Who we are..!!!

An article i got over the mail..something that actually is very true..so i m posting it here...

Hello friends!!Well, jayant , my friend, told me the following incident which I wish to share with you. It has had a deep impact on my thinking.

In the diwali vacation, Jayant and his couple of friends had gone to Delhi.They rented a taxi for local sight-seeing.The driver was an old Sardar, and boys being boys, Jayant and his pals began cracking Sardarji jokes, just to insinuate the old man.But to their surprise, the fellow remained unperturbed.

At the end of the sight-seeing, they paid up the hire-charges. The Sardar returned the change.Moreover, he gave each one of them one rupee extra and said, (in Hindi, of course),''son, since morning you have been telling Sardarji jokes. I listened to them all and let me tell you, some of them were in a very bad taste.Still, I don't mind coz I know that you are young blood and are yet to see the world. But I have just one request. Here I am giving you one rupee each. Give it to the first Sardar beggar that you come across in this city."Jayant continued," That one rupee coin is still with me.

I couldn't find a single Sardar begging on the streets of Delhi."Friends, we all love sardar jokes. But the fact of matter is that Sikhs are one of the most prosperous and diversified communities in the world.

The secret behind their universal success, according to me, is their willingness to do any job with utmost dedication.(u won't even see sardar rickshaw puller)

A Sardar will drive a truck or set up a roadside garage or a dhaba, but he will never beg on the streets.forward to as many as so tat they know about us wat we are

chilli flight update!!

who wud ve thot that i wud ve had the opportunity to write an update on the chilli flight...well..turns out one of the spicejet crew members ve gone thru n read my blog...n by the response i got...d post was liked too...(thanking all my stars)....

well the spicejet crew member told me that she knew Ms S....and would try to get Ms S to read the blog entry dedicated to her...(i had a nice wry smile when i heard that...lol)...

im still waiting for any updates frm the crew member...lets see if theres sumthing coming up down this road.....(as its is said "hoping against hope hopen")......

anyways i ll b flying down to chennai on 26th ...so wil b at the airport then........

leaning out of the train at 100kmph!!!

have you ever stood at the door of the train and leaned out when its moving at full speed(exceptions beging rajdhani and shatabdi)....i have...and most of the time i do when i m travelling by train..

sitting on the berth or lying down is just too boring for me. for me, i like to stand on the door or sit on the footsteps at the door of the coach and feel the air gush into my face..the most recent train journey that i took was to pune to catch up with my old friends n office colleagues...

the journey started at 3 frm nizammudin station and it was pretty hot n humid too stand out at the door at the pt of the time..so i jus sat in my berth..watched the antics of the co passengers and just kept waiting for dusk so that i cud go out n get a feel of the air..

arnd 7 pm after crossing gwalior...i jus went out..opened the doors..tightened my cap(had lost one earlier like this..lol)...and just leaned out to feel the fresh air coming into my face at about 100kmph..trust me u ve to experience that feeling to knw it...its a truely awesome feeling...the wind coming into ur face at that speed and u r balancing urself at the door with just a grip on the side bars of the coach..most might call it dangerous..risky..stupidity..etc etc..but then most stuff that gets anyone going has to contain an element of danger,risk and stupidity in it..the feeling gets even better wen the trains crossing a bridge over some river....the view is awesome....u can check some of the pics on my album in orkut...this time i was adventurous enough to take a few snaps frm my cellphone will leaning out of the train..lol..this continued the next day into maharashtra where one could see vast stretches of farms waiting for the monsoons to arrive..till i arrived in pune in the evening....

all in all this is something i crave for wen i m in a train..and soon im gonna b doing this again for a lil while wen im leaving for Trichy from chennai for my B skool to start of my final yr....hopefully that being a totally night journey should be more fun than this was...

the chilli flight back home!!

chilli is the name that was engraved on the spicejet sg 118 boeing 737 800 which flew frm mumbai to delhi an hr late on 21st june 2006 and i was one of the passengers on board the plane.

i had heard a lot abt the flight quality of spicejet being better than the other low cost players in India but i gues except for 2 gorgeous airhostesses who seemed to be well versed in Hindi(something not seen in air deccan and go air) it was more or less like GoAir/Indigo.

coming back to the experience of flying on board chilli. the 2 airhostesses were assisted by 2 stewards. The airhostess whose name started with S was looking after the first half of the plane and the other one whose name started with C was looking after the other half. Ms S was looking after me too.

One would ve thot to see a heavily made up face and a million dollar smile welcoming(that seems so fake) u on board instead there was this girl i gues arnd 22 +- 1 yr..with a very subtle smile welcomin u on board showing the pure expresssion of "damn it, its late" or "y is there this voice in my head at this pt of time".

they got on with the flight demo and the flight took off..due to bad weather the seat belt signs took a lil longer than usual to switch off...in the mean time as is the routine...the crew was serving sweets to the passengers. Ms S served the sweets with that just a small hint of smile on her face while the rest of the crew was just showing their entire teeth setup..lol....u see this ever so often on a flight that it was the small hint of a smile on Ms S's face that got my attention. It was so original and perfect that everytime she walked by i was looking for it from the corner of my eye..whenever any passenger needed a bottle of water.. she would peep in the corrider first..then stand in front of the passengers..look at them from the eye that was being covered by the hair that fell over it...speak a word to herself and then walk toward them to hand over the bottle of water...all in a matter of 2-3 seconds...

well this kept happening again n again as a lot of passengers were thirsty...in between the onboard refreshments were also served and i took a bottle of juice(which really was pathetic) from Ms S as i was also pretty thirsty and a bit hungry too..and then i went back to reading the book i was reading...

i dunno how to put it in words but then there was something abt Ms S that made me write abt her here today..well if she happens to read it then.........(gawd help me??????)............lol....

Pune...the place still rocks!!

coming back to a city after an yr wud make everyone feel like.."this place feels a lil different"...but not to me...it still felt like coming back home(secondary one..primary being delhi)...it felt like.."im back baby!!!!"...

well one of my best frnds came to the station to pick me up n it felt good to ride on his 1970 enfield again..damn hes maintained it...the traffic frm station to Pune central in the evening was just so annoying but then it felt in place..lol...

came back to the flat where my old frnds live..one of them was with me for 5yrs till i was here...cracked up jokes ....made fun of each other...eat some sweets that i had gotten along...and then jus sat back n relaxed in the air of Pune...

later some of my good frnds came over and we just kept chattng and talking till it was dinner time...went to this restaurant Chillies in Koregaon Park for diner and had a nice meal with all of them....even tho the food wasnt great..it was the company that made the difference..it jus felt good...

this was all ystrday...

todays been a bit better....been to adlabs in kalyani nagar..its the neighbourhood mall for us...lol...took appy's car and went to MG Rd...saw the new mall thats come up opposite Planet M...its layout is pretty decent and it has a gotta a nice food court..pretty big one...

went to my usual shop on MG Road to get some t shirts n a cap for myself....and today is one of good frnds bday so its party time again....

well time to go now..probably will be online tomm...lets see wat more i get to write...

Keep rocking PUNE!!

Waking up to the roar of the Su 30 MKI

Have u ever wondered what it is like to wake up to the roar of the Su 30MKI taking off??If you havent then ask sumone whose lived in pune near the lohegaon airbase or near the bangalore airbase(2 airbases where Su 30MKI's are stationed)..believe me having lived near the lohegaon airbase its an awesome awesome experience...n for sumone like me whose a fighter aircraft fan..its the best wake up alarm...

i used to stay near the airbase for one yr when i was working with the software development centre of the worlds second largest bank(any guesses??) and it so happened that our president dr kalam was to go for a ride in the Su 30 MKI at the airbase here...

2-3 weeks before the event..the preparations were on in full swing...every morning the SU 30MKI's and the Jaguars stationed at the base used to take off for their routine sorties...and damn..the roar was amazing wen the plane was jus abt to accelera....it was a defeaning roar..the kind of roar u ld love to hear from a fighter aircraft..the dogs wud bark...the window panes wud shatter..the security alarms wud start tinkering off...but for me..it jus brought a nice smile on my face..

a smile that reminded how magnificent that machine was....a smile that reminded of a dream i had once of becoming a fighter pilot...well will add on more abt those 2-3 weeks of amazing fighter aircraft shows that went on over the skies of pune..but as of now im off to pune...hopefully i ll get to hear the roar of the Su 30MKI again....

Gyming in the rain in the morning..

on my way to the gym today...it started raining...n not just a drizzle but a decently hard rain...n my skool frnd whose goes to gym with me says...how do v go abt the jogging laps???n as we approach the gym..we see the instructor taking a nice stroll with one of the other gym goers while she got all drenched... n they we looked at each other..gave a wry smile and said..we ll go jogging but once the rain slows down a bit...lol

once it slowed down we both were out there huffing and puffing in the rain trying to burn a few calories...warm up those lazy muscles...and yeah jogging in the rain is fun....it does take away the sweatyness away frm the whole process....after about 15mins of jogging and getting wet we decided it was time to go do some serious exercising..my frnd (nick named mathss from now on) mathss needs to gain some muscle n i need to loose the excess ones( a 3 letter word starting with f and ending with t)...

a drenched gyming gear isnt exactly the best way to go about doing push ups, lunges etc etc but then if sum good looking female is doing it then to put it delicately..its nice...

newaz so one hour of sumhow exercising in d wet clothes we decided it was enough and it was time to go back home..and then the rain gods decided lets go abt it the "cats n dogs" way....

driving back home in the cats n dogs rain was a good drive..i must say...

well all in all to go gymin in the rain was a good experience n something to look fwd to with the monsoons approaching...yeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!

finally i m here

well never really gave blogging a serious thot but then here i am..i dunno if there's gonna b a flow to the posts that are gonna b added to the blog..mostly they wud b random..but then they wud b based on my life so far...so lets see how this turns out...

for those who are wondering abt the name of the blog..then the inspiration for it has come from Rocky 6...simply love the movie for the way the spirit and the will to go on has been shown.

One thing a swimmer doesnt forget is to swim..a boxer doesnt forget is to box...a biker doesnt forget is to ride a bike...and a FIGHTER doesnt FORGET how to FIGHT....and as Rocky Balboa says in the movie ...

the world aint it all sunshine and rainbows...its a very mean and nasty place..and no matter how tough u are..it will keep you under its knees forever if you let it.....u, me or nobody are gonna hit as hard as life..but it aint about how hard u hit..its about how hard u can get hit and keep moving forward...how much u can take and keep moving forward...that is how winning is done..now if u knw what u are worth..then go out n get it...but u must be willing to take the hits...that is how winning is done!!!