Life these days....

Its been long enough since life has kept me away from writing abt it. Am I repeating this line in every blog of mine ?? I admit, I should take writing in more disciplined manner than ever.

Even though its been long since i've penned down my life, don't be under an impression that the shades it has shown are more or less similar. Life continues to show its colors every single moment.

It has been time of summer season of Corporate cricket. Those who are interested in knowing figures can very well skip this para and continue with the rest. For the rest of true cricket lovers, its been another success chapter in my cricketing life. I feel sorry to admit we lost all the matches but i cant resist looking at the brighter side. We have moved another inch closer to success. The performance of team has improved and is always on the rising scale. Some day, all my blog readers would read this para.

Work front has always been interesting. Another roller coster ride at work front, sometimes left me exasperated, but to be frank enough, I love it that ways.

Getting social, it was ani-moush's wedding which i should say was only experience in its class. I wish all the love to one of the most beautiful couple I have ever seen. These lines are not to describe the event, it cant be described in this short notation.

Caught up with a new passion of photography these days. A true nature lover by heart, what else can be more magnetic than capturing the dreamwork of mother nature. Am exploiting my camera to the fullest. I have always believed that there is a lot in store for almost every sole and this belief of mine has kept me occupied so far in my life.

Blessed to admit, I have started to settle down in life step by step. A far too early in my terms, just at the right time or may be little late in the eyes of world.

At home, things surely have changed a lot, some for good some for not. I enjoy the liberty of internet at this hour of day relaxing at home. A lost passion of football got revived with the inclusion of new TV set at home.

Sailing smoothly as it appears, life is moving on.

Ideal Date!!

Must be different for different people. This is what I describe as an ideal date.

Going to the place where you started creating memories,
creating the same mood once again,
chirping everything that comes to your mind,
watch her ignore your nonsense with selective listening,
ping her with the touchy feelings of heart once,
see the smile on her face,
see her enjoying the time,
try to be quiet to get the tranquility rule over you,
break the silence with another nonsense,
see the false disgust on her face,
pass on a teaser,
get a hug,
get her in those golden pages,
listen to her inner voice,
show the ignorance for it,
let her know the reality,
forget the world there,

and ultimately, show your emotions with something she loves more than you.

Undeserving Death!!!

Hi all,
This is what made my night yesterday.

It was around 11:30 PM when I started for home yesterday from office. I
was slowly heading towards JM road when a bike passed me at little more
than average speed. I was slow yesterday for some unknown reason. I was
just approaching Garware bridge, the bridge in front of PCH when I heard
a sound of bike skidding. As I crossed the bridge i found the same guy
lying on road. He looked as if having a small injury, coz he wasnt
bleeding a lot. I was awstuck to see that. Me and 3 others immediately
put him in rickshaw and approached Pune Hospital which is at 3 mins
distance from the place of accident.

Poona hospital is where we all got the shock, by the time we reached
hospital he had already passed away. With no major visible injury, he
had to give away his life. Trust me, its not easy to see this. One of
the major reason for this all was, he wasnt wearing helmet. He had
severe internal head injury which took his life on the spot.

Many of us confortably ignore this fact that its not distance but time
which is important. You dont have to be on highway to experience such
casualties. This can happen right in front of ones house too. The
question is do we really want to take this chance?

May god save you all from having the experience that I had yesterday,
but please dont wait for anything to start using helmets. Its not only
the riders but pillion riders too need to understand this. Think in
terms of comparison, for what reasons are you not wearing it and what
can the end result be, you will get the answer.

Please dont ignore this, coz theres nothing more valuable than life itself.

Working Late...

This is something which I have followed ever since I have joined IT industry, really? Not really, I have been working like this since long, probably since my graduation days. Am I workoholic, kind of. The reason being, I enjoy my work, no matter what it is. Actualy more than work, I love the way I work.

I love leisure. I love being lazy and for this love, all i spend is my futile time of night. I know there are many others who do this in the name of work. I dont deny the fact that work loads in IT industry are very demanding, and sometimes there are obvious reasons to stay late and put in that extra mile, but as far as I see, its not always.

I have another query regarding this issue, how can someone expect that everyone must be in their best performing mode at the same time? I mean, there can be many lazies like me who enjoy work in their own style. And believe me, you can not get the best of any worker unless he enjoys his work. May be managing such entities is a difficult task for senior folks but trust me, such working nerds can do the magics, least expected by any of the wise heads. How to manage such entities is their headache.

As far as I am concerned, I understand only two things, work and deadline. Beyond these two words, everything else is my world. And thats the way I like it.

Cricket and My Life

Every one in Indian sub continent understands the word CRICKET.
To share my views, cricket is my first love and it still happens to be special. The dating started long back when I was a toddler. Mom says, bat was the first toy which I dint bundle up in bin. I dont really recall the origin, but as a kid I was far away from childish games. Being one of the energetic ones, I always preffered outdoor sports to indoor ones. The love grew manyfold as I gew towards my youth.

Always enthralled by the whites of the game, I enjoyed reading newspaper for news of cricket, trying to grasp expert comments. Cricket is a Gentlemen's game is what I would digest in. Never missing an opportunity, I could get along with anyone and everyone if it was for cricket. The desire and passion would overcome every barrier, even studies, which are highly regarded back home. Looking at my passion for cricket, I was always black mailed in its name by my elders. Ready for any sacrifice, I learnt to get things done well in time. Guess, thats what is called true love.

Days progressed and months turned into years. The boyish me, was loaded with expectations and responsibilities only to see the rays of hope for cricket rising. When I was in school, I was almost sure about my carrier. Needless to mention, I was already a substantial part of local club.

When you say love, its more than mundane formalities. Its your day and its your night. The craze for cricket not only helped me in my day to day life but also taught one of the first lessons of life. The lessons which I can never forget. It gave me courage to face the odds. It gave me a never give up kinda attitude. It gave me the patience to plan things out. It gave me courage to think. And on top of everything, it gave me my confidence, my identity.

There are very few things in life which one treasures and I believe such things must be few in numbers. People close to me, love to call me cricket freak, lest to understand its my life. The devine treasure, thats what I love to call my game, my cricket.

Vasota Trek

This is one trek which I can categorize into marvel. To update you all about trekking, I am die hard fan of nature and love to explore the unexplored. I enjoy the thrills and stunts involved in trekking equally.

The love found its origin in college days, when trekking meant climbing mountain up and down. The spark got converted to fire when I joined Selectica. This is where I started trekking regularly. Starting from few easy treks to some thrilling ones, it all got nurtured at Selectica.

Recently, when since I switched my Company, luckily enough, I found a trekkers group in and around people of my company. We are the ones who love the extremeties. Sahynadris provide us with lot of opportunities to test ourselves.

Last year it was Prachitgadh, an over night trek amidst reserved forest. Trust me for one thing, life has a different dictionary in forest, especially at nights. Will update a blog on Prachitgadh soon. Vasota was another such trek. After Prachitgadh Vasota was all, on everyones mind. And finally, after exactly 1 year we could make it.


Planning for such an expedition is always a fun. Scanning everything available on net to generate the required energy is pretty common. And to our likings, the information we collected suggested us that we are going to have time of our life. The mention of rich wild life present in the forest nearby added spice to the expedition. We all started dividing things to be accumulated for it. The plan was to reach the base of Vasota by morning, climb Vasota fort by afternoon and leave for Nageshwar which is a cave cum temple. We should reach Nageshwar before the sun sets, spend night at Nageshwar and decend down the next day on the other side of mountain ranges. The plan looks flawless on paper. But one should never under estimate the fact that no one had ever been to Vasota before. All we knew was experince of people who have been there. Mind you, different people have different experiences of same places, so never really bank on such unsaid links.

Weekend was chosen for the trek. We were to leave Pune on friday night, and reach Satara by around mid night, spend the night at some lodge and catch a bus to Bamnoli at 6:00 AM. Bamnoli is the place where we had to take permission of Forest Officer to trek at the serene land of nature. Vasota happens to be surrounded by reserved forest on all four side. So permission is required to conquere it. Much was heard about this reserved forest. We all were absolutely sure about the great time ahead.

Everything happened according to plan and we finally reached Bamnoli. Only to find me fully asleep. Staying awake in morning is something which I could never achieve in recent past. Bamnoli is a small village located at Backwaters of Koyna Dam. From there to base of Vasota is an hours journey in boat.

We could get the permission to go to Vasota and at the same time were warned about the visit of Forest Rangers tonight. The idea which was communicated to us was dont stay at Nageshwar Caves in night. And we thought we would follow the order. Finally, the journey started. We were in the boat in middle of cool morning breeze waking every cell on our body. One can not experience such freshness in city life. The boated cruised steadily to reach the base in an hour. The forest officers there checked our passes and warned us about the same thing.

We could finally start the trek at around 10:40 after completing the formalities.
To much of our disappointment, the forest did not seem virgin at all. There was a clear path which led us to the fort. It was much obvious, animals wont come near to the places used by human beings. We could not see a single animal on the entire journey. But being on the positive side, the ambience of jungle was ineffable. The sanctity of peace glorified the walk even in when we were disappointed. At around 1:45PM we could scale the massive fort. The fort is nothing but asylum of remains of glory. Being located in the middle of Sahyandris the fort gives us feeling of being in control. The wind on fort flows as if bringing messages from the entire kingdom to a central authority. We did enjoy every bit of it. Prepared some food to munch and depart for more exciting part of the trek.

Nageshwar was well in our site along with the path. Although, its been a good 15 odd treks in Sahyandris experience backing me, but the path looked little scarry. Nevertheless, it just added to our enthusiasm.


We departed for Nageshwar at around 3:30 PM. The walk to nageshwar was partly through jungle and partly along the edge of Sahynadris. The edge here means a strip of around half foot with a step of 400 feet on one side and dense jungle on the other. The walk made us remember our near ones on quite a few occasions. I hope i'm clear on this point. Destined to win, we made our way to the cave well in time. And to our surprise we found a bunch of dry wood which we were to use to make fire in night. All that was missing was water.

Before the sun made its last dip in the mountain ranges we had armed ourselves with everything we would have needed for night. Warm clothes were on immediately. Preparations for the royal meal too had begun. The experience of lighting up a small fire to cook the food on, is again, Marvelous and I did not miss it. Started preparing for the tomato soup which was a big hit in the meal. We were soon engulfed into unending darkness of forest. It was only the fire which we could see in the world around us. The wild forest wind making tuning its raga added music to the ambience. The rules of life started changing. I dont think many of you have experienced the fear of being stolen away, we did. After the soup, it was turn of actual meal, Veg Pulav. With the espertise,we did manage to make the best pulav i have ever had in my life. And finally, it was the time for which every sole on earth would die. Sitting under a clear bright night sky. This time it was fall ceiling of stars on our roof. Air condtion was provided by forest wind and the Bose speakers were tuned to the jungle raga. I know I cant put it in words.

After satisfying ourselves, we all went to bed. We had to start climbing down the next morning. Dawn brought with it, the freshness of life. Rejuvenated, we all were with much needed energy, coz the climb down has challenged the masters of trekking. It was like walking along an 89.9 degrees rock, measuring 800 fts in height. Life looked simplified by the iron rope anchored with the rock, only till the time we actually got there. One hour on rocks, really ROCKS. I havent had a more dreadful dream than the walk in my life.

After crossing that rock pacth, things were smooth enough. It was just a matter of walking along hill side to reach the destination, Choravane. We scaled down in pretty good time also, just to find the villagers enjoying game of cricket amidst the beauty of nature. We were quick to join them in the game.

Playing cricket in fields again speaks a new language for itself. We enjoyed the game till we were served for lunch by the villagers. The food there has no comparison on the urban front.

Finally, the time came when we had to catch a bus back to Chiplun, from where we were to catch a bus to Pune.

There are many moments in life which one remembers for long. Even I have few such moments. Vasota trek brought many such moments together. Such was the trip.

Sharing our moments with you.
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Charlatan.

Do I Believe ???

Do I Believe ? ? ?

Here I lay on Bed of roses, waiting for a soul;
still beleiving in dreams, still listening to grims;
Do I believe?

mirror speaks a story, all of achievements and glory;
my mirror lies;
Do I Believe;

I play hard, I play long;
I play till last breathe is gone;
I win I loose;
Do I Believe?

All in eyes, all in heart, the sparkle still hits the dart.
The fire is ever lit; Life is an art.
Do I Beleive;

There she comes with a bouquette to me;
All alone in this world to see;
She smiles,she weeps;
There is no one, her heart who keeps;
I am here, I am still here;
Do I Beleive?

The journey is ending, the spark is bending;
The soul is about to relieve;
Do I beleive?

Milestone 0

Although my life has spanned quite a few milestones so far, this one still represents milestone 0.
My efforts will be to provide a deep insight into my thoughts through this blog.
Hope you and me enjoy this Odyssey.

~Tushar