Man on the Clapham omnibus

1) Walking on the streets in a strange(not anymore) city, in the split of moment there is a blond who walks in the opposite direction.I go right to avoid her and she goes right too , then i go left and she goes left too.
And then we both stop and smile at each other. Out of the blue she hugs me suddenly and says something and walks away while i stand stunned.

2) Walking into the stands to watch the French grand prix for the first time, its highly discouraging to see all places in free stand occupied.Not in a mood to give up, i use my broken French to communicate my desire to go forward and end up sitting right in front of the track,crossing barbed wires,convincing the gaurds in broken french, for an unbelievable experience.

3) Walking alone in the Milan station at 10:30 p.m , with no hotel reservation, i was running door to door, but all hotels were either full or too costly.Lots of pickpockets around Milan station and returning fans from a football match dint make it any better either.Of all people, a drunk football fan, suddenly approached me and guided me to a hotel nearby on the other side of road.I got a room for 30 euros.

4) That i am going to propose to her was well decided.What to say to her was not. When i finally did. i said a lot of things which i heard for the first time myself.Some were killer dialogues.I spoke my heart out.That she did not buy it is a completely different story.

I have no idea what the blond who almost kissed me, said to me, I have no idea what i spoke in French to convince the guard to let us through, i have no idea how i understood the Italian spoken by the football fan to help me. I don’t remember much of what i said to the girl who was never to become mine.

I have come to believe that words are always forgotten, its the moments you remember.
The smell of perfume of the blond girl, The obvious sympathy in the guard’s eyes to let us through, The sincere but drunk football fan who helped me and the feeling of having proposed to someone I truly love/d.

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”

M. Scott Peck quotes (American psychiatrist and Author, 1936-2005)

German Autobahn, No Speed limits , Audi 4 , Perfect 220 Kmph.

There was a girl , her name was heartbreak..
All i did was love and she broke my heart.
Her eyes were the size of a moon,
And in that coldness , i still feel the pain.

It starts at my toes and ends at my nose..
They made me smile, please stay for a while…
Floating like a butterfly, swimming in the moonlight….
I promise you, I won’t steal their light…

Please don’t say i am better off without you…
Don’t blame me, for i said not those sweet things..
The truth be told, my feelings were always hidden..
But every time i saw you, my heart skipped a beat…

I remember the smile when i kissed your nose…
I remember you twisting the face , when i touched you..
Its been a while , but it feels so silly now..
I always let my feelings show,and it’s your turn now..

So for you i wait, like the waves earn for the shore…
Like the lonely mother, on the creek for the boat…
For your call , missing you , missing you more…
I will wait here, be waiting forever…

Gotta love such movies dude… There is nothing at all in to remember in it.When you sleep, you sleep peacefully , there is absolutely no memory of any events in the movie.Wish life was like this as well..
I want to thank the director for making such a forgettable movie.

Kareena has awesome abs.The ray ban aviator coolers everybody wears in the movie are trendy(Va.add(“shopping list”,Aviators)).
There are less ‘Jatkas’ compared to “Race”. No fear, The stars don’t die in the movie.
Why akshay kumar kick-boxes when there is gun around is puzzling ? Why the bad-guys drop their guns and kick-box is puzzling as well.Guess there are unwritten rules in bolly fights.

But Kareena really looks fabulously fantabulous ya .

Va.REMOVE(“To-Do List”, Kareena Kapoor from jab we met)
Va.ADD(“To-Do List”, Kareena Kapoor as in Tashan)

There is no story , don’t expect any either… the pirated downloaded version had a bloody pissy sound in the background. Use noise elimination plugin in WMP to get rid of that.

Locations are great , Rajasthan and ghats of ganga near haridwar are such beauties.

Come on dude , Movie ain’t that bad.
On the other hand, that “U me and Hum” shit , god that one made me cry… for one its copied , and for one more , its painful to get through it.

These walls surrounding my heart have been shattered
The sadness sinks in, nothing of this has mattered
My sorrow echoes deeper in the hollow and dearth
Cupid’s arrow has left a deep gash in my heart

I have nothing to write about, i have won no wars
I have built no castles , i have not a million cars
I can’t buy you the moon, i can’t pluck you a star
All i can , is play you this song on my guitar

I have no flower in my hand, no diamonds in my purse
I have no original lines except for this verse.
There are no monuments in my name, i have no prizes to give away
Ain’t no streets named after me, ain’t no sculptures of clay

But if there is one thing,i still beam for when i finally fold
That my face would glow for,buried six feet under the ground
I have truly,deeply loved you with all my heart and soul
and so for that, i will always be remembered and my stories told.

If you can walk ,you can run.If you can talk,you can sing.If you can hold the pen , you can write.

but to write poems like me , you really have to suck….

adios amigos !!!

Every once in a while, there comes a movie to die for .. and we talk about the movie when we eat , when we drink and we even dream about it while we sleep. And use the dialogs in day to day life, and with acute retention idiosyncratically try to be like the main characters. Well for all this and more, watch , “There will be Blood” .
Its an awesome movie.

But in case you still decide to watch “aap ka suroor“, or should i say rather suffer through AkS, then beware, there is very little story, very very little screenplay and lots and lots of nasal singing.Even the gayatri mantra have made it into the nose.

Q) Wonder what will happen if himesh wears a nose ring ?
A) He will have a golden voice ……

The story(or the absolute lack of it) is appalling. Himesh falls in love(HR sirf ek baar pyaar karta hai) with an amiable Sweet girl(looks gorgeous). The first half of movie is all about “HR yeh nahi karta” , HR sharab nahi pita “
“HR india ka rockstar hai”

Small cute girl to HR : mere heart mey hole hai….
HR to small cute girl : Tumhe pata hai ki tumhare heart mey bhagwan ne hole kyun diya hai ?
Cute girl : nahi …
HR ( HR sab janta hai, HR bhagwan se baat karta hai) : Kyunki , usme khuub saara pyaar barna hai, agar hole nahi hoga to usse kaha bharogi ?

(At this point ,
Va : Bhagwan ne HR key Dimag mey hole kyun diya hai ?
A: Taki HR hamesha Topi pahene rakhe …..
)

More of nasal melodrama, HR gets arrested for murder.
Police : what do u have to say in your defense ?
HR : HR kabhi kisika Khuun nahi karta.
Police : Duh !!!

HR escapes from jail(HR jail mey be versace aur red topi pehanta hai).

HR uses 5 diff colours of topi , Red ,white , black , brown and green. matching matching with his cleavage display shirts.

HR comes out of a car crash , still comes out with the Topi intact.
Schweet girl adheres with HR in good and bad, Her mobile ring tone is the melodramatic nasal gayatri mantra.
In all this mish mash, there is mallika sharawat trying to woo HR. HR kabhi item number ke saath date par nahi jaata.

All good prevails in the end.Autos run in streets of germany, German tv’s carry breaking news of HR’s innocence.Schweet girl falls in his cleavage(which is visible through out the movie).mallika is spell bound.
Audience is happy, the ordeal is over. If this is the real life story of HR , it sucks.If this is the story he has made up , it still sucks. 4 year old kids make up better stories.If this is the story he belives in , it stills sucks.

All in all, use this movie to sleep the days that you dont drink.

HR(in end) : God bless everybody,
Va : Thanks…

Apeldoorn , Cycling Het Loo

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Country : The Netherlands.

Province : Gelderland.

Warriors on the wheels : Va, Raj.
We reached apeldoorn after changing 2 trains.We basically searched the whole town for the cycle hire shop. As we guessed it was right in front of us all the while.So finally, after renting the cycles , we went in the opposite direction. It was not really difficult considering our navigation skills and highly advanced gut”tary” feelings.
Finally good sense prevailed and we returned to where we had started.As i was about to recant, luckily , we found a street as marked in the route.We strictly following the route, and up ahead we entered a beautiful stretch of road.

Before reaching Juliana park

After some photo-ops, we cycled along and it got better and better.This probably is one of the best cycling routes in Holland esp if you like forests and cycling in it.The greenery just blew me away.

Green Forest

If case any of you poor soul is really interested , here is the English version of the dutch route.
Its fully copied from a dutch book. Buy it if you need 50 more good cycling maps around Holland from ANWB store.

1) From station NS apeldoorn , Left , over by railway crossing , Right.
2) At traffic lights , LEFT , direction of Ede;
3) At next traffic lights , LEFT , Amersfoort.
4) At traffic lights, RIGHT ,direction of zwolle
5) In the end , LEFT : vosselmanstraat;
6) In the corner, LEFT , in direction of auto traffic amersfoort.
7) Just up ahead, Straight : Badhuisweg.
Follow the road, At traffic lights Jachhtlaan crossing.
9) Follow the road, J.C. Wilslaan cross via the bicycle road.
10) IN hoog-Soeren ( restaurant) , at crossing with paved road, RIGHT
11) At the crossing with grindpad, mushroom 21042 , RIGHT.
12) before the main road, RIGHT , parallel bicycle road(but for restaurant echoput , LEFT , parallel to main road).
13) at the next mushroom, LEFT , in the direction of elspleet, grindweg.
14) at driesrong , RIGHT , grindweg omlaan next , parallel to quiet road.
15) Sign apeldoorn city, precedence road crossing, hoge brink;
16) At the second crossing, RIGHT;
17) At the road split oblique, LEFT HogeKampweg.
18) First right, cycle on used to be railway track.
19) At main road, LEFT, and second RIGHT,, :marconistraat.
20) At the end, LEFT, immediately after that, RIGHT , Nobelstraat;
21) At the crossing by princen park , LEFT , langs park;Frisolaan;
22) Way crossing, immediately after the white villa , LEFT, at oblique , RIGHT , informal sandy road down.
23) Pay attention , before the bridge , RIGHT , sandy road.
24) follow the path, transfer to bicycle road,at the end,here, main road crossing , Griftstraat.
25) In corner , Straight , cycle path.
26) At the end of bicycle road, at the crossing with precedence road , LEFT , back to NS-station apeldoorn.

And as i turned my head , the road turned for me …

Adios !!