Its just another 2011 World cup final

2012-02-28T07:08:00.001-08:00

"Tomorrow is an another world cup final between Ind Vs Sri. Fixers will take care of the job"

This is my yesterday's tweet. Today it was proved.

This is just a guess? or, Indian team's just proved them as a flat track bullies?

Suddenly how come they thrash Srilanka like anything? is there another god exists other than sachin who gave power to them?

I don't think so. The powerful BCCI might behind the scene. May be the Indian players might not know about it.

There were more news about match fixing in last world cup semifinal and final. Google it in web.

however, India going to pay for this in a different way in the finals.

God must not be Crazy (My Trekking Experience)

2011-12-09T03:56:00.000-08:00

Last June (2011) in the hot of Chennai, I evaporated to the vapor state and traveled to a place called Kasol in Himachal Pradesh. There I changed to liquid state due to the chill air and later frozen at a higher point of the hill.

Well, I went for a ten days trekking in Kasol. It was a memorable event of my life that brought me enormous amount of joy. It was like a sweet dream, the way it started, went on and ended.

With rare cell phone signals other than the base camp, I had no access to any news about Tamilnadu and it's people.

Is Rajini still alive?
Did kanimozhi get the bail?
Has the dravida party head Karunanidhi issued any funny statement?
Has Tamilnadu become a heaven under the governance of Jayalalitha?

Having no answers to any of these questions I was happily climbing the rocks and roaming around the hills like hillbilly. Only few networks popped their heads in two or three places. At the time the people were screaming aloud, called their families and cried as if they are lost inside a dark forest infested with cannibals and yeti.

I experienced my first flight journey in that trip. Too late?

Window seat added a few extra thrills to the journey. The Air India air hostess, they are snow girls.

so fair...
so beautiful...
so chilling to your eyes.

Their dress code, traditional Indian wear "saree" has exposed the beauty of their belly.

The white moving clouds outside the window
The moving hips inside the window

Which one to look at? I was in a fix. Seems I am diverting from the topic. ;-)

My friend and I went to this trekking thru Youth Hostel Association of India (http://www.yhaindia.org/). By knowing few Hindi words, we said "Chalo" and started the journey.

From auto rickshaw man to anyone, we always started the next round of the talk by saying "Hindi nahi maalum". We reached Delhi, the corruption capital. The tamil nadu politicians who were responsible for our language struggling in Delhi were also feeling the heat in the same city in a different way.

As our bus to Kasol was in the evening, we decided to look around few famous places.
We went to Qutub minar. I laid down on the floor and snapped a low angle shot of the tower. Next we moved to the Red Fort and struck a majestic pose in front of the fort.

The Next day while we were reaching Bhuntar, it was started drizzling. The bus traveled along side the Parvati river. My tryst with nature began there.

First Day in Kasol:

We reached the Base camp in Kasol. The kitchen gods served me a plate of noodles as they sensed that I can no longer stand the hunger. The first day we have to register our name for the trekking program by submitting the medical certificate. The next two days, Its like a training program to acclimate ourselves against the forces of raw nature. We will begin our trekking on the fourth day.

While my friend and me were talking in Tamil, an unknown voice spoke to us.

"Are you Tamil guys?" couple of guys surprised us. They are Varishta and Mahidara.

Oh! Great! We thanked god for giving us two hindi speaking Tamil slaves...called Translators. By god's grace later we found more of their kind. ;-)

YHAI is organizing the SARPASS trekking program every year on the month of May. Daily one group will be coming to the base camp. Each group shall have 50 members maximum. People will be coming from across the country. In our group there were 49 members as one of my friend was not able to come.

Once you have registered your name, you will be lodged into a tent which can accommodate up to a dozen people. It does not a matter if you are a Ambani and you are living in Antilla. You should stay in the common tent and go get your food when the whistle blows.

In the evening you will be provided with couple of blankets, a sleeping bag and a rucksack. You will come to know the full weight of the blankets by next day morning.

After dinner, its the camp fire event. If you go in the desire of getting the warmth of the fire, you would be disappointed. It will be just colorful lights. For preserving nature, they don't use real fire. The certificates will be provided for the people who finished SARPASS successfully. Next is cultural event. You can sing, dance and perform mimicry. of course many of us were just goofing off.

There were two hard headed camp leaders. They laid down many scary ground rules that makes one quiver.

Thou shall not Drink.
Thou shall not Smoke.
Boys should not go into Girls tent and Vice versa.

My friend asked me,

"Why they are not allowing boys and girls in the same tent?

I replied, "Then no of tents will increase, my boy".

Here, I should tell you the most important thing, is food timings

1. Once you wake up, coffee with biscuits not Coffee with Karan.
2. Break fast at 8 AM
3. Lunch at 1 PM
4. Again Tea at 5:30
5. Dinner at 7:30 PM
6. Bournvita at 9:30 PM

For everything including food for ten days, they are paying only 3 thousand something. They are doing this as no-profit and no-loss service.

Second Day:

That night if you think "yippee!!! This trekking looks to be more jolly"
and get into your bed sheet with your full head covered and started Dreaming & Snoring etc, Sorry! it's not.

The next morning after bed tea, they will make you run to a place to do your morning exercise. Thank god there was no evening exercise.

If you don't have your shoes on, then be ready to round the YHAI camp ground three times. After doing all the painful exercise, they will ask you to do a LOL.

After breakfast, we have to send off the previous group who is ready to go for the cold war (SARPASS). Then here it comes...

Now you have to take your two bed sheets and pack it in your rucksack and ready to feel the love of walk in the nearer hill. Its just for you to get accustomed to climbing with your rucksack on your back.

Third Day:

After finishing the routine works, its the day for you to ROCK ON on rock. Its hilarious event but people will take it as serious. They will tie the one end of the rope in your hip and the other end on a tree's hip on top of the rock. You should not touch and use the rope. You should use your hand and leg in the cracks of the rock to climb on. Some ppl will hug the rock for long time. Some guys won't climb on since they don't want to break the tree.

Fourth Day:

This is the day we start our journey to hunt the nature's treasure. The other groups will send off us with more clapping, wishes and slogan "PASS PASS SARPASS". That day you will go back to your school days. Yes they will pack your lunch in your lunch box and give it to you, clap and send off you.

Starting from that day, we have to reach six camps totally in six days. The last day we have to return to base camp. Each camp will be in seven to ten kilometer distance. On the way to every camp, we sang all the Tamil songs of legends (from M.G.R, Illaiyaraja, AR rahman to Yuvan) and teared them completely and thrown into the river that running across.

You will find some shops on the way to destination. The price will be directly proportional to the height you reach. For example one small pocket noodles prices goes from 20, 30, 40 to 50 max.

Once we reached the second camp "Padri" which is placed in a beautiful place, Ice rain started. The words are not enough to describe it. I went crazy and was trying to catch every piece of ice. By the end of that day, I felt like overjoyed and wanted to go home.

The dogs and crows in the hills are big in size. The crows are cawing as if someone sticking it neck to kill them.

There will be a camp leader for each camp. After the whole group reached the camp, he will tell about the food timings and other important things.

Where to get the drinking water?
Where to get the water for cleaning purpose?
Where is the kitchen?

The most important thing amongst is, the place for nature's call. Other than base camp and the next one (Grahan), its open university. IITians and IIMians cant say NO. Camp leader will divide the area into two, point his finger and say "This area is for girls and that area is for boys"

No border crossing. Its strictly prohibited.
Trespassers will be prosecuted in front of the whole group.

Its good to have the toilet tissues always with you. Its your choice to choose between tissue and water. Here I want to tell you about the chillness of the water. If you wash your leg or hand with the cold water, your hands are afire. Think twice before doing anything. Its advised to have the pain spray with you. The guys will get disappeared often inside the trees with a bottle in hand.

At the higher point of the hill, you have to dig the snow and fill your waste and then close it with the snow. But its your talent to not to step on the shit holes. If you want to create history. My idea/advise is, it's better to keep a small red flag in the area.

Nagaru is the camp placed at higher altitude. They insert a pipe into the snow and collect the water into the barrel before the sun set. Its hard to walk on the surface on your bare feet. But you can manage to walk on your toes. If you have a pair/girl friend, it's a very good place to practicing for ballet.

They will give you the nutritious and energetic food. Most of the time they will serve you Rotti with potato subji. If you eat more of them, then you wont get problem with your mouth. Control either your mouth or the other.

There is no electricity other than base camp. So we have to finish our dinner before the sunlight goes. From nagaru camp we have to wake up at 2:30 and start walking at 4:00 am to cross the snow area called SARPASS. If we start late, it will be danger to walk on the melting snow surface due to sunlight. After we crossed the SARPASS, then we can play the ass chilling game called snow sliding. They will ask you to lie down and push you a little, then its a great journey for a short time. The p with more speed breaks reacing down.

The god must not be crazy as he created the nature to enjoy this beautiful life to a great extent.

When either you or your rucksack is overweight, you can use porters. In our group three porters came with us. With your luggage on their back, they are moving faster than us and guiding us the way.

The girls asked me something. I said "Hindi nahi maalum". Then after some time she deliberately asked me
"Aap ka naam kya hey?"
"Kathirvel" I said.
with the doubt of I might have told the wrong answer
"What is your name?" again she asked
She laughed when I said "Kathirvel" again.

I got lot of friends there. Only one thing we don't like in the trip was, we were not able to take bath for 10 days. We should not.
But this is the reason for one of my close friend wants to go trekking next year. No wonder, he will not take bath sometime even in Chennai.

Other than this, I had a personal disappointment. I have not had a good SLR camera and some extra batteries.I missed a lot. I always interested to take the snaps of nature only. I have one of my friend, whenever I try to take a snap of nature's beauty, he will come jump into the focus area and make the snap immature.

The last day on our return to base camp, we went to a small town "manikaran". There we took hot bath in the natural hot spring. Then we heard the news that in gurudwara temple they are giving free food. We went there with the kerchief covered our top head and finished the job.

We took a mini bus from there to the base camp in Kasol. Due to traffic, we got down just few meters before kasol and walked to base camp. We returned the rucksack and collected our certificates and packed everything perfectly. To our luck we got the same bus that we came from manikaran. It was crawling We reached bhuntar to get the bus to Delhi.

The next day morning we reached Delhi. From there, we decided to take the metro train to reach Airport station. I reached customer care girl to ask for details. She replied to my questions in husky voice as she is my lover. I did not hear anything. Again asked her. This time I was tucking one of my ears into the hole. But no results. She got tensed as if I am a deaf and she written it in a paper and gave it to me. I didn't do anything rather mumbling myself "F*** You".

I told that to my friend whose nick name is "Orkut". He too had the same story.

Why the heck she is working in customer care when not able to speak loud?

The next day morning, we arrived to airport to come to Chennai.

It was the same scenario.

Air India,
moving clouds
and the confusion.

Dreamer

2010-09-23T07:43:00.000-07:00

I dream more
And the more is you.

Your absent for the day
Makes my mind the same.

I'm always thinking about you
But still don't know your name.

We have long road ahead
Lets start up with your name.

Shit Happens

2010-05-11T23:13:00.000-07:00

I used to like pigeons
in my apartment
before
they shit on my new bike.

Wanted Kisses

2010-04-21T00:38:00.000-07:00

Every time we meet
our lips are habituating the eyes
to speak their words.
Baby, Come close to me
lets close our eyes
to give 'em some rest.
lock our lips
and punish 'em at best.

"Your eyes are Ravishing"
pages in my poem book
complementing so.
I cant bear with it.
just come n show
your kisses deserve more.

Save Me!

2009-12-15T04:14:00.001-08:00

To my friend...