Best Friends !

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From past few days i was thinking what to post on my blog and nothing was coming to me and now here on Sunday afternoon i was sitting in my room and in came an idea why not write about my best days which are gone and i can't bring them back no matter what i can do. Sometimes when i am down and out(like now) i try to visualize the better days that are gone by and thats what i am trying to do with this post.

After preparing full one year for Engineering Entrance Exams, i gave all the exams that i had been enrolled to and was already knowing the result as i had not performed well in them. Full one year was wasted and the Money that was invested too, first came the IIT result i didn't even checked it(but i got the confirmation few days after i received a letter showing my poor performance in it), when i was giving IIT exam some twenty minutes were left , examiner came up to me she was seeing my OMR sheet the holes in Maths section were not filled yet, she said you haven't filled them yet please fill them fast, now who should tell her that i am unable to solve them thats why not filled those holes, but in desperation all blank holes were filled by me on same option and yes i got 12 marks in my IIT exam and you should get around 100 to crack IIT.


After AIEEE result my father first time in my life condemned me saying " You are a below average student " I could not argue on that as i had ruined all of their dreams that they had nurtured for me. Now in state Entrance exam i also fared bad getting 17,838 rank in Uttar Pradesh. Anyhow i was able to get a Mediocre college in my town.


Now my College story started, First day of the college i was quite nervous went by city bus and coincidentally met a Guy in my Bus who also joined my college with same branch as of mine. Went to college there were lot of new comers, on first day we were shown college premises and day was over.


I must tell you how i first saw my Best Friend, I was going to my college one day and City Bus stopped at one stop there i saw a guy in my college dress he was drinking water from the Hand Pump and hurriedly came on to latch the Bus, he was a thin,tall guy with glasses on. Then i saw him in my class also. As we were following the same route we got acquainted to each other. His name was Manish Rajora. I think you make friends who have common interests like you. We both have interests in Politics,current affairs,general knowledge,taste and so we became very good friends during the course of the time. There are lots of instances amongst us and here i will narrate some of them.


As most of our class mates used to come college by their personal vehicles we both came by buses,autos and by our foot. He used to come from Modinagar and i from Modipuram then we used to meet at a common point from there we took City Buses which are like hell you have to struggle for getting even a foot hold and we did all this for 4 years, after City bus we used to walk for a kilometer or so and the same process again in evening for return journey, but we enjoyed every moment of it. I guess we were the only two in our college who has done so hardship.


One day we went for a movie actually our whole class bunked for the movie. Everybody has taken their tickets in group. As we didn't have much money we took the cheapest ticket. As we were on the look out for our seats we got the front row seats. Now for whole movie we were trying to conceal us from our friends who were enjoying elevated show at their seats and we were struggling with our neck as scenes in movie were moving from extreme right to left and so does our neck. Any how we finished the movie and it was planned that we will never watch again movie from front row but history repeated itself once again at a different theater.


Who says that ragging happens in first year ? We were the guys who gave it every year. In first year they ragged us thats ok, but in second year its our turn to pay back, one fine evening we were returning to our home some guys called us and they started ragging us one by one, they abused us and made our fun and we have been ragged again we were so dumb. But it doesn't stop there only we were again ragged in third year.


Yes we were best friends but we have difference of opinions also. Like once when we were returning from our college and we were having discussion on whether Capital punishment must be given or not. I being little liberal is always against it but he who happens to be a Jat also was in favour of it. On that day we had heated discussion and no body was cowing down. We didn't talked to each other on that day.But i respect his decision and also mine and its perfectly all right to have ones own faith on any particular thing. I know he is reading it, you must remember Manish when we went to BSNL Office for training purpose on Delhi road  at that time also we had argued. But our fighting always remained upto words only and on the next day it used to be over.


As he mentioned in the comment section in earlier post when we went to Delhi for ISRO paper we enjoyed a lot what a time it was for us !  i guess we don't went there for giving paper we went to roam in Delhi exam was secondary thing.Once we went to trade fare also and roamed all day long, i miss those moments now, Yes it were our best days.


Two years had gone by after passing out our college, one year we were both unemployed and in April 2009 we got selected for same Company and now are working in same Company, but time has lot changed, i miss all those moments that we shared with each other. Now here i don't have many friends and i am not enjoying my job also. But then this is life and you have to move on with it. 


Today its Friendship day i thought why not to write about my best friend ever. You may argue that i don't call you much but you are and will be my Best friend !
I dedicate this post to you ! 



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They Helped Us !

Tweet When my Father Joined Bank Service in early 1980s all he was having to commute was a Red Coloured Hero Jet Bicycle, he was very fond of his Bike. In winters all Suited Booted he used to sat on the Saddle and with his right hand on that Mechanical Buzzer(Trin- Trin) he used to clear away the traffic. Sometimes he was not the lone passenger, my mom also used to sat behind him. Thinking back all these things amazes me that how much has changed now , things like this are from past now.


Some 6,7 years after one fine evening we were waiting , looking curiously out of our Balcony and in came Green Colour Bajaj Chetak Scooter, but where is Papa ? He is sitting behind the Driver as he did not know to ride it. Now every evening my Father used to learn driving it and in the Morning   
he used to worry if he would be able to finish the journey to his Bank safely or not. Later on he became perfect. Now as Bike was not used any more it was transferred to my Paternal Uncle who coincidentally joined Bank Service at that time only. After Few years he too got a Scooter and can you imagine where did the Bike went ? It went to my Grand Father who used to use it for his daily commute. The Irony is that the Bike lasted long much more then the two Scooters.


Now Coming to our Scooter, it gave luxury for the whole family(Mom,Dad,Sis nd Me) to be on it at same time. I used to stand in front , my Father on front seat , mom on rear and my sis in Between Dad and Mom. At that time only we got shifted to Delhi. As being Ghumakkar at every Holiday all four of us and our Scooter used to go to Explore Delhi. In 5 years that we lived in Delhi we roamed at most of the places be it India Gate,Rashtrapati Bhavan,Red Fort,Old Fort,Qutub Minar,Delhi Zoo,Pragati Maidan,Birla Mandir and many more places not once but several times. But our Scooter never disobeyed us except once when we were going to NOIDA and it started to spill Black Smoke and we were all embarrassed as everybody was seeing us as we had commited some murder.


Again my Dad got transferred to Madhya Pradesh(Betul) and we shifted there, now our Scooter was aging so this time we purchased CD 100SS Hero Honda Bike and the Colour was Red, when it comes to choose the colour the Power of Attorney goes to my Dad, if he says Red then it has to be Red. First experience on Bike was wonderful, it was so smooth and cozy and with its trademark sound it feels so good. I guess CD 100SS is one of the remarkable Bike we ever had i know people will go with Splendor but for me our Bike is the Best, i call it no maintenance Bike. But as we siblings were growing it was difficult for whole family to go in one time, for some time we manged but later it was not possible, but as Betul was a small town we came out with an Idea, When all 4 of us have to go i used to use my Bicycle and rest of them on Bike, it used to be fun for me as i used to race with my Dad on my bike on which he used to scold me for driving fast.


Now in came the new Century and we were in Uttar Pradesh(Meerut), we were planning for a 4 wheeler. Long discussions used to be in our home, first we thought to purchase old Maruti 800 but it was declined then we thought for new Maruti 800 again it got declined at last we Zeroed in on New Santro Xing , Car was booked and we got it after 15 days. As usual Dad didn't know to drive it and car was driven to our home by a hired Driver, but this feeling of having a new car strangely was not able to match the feelings that we had on our earlier vehicles. It took about 15 days for him to learn it and now we were covering cities with it. About 6 years have passed after this and our Car has covered little over 25000 Kms.


Our Vehicles are like family members to us, you got attached to them and when some Bruise or dent is created on them it hurts a lot. So this was my Story with the Vehicles we had over a period of time. I know all of you there must be having there stories also.


And yes my Father still use his Hero Honda CD 100SS bike daily for going to his Bank and that too on Delhi roads and our Bike is more than 12 years old and still working fine.



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Rare Pictures - Before Independence !

Tweet Well I have this in mind from many days to post these Pictures but as this is not my Original work i was hesitating in posting them. One day i was searching on the net for some Old Pictures and specially which were clicked before Independence, i searched lot but was not successful and then i landed on a website which were having some nice Old Pictures. But there was no explanation given on the time they were shot and which place they belonged to , so i searched again and after some struggle got little explanation about them and posted on the Original Post so that the readers there could be benefited. As these Pictures are not Copyrighted hence i am posting on my blog also.

Train Inspection , 1885

Ambulances, Chennai,1940

Bank Of Madras , 1935

Car Show, Madras , 1913

Port Blair , 1917(Kalapani Jail or Cellular Jail)

Karachi , 1917

Departmental Store , 1883

Ford Automobiles , 1917

Hoogly( Calcutta ) , 1915

Madras Market(Kothaval Chavadi) , 1939

Lahore , 1864

Madras Library , 1913

Marina Beach , Madras , 1913

Bombay , 1894

VT Station , Bombay , 1894

Mylapore , Madras , 1939

Ooty , 1905

Sorry no Explanation, looks like some Engines !

Karachi Theatre , 1917

No Explanation , What can you say about him ?

No Explanation again, some random Home !

So , now as you had gone through these Pictures , how did u liked them ? If you are known to some better explanations to these pictures feel free to share them here. I don't know how many of these monuments shown here are in existence if you have any knowledge about them of them being still existing please do tell in the comment section.

P.S. - To go through the Original post do visit here

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Maggi ! Maggi ! Maggi !!!

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One of my biggest passion is to eat, when i am hungry and i don't have to eat something good i generally switch on my TV set to find some cookery show going on and if i don't found one i just imagine myself eating my favourite food but that increase my hunger and i have to search for things which are present in my home like Namkeens or some leftover in my fridge.

If i am still empty handed then i go to the nearest shop and bring back Rs 10 Masala Maggi with myself. But as i am very bad at cooking and knows only Maggi to cook i just add water in the pan, wait for water to become hot and then add Noodles and Maggi Masala, after some stirring my Maggi is ready. I know there are people who make many kinds of Maggi with tomatoes,onions,Capsicums and other things and they taste so yumm !! but i don't know how to cook with them, so i have to contend with my simple Maggi. Yesterday i tried to make it with tomatoes(cause i found them only in my fridge) but i just spoiled it and i was left with some sort of mess which i finished with lot of hard work.

I guess the Masala Maggi is the real epitome of all the instant Noodle family and nobody is even close to it. I generally look out for its replacement but had never found one. Have tried Maggi Curry,Atta,Dal variants the Top Ramens(Curry and Masala),Smith & Jones and many other variants but every time have to come back to Masala Maggi. Its in their masala that attract us to eat it again and again.

Now how i started to eat it ? It was like some 16,17 years back when i first saw it, the Yellow wrapper and was curious to saw it as i had never eaten something like noodles or Chinese before, so in came it in our home and my Sis and I was delighted to have a taste of it, the honour of cooking was given to my Mom, she tried to experiment with it and didn't followed the rules of making it and we landed up in a Soup, what the heck is it ? and the Maggi was shown the doors from our home and off it goes from our Menu list. Time passed away and my hunger increased and once again i landed upon Maggi but the Cook this time was different, the task was given to the most talented guy who by the way happens to be the owner of this blog also and yes this time Maggi was perfectly cooked and enjoyed thoroughly, since then as millions of us eat it regularly, i have also followed that tradition.

In Meerut where i live and work, we get it outside every Office and in all education institutes but you have to wait for your turn as you find its lovers amongst all of us. They charge you 20 Rs and put some chillies,onions and little Butter in it also, obviously it tastes way better then my hand cooked one. So strangely it helps in earning living of some also.

So Maggi has become the Front leader in easing human hunger, when they don't have time to cook or they are living outside their homes and don't know anything about cooking.In fact there was my one Friend who was a Maggi freak and went to London for further studies and was surprised to see it their also in same flavour.

Now my empty tummy is suggesting me to fed it with something and i don't find anything except Maggi in my Kitchen so i am going to prepare it maybe with some experiment lets see how it goes and do tell in comments how u fared with Maggi, maybe any secret recipe of it.

P.S. - Today i started to write about some other topic but as i started, Maggi came to my mind and i wrote about it. But credit for this post goes to Deepak Mashaal whose this post tempted me to write about Maggi. Tweet