Bedse Caves N The Ghost Of...

I went a- roaming around pune after quite a long time..
It was a gang of 7.. + the unknown :)
The place was Bedse Caves .. 8-10 Km south of Rautwadi , where u reach by a Lonavla local..
Sunday dawned nice n sunny.. (its been raining every day for almost a month now..)
Waking up at 6.30 am to reach Shivajinagar by 8 am, on a sunday morning was the biggest
achievement !! (Bcoz sat night happened to be movie night.. :)
So we made it to the local, with a vada pav inside us.. :)
Plz note.. it being a sunday or our food being gulped by the unknown , we kept feeling
hungry at regular intervals ;)
The misal n samosa we had at a local joint turned out unexpectedly good.. n helped raise our
spirits for the on-foot journey..
The walk or rather climb to the caves was an interesting one..
Nice greenary n wild flowers all around.. Lots of waterfalls...
They added to the charm all over..
I dont kno about ghosts, but nature definitly cast a spell over us..
The locals kept warning us about the ghosts !! (I was wondering which one of us must that b)The caves were as all caves go..
cool n quiet with small chambers for meditation..
We had snacks at the spot n meditated on a lot of topics which included work , sports n of course Buddha !!
Not to forget we kept looking out for ghosts...
But hey the ghosts decided to give us a miss..
N we decided the 'Kaka' we met at the caves must have been the ghost.. :)He carried a 1 n half litre coke bottle, to which he had designed a handle of some kind with a rope..
The eerie caves made him appear spooky enough to b a ghost..
Then there was laughter n jokes n leg pulling aplenty to make the walk interesting.. On the return journey, we hitched a ride with some locals..
One of us was decent enough to actually run behind them n thank them..
The local train n then by a rick to MAthura hotel on JM Road..
Lunch at 3 has its own charm ;) If its 'modak' n buttermilk, can u beat it ??
I was dreaming of ghosts at 6 pm.. I guess the others must have crashed in bed too..
There ended the sunday...
As one of us quoted.. its the journey n not the destination that matters...
For us,, both the journey n destination is another memory to cherish..

The Swami...

This fellow is one comedy character i know.. :)
His Daily routine......
Computer Games 10 hours..
Sleep 10 hours..
Work 4 hours..
And so this fellow's day ends... !!! Whew !! Tiring , isn't it ??!!
He can survive on glucose biscuits... sometimes i feel he leaves his games for food just to
ensure that his friends don't carry out their threat of kicking him !!
He 'borrows' your bike n forgets to return it.. of course, the petrol is filled by u.. ur
bike right ??
He can literally bug u with his bookish marathi..
Well.. he doesnt need marathi to bug u anywayz.. :)
He makes cartoons out of ur handsome face.. n that's enough to trouble u i guess!!
yet at times his philosophy makes a lot of sense...
Thats wher the name 'Swami' comes from..
For all those 'Swami' kinds characters in your life.. hats off to you..

But it rained...

For all those 'Parikrama' fans..
yep, i've used their song's title, but in a different perspective.. :)
Water...
H2O the basic necessity of life... Lately.. it seems to be The life taker just as much as it is life giver..
Think of Tsunami.. ther was water..
think of floods.. ther was water..
Water on the roads...all around u...
And yet ther was no water to drink...
For those who keep complaining that it does'nt rain enough..well its been pouring this
year..
No dry clothes, potholed roads, and gloomy weather..
I wake up every morning hoping it will turn out a sunny day.. but...
But it rained...
Hope keeps the world going...
Mebbe just a month ago i was waiting eagerly for the clouds to shadow the sun.. n today
Waiting eagerly.. for a total warm (not hot) n sunny day... :)

The X Factor..

Shopping.. Love it or hate it..u simply cant escape it..
Be it home shopping or time pass or whatever.. u just cant ignore it..
On my shopping.. no comments !!
Ok..before u wonder where this 'x' comes..
When u r abroad and plan to shop..
u want to buy sumthing and spend some bucks, then never ever convert to Indian currency..
n if u wanna save, then convert ..convert.. n convert..
alwayz works.. :)
since u have to multiply to convert, the title X ... :)