Paris Continued .....

18th Aug

So this is my first weekend in Paris to go for a tour around the city known as the "city of love".
Today the plan was to see all the places in Paris quickly without spending much of time. We planned to go to MontMatre which is an old white church dedicated to SacreCaur. It was close to the famous Pigalle street which has the Mouline Rouge. We had a frightening experience on the metro we took to reach there. 5 people entered at a station in our compartment well built and totally out of their senses looks like they were drugged. Then an arguement started among them and one guy was facing the wrath of the well built of all as he put his lighter on the neck and the eye of the other as the others tried to stop them .. before nething could happen we were out of the metro as our station was the next and some people have changed the compartment to be away from them.

As we climbed a small uphill we could see a tall white church with a nice bluish background of the sky and green garden surrounding it.There was mountain biking also arranged there so we decided to come back the next day to see the race. We spent some time going to the roof of the MontMatre from where we had a good view of the city, it being on the uphill and Paris being a city with a plain landscape.

We moved on to the Louvre taking a look around the Louvre and the glass pyramid we moved to the NotreDame. A nice stroll parallel to the Seine with a web to bridges to cross over takes you to the Palais of Justice and next to it the NotreDame. A huge cathedral constructed on an island. I had a chance to go over the top of the church to see the whole of Paris but there was a huge rush for it as the entry is restricted to only the summer months June, July and August.

I was quite excited to go on the top as i saw a lot of pictures of the creatures which overlook the city and with Eiffel on the background its quite an scenic picture to have in your camera but alas missed it .. so i consoled myself saying "next time" ;).

In the evening the most awaited part of my trip ... "The Eiffel". I was gazing the beautiful monument for almost 3hrs seeing the lights coming up and glittering every one hour. An awesome sight !!! Then i realised why the city is actually known as the "city of love".The huge mettalic structure doesnt seem to be beautiful when seen closeby and its beauty is enhanced by the lighting.Taking photos for a long time and not willing to leave the beautiful tower I left for the hotel at around 10p.m thinking i will come back as many times possible to see the tower lighting up before leaving Paris.

19th Aug

It was raining a bit today but that didnot deter me from going to MontMatre to see the mountain bicycle race. And now i have no regrets for drenching my camera a bit for that. It was a race from the church downhill till the bottom with the wooden planks arranged to guide and jump over them. Though it had rained a lot and despite the slippery ground the race took off and the cyclers were at their best.
After some shopping that my friend, who was accompanying me, had to do as he was to leave to India the next day. The evening I had a nice peaceful stroll along the Seine which flows right next to our apartment. Seeing the glazing roads and the nice gardens around u feel rejuvenated.

The next weekend me and my collegue were planning for Marseilles which is an old port city of France set up by the Greeks about 2600 years back along the coast of Meditterean Sea.

C ya ppl in Marseilles. ;-)

An Evening in Paris !!!
Having a look at this title donot think this is something to do with the old Shammi kapoor mvi. Even i dint watch it ;).
It has been two years and my blog is the least posted one among my friends i guess. The major excuse i had was there is nothing "happening" in my life to pen down. Now i have it, a month long trip to Paris :-> (thou official i had time to visit the city ;-) ).

So lemme begin with my journey to Paris. I got to know just a week before i had to go and yeah all those regular procedures visa forex n all. I wasnt that excited that i will be leaving the country first time and ll be an NRI for a month. Friends dropped me at the airport a long queue for check-in n "voila!!" i am in the flight now. It seemed to be a short flight as i was asleep most of the time ;)). Now after some sleep i try to peep thru my window the world outside. Thick fluffy clouds and we are floating on them and golden rays of sun beaming in from the far end. I thought am i dead and am i in heaven !! (for an instance i was excited.woow i am in heaven!! I always think Devils are waiting for me on the other end). It was so beautiful n i was kicking myself everytime i have a look out for not having got my cell which has a cam and thou i have a cam due to security reasons it had no life (cells).

Then i just looked onto the GPS in the plane i was flying on ZURICH. I craned my neck just to get any glimpse of the Swiss ... alas the plane was too high tat everything looked the same. Then in an hour here i am PARIS, the city of love. Weather was dull that day cloud cover and bit of chillness in the air. I completed my formalities and searched for a taxi. I had a good option of taxis Merc, Peugeot, Limo all waiting for me to get in. Everything fitted with the GPS recievers,i was always fancied abt. I got into a Peugeot . Speeding through the empty freeways on a not so exciting sunday i reached the hotel. Yeah i forgot to mention the taxi was speeding at a minimum of 80kmph and a max of 150 kmph :->. I wish i had been on the drivers seat. :-(

I reached the hotel at around 10am. But my room wasnt ready so was chatting with my collegue who came there a week before. After an hour or so, a "tring tring" and my room was ready formalities done and with my lugguage went to my room which is on the 14th floor .. (there was no 13th as expected ;-) ). That day just had some rest and evening a walk near the hotel to get to know the place. I felt very good to see no commotion around, no sunday crowd (who can forget Forums n Garuda Malls on weeknds!! ), and places very neat as if they clean every one hour. And yeah not to mention i was able to see the Eiffel tower on the walk thou from 6kms around but still it holds it head high.

The next day the main purpose of my visit OFFICE. Had an introduction to people arnd. They tried to talk in the best english they know and yeah initially a bit of confusion and then u get addicted to their english. But i should say people are pretty friendly atleast the people whom i have met with. Then nothing much "happening" in those weekdays except for 15th of aug which was a holiday even here as it was "Day of Assumption". I dint stratch my head as every holiday is welcome ,reasons not important :-).

So August the 15th i was out on the streets of Paris for site-seeing with my collegue. She has visited Paris a lot of times so guided me to all the places arnd. We went to buy calling cards in a Pondicherry settlement here where we get some cheap calling n having a not so tasty dosa we moved on. Next destination the Opera house.No shows going around at that time as i got a bit tempted to watch one. We went to Arc de Triuomphe which is to commemorate the French victory. N i should say its pretty huge. Some pics there and then we went to the Champs-Elysses one of the worlds famous n costliest shopping street. Just barged in a few showrooms (Merc n Peugeot)n chked out the new models there. I was excited on seeing the city and thought this is just the beginning. A lot more excitement in store for the 3 weeknds i am here.


I guess this is enuf for you to YAWN a bit. I will write all my weeknds each as a separate post so that you are not bored. Lemme admit it i cant sit and write the whole thing at one go. :P

TO BE CONTINUED ...

First exp behind the wheel


Ahaa .... after seeing the car chases in the movies and the stunts that are done with them using the cars i thought i too would love to have a car but with the heavy traffic on the roads there is no way i can think of a vechicle ;) u reach faster walking is what i think what say guys ;))

newaz now i am sitting behind the wheel for the first time and no nervousness in mind i was fully excited hoping to do some stunts of my own ;) (remember the james bond movies and the stunts he does with the car). its. .. my turn now :D. guess what with the same josh i
pressed the accelerator and zoom went the car and stopped with a jerk ;)). My dad was sitting beside and telling the do's and dont's but when the mind has a picture of the stunts god save the car ;) (have u heard this bandar ke haath mein baatli similar to that).

After some unsuccessful trials i was on my way this time leaving behind the idea of stunts and learning the thing first.I was driving the car slowing at such speeds that a cycle can over take me .. well that was a playgrnd so no traffic i was the king :D. That was a bit of confidence booster now its turn for some experiments on the road. Now a dangerous way i am out on the road with the steering in my hand and guess what i had no idea of the width of the car and down it goes
the road whenever a vechicle comes in frnt of me ... :)) well it was fun for me but guess what the car was experiencing .. ;))

Newaz after some experiments on straight roads its turn for what i was waiting some stunts.. reversing the car and figure 8 with the car it was just the third day with the steering in my hand...well not bad the 8 was coming in a disfigured pattern and that too with the car
zooming. Now turn for reversing remember some speed reversing and parallel parking wanted to experiment with that ... well speed was there reversing was there but lacking direction ;)) had to park it at one location was my assignment but the car went in some other direction.... well with such experiments i had some nice experience with the stunts...

Success or Failure live life as it comes...


Here i am with another post from some of the experiences from the book of my life this time with a bit of less delay. U ll feel like a vague topic to post.

Around us i think we can find two types of people one who take the things they do seriously and want to win in whatever they do and the other type are the ones who takes things cooly they dont mind which way the result swing they keep their cool and live life as it comes.

Success everyone wants it and some people only have it. We see people craving for success in whatever field they are in and what ever they do. Well the taste of success is great you live in that mood till u lose again and it keeps on increasing as u get successes.

For example a student who wants to be good in studies and comes under type 1 will give his full to top the class or the school and when he is there he rejoices it. If he comes second also he thinks he is good for nothing and in the next opportunity he strikes and this time strikes hard. I have seen people who cry when they lose that first position well donno how it feels as i have lost that attitude i have converted from the type 1 to type 2 donno for good or for bad.

The people who come under type 1 when they lose continuous (what they think) feel extremely bad about it and think they have lost everything their thinking really goes to a deep dive. They
wont recover from it unless they taste something they think is a victory else consider them gone.

Type 2 people.. these are the guys who dont react much to what they achieve or lose. They take things cooly and let the future take its decision about the next challenge and wait for it. Some of these type 2 are worth praising they take their failure cooly but note the mistakes done by them and work on them these are the ones who top the world. These are the people who are popular.

The other kind of this type are the people who are not known to their neighbours atleast. Every type has its own advantage as i feel the first type are aggressive in nature and want to dominate where they are which may not be possible always when its not their game they will lose and
then they are down on their heart which deprives them of enjoying life to their full. The other people enjoy their life. I in person feel the type 2 are the best attitude person to be in with no
tensions live life as it comes and when challenged show the world what they are. Its hard to be that no doubt in that ..... but i had a slip into the second kind of type 2 take things lightly and live life ..... ;))

P.S : looks more like an essay isnt it =))

M Boleto ...


Loong time since i last posted ... was enjoying some of my great moments of my life "THE COLLEGE DAYS" so dnt want to lose any second of it so no posts of late .. well now i guess i shall start off with the blog :D

I thought will start with some of my experiences in the last year but well i guess that i will post soon but now this is the problem i am facing so thought this is of higher priority ;)

Well so this is the confusion (:-??) most of us are facing as of now .. MASTERS DEGREE ... successfully got out of the B.Tech some how .. n now the question of the future well a looooot of options out there.. one to select everything has its own positive and negative aspects .. options right in front of us ...
MS, M.tech, MBA.

I am a guy who has an interest in some research work but am a bit doubtful about getting along with the zooming technologies but that has always been my dream :-

MS is a possible solution but what about the money and also gng out of the country spending all the money and coming back jst to do the same job i am dng with B.Tech doesnot sound good.

M.Tech hmm .. good u be in India itself but the same question i have friends of mine who are doing the same job as mine so i have my own doubts about this well and the bigger question is getting through GATE too well there is no guarantee u get a seat even if u get a good score.

MBA well this has its own charm but the only hitch i face is a wanna live a cool life not as a leader finding all options to live upto the competition "FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL" ;))

A few days before the thought of IAS too came in, confused soul i am ;)) .

Hoping to sort out this confusion ASAP coz every step frm now will lead to a separate destination guess i wud like to settle off with the B.Tech and the job ;))

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NO WAY OUT

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I bet everyone would have thought abt this at some part of the life or the other.If u dint get this thought in ur mind .. then u r a GIFT OF GOD .

My problem is i feel the world out there is no better than the jungle..I feel so coz the main funda for living in this world is to FIGHT fight for a peaceful life .. (LOL ... ironical!! dont u think)
Ok my problem started right frm the moment i was a kid..
Everyone said "Study well else u ll hav a miserable future"..Ah .. that was a thought provoking advice ... it was having a tempting offer too .. "wrk till +2 its important after that life is cool".. (what an offer!!).
So i sat down straining my neck learning all sorts of crap some useful though .. (a butterfly like beautiful childhood is wasted turning into a bookworm).
PHEW!! its +2 time .. and with gr8 difficulty i surpassed the hurdle of life and thought that its all over .. But that was just the beginning of a more difficult phase.I found my way into Engineering with a lot of plans of enjoyment .
But the same old problem creeps up again ..
Study well otherwise u wud not get a job ...
This advice too sms to b a bit convincing ..So back to wrk ..(not tat srs though)
On the verge of completing 4 years with a job in hand .. now time to relax is the next thought in my mind ..
Then another dream breaker ... this time the tension of "JOB GUARANTEE".Another valid reason .. and the solution 2 more yrs of studies .. (not feeling to do though [;)])
Ah .. and i dont think that all ll v over after those two yrs ... the job ll hav a lot of challenges .. "submitting projects in time,company finding a better alternative for me"
GOD when is the end for all these tensions ??? is what i keep brooding over ..

Important of all ...
Not only with the case of studies .. this tension continues even in the case of convincing a gal to share her life with a person like u who knows nothing but a theoritical wrld and even proving that u better than others.

Now i am feeling bugged competing .. life is not just competing .. its just to live ur life out enjoyin to the full... the beauty is to live and not in struggling to live ...
Let the wrld b for the one who hav the will to fight still ... coz its basically "SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST".
The fight for me has ended now its time to live in peace.

PS : This was my decision everytime i think of this topic .. but competing has its own satisfaction if u stand out to b a winner in a cut- throat competition .. and i get tempted to take the next challenge too ...

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NOT JUST ANOTHER GAL

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After spending 16 yrs in the paradise for everyone "HOME SWEET HOME" , i at last had to come out of the house for higher studies to the place called NITW(National Institute of Technology Warangal) . The place where i got to know this beautiful gal . This place truely has some magic in it .. it has changed me a lot .. me a person who never believed in any sort of realtionships ... has now changed to a person craving for relations

Hmm .. now back to that gal ..
I was on my way to NITW with a lot of thoughts running in my mind (abt the life there n abt leaving home n heading for the hostel life) ... i saw a gleaming smile on the face a gal sitting right in front of me .. (that smile is surely gonna take anyone hearbeat down n her beautiful eversmiling face is surely gonna take ur lower jaw down) ... soon i got to know that the gal is also heading to the same destination as i m n another gr8 newz was that she is gonna b my future class mate ( good luck is showering on me :d) ...

Time passed by n v started to b good frnds .. i felt she was the one on whose shoulder i can lay my head at times of worries . She was the one of the beautiful gals arnd ... n i was proud of her coz she has such a simple attitude n was too humble a gal .. she always wants to protrait herself what she is not ..(rude n proud) ..

But Happiness never is gonna last long (else one wud forget its value) ..
Soon I was carried away by series of misunderstandings abt her ..... n me like an ******* not even caring to know the truth just took those crap for granted and down went that relationship crashing all the way into the BLACK HOLE (no sign of recovery) ...

But soon light finds its way back ... time has shown me the truth but alas .. i am helpless abt that ... "FAITH ONCE LOST IS LOST FOREVER"
I always felt like bowing in frnt of her n saying a big "SORRY" but ego .. this thing is a real mess creator ... n i wasnt even sure of the reaction of her .. so kept these things in me .. n never let out any sign of the war going on in me ...

But ... Time gives u the oppurtunity .. n now i hav been given a golden opputunity .. to confess my mistake n apologise to her ... but still i m in the state of an ego ..
"GOD PLZ HELP ME " ... no other way out ... so found this place ... to express my feelings ...

come what may .. i m gonna post this ...
but i dont care whether she gives me a damn or not .. or even gets angry .. after reading this
I REALLY DO CARE FOR HER n RESPECT HER ..
if possible forgive me my darling sis .. n i hope .. i get back those days coz history repeats itself :d

PS:-Please bear with this hifi sentiment LOL !!!