BhandarDhaara

October last weekend it is ...

A Trip to Bangalore..

I was in Bangalore from 6th Mar to 11th Mar... that was an awesome trip !!
I planned the trip all of a sudden and everything happened in an hour !! Was just thinking what I shud do in the holi holidays.. and all of a sudden .. bangalore came to my mind and I asked Guggi and DP whether its right time to visit them. and they said YES .. thats it.. booked tickets in an hour and there I goooo !!!
The flight was supposed to leave at 9:25 pm and I left the office at 6 pm and was getting ready.. then I heard a sound "tweet .. tweet ..!! tweet.. tweet ..!! SMS ..!!" thats my mobile.. and guess what.. there was a SMS saying that flight is delayed by an hour.. I thought thats good.. I can have something and leave for the airport.. 30 minutes past.. again talked the tweety..!! This time it says.. flight rescheduled to 11:50 .. WTF ??? anyways.. I reached airport at 10:35 pm.. and then I came to know that the actual time is 12:30 am pheww... !! at last, flight departured at 1:00 am. I reached bangalore at 2:40 and the airport was 38 kms from the place where Guggi stays. My friends managed to find out the bus number which shuttles between Forum and Airport. so.. waited for that bus for 30 mins... and finally reached home at 4:00 am.. now thats called a journey .. ;)
Seeing my friends after almost 2 yrs.. so we passed time talking abt the things we have done in this two yrs.. abt the jobs.. abt the current market situation.. and so on.. and its already 7:00 am.. then we went for a cup of coffee...

At Leela Palace..

Day 1 : My friends actually skipped office that day cleverly.. one said he was sick, one said he would be working from home.. and the other said his parents came to see him :D :D I really liked that ;). We had lunch in a good south Indian restaurant (Meghana) that serves proper south Indian thali.. that was awesome .. bcoz I didnt pay the bill ;) !! Then we went to Corner House and had some desserts.. :D
In the night Guggi, DP, Rajesh, Sridhar (yeah he is alive ..!!) and me went to Leela palace and enjoyed bowling there.. with a glass of beer ;) DP crossed the century mark (some 128 I guess) while we were busy concentrating on something else :P .. that was a good experience too .. !!



STRIKE ... Bingo ..!!!!

Get.. Set.. Go ..!!

Day 2 : Went for GoKarting in RT nagar .. and this time Dev and Ritul joined us.. that was really great ..!! enjoyed racing there and DEV was the show stopper.. he bumped into the side blocks for five times already.. and when he bumped for the sixth time, he was disqualified from the race. Ritul managed to reach the spot after an hour.. but he didn't join us in the race.. (phat gayi uski .. :P). So he bacame cameraman and caught Dev doing this stunt.. coool..!!


Dev.. Busted ..!!



New racer for Force India Team ..!!


Then we went to Brigade Rd .. one of the happening places in Bangalore.. and it was worth going there .. ;) good fest for the eyes.. ;) DP ni aapatam maa valla kaaledhu inka.. and we played bowling there ..
Last two days I did some shopping, explored other south Indian restaurants, played some games, watched some movies, enjoyed Sehwag's blasting .. and met some friends.. and returned to Mumbai on 11th evening. Overall that was a great trip and we enjoyed a lot.. Credit goes to Guggi, DP and Raji. ;)

Poker Fever ..!!

Back in August 2008.. Its 10 pm in the night .. and I haven't yet decided which movie I should watch... then came the Guru Nitin muddana with his Mac Laptop and said "bava.. neeko manchi movie choopisthaa ..!! ". I was excited to know what that movie was.. and kept my lappy aside and joined him. But to my dissapointment, it was Casino Royale movie !! I said no wayyy.. Im not gonna watch this boring movie... bcoz I don't know how Poker is played which is the main entertainment in the movie. Then Nitin gave me some gyaan. He opened the Texas holdem Poker rules page and explained me the game.. and then I watched the movie.. This time I liked the movie very much.. From then I started playing Poker.. Added the application in facebook too and started playing it online daily.. for atleast one hour.. Its such an addictive game that I used to skip some important things bcoz of this game. Finally I had to remove that application from my profile.

Next week I went to Puchu's room where our enthued Junta stay.. It was saturday night. Unfortunately Nitin muddana also came along with me. Any guesses what happened next ? yess.. Guru started "bava meeko keka game nerpisthaa ... Poker ..!!! ".. then came our Giri saying "naaku thelsu raa !! theen patta lekka untadhi adhey kadhaa.... !! ". Finally nitin convinced them that its not the game they are thinking and taught them how to play poker... guys started playing poker that saturday night.. 2 hours happy.. then started struggle... Raj kumar ( The Mancherial James Bond) entered the game.. and looted all our money... we all bought in again.. and played second round. Now, its Raghu Rajan's turn to become the Bond. Likewise , the game continued till 7 am and the result is.. we slept till 4 pm on sunday :D :D. Right from that weekend, we are playing poker without fail. In the mean while our Sridhar Bhosale came up with a new concept called encouraging the opponent (rechchagottadam).. If anyone wins.. he says" mama.. nenu vaanni baaga rechchagotti raise cheyinchina.. naaku commission kaavale.. " And Sirish.. invented new techniques to steal chips from the table and other persons bank..

The twist in the tale is.. One fine morning, on the way to the office, my roomies (nitin muddana and Sandeep Gummadi) saw an ad in Mumbai Mirror about the sale of Poker chips for just Rs.2000/- and that excited our Guruji Nitin and he borrowed a one rupee coin from the auto waala and called me up and asked me to order those chips. I ordered those chips on the same day.. and finally we got our poker chips after a week.. They are nicely packed in an aluminium case (reku dabba).. and it was looking so Royal.. there were no limits for our excitement.. inka asalu aagale.. yentane.. photolu digi facebook la upload jeshnam.. Sandy, who was not paying any attention to the game till then, also learnt the game and started playing it. The next week we went to the guys room with this chips case in hand.. and guys were also excited to see them.. Our Giri came saying "arey.. baaga feel vasthundhi raa !! ". We started playing that night too.. but with new excitement.. and Raghu rajan became bond twice.. and the story continues....................