Me, Myself & My Journey

Gurgaon 30 Jun 2009 At last... it rained in Gurgaon. If you would call drizzling as ' heavy rains ' then the weather man was right. It rained heavily! Heavy rains...! " When was the last time I was drenched completely in a rain? " Not the sprinkle of water on the neatly pressed Arrow shirt while going to office. I am talking about getting drenched to the skin and realizing that there is nothing you could do about it! As far as I can remember it was in 2007 during the Ratangad Trek in Maharashtra. I was trekking in the rains for two whole days! Then just a week later during the Valley of flowers Trek in Uttranchal! Before that.... during my days in Bombay (2001-2003). Bombay Rains is altogether a different story. It starts all of a sudden, rains heavily for sometime and then it stops suddenly as it started. Its just unpredictable! But it's always heavy rains and not like the drizzle here! And then there is this another rain, which I will always remember; the ...

Day 1 March 15 2008 Apoorv called me at 6.00 AM from Bangalore airport to let me know that he has started! As usual, Prem came early to my place... and finished my biscuit packet! First time in the history of Gokul, he too was on time! Prem at my place. We three started to the IGI airport by 7:15 AM and Rahul joined us after half an hr. After our luggage had been checked in, we waited for the announcement of our flight, which came on time! We took off at 10:15 am and so we too have officially started the North East trip! Till then, we all had a small fear about what lies ahead! The previous day, one of our "well wishers" had forwarded news about kidnappings in Assam. Luckily, none of us talked anything about it! Even though there was tension, none of us showed it. For this, I am thankful to my friends. After all the efforts in obtaining the ILP, booking the tickets, numerous calls to various hotels and travel agents in north east, if someone had backed off in the last moment…...