Sayyywhat
May 13th, and June 18th... say thats so many days of difference, how many exactly, I am too lazy to calculate!
Probably that gives me more material to fill into my blog, quality over quantity! umm... or quantity over quality??! Lets make it this - both quality and quantity over each other ;D
Lots and lots of incidents, which do I start with? Decided to buy a bike - after lots and lots of thoughts which went like - "oh I've had enough! Gals aren't lookin' at me coz' I don't have a hunky macho bike!!!" So set off I did to the 4 cornes of the ... alright alright, 4 showrooms of 3 different bikes - Honda's Unicorn, Bajaj's Pulsar, and TVS Fiero.
I instantly liked Unicorn. But fidgety as I am, I simply HAD to compare it with Bajaj's Pulsar. I spoke and spoke with people, service guys, college mates, colleagues, etctctctc... Both were so similar and the reports from friends were so super imposing that I had to decide using - yes, the one and only solution - tossing a coin.
Bajaj won. So here I was with a new bike, a maroon coloured Pulsar 150 DTS-i, the "Definitely male" bike.
Oh did I tell you that I never ever had ridden a geared vehicle before buying my new bike??
Day 1 - hopped on, stopped atleast 11 times on the first gear, on the FIRST attempt, trying to leave the clutch slowly.. I realised why the Pulsar is called definitely male - it ensures that its the ONLY male around, thats why.
Day 2 - rode the bike in 2nd gear!!!! My Father was thrilled, so we took off to the nearest maidan for practicing the - yes, the dreaded EIGHT. Guess what! I did pretty well on the eight, I stopped only twice in 2 hours of practice!
Day 3 - I started to ride in 3rd gear! WOW! I am a history sheeter when it comes to overconfidence, so I zipped down the main road a few mains across my house. Almost got my indicator lamp broken by a bus. I expected the bus driver to get down and thrash me. He was like - "Oho, L Board aa? New bike aa? Go to maidan, why endagering your life here?
Day 4 - back at the maidan. Seething with rage. Furiously desperate to accelarate. Kept hitting rounds, practiced how to stop bike WITHOUT shutting off the engine, at end of every round. Time stood still. Eternity passed. Looked at the odometer. I had done 35 kms in a maidan that must not be more than 200 metres across. Went home. Sunk into the bed...
Day 5 - Went to the nearest theatre. Didn't see the movie, but came back instead. Went back to the next furthest theatre. And so on. Got to know all the new theatres that had opened up in and around my area.
Day 6 - Gave a treat to all at office for having burnt 64K on my bike. Burnt 0.5K more doing so.
Day 7 - Yes. The D-DAY had come. I brought my bike to office. Cheers and celebrations all around. I was reborn.
Day 8 onwards ---
I go everywhere on my new bike. Here, there, everywhere. On weekends, I do something like 200 kms - Yesterday went to a place called Kanakapura, 58 kms from Bangalore. Today went to Whitefield. Liked the Kanakapura route a lot, very very scenic and nature-laden..
Alas, everything is fine, except that everyone now stares at me when I'm on the road - small boys shout - "Hey nodo, Pulsar kano!".. Grown men smile and tell me - "This bike looks really good no??".. Girls ... yes, the all important category - look at my bike and then look at their own boyfriends and say - "when will you have such a bike?" Nobody is ever bothering about the guy riding the bike!
You GUYS out there, NEVER buy a Pulsar!!
Life has been quite surprising in this one month. Two of my friends, one a colleague at my previous company and the other a close friend, got engaged (of course, they got engaged to two other different people!).
I've been thinking, and so have my other friends, are we old enough to get onto this journey called marriage? It made us feel quite old.
Getting a person who is a near perfect fit is just so tough if one thinks about it - Sayyywhat, (cool ha? I think I'll use this in EVERY blog hehehehehe) just picture this - If the girl is smart, she wouldn't be pretty. If pretty, she wouldn't be smart. If both, she wouldn't be a vegetarian (bad!), if all these three, she would like ANOTHER guy! If all the four, she wouldn't like the guy typing this essay coz he's not qualified enough! If all the four and the guy is qualified, her parents don't think he's qualified enough! If all these 6, the girl is a saintly person who isn't interested in marriage.
Amen!!
Work was really hectic during this period. The deadline was fast approaching (err, for the FOURTH, ya, FOURTH time). Since I'm the guy who designs and codes and tests, there was nothing anybody could do, since if there is anyone pushing the blame, that would have to be me, and if anyone taking the blame, that also would have to be me! :)
But the work finally went through and things are looking like they are limping back to normal.....
I sure did post a huge 2nd blog.... hope I didn't sound too boring.
See you guys ssssooooon, with my 3rd bloggie!
