The Trip – The First Plan and its planners.

As if Dil Chahta Hai wasn’t enough, one more movie had to add fuel to the fire, any guesses, well this time it was ‘The Wild Hogs’. Now this really had me wondering why we weren’t going out on that trip that we had planned long ago, thanks to G Talk and Yahoo Messenger, we were able to plan a trip even though we were sitting miles apart in our Air Conditioned corporate cubicles under the watchful eyes of our bosses, What would we have done without Google, well frankly Google was our friend, philosopher and guide right from the beginning.
Talking of friends, without them this trip wouldn’t have been possible.
There was Vicks who had too many reasons to just sit at home, the programming job had taken its toll on him and the only thing he enjoyed to do was sit and watch TV in that hideout he called his room. For every reason I gave him to make him move out, he had two different ones to sit back and continue with his life. If this was Vicks then Mams was another personality. He had just returned from US, and was ever ready to do something different, I just had to tell him that we were planning to be the next team on the Columbia space shuttle and he would jump at it. So I knew he would never say no to any proposition of mine, Finally there was Chits, well convincing him is neither too difficult nor too easy, it all depends on his mood no not his mood, he is not at all moody, it all depends on him oh whatever, frankly, I have never been able to understand him, the only thing I am sure of is that he is a true friend and a great person to be with, and such a trip without him would be an utter waste. Then there were Ravs and Chins but they were in UK and US respectively and their joining was not possible but still then they chipped in with their thoughts.
When I put this idea of mine of all of us getting together and going off to some nice place for a day or two not worrying about our responsibilities our jobs our bosses no one, just for once before our families start worrying about getting us married, Initially everyone was interested.
Then I put forth the idea of all of us going for a ride instead of going for a trip in a train or a bus, that’s it that was the end of it, suddenly Vicks wasn’t interested and Chits put forward a potential and practical problem, Vicks and Chits had never tried riding a bike in the past and that posed a problem, only me and Mams had to ride for the whole journey, it wasn’t that we weren’t up for it, but then there were a lot of what if’s involved. For instance, First of all Goa was out of question as it was too far from Bangalore, and riding that far according to the others was dangerous and risky. Vicks wanted that we should inform our respective families about this trip, and so did Chits, but me and Mams were pretty sure that our folks would never approve of something like this, and this argument went on and on till it all got heated up and finally we dropped the idea.

The Trip - Background

It was during my 3rd year engineering that Dil Chahta Hai was released, and since the day we saw that movie, me and my friends were gung-ho about going to GOA as a group and wile away our time there for a day or two, that was way back in 2003, soon after that we all got held up with final year projects, exams and then job hunts, not that we were some book worms, but then clearing the exams was necessary and so was getting a job for some of us, yes that some of us is important, I wasn’t one among that some, I wasn’t sure at all what I wanted, and what do most engineering graduates who are not sure what to do after graduation do, well if you are wondering then preparation for CAT what else, my sincere apologies to all those sincere CAT aspirants and stalwarts, I am writing about myself so just chill. It took hell of a time for few of us to get into respectable jobs, and myself I managed to join a B-school and finish my MBA and in the process made new friends and irritated a few more lecturers. I hope my parents and my brother don’t read this at all, I just can’t imagine how they are going to react.
And by the time the summer of 2007 made way for the monsoon of 2007, I found myself in Chennai, my experiences in Chennai will be a different post, I wouldn’t want to miss sharing that, but some other time. Yeah so I saved some cash for a couple of months borrowed some from the bank which has been a true friend since the day I opened an account with them and took a credit card, and bought the love of my life – A Hero Honda Karizma.

The Trip - Introduction

Let me begin my blogging with the best thing i did this year, something which for me was adventurous and entertaining. It might not be for some people as they might have done something like this many a times in their lives and for some others something like this might not be exciting at all, but for me it was exhilarating.