Back Home in Keylong :-) - A Day by day trip log to Leh and Back

ts been 2 years now and I still have not written about "Back Home in
Keylong"
No point in doing a full fledged write up right now but I had borrowed a
small notebook from Katz during the trip and I had jotted down day to day
incidents and accidents on it. Here's how it goes :-)

Trip Log...

Day One - When we landed in Delhi

Delhi Odo - 5785 on 7th July

Day two - when the trip actually started
Start odo - 5785, End Odo - 6256. Trip - 469 kms, Place - Kufri (45 kms
before Shimla)
Ajith's bike - Valve problem. Were detained at Kufri and unable to go on
further.
Tiger had a puncture
I was lost on the way to Kufri and had to cut across Chandigarh on the way
to Kufri.
The Ghat sections start and its loads of fun

Day Three ( Kufri to Bunther )

Start - 6256, End - 6484
Went via Jalori Pass. Awesome wonlee. Major rains btwn Narkhanda and Lhori.
Ajith's bike had some carb issues and was fixed.
Naren and Bala were feverish
Bala's bike conked on top of jalori pass. Plug issues and was solved.
Night ride from Jalori to Aut was fluckin scary.

Day Four - Rest

Bala had 102 Deg fever
Katz, Naren, Gunfight, Doss, Bala and I stay back at Bunther to enjaai
Flight view resort was the place of stay
Took a bath, shaved after 4 days :P~

Day Five - (Bunther to Keylong)

Start - 6484, End - 6677
Rohtang Pass was a sight to see
Naren's bike fork broke on the way to Keylong
Unable to fix due to unavailability of spare fork leg :-(
Stay at Valley View Resort at Keylong

Day Six - Rest

Naren's bike for repaired
Keylong was cold - 3068 m ASL

Day Seven (Keylong to Sarchu)
End Odo - 6843
Bala had a major fall at Grampu. Back brake cam broke and Bala escaped
unhurt
Sarchu clocked minus 4 deg in the evening. Super cold it was.
The Morey plains were a sight to see :)
Bala had a bad fever.
Celebrated Naren's bday with a bottle of Glen Mornagie
Met Shaik, Gagan and Gaurav from Delhi who were on an impromptu trip to Leh
on an Avenger and Karizma.

Day Eight (Sarchu - Leh)

Admitted Bala at the Military hospital at Sarchu. The Outpost head was Mr
Selvam from Theni in South India.
Climbed Naakeerla, Lachlungla and Tanglangla. View was amazing.
I am on Bala's 500 and Gaurav is riding my A350
Got stranded in the moddle with no petrol
Reached Leh at 8 PM and checked into Hotel Padmaling
Bala arrives at 10.20 PM

Day Nine - Rest

Few of the boys start to Pangong-tso and return half way because of heavy
snow
Captain Katari lands in Leh
Bala gets admitted in Leh Military hospital. Diagnosed with severe HAPE
(High Altitude Pulmonary Edema)
Bonfire dinner was awesome

Day Ten (Leh - Kardung La - Leh)

Awesome day of everyone's life. Standing tall at the worlds highest motor
able road was truely goosebumpy
Bala was far better today
Tshirts made today
Lunch at Zengarden and Dinner at the same place again.

Day 11 - Resting still

Captain takes my bike to Shey palce.
Me and Naren go and pack off Bala's bike to Delhi
The riding starts again tomo

Day 12 (Leh - Kargil)
Start - 7320 End - 7559

Awesome trip to Kargil via Lamayuru.
Saw the Magnetic hill and tried out a few stunts
Reached Kargil late in the night.
Stay at Greenland Park.
Kargil was seriously a hostile looking town
Facal dinner and bad sleep
I had a cyst on my right hand which was paining like crazy. Naren tried
operating it with a sterilized needle but failed.

Day 13 (Kargil - Srinagar)

Climbed Zojila to enter Kashmir Valley.
The view at Sonmarg was awesome
The finger pain because of the cyst became bad. Rode most of the way w/o
gloves
Reached Srinagar at 6.20 pm
Checked into Selec Town - House boat on Dal Lake.
Doss had a small accident. All fine.

Day 14 - Rest

Went to a local doc to remove the cyst. Painful procedure but fluck WHAT A
RELIEF
Went on a tour around Dal Lake on a Shikara
Went to Hazrathbal shrine - Never seen such a beautiful mosque.
Bought a Silk on Wool carpet for home.
Ate at Hotel De-Linz for the afternoon
Two bomb blasts at Srinagar
Kashmiri pulao at night was yumm.

Day 16 (Srinagar to Madhopur)
End Odo - 8181

Beautiful roads. Saw Patni Top
Heavy rains after Udampur.
Katz, Me and Naren decided to ride straight to Delhi throughout the night
but were held back at Madhopur for the night.

Day 17 (Madhopur to Delhi)

Awesome roads
Flat Tyre at Panipet just after dinner
Ripped on these roads all the way. The GT Karnal is super deluxe
Gear Down odo - 8729
Patted the bike and said thanks to it for taking me on this trip :-)
Total Kms - 2944 kms

Day 18 - Rest

Lazed around at Suresh's
Packed off the bikes to chennai
Full kattu at Andhra Meals Hotel
Tamilnadu Express at 10.35 PM
No cash left on me and katz. TOTAL DRY

Day 19 - TRAINNNNNNNNNN

Whole day in train
Full Fun
Lotsa Cheap thrills
Met Dr Manoj - A Dental doc from Chennai - Anna Nagar

Day 20 - CHENNAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

Reached Chennai at 8 AM
THREE CHEERS OF ALTITUDE OVERDOSE
The receiving party was there with Garlands to welcome us.
Thanks to Topic, Raj, Left and Subha for coming to receive us :-)

This was a memorable trip. Should do it again sometime :-)

Peace
Dosai

MBMC 7A - Of Car Trips, Laughter Therapy, Alcohol Overflow and Nilgiri Niggers.


Kodaikanal, Well the name sounds really good in every chennaite's heart during the scorching months of Summer. This blaady star called the sun decides to smile throughout summer causing total death to the Chennai peeps during April, May and June and fluckin May is the month when the MBMC LKB's decide to keep aniv parties. This means riding under the blazing sun for hours togather and passing out to couple of beers at the end of it.

I am going to tell you a story where the Natharis drove to the aniv party. I am gonna tell you a story where the entire gang went mad with laughter that our effin skulls and temples started aching like crazy.Venkhan and Me were the wounded soldiers and the plan was to get on the car and drive to Kodai and party hard and get back. As the aniv pardy drew close, peeps started jumpiing from the "I bike" to "Lets Car" gang. Well cant blame as each peep had an exjoose which was close to genuine :P~.

Thursday Morning - Super dooper ejjitement at work as evening was the start to Kodai. Quickly rounded up and finished up my work at oppice and shot home. Quickly packed and headed go Jeep's place to find fellow Natharis. 3 black cars. 10 NAtharis... Well this is never good news to the peeps on the road :P~. Started at 6.45 to pick up Venkhan and Kama. Popped in the S.Ve Sekar CD and started listening to some kaamedy. Kiran kept the car at a steady 100 and we rolled on and on to reach Ulundurpet for dinner. At this point Katz walks into the hotel and yells " Anney ory 10 Muttai dosai and oru 10 sadha dosai and oru 5 half boil and 7 omlet". We were all like "Shepaaaaaaaaaaaaaa". Trust me, all these disappeared in like 10 mins and we washed down dinner with some yumm chai. Next stop was Samayapuram for a regroup and then we took off to pass Trichy and regrouped again at Dindugal at 5ish in the morning. Have couple of chais and headed past Vathlaguundu to reach the foot hills of Kodai. A quick chai later the entire 3 car gang climbed the 52 km long ghat section to reach Hotel CS at Kodai. We were welcomed by Bala, Firang, DJ and Sim and the galatta started almost immly with Ajith taking over the reception desk and shouting orders to everyone. I inspected the mujik system and ok'd it for the night pardy. I had not slept the entire night and so badly wanted to sleep. Tried taking a cat nap and that fackin didnt work so stayed awake even after an awesome lunch. Evening came and the MBMC and RTMC fluckers started coming in. They were promptly registered and alloted rooms. I quickly showered and setup the DJ table and around 6 pm started the moosik. Alcohol flowed like the Nile and there was the smell of Dhumm everywhere. A bon-fire was lit and the dancing started. Koothu numbers were the preffered music and the MBMC fellas jumped in and made merry. The music endded at 11 and we retired to 201 to talk and smoke. Ajith suddenly comes in all lost and stumbles about, has a panic attack and is whisked away to the hospital by Bala and Kiran. Thats whole another story to tell so ask me when you see me :P~.

Saturday Morning - Woke up to bikes being revved. It was a lazy fluckin day. Lazed at the resort the whole day. There were biker games which were conducted in the evening. Music started at 8 with me taking the DJ console. Fluckin non stop dancing wonlee after that. Sreejit cut the MBMC Aniv cake. Dodo was given bumps. Bra's face looked like it had been through an interracial facial BWHAHAHAHAHA :P~. The night ended with "Stairway to Heaven" dedicated to Dom. After this the usual Nathari session started and OH FACKIN GOD, I havent laughed this much in YEARS. This was the highlight of the day.

Sunday - Woke up half asleep. Jumped into the CAR and ZZZZzzzZZZ. I was at Trichy was breakfast and ZzzzZZZ. I was at Ulundurpet for early lunch and more ZzzZZZ I was home.

All in all a fab ride with fab friend and fab cars. Loved every bit of it.

Lessons learnt...

There is an Opel Nissan according to Kama

Kama has a huge gaandu on Katz, Ravi and Ajith

Never walk barefoot at Kodai unless u want ur jewels to freeze

Get loads of kuthu music if ya wanna play to chennai madcaps

According to DJ.. Mohammd Sathak did a bothak.

Nirmal is a bad fluckin singer when it comes to singing Led Zep songs.

Jerry seriously looks ghastly which his black undies on :P~

Nirmal is dangerous. He flashed me and DJ couple of time resulting in brain and eye injury.

That u never need to worry about spell mistakes when you do a writeup. I can always ask the readers to fackaff if they point em out.

Peace
Dosai

Srini - Actor, Male Model, Grizzly Bear of the group. Superb dancer when he is on the floor and a shameless flirt when off it. The glue which holds everyone :-)

Arvind - Muscle Man, IBM Pillar, Stud Bugger. Arvind is the wise man undercover. Knows how to pass smart alec comments on all social networking sites. Drives a Scorpio and is always calm and cool.

Anupam - Arnold Arumugam of the group. We call him Pom Pom, Bam Pam and whatever comes to our filthy tongue. Super delux dancer when he gets on floor. Always smiling and always the end of some silly joke.

Vikram - Skinny Ass, Kakinanda Don, MJ Incorporated. This dude looks like the ciggy that he smokes. Is one of the reason that we all learnt to dance :-). Is like a bull in a china shop when he is down 1 beer. 2 beers will knock him out so mind it.

Arwa - If dance then Arwa ENDIF. Is Style/Drama queen. Can kick some serious butt when it comes to the floor. Has taught me loads of levels in my time at AMD. Natural Poser to anything that has a flash.

Vaishali - Dad drives a Merc PERIOD :P~. Lord of the spins. Loads of positive attitude and is wonderful when on floor. Transforms into a local galeej party when talking to me. Uses cuss words that loads of us refuse to use :P~

Srihari - Blaady reflector with his head and all :P~. Namba cheta is super delux at dancing and also with the ladies. Can look at anything thats lady like :P~. Aparna if you are reading this then PLEASE DONT.

Bhavna - Mood Swinger every 20 secs. A Natural dancer and can put loads of advanced salsa dancers to shame with her ability to follow the lead. Total local party. Rejected of the 3 sisters. Can vetti madichify and jump into fights anytime she wants. She is more like a HE.

Kalyani - Seriously DRAMA QUEEN. Well she works with Evam so that makes it real. Has got locks to die for. A Natural poser and fluckin MOVES on the floor. I have sometime been blown away by her spinning.

Prasanthi - Somalia Ladies, Purple Factory, Dysfucntional Kid. Is total mental case.. well atleast that was the thing that made her a friend :P~. Dances very well. Voice thaan slight aa damage :P~

Anitha - The Jillu of the group. Is super patient, Is super well kept. Has a superb voice but orey shy comes to her when I ask her to sing.

Maya Roy - Fashion Designer, Mental Case, Love the Nose Ring ;-). Has a husky voice that reminds me of Rani Mukherjee (OH MAMA). Is quiet good on floor. Pinches a lot and sure has a super wide smile to lighten up moods :-)

Sishira - The Managing Director of Facebook. Total Nutcase and is the only person in this whole wide fluckin world that lover her hubby so much. Total mokkai all the time and there is not even a single pic that she is not there. Has learnt the art of leaning 30 degrees to the horizontal and posing like a perfect model. Has won beauty contests and all(am not kidding here)

Nimesh - Fortunately or Unfortunately the husband of Sishira. Cool dude and loves getting pampered by his reddy wifey. Runs a business and loves to pardy hard.

Subash - Pro Dancer fellow. Been with me from the start at AMD. IIT fellow so this dude has the brains and the dance moves. Disappears for like a million years at a stretch and appears back to perfectly pick up the moves and dance again. Is a treat to watch on the floor.

Arun Christie - Mad Cap. Noone other than him can pull off a Yellow colour shirt in the crowd. Is pulling others legs all the time and also gets ass kicked for doing so every single time.

Divya Chandramoulie - Another Drama Queen/King/Knight/Watever.

This one is my longest known specimen among the crowd. Talks super engliss and pucca iyer aathu tamil. Looks and speech decieve ppl so kindly beware of this dudette because she can jump down to local royapuram type tamil and throw you off guard. Have been head driver for her for a long friggin time now. 4.5 Please come fast and save me from all this.

Hari Krishnan - Mikal Juckson imitator. Does amazing hip hop and its fun to watch him stand on his hands and head. Total Local candidate and is a part of the "OH REALLYYYYY" group

Sindhu - Wifey of the Mikan Juckson. President of "OH REALLYYYY" club. Is super fun to be with. One person who can trip on me and get away with it. GRRRRR

Edel - This one is a 100% Screamer. U jus need to go behind her and Say HI and she will effin scream the entire place down. Has got the high pitch of Ozzy Ozbourne. Full ishtyle dancer. Is nice and comfy on the floor. Was a doctor once and now god knows what she does. Known for parking a Maruti 800 in the middle of road and running off (BWHAHAHA i know thats not the truth)

Arun Srinivasan - Recent addition to the group. Lives, Talks, Sleeps and Runs Salsa. Is amazing to watch on the floor. Awesome lead (Well I know because i have danced with him). Teaches latin dance forms and is really a patient and soft spoken dude.


More to come :-)

Easter and Farewell Mike
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Easter comes and what happens?? All the goody shoe buggers turn mad. They all start partying again. They binge on the OH intake. They feed on the meat like a hungry lion feeds on a helpless sambhar. Easter is the end of the lent period and begin of madness :-)

Sunday was Easter and I stayed put at home to take Mom and Dad out for lunch. Both the three of us took off to Anjappar and killed a few crabs and prawns and fish and chicken. After being more than full, I came back home and rested a bit. A nice mint head massage and head bath later, I took off to Havana for the non-ishtaap partying. It was DJ Mike's last day at the console and he wanted all of us to be there when he belted out his last tunes. There was Salsa, there was Jive and then there was Bachata too. Mike moved on to funky hip hop tunes and the boys set the floor on fire. A coffee break at Cafe Karma and we returned to Havana to groove to some hindi numbers and some rock and roll. It was Salman's bday too and
there was a yumm cake which was cut too. The peeps kept on dancing from the time Mikey started his music for the evening. We decided to call it quits at 10 and facked off home after dinner.

Farewell Mike. Will miss your sounds at Havana. There is a fan following so we will be there wherever ya play :-)

Peace
Dosai

Dhomo, Arigato and Maastarr teech me Koong Foo :-)

Sushi... "Yaru saar andha figure" will be the first words out of a machi's mouth but people who know about this place called Japan and its food will immly recognize it as a type of food. Sushi is nothing but raw sea-food eaten with a variety of sauces and a pungent smelling, green colored and really flucking hot chutney like thing called wasabi. I have never eaten at an authentic jap restaurant in chennai so when I heard that there are a couple of em here, I jumped with joy.

Me and Arvind saar decided about 4 days back that we will head to Dahlia in Nungambakkam and kill the Sushi and Sashimi there. Read aboot the place on Google and came to know that its a costly place to diner but still the Sushi lured us to attack the place on Thursday. The plan was to hit dahlia and then head to 10D for some croaking at the karaoke night.

Self and Arvind reached Dahlia at 8.30 and sat down looking at the menu not understanding any fluck of wat the dishes were and how they tasted. The lady who was there helped us in choosing the dishes. I asked for a Chicken in butter sauce with rice and soup along with it and Arvind ordered for the Dahlia Maki sushi. Well the highlight was the Sake. It was priced at 500 per portion and each portion fueled 6 shooters. By the end of the first, me and arvidn were buzzing a bit and then came one more portion which actually took us to Uranus and back :P~. The chicken was lovely and cooked very well. I took a piece of sushi from Arvind's plate and enjoyed it thoroughly too. Raw fish ROCKSSSSSSS :-)

All in all a good experience but YES there was a hole in the pocket. With the Sake the bill per head came to 900 Rs :P~

Headed to Barista after that to catch up with Srini and Pom Pom and after some vetti talk later, I head off to 10D to catch up with Condom, Dodo and Mak. Couple of numbers later, we decide to call it quits and I head back to 10D and again the round of coffees start and we leave that place 15 mins to One.


To sum up... Dahila is a lovely place and I will sure visit it again. Its costly so regular visits are out of the window. The Sake is cheap and is awesome. The food is yumm and YES u need to eat with chopsticks :P~. Wasabi is nice and will be a nice taster to old monk rum :P~

Peace
Dosai

PS: I typed on notepad and it did not have spell checks hence gracefully facaf.

HIT and RUN :-)


The roads of chennai were damn good man like kazillion years back in terms of traffic and moronic drivers/riders. People rode sanely back then. Now the whole life thing has picked up pace and everyone is rushing somwehere. Lawadaa i have no clue why everyone has to have ants in their pants every time they get on a bike. BAH

This happened last saturday when I was on my way to watch Valkyrie at Satyam. Jumped on the bike on saturday evening and was heading towards the movie place and couple of kms from my place there was a speeding mobike mofo lawdekabaal who cut across on the wrong side way out of the yellow line and jammed right into my right leg. Lost control of the bike for a sec and regained it back and stopped it on the side of the road, put off the bike on side stand and just sat down on the pavement out of horrible pain in the shin and ankle. It was so fluckin painful for the next 30 odd secs till the adrenaline kicked in taking the pain off. The Auto drivers nearby said "Saar andha bike kaaran adichitu odi poitaan saar".. Meaning he hit you and ran and didnt even stop. So this is how HIT and RUN feels like. I have seen these in movies but now flucking I was bang on in the middle of one :P~

Slowly limped back on the bike, started it and headed to the hospital. The doc takes a look at it and says that nothing is broken (PHEW) and that there is muscle damage on the claf and ankle area (OH FACK). Puts me on pain killers and shoos me off home. So I slowly ride and come back home and limp into my house and what happens??.. MOM FREAKS OUT and yells " YENNA DA AACHU". I slowly explained things to her and she threatens me to sell off the bikes and get a CAR. I am like WTF :P~

3 days on Bed rest later I slowly get out of the house. My back is stiff. I am still limping, The ankle and calf are sore like crazy but the sight of Scarab takes all those off my mind. I jump on the bike and happily head to office. Accidents do happen..Remember there are loads of morons on the road who make ur life miserable and YES the CAR is always the safer option to commute but FACK IT. We all live on the edge to get on the safe commute option :-)

Peace
Dosai

I am hit and run for god sake.. dont mind the spells :P~

Ok its been shite loads of time since I posted crap in here so here goes :P~. What you are gonna read below is a useless timepass plan to ride to Saudi Arabia cooked up by Ravi and then words an d stuff added by me, gunfight, bob and a few otheres.
READ ON :-)
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Guys,
DJ is planning to ride to Doha (in Qatar) to see his parents. Here isthe route map.http://maps.live.com/?q=&mkt=en-gb&scope=&FORM=LIVSOP#JnJ0cD1wb3MuazVjeWM0cXBwODg1X0NoZW5uYWklMmMrVGFtaWwrTmFkdSUyYytJbmRpYV9fX18lN2Vwb3MubjZnNXYzbjhzMXg4X0RvaGElMmMrUWF0YXJfX19fJnJ0b3A9MCU3ZTA=
Since he is going all the way there, I am also planning to go with himso I will continue into Saudi to see my parents.
I was thinking we should all ride down there. It ll be fun.Accommodation is already arranged the rest of you, ConDom (akaDominic) has said that you guys can stay over at his place in Riyadh.
So let's party (yeah, in Saudi of all places, where things get cut off for doing something wrong).
The total fuel expensive, one way, will be about Rs 15000, at the max.This is worst case scenario considering your bike gives 20kmpl for6000kms. You can calculate accordingly now.Add another Rs 2000 for consumable oils (two strokers, brush up your maths and calculate for 2t oil). No sharing business, carry your ownoil.
The bright side is that the fuel will get cheaper as we head East, asrecently the king of Saudi has decided to slash fuel prices by 30% andeffectively brought the prices down to mind-numbing Rs 6.40/litre (ikid you not).
The route plan has not been decided yet, but we will not be touchingAfghanistan. So don't make any plans of riding through the NorthwestFrontier in Pakistan.
Apart from the above expenses, factor in about Rs.1000/day for foodand stay, which will most of the time be some gypsy's house eatinggoat testicles.
About 50k will see you through the trip, but carry another 20k ascontingency money, as not all medical centres in those parts of theworld (read butcher shops) might accept Visa and Mastercard.
Its a good three week long trip, and we ve allowed plenty of time forsight seeing and photography.
This trip will give you the opportunity to meet lots of gun-totting,trigger happy militants. So carry lots of souvenirs and space in yourmemory cards.
Please dont carry too much luggage. Travel as light as possible as weanyway expect to get mugged somewhere between the Pakistan and Iranborder.
To avoid hassles of applying for a visa in another country, we mightwant to take a ship from Bandar-e-Abbas to the nearest convinientpoint in the UAE.
Ok, i m bored of compiling information and planning the trip.But I ve done so much hardword till now, I might as well show it to somebody. :Dget back to work now, we will plan the trip at the next beach meeting.We can ride to Saudi!
Cheers
Trooper :-)
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i better be quick then!!...need to get a goldie no!!.....abba!! i want to buy cramsters too... also please decide if we will be riding staggered formation all the way? yes!! c'mon yaar..lets ride to Saudi. -bladdyfool PS: when will we be getting back. I have to go tile shopping for my new house with my mom.
Cheers
Bulladiphool
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We can ride to SAUDI, Yes we all can ride to SAUDI :)
Please to be forming the list and let me know well in advance.. i shall make ARRANGEMENTS for all of you'll :) Anyways all i can say is if "weeekend ride to pune" is possible then "We all can ride to SAUDI" So Caman de Enjaiment wonlee, Peace,ConDom :)
PS...
No NewbiesAll riders should have attended atleast 5 Madbull meetings/ if not part of madbulls at least sponsor for 5 days the smokes (raj macha, you can take a break da :) ) and the poison at cosies.
done at least 3 overnight rides woith madbulls/ if not part of madbulls, should be able to take a bullet up the stairs like gunfight at horsley after downing 1 full (test conducted under controlled environments, so dringking and driving is allowed :) ) and should also have seized one engine or made a silencer fall off - preferably a goldie or smashed/torn a sprocket apart - like bharath saar :)
should be able to withstand 1 nathari sangam get together at mahabs.. and be able to ride back home without any help :)
Peace,
ConDom.
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Oh Saudi eh ??
What are the dates wonlee ?? Lets not plan this around christmas asCondom will be in India and we will be screwed if we land up in Riyadhwith no accos.
Ajith - Machi we can take a spare engine along da. No probs
No am not taking the Thunderbird. Hopefully that 220 comes and I dothis trip on that. Or else there is the J350, wonlee that Ill have toorder for 3 more engines and some 30 liters of Oil - Completelydoable.
I suggest we take the Trans Afgan highway wonlee. I really want toride through that place.
No awesome looking babe for date and all da Raj macha. Chumma sittingat office wonlee doing nothing. All said and done I agree that aThunderbird wont beat an AVL 500 but any thunderbird can beat Ajith's500. The weight factor is there wonlee.
Goat Testicles - Wow sounds YUMM.
Ok so we hit riyadh and condom happens and then ride to saudi wheregulti meets parents and then ride to DJs place to be ass kicked by hisparents and then I have couple of candidates who work for AllfoneSystems in Uganda. I say we go meet em too. Couple of days morewonlee. On the same lines lets hit Sierra Leone too and see what thefuck is the big deal in living there.
I have always wanted to see Egypt and those pointy stuff that theyhave there. We will see em all.. Daddies , Mummies everything.
Cutting off private parts at Riyadh will be a huge problem for Bobbyif he is coming cause his is already small ( NO I HAVE NOT SEE IT,RAVI SAW IT ONCE AND PASSE DON THE INFO )
So Weekend Ride to Saudi. CAMAN FACKIN WONLEE
Dosai
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Dai! Afgan, Uganda, Egypt...we might as well ride to Morocco. Cant go too far da....Aditya needs to get back home to run his errands again (we might as well feed him to the lions there itself). And I dont know anything about Bobby's "parts". We all cant do 160 @ 3/4th throttle. cheers
Ravi.
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While we are on the topic
We can use bobby both as an offence and defence machine :-)))
Defence --- Use bobby as a light emimiting apparatus cause his shinyhairless head reflects huge candela of light, Can be used as bait toofor those hostile afgan snipers. If bobs brings his wifey along thenshe can bite hostile soldiers too :P~
Offence - While corssing borders we can use bobby as a reflectorshield to blind enemy snipers and its obvious that their dogs will bescarred for life after seeing the terminator. So no four legged attachat all.
Will have to agree with ajith on the bike part too.
We will have to use black as the camo colour. Well i neednt use paintcause I already look like a Jamaican. Solo and Katz will not face anydamage too. Anyways we will have to paint our teeth black butwaddafack.
Peace
Dosai
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kundi thevidiyaaas!! talking behind the back wonlee!! i did not get any notifications in gtalk!! hence the slow reply!! but definitely faster than dosai the black ass' bike i say!! fackin guy!! the question of me being used as offence or defence shall be hammered to death by that fat ass and that black ass!! i will use fat ass of green beary to hide behind enemy bullets / swords / daggers and all that things they would 'affectionately' throw / betheaq upon us!! in the night, i plan to hide behind dosai so that he can act as camoflauge and protect me from night time dangers!! of course, an overly drunk kaatu panni and other wild specimens cannot find me as i would be in camos anyway!! so apparently i am gonna have a very safe journey!! i am planning to hitch hike with bike uptil kazakhstan border and then start riding, fuel kattu padi aagaathu!! maami will be flying as i wud've thrown her at some crosswinds from chennai that would surely blow till kazakhstan!! as for the desert ride, we are sure to stop by at a belly dancers okie?? l cannot, in my wildest dreams see another 'dance' by ravi!! once was enough!! 'my name is prince' was raped wonlee!!! yuck yuck and kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack thoooooooooooooo!!!! *cleans mouth* kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack thoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! gawd!! *shudders* lets also get naai roast some camel roast and once he falls there, leave him in the desert to die with some hindi speaking saudi!! apparently thats the only language he prefers to speak in nowadays!!

Bobby
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faaack... boob just "came" with all his load at 180 kmph @ full throttle..
condom - the waking up session must have been quite loud i guess..full paragraph writing and all...
oh yeah, we can always visit borat at kazakistan and ask him to rape ravi... !!! he tried it with Pam in the US, we can define ravi as Bam Bam !!
Cheers
David
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Bam Bam in afganistan... has got a ring to it... guys.. make sure you take enough grease.. if not for the bikes.. atleast ravi could use it (or rather borat would use it, and ravi would be grateful to us for bring it)
Peace,
ConDom
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after a long days work..3 veshams each at cozee, 2 buckets of kfc and some bergers...a small old monk session and just reached home to find 65 unread messages in the thread.... shabba....lighta kanna kattudhu... will do my honors tomorrow..
Cheers
Sproket
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ride 2 saudi------lavda ravi ur koodhi.....faackar first get urself a decent bike 2 ride man....as for mr.arunkrishnamoorthy(i guess all the 26 alphapets are in tat name ) u get rid of tat modified ct100and aditya get urself a bullet man :)rest caaaammmaaan the saudi rideps-heard russians r on the loose fer guys like us...:)
sim-card
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I did not want anyone to feel bad, so I put in a HA! instead of a Hi! I have been looking at this thread ever since it started and have been in mortal fear of opening and reading what's gooing on. Teh little peek I had into what Ajith and Bob are getting into was enough to scare me away. I will read all this when a I am fitter and at a more senior position at work. Till then, Rock on!
Cheers
Dipesh
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Thus went the thread. It ran for 184 emails till we all decided to drop it. We still have not ridden back from Morocco or Egypt or wherever we are at right now.

Peace
Dosai
PS - FACK AFF

Rider Mania - RTMC Ishtyle


Rider Mania.. Well the name tells you what it means and lemme add that this is the one and wonlee huge ass Royal Enfield gathering in India. It also means that If you attend this event, you get to see all those funky modded enfields, meet those huge tatooed biker buggers, hear all the thump that an enfield makes, get to know how those leather clad bikers are actually chilled out at heart, see how liters of beer are consumed in such short spam, hear all the swear words in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and English at one go and on top of all you get to RIDE to where the event is happening.

Rider Mania is always the home for all the RE owners. They need to do two things in life.. GO TO LEH and ATTEND RIDER MANIA. Trust me both are quite orgasmic :-)


Rider Mania this year was hosted by The Rolling Thunder Motorcycling Club (RTMC) which I was a part of. Rider Mania was held at Ooty this year. Hosting an event of this propotion is not an effin joke and loads and loads of planning and work went into it. Commitees were formed, jobs were properly delegated to people, the running around started happening. The RM weeekend finally came and this is how it went :-)

RM as I said is an event for RE owners. Boys ride bikes and Men ride bullets are quite true when it comes to an event like this. For startes I did not own an enfield now and on top of that I was banned from riding because of health conditions. Mera Bhai Souperman comes to the rescue and says that he will ferry me to the venue in his car. I landed up at his place in Bangalore on the morning of 23rd Jan and that started off the RM fever. Me, Soup, Kutu and Molu started off in Soup's ikon and stop over at Kamat Lokruchi for breakfast. Some yumm chow chow bath and idlies and chai later we head out again to see a bunch of bikers riding up ahead. All our boys wonlee. I lower the window and with full josh yell to them and all.. what a nice it was :-). The roads from Bangy to Ooty were all good excepy for the stretch btwn Gudulpet and Bandipur. We land up at Ooty in the afternoon and what followed was a good lunch. The evening goes of in bugging the volunteers who were doing their jobs and chumma roaming around Sterling Resorts.

Evening decended upon ooty and along with it the chillness came in too. The cold reached my farthest place by the time it was 8 in the evening.. well it was that friggin cold. Saw batches and batches of bulleteers arrive at the venue. Accos for the night was already arranged at YWCA and Youth Hostel for everyone. I went over to the Youth Hostel at night to catch up with the Chennai fellows. It was Ravi's birthday and his balls and bumm were properly taken care of inspite of his struggle and retorts.


Rider Mania - DAY ONE - 24th Jan 2009.

Woke up to shower and quickly get ready. Ajith was screaming SADDLE UPPPPPPPPPPPPP and all the other abuses also followed. There was DODO grinning from ear to year and then there were the Megalaya riders who were with us too. The rest of the chennai fellows who stayed at conoor also landed up and at about 10 AM all were ready to leave for the venue. There were totally 90 plus bikes from Chennai and what followed was an awesome entry into Sterling Fern Hill. Registrations quickly happened and ppl settled down pronto. The afternoon saw the biker events happen. There was the usual figure of 8 and the the biking lemon and spoon clubber with a slow bike race. There was arm wrestling and then the BIKER Olympics. The night saw a HUGE fackin party happen where all the biker boys and babes lets their hair down and danced to the mujik belted out by the DJ. The usual catch up session with people around India happened here and there and it kept happening after the party outside the party hall in the open and in the cold. To me.. it was great catching up with all my buddies from the various club in India. There were bear hugs everywhere and every single one of em were yelling abey bosadike and behen ki lawde and waatha and all that... Ahh what a music to ears.

Rider Mania - DAY TWO - 25th Jan 2009.

Day two was more or less like day one. Biker events happening. There was a huge ride around Ooty and I pillioned with Jishnu with Firang's D40X around my neck. Got some awesome snaps of some 500 odd bikers riding around the ghat roads of ooty. The clubs came up with their presentations in the evening and the prize distribution followed with people dancing and jumping on stage. What followed was another hair raising pardy that lasted till the dancers dropped. Anukaran from Wanderlust entertained a bunch of us with his good singing and guitaring and I finally staggered abck to my bed at 4.30 in the morning

Day Three - Day after RM :-)

Woke up and after a quick breakfast, me and soup left for bangalore and thanks to the traffic on Mysore road and thanks to Soup showing us around Mysore and thanks to that yummy food at Fishlands and thanks to us finding Vittal's house at Jayanagar.. we landed home at 8 PM. I found out that my return train ticket was not confirmed but still me, soup and monis bhai went off to the station to see if I could get a seat to chennai. NO FACKIN WAY MAN. The train was bursting at its seams with people. Soup pulled a few strings and I finally got a cabin seat on a Volvo. Took out my pillow and bedsheet and slept on the floor all the way to chennai.

All in all an awesome weekend

An awesome Ridermania

An awesome drive to ooty

An awesome volvo ride back to chennai

to top it all

An awesome set of friends :-)


Peace
Dosai

Typos are inevitablxyz hence fack aff

Bangalore, Biriyani, Beer, Birthday Bash and One Reception :-)


Its been ages since I went went to "swalpa adjust maadi" land and have been waiting to find an exjoose to head there. Adman pingd on GTALK and said " Dei waatha you better come to the reception da " and thats all I needed to decide that I am heading to Bangalore during the weekend of 13th December. I checked with Souperman and confirmed that he will be at Base that weekend and also found out that he will be using me as the guinea pig for his mutton cooking spree :P~

I get on to IRCTC and find out that there are no tickets available and I am like " OH FACK NOW THE WEEKEND IS SCREWED" and I get saved by this function of the railways called the Tatkal. I book tickets for Me and Trooper and the same day Abhi calls and says that his Bday bash will be that weekend too. OH YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH :-)

I head to Central on the evening of the 12th... Me and Trooper put one quick Sand Piper at the local Tasmac and jump into the train and before I would say "Yo Momma So FAT" I was knocked out... ZZZZzzZZZ.. SNORE... SLEEP. We wake up the next morning when the train comes to one jerky halt at Bangy - East. Well this is the station that we were supposed to get down. Lazy bastards that we were, we wait for the train to reach CANT and get down there and one AUTO later we land up at Soups.

Ting Tong...TING TONG!!! - Soup opens the door after like 10 rings and We enter telling him that we are planning a breakfast at Pecos and beer and pork curry and lunch and all that. Soup completely ignores this whole conversation and says FACK AFF and goes back to sleep and we pass out too. After all this this is how my weekend went :-)...

7 AM - Wake up

7.30 AM - Sim and Mamada picked us up and he head to Airlines for breakfast. We are joined by Nai-Gun here. Some yummy uppumas and dosas later we exit the place

9 AM - We land up at Pecos only to find that the place is not open yet. The sweeper guy there glares at us with a " Despos looking for beer this early aa" look

10 AM - We land up at Muthus place to spend some time there

11 AM - I decide to drive Mamads's Petra back to Muneer Bee's place thus scaring the bejesus out of Sim and Trooper :P~ BWHAHAHAHA

11.30 AM - Me Sim and Trooper take a rick to Pecos and after that its wonlee Pork and Chicken and Beer and Steamed Rice

2 PM - Back to Bee's place for some chai and spare parts viewing.

2.30 PM - Back to Soups for some ZZZzzZ

6 PM - Wake up and chumma laze around. Decide that we will leave for Admans reception at 7.30. I get on G-Maps and find out where the place is.

8 PM - We get out of Soups and head to RT Nagar to pick up Fats and after that full bajaao the Gypsy to Kalathur Farms.

We enter the place to find the buggers drinking near make-shift bars near the car parking. I decide to stay sober and after the usual round of Hi Machi, Aye Yeno.. Yakko and Lawdekabaals later we head to wish Adman and Rash. After that my inbuilt food-seeking GPS leads me straight to the Biriyani and Chicken. Full belting later I head back to the parking and again jump into the gang for another round of " Hi machi ". Me, Soup and Fats decide to leave at 11.30 and I take the Gypsy's wheel and full offroading and jumping about later we stop at the CCD at Hebbal for a cuppa cha :-)

12.15 AM - Back at Soups and we put on "DONT MESS WITH THE ZOHAN" Man this was fackin hilarious

3.30 AM - Knocked out

9.30 AM - WHAT THE.. Fack its already morning

10.30 AM - Fats comes home and we head to Yajman's place where Abhi's bday brunch was happening.

Some 2 breezers and one KF lager later its all a Haze wonlee. Awesome Biriyani and Chicken here too. Dead Dog puked his guts out after drinking a mix of Rum and Vodka and Coconut Water.. HAHAHAHA Serves him right. He was locked up in the loo for like an hour. Somewhere at around 3 PM, we all decide to lift Yajaman's Fiat millecento and put it back on the road.. SUCESS :-)

4.30 PM - Me and Fats head back to Soups place and CONK OFF AGAIN

7 PM - The Eid Pardy at Soups place start and the buggers start pouring in :-) YUMMY BIRIYANI again and super HOT chicken and yummy kheer for dessert.

11.30 PM - Soups place is empty.. The guests and the food all gone. Soup drives me to CANT and I jump in to the train back home :-)

All in all a superb weekend :-)


Peace
Dosai

PS - I dont check for typos.. You dont too :P~

RTMC 7A - Yahoooooooo Yercaud wonlee Machi :-)

Its fackin that time of the year again wonlee. Its when Bangalore bike fluckers and the Chennai bullet buggers get together at some random place under the excuse of something called a RTMC anniversary. Its been 7 rocking years since RTMC was formed and phrases like " Hum Saath saal.. thum lawdekabaal" were floating around the internet realm. The place where we crazy lot met up this time was Shevroys - Yercaud. This has been a tried and tested place and rest assured we fellas are gonna get wasted :-)))))))


Friday - 3rd October early morning 4AM. Dad wakes me up with a kick on my black bottom saying that its time for me to ride out. I call up Jeep Raj and wake him up from his slumber and we meet up at Concorde at 6.30. This was the first aniv ride that I am not riding with a group. Me and Raj decided to ride out as a batch and hit Yercaud noon-ish. Fueled up and started riding at 6.45 am from Shell. First break was just before Ranipet and after that it was Aryas at Vellore for a super breakfast. Constant speeds took us to our next break at Ponneri and then it was whack open throttle all the way up to yercaud. We climbed yercaud via the kuppanoor route and man the roads and surroundings were mega seckzie. Registered at the reception desk admist machanssssssssss and machiiiiiissssssss and lawdaaaaaaaaaaaas. A super lunch followed after which I put off one small nap.

3rd night was a Bonfire night with OH- flowing and stories overflowing at all corners. Was awesome meeting all the new faces at RTMC and I was overjoyed meeting all the old flucks too :-). Missed a few regulars though. I shutdown around 2ish cause the next day was going to be long :-)

4th October - Day 2 - Woke up to see a semi - naked An?l do the usual Puja. Scarab stood admist 2 bulls to get blessings from uncle An?l during the Puja. After the Elumbichai nasukification and the thenga odachification later the games for the day started. There was Lemon and Spoon on the bike and the Slow biking race and Arm wrestling. Took out Scarab and did a few stoppies here and there too.. Not to mention me dropping the bike on one of those stoppies :-). The night started off with a RM Curtain raiser by RTMC and DJ Samir starting with the dik chik mujik. I took over the console after a bit and managed to keep the crowd dancing for a bit. The crowd retired to the cozy outsides for sharing stories and a few laughs. This is the part of the day I like the most.. This is when you sit with old biker friends and remember what all happened in t he years that you have known each other. CAMAN THE ENJAIMENT WONLEE.

5th October - Day 3 - Woke up at 8 to see Gunfight and team heading out of Yercaud towards Chennai. I had decided to leave wonlee at 10 ish and ride chillax and reach chennai. Had a super breakfast and Me, Payloo, Ballcatch and Rohit left Yercaud at 10.30. More the people in the group the slower you ride. Rohit had couple of close calls and even managed to crash on one of those calls. Halted at Thirutathur to change his footpeg rod and rode on to Vaniyummy-badi for some khaja biriyani and chai. Bala and Narren joined us here and from here on I stuck with the 207 maintaining a constant 100 till the Dhaba. Couple of Chai's later the team left to chennai. That that man .. that that road wonlee. I rode straight inside IIT to the coffee day there to meet Srini, Naidu, Arvind, Bhavika and Swapna. Finally reached home at 11ish and after dinner it was just KRASHHHHHHHHHHHHHH


Peace
Dosai

PS - Spelling misdakes are inevitable so you the lawdekaballs if ya point em out. Facaf

Mum-BHAI :-)


Its been ages since I went to Bombay. 2 months of joining Syntel saw me flying to Mumbai for a week of oppice work and caman the enjaiment.

I am too dazed after the visit to give yall day by day logging.

Flew IA on the 8th and checked into Bharath Avenue @ Marol. For starters Mumbai is a freakingly huge place to go around. Andheri East to West is almost half the size of chennai. Well atleast thats what I felt. Hotel to Seepz was wonlee about 4 kms and the walk was about 30 mins. The auto fluckers are in abundance and they actually put meter to take ya around city but the sad part being most of em refuse to come to Marol.. dunno why.

Rain has become an integral part of Mumbai life. It was a constant drizzle from the time I landed till i came back to chennai. Weather was humid but better than hot chennai. Life is way to fast in Mumbai compared to the laidback life style i enjoy in Chennai. Seepz is not exactly a place where you would love to work out of. The Hiranandani Gardens office was something else. It was kick ass. WHAT A NICE :-)

Thanks to Friji and Anil - They took me around Lokandhwala for some shopping and loads of yumm food. The Rolls and the burji pav was most yumm. Thanks to em again for entertaining me at their place. Lovely place yall got there :-)

Sujay and Anupam decided that I know shite about Mumbai and took it upon their hands to enlighten me. So Me Sujai and Anupam took off on thursday evening in a car to Colaba. Man we drove and drove and finally reached Colaba couple of hours later. You can actually see the buildings, roads, cars and people change when you move from the suburbs to the city. The Porche and Rolls Royce showrooms were a sight to see. Sujay took care of explaining whatever came on the left of the road and Anupam was enlightening me about the buildings on the right. Got to Leopolds and then the OH- intake began. Couple of beers and vodka shots later.. we decided that Bade Miyan will be our dinner joint for the night. I expected a hotel kinda place but MAN it was a road side joint...more like a kaiyendhi bhavan which served ultry yummy ultra greasy food. Never have eaten bejah fry that good before. The return trip was via the central route and we saw the rush to see the famous Ganesha statue - Labaugh ka Raja. What a sight. It was 1 am when we reached Marol and SNOREEEEEEEEEEE wonlee.

Friday was a holiday back home in Chennai because of Onam but Mumbai was working. Wished ppl happy onam and got into a string of meetings. Flew back to chennai at night with all eyes on the air-hostess :P~. Well it was Kingfisher you see :-))

Mumbai is a lovely place. The road side food is a must eat. Buildings are freakishly tall and Real estate prices are obscene.

Leopolds and MontEdgar are a must visit

Bade Miyan and the Rolls shop @ Lokandhwala are must visits too.

You should sit at Nariman point and enjaai the skyline atleast for 30 mins

Peace
Dosai

17 to Lanka

The Aug 15th weekend was fast approaching and plans were flying back and forth. One of em made loads of sense to me - DHANUSHKODI. This gave me an oppurtunity to ride to my native and also have a whale of a time with the boys :-)


Sim calls up a week before the ride and yells " Dei lawdekaballs, you better come and stay at Trichy on 14th else ill casterate you and throw the cut part to my daags". I was unsure about the ride tille about 2 days before it happened. Middle of all this, Katz come up with a plan to go to Kodai from trichy and then ride to dhanushkodi - YUMMY that sounded awesome. Well fackin that never happened cause that lawda fellow backed out at the last moment so KODAI was outta the door.

14th Mornin - Came into oppice at 7.30 and started work. I wanted to start riding at 4.30 along with the gang. Called up my boss and got permission to leave at 3.30 to go home and back. I was at the BP bunk on GST to see wonlee Gunfight and Bra. I was like " Dei wonlee us three aa ". Started riding and stopped at Chengalpet to regroup with Rohit and then the steady speeds began. Breaked for like 10 mins at Vikravandi and then few kms down the road met up with Bob, Swaps, Laxmi and Mellu. By that time the word "Sembaruthi" (Hibiscus) had got a new meaning. My ass was all dented and all :P~. The stretch btwn Trichy and Thindivanam has the most fackall roads ever and everytime we speed up we manage to hit a diversion board. Finally entered Trichy at about 11ish with me and Ravi leading the pack. My scare of doing a night ride faded and actually was a confidence booster. Went over to Sim's place to find the usual suspects already passing out. Had a little conversation with one Mr Chivas Regal and managed to pass out around 2.

15th morning - Woke up to Gunfight's " Thevidiyas and Mayirus " and got ready to head out to my Chitapa's place. Went and ate like a pig at his place and then after a hearty luncg at A1, the gang started off towards Dhanuskodi. Roads were ok. Managed to take a wrong route at pudukotai and good that we realised it fast :P~. Regrouped at Devakotai Road for a chai break and headed off to my Village for another break. The Villagers were stunned to see so many fancy dressed riding dudes. Ravi became a celebrity here with villagers wanting to take pics with him. Mellu then dropped a bomb saying that his reat tyre is punctured and DANG, one more hour went by. After some swift riding later, the gang reached Rameshwaram and settled down at Island Star. Me and Sim got ready in record time and started to check out the alcohol and food scene. Bra joined me in putting a beer at the local Tasmac and we walked right across to this joint called "Hotel Prakash". This places serves some unbelievably good and yummy and soft parottas. Killed the food completely and came back to the room for another session. This was more of a fancy engliss speaking session with words like achrimonious and ambiguous and wat not coming out :P~. Our man Naai Roast then says that we need to wake up at 4.30 the next morning. WHAT LAWDA I SAY.

16th Morning - Woke up at 4.30 to DD's call and got ready. It was time to ride close to Lanka. Jumped pillion with Trooper and proceeded to Dhanuskodi via really dark roads. Couple of yumm Tea's later the Van ride to the tip started and MAN OH MAN what a rush. There was Sea everywhere. A place where you could see the Bay of Bengal and The Indian Ocean at the same place. This place is about 17 kms from Sri Lanka. Met a local who was one of the survivors of the 1964 cyclone and he turned guide taking us through what happened. Rode back to Rameshwaram for some breakfast and a power nap. Woke up at 11 to find out everyone is packing to leave. SHAPAAAAAAA RIDING AGAIN AAA. Packed in a jiffy and fueled up. Plan was to go as far as possible on the route to chennai and stop for the night. We decided to take the ECR and travel all along the east coast till chennai. This was a good 550 kms. Roads were bad.. wait there was no fackin roads at all. Me, Bra and trooper decided to ride motocross and whacked the throttle open and bajaaod the bike on bad roads. Halted at karaikal at around 5.30 pm for lunch and after that all roads led to Pondy wonlee. Condom and Gunfight were advance party at Pondy and were looking for rooms. I entered pondy and joined Gunfight in the hunt. Dom left for chennai as he didnt want to break the ride flow. Bobby and Swaps finally managed to get us accos for the night - PHEW... I was thinking that we would be riding to chennai the same night. We feasted on the food and the alcohol went in. Gunfight managed to tell us stories of how he Tuts the Shrottle BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. After that SNOREEEEEEEEEEE wonlee.

17th Morning - Woke up at 7, Rode Back to Chennai, Reached at 9.20. Ate.. SLEPT, Woke up, Ate and Slept again :-)


All in all a fab ride. Dhanuskodi is a must see :-)

Route up - Chennai - Vilupuram - Ulundurpet - Peramalur - Trichy - Pudukotai - Thirumayam - Karaikudi - Devakotai - RS Mangalam - Devipattinam - Ramanathapuram - Mandapam - Rameshwaram

Route Down - Rameshwaram - Ramanathapuram - Devipattinam - Thondi - Mimisal - Vailankanni - Nagapattinam - Karaikal - Sirkazhi - Chidambaram - Cudaloor - Pondicherry - Chennai

Stay @ Rameshwaram - Hotel Island Star
Stay @ Pondy - Le' Heritage Pondicherien

Total Kms - 1206

Bike - Pulsar 220 DTSFi | Avg Mileage - 42.6 kmpl

Peace
Dosai

Quite a long time eh ?? Well lemme tell ya why wonlee.

For starters - I quit FogHorn on my birthday cause I got a job offer from Syntel the same day. Got selected as AM - Recruitment and was offered a good sum of money to jump in and take the offer. Started serving my notice period of one month. This was a long and boring one month. Not much work to do other than shifting what you were doing to others. DId all the chilling out because i know once you get to that new job things are gonna become MAD.FogHorn threw me a lovely farewell on my last day. Went as a gang to Sparkys and killed the buffet there.

Joined Syntel on the 23rd of June and got a seat in the HR Shared Services bay. Not much has changed in terms of people. The bay still has loads of fun ppl and its all the same riots and chaos. Got shifted to teh Adyar facility about two weeks back and have been enjaaing corp life till it lasts.

Bob and Swapi's 2nd Wedding aniv happened at Yelagiri and a gang of 12 took off from chennai to raid the mountains, drink it dry and smoke it high. Was a superb weekend with good food and mujik at Yelagiri. The highlight being - Bobby getting kambletely smashed and throwing up TWICE. The best part was that he accepted that he threw up when we asked him :P~


Peace
Dosai

THE DAY BOBBY GOT FUCKED - PART - 1 - By Ravi Kiran

PARTY DAY - 7:00PM, ANNA NAGAR.

"Cheers!!!"...said everyone in unison.

"Sarangan, this champ-agni is berrry nice." said Bobby as he gulped down a portion of Champagne and chased it with some cheese and pineapple on a stick. "I am so glad I bunked office and came here. I just told them I don't feel like coming today, and my office was perfectly fine with it."

We stood in the balcony, which gave us a fantastic view, letting us admire the five RD350s parked outside. Zoo, Sarangan, Burny and Bobby went slightly 'rocket'. There were others at the party too, but it's a little hazy. I know Dosai was there, but his role starts a few paragraphs later.

PARTY DAY - 3.00PM, ANNA NAGAR

The night goes and we move to an assortment of beverages, one after the other - vodka, whisky, beer, anything we could get our hands on with alcohol content. It was a fantastic party as usual, with lots of talking and general RD discussions. Sarangan played some Jethro Tull, and we ended having Jet Airways finest. We finally parted ways only to realise that Bobby is too smashed to go back home. Also, he had a small predicament that affects a few men, 'fear-of-wife'. So we went to my house and slept.

DAY AFTER PARTY - 9.00AM, (SOMEWHERE IN TNAGAR)

Swapna: Hello? Hi, is Bobby there?

Manager: Oh, Hi, Swapna, how is your father?

Swapna: Why, what happened?

Manager: Bobby said your Father was seriously ill and that he had to go to the hospital. So I told him he didn't have to come to office last night. How is your father?

Swapna: Oh! (Bobby, you @*$%!&!!!) He is fine. Thanks for letting Bobby come, we really needed his support.

Manager: Ok Swapna, take care then

Swapna: Bye.

DAY AFTER PARTY - 9.00AM ANNA NAGAR

"Dai, Bobby! I am off to office, lock the door and go back to sleep. Drop of the keys at my office on your way home", as I was just about to turn around and leave, I saw Bobby jump up like a spring and chanting "Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit..." On enquiring, apparently, I was on the recieving end because I didn't wake him up at 6 o clock in the morning. Bobby took off home right then, and I left for office, still reeking of alcohol.

DAY AFTER PARTY - 11.00AM ANNA NAGAR

My phone rings.

Me: Hello?

Swapna: (sob, sob. sniff, sniff)

Me: Heloooo?

Swapna: Ravi?

Me: Swapna?! (uh oh) Why are you crying?

Swapna: Ravi, I want you tell me the truth.

Me: Hello? Hello? ....Sw...Hel..

Swapna: Dai, I know you can hear me

Me: Okay...what do you want to know?

Swapna: Where was Bobby last night?

Me: (I cant believe I have a call waiting at this time - Burny??? Why was he calling?)

Swapna: Please Ravi, I need to know. Where was Bobby last night? I called his office and they said he didn't show up. So where was he?

Me: Ok, he was at my place. But what is the matter? (what the hell does does Burny want? - now Bobby's calling?! UH-OH! This means trouble)

Swapna: Ravi, please don't lie to me.

Me: I swear it, he was in my house. Er...I will have to call you back.

DUMMMMM.......

THE DAY BOBBY GOT FUCKED - PART - 2 - By Dosai

Continuing what Ravi started...

DAY AFTER PARTY - 10:55 AM FOGHORN OFFICE

Tring Tring ....

I pick up my mobile and see "Swapna Calling" and was like " HOLY FLUCK WONLEE"

Me : Hi Swapi
Swapna : Dosai u are my friend no ??
Me: Aama ya , What happened ?
Swapna : U will tell me truth wonlee no ??
Me : Shappa kanna kattudhey
Swapna : Where was Bobby Last night
Me ( in an instinct to cover the bald headed barnacle ) : I never saw bobby last night
Swapna : Dont lie to me da, Please tell me. It is a serious thing.
Me : I never saw bobby da swapi, Sathyama I didnt see ( the shit was hitting the roof )
Swapna : Give me Ravi's number da, Ill ask him
Me : Mumble Mumble.. Hold on ( I am signalling to Bharani to call Ravi and tell him to SHUT THE FUCK UP )
Swapna : Never mind i have it, Ill call him ( Bharani is too late in calling him and swapna's line to Ravi goes thru )

Result - I am FACKED


DAY AFTER PARTY - 11:30 AM FOGHORN OFFICE

Trng Tring - SWAPNA CALLING AGAIN - I am going to be dead, write my will please.

Me : Sollu Swapna
Swapna : How can ya lie to me da
Me : I never saw bobby da i swear ( still maintaining the lie )
Swapna : Bobby told me the truth ( THE NERVE OF THAT BALD HEADED BUNGEE JUMPER )
Me : Oh shite
Swapna : #@$%$#@%$%#@$#@$ ( Continues for about 45 mins )

DUMM - Phone line goes dead

DAY AFTER PARTY - 12:30 AM FOGHORN OFFICE

Tringgggggggggg - Jets Bobby Calling

Me : THEVIDIYA PAIYA
Bob : Machi sarri da
Me : THEVIDIYA PAIYA
Bob : I didnt know what to do
Me PUNDA KOODHI ( change from the usual thevidiya paiya )
Bob : Romba sorry man
Me : THEVIDIYA PAIYA
Me : #@$#@$#@$#@$@#$ ( continues for the next 15 mins )

DUMMMM - I cut the phone


Final Result - Bobby gets ass raped at home, Ravi gets OH FUCKED and I get my nuts plucked off. All for what ?? For saving a useless fellow who flies at 160 kmph.

SHAPPAAA ENNALA MUDIYALA WONLEE

Peace

Dosai

The 3 steeds standing tall... looking at the skies :-)

The 3 steeds standing tall... looking at the skies :-)
Originally uploaded by Dosai :-)

Its a loong fackin time since I went to Ladakh but still the memories remain. This pic is one such beautiful sight enroute to Lamayuru from Leh. I never actually did write about this trip but what the heck, I saw all this and came back to tell stories about it. We still laugh when we start off conversations with " Macha.. Back home in Keylong ".

This year the mountains are calling again but I guess I wont be doing the same stretch again for the next couple of years. Maybe North East, maybe Uttranchal, maybe the Rann but what looks bight right now is the South. There is a liquid plan of doing the East and West belt of South India. Loads of us would have gone to Ladakh but most of us would not have seen much of the south. This trip will mostly center around visiting nook and corner of Kerala, visit important places in Andhra, Karnataka and Tamilnadu. 20 days needed to do this aaraam se. So lets all see how this liquid plan solidifies and lets see how many actually join in and finally lets see how many actually ride. Its Feb and there is still loads of time.

Peace
Dosai

And all that Jazz


After all the abuses and KWAK THOOs and more abuses later, Me and Divs finally decided that Wednesday would be the right time to meet up and catch up on whats going on wonlee. There was this choice of Amethyst or Anokhi. The previous day i get a call from her askin if I know JAZZ ( Waddafack ) and that there is a Jazz concert happening Wednesday evening and she has been marked to cover the event for this Hindu - IT CORRIDOR specific suppliment called ERGO ( wat a nice ). So I was naturally exited because i am drama king and can anytime pull off as a Journalist with jolna pai and soda butti :P~. There was also this clause from her end that I behave myself at the concert. So this is where it got Jazzed :-)

Picked up Divs at 6.30 and moved towards Alliance in neck to neck traffic. Divs was like " I am gonna faint dude cause am that hungry ". So we finally manage to reach the venue at 7 ( HAH THANKS TO MY ELITE RIDING SKILLS ). We run up to the Audi and find that the concert has not started yet so caman the run to the canteen wonlee. Couple of Sandwiches later, we enter the audi to find Madam Lisa Patterson explaining what this is all about. She starts off with the singing while her hands played around on the Keys of a M-Audio Keyboard. Couple of songs later a Kurta wearing dude joined in with his collection of Flutes. This guy's name was Naveen and MAN he knows how to blow his wind instruments. Lovely wonlee it was. Then Keith and Subbu join Lisa on Bass and percussions. No came the real thing, full jamming session with solo pieces of all three instruments. Well i dont remember the names of the songs they played but there was in song in the end with loads of Hallelujah in it. For a second I thought i was sitting in a Paul Dhinakaran's assembly of god prayer meet BWHAHAHAHAHAHA. Then Divs next to me starts to sing along too and well ahemmmm I join in too. What fun I say. The concert ends at 9.30 and divs runs up to Lisa to have a few words. Full page three wonlee :P~. Frankly speaking she was kick ass when she did covers and when she was on high scales. However there was lil loss of control when the song went slow.

Both the two of us exit Alliance and head out to Cream Center for dinner. After a Pasta - In - Pasta and a FACKIN HUGE glass of Peach ice tea later, I drop Divs home and head back home myself with visions of Lisa doing that scottish dance between sticks. HUP HUP HUP :-). All in all a fantastic evening.

Spell errors are always there in whatever i write SO DONT POINT IT OUT x-(

Becoming the God Of War


Heard about thoughts in the morning, decision in the afternoon and buying what you decided in the evening?? Well thats what happened when it comes to my Play Station 2. I had owned an Atari before - That was kazillion years back and all of a sudden on a saturday i was too tempted to buy a gaming console and make complete use of the Wega that i had got earlier. Now the problem was getting the cash together to buy this game station. In comes Gunfight and his Credit card BWHAHAHAHAHA. Me and Gun head out to Moosa Games and pick up 2 PS2 consoles. One for me and one for Goa Raj. I scan thru his numerous games collection and pick out some 6 games ( the usual mortal kombat , NFS and Tekken ). The owner dude tell me to try a particular Game and hands me a DVD with a faded label. That was the day i knew of God of War - II. Got back to my pad and plugged it in and started playing God Of War and I have been hooked on to the game till date.

The game was released early 2007 and is a sequel to the original GOW. It revolves around the Ghost of Sparta called Kratos and his mission to destroy Zeus. The Game play is fab and the weapons are outta this world. Athena's Blades, The Spear of Destiny, Typhoons Bane, Rage of Titans and so on. I finished the game last evening but my head is still spinning thinking of the final battles. I would say go on Youtube and search for God Of War 2 to figure out what i am talking about.

Caution - The Game is quite graphic and contains some nudity too. The Sirens who appear in the game are all full topless wonlee ( Wat a nice ). Lahkesis - One of the 3 sisters of fate keeps flashing her goodies too. Clotho - The last sister of Fate is quite gross and u seriously don't want to look at this :P~


Game On
Dosai

Bajaj Pulsar 220 DTS-Fi


Have ridden 3000 kms on it in a months time. Two services done to the bike, 2 long distance trips done, Have taken it on Ghats during night times. Have kept the bike on low, midrange and top-end ( to a certain extent ). So its high time to speak on what this fellow called the 220 actually is. This review is my personal opinion and will differ from what others think of the 220



Here goes :-))


Overall Mind-State = Happy that i got this bike :-)

Every rider in India thinks of two things when buying a bike. One being the price tag and the other being the Mileage. There is this third thing called performance which keeps jumping in and out. This bike bundles all three and comes out as a neat package.

Comfort - I owned a Thunderbird before and yes it was damn comfy. The 220 with its clip-ons are quite comfortable but does not come close the Bird. Well different league of bikes altogather so i shouldnt be comparing. But when you think 220 alone, the bike is comfortable. Has got a slight crouching posture and brings in a slight bend on ur elbows to bring in the sports tourer stance. I took it to Yelagiri once and once to Bangalore. I stopped every 100 kms for a short break of 5 mins. I had doubts on its touring abilities w.r.t comfort but now that is gone. All the above is for the rider alone. The pillion ( if any ) is gonna have a bitch of a time.

Stability - Bike is very allergic to crosswinds and there is a visible wobble when you are on the highway but this happens on any bike that is light-weight. The rear 120 are a boon and it sticks to the ground on straights and on turns. Have ridden the bike on wet tarmac too and bike handles very well. I personally feel that the 220 does not enter or exit a corner like a Honda. Till date i have never felt confident in take this bike into a turn - ALL OUT. Correcting this will be a huge plus point and you would start seeing loads of 220s participating on track


The Power - Responds very well to throttle. The FI unit is a uper sexy addon to this bike. Bike always starts on a single crank. The Low and Midrange are the noticable parts on this bike. The bike is a well behaved beast between 4000 and 6000 rpm. I think the bike enters powerbang on the lower rpms and goes all the way. There is slight change in bike characteristics after 6000 rpm. The bike's vibration almost triples and the Exhaust note changes from the silent grunt into a growl and then goes on to become a howl :P~. I everytime wish that this bike had one more gear.There are quite a few reviews out there which explain the power delivered by this bike. They make loads of sense so am not gonna write much in this dept but yes bike is WOW when it comes to power delivery.


Braking - Super is the word. The front and reat brakes are quite good. The rear brakes are open and is quite notorious as dust often gets in. My break have been squeaking from day one. Even a lil bit of cutting oil on the discs will render the brakes useless for the next 10 or 15 kms. Remember both are disk brakes so dont brake like you would usually brake on your old bikes. While riding, I have to make sure that the leg does not rest on the brake lever. This heats up the rear disks because of constant action.

Lights - Good on straight roads and completely useless when it comes to bends. I almost shat my load taking it on ghats during the night. You just cannot see the trail when you go into a corner. High beam or Low, it just does not light up a turn. On straights the light's throw is amazing. Even the big ones dip their lights for it High Beam.

Mirrors - Bajaj seriously went wrong here. The mirrors are absolutely useless. Rear view mirrors as the name indicate are used to see whats coming from the behind. All I can see with these mirrors are me. So mirrors need a change here. The fold option on the mirrors are a good idea. Protects the faring when the impact is on the mirror.


Status till date - 2 indicator bulbs have fused out and the black grills on the faring have started to rattle. Apart from this the bike is running like a dream. The bike does not need high octane petrol so normal unleaded will do good but make sure that its not a local petrol mix cause the injector will go for a toss.

Overall - Lovely bike to buy. Good price tag. A Mileage of 40 - 43 and the feel of a small superbike :P~


Peace
Dosai

500 Kms - First Service

scarab1
Originally uploaded by dosai

Scarab has done 501 Kms when I walked into Probiking for the First Service. The Pulsar 220 is doing good so far. Lovely Low and Mid range speeds. Bike is not torquey as Nazgul but very much serves the purpose.

The longest i have ridden scarab is till Casuarina Bay Chai shop on ECR and come tomorrow I am taking a trip to Yelagiri on this fellow. Absolotely no problem till now except the right mirror vibrating a lil under good speeds. Bike has done 480 kms till date from the last full tank and it still has not gone into reserve and all i have been doing is riding in the city. Bet it churns out better kpl when ridden on the highway.

All in All - I would say it was a wise decision to buy the 220 FI. Things might change.. U never know :-)

Scarab is Finally Here

Scarab
Originally uploaded by dosai

It all started on the 11th of August when I went over to Probiking @ Adyar to check out this new bike from Bajaj called the P220 DTSFI. Got a quote for the bike and after 10 such visits and a 3 month impatient wait, Scarab was finally delivered to me on the 5th of November 2007.

Bike looks, feels and moves like a beauty. Oh what a nice wonlee :-D

Pics at http://flickr.com/photos/dosai/sets/72157602954156727/

Peace
Dosai