Planning again

With a month and a week to go for out Leh trip, I have been busy trying to figure out where all to go apart from the usual places. We will be traveling to Pangong Tso and Nubra and I wanted to check in case we can accommodate Zanskar or Lower Ladhak as well?

Tso Moriri is also an option but getting permits before hand is always a tough ask. Lets see how the travel phases out.

I have been hooked on to Hanle palace and observatory photos, they are mesmerizing! The only place I want to be is there! but with 2 buffer days, lets see where the wandering soul travels to.

I wanted to post the trip schedule, but have not done so as the trip is yet to be finalized.

Repeat from August 2006

Yeah today it does... "office sucks" :(

I want to go back home and sleep (or drink beer)

From August 2006: http://gamesetcatch.blogspot.com/2006/08/office-sucks.html

If you are educated...behave it :)

Kudos to Karan to actually take this initiative and making us believe that indeed we are not apes, but educated and responsible Delhites.

• You are waiting for the lights to turn green and the bloke behind you is honking as if Mission Impossible 4 stars him and the world would end in a big gigantic nuclear blast if he does not go through
• You are traveling on a one-way road and some one is coming from the opposite side? Well he is from the road and transport department and he is doing a traffic check at the wrong time
  
• You are waiting in the long queue and some one just charges in to the counter? sure, he is the minister's uncles's aunty's son's friend's neighbour
  
• You are inside the ATM withdrawing money and while you are doing this, someone walks in. Ofcourse the AC was not working @ his place and he wanted to peek over your shoulder to steal your precious guarded ATM pin
• You are at a popular 'self service' restaurant and the group of college goers sitting right next to you who were speaking to each other so softly as if they were on the opposite sides of a football field - they leave after eating and as if they are sitting at home, leave all the wrappers, trays and almost everything they ordered for the floor attendant to clean

Well a small list of what you get to experience in NCR, very evidently this is something which we have selectively chosen to ignore as well. We do not stand up to anything, maybe its the fear of lets say being a victim of rage, fury or maybe a country made revolver's mistimed trigger?

A friend of mine started an initiative, where like minded people get together and try to just act in a very responsible manner, telling all - "If you are educated...behave it!" Its a great initiative! I support it and would urge you to sign up as well! Well, its not just to sign up, but to practice it. I know one might think - why should I? or how will I make a difference? How does it matter if I do it...no one else will do it? but the point should up upright and clear - you can make the difference and you should try it!

Here is the FB link to the group: http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=114269771931594&ref=ts

Join to group - support it and also follow it. Mind it, I do not want to be the one telling you "behave it" :)

Social responsibility is a myth

First of all let me ask you something - what do think of, when someone asks you to define 'social responsibility'. Is it being actually socially responsible or acting that you are socially responsible to all who are in front of you? believe me, 99% are pseudos and fakers.

You hear people honking behind you for no reason, speed up way past the speeding limit, throw things from the top floor of your building into your ground floor area, spit on the road, throw items in the river, pee in front of every available space, and the list goes on and on - is this social responsibility? and most of them turn up for a clean Yamuna drive or fight for youth equality? or a protest against the judicial system..oxymoron

What prompted me to write this today? 8:45 AM, driving from Delhi to Noida via the DND toll. Just after the Yamuna bridge there are barricades, to prevent speeding so the traffic suddenly slows down and in certain 'Michael Schumacher - wannabe' cases, the car bumpers exchange paints. I was approaching this area and suddenly i see a rush of cars much ahead of me stopping frantically. I thought...damn another accident..maybe they don't block the road enough and we can pass through.

I admit, i did not think of who is hurt, who is not, I just thought - I am getting late for office. Looking back I feel bad about not thinking about anything else but being so self absorbed.

In a fraction of a second, I was shocked to see what was happening up front - I was towards the left and had a good view. A bike had crashed, an infant was lying on the road and not moving (luckily no cars were in that lane). The mother was lying face down on the ground a few meters ahead and not moving, only the father was frantically picking himself up and running towards the both of them. A motorist stopped - picked up the kid immediately and took him in his arms. I was GLAD to see the kid crying! I will refrain to mention the exact details of the injuries here, but they were a lot for a small kid.

I instinctively just stopped the car around 10 meters away from the accident scene - lot of people were stopping and just looking at the entire chaos - 'yaar kya ho gaya', 'koi maar ke gaya hoga', 'yeh sale bike wale aise hi chalaten hain', 'side hato late ho raha hun' all wierd comments were being passed and I quietly approached the accident site. I just signaled to biker and told him 'get them to my car - I will drive to a hospital' he thanked me like crazy and I said 'fuck it - just get them in asap!' people stopped - still looking and rushing past a few of them - social responsibility is non-existent for some corporate jungle dwellers.

I did not have to go a long distance as the guards on the wireless told me that drive to toll both and an ambulance is waiting there already. I drove and reached there and just got the family in the ambulance and then moved on to my office as nothing had happened.

I did not think of writing this until after that incident, while driving alone from the toll booth to office I thought of a few things - the kid crying the lady in agony the father literally holding his kid close to his heart and holding his wife's hand - telling her 'do not close your eyes - keep speaking to me' I was thinking - it can be anyone of us and will you stop and help out ever?

Its easy to say yes - but a lot more difficult to actually do it. Please help others in need and make sure you know your social responsibility. Its the only thing which separates you from the crowd.

amen

BeEp

Its beeping again! what the beep? how the beep? where the beep? seriously beep? you got to be kidding me beep...

Yesh this is the 'beep' times. Where the beep is more than the 'standard' way of expressing. Once again - that is seriously beep.

I read this today - Rani Mukherjee playing Jessica Lal in a movie (this deserves a beep). I am unwell today (beep). Enough of this nonsensical jargon (poof)

Got you, it wasn't a beep but a poof!

Signing off (one point to me and zero to you)