Thursday, June 21, 2007

Joie De Vivre - Sensational edition of "Life ho to aisee" (जून २००७)


Hi All,
Its my pleasure to introduce this sensational edition of Life Ho To Aisee.
I just learned the word joie de vivre and thought this will be the title of my next edition.
This is the mid-June edition of this series.
Now, you will ask whats the sensational that forced me to compose this edition … Right ??
Hold on, hold on.. I am coming to the point…
Last week,
A one day trek to Rajgad was planned with company friends and Anagha.
Friday night 9 PM, Sujay told me that he is staying there on fort. I too decided that I'll stay on fort.
{ Its like, Like that AB's song.. Ek rahe iir, ek rahe bir …
Sujay bolaa mai fort pe rukungaa, Amol bolaa mai fort pe rukungaa,
Atul bolaa mai bhi fort pe rukungaa,
To hum bole…
}
We were 14 together, on 7 bikes.
As usual after assembling at Swargate, we started towards Rajgad.
Had a break at Nasarapur for MisaL.
Parked our vehicles at the base village, Gunjavane.
Started to trek on wrong way, but still continued. At one stage, we thought we lost the way 'cause we knew we had to go on top of the hill, but roaming around.
Then we had to climb a 50-60 ft patch in a dense tree surroundings.
Lot of scratches on hands,legs. To add to it, there were no rain.
Trek was planned assuming there will be rain. It took us 2.5 hrs to reach on top.
Rajgad has 3 machi's ( or legs, spreads) as Padmawati, Sanjivani and Suvelaa.
We entered thru a chor darawaja to Padmawati machi.
We kept out bags at padmawati temple and started for balekilla (fort on a fort).
Had our lunch at bale killa. Then six of us started their way back and we, remaining 8, were roamed on balekilla.
At around 4 pm, clouds started to gather and there was coldness and wonderful breeze all around.
Very soon, the fort was all covered by clouds.
After balekilla, we went to Sanjivani maachi. By this time, it had already started to drizzle.
We came back to the temple at 6 pm.
Had our food in the temple at night.. Awesome parathas by Sujay, breads,jam,ketups,and ……..
After food, we had some talk and everybody spread their legs in the available area.
In night, it was cold and raining outside. We could hear the sound of rain hitting the roof of the temple.
Morning, 8 am.. All fresh and fine, went to Suvelaa maachi after having tea. We started our way back at 11:30 am and reached to the base village at 1:00 pm.
It was raining at that time, but awesome weather to drive.
All the day from morning, I was having severe stomach pain, though I was walking in between the haults.
Weather was good..cool and raining.. But I was sweating like anything.
Evening 8 pm, I visited Dr. at last only to find that I was having infection due to water and nothing else.
Hope you will like the photos.

As usual, waiting for your valuable comments/suggestions..
Thanks,
Mahesh Masurkar
[ Joie de vivre:- A term used to express cheerful enjoyment of life. It can be a joy of conversation, eating or anything one does. ]

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