Ramgarh…
…Rajasthan Trip was part of Ramgarh visit… Here are other posts where I have recorded memories and experiences from the trip…
On the way to Ramgarh...
Though part of the Rajasthan Trip, I want to keep Ramgarh out of it… Basically because Ramgarh was not about the trip… It was about meeting Piyush (now Piyush-Toolika 
) after sometime and visiting Piyush’s native-native place (after Rajnandgoan)… Actually it would be more correct to say that Rajasthan Trip was part of visiting Ramgarh… Yes, in fact the whole trip came into existence because of Piyush-Toolika coming to India for a two week visit… I started with taking two days off from office and then making it into a 4 day off and then finally even dragging Pravin and Nimesh into it!!! 
Piyush came to pick Pravin and myself at Hawa Mahal, and we started for Ramgarh in the afternoon… Ramgarh- better known or distinguished as DattaRamgarh, is around 180km from Jaipur…
The Journey was pretty decent… It always feels good to see a close friend after a while and then keep on talking and talking… btw, those of you who don’t know about Piyush let me write something about him… Writing about Piyush will also fullfil his long time wish-requests-orders-threats to write something about him on my blog… Yes, this is a difficult and tricky thing to do… Firstly because it has to sound good… And secondly risky to write about one friend and not about others!!!
Rajasthan Trip – Jaipur Day 1…
…This post is part of the Rajasthan Trip series of posts where I have recorded memories and experiences from the trip…
Mahendra Palace- Nimesh's choice... And a disasterously WRONG choice!!!
Reaching Jaipur, Nimesh and Mayur went off to find a Hotel for night stay… And Pravin and I reached an ATM outside the station to withdraw money… Piyush came to receive us here… Nimesh after about around 5 mins called and we reached the hotel… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … Am stuck here from last few days to find something to write about it… … … … … Though the hotel came at Rs. 250 per day (for two) and I would have not stayed here even for free!!! But it was with respect to Nimesh’s friendship then I spent the night there, and now will refrain myself from describing the Hotel… The key chain however looks lot better and I specifically clicked it to record this memory and Experience… With a sleepless night next day really started on a heated up end with Pravin; over bargaining with a Auto Rickshaw driver… Maybe I was wrong; but his bargaining expectations were too much and we finally got in a BUS!!!
Questions…
Questions...
I too wanted to start and finish the Rajasthan Trip writeups in one shot… So for those who were expecting something on the same lines, am sorry to disappoint… In the last few days-weeks as I have cut down on mails, chats, phone and friends; and much more including job (Unknowingly earlier and later deliberately)… Thinking and thinking on recent and recent-past developments in life and where and how to go ahead with what’s in life as Next… I came across this writeup lyeing in drafts from long time… I know this was a bit too philosophical me… ;-) Anyways, Publishing it-
Sharing something I wrote to a friend long back…
“Bas basics mein problem hai!!!”
Rajasthan Trip – Fatehpur Sikri and Agra…
…This post is part of the Rajasthan Trip series of posts where I record memories and experiences from the trip…
After a decent day at office, Friday evening I rushed toward Bangalore City Junction (SBC) to check the status of my ticket… Confirmed!!! And the journey started on a good note… The journey by Karnataka Express was mostly uneventful, except for the 45 minutes between Itarsi Junction and Bhopal Junction; which deserves a separate post outside of the trip… Will write it soon… After a 36 hour journey by the Indian Railways, I reached Agra on Sunday morning…
Yes, a Rajasthan Trip that started from Agra (Uttar Pradesh)…
Getting out of the Agra Cantt station I was invaded by loads of Rickshaw Drivers and I thought I was prepared well with the inputs from Nimesh and Pravin last night from their experience… But still ended paying out 20 Rupees to reach the hotel which was hardly few hundred meters away from station… 
For the first time I thought the Rickshaw’s in Bangalore were lot better… Getting ready, our first task was to reach out Fatehpur Sikri…
On the way from Agra to Fatehpur Sikri-
100's of pilgrims walking to some place in Rajasthan... (Picture looks nicer in full resolution... Click to enlarge...)
Rajasthan Trip -Preface…
…This post is part of the Rajasthan Trip series of posts where I record memories and experiences from the trip…
swapsshah-n-sand
Half asleep, today morning as was walking down my house building ready for office; my shoes were giving me a unusual feeling… Yet felt like something that I have felt earlier… I came to office and to my seat I untied the shoe lace, removed shoes and it looked all clean… Even shook the shoe toe side up and tried to empty it out to check if there was something in there… Nothing!!! Under the effect of sleep, I ignored it off… Wore them again… Switched on monitors, logged in and started with the same Microsoft Outlook with a few hundred unread mails sitting in my inbox!!!
Though my shoes were getting more sensitive with time, I Ignored it for a while and then forgot about it completely as I got in work… I love my job and work But something was really unusual in there… I suddenly felt a move in the right shoe… And by now the nervous system of my legs was so alert that it even gave me a jerk… I stayed unmoved for few seconds… Trying to track the movement in my shoe… No movement at all… Something in there was acting smart…
Childhood reloaded!!!
My Alpenliebe lollipops (All 4)...
After my cook shouting at me to get Jeera (Cumin) from last two days; today I set-up 2 alarms and still got up bit late to run to the nearby grocery store… With the typical male ‘go and get it as told‘ approach, I picked a Jeera packet to the cash counter… The bill Rs 22… We both gave each other frustrated looks over change… The owner looked around his counter slowly trying to get my attention to buy some small items on sale… Usually I don’t pay any attention, and wait for him to tender change that adds into my piggy bank (well, currently my Kingfisher Airlines pouch… I don’t have a piggy to swallow the coins)… But then I noticed few lollipop’s there… A childhood smile emerged on my face… And I ignored the change that he was about to give and pointed my finger to them…
He generously got the whole box towards me… And my mind just thought of grabbing all of them at one go!!! I even picked chunks in both my hands… But then later released them seeing that I needed only 4 (Rs 2 each) to get to a round figure of 30…
As I came home and opened one of them it was childhood relived for next 30 mins!!! Slowly and gradually the lollipop melted drowning me into childhood……………… Childhood reloaded!!!
Swapneel*
PS: I had 2 of them on Friday, and have saved the rest two for later… (Have hidden them carefully in my cupboard to protect them from my roomies)
………I should have…
(GO) NO FREE left turn...
Funny??? Actually it isn’t… Numerous people including me passed this square each day with the (GO) NO FREE left turn… The paper sticker put up by someone to convert the ‘NO’ to ‘GO’ for fun/convenience/timepass/etc had changed the whole meaning… I noticed it… I even clicked it from my cam… But did not get down from my cab and give a minute to correct it…
But thankfully it was corrected by someone, before my inner voice got strong enough to make me spend few minutes and act…
Somewhere we all feel that things need to change… Maybe even wish that we contribute… But then nothing happens until we act………
Each individual acts!!! ……… I should have…
Swapneel*
Rajasthan Trip -Iternery, Locations to see and Travel
…This post is part of the Rajasthan Trip series of posts where I record memories and experiences from the trip…
Map 4 (RC 1)
Since a long time or probably since childhood when I did regular treks, camps, etc. I wanted to plan and enjoy a long trip on my own………
Piyush, one of my best friend is visiting India after a gap and was going to be around Jaipur in March… So I had plans to visit Jaipur for a couple of days to see him… I thought of adding few more and see Jaipur when I am there… And then finally decided to take this opportunity to plan a Rajasthan trip… So after lots of planning, reading, web-surfing, Google search results, travel-sites, blogs, train timings and managing ‘dates’ of all superstars and megastars of the journey; here is our travel iternery presented as RC 1.
Rajasthan trip -Invitation
…This post is part of the Rajasthan Trip series of posts where I record memories and experiences from the trip…
Sharing the invitation mail that I sent out to my friends…
Dated: Feb 28, 2009
Yesterday morning as I logged into my Google Reader to check blog updates; a line in one of the blog there said-
“”"am really happy when few of my friends really have tried to keep in touch, no matter where they are, whatever timezone they are in, but the ones I am referring to are the ones I feel are in front of the computer all the time, or carry a mobile phone with them for 20 hours a day, but still find it hard to use them to keep in touch !”"”
Mumbai Pune Volvo Travel…
Volvo
Mumbai… A Friday evening… As usual I was waiting for a bus to Pune at Vashi… Usually I prefer to travel via the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation bus, but looking at most of them completely full by the time they reached Vashi, I moved my attention towards a typical Mumbai-Pune Volvo bus… While I was paying the agreed ticket amount to the co-driver, the bus moved… So I knew the bus is full, and I have to occupy the back seats… As the bus made its move and the lights went dim… Half-blind in the dim light I tried to move fast; holding bag in one hand and managing my laptop on the other shoulder… It was was like walking blind in between the rows in a movie theater to reach your seat… The movies has already started, theater is dark and you can see almost nothing!!! As I neared the last seats, my bag had a hit with the legs of a female, who was sitting somewhat unusual on the second last row… I looked up amazed…
