4 Guys and a Mountain

This happened a few weeks ago i hope its not imp to mention the date...

Four of us - 2 bikes - we started off to Nandi hills early morning at 11 am. The sound of the roaring engines was blasting people off the road to the feeble gentle corners. I was of course driving like I was racing towards chequered flag.

Okay back to the ride, I realized midway that I require driving glasses, I didn’t choose Arnolds way of beating up a hulk and getting it off, I rather selected the more gentle option of buying it from a roadside shop for 50 bucks, Indian rupees mind u! My American readers may equate it to a little more than a dollar.

So sailing through the wind I reached my first pit stop near an ice cream shop. Any guesses on the price of the Ice candy?? dont even try .. The price.. 1Rs. Please search for a dollar equivalent. It’s as good as free ;).
I was fasting that day, I had decided either I cook or I fast so I was fasting as I am a very bad cook and I am sure will take time to learn cooking right! Am sure every married man would empathize with me here he would have taken time to learn right. And no I am not married yet.

Anyways we reached Nandihills around 1 stayed there for about two hours! This is the place where a king used to come to spend his summers.. Now I am not explaining who he was! There is a lot about him on google.. Go find out! And by summers I didn’t mean summer placement for his MBA.. it means to chill out with his queens ;) I am not sure how many he had. Seemed like a nice guy so I am hoping he had just one!!

We spent about 2 -3 hrs lazing around and eating and lazing around and more eating! Hey I am on a fast... Yeah right ;). So finally when all the food was over I initiated the head back home... Was hungry as was fasting that day ;).

All along the way my friends lectured me on how fat I can become if I continue to fast like this often... Well its been 25 yrs... And I gained only 75kgs.. 140 pounds I think ;)... so not that fat for a man who is 5'10''.

The sun had its few last flashes in the air as we headed towards the city... the camera was clicking all the way... couldn't upload the snaps yet... ladies you will have to wait…
Touched back at base at 6, and continued on the search for more fast food ;).

The day ended at 1.00am after a good numbers of rounds of playing cards when my friends had enough of loosing for the day... we lay our back to our beds! ..
Nice day! Good fast ;)
Cheers!

As it came that day ...

I had written this on Dec 22nd 2003 ... some of u might have seen this.. one of my only few non funny philosophical entries to my diary ..

Dec 22nd 2003
Mohit (my cousin) had come to Bangalore and we were attending the “world youth peace summit”. We are waiting for the programe to commence and the people to start on with their peaceful words. I was sitting at the vishalakshi mandapat the Art of living international Ashram as I wrote this down.

I must warn you, what u r about to read may completely change what u used to think of me :D .. u have been warned.. enjoy!



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All my life I have been wondering what life is all about, and today as well, as I sit in this hall with around a thousand five hundred people around me, I am searching for a motive, feeling that the motive is not known. Not to me not to anyone of them. And I am unaware of it yet.
All my life I have searched for some answers. I feel that when I came here to the show called “life”, I was assigned a role, still very much wanting to find it.
Still in search for it I wander and continue to wonder.

I smile, I greet and meet, I feel loads of joy, happiness around me, but sometimes I wonder why am I here, why is everyone here, its like going into space and looking back at the whole earth. There are people … 6 million of them, living their lives. All going through something at the same instance, living their lives in a different way yet all combined to one unit of life.
What is the whole earth doing?
I am alive today and might die in about 50yrs, whatever I do, maybe I build another Taj Mahal even then will it make something happen to bring me out of this vicious circle? People will come, million lives will change and still they just live make changes and die.
I don’t know how to describe it or how to put it. It’s a thought that amazes and amuses.

One question is what I have and One satisfying answer is all I seek. Someday I will know and till then I will wait, smile. I smile back at people smiling at me also at people shouting at me as I realize whatever way we react its just a “thought”. It’s the result of me reacting to that thought. A thought “someone said something to you’, or “did something”. More importantly knowing that mind is controlled by thoughts. Its so complex this life, millions of thoughts interacting and that makes the earth live, that makes all the news on this planet.
There are blank spaces in my sentences, I seek to fill them. Till I fill these blanks I will continue to search and maybe in turn put this “search” this “thought” in every living thinking brain I know. I have a thought, let me know if u come across what I seek.


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