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Castaway : Manori beach

This sunday I accompanied my office friends to this beautiful paradise called manori beach. For all my readers in Mumbai, this post can be quite useful.
So heres how it began. We have been doing 6 day weeks from like ages... Pallavi got this brainwave of arranging this outing. The problem with our office is tht we have absolutely no holidays whatsoever!! There are like 8 holidaysin an year, I suck at remembering dates, but these ones I do, there r only 8 to rem!!

We were looking at an outing which wouldnt take more than 1 day coz thts all we got.. Prajakta, the explorer tht she is, put in this idea about Manori.

After a few postponements, the day was finally decided.. This is how it goes - Mulund->Thane->Borivili->Gorai->Manori

We[Sharang, Shruti, Pallavi,Amit,Sachina and above all(heh heh)me!!] took an Asiad(I have no idea why it is called tht). For those who came late, Asiad is ST's so called luxury bus. Its better than ST which I believe has no shock absorbers. They have shock transferers, every lump on the road is felt by your spinal chord.. Your spinal chord cries like its been subjected to a lot of Himesh Reshamiyas songs..

So after 45 mins we reached Borivili(E). The organiser of this whole outing thingy, Prajakta, was to meet us at Borivili(W) in about 10 mins.

But as it goes with girls, these 10mins took about 30mins! Akshay aka aks aka sukhi was to meet us here with Prajakta.Now Aks crept up from sumwhere wearing nothing but his attitude(and clothes ofcourse). I mean he looked as cool as Saif in Tashan with those sunglasses and tht goatee(I am straight,I am trying to make a point here..Pls be patient) . As he nears I realise he has no backpack up his back(thts why he looks cool? Get it?)

Aks: Arre tu bag mein kya laya?
Me: Abbe? Change!!
Kya baat kar raha hai!! Prajakta toh boli sirf towel leke anaa!
Shruti:(with genuine concern)Tu towel leke aya hai kya?
(unable to control his laughter)Nahi!!

Crazy right? Thts aks for you!

Next, we take a rick to Gorai, you get a ferry every 15 mins to get you from this End of the creek to tht opp one.

As the mech engg in us took over, there questions floating in our heads..

Me:Arre is mein(ferry mein) bhi gear hai!!
Aks:Abbe har chalti cheej mein gears hote hai!!
Really?
Abbe isme Reverse bhi hai..
Haan be.. sahi na..
Merko bol arshat, Reverse mein ek hi gear kyun hota hai..I mean why dont you have like 2-3 reverse gears..
Coz you dont need it..
Oh!
Yeah! (Genius)

We decided to keep our mouth shut when an aunty sitting opp to us, gave us "The look" The look seemed to say, "Keep your puppy mouths shut or I ll kick you in the nuts"

The ferry took like 10 mins and we found us just one step away from Manori. But you know what they say, one small step for a man, one big step for a horse.. Some girl in the group had the brilliant idea to take the tanga(horse cart, you angrez ki aulads :P) I dont get why us guys have to take the front seats on the tanga, why cant the girls sit there in the front, it was them who thought this would be fun.. And I dont get why they r called the "front seats" they are right behind the horsie's behind!

Me:Is gaddi mein kitna horsepower hai? Two bhp? buwahahahah..mrgreen

Somehow the horse didnt enjoy the joke and he/she lifted up his/her tail and let out half a kg of horse manure.. I decided to keep my silly jokes to myself..
10 mins into the travel..
Me:Aks, har chalti cheej mein gears hota hai na? Is ghoda gaddi mein kitna gears hai??
Everybody laugh.. bwahahahaha... Up went the tail, horse shit again..

Why cant I keep my mouth shut!!

Our cart rider though never kept his mouth shut.. He kept singing this songs which I suspect were from some C-grade Konkani movie.. "Tawa kela garam.. hmm hmm.. mulgi zali naram" some shit like tht.. He sweared at almost at every other cart driver on the way.. He had this stick with which was actually his acceletor.. There were 2-3 times when I was hit, I let out a neigh or two, if I remember correctly..

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30 mins after the ride, we reached our resort, Dominica(Ph 022-24462161).. Its a nice place if you like peace and quiet.. The beach is like 2 mins from our cottage. Me and akshay were the first ones into the sea, other boys joined a lil late..
Girls took 1hr 12mins to get ready. Pray, tell me how do you get ready to get wet!!?

The water is okay, I mean dont expect Ganpatipule, but its relatively clean. 2 hrs in the afternoon sun and lazing around in the salt waters and it was time for some pet puja.. When I reached the resort, there was Aks in my six pockets, and Amits vest..

Me:Salee!
Aks:Ruk na, I hav left my pants to dry..
Mera pant tereko mila kahan se?
Prajakta ne diya!!
Towel kiska use kiya?
Patah nahi..shayad tera..
Abbe yeh mera nahi hai..
Prajakta:Arre yeh mera towel hai..
Wht goes around comes back around bwahahahaha....*evil grin*

Btw, I still havent figured out whose underwear he was wearing..question

There not much to see around. The resort has got its swings, hammocks and see-saws on which we had the most fun!! This place is for you only if you are a water person and dont care about getting a tan, which makes u look like you have been to the sun and back!!

On the way back I realised how tired I was.. And how much I miss these guys.. And how much fun I had with them...

“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”
-Mark Twain

Twain couldnt be more correct... You guys rule...

Thank you for the memories.....


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Day6

We did some sight-seeing…Saw Rat temple in the morning…Thousands of rats moved inside the temple.These rats are said to be decendents of Karni mata(who lived around 16 century).There are about 5 rats in the temple who are white in colour(You are considered lucky if you see one).We saw one(we are lucky!yipee!)

Navin interviewed a dutch couple at the temple…

Navin:Have you seen so many rats in a temple?
(Mate,this is probably the firsttime they had seen a temple, and you are asking them whether they had seen rats in a temple??wrong call!)
Navin:What do you think about India??
(Obviously they think India is beautiful or else they wouldnt spend thousands of Dollars or pounds or whatever currency they have in their country,and come here)
Navin:What do you think about Indians?
(They were surrounded by Indians…If they’d say anything against us they knew we would beat the shit out of them!!)
And we wonder why we dont get enough tourists!!

Also about this incident,which proves tht girls just wanna have fun!(so do boys…why single out girls…bloody femenists)

Now the incident…While we were walking in the lobby of our hotel in the night when we heard some of our female classmates singing ‘The SONG’…This song,normally we dont find girls singing…
So we just stopped outside their door enjoying ‘The concert’ when I heard someone coming at the door and I started moving ahead.Umesh Koli was so engrossed tht he couldnt hear the girl coming…She opened the door and there he was(just try and imagine this,a girl opens a door and finds a guy standing there!!)

But the stud tht Koli is…
Koli:Tumhe lok kay kartay?(What are you girls doing?)
(Boy,you are standing outside my door!!You tell me what are you doing??!)
Girl:Kahi nahi timepass!(nothing,timepass!).What are you guys doing?

Koli:Kahi nahi timepass(Well said!)
Koli just wanna have fun !

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We set out to Bikaner..Jaisalmer had already gained the status of the best fun destination,and I guess most of us were very tired to do anything but sleep in the bus…I dont really remember what we did in the bus,so I assume we must have slept for most of the time!When we reached the hotel,the world cup was going to begin…WI vs Pak…Saw some of the match then slept again!!??Did some really weird things tht Deepak wont approve of…,did tht thing anyway…(since I am not an anonymous blogger,I cant give out the details) Day 5SocialTwist Tell-a-Friend
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9-se-12 ka show!

All the photos and videos that were taken in the last 4 days were compiled by Prasad Bhoite …
The show was in room no.108(our room was 110)
About 30 guys were filled in one room(even sunny deol’s movies dont get this type of response in Punjab).
The arrangement was excellent..I mean there was a bouncer(Bibin),a narrator(Akshay Sukhtankar) and the cameraman(Prasad)
You had to behave yourself coz if you didnt you wud have to face the bouncer’s wrath.If you liked a photo and would like some info on how and why the photo was taken you could say ‘Explain!’ and Akshay would give running commentory on tht photo…You cud also vote for your fav photo and hope tht it enters the wall of fame!You could also ask the cameraman to stop on a photo you liked and ask him to zoom on a specific person(This is what we did on the night at jodhpur)
My personal fav photo is tht of Ameya and Hase while they were sleeping…
My fav vid wud be the one in which Bhai(Sid) is rolling on the sand and after sometime…stops.Apte rolls over sid after tht and out of nowhere a energy transfer takes place and Bhai starts rolling furiously…! 9-se-12 ka show!SocialTwist Tell-a-Friend
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This ride was so much fun tht I have to make a seperate post on it!
Its a good 42 kms from Jaisalmer to Sand dunes…This asked for a good 1.5 hrs of TP(timepass yaar,itna bhi nahi patah?)…TP ka doosra naam wud be Ameya Ghureye and Prasad Bhoite(tht wud be 2 naam)…But since they were very tired(god knows what were they doing last night..)they slept…and all zimmedari of TP fell on Suril Shah’s shoulders!

Aur suril ne Zimmedari nibhayi!He went biserk,marrying couples,asking people questions You would never ask!

I wouldnt like to name the couples who got married,but I would like to wish them a happily married life!(all marriages are made in heaven and are taped…All interested people can call the toll free no-1600-420-420-840)

Now the questions you would never ask…

Suril to Hiren:Jab Taxi no.9211 mein Nana Patekar ka scene chalu tha, tab aapka kya scene chalu tha???
Hiren(dumbfounded):Koi scene chalu nahi tha!(what else could he say?)

Suril to Vishal:AApki chamdigiri ka raaz kya hai?
Vishal:…–[$!p;….._.,Kandivali!!…….heh heh..ROTFL….lol…Shud have seen the look on vishals face!!priceless!

Suril himself had to face some very though questions himself(subject of another post)
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Day 3

Next day we set out for Jaisalmer…Umaid Bhavan was on the way.Its one of the most romantic places in India they say(who the heck are ‘they’?)…Btw,’they’ are damn correct…

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What we experinced on the way to Jaisalmer made the trip total paisa vasool…We were caught in a sand storm!!It was amazing…You couldnt even see the road…and if you put your hand outside the window,you would feel raindrops on your hand…I bet you thought it never rained in Rajasthan…not your mistake…its J P Dutta’s mistake,never did he show us any rain in his movies….Dutta-You Suck!

There was one more thing tht made the Trip paisa vasool…We had lunch at a Dhaba…The waiter would clean the table and within mins a new layer of sand would reappear on the table.I ingested 27 gms of sand(dont ask me how I measured it!) along with the food.Along with the food were Abhijit Deshpande’s brand of PJs(Parla Joke)..e.g.-”After lunch pls have some ‘desert‘(pointing to the sandy terrain)”..heh heh..
When we reached the Hotel(a 3-star),it was raining and it was cold…
The best part was tht there was a Swimming Pool there…cold weather not withstanding we jumped in with our Bermudas(no,not the country)and some of us like navin and bibin jumped in with their underwears(on).
To say tht the water was cold would be an understatement…The liquid in my statoreceptors(ears) frooze and I was unable to balance myself….I was so cold thtI had to spend the next two hours in the Blanket(actually two blankets) drinking tea and soup…
The least I can say is most of us were alive…Glad tht Deepak did not take the plunge,…we would have a lost a sincere student.
In the night,for a change,we slept…

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Day 1:

We had to assemble at Bandra Terminus.
Our sir Prof.Bhiwapurkar and his wife accompanied us on the Trip.And if he thought it was going to be easy,he was mistaken…Within 10 mins of the journey,the first complaint reached him.There were passengers with us who did not like our way of giving GRAVITY

Now what is GRAVITY? You are not a true SPCE student if u dont know this term..
For the uninitiated,GRAVITY is when a number of guys throw themselves on a single guy(who is assumed to be the centre of gravity!).Gravity can be given to anyone in the group(except the Prof.)

Back to the topic,these co-passengers didnot like this gravity concept of ours and they complained to the prof.
We had to sobre down a bit…spent time playing Blackjack,7 hearts and mendi kot(What is it called in English?)

Then it was pet pooja time…Kunal had brought some 25 parathas…Deepak had brought 10…They were finishe off in 25+10=35 mins.
In the night after we had crossed Ahmedabad,uniformed personnel entered the Train..It was a sensitive area,we were told..we were asked to roll out our beds and sleep…But boys will be boys,we didnt really pay much heed to their demands,kept talking all night.That night,I remember,Hitesh was really scared!I guess he thought Pakistanis would enter the train and we would be held as PoW…lol…
Hitesh Joshi was the local boy(Jaipur is his native)..He got very senti after reaching Jodhpur station…”4 saal baad aa raha hoon yahan”…

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I guess my trip started on 8th,in my room where my sister gave a presentation(with laptop,projector etc.) on how to travel safe…
-Don’t take your hand out of the window of the train/bus/camel…
-Don’t talk to strangers on the train/bus/camel…
-Make a list of all your belongings…detailed list
-Don’t make fun of the Pakistanis at the border…They might shoot you…
-Make sure you don’t lose your footwear in the train…etc.etc.
-Buy stuff for me from every shop in Rajasthan…heres the list(actually she handed me a book)You dont buy the stuff yourself,ask Rucha and Supriya to help.(Rucha and Supriya are girls in my class)

F.Y.I. my sister is 16 yrs old…

My sis’ presentation was followed,my mom’s presentation,followed by my dad…
After all these wise words,I guess I was ready for my trip to Rajasthan…

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