UnWind Biking

Most of these posts are born when i am riding back home, its a good time to unwind… theres such a lot of ‘watchable’ things happening around – traffic snarls, people’s expressions, battles for the space ahead which finally become ego battles and possibly accidents, people trying to reach home as fast as they can..theres something about getting back home after work that makes the entire day worthwhile 🙂
more often than not the ‘wind in the face’ feeling takes me back around a couple of years…. to Goa…. 2 years of business management and pleasure…hehe… we had a causeway near the insti (short for Goa Institute of Management 🙂 ), and almost every other day, we used to go for drives, to crib about classes and assignments and tests, to trade gossip, to check out the movies in Panjim, to visit Dona Paula, ‘the cross’ and ‘governor’s point’, to ogle the firangs, to plan weekend trips to colva, palolem, anjuna, calangute, baga, vagator (and the chapora fort, made famous in DCH?), arambol…to chaat near miramar, to chat about life after the insti and after Goa, but mostly to enjoy the ‘wind on the face ‘ feeling…
but before the jpeg with the hunk on a chopper design bike, reality check says i fail on both counts..hehe, neither a hunk nor have a bike bike, its a kiney, which evaded police in goa for two years (i didnt have a license and it had a kerala registration, so the cops loved it..hehe)..oh no, the skeletons are tumbling out…so i’d better stop…but yeah, i have to write at least a couple of posts about those two years…there are tales and there are tales….for me, my life in goa is best captured by Floyd’s “high hopes”..
unfortunately, have had to bunk all my alumni meets except one… something like lucky ali’s lyrics -“pehle fursat thi, ab hasrat hain samaakar, ek aisi uljhan hai meri……” 🙁
meanwhile, these days, with the rains in bangalore, theres another kind of UnWind biking … if you have seen the bajaj ad – a fully dressed guy getting in the shower, getting out all wet, then riding on the bike, dripping all the while, and coz of the bike speed , the clothes are dry, except for the butt, coz its resting on the seat..they call it wind biking… now, because of the rains , while i ride back, all of me gets wet except for the butt, so i call it UnWind Biking !! …..
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manuscrypts trivia
Just to prove that some things never work 100%.
Go to language tools on google, type in “my mom is nice and cool.” and convert it from English to Spanish.
Then copy & paste the answer into the translate box and convert from Spanish back to English.
and seen outside a secondhand shop : WE EXCHANGE ANYTHING – BICYCLES, WASHING MACHINES, ETC. WHY NOT BRING YOUR WIFE ALONG AND GET A WONDERFUL BARGAIN?