Retro trips

So the theme is "Retro Trips". I have been into some places for which I want to share my experience because anytime while starting any of the trip, I found out many unknown friends who wrote the blogs and articles about the directions, road conditions, best time to go etc... which were of great help to me and my pals to reach our destinations. Although, second thought is to write something as my handwriting getting bad to worst day by day and the best thing to improve it is to write more and more... well you can connect handwriting with the typing speed now a days!!! So we are enough technical, we are enough cool to read/write the repeated things...

As far as my memory allow me to get a pic, our group covered almost all the places near to Mumbai & Pune and near means within the range of 500 KM. Although getting leaves is quite a task but thanks to our ex-managers (God Bless them all!!!) who knew since day one that we guys were not of any use and can't add any moral & social values to society and can only disturb other working people. Its fun to remember their relaxed smiley faces (like if you offer an ice-cream to a demon kid and s/he spread his/her torn lips) while asking for leaves especially on Fridays and Mondays...

While the first trip was being start with the royal feel, an A/C cab with driver etc., eventually we figured it out that if we continue like that, we need to ask for money from our home on monthly basis. So since next time, we hooked on our bikes, with fake posters of R100, dukati on those man made creatures and enjoyed. Later on somehow one guy managed to save some money by doing huge cost cutting in his daily expenses and brought a 10 years old Maruti Zen. Trust me, that was like a wonder car for us and she did all the good things to us. It was a great feeling like a king in his chariot irrespective of she was too old to carry 5-6 guyz, but at times we made her so strong to do so...

Okay, so below is the list in my mind I am thinking to cover in next blogs on the basis of what I can recall...


-- Mumbai to Harihareshwar-Shriwardhan (In Cab)
-- Mumbai to Igatpuri-Bhandardhara (In Cab)
-- Pune to Goa (On Bike)
-- Mumbai to Dapoli (On Bike)
-- Mumbai to Daman & Dui (On Bike)
-- Pune to Mahabaleshwar (On Bike)
-- Mumbai to Pune-Shanisingnapur-Shirdi-Trambkeshwar to Mumbai (In Car)
-- Mumbai to Ratna giri (Train)
-- Mumbai to Alibaug (In Car)
-- Delhi to Amritsar-Chandigarh-Delhi
-- Delhi to Orissa
-- Delhi to Jaipur-Ajmer-Pushkar-Ringas to Delhi
-- Delhi to Govardhan-Vrindavan-Mathura-Agra to Delhi

To be continued... the list as well as blog...

Jeevashram

Hi There,

Thanks for your time. It has been tremendous pleasure to share this information with you. We all have been passing through a number of sayings/quotes about the essential elements of life "Peace & Love" atleast once in our days schedule. Love human beings because of being human. I just want to add a bit into the same, love life because of being life within you, no matter in what and which form it is, human, animals...all. Anything which is making a response to you, have feelings, emotions, something is going through their mind, they are thinking, acting and responding to you in their own way they are made to be respond. A small and common example is of a dog, when you pass a street dog and just whistle, he starts wagging his tail in a slower sweep that is exactly a response of being confident that you are not going to hurt him and about his friendly gesture towards you. If you ever tried to make an eye contact with a wild cat, you would have noticed the bristling tail and hairs get standing. These are just forms of emotions which they express by their body language. Animals feel love, they feel pain, they feel everything what you feel on certain course of action which would have been taken by/to you.
It is just not a matter of feed some street dog or cat. It is more to do with the question "how much" and "how can" you can help them by taking care of these orphans. It is not a matter of having pets at home for decoration purpose and to show how upper class you belong to. It is not a matter of how much money you have spent to take a high class breed. It is not a matter how conscious you are about your own pet so that you don't take chances when your pet is not feeling well. It is matter of how you feel about animal community as a whole. It is a question on how you feel when you see an animal on the street and road roaming here and there just to get some food. It is a concern what you do apart from uttering a loud inarticulate cry on government while you have to use emergency breaks of your vehicle due to the reason some animal on the road or street comes on the way.

Come on!! They have life inside them, they have a soul to be live, they have a body to feel, they have heart just like you which actually beats as of your heart's do, they have their own brain to understand the things.

Yes, we are facing big issues in our own life. In India we have a huge population density. We are not able to take care of orphan humans which have sleepless nights without food. We are taking these issues in UN, generating reports and dashboards about how poor and helpless we are. But do those animals have some government to publish all these things they are going through? Are they able to write out to some governance authority or system about their sufferings? It’s us who have to think about them because it’s us only due to which they are in this condition. They are also the integral part of this our complete circulatory biological process. It is an unsaid fact that to save the existence of humans, it is necessary to save the nature, a part of which animals belong too.

Jeevashram, means a shelter for animals, is one of those organizations which are working for betterment of these unspoken lives. It was founded in 1990 and working continuously to help animals in all the way they can, i.e. shelter, treatment, helping in adoptation of pets, to prevent cruelty to animals etc. It holds a fully equipped veterinary hospital inside the campus that offers all kind of animal care services. The hospital facilitates with mobile dispensary, X-ray machine and operation theatre. They have a separate space for dogs and a cattery. You can find a combined section for birds and rabbits. They have and take care of peacocks, peahens, roosters and pigeons etc. Cattle, horses and donkeys are also in their campus.Currently Jeevashram Foundation is under supervision of Dr Vinod Sharma, Chief Veterinary Officer-in-Charge. The foundation is affiliated to the World Society for Protection of Animals (WSPA).

Jeevashram pic

A question to you after reading all above article is "How you can help"??? And the answer you will be able to give in a better position, I am just writing down my own ideas.

-- Atleast, not to be cruel to animals.
-- Donations (contact details below).
-- Any baronial help (providing food, medicines etc for animals to Jeevashram).
-- Adopting a pet. Please don't show so much of concern about breed of dogs etc. Normal Indian breeds have the same emotions and feelings and pets are not just artificial things to decorate the house so that you have to be specific about choices for their breed.
-- Taking care of orphan street animals.
-- If there is something wrong (accident, mishappening) with the orphan animal(s), do contact your nearest veterinary hospital. Trust me, there are some government owned hospitals and NGOs too just a phone call away from you which will not charge for this OR the charge will be less than your daily food cost.
-- Taking good care of your own pet.

Jeevashram Foundation Location:

Village Rajokri, Near the Temple, New Delhi - 110038.
Phone: 91-11-25064114, 91-11-25064118, 91-11-25063696
email: jeevashram@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.jeevashram.org/

The friends and forever...

Hi There,

So this was a place I always want to own…yes, its not the place I want to be, but I want to own… :) …three reasons…First, this place is on the beach…extremely vast beach, water all around till the eye sight range allow you to see…Second reason, you can drive cars & bikes on that beach!!! No compulsions, no speed limits…

The third and the most important reason is because I got my best, my favorite, most honest and loyal pals there!!! They were around 20, most in pairs…and I loved the most “Great Dane” due to there silence, the second most important thing in life. They were giving very silent friendly gestures. The feeling after looking at them was like they have no issues what is happening all around; they have no worries about food, the kind of place they got etc. However, if you are thinking of breaking their silence in a non-friendly way or either any way they don’t like, forget about walking or having food by your own hands for a month or so. They are calm, but not cowards, they are silent in nature, but not non-violent, they have tremendous patience, but not for testing purpose.

So I got most of the special breeds there, which exactly the match with my choices, the kind of souls I want to spend most of my time…No politics, nothing to talk about schedules, less demanding, and most important thing…nothing they can do to harm environment, (which we are prone to do)!!!










Okay…so we can here talk about some more buddies…as I mentioned, they were around twenty of them…most in pairs…some were puppies. We had breeds like Indian, Great Dane/ Viszla & Hound Mix, German Sheffered, Labrador, Pointer etc…

The Great Dane OR Viszla & Hound Mix










The Great Dane OR Viszla & Hound Mix (the red brown one, behind the one who is getting pampered)…Regret for the mix up of breeds here but me too was really confused which breed was that…and still I am…But what I tried to explain below is 99% common between both breeds.
Their physical appearance can make anyone scared of them, they are tall and large, and having a muscular looks. But in nature, as I said, very gentle, patient and loyal. You can depend on them and they are very easy to train. Precaution one needs to take about them is training. They turned uncontrollable without proper training. They love to be in discipline and if trained well, they can become the great guard for you and your family.
The next one who catch my view was an Old English Bulldog…lazy looks, but very active actually, gives you the feeling that he is ready to take all the pain you have… :). They are very friendly in nature, courageous and fearless by heart. They can save you and your house at any cost, can count on them. The only mandatory thing for them is proper training.

Old English Bulldog










The next one who catch my view was an Old English Bulldog…lazy looks, but very active actually, gives you the feeling that he is ready to take all the pain you have… J. They are very friendly in nature, courageous and fearless by heart. They can save you and your house at any cost, can count on them. The only mandatory thing for them is proper training.

Pointer & German Shepherd










German Shepherde

Emmm…there comes the tiger!! First look of this breed gives you the feeling that they are quite ready to attack…brave heart, very courageous, but soft heart dogs…They carry a muscular and robust physique. They are damn intelligent, loyal and faithful. They require special attention for their daily exercise and brushing. I like them for their looks and their daredevilness nature.

Pointer…

As its name said, they got points… I didn’t had a great idea about the exact breed of this pointer that was there, as there are many breeds and this one is not the pure Pointer breed…however that hardly makes a difference in the nature and built they have. They have great stamina and large in size. They have gentle and obedient temperament. They need lots of exercise on daily basis, that's their maintenance…

Labrador (top on pointer...)










One of the world's most popular dogs…Mainly police dogs for bomb squad etc…they are very gregarious in nature and family-oriented. You will always find them eager-to-please and adaptable. They love water like fish, and as they have to win world championship in swimming… :) They like and need human companionship…In my personal views, they are most beautiful too… :)

Regret for the low quality of pics, needed to keep them with low size...

Thats for now...will back soon...

Something is wrong...

With the great zeal and enthusiasm of trying to being happy and cool, something strikes everytime in head...the news around you, people around you, the government factors, internet stuff which you always think you are behind someone atleast regarding surfing, information etc... Even this my post also could be considered as a cruddy thing which talks about all the factors which are here to frighten all of us, to help in pulling up our inner instinct of fear. Could we be happier post reading or writing a great story, a story of cheeriness, some inclusion of romance, jokes etc...Yes, for moment of time. By the time you can make that within your memory. As soon as it will diminish, again some kind of fear factor popup, will get heavy on your moment of joy.

Fear of being in a plane which is about to land in water, fear of your kid who is alone inside the house, fear of clashing your plane (on which you haven't onboard till yet and not booked the tickets too) with a chopper, fear of being robbed in your own city, fear of being beaten by some extremists while hanging out with friends, fear of being accused to break any of your cultural law which you never mind or concerned before and you are not ware of that too. Every moment fear of pink slips, everytime news comes for someone about firing, irrespective of someone known or unknown, making and reviewing future plans and checking bills or balances. Everytime a scary feeling comes and go, we convenience ourselves that how the life it is, but don't dare to speak up...why this is how the life it is...

Everytime there is something under the carpet, pinching again and again...something is wrong. Though sometime that WRONG thing is something we are very much aware but, again for our own sake of good, still try to convince ourselves that it is not going to happen what we are thinking. Are we daring enough to unfold that pyramid of uncertainty and figure out what is waiting? No, even if we will have the powers to do so. Because the people who got those powers, are not afraid and reason being, they got those things after all the suffering we are dare to even think about. Anyways, this post is not again to divert the topic from fearing things to great people. Was going through one of the great quote..."On this earth, there is no security, there is only opportunity" which made me to think about what is that "Security" and where is that "Opportunity". But again, to be on the so called positive side of this statement, want to figure out the fact, how to be secure enough to get that opportunity...Again...something is wrong...

Cheers...

Your God, Our God and The God

So recently I have been impressed from the message (or rather a question) I got from one of the movie...question was raised if God has created the man or man has created the God of his own purpose...? Too simple to read, most difficult to answer...first do something then to cover the same, make a God for yourself, to help you, to convince yourself, to answer your question(s)...sometimes don't we feel that we turn our own God while ask about certain task to do or not to do?

In your inner soul, if in case we have to do something, we anyhow will convince ourselves...weather it is right or wrong...we raise a question for ourselves, making our own answer for the same (and the answer is always what we want to do since the time we raised the question...)...but somewhere, we need to convince ourselves and that is what takes time...to go to our Almighty and ask for the permission by giving pros and cons (not to say always pros wins if we need to do the task, and cons wins if we don't want to do the task...)

So here again comes the matter weather God created the man or for own convenience, we created him, for our own purpose... To blame someone if something goes wrong with us...to call someone in bad time...to ask for something (and almost all the time we need to get something...)...This again creates another question of faith...if someone do have faith in God, in destiny and all related things, then what is there to ask...? It is a very simple confusion (though its a confusion...) that if we believe in Almighty...we need not to ask for something because believing in him itself means we are on the same page with him, we are agreeing with the fact that what all we get till now in life, what all happened with ourselves in past, what all is happening in present and what all future holds for us...is alright...and it is his wish for us, which has done in past, which is getting resolved in present and which will be done in future too...no matters what will happen to our faith, it will remain same, it will not change, can't be manipulated...

In second case, if we don't carry a faith...even if we think we have the greatest faith in almighty, but somewhere it is not (otherwise we should not be in a position to question in any case about past/present/future...) so in this situation, we create our own God to convince ourselves, to pamper ourselves and giving a strong feeling if we should do the thing what we think or not to do the same...in any case, one creates his/her own God, create question, get the answer, if not getting the answer, waiting for miracle like Almighty will appear in dreams and will assist me...(or anything and something like that...)...if miracle also don't work...then anyhow convincing our own God for anything we want to do, is for a good sake for sure.

Not commenting on anyone's faith, believe, feelings...just thought of it if this is what we are doing...or if you are also thinking if this is what we used to do with ourselves...with Almighty...manipulating him like what and as we want...blaming him whatever for we want to blame him...creating him as and when required...Just to remind one quote...God loves us the way we are, but too much to leave us that way...

Someone said it right...What we are is God's gift to us, what we become is our gift to God...and I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice...

In the start and the end...its the matter of faith and belief...not one's writing...

myself...

Sometimes you don't know what you are searching for...if you say its an excuse to do nothing, I am ready to accept...coz I know I would be somewhere in the deep thinking which you can't get in at the moment...I am not making any excuse. This is a fact and you have to ask yourself...If that could be money with a great designation you wished, you are at that point...why not? I am in confusion...reason being, you get all what you want...and if you get that, you become more hungry...and more and more...there is no end...there is no limit...human nature...Have you feel that whatever you wish to be...you got it and post that...you wish more and more... And after every next level you achieved...insecurity raises high and high...you have more bills to pay...you have more instalments...more EMIs...or whatever...your near and dear ones need more from you and to get that, you have to do a lot more...

When you started with few bucks...you were in the seventh sky...now at present you are at the multiplication of that with 5 or 6 or 7 or even 9...and still there is a feeling inside that "u r nothing, u r nowhere"...what’s the deal? Where is the promise you made to yourself that you will do this, you will do that and all gone? You gone to US, UK..Wherever...you made money...you made friends...but where are you? Are you there where you wished to be? Are you doing what you wanted to be? So what you made out of it? You wanted not to be payable to someone...but a balance sheet is waiting there on your name with bank...waiting for your next appraisal...huge expectation of near n dear ones...waiting there to get fulfil...

So where are you? You are lost somewhere...somewhere in this race...somewhere in this race to be superior...somewhere in this race to be someone...to handle people...can you handle yourself in a way you always wished to be?? You can't...so how you can handle other people? How you can be happy just by a quote "SIR" if someone said this to you? How you can be happy not to be yourself by saying yes n yes to all your superiors when you are not happy by yourself...??

Okay...here goes my side...

Have you ever gone through the life of anyone he who wanted to be himself and succeed? No...? Yes...? Whatever...

I have gone through..but don't want any life like that...as like you don't want any life like that...

Ghalib...? Sindbaad...? Arastu...? Lao Tse...? Heard of them? No..? Go Google...

Anywayz...Whoever they were...whatever they did...they were themselves...They didn’t changed anything inside them...for at least this world...They did they wanted to do...and they survived their life...they were not rich..they were hardly capable to arrange the things for their survival...but they did whatever they wanted...that was the liberty..that was their own freedom...that was in between them...Kings of themselves...which is more important rather than king of all by winning anyone else...I mean you can be funny...you can make other's happy by jokes...but deep inside....you know what is going on...what you are doing..only you can know...but they were what they wanted to be...and everyone around them was a part of that...

Sorry..I am not a follower...I don't follow anyone...but at least can appreciate...

They were not famous at their time...because of the reason they didn't wanted to be...but we....we want to be famous...we want that people should know us...at present...not in the future...not saying that this is wrong...just trying to accept that their approach was right...


I am done with my frustration...thanks for reading and have a good tomorrow ahead...and yes please... don't forget to smile today, tomorrow may be worst... :)