Laguna Seca- United states

Ambient temp: 29.8degrees
Asphalt tem: 53.0 degrees

It’s a bright sunny day, am riding the Kawasaki Zx7-RR to the limits. The Ducati is just a fraction of a second behind me. Its the last corner, and I can taste that victory. Going good at 220kph I can see the sharp corner but still continue to accelerate. The adrenalin rushing through my veins. The corner is almost upon me, I slam the brakes hard. Down to 98Kph and I lean into the corner my knee scraping the asphalt. Can see the Ducati almost upon me in the RVM.

I accelerate as hard as I can. The throttle at the full. The tyres fail to grip the asphalt.the rear wheel spins, struggling for grip the bike skids and veers to the right. I let go of the throttle. But too late. I lose control and crash. The bike sliding to a halt some 20 feet away. Its the end of the race. The ducati crosses the finish line and so do all the other riders. F*** I curse the Kawasaki traction and hit the restart button again. Time to take the corner again.:)

Midnight ride to Khopoli

Oct 20, 2007
Saturday

It was a Saturday like any other. The only difference being that India actually thrashed Australia in the T20 match. I was supposed to meet my biker buddies at Shivaji Park Barista at 10:00pm.

Shivaji Park Barista- 10:30 PM
The scene was not like every Saturday. The place was teeming with traffic with horns blaring all around. So we decided to move out to Bandra Reclamation.

Once settled we felt like having tea. And Prasad said. “How about a short ride to Karnala for tea and biscuits”. It reminded me of the crazy days when we used to ride out to Pune at 12 in the night. And so all of us head back home to fetch our riding gear.

Chembur 1AM
We are at the usual meeting place and Prasad says “guys where do u wana ride out”. I give a cant help but smile knowing fully well that he wants to go for a longer ride. So we decide to ride out to Lonavla. A short burst on the twisties and back.

Belapur -2AM.
First stop
Sanket starts with his partition joke and has Deepak starts imagining what his butt looks like. We ride out after a 10 min break. It’s a heaven riding out again in the darkness. Its very cold though and my teeth rattle like a bullet engine at the Panvel bypass.


Khopoli-3:45 AM

We stop at our favorite Dhaba. The guys remembering the last time they had Chicken here. We neatly divide ourselves so that the guys eating non-veg occupy 1 table and and the veggies the other. We're having a good time when the waiter beaks the news that they have no chicken. I think the guys are heart broken but the take it quite well and to my surprise order Veg.:)

The Dhaba-3:55 AM

Sumone orders Maaza and Salil starts with the maaza joke. Meanwhile Vinod is busy explaining his adventures of night riding on NH17. The food arrives and to everybody’s delight with chicken.

4:30 AM

We move out and Pari asks us to head back home he was short of petrol.

5:15 AM
Halt at a bus stop at Belapur with Salil complaining that his butt which was like BUN PAV was now like a sliced bread :D and so the butt discussion starts.


6:30 AM
I am back home refreshed thinking just when we thought the busy life was getting better of us we were back with a bang.

Things You Wouldnot Know Without Movies

It is always possible to park directly outside any building you are visiting.
-A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.
-If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you bump into will know all the steps.
-Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the communication systems of any invading alien civilization.
-It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts - your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.
-When a person is knocked unconscious by a blow to the head, they will never suffer a concussion or brain damage.
-No one involved in a car chase, hijacking, explosion, volcanic eruption or alien invasion will ever go into shock.
-Police Departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite.
-When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other.
-You can always find a chainsaw when you need one.
-Any lock can be picked by a credit card or a paper clip in seconds, unless it”’’s the door to a burning building with a child trapped inside.
-An electric fence, powerful enough to kill a dinosaur will cause no lasting damage to an eight-year-old child.
-Television news bulletins usually contain a story that affects you personally at that precise moment you turn the television on.

Another Dumb Blonde

Heres a joke a friend mailed me. hope it makes u laugh

A young ventriloquist is touring the clubs and one night he’s doing a show in a small club in a small town in Arkansas. With his dummy on his knee, he’s going through his usual dumb blonde jokes when a blonde woman in the fourth row stands on her chair and starts shouting: ”I’ve heard enough of your stupid blonde jokes. What makes you think you can stereotype women that way? What does the color of a person’s hair have to do with her worth as a human being? It’s guys like you who keep women like me from being respected at work and in the community and from reaching our full potential as a person, because you and your kind continue to perpetuate discrimination against, not only blondes, but women in general…and all in the name of humor!”
The ventriloquist is embarrassed and begins to apologize, when the blonde yells, ”You stay out of this, mister! I’m talking to that little jerk on your knee!”

Spoof of Bajaj's "Definitely Male" campaign

Hey ppl...just came across this funny spoof of the the Bajaj's "Definitely Male" itz hilarious...chk it out...{damn butterers oops Bulletters:P:P

Gajaj leads Homosexual Parade with Gulsar
By a staff reporterOctober 12, 2006

As per AutoReport 2006, Gajaj Auto Ltd., leads the homosexual parade with their avant garde, top seller, the Gulsar motorcyle. Going by the cliché 'Definately Male', Gulsar has stirred up a storm in the Indian biking scene. With 8 out of 10 bikes sold being Gulsars, the biker tribe sure knows where to put its money.Speaking to this reporter, Sunny Darling, 22, a Gulsar 180 owner said "I simply love my Gulsar 180. It is the best form of expression for me. You know so many guys check me out when I'm riding my Gulsar!"Gajaj expects to sell about 30,000 units during the current fiscal. Rahul Gajaj, the MD of Gajaj Auto Ltd. said "The Gulsar is not just a bike. It is an expression and the voice of homosexuality in India. With the Gulsar, we aim to reach out to every guy who loves to ride a male motorcycle."Gajaj Auto Ltd. will also be hosting the annual gay parade, ANALyze2006, where over 2000 homosexuals are expected to ride their Gulsars in a subjective formation.

Accident Prone!!!

8th Oct 2007
2:15 Am

Here I am trying to sleep….but I am as awake as I can be. The last couple of days have been very strange with things being very grim in my life. I say this because of a whole lot of reasons…the first being that I have become very accident-prone. It all started when I was rear ended by a friend on the Malshej ride. A couple of days later, when I was going for the meet yesterday night at round 11.There is this stretch of road that I have to take to reach the western exp highway, very dark with no dividers and flanked with jhopad patties on the sides. I generally keep slow as there is always a risk of a child or a person coming outta no where. I was doing 60KPH when an auto guy with no lights coming from the opp. side suddenly decides to take a u turn. I noticed him when I was just when I was about 15 feet from him and narrowly avoided an accident.

Then this evening, felt so exhausted after returning from a family get together I fell off to sleep at seven in the evening. At nine, my mom wakes me up and asks me to go withdraw cash from my bank account. I wash my face and go downstairs to fine that my dad’s driver has come home and is in tears. His daughter was hospitalized. And he had to pay up the hospital deposit else the hospital wouldn’t admit his daughter. I rush to the ATM my head filled with thoughts. Just when I was returning home I narrowly missed another accident. the ATM is about 20mt. off the main road. I get on my bike and am just stop at the edge of the main road. All of a sudden I notice this auto coming at a very high speed on the left most lane. He is certainly going to ram into me if he continues. When you are in such a situation time suddenly slows down. U can see everything clearly frame by frame. There’s a screech of brakes the auto takes a sharp turn and misses me by inches. I decide not to chase the auto and am off to my house, to find the driver still crying. My dad offers him the money and he gives my dad a gold chain as a security. Which my dad declines.. Apparently, he tried to sell off the chain and arrange for the money himself but being a Sunday all shops were closed. What strikes me is the sense of fairness and perhaps self respect In the guy.

All this has me thinking of how lucky I am to be safe. To be born in a well to do family and lead a luxurious life. And how self indulgent we humans have become. We don’t care for our fellow human beings. We don’t care for Mother Earth which suffers pollution from our hands and stil continues to support us. We do nothing to protect the beauty of this planet or help the ailing and suffering animals on the streets.

The money that I took out from the bank was actually saved up by me so I could buy a decent riding jacket. However, it could not be put to better use. I don’t care if I receive it back or not. From now on I will try and live with contention. Will try and help all I can. And most importantly stop cribbing about my life. Cause its still much better than most of the others on this planet.

Intel Vs AMD

Hey guyz I think this is a very imp post Cause whenever we go to buy a PC/laptop…we blindly ask the pc guy to give us the best Intel product…but little do we know that there’s life beyond Intel….AMD or Advanced micro devices is a direct competitor of Intel. If people don’t know about AMD I suggest u watch Formula 1…they are the sponsors of Ferrari and all Ferrari computers are AMD based….need I say any more…over and above u get shitty Intel motherboards with Intel processors. On the other hand u get excellent motherboards made by Asus/ Gigabyte with onboard Nvdia graphics card with AMD products….

So here comparison between the two…

AMD makes commercial 64 processor, which is fully backward compatible to 32

Intel commercially makes only 32 & obviously its not forward compatible:-P

Now most most most likely 64 will takeover 32 by the end of this year

AMD has come a long way through heating issues.. Now amd does not heat up like it used to do b4

AMD 64X2 heats just a little bit more like 2-5degree than dualcore & same as core2duo under similar conditions.

Now the best part bout 64x2 is that, when u run it on a 32os, each core generates a virtual core. So u get 2cores & 2virtual cores. Summing up to b equivalent to 3 CORES

AMD- 64bit hence future compatible
intel- 32bit which will die by the end of this year, its just a matter of time

AMD- power factor doesn’t come on desktop but its crucial for laptop. The Turion (TL-52 or over) chip eats less power than core2duo

AMD- comes with g-force/ATI- radion graphics card
Intel- inbuilt Intel graphics & every1 knows how shit they r

AMD- on chip memory controller which removes all bottleneck caused due to RAM speed
Intel- fully dependant on ram speed. Like if u use ddr2, u've to pair them. Even tat wont match AMD’s memory utilization speed

Now many people think o wow Intel is giving 1mb cache.. 2mb cache while AMD is giving just 256kb-512kb ..So Intel is better here. NO... This is a very wrong concept. AMD doesn’t need huge cache cause it has on-chip memory controller
Intel Needs huge cache to compensate for the lack of on-chip memory controller

Even if u look at history, the main company was AMD. Then among them a group of people separated but worked with AMD. The new name became AMD-Intel.. Now when those Intel people learnt everything, they separated to form Intel:-P

I am just trying to say the truth about technology, don’t be fooled by sales/marketing. you’re the user, u think what’s best. Buy confidently

Oh, almost forgot. What’s Centrino? Its NOT just the processor, its the package of 3 hardware-
Intel processor
Intel wifi
Intel graphics

Also, Intel has ABANDONED the name 'Pentium' in mid 2006.. 'Core' is the new generation

Pleasure

This one was forwarded by our very own Ishti Bhai. Pretty much says why I love riding so much....so read on.

The pleasure is when you finish your day ride, and reach in one piece.You are the smallest vehicle on the road, and you survived.
The pleasure is when you take off your wristwatch, and see a band of untanned skin.
The pleasure is when your motorcycle and you move as one single united form. Whatever shape the road takes, whichever end of the compass it leads to.
The pleasure is when you use your hands, arms, thighs, knees and feet to steer.
The pleasure is when you take off your riding jacket for a break andfeel the breeze dry your sweat.
The pleasure is when you sing to yourself on an empty road. You arethe world's best rock star.
The pleasure is when your rear wheel slides and you bring it back,when the front wheel lifts and you take your time bringing it back.
The pleasure is when you cut through air, at 50 kph or 100.
The pleasure is when you reach a place you never been before, and someone you have never seen before asks you for a ride. And comes back grinning.
The pleasure is when you wave to village kids, and they wave back.
The pleasure is when you almost, almost fall. But don't.
The pleasure is when you fight the wind, and win.
The pleasure is when you get up that narrow path for the view you never forget.
The pleasure is when you view the world at an angle.
The pleasure is when you eat bugs at 90 kph.
The pleasure is when you look at a dust-streaked face in the mirror after a 500 km ride, and don't want to wash up.
The pleasure is when your pillion moves with you.
The pleasure is when you can see the petrol after a top-up.
The pleasure is when your throttle hand has calluses.
The pleasure is when you jump a speed breaker.
The pleasure is when you stop to help push a stranded car to the sideof the road.
The pleasure is when you stop at the smallest of towns, and somebodyasks you technical specifications.
The pleasure is when your book of roadmaps gets dog-eared,rain-splashed, tea-stained.
The pleasure is when you give a stranger a lift.
The pleasure is when you have battle-scars.
The pleasure is when you can feel the cool morning and the hot afternoon, the light rain and the damp fog.
The pleasure is when you leave four-wheeler traffic standing in a jam.
The pleasure is when you aren't lulled by an air-conditioner.
The pleasure is when you are free. Open. Independent. Liberated.
Ride safe, Ride far, Ride Often!

Who Am I

Who Am I? Just a face among thousands? Just another brick in the wall? Thinking exactly this I started my quest to break away form the NORMAL life…I realized I had to be somebody. Getting a Bsc degree and working in a call centre was not the way I wanted to live my life. Was a typical mama’s boy. It was in college when I realized I had to have my own identity. My life was MINE and I had to make it big. However, the main problem was money. That’s when I started Computer assembling at a youthful age of 18. My first big break came in the form of an assembling order for Nanavati hospital. As time passed on, I had a steady income of 2000-3000 bucks from my PC business. Things improved bit by bit and I graduated in 2005. Started working with my earnings bought a sparkling new silver Pulsar 180 Dtsi. Soon the biking bug bit me. I used to live for the weekends when I could ride out. and there's bin no stopping since then.

And now after another outbreak of self assessment I decided to start my own blog. So here it is.

Hope u like my blog. Happy reading. Suggestion, comments, improvement tips always welcome.