Finally a hero.. ?

This is a pretty long post and I'l gladly give a chocolate to any1 who actually completes reading it :P
but its not that boring, i hope...i personally think its exciting, but who knows what U might feel? read on..... :)

I always keep talking of superheroes and comics and anime and martial arts and super powers and... spiderman :D Even in my mind I imagine rescuing young beautiful girls and then them fawning over me :P , or me beating up ppl generally.. using super awesome combos that look cool like in video games :D
Never did I actually think it wud come true :P

So, all thanks to the senseless Telangana bandh issued on 30th. Against sm ppl's advice, I took the train from mumbai to hyd on 29th evening, knowing that 30th was a curfew in hyd. I thot at most buses n autos wud be stopped, so I cud atleast walk home :P (a few kms, i cud hav done it) ........BUT what did I know they wud stop the train in the middle of nowhere??! (outside andhra border, to be exact)

Train stopped at a village station at 10am. After 10 mins when it still didnt move, ppl started looking around.. and then the talk came out, that unruly youths and jobless others were dancing on the tracks demanding their own state, so trains cant go ahead :P ... my 1st reaction was "oh damn! I was coming all the way to meet a frnd, and now this!

After 30 mins wen the train still hadnt moved I got restless.. Continuing to read 'The Golem's Eye' seemed a bit weird. So I went out and heard popular talk. The TTE was saying, "we donno wen the train will start. might be an hour, 2, 3.. worst case it will start at 6pm, after the bandh ends"
oh shiiiiiiiit! lol. so i'm stuck here :D fine.
I went and sat back at my place.
Now interesting stuff starts :D ........There was a girl (age 25, I checked in the train chart b4 I boarded it :P), decent looking, sitting in the same block (of 8 seats) as me, on the topmost berth, while i was sitting on side lower berth, opposite to her. I had been looking at her now and then, not staring tho :P, but got no positive response :( :| .....so wen i came in now, I saw a punjabi guy talking to her. I thot, "oh wow, i shud be more daring, like him.. well, he's taken the chance, i'll get back to reading my book. sigh" ...

I didnt hear the initial 1 or 2 convs they had, but then I heard it..... The guy was trying to talk, the girl wasnt interested, but the guy wasnt backing off. He kept saying gen stuff; he asked her her phone, which she promptly refused ( i got a lesson there.. I was abt to ask her myself, cuz my phone lost its signal there. good thing I didnt ask :P :) ) ..
She was saying "chale jao, dont talk to me" to which he initially responded by saying "im sorry", and extended his hand to her, seeking a handshake; which she again promptly refused (much to my delight :D ) ... Then he steps back and says "tuh kya samajti hai apni aap ko? Aishwarya Rai?? Katrina Kaif?!!" . and he turned to me; ob i was staring at them, so he says "abey tu kya dekh raha hai?!!" to which i quickly turned my head away, feeling like a naughty child scolded by the teacher.

He went back to his block (right beside mine) and was talking to his grp of guys there (where they were having alcohol provided by guess who, the TTE!). I looked up at the girl and she gave me expressions with her mouth, saying inaudible swear words against that guy :D ....... i nodded my head, then shook it, meaning "lite lelo.. dont mind him" ...

COMMERCIAL BREAK!
I was bored, ob, and my happy spirit was trying to capitalize on the situation. ok, i'm stuck in a train which aint gonna move anytime now.. so what to do? Camera my good frnd, lets go! :)
i jumped out the train and in a period of 30 mins, did some creative stuff, running on the tracks, climbing trains, jumping, etc etc :D

................
So that was the lil adventure I had :D
After I thot I had enuf (after 30mins) , I went back to my seat. I found the punjabi guy still trying to talk to the girl, which only annoyed her.... She kept looking at me lil and lil, and I just shook my head and kept saying (mentally) "ignore him.. ignore him.."

Train was stationary. I had exercised, so i was sweating. SO i removed my shirt :P :P :D not a very wise move i guess, but still,...my freedom! :P
dunno wat the girl felt abt that, but I heard the guy muttering to his group "kya samajhta hai apne aapo.. banyan pehenke baita hai! (wat does he think of himself... just wearing his vest!!)"
I diverted my mind onto the book and kept reading..

for the next 20 mins he didnt trouble her again, so i thot things were fine.
she asked me to recharge her phone saying "if i get down from here he might do something!"
so i took her phone and charger and went around the train, finding 3 sockets, but all were dead. So i came back..... on the way I had the thought "ooohh i hav her phone.. i can find out her ph no! :P hehehehe", but i didnt..... i went back........ and now i noticed this guy was talking to her again! Now I was a bit pissed.. my hero instincts flared up :P and i went infront of him and sat down .. he looks at me and says "arnold samajhta hai kya apne aap ko?? (u think u are Arnold Schwarzeneggar the great muscly??)"
i wanted to reply "no, im spiderman" :P but i wanted to be nice (anyway im a mild mannered mr Parker :P) so i just said, "no.. am not Arnold.."
he asked me the same qn 2 more times in a threatening way. maybe he thot i wud get subdued.. which i did :P, but the next instant he turned to the girl and started saying shit again.... NOW i intervened (tan da daaaaann!! dramatic music if this is a movie :D)

I said in a loud clear deep manly voice ( rather, in my small weak requesting tone :|) "arey chod do na use.. (leave her alone na)" .. to which he does a sharp turn to me, opens his eyes out wide, looks full furious and says, "who the fuck are u to tell me?? haan?? haaan??!!"
I bit my lip, prayed to spiderman :P , and said "arey, just leave her.. what did she do to u..."
(let me explain the scene here ....8 seats. she was up on topmost, i was sitting on side lower, the VILLAIN was standing between us, in the passage. rest of the seats were empty)
At that instant i guessed he was gonna hit me.. he looked that angry (and that evil.. plus my spider sense was ringing :D i told to it "sorry, am busy, hold on :P) ,,,,,,,,,

He withdrew his hand behind his head and punched me.

I saw it in slow motion (kind of :P) . I (raised my hand and shot a web in his eyes and threw him out of the train........is what i'd like to say :P, but I) just raised my hand and defended myself :)
The girl screamed (as expected in movies :D) and came rushing down the shot ladder. I didnt see what she did after that. I went back to looking at more important stuff :P, the guy. he punched again.. then he went a step back, raised his hand extraaa high and swung it. I thot it was gonna hit like a hammer, and I ducked, covering my head with my arm....Strangely, I didnt even feel his hit :D maybe i was too numb with terror (naah, kidding :P) or maybe my adrenaline was stopping all the pain, or maybe simply cuz my skin is made of iron B-) :P

after seeing the futility of his punches, he grabbed my left hand, and with his other hand grabbed my throat!!!!
at that instant i panicked. Cuz, from all the anime plus martial arts movies i've seen, i know that the throat is a weak point! He was holding it quite hard. it didnt hurt, but if he had crushed my wind pipe....!!! i wudnt hav been able to sing ever again! :P wat a great loss to the world na! :P. good thing he didnt watch as much anime as me :D .... anyway, then i had to retaliate,,,,
so i lifted both my (so far inactive) legs and kicked him in the chest.... not hard. im a gentle boy :P .. just pushed him away from me. he held my legs and tried to do something, but that something happend to my floaters and they came off. my legs are fine (to those fans who are worried abt them :P )

then he tried punching again, and i tried to catch his head his hair (yaa, i became violent then.. much to my own disappointment. true masters put their enemies to sleep by a simple jab........ i'll do that next time :P ) ..but he didnt hav any hair!!!!! all was hidden under his turban :P .. so i pulled it. it didnt come off, but his lips sure came off his teeth..... he was growling like a lion: "meri pagdi ko pakadtha hai., teri....!@!@#$#$%^_^....."
at which point i started apologizing (strange huh?) just to cool him.
but nope. he was fierce as a punjabi tiger! oh did i mention his build.... taller than me, as thin as me, lots of beard. meanwhile i was talking loudly (not talking, not shouting :P, just talking loudly) to guys nearby, "sm1 get ppl to hold him down (else i will knock 15 of his teeth off :P)" ..... so, 2 guys did come and caught one arm each and pulled him back.. he was still shouting in greek.

ideally i shud hav kicked him in his balls wen he was all tied up by those guys, but i just gave a smart awesome smile to the girl and flashed my brilliant orbit teeth, she saw the light and went blind. joke :P
i was still looking at the damn villain guy ...sigh.....2 ppl pulled him into the next block.... i finally saw the girl again (this time its true :P) she came forward and said "ohsorry!" i gave a gesture with my hand.. a flick, which said "no probs! me hero! :P" ....

my heart was still beating hard from all the excitement.... the villain was shouting "u pulled my turban!! i will call my ppl up. ure dead!!"
i remembered a similar incident i read in paper.. where guys molested a lady and her husband challenged, and a group of ppl with swords came and pushed him off the running train!!!! (i mean, why do u need swords to push ppl? :P ) so i panicked..... cuz i saw him making phone calls n all.....

(ppl who are dead tired of reading the post so far raise ur hands please! :P u might wanna take rest cuz just half is done :P :P)

I was scared (naah, i'm kidding :P) so i went to the next block, where some middle age men were sitting. i asked the girl to do so too.. so we sat there, 7 ppl,...i felt a bit safe, but not much,... they were saying "go complain to the TTE, or some men outside. they'll beat his blues out!!" (oh can i get beaten too? i want to get my blues and red out.. get out my true colors, those of spiderman! :D :P)

but i was the leader of peace, so i said "no, lets wait. he might cool down".
but nooo, he comes running again, draggin along his frnd who was trying to restrict him, and says" meri turban pakadta hai.........!!!! (same old dialog)" to which i replied "ah, u grab my throat (and ruin my spidey mask), i was trying to grab something of urs (no erotic thots ppl :P) .. and i came across ur conveniently shaped and sized turban :P ... anyways, sorry! (to cool him)"
but nope.. no use..
"u dont respect my turban!! my religion!!"
a guy sitting there replied "dude, u dont respect a girl, why shud he respect ur turban?"
to which i said mentally, "waah waah! well spoken ma man! :)"

Villain went away ..... and peace dawned on our souls for a minute.. my heart was slowing down too...then he came AGAIN!!! aaahh i was tired of his face.. why doesnt he get clean shaven?? tch :P ....... he extends his arm.........and...... says "sorry dude, i was drunk, got out of control"
aaaaaaaahh.......finally. i gladly accepted the apology, and was apologizing myself :P
i was just saying, "sorry, no probs, thanks, sure, sorry, no hard feelings. yes, cool......."

he went away
and i smiled at every1 ........ haaah..... cool :)
then he came again :O
he said "dude, come with me"
i stood up.
the girl said "nooooo!! (please dont leave me, O brave and noble Sir!)"
i said bravely "its ok (dear maiden, harm shall not come my way, for I am Duke minister Buck Fullerene, with powers of explosives!) "

Villain took me near the train door. we stood in the passage. His frnd was there too.
hm, they cud hav pushed me off the train then, tho it was not moving. i wud hav gone out and continued playing :) but the villain says, "meine tujhe maara na, mujhe bura nahi laga....... par meine usko (pointing at his frnd) maara na, uski buri lagrahi hai! (I dont feel bad abt hitting u, but i feel bad abt hitting my frnd here, who tried to stop me)"
I was thinking "aaah, is it? bloody.. so u arent sorry abt hitting me? !@##". but i just said, "ah ok, no probs"
Then he asked me my name: "Ravi". he says "oh, this my frnd here is called Ravi too!" waaah, great, so shall we all die now? :P

so we chit chatted a bit there, "made friends" ... cuz only way enemies can be together is to become frnds :) .. i wasnt too enthu abt it, but I didnt wanna disturb his feeble mind :P so i just did whatever they expected me to. Anyway he wasnt so bad after the alcohol went out of his brain (and after i kicked his ASS! yeah!! \M/ :P ) ....... we hung around for 10 mins, went out nd watched the crowd dancing outside (ppl magically produced a sound system, one long haired hippie looking uncle plugged in his ultra sophisticated phone to it and was singing from a mike........it was like a marriage party. amazing how people can have fun in the dreariest of situations :) THATS the human spirit! cheers! ....... apparently no1 noticed the lil fight that took place inside the train. good for mr punjabi, cuz he wud hav atleast 10 broken bones if that happened :D )

I left those two boys (wasnt too comfy with them) and surveyed the aftereffects. two circular scratches on myleft arm, where the guy held me, and a long scratch on the back of my neck. the skin had come off and it was stinging a bit (Actually these injuries are like ant bites to a rock! I got much worse ones playing football, so i wudnt hav mentioned these.. but ........ just for readers' sympathy :P :P) I washed my face, smoothed my hair, and sat at my place again.
Another surprise for me. The girl was in an animated conversation with the guy who had given the "respect girl, get respect for turban" dialog. I gave a side look, cursed my fate and sat back alone, trying to read the book. sound of laughter, i turned my head. aaaah, both were having fun talking! yaaayy!! great.......my Sin caught my heart (jealoufy) and turned it evil. to purify it I stuffed my ears with music, my eyes with the awesome scenery outside, my mouth with hide n seek biscuits, my skin with the cool pleasant wind, and I went awaaaaaayy to another world, far away from hate, evil and wow wow!

meanwhile, the train had started (thank god! took 4 hrs to get its ass moving! ) the villain-turned-frnd got down at the station and waved me goodbye from the window. i waved. ah wahat a relief to see him go! not that i hated him or something.....i WAS actually cool abt him in my mind., but i didnt want his presence right now :P

Then I noticed the gang who had drunk with mr villain-turned-frnd beckoning me. I went. back to the human world. They made me sit down and asked "dude, what happened? why the scuffle?" Then i explained in 5 lines what is taking me a million lines to explain in this blog :P . They said, "oh, wow..... great man! u did a good job.. and we're sorry we didnt come to help u....we knew he was paining her.. we thot they knew each other.. u know, frnds fight like that sometimes..."
ok ok. I stayed with them a few more mins, exchanged talk, i laughed not-2-enthusiastically and went back to my seat.

Still, damsel-out-of-distress was talking with mr Dialog man. ah. rotten luck :P
Allowed me a few moments of mind wandering. I was thinking abt the fight. How my adrenaline rose wen the punches came. my feeling. WILD!! excited. an almost beastial instinct in me awakened :P my thirst for violence, martial arts n all that life of action grew strong.
The brief fight sparked my true nature :P I wanted MORE fights! To test my skills! I cud easily hav beaten up that guy if i really went on offensive. I hav seen many anime and learnt many techniques (ok, readers might think i'm joking, but im not :P). I was lost for a min thinking of all the moves i cud hav done on him and subdued him...unknown to myself a grin appeard on my face ... It was funny :D ... I turned and looked at the girl, she was still talking with Dialog man :|, but i didnt care now... i did my part, got my reward...the FIGHT!

I was happy i got to test just a lil of my power :P hmmm, wonder how many ppl wil need saving like this :P fat chance of it happening again.
I was drifting off to mindspace again, when finally she called me. aaah! :P
1st line: round of introductions. my name. her name. cool.
2nd line: where do i work, where does she work. ok
3rd line from her: "can u give me ur business card?"
AH?! my heart beat faster and i said "ah, but i joined recently, no card yet.."
lady: "then can u give me ur phone number? ...... "
AAAH!!! heart beating faster. weee, i got lucky! yippeeee! :P
lady: ".....my husband wants to call u and thank u."
EH?! husband? I deflated like a punctured balloon. I lost interest in the conversation after that :P

but just for a min. I regained my friendly nature after that and continued chit chat nifely. She was nice. trying to help. thot i didnt hav a house in hyd. told me come over to their house. aaah, got a lil excited hearing that :D .
When we finally reached hyd, we got down, she introduced me to her young and dashing husband who was waiting for her at the station for 6 frikkin hours (good that he loves her :) )
he said "come over to our house right now!!!"
i said "aaah... g2g to my house..parents r there... (anyway, u guys enjoy urselves ;) )"

and so we left!!!!
I ran back home in an auto (how can u run in an auto? u can if u hav flexible legs :P and if u are short also :P), thot of blogging immeeeediately. cuz i was so excited then. but many ppl were online and i kept telling them the story one after another and i got to hear a line that no1 ever said to me: "U did great man! I'm proud to have u as my friend!"
aaahh..... sheesh, blush :) .. its ok, i do my part in eradicating evil from this universe :P

I think i'll join a martial arts club in mumbai once i get back :D

End!!!

PS: If u want autographs of an upcoming superhero, u know where to ask ;) :P :D

Above the Clouds

I've been on aeroplanes 3 times before, back when I was relatively young: 10th class times. I think now, that I always was excited about flying, but I cant remember what I felt when I flew those 3 times. Thus it is that when I boarded Jet Lite airplane yesterday I felt as if I was doing it for the first time. And thus it's an experience to recount! :)

I was at my uncle's place in Vizag, near the beach. Plane departure was at 1.25pm. I finished my bath at 12.15, quite leisurely. But my uncle panicked me and made me think I was gonna lose the flight. So we went on the bike across highway roads with sparse traffic. That ride was fun. Saw lots of factories, trees, industrial stuff and ofcourse, felt the wind on my face :) Took photos too.. I was sitting pillion and I extended my arm to take a self pic, and drew it back just in time b4 a lorry whooshed past :)


I reached the air-station (aerodrome?) and I went inside the entrance gate. As soon as I entered I was breathtaken looking at the huuuuuuge empty hall. I wanted to take a pic but I as a bit tense so I crossed over, got my boarding pass (ticket) and was told to wait till furthur announcements. Phew! I was safe! not gonna miss my flight! :) So I became calm (and being calm allowed happy excitement to creep up :) ) I went and sat on one of the empty chairs (there was a girl opp to me, she looked ok :P but I didnt stare :) ), checked the boarding pass once, and immediately got up and went to the only shop there. It had books, toys, chocolates, handicraft stuff, etc. I spent 10 mins looking fondly at all that stuff (didnt want to spend money buying them :) ) and when I looked enuf, I went back to sitting at the same old place. The girl was stil there so I felt uncomfy, but anyway I just sat for a few mins. I cudnt sit, though, so I started walking about just like that. I flicked a glance at the police and then the thot occured to me, "oops, what if they think I am upto smthing suspicious?". All the other passengers were sitting quietly, or maybe a few were talking but I didnt see them. For me, I was a bit restless :)
So I went to the bathroom, just like that :P Luckily 10 mins later the boarding call came and we hurried off to the security check.

I was worried they wont let my camera into the flight deck with me :( Cuz I already had planned to take a thousand pics on the plane( which I did! :D ) and there were rumors cameras werent allowed. Ofcourse, I need a window seat for that too; I had asked the lady behind the counter "can I get a window seat?" when i got my boarding pass. she didn say anything so I wasnt sure if I got a window seat :( I thot I cud exchange it with sm1 on the plane. So so, we stood in line, got our bags passed thru the Xray scanner. I lingered there a bit too, trying to see how the xray of my bag looked like; if I cud a camera shaped hightlight in the image :D . I think I did, not sure... anyway I rushed on to the next counter... for bodycheck ;) :P

After that there was another set of chairs where we had to... surprise surprise! just sit and die till the plane comes! -_- Again I was pacing the whole place around but didnt get the guts to take out my camera incase they told me to put it back in.. I wasnt gonna risk that, cuz I HAD to take pics inside the plane! of the air , the clouds, the terrain! :D Ofcourse, being a guy, I had thots in my head (fleeting thots, wasnt really serious :P ) of some girl sitting beside me :P :D So I looked around for prospective girls i'd like on my side :P ... there were only 4 or 5 girls of my age in the whole 100 or so that were gathered.. none of them looked too good, but ah, thats ok :P I wudnt mind.

After walking around aimlessly 3 times, I came and sat. That girl I saw first was again opp to me (hah! :P ) but still me no guts to look eye to eye :P There was this kinda hot guy beside me too. our eyes met :P I didnt want to keep staring at him, but I did keep looking at him now and then :) :P He looked stylish. anyway..... near departure time i saw newcomers on the far side of the hall (ppl kept coming na) and there i spotted a gudlooking girl!! best in the hall! but she was with her family, so i didnt spare her another glance. I went and peed 2 times :P my restlessness had increased. I cudnt just sit there!! I wanted to run! to jump, shout and take pics! :(
I took out my book and started drawing stuff to whileaway the joblessness.... well,, I drew 2 stupid pics and I felt no imagination coming in so I packed. Finally when the boarding call came, ppl went to the exit gate (gate to the airfield) and were packed off into buses, which went to the flgiht, standing a bit away. I saw the whole procedure, and since I wanted to take pic of the plane, I purposefully held back to the last batch to get into the buses, so i'd get free space in the bus to take pics ;) I felt clever doing that :D And heres the result of the planning: the plane pic! see the reflection of ppl: I took the pic thru the window na.


Once we got down from the bus, I wanted sm1 to take my pic infront of the plane, but as usual i'm a gutless scaredycat, so I didnt ask any1 :( I went up the staris, and in! (YAAYY I'm In The PLANE!! :D) I asked the guy who checked our tickets if i cud get a window seat, and he said "u have a window seat" (YAAYY felt great! :D ). There was a cute and beautiful airhostess inside, welcoming us all :P :D woow! how nice. but I cudnt stare, so I had to let go of that too :( :P

Then I walked in, slowly, cuz the guys infront were blocking the path. It was so narrow and constricted. The plane was very small in length too. Seat 20F was mine. I was at row 29. I walked one row per minute.. I was trying to see who were sitting in row 20... maybe some girl? /) :P but i cudnt see anything yet. suddenly the blockage ahead of me cleared and i went up , and I saw row 20.....my heart stopped for a moment. It was that "best girl" who had come with her family. She and her dad were sitting on 20E and 20D respectively, and they looked up as I came and stood there. Ah..I looked at her too.. she was even better looking close up :P :D I wish I cud say that we looked at each and other and some mysterious metal story went on between our minds thru meaningful eye contact (like it happens in novels) but my mind was blank :P i just looked, and pointed at the empty seat beyond her "thats mine" .. dad and daughter came out into the aisle and let me go. I sat... there was a possibility the dad came sat next to me now.. and i was a little apprehensive of that, but a sec later i was excited, it was the girl who sat next to me after all! hahhahha :P

and NOW the story starts :D ( I know I write too much, and write unnecesary facts. but... *shrug :) ) I looked sideways and saw the girl once... overall it was a salmar kameez kinda dress. green veltey pant (wow) a top with heavy embroidery, and a semi-transparent sleev (wow again :P ) . She wore glasses, had red lips :P she kinda looked like this gult actress :D
Anyway b4 u all think I'm a pervert :P, i gave all this description cuz I didnt look at her for the next 40 mins!! Wondering why? Cuz I WAS ON A FRIKKIN PLANE MAN!!!!!! FLYING! :D
I didnt even look at the airhostesses as they were explaning that shit on how to fasten seatbelts and wear air masks incase an electric storm hits the plane and transports u to venus! :P
I immediately looked out thru the window. I cud see most of the right wing, and the empty airfield. I took out my cam, kinda kept it hidden incase the airhostesses tell me its not allowed :| ) I took some pics. And the the engine started!! "whhoooooooooooo".. tiny flaps on the wing raised, the plane moved! it took a U turn, went to the end of the runway, took a U turn again and stopped for a minute.... The tense pause b4 it accelerated and flew away!! I cud feel the same tension in me! As if I was the one crouching and about to spring out and run! :D . I had my camera out, taking pics and videos wildly :D . the plane gave the starting sound (i cant spell it :( but its the "vrum vrum" sound u get when u rev bikes and cars; only, the plane sound is so awesome! u hear it in the movies :D ) I wanted to take a video of the plane taking off, so i started recording. It moved, fastter and faster, it accelerated quickly! I knew the moment was coming!! AAAAAAAAAAHHHhhhhhhhhh......it was an orgasm :P heehheh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNVWR8jvItI

I was concentrating on the lcd screen of the camera a bit, so i didnt fully look at the real scene. i'll do that next time. but anyway, it was awesome! the takeoff... the ground leaving u , things getting smaller, farther and u rising up, up!! :D this orgasm lasts only a few seconds too :( cuz after the plane steadies itself in the air, it doesnt accelerate, so u get no feel! :( . But still the view is awesome.. I kept clicking pics, and in the few moments i had to spare, I looked down at the real scene.. It was all breathtaking.. more so than the girls i saw in the hall :P Infact, I had forgotten there was a girl sitting beside me :) ..... I pressed my face to the window glass, trying to look further and further ahead, behind, up or down, anything!...



Vizag being a coastal city, there was lot of water to look at.. bays, pools inside the main land.. If that wasnt exciting, when the beach came, the huge open mass of water of the OCEAN lay below my eyes, it was sight, i tell u!! A grand sight!! wow! I cud see the waves hitting the sand, the blue-green shimmer at shallow areas near the beach, and the deep blue metallic tinge of the inner areas of the sea. I was still looking out with my eyes popped out, when a bonus was added. the plane was turning, it wasnt gonna go on the sea , it had to turn back to main land (to hyd) As it turned the sun reflected off the water, a whole sea of water! and what a shimmer it was! :D
my face pressed against the window so hard I heard the glass make a sound, maybe it was loose! :) ... maybe i cud break it and jump out of the plane! :D


Now the plane was going parallel to the shoreline.. and I had another unexpected sight. I noticed breakers, likes of rocks jutting into the sea from the beach. These r constructed near harbors and ports, to "break" the force of the waves. I was staying right infront of a breaker, my uncle's place was on the beach. Its the navy quarters, with 3 apartments side by side. As soon as I saw the curved breaker far below from the plane, I looked beyond it and presto! i spotted those 3 apartments!!! wow! I cud see my house from the plane!! :D


I guess we were still ascneding then... Cuz I didnt see many clouds yet. So now it was their turn to stop my breath :D and they did for 20 whole minutes! :D (ofcourse not literally.. i'll die if i held my breath for 20 mins :P ) First I saw clouds far off, just like u'd see them from ur rooftop. Then they got closer, WE got closer to them,,,, and i cud see the clooouuudsss!!! O_O again my face my pressed to the window, I only aware of the camera and my flabbergasted mind, nothing else (not even the girl!! :P ) I saw different kinds of clouds., Some were wisps, translucent, the ground visible thru them. Some where HUUUGE,, big big cotton puffs, pure white and stationed magestically in the sky,.. like palaces. It was islands of clouds amidst the sea of sky... For a moment it felt like earth and water was one plane, cloud and sky was another plane where ppl can actually live! (refer One Piece anime, where they actually make this concept true!! its awesome. ppl living on clouds :D ) For the first 15 mins this song was involuntarily playing in my head: " I cant believe it! I wont believe it! I've never seen an ass. like. that!" .. only, the "ass" refers to clouds in my case here :D :) After taking lots of pics of the clouds, I finally spared a moment to be aware of the rest of my body...... and realized that my legs were shaking! my toe was in touch with the ground, and my heel was rising up n down. Kinda like a reflex, on its own. I willed with my mind and stopped it... and as soon as i took my mind off it for taking pics, the leg started shaking again :D It felt funny. I was glad my body was as excited as my mind was! lol.
and one thing: I was sweating! i felt a drop of sweat trickle down my chest. Donno if it was cuz of the little sun rays hitting me thru the window, or cuz i was hyper :D


Again I got back to gazing at the clouds...i looked looked and looked, wondering if the girl, or sm1 else was seeing what I was doing :P At this point, i wasnt worried if the airhostess saw me with the camera.. it was ok i guess. At one point, I saw a valley of clouds! clouds forming a terrain, and a peak, and then dropping off,, just like a mountain! Another time, there was a whole sheet of clouds above us, an unbroken cover. I wished we rushed thru clouds instead of passing by them, and that was granted too!! 3 mins after i wished it, I saw a huuuge mass of cloud ahead, and we were heading right towards it!! aah, the wings will CUT thru the clouds.. it was what i had always imagined, dreamed of! :D and at this point this song: "I been waiting!! for a girl like u! for sm1 who cud makes my dreams come true! i been waitaiinng,.. for years and years whatever whatever" :P ... girl = flying :D . I used my super powers of imagination and removed the window, the wing and my own body from awareness... Thus it was that I by myself was going thru the clouds, in the sky and over the valleys!! yaayy!!! :D

so, when the cloud was passing over the wing, i tried to take a video of that..i did. but the memory didnt last till the plane got out of the cloud! :( i had to delete some so i cud take more pics. but that "going thru the clouds" video cudnt be done :( maybe next time :)
as we neared hyd, i noticed rainy clouds increased in freq. dark clouds instead of the cotton balls i saw near vizag :D So it was that after 40 mins of travel, my excitement waned enuf for me to sit straight and lean back in the seat (until then my torso and nec was twisted right :) )
soft drinks and sandwiches were being sold and then i looked at the girl again. I thot of starting a conversation, but her dad was right beside her, and anyway i dont hav that much guts :P I dwelled on the subject for 5 mins.. whether to talk or not, but then again went back to clicking pics :) I took a video of the plane landing too.
sun shining, but hindered at places by the clouds! awesome na! :)


All in all, it was a 3100 bucks well spent! for the experience was awesome! When i got down at the airport in hyd, came out and saw the clouds, i said in my mind, "yeah!! I came from above u guys!! :D" On the bus journey back home (which lasted 30 mins) I was kinda regretting that I didnt talk to the girl... after all its so rare u get an opportunity to sit beside a girl, a good looking one at that :P .... nyway I reached home and wakwakwak

Time Lapse photography

Did my first ever time lapse video 2 days ago!!
I was just strolling on the terrace, feeling the wind and gazing blankly at the wide sky and after half an hour of looking at the clouds go marching as a Sky Force Regiment from south to north I got the bright idea that I shud photograph them! So I ran down and got my digi cam and took 2 pics. Then I got the ever brighter idea that I shud take a video! I've seen a time lapse video of the stars at night, and it looks awesome!

This is that video:
http://www.doobybrain.com/2009/05/18/time-lapse-video-of-milky-way-galaxy-over-texas/

And so I got inspiration to do a similar video now. First, I started taking the vid standing on the terrace. After a minute of recording, I realized I cant keep standing and hold the camera stable for long and anyway to get a better view of the setting sun I needed to get to higher ground so I climbed atop the 12 foot water tank there :) (no I didntuse my spidey skills, I took advantage of the ladder there :D )
So I got up, crossed my legs, placed my hands on the thighs, held the cam in my right hand, held my right hand with my left hand (for stability; the cam shudnt move when we want a time lapse vid) and sat there like that for a WHOLE EIGHT MINUTES!! I guess my hands were as stable and strong as a surgeon's while doing an operation ;)
But still, the cam shook enuf to destroy the subtle cloud movements :(
Luckily there was an "anti-shake" effect in the video software I used to edit the video :) Looks much better now. And I added one of my fav music to it too, so ppl dont get bored looking at clouds for a whole minute :)
Enjoy!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSecpaWeEKE

As a bonus, I also took a few pics of the birds :)

Synti and the Lil Girl -- part 2 :D

and I met the girl again, today! when I went for running... the wind was so good that I went and slept on the grass for 10 mins before I ran I saw her coming while I was running........and today we talked too!
she started saying something in tamil again and I cudnt just keep nodding (feeling absurd inside) so I told her "I dont speak tamil...."
she said "I ..speak..little bit.. english..."

haha, so cool, she can atleast speak a lil! :)
I asked her name and number ............. class number shes in 1st class lol

and then she kinda ran along with me on the track... it was funny watching her run...such small legs, and shes so thin and she was laughing all the time ........ kinda made me remember myself After I finished running and was doing exercises, she came and said "flower . flower!!"
I was like....... "what, agaaiin?!! -_-
ah.......it isnt so easy to climb that branch, and I was already tired from running..... so I just kept looking at her for a minute hoping she'd understand, but again she said "climb, get down with flower"

ok ok....if u want it that badly! sigh! So I repeated yesterday's commando action but it was easier this time. gave her the flowers and started walking away, but she called me and stuck something on my hand...
what was it? it was a petal from the unopened bud of a gulmohar flower ... I dunno if u ever saw a gulmohar flower? but when u stick that elliptical kinda petal on the finger, it looks like sharp red nail coming out I loved it!!
u put petals on all five fingers and u can act like the dracula or a wolf or something.....long red fingernails lol

and I was walking away again, she said "butterfly!"
then I noticed a dark blue butterfly whooshing past me.
I looked at the girl again. she said "catch it!"
I was like, "whaT!!!! maan, butterflies??!! they arent as easy to catch as flowers!, u think i am a superman or something?!! "
ofcourse, I didnt say all that,,,, she wudnt hav understood, so I said, "nooo, if I catch butterfly, they will cry!"

so she gave up....phew! I ran a little more and came back to room --------- same as prev post. the above is 3 scraps I wrote to some1 ;)

Synti saves the lil girl!!

oh what an adventure I had in the last 1 hour!!
I went to the stadium, ran around in circles for 10 mins, while all the time looking at the fish in the sky ..... yeahhh the clouds were spread all over the sky, from east to west, in the shape of a fish, with the eye being the Sun!!
Even if I had taken a camera, it wudnt hav captured such a big fish!! I need a bigger net (wide lens camera) to catch this one
So, after I had enuf running I spotted a tree and went, climbed up and sat on the branches ...... like a monkey. hehehhe
A little girl saw me and started jumping up and down "hey dad look theres something on that tree!!"
she was speaking in tamil so I cud only guess from sign language.........
anyway, I enjoyed her, her dad and mom gaping at me, and I got down after 5 mins .... Then again the lil girl (who, btw was very cute ....she must hav been in 2nd class I guess....) started chirping...... This time I had no idea what she was saying, but after a minute of her pointing at the tree and blabbering, I asked , "you want those flowers??" (that was a gulmohar tree, flame of the forest, heard of it? )
She seemed to nod, and I didnt mind climbing the tree again to get the flowers so I agreed! :D
But now I had to use my brain, not just my monkey skills :P
the red flowers were high up on the tips of branches, I cant go there cuz the twigs will break and that will lead to a 15 foot fall I guess ....
So I scanned the tree, (with my super amazing IIT brain ofcourse ) and found possible flowers which I can pluck with the assumption that I cant fly or simply web up a flower and pull it down
(and now comes the hard part.... I wish I had time to draw (again, using my super amazing drawing skills ) and show u what exactly I did, but I'll just try using my word skills :P )
there was one looong and thick branch extending away from the trunk, almost horizontally, and another branch a little higher than it, but going parallel to it. It was the 2nd branch which had flowers at the end of it. and this branch was shorter than the 1st one in length, so my plan was to reach as far on the 1st branch as I cud, without breaking it, and reaching up to the 2nd branch
u ever saw those commandos snaking along a horizontal rope? Their body is horizontal too, with hands holding the rope and legs criss-crossing farther along the rope... and then they move like earthworms, first sliding the hands, then the legs.... zub zub. zub zub..........thats what I did
the branch was going down as it went away from the tree so I was seeing the ground get closer to me, and the view was inverted.......hell I shud just draw it what a feeling it was...
When I reached the flowers, I left one hand and one leg on brach1 and pulled down Br2 with my other leg (cuz B2 was higher than B1, right?) and the using hand 2, I plucked flowers (hand 1 was desperately hanging onto B1)
I wish sm1 was there to take a photo of me! -_-
news paper material pose that was! (maybe i'll draw atleast this one scene....)
"super hero saves kitten stuck on tree and returns to old lady" = "super monkey iitan climbs tree & gives flowers to cute little girl" looolll

So, I got them flowers (yeah I plucked them, sorry for hurting those liiiiitle flowers ) gave them to the girl, and oooofff, mission accomplished!
I was bruised, my hands, clothes and legs were full of tree bark powder....... but I felt goooooooooooooood
I stayed around in the stadium to do some more exercises and when I was about to leave, I saw the girl again, she said "bye bye anna..... byeeeeeeeee"
(anna means 'bro' , u know? )
So I waved to her too and haaaaaaaahhh......back to room, sweet room !
(what a long story!) There, I guess that compensates for me not coming online again today .................. enjoy!!

----------- All that was written as a scrap(s) for a special some1 on orkut :)