garaj baras saawan fir aayo ....

well this week was a little hectic @ work. but it certainly ended in a pleasant way.

saturday morning i was reading this book called "Good to Great" by Jim Collins. this book is based upon various case studies performed by the research team consisting of top graduates from B-schools and the author himself. i'm not really fond of reading books but i have enjoyed case studies, philosophical, management related text. well this book was lying with me for almost a year and a half now but never thought of turning the coverpage :) actually i got this book as a prize for being a topper in the ITP training programme at Tech Mahindra. just few days back we had Tom Kendra visiting Symantec's India center and his talk sounded on the same lines of this book (i had read few pages just when i got the book and i could easily relate things almost instantly) . it created a spark and finally i'm reading it. i'm not done with the book yet. might write a seperate entry on it after i finish. the electricity went off in the noon and i had nothing to do so i was just passing the time by playing games, listening to songs on my cell.

at around 2 pm ijoe called up and told me that lets go out. we had absouletly no plans where to go but we just wanted to do something. jassi and hari had also come. ijoe and jassi were my NCST mates whereas hari lives in ijoes's apartment. it was raining heavily and we wanted to enjoy the rains and the obvious way was to go on a bike ride. so we started at around 2:30 pm. just 5 mins away from our place near shoppers stop we found that the LBS road was closed , the mall was flooded with water and they were actually using the pumps to get the water out as fast as possible. unfortunately the other side of the road was lucky and was not blocked. so some people actually smashed the divider and let the water flow on the other side. we also saw 1 maruti zen slipped into gutters. looked like the driver could not see the boundaries of the road, gutter or not sure what went wrong there but they had called for fire brigade to rescue.

while some people were stuck at various places, some were trying to reach home as early as possible, we were out enjoying the rains and we decided to head towards the cyprus (near yogi hills) just about 15 mins away. when we reached cyprus, loadsa ppl were on the road enjoying the climate. it was a nice experience. we had vada-pav and then we decided to climb up the hills. this is the same hill which seperates the mulund-thane area from the western suburb borivali. you can also see The Sanjay Gandhi National Park sign boards in this area. we reached the first level of the hill. this is a place from where one can get the hilltop view of major parts of mulund-thane. now they have made a official base like structure so even civilians visit this place often and is quite easy to reach here. the view was damn good and the rains just doubled our joy. i wish i had a waterproof camera so i could share pics coz im really not that good at describing things. it was good but we wanted more :) so we decided to climb up some more (to the 2nd level as we called it) it was little difficult .... sort of small trekking experience. but it was worth it. we could see all the greenery and not just the concrete jungle. it was really good. we had 1 more level to make it to the very top but we left it for some other time sake :) rain started slowing down n so was our enthu level. we slipped 4-5 times while getting down, there were no injuries but climbing part was comparitively easier. we got down, had another round of vada-paav and cutting chai then we decided to go towards airoli-vashi side. we were completely drenched already. i mean we have been enjpying raing since almost 2 hrs now n still we were feeling the rain showers hittin us on the way to vashi. it was pretty chilled. climate was good we could see some part of nahur village (near the eastern express way) all drowned under the water. the rain drops were hitting our faces so hard but we were still enjoying it. then we reached airoli n some took a halt for 10-15 mins on some newly discovered road. we had a chit chat for while then we headed back. i finally reached home around 5:30 pm, hit the showers, had another hot cup of tea. felt sooooooo good :)

evening was nothing special. just watched TROY and went to sleep. got up late today. it was still raining. it just wont stop. there was no electricity today as well for quite some time. not sure whats the problem these days but apprarently the power shedding has been stopped.
saw 300 today evening. these movies have their own charm. i have already seen it in theaters but still enjoyed it again. great leaders, great men and great skills. it is quite interesting to learn about the ancient war techniques. they all had their own unique style. discovery has showcased many shows on this topic.

offnote iPhone was launched this Friday and im sure it mustv'e sold million pieces already. its definitely on my wishlist, so if you don't know what to gift me for my b'day, heres a hint :p (in your dreamsssss ...ohhh i could hear that) ye ye i am too sleepy already. hopefully it doesn't rain tomorrow morning. i have to catch intercity @ 7:15 am. i dun wanna miss that else it becomes hectic and definitely not a good way to start a new week.
phew ... too many things packed in one entry :) but can't help. i get to blog only on weekendz.
thats all for now.


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