm not turning saint...it was carrols which we ( me and pathak ) went for .It was nice to hear french singing.and i think i felt exactly what foreigners feel for indian classical music in regular spic macay concerts.
I have finally decided that my first book will not be my autobiography.Rather, it will be more intresting ....its a story about 12 guys, extreme rightist, well placed, and well fed ( in all the senses of the word ). A representative of what ego , ambition , and talent can do when they are left alone to themselves .
Keep mailing guys ...
Ashish
I have finally decided that my first book will not be my autobiography.Rather, it will be more intresting ....its a story about 12 guys, extreme rightist, well placed, and well fed ( in all the senses of the word ). A representative of what ego , ambition , and talent can do when they are left alone to themselves .
Keep mailing guys ...
Ashish
Friday, June 14, 2002
usine de Flins
guys !!
i hadnt come to the office yesterday ...the reason being that all the interns were stacked into a bus and deported to Flins ( near paris )to see a usine ( factory ).
They make clio and the Twingo (yes ..they same one we crashed ) there.
Its a huge plant making 1900 cars a day in two shifts .they claim it to be 98% automatic , run by robots , although i'm neither sure of this definition nor how they quantify this automation (so unable to appreciate this claim ), but i'll say that it was a lovely experienced .
A Clio take 12 hours to be build starting from metal sheets .The sheets are stamped , fabricated , painted , and then assembled over a platform which is being assembeled simutaneuosly .
Renault imports /produce engines in association of peugeot... to meet its recquirements .
It was quite interesting to see 2000 robots working 16 hrs a day each performing a fixed task ( which can be 1 of the n configuarartions feeded into it )..;and the workers who played music while they fitted respective parts in turn .
the whole assembly line is spread in 83 acers of land and make clio (2/4 door left / right hand driven) and twingo(2/4 door left / right hand driven ) , ie 8 types of car .
I was my first visit to any manufacturing plant so cannot compare for standards ..but i believe it was pretty normal compared to european standards i believe in.pretty down to earth ...nothing fundamentally interesting .
see you on monday ...am going to crash in my bed this weekend
i hadnt come to the office yesterday ...the reason being that all the interns were stacked into a bus and deported to Flins ( near paris )to see a usine ( factory ).
They make clio and the Twingo (yes ..they same one we crashed ) there.
Its a huge plant making 1900 cars a day in two shifts .they claim it to be 98% automatic , run by robots , although i'm neither sure of this definition nor how they quantify this automation (so unable to appreciate this claim ), but i'll say that it was a lovely experienced .
A Clio take 12 hours to be build starting from metal sheets .The sheets are stamped , fabricated , painted , and then assembled over a platform which is being assembeled simutaneuosly .
Renault imports /produce engines in association of peugeot... to meet its recquirements .
It was quite interesting to see 2000 robots working 16 hrs a day each performing a fixed task ( which can be 1 of the n configuarartions feeded into it )..;and the workers who played music while they fitted respective parts in turn .
the whole assembly line is spread in 83 acers of land and make clio (2/4 door left / right hand driven) and twingo(2/4 door left / right hand driven ) , ie 8 types of car .
I was my first visit to any manufacturing plant so cannot compare for standards ..but i believe it was pretty normal compared to european standards i believe in.pretty down to earth ...nothing fundamentally interesting .
see you on monday ...am going to crash in my bed this weekend
Wednesday, June 12, 2002
Monopsony...
Guys !!
I dont know if i'm in agreement ….but i think ts time to introduce Ms Starovoitova Maryna to our readers
Maryna is the new intern ( a week old now ) and the latest inclusion ( dated 3rd june 2002) in our team.
She is a Russian…lived in Ukraine … worked in France ….studying in Germany… just returning from New York with her boyfriend You dont have read between lines to find out that she knows Russian,French German and English and speaks all of them fluently.
A 7.5 pointer on a BABS scale [ A- , B , B , C- ] ( to the uninitiated brains …BABS scale invented by cooldudes should remain unintialised )…Ms Maryna has caused a rapid repositioning of the socialising groups present here .Old friends of sandor and chris have started to take meals with us …..and its not difficult to make new friends now . It was a discovery for me to find a lot of people in my socialising group smoke ( yes ! !…she smokes and others try to give her company ). There has been considerable changes in my dear Sandor as well…..he shaves daily now .
And if you better realise …its really a MONOPSONY being played here .
I ….as I have stated before …..am out of any such race .
To make you guys feel better …I must tell you that IITians are not the only frustu souls on planet earths …we have stiff competition from these europeans (sadly ….you have weak representation ..…i'm not game this time )
After building such a background for her …i dont think i can do justice to Ms. Maryna if i try to describe her in words..…except adding that she is working on the same project as I'm and on been given a (excatly) similar task ….she declared that its too much for two months. POOR ME ! !.
(not this time)
I dont know if i'm in agreement ….but i think ts time to introduce Ms Starovoitova Maryna to our readers
Maryna is the new intern ( a week old now ) and the latest inclusion ( dated 3rd june 2002) in our team.
She is a Russian…lived in Ukraine … worked in France ….studying in Germany… just returning from New York with her boyfriend You dont have read between lines to find out that she knows Russian,French German and English and speaks all of them fluently.
A 7.5 pointer on a BABS scale [ A- , B , B , C- ] ( to the uninitiated brains …BABS scale invented by cooldudes should remain unintialised )…Ms Maryna has caused a rapid repositioning of the socialising groups present here .Old friends of sandor and chris have started to take meals with us …..and its not difficult to make new friends now . It was a discovery for me to find a lot of people in my socialising group smoke ( yes ! !…she smokes and others try to give her company ). There has been considerable changes in my dear Sandor as well…..he shaves daily now .
And if you better realise …its really a MONOPSONY being played here .
I ….as I have stated before …..am out of any such race .
To make you guys feel better …I must tell you that IITians are not the only frustu souls on planet earths …we have stiff competition from these europeans (sadly ….you have weak representation ..…i'm not game this time )
After building such a background for her …i dont think i can do justice to Ms. Maryna if i try to describe her in words..…except adding that she is working on the same project as I'm and on been given a (excatly) similar task ….she declared that its too much for two months. POOR ME ! !.
(not this time)
new signature ...
bon !! ( good !! )
i'm pleased to see that you all do care about the signature people put in their mails ....
i'm also pleased to see that u all try hard to read between the lines of my stupid diary confessions .I'll advise not to overstress your brains ..use it to its capacity and ask me for the rest ...i'm here to back sincere efforts !!
...keep reading .I still have to tell you all about Maryna ..she is due for a week now to make a appearance in my diary .It'll need time ...and agreement .
see you soon guys
(again)
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.....if you could read between these lines
i'm pleased to see that you all do care about the signature people put in their mails ....
i'm also pleased to see that u all try hard to read between the lines of my stupid diary confessions .I'll advise not to overstress your brains ..use it to its capacity and ask me for the rest ...i'm here to back sincere efforts !!
...keep reading .I still have to tell you all about Maryna ..she is due for a week now to make a appearance in my diary .It'll need time ...and agreement .
see you soon guys
(again)
______________________________________________________________________
.....if you could read between these lines
THINK ....
THINK !!...
that you can die while you are having the time of your life ...
like a "the end" before a climax...
like the way "lord of the rings, part one " ended ....
when so much still to be done ....
egony still to be felt ...
when there is no need to die ...when no one can die ....
the death can come to you .
just as a comp hangs mid of a movie ....
just as petrol in the bike runs out before an anxiously waited date ....
JUST AS it feels like somebody stole the tangari when you were seduced by its taste....
as if the road ends when you are not even half way
Think !!!.....you cannot think of it Mr.pathak ....its better if you dont think of it .otherwise whos gonna see those movies ...who will drive a bike ....who will set those dates ....who will hire those cars ...who ll come to europe ....who ll have fun in life .
please dont think ....
i'm game ....we ll hire a car in switz ...wat do u say akshay !!!
friends ...its seems that the "incomplete symphony " brought you back to life ..i was happy to get your responses ....and to tell you everything is fine ...we need to relax !!
and guys dont leak this before we come back to india
And cheer up ...log india mein car thokte hein ...humne france mein car thoki hai ..hurray !!!
that you can die while you are having the time of your life ...
like a "the end" before a climax...
like the way "lord of the rings, part one " ended ....
when so much still to be done ....
egony still to be felt ...
when there is no need to die ...when no one can die ....
the death can come to you .
just as a comp hangs mid of a movie ....
just as petrol in the bike runs out before an anxiously waited date ....
JUST AS it feels like somebody stole the tangari when you were seduced by its taste....
as if the road ends when you are not even half way
Think !!!.....you cannot think of it Mr.pathak ....its better if you dont think of it .otherwise whos gonna see those movies ...who will drive a bike ....who will set those dates ....who will hire those cars ...who ll come to europe ....who ll have fun in life .
please dont think ....
i'm game ....we ll hire a car in switz ...wat do u say akshay !!!
friends ...its seems that the "incomplete symphony " brought you back to life ..i was happy to get your responses ....and to tell you everything is fine ...we need to relax !!
and guys dont leak this before we come back to india
And cheer up ...log india mein car thokte hein ...humne france mein car thoki hai ..hurray !!!
Tuesday, June 11, 2002
The Incomplete Symphony !!!
9th june 2002.
The city of marseille was left behind once we found our way out .The road ahead was hilly and Akshay was hesitant to drive .Rahul jumped to the wheel...we had no other option . pathak was navigating ( he is too good for the job )...i sat behind him and akshay besides me. Leaving the city below us and the sea by our side, we moved on... towards heaven (!! its seems to fit here...u ll realise )... towards Cassis.
It had been rainning all nite but the day ahead of us was sunny ...perfect setting for a beautiful climax of trip so beautiful ....so filling ..almost like a symphony (u'll realise my sentiments once you read ahead )
Once out of cassis...we were moving down hill...Rahul..overconfident of his driving skills was moving us at 90 kmph.We asked hm to slow down ...reminded him that we r not setting ne records.....that we can afford to change our plans ...that ....for god sake SLOW DOWN ! !.
He did .
It was ...a peugeot 306 van...10 :27 am 9th june 2002 ...La coita France....a sharp turn and an inevitable mistake.
I saw it coming ...i knew it wd have been a narrow escape ...It was not ! !
It was like being thrown in a time stream ...no destination ..no beginning...but a complete fall....It was dark ...and there was a mystical cloud of dust ....
The first thing i asked myself was weather I'm in heaven or I'm in hell....I had to ....but I saw pathak ...coughing and trying to break out of car. I was sure i cdnt be dead (I and pathak cant be together in heaven or in hell ! !).. logic prevailed ......i saw akshay coughing heavily. I asked myself again...is rahul alive (dead .....was wat i thought ..forgive me for that !!!)....he was not ...air bags had saved his life .. and pathak's.
Twingo is a 2 door car ...we all moved out finally . I stood there gasping for life ... I saw a cycle stopping ...a mobile ... a call for help....a man ...his wife .. a child crying in her arms ....a kid besides her ... and flashes
Flashes of Facts ..realities ..consequences in front of me ...not in my eyes ...rite infront of me !!. I saw a broken car .. damaged beyond repair ...my worthless credit card ... our return train in nite for paris to be caught from grenoble... akshay'face (he was to be the official driver...rahul was underaged..and akshay's licences at car rental)... police sirens ...interrogation...a crate of beer in the car ...our refusing to know any french ...pathak's contact in the embassy .....insurance of the car ....my broken glasses ...The symphony (our trip )...a trip that could never be (completed)....a weekend that it was .....a week that it had been ....the game we had played... the game ....not a draw but a tie .
The police was cooperative and we were left at the station to find our way back. We realised that nobody had dire physical injuries... but a lot of psycological (and financial) trauma .
It took us three trains and five hours to reach Grenoble ..only to find the car rental office closed. We were left... shocked... with cancelled tickets and aching bodies... to discover consequences. Pathak returned to paris... I and akshay stayed to complete the formalities .
We were back in paris by 3 pm on Monday . I had to miss my office and an important meeting. I m just glad we didnt miss anybody...we are all back in one piece .
This is how it ends... or should i say forced to stop ...plans that worked out (we didnt return the car after all)...plans that didnt.....the Incomplete Symphony ...... " dil chata hai " with an anti climax ...the week that should have been......the weekend that it was...the week i ll never forget ! !
Ashish
The city of marseille was left behind once we found our way out .The road ahead was hilly and Akshay was hesitant to drive .Rahul jumped to the wheel...we had no other option . pathak was navigating ( he is too good for the job )...i sat behind him and akshay besides me. Leaving the city below us and the sea by our side, we moved on... towards heaven (!! its seems to fit here...u ll realise )... towards Cassis.
It had been rainning all nite but the day ahead of us was sunny ...perfect setting for a beautiful climax of trip so beautiful ....so filling ..almost like a symphony (u'll realise my sentiments once you read ahead )
Once out of cassis...we were moving down hill...Rahul..overconfident of his driving skills was moving us at 90 kmph.We asked hm to slow down ...reminded him that we r not setting ne records.....that we can afford to change our plans ...that ....for god sake SLOW DOWN ! !.
He did .
It was ...a peugeot 306 van...10 :27 am 9th june 2002 ...La coita France....a sharp turn and an inevitable mistake.
I saw it coming ...i knew it wd have been a narrow escape ...It was not ! !
It was like being thrown in a time stream ...no destination ..no beginning...but a complete fall....It was dark ...and there was a mystical cloud of dust ....
The first thing i asked myself was weather I'm in heaven or I'm in hell....I had to ....but I saw pathak ...coughing and trying to break out of car. I was sure i cdnt be dead (I and pathak cant be together in heaven or in hell ! !).. logic prevailed ......i saw akshay coughing heavily. I asked myself again...is rahul alive (dead .....was wat i thought ..forgive me for that !!!)....he was not ...air bags had saved his life .. and pathak's.
Twingo is a 2 door car ...we all moved out finally . I stood there gasping for life ... I saw a cycle stopping ...a mobile ... a call for help....a man ...his wife .. a child crying in her arms ....a kid besides her ... and flashes
Flashes of Facts ..realities ..consequences in front of me ...not in my eyes ...rite infront of me !!. I saw a broken car .. damaged beyond repair ...my worthless credit card ... our return train in nite for paris to be caught from grenoble... akshay'face (he was to be the official driver...rahul was underaged..and akshay's licences at car rental)... police sirens ...interrogation...a crate of beer in the car ...our refusing to know any french ...pathak's contact in the embassy .....insurance of the car ....my broken glasses ...The symphony (our trip )...a trip that could never be (completed)....a weekend that it was .....a week that it had been ....the game we had played... the game ....not a draw but a tie .
The police was cooperative and we were left at the station to find our way back. We realised that nobody had dire physical injuries... but a lot of psycological (and financial) trauma .
It took us three trains and five hours to reach Grenoble ..only to find the car rental office closed. We were left... shocked... with cancelled tickets and aching bodies... to discover consequences. Pathak returned to paris... I and akshay stayed to complete the formalities .
We were back in paris by 3 pm on Monday . I had to miss my office and an important meeting. I m just glad we didnt miss anybody...we are all back in one piece .
This is how it ends... or should i say forced to stop ...plans that worked out (we didnt return the car after all)...plans that didnt.....the Incomplete Symphony ...... " dil chata hai " with an anti climax ...the week that should have been......the weekend that it was...the week i ll never forget ! !
Ashish
I'm game ...
Dear diary ! !
It all started a week ago ( last weekend )when monsieur pathak said this .... we were planning a trip to south of France...the occasion ...akshay was coming .
This was the week when i refused to work ...the week commencing my second month in paris ....the week when i did endless hours of planning ...the week which should have been perfect ...the week when most of the things went wrong . ...the week with THE weekend.....the week ...which i lll never forget ! !
As always ....i was the forerunner in making plans . plans which look good on paper .....plans which look like a hollywood movie.But never in my dream did i thought that we ll do wat we did (planned).
It took us 3 full working days ...approximately 50 mails( at one time 15 mails in an hour )...1 hour talk time on mobs ...2 sms and wat not ! !.....to jot our plan ...ammend it ..reammend it and to finalise ( and u people ask me where i was last week ! ! ) .We did plan to go to south of France ..to grenoble .. to hire a car ! !....and to have a remake of dil chahta hai ! ! .
For your knowledge ..there are three people in india who know every nonsense of hiring a car .....And when they did ...they hired a car on a credit card ( valid only in india .. expired may 2002 ..( ofcourse mine )..and a debit card ( which had Rs.27 in balance .... ofcourse mine ! ! ) and 200 euros cash ! !.yes it was a car for 200 euros cash. We did planned not to return it ..and as i said ....we did what we planned !!!
We cdnt voilate copyrite of Mr akhtar ( dil chahta hai fame )...so we included rahul kapoor .3rd yr chem IIT D Shivalik ! !..who has driven to Nice last week .This was the first time when i compromised on somebody in our company ...the reason being that we needed an extra driver and a guide ...which he proved to be beyond our expectations .When we boarded our car ( obviuosly a RENAULT....twingo ! !)...we were five hours behind our schedule and had no intensions to alter our plans .
we wanted to mark on our route ... Grenoble- Valence- Montelimar- Avignon- salon- Marseille- Aix.en.provence- Cassis- Toulon- Nice- Cannes...and every other things which wd come our way .....WE DID ! !
We were intelligent enough to stack our car with 54 euros worth of eatables and drinkable ( those who realise will see that its half a months food cost for a person)..for four people for two days.And we had planned sufficiently to keep 3 guide books for the region ...all kinda road maps ...addresses of youth hostels in every city on our route ...city maps of all the cities and ..We had Bryan adams to accompany us and occasionally Shakira ...The rest was europe at its best .......
It was drizzling and it was raining .. we didnt mind ....we were too satisfied with our investments and the pay off. ! !(Dont expect to tell me how beautiful every thing in every city we passed was ...i dont have words ! !... ask akshay rather )
When we reached Marseillie it was 10 and it was raining heavily ..we had a hard time finding the youth hostel and when we finally did ...i had no intension to miss a nap in the car ( i and pathak thus slept in car ....akshay and rahul had beds in YH).
Next day i was made to sit up in traditional ara style ..u know wat ! !...Rubbing my eyes ..i hardly had an idea if wat is to come ...
I dont intend to write mails as big as this ....but we did everything we planned to, and what we didn't ....i think you should wait for the rest ...
So long .......keep reading between the lines .
Ashish
( this is the firt of my diary mail s reaching pathak ...id like his comments and advise on writing the second part !! )
It all started a week ago ( last weekend )when monsieur pathak said this .... we were planning a trip to south of France...the occasion ...akshay was coming .
This was the week when i refused to work ...the week commencing my second month in paris ....the week when i did endless hours of planning ...the week which should have been perfect ...the week when most of the things went wrong . ...the week with THE weekend.....the week ...which i lll never forget ! !
As always ....i was the forerunner in making plans . plans which look good on paper .....plans which look like a hollywood movie.But never in my dream did i thought that we ll do wat we did (planned).
It took us 3 full working days ...approximately 50 mails( at one time 15 mails in an hour )...1 hour talk time on mobs ...2 sms and wat not ! !.....to jot our plan ...ammend it ..reammend it and to finalise ( and u people ask me where i was last week ! ! ) .We did plan to go to south of France ..to grenoble .. to hire a car ! !....and to have a remake of dil chahta hai ! ! .
For your knowledge ..there are three people in india who know every nonsense of hiring a car .....And when they did ...they hired a car on a credit card ( valid only in india .. expired may 2002 ..( ofcourse mine )..and a debit card ( which had Rs.27 in balance .... ofcourse mine ! ! ) and 200 euros cash ! !.yes it was a car for 200 euros cash. We did planned not to return it ..and as i said ....we did what we planned !!!
We cdnt voilate copyrite of Mr akhtar ( dil chahta hai fame )...so we included rahul kapoor .3rd yr chem IIT D Shivalik ! !..who has driven to Nice last week .This was the first time when i compromised on somebody in our company ...the reason being that we needed an extra driver and a guide ...which he proved to be beyond our expectations .When we boarded our car ( obviuosly a RENAULT....twingo ! !)...we were five hours behind our schedule and had no intensions to alter our plans .
we wanted to mark on our route ... Grenoble- Valence- Montelimar- Avignon- salon- Marseille- Aix.en.provence- Cassis- Toulon- Nice- Cannes...and every other things which wd come our way .....WE DID ! !
We were intelligent enough to stack our car with 54 euros worth of eatables and drinkable ( those who realise will see that its half a months food cost for a person)..for four people for two days.And we had planned sufficiently to keep 3 guide books for the region ...all kinda road maps ...addresses of youth hostels in every city on our route ...city maps of all the cities and ..We had Bryan adams to accompany us and occasionally Shakira ...The rest was europe at its best .......
It was drizzling and it was raining .. we didnt mind ....we were too satisfied with our investments and the pay off. ! !(Dont expect to tell me how beautiful every thing in every city we passed was ...i dont have words ! !... ask akshay rather )
When we reached Marseillie it was 10 and it was raining heavily ..we had a hard time finding the youth hostel and when we finally did ...i had no intension to miss a nap in the car ( i and pathak thus slept in car ....akshay and rahul had beds in YH).
Next day i was made to sit up in traditional ara style ..u know wat ! !...Rubbing my eyes ..i hardly had an idea if wat is to come ...
I dont intend to write mails as big as this ....but we did everything we planned to, and what we didn't ....i think you should wait for the rest ...
So long .......keep reading between the lines .
Ashish
( this is the firt of my diary mail s reaching pathak ...id like his comments and advise on writing the second part !! )
Thursday, June 06, 2002
dear diary !!
voila !( there you are !! )
it might be news for you that i have survived a month in this company now ....gives me a lot of satisfaction. and As if to commensurate the occasion ...i havent worked this whole week...and plan to have a long weekend.
i have come to the office daily ..sat on my seat and thought ....I have completed the fountainhead and it has done me like a strong vodka ....
and axay had been over my head all the week with his badh badh as well....hes coming tommorow and we have big plans ...plans ....lets see.
I read my diary mails today ....
i noticed a lot of typing,grammatical and stupid errors ...(i hope you didnt)...but it gave me a lot of satisfaction .my initial days ...5 day weekend ..;trip to barcelona ...small games ..parties ..friends ...thoughts ....
and yes ...i cd read between the lines ,so i laughed ( giggled shd be thr rite word!!)...
well...a lot needs to be done still ...a lot more remains ( like my project !!).I ll wait for sardar ...the swiss trip ...and try to fix in rome somewhere...i hope i do !!
and then i remember ..i havent repeated a lunch ( 25 dishes in 25 days !!!...cdnt rem all of them ..had italian lasagnya yest and a oeufs chГ teline today )...i wish to continue on same track
Yes...you must have missed the details of last weekend ...i missed telling you ...it shd follow in some time probably on mon ...
it might be news for you that i have survived a month in this company now ....gives me a lot of satisfaction. and As if to commensurate the occasion ...i havent worked this whole week...and plan to have a long weekend.
i have come to the office daily ..sat on my seat and thought ....I have completed the fountainhead and it has done me like a strong vodka ....
and axay had been over my head all the week with his badh badh as well....hes coming tommorow and we have big plans ...plans ....lets see.
I read my diary mails today ....
i noticed a lot of typing,grammatical and stupid errors ...(i hope you didnt)...but it gave me a lot of satisfaction .my initial days ...5 day weekend ..;trip to barcelona ...small games ..parties ..friends ...thoughts ....
and yes ...i cd read between the lines ,so i laughed ( giggled shd be thr rite word!!)...
well...a lot needs to be done still ...a lot more remains ( like my project !!).I ll wait for sardar ...the swiss trip ...and try to fix in rome somewhere...i hope i do !!
and then i remember ..i havent repeated a lunch ( 25 dishes in 25 days !!!...cdnt rem all of them ..had italian lasagnya yest and a oeufs chГ teline today )...i wish to continue on same track
Yes...you must have missed the details of last weekend ...i missed telling you ...it shd follow in some time probably on mon ...
Tuesday, June 04, 2002
its ...all so wonderful
hi guys ..
i have been quite for a while coz i dont want to let you people seduced by my writings ....
and ofcourse ..;as the days go by , french people have stopped amusing me in the small things they do...in their bieng crazy about STAR WARS or they going nuts over those beautiful NISSAN 4*4 cars on display here . I have dicided to take things lightly ...slowly and casually ..as the french do ..when i go back ,i ll have to proved that i was not just a tourist here ...i was living in paris ..as they do ...
though it might amuse us all y every 40 yr old in here is crazy about star war ..but we never will understand how they lived a childhood dream to be one like those in starwars....we never had any childhood heros coz we didnt had many options ( except sri ram and 007 Mr krishna ..;who r too big to be personified even in dreams )
i have started to despise such things ....
but not the NISSAN cars .these machines are amazing ...it gives u better feeling than sitting in a merc ( i have tried )...the feeling of power ...here ..at your diposal ...to be maneuvered.There was a display of these cars in the lobby of TC ...17 cars were booked in the fist week.
at times ....wat i think of is my bike ...not coz i m less mobile then i was but coz i see these parisians make me envy with ther 1200cc 10000 euros jets ( calling them bike will mean i have a bicycle which runs on petrol). you dont nees to see these DUCCATI & YAMAHA & HONDA showrooms to fall in love with them ..u can if u see the worst of them ( single ) in autoexpo.
and yes ...i went to the louvre on sunday 2nd june 2002 !!
i have been quite for a while coz i dont want to let you people seduced by my writings ....
and ofcourse ..;as the days go by , french people have stopped amusing me in the small things they do...in their bieng crazy about STAR WARS or they going nuts over those beautiful NISSAN 4*4 cars on display here . I have dicided to take things lightly ...slowly and casually ..as the french do ..when i go back ,i ll have to proved that i was not just a tourist here ...i was living in paris ..as they do ...
though it might amuse us all y every 40 yr old in here is crazy about star war ..but we never will understand how they lived a childhood dream to be one like those in starwars....we never had any childhood heros coz we didnt had many options ( except sri ram and 007 Mr krishna ..;who r too big to be personified even in dreams )
i have started to despise such things ....
but not the NISSAN cars .these machines are amazing ...it gives u better feeling than sitting in a merc ( i have tried )...the feeling of power ...here ..at your diposal ...to be maneuvered.There was a display of these cars in the lobby of TC ...17 cars were booked in the fist week.
at times ....wat i think of is my bike ...not coz i m less mobile then i was but coz i see these parisians make me envy with ther 1200cc 10000 euros jets ( calling them bike will mean i have a bicycle which runs on petrol). you dont nees to see these DUCCATI & YAMAHA & HONDA showrooms to fall in love with them ..u can if u see the worst of them ( single ) in autoexpo.
and yes ...i went to the louvre on sunday 2nd june 2002 !!
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