Sleepless in Bannerghatta
Since my last mail i have gained another couple of inches sideways and a few kilos at all the wrong places. With such an amazing performance i tend to think tht the time I spent with my good old bed was better. At least you didnt gain so much so fast :(
A couple of nice things happening out here, will take it one at a time. First this is the chillest term at IIM B. Actually i have no work to do and for sometime it started to bite. I took to my usual vocation of sleeping but again that didnt take me too far. In fact the other day i actually got up at around 3 and suddenly decided that i dont feel like sleeping any more. So got out of the room and suddenly realised that I wasn’t the only one faced with the problem.
I have a talent of sniffing out food from the most amazing of places. And I am most effective during my now infamous nocturnal visits around some of the neighbouring rooms. But that day my talents failed me. My neighbour Gauravjeet aka lolo didn’t have a shred of anything edible in his room. My disappointment was somewhat comforted by the fact that I wasn’t alone in feeling so insomniac. Such instances in campus at not very uncommon. The usual thing that follows is a few movie downloads and till at least late early morning.
I never kinda had a liking for those hefty bullets bikes. I always thought that those were rather downmarket products. And I used to think hard as to why people actually found those things interesting. Then some time a few years back I had one of my classmates spend a fortune for one of those bikes and I was like how can someone be so idiotic.
My preference for things sleeker like the pulsar would have remained that way had it not been for the unexpected developments in my immediate neighbourhood. Our dear old lolo singh bought a thunderbird for himself. The second hand machine actually cost him a small fortune. Neways this huge giant of bike has somehow helped change some of the biases about large Bullet like bikes.
So as I was telling you it was early in the morning when the sunrise was a few hours away and here I was with lolo agreeing on the fact that we were sleepless in IIMB. So we decided to do something about it and what we did was take a trip to Bannerghatta National Park. The road to that place is bad is an understatement. We had cars moving at around 10km on an empty road cause any faster than that would have definitely caused some harm to the car.
I always felt that speed is not something that I am particularly afraid of. But after that morning ride on bannerghatta road I stood corrected. Lolo jeet singh was riding pretty fast and I still consider it to be a miracle that the speedometer never crossed the hundred km mark. At least five times during the trip j lo asked if we had crossed the 100 mark and I had to disappoint him by stating that it had jus crossed the 95 mark.
Riding at that speed on a good road I am sure would be a challenge but on those roads its nothing but an experience of a lifetime. At those speeds a normal bike would have been flying a few meters above ground level but the thunderbird was firmly grounded. The only thing not in its place was my jacket that was fluttering all over the place. As if that was not enough my cellphone which was firmly tucked inside a pocket decided to take a jump out of the moving bike. As if this was not enough my wallet decided to do an encore jus to remind us tht we are being too fast ;)
Entry into a national park at around 5 is not tht difficult a task. We took the bike into the place where none were allowed and we planned to sit there and wait for the sunrise. In the pitch darkness when all tht was visible were the stars and a few bulbs far far away. The immediate surroundings was pitch dark and without the headlights absolutely nothing was visible.
Its was just then that a couple shooting stars whizzed past us. Jus as I was thinking wht to wish we heard noises. The immediate response was J Lo back on the bike ready to buzz off. I tried to reason with him and tell him that the sunrise was indeed a great scene. But then I realised tht he was not in a state of mind for rational reasoning and so we headed home through the potholes of bannerghatta road.
I was pretty disappointed for not being able to see the sunrise but what was more disappointing was that in our haste to leave the place we didn’t even properly determine what the source of the noise. We did discuss the matter later and our guess is tht it nothing but a harmless hippo or at the most an elephant. And I guess its best not to talk about the state of mind of that nice little animal.
A couple of nice things happening out here, will take it one at a time. First this is the chillest term at IIM B. Actually i have no work to do and for sometime it started to bite. I took to my usual vocation of sleeping but again that didnt take me too far. In fact the other day i actually got up at around 3 and suddenly decided that i dont feel like sleeping any more. So got out of the room and suddenly realised that I wasn’t the only one faced with the problem.
I have a talent of sniffing out food from the most amazing of places. And I am most effective during my now infamous nocturnal visits around some of the neighbouring rooms. But that day my talents failed me. My neighbour Gauravjeet aka lolo didn’t have a shred of anything edible in his room. My disappointment was somewhat comforted by the fact that I wasn’t alone in feeling so insomniac. Such instances in campus at not very uncommon. The usual thing that follows is a few movie downloads and till at least late early morning.
I never kinda had a liking for those hefty bullets bikes. I always thought that those were rather downmarket products. And I used to think hard as to why people actually found those things interesting. Then some time a few years back I had one of my classmates spend a fortune for one of those bikes and I was like how can someone be so idiotic.
My preference for things sleeker like the pulsar would have remained that way had it not been for the unexpected developments in my immediate neighbourhood. Our dear old lolo singh bought a thunderbird for himself. The second hand machine actually cost him a small fortune. Neways this huge giant of bike has somehow helped change some of the biases about large Bullet like bikes.
So as I was telling you it was early in the morning when the sunrise was a few hours away and here I was with lolo agreeing on the fact that we were sleepless in IIMB. So we decided to do something about it and what we did was take a trip to Bannerghatta National Park. The road to that place is bad is an understatement. We had cars moving at around 10km on an empty road cause any faster than that would have definitely caused some harm to the car.
I always felt that speed is not something that I am particularly afraid of. But after that morning ride on bannerghatta road I stood corrected. Lolo jeet singh was riding pretty fast and I still consider it to be a miracle that the speedometer never crossed the hundred km mark. At least five times during the trip j lo asked if we had crossed the 100 mark and I had to disappoint him by stating that it had jus crossed the 95 mark.
Riding at that speed on a good road I am sure would be a challenge but on those roads its nothing but an experience of a lifetime. At those speeds a normal bike would have been flying a few meters above ground level but the thunderbird was firmly grounded. The only thing not in its place was my jacket that was fluttering all over the place. As if that was not enough my cellphone which was firmly tucked inside a pocket decided to take a jump out of the moving bike. As if this was not enough my wallet decided to do an encore jus to remind us tht we are being too fast ;)
Entry into a national park at around 5 is not tht difficult a task. We took the bike into the place where none were allowed and we planned to sit there and wait for the sunrise. In the pitch darkness when all tht was visible were the stars and a few bulbs far far away. The immediate surroundings was pitch dark and without the headlights absolutely nothing was visible.
Its was just then that a couple shooting stars whizzed past us. Jus as I was thinking wht to wish we heard noises. The immediate response was J Lo back on the bike ready to buzz off. I tried to reason with him and tell him that the sunrise was indeed a great scene. But then I realised tht he was not in a state of mind for rational reasoning and so we headed home through the potholes of bannerghatta road.
I was pretty disappointed for not being able to see the sunrise but what was more disappointing was that in our haste to leave the place we didn’t even properly determine what the source of the noise. We did discuss the matter later and our guess is tht it nothing but a harmless hippo or at the most an elephant. And I guess its best not to talk about the state of mind of that nice little animal.
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