Mirgadh Trek - Old pick

Nov 25-26-27 2006 -

This was one of the exhaustive trek, I ever experienced. Myself, Dr. Ayyaz, Dr. DattaSagar and Raju were the member of team to trek Mirgadh and no one of us had ever visited this area, around Pen-Panvel. Raju was the senior most member in our group in fact he is. I heard a lot about Raju from Ayyaz and in my opinion, he is gem of the person.
Despite being senior person, almost close to age of my uncle, Raju could easily get involved into the younger groups and I have noticed 'this' some more times whenever I visited B. J. Medical college hostel. By profession he is a photographer from Sangamner. Originally from Lahore, had to come with family because of 1947 India-Pak split and settled in Pune. Very particular about things, still very patient - key founder member and claimed to be the only one because of whom the Mountaineering club in B.J. Medical College is still active and has established as an autonomous entity. I know, I have much more to say about Raju, but I will stop here and share the trek pics.



One of very few silent moments in life. We were only four people on the top, we were sitting here almost for half an hour sitting silently. Ekdam chup. I can't calculate what is the outcome/ gain, etc stuff like that at this point of time. It is just different.


This is something to be seen in presence. Amazing example of human intelligence using primitive tools available, beside the indication of adaptability nature of human being.

We had been walking for last 5 hrs almost without any major break and here we were on the flat surface on the top and still unaware where to go !!

While we moved from one of the end of the Songadh to Vyaghreshwar, we came across a village of approx. 20 cottages. People out here were talking about the Bauxite elements of the metal, usage of it in the Aeroplane, space shuttle. We went little dumb here. We thought that they were saying something is there on 'BACKSIDE' :D

Next day, leaving the Mandir to next unknown destination, we wanted to go Sarpoli. Yeah and to the back side of this Mandir, there is a small water kink with constructed tank. Very cold water, We bathed in that tank, next day when I went there to fill the drinking water bottles, Cobra passed with the falling flow of water.

Though this trek was exhaustive, it gave me very nice friends - Raju and Datta. Raju is in regular contact with me. He keeps on calling and inviting me for Treks, rapplings, etc. Datta is busy doing his internship in Sasoon Hospital. Ayyaz is extremely busy studying in Delhi. And here I am - engrossed into the flow of the activities in I-I-M B.

I am really missing the environment during rains and it is a different fun of having treks during rains. I am feeling jealous of my dear friend Yogesh, he is trekking almost every weekend and that too in this season. But I am happy about him - at least he is consistently able to do it.

Bloodbath on Street

'This' is I think is unavoidable in today's circumstances meaning the way effect of the prime, sub-prime lending crisis in US housing industry is causing ripples across the world markets especially in the Asian Market, it can not be ignored.

'Financial services, investors, etc have been focusing more global, the FII (for us they are normally from US and European countries) investing into the developing countries like India, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan etc. But any significant moment in their respective base countries make them to withdraw their money from these market to remain cover their position it with the gains obtained from the developing countries. Which obviously creates panic in the local investors in these developing countries.

Who is worst off ?
The small investor who is unable to understand the happening in the global markets or unable to understand the money making minds of the FII, etc.

But any small investor can be prudent enough if he is able to track the events around and little judgments about the market in general so that he can save himself from dragging in such situations.

Disclaimer - Such a vague article. I just tried to scrap something without much thought.

Learning what I missed to enjoy

This is not any sort of introspection of my past. Just that I realized something 'dé·jà vu'.

...... When I was working with Selectica, everyday I used to check my clock to record the travel time to office from home. Lesser the commuting time, I used to feel more challenged (??? ;-))

....... By that time I had just learned to swim. I used to set a mark on the other bank of the tank and used to record the time to cover the distance in shortest possible time. Again challenged (??? ;-))

Slowly after few days I realized that it is not fun of driving so fast or swimming so fast. I am missing the point to enjoy the journey. I started driving and diving(?) slowly (sorry!!! it was not equivalent of dragging - it was normal pace), while driving I started observing people around me. Then I watched them at the signal, how most people become race runner. It was fun watching 'those' people, some days back I was also one of them. I started looking around, bazaar, banners, Bolds & Beautiful, and realized that -yes- really serious and funny things happens around and we don't notice because we are running behind something for almost nothing.

Now when I have landed on this campus, I again realized that I am undergoing the same phase of getting carried along with the fast pace of this place, then come the day, I felt that this is not something what I enjoy the most or what I want the most out of this place, I sat back for some time, started moving around the campus, started talking to my friends on campus, calling up my school friends, colleagues, family, etc. More important is I realized that it is required to have 'Bigger Picture' out of whatever I am looking/understanding currently.

Cheers,
:D


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This blogger.com really sucks ! Its usage of Ajax has removed all of the text I typed for last 10 minutes from the posting window. It has strongly reminded me of 'Windchill' - The copyright product of PTC. I was part of the Windchill development team. In Windchill one can have multiple versions and iterations of the documents, parts, assembly, etc. And he can selectively delete the iterations and versions of the same.[Too much techie!]

Unfortunately it is not the case here.

Anyway. On the Wednesday night, our mid-term was over. All exhausted ppl, especially junta from my section who had undergone three exams in a single day were omnipresent (at least) in PVR, Banaglore ;-)

Chilling,
:D