Saturday, February 02, 2008

Heady Feelin'

Coffee replaces wine on St.Marks Road! A fortnight after it had been launched me and my frnds stepped inside the Hard Rock Cafe and stood still soaking in the memorabilia around us.We got a bit cramped feelin as we scanned through the ambience. Jus after the counter(where some chink ladies were takin names of the ppl as it was a weekend evenin and ppl were pourin in like hell) there was a Rock Shop with kinds of souveniors like little guitar chains and band T-shirts were on sale!..It was a good feelin..
They've used the space without damagin the heritage buildin. What was once a coffee shop(Barista) is now a place where ppl eat and drink with classic rock music played in vicinity. At the entrance itself there was essence of 'namma bengaluru' as the hoardin read "Hard Rock Cafe-BENGALURU".And as we scanned thru the food menu we saw found local delicacies to add some value to the joint.
We had to wait for half an hour to get seated since crowd was increasin on that weekend evenin. We had been seated in such a place near the display cases of autographed bass drumhead used by Black Sabbath's Bobby Rondinelli above our table and we cud also see some pink floyd stuff too! For a place dedicated to great music,the music sucks! The music is really loosely defined since the acoustics are not consistent throughout, because of stone walls and high ceilings.
We ordered the most unregular stuff that most college students (due to the absence of bank balance in their wallets) as we had a bit of cash so we were like lets try it!..And if anybody wants to come here alone it can be tad expensive.This is one of the cafes which you cud go once in a month or two!..
All in all it was a great experience!
Rest apart, holidays re comin to an end and it was great vacation!
Ciao!

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Breathtakin stuff

"Oh fuck!.. wht da heck this bumper is really dangerous!..You were almost killed dude!.. and this bike is thrashed too!OMG!.. this is huge!"..Yeah that was my expression wen one of my frnds had met wid an accident which-cud-have-been-serious on a road trip to Maddur Coffee Day at 4am!.. This trip was the idea of my fnds!. we all agreed!.. I woke up at 3 in mornin thanks to unlimited phone calls made by my best pal so tht i do come 'em!.. So i woke up changed my clothes and put on a crisp wind-shutter(otherwise wud ve frozen to death!) and got on the road to brigade!.. Ther wer other fleet of frnds from da hostel(some juniors too..) who were waitin jus 4 me(man! i felt like a VIP!).. We exchanged some salutations n hit the road!..we were goin to Coffee Day on Mysore road whch is 80kms from the City!(For jus adventure sake n not to hav coffee!)..We had 4bikes includin mine n 8ppl!.. So we hit the road and we were soon on Mysore Road through S.P.rd flyover.. Occansionly we stopped for some nature calls or other stuff!.. So a CCD had come but t'was still in the makin(or renovatin we thought)..then a guy came n told the CCD was further ahead!relief!.. And started headin towards tht CCD which was around 4-5 kms from tht place.. Now as we near the CCD.. The guys in front of me had a Pulsar wid bad head lights(i don think t'was workin!) and a curve had come... and this suddenly jus jumped in the air n there was this truck which was on the right of him.. The truck nearly chipped the bike and no sooner those guys were on the road near the pavement divider..
Ghosh!I was jus behind 'em wid one of the juniors.. and the Pulsar guy n his co-rider were on the road!.. Oh fuck!..I myself had hiccup on the bumper which in fact discussed by us durin our stoppage as one of frns frnd had told!.. so the guys behind too were in state of shock at the bumper(no reflectors n no sign boards).. I sudden rushed to the guys fallen!.. This guy's helment was thrown in the opposite and this guy had hit himself on the pavement.. the co-rider fell on the middle road and got up as soon as he was the truck!OMG he was saved!(Guess what these guys had plans for drink n drive).. The guy sittin behind was sleepy nut case(I thot he was doped!) din spot this accident!.. Everyone stopped and took look at self-victims n thot thnk God they re saved!.. The rider had got bruises and a got torn pull-over and co-rider was fine wid a torn jacket.. T'was tht time of the night when wind was hard n roads were slippery.. We had our moments n we moved on n reached the CCD at dawn!.. We all strted diagonsin the wounds n the damage to bike!.. well t'was his frnds bike so he was apprehensive abt it!... And got up in n ordered our coffees n some snacks!.. we all had a nap and were explorin why ppl come so far jus to hav a coffee!.. Well we reasoned out t'was jus abt gals at nite at these places and "jungle mein mangal" sort of things!..Had some hot coffee which gave some warmth to my numb hands n watched the tv fitted there and set out at 7:15 back home!.. We were on our and sun was takin its position which was really soothin!.. suddenly as we were half way our journey some noises came out of my bike!..Grrr!.. wat da heck these bike services never do a decent job or do they?.. then bike suddenly got to halt n i rammed in into a calf thanks to some imbalance and cows wanderin on the highway.. "Oh shit!petrol is over OMG i shud kill myself for negligence",i thot.Wel i checked the petrol earlier t'was there but now t'was over thnx to some leakage.then i opened my bike and did some mechanic work like connected leakge pipe properly and my frnd got petrol from the nearest petrol bunk!Yeah bike started at last!.. Every1 were relieved and we set out home!.. There were no other casualities on our way!.. Every1 were happy to be back in the city!..
My 3rd sem xams had finally got over last week!..And as usual 'm havin a ball durin these holidays!.. Thinkin of doin somethin productive, so til then Sayonara!
Ciao!