It’s now been three months since I have posted anything. May be I’m getting more and more lazy with time. But I know one thing, I cannot stay away from writing for a very long time. I always like to pen down any ideas that come to my mind.

I have to spend a lot of time to redesign my whole website, my blog and my photoblog.. It’s now or never !!!

So finally the time has come to say Good bye to Kuwait. Two and a half years here already and it seems like yesterday.

I must say, it was a place that I would remember for a long time. Made some really good friends here whom I would cherish for the rest of my life. Another thing that I would remember about Kuwait are the frequent weekend trips that I made from this place. Air tickets here were cheap and perhaps you could go to any other neighbouring country every other weekend. It’s one of those place where you are waiting for the weekend to come so as to plan more trips and see more places.

Had the pleasure of staying with different kinds of people during all my days here and it was fun. Something that I did not like about the place were the frequent dust storms hihi.

If I make a list of things that I would take back from here, it would be like this :-

• Friends (Neeraj, Kartik, Ruhain, Taran, Anshuman, Hashim, Anil, Satinder … and the list goes on)
• That one awesome trip to Bahrain (was fun to be with Neeraj and Kartik)
• Weekend cooking – Yakhni was yummy (We will cook it next time in India Ruhain )
• Teen Patti (It was fun to be with Hashim and gang)
• Weight loss story (Would remember Taran )
• The airport saga (It was fun to be with Sourabh as well)
• The boose (Thanks SP )
• Sky diving Challenge (Anil lets do it again sometime)
• Fun in the office (Everyone in the office.. hihih )
• And more..  oops censored

Would miss you guys for sure !!

Yalla Khallas !

So, this was something that I wanted to try out for sometime now. Sounds pretty scary but worth taking a risk.

Yup, I’m taking about tandem sky diving. This is one of the basic techniques to learn sky diving, and to have a bit of extreme fun as well . After already having missed two of my earlier shots at it, this time I was a bit prepared I must say. Over here in the middle east, I could find just one place where it was possible. Its in a place called Umm al-Quwain, that’s around 100 kms from Dubai. Should take you around 1.5 hours to reach there depending on the traffic. And located there is a small air club called UAQ Aero Club.

Ok. So, it took us (Anil and me), sometime to reach the place. During that time I reckon my mind was filled with thoughts on weather I should try it or not.. But then, you don’t look back once you have made up your mind .. rite.

Probably, the worst thing that happened was at the time of filling up the forms for this thing. Did I mention that you need to fill up like a 10 page legal declaration that you are not insane. heheh

After declaring that we were not as insane as we looked, we made our way to the air field. Within minutes, we saw a girl landing after the jump. She was scared to death and about to weep. Of course, that scared the shit out of me as well.

Okie, somehow again we got our act together, and I was the next one to go. So, after being set up with a Tandem master, I was guided through roughly 10-15 mins of ground prepration. Of course, it didn’t include anything on what to do in case things go wrong, hehe, you’ll land somewhere up rather than down in that case anyhow

After the  quick training and buckling up the equipment , it was time to go out to the plane.

The plane then ferried us (me, the tandem master and another diver who would take the video) to the required altitude.I reckon it would have been more than 10,00 feet above the ground. It took us around 15-20 minutes to get there which of course gave me more time to think about what I’m doing..

Ok, then the pilot gave the first warning .. that we were approaching the jump point. The tandem master then tightened straps around me. I was feeling like I had another individual strapped tightly to my back. The other diver then opened the plane door. Man.. the gush of air made me rethink one last time. Before I could think what to do, the tandem master told me to step to the edge of the door.. HOLY SH*** !! Frannkly my heart began to drop and I could feel my balls in my throat.. hahahah

And suddenly, I was rushing down in mid air with the ground suddenly rushing up to meet me. The feeling of being on a blanket of air washed everything away. Its something that you can’t explain. You’ll have to do it to understand

After around 20-30 seconds of free fall, the tandem master opened the straps of the parachute. Wooooooh !! and Up you go.. Thats a feeling that I can’t forget !!

The glide down lasted for around 5-10 mins, and yup.. I managed to manoeuver the parachute as well. It looks like a different world when you are up there, especially if you are close to the sea with all the creeks. It looks like you are slowly zooming into a Google earth map in real time

The excitement ended after I made a safe landing. .hehe..

The full video is here.

Sky Diving

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Here is how the lyrics are.. pretty much true ..!!

Okie the english translation is also there.  Added it  .

Got an email with this video sometime back. This is one of the worst incidents ever in Indian politics. Happened in UP Assembly. This is what happens when WE elect inept, corrupt, illiterate and criminal faces to represent US.

GOD save MOTHER INDIA !

OK. Now this is something NEW !

The Consortium of Pubgoing, Loose and Forward women kicked off this campaign on Feb 5, 2009 to oppose the Sri Ram Sena, which was responsible for the cowardly act in Mangalore.

So, here is what they are doing, and want us to do as well.

Step 1: It does not matter that many of us have not thought about Valentine’s Day since we were 13. If ever. This year let us send the Sri Ram Sena some love. Let us send them some PINK CHADDIS.
Look in your closet or buy them cheap. Dirt-cheap. Make sure they are PINK. Send them off to the Sena.

The address to send the package is:
The Pink Chaddi Campaign,
C/O Alternate Law Forum,
122/4 Infantry Road
(opposite Infantry Wedding House)
Bangalore 560001
Karnataka

If you don’t want to mail it yourself, you can drop it off at the Chaddi Collection Points. We will be collecting across the country through this week and sending the packages on February 12. More information about Chaddi Collectors in your city soon on our blog: http://thepinkchaddicampaign.blogspot.com/

Step 2: Send the Pink Chaddi Campaign a photograph of the package.

Tell us how many chaddis you are sending out and inspire other women in other cities. You can either mail the information to freelancehabba (at) gmail (dot) com or you can mail it at our facebook address. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49641698651&ref=mf

Step 3: On Valentine’s Day we do a Pub Bharo action. Go to a pub wherever you are. From Kabul to Chennai to Guwahati to Singapore to LA women have signed up. It does not matter if you are actually not a pub-goer or not even much of a drinker. Let us raise a toast (it can be juice) to Indian women. Take a photo or video. We will put it together (more on how later) and send this as well to the Sri Ram Sena.

Comments are Welcome !

So, I was going through this article, in which the DU students have asked for reducing the legal drinking age in the capital. I was just wondering if it’s justified. OK, so this is what I found out ..

India is the only country in the world where the maximum legal age for drinking is 25 years.

I’m talking about the maximum age, as it can change from state to state. So far as I think, 25 years is like half of your life, very very high limit so far as drinking age goes. Again remember this is in a country where as per the great Constitution, people are allowed to VOTE once they are 18 years old. So that means that as per law, children become Adults at 18. So, why not allow them to drink. I mean if not 18, 21 is the maximum you can have. In my opinion, it would be better to lower the legal drinking age and then have even strickter laws to punish the offenders.

These are the results I got after comparing around 119 countries. Of course the legal age is highest in India (25) and lowest in Burundi (16).

Happy DRINKING

Okie.. So it was the shooting range again this weekend. My 2nd visit to the range in a couple of months, but I bet this time it was much more fun.

For those of you who don’t know where this place is, just go to the sixth ring road nearby Expressway 50. The other thing to look out for is the Hunting and Equesterian Club.

Last time it was with 9mm pistols, which were pretty good as well. This time I wanted to try out something different. So, I opted for a Rifle with 22mm Hornet bullets. The target was pretty far away as well, I rekcon more than 25 m. 10 bullets for 5KD is not a bad deal at all, rite.

Frankly, I was a little scared to start with. This thing was not same as the Pistol stuff,  I was not sure about the recoil, especially when you had to place the back of the rifle near your shoulder. But then it turned out that it was pretty smooth, I mean in terms of the recoil.

The thing is that since the target is far away, you are not able to make out where exactly you are hitting, which was not the case when I was shooting with a pistol. With a pistol the target was much nearer and you could easily see where you are hitting.

Now, at the end of the shoot, I was surprised to see that all the 10 bullets were spot on  Heheh Don’t ask me how. I’m myself trying to figure it out.

Hahaha.. .Again what a way to start the day