We use some or the other language day in and day out but the other day i was thinking about its importance and it struck me that it is much more than just a medium to express onself.. For example here with me there are loads of guys who have come from vernacular background and in general do quite bad in class, but its not that they cant grasp concepts (though some really cant!!), its just that they dont understand english that well. So obviously knowing a language will decide how good or bad u understand and assimilate something rather than just raw brain processing power..
Conversely some people pick up new languages amazingly fast and others take lot of time... why is that??
I read in a book titled "Chance and Necessity" written by Jacques Monod that according to him it was the need of phonetics coupled with a way to communicate (Language?) that drove the phenomenal development of Brain.
Might be true, i dunno...
And now that i am having my first brush with a Programming Language, i realise that Programming is nothing but translating something that our brain does on paper into a set of instructions so that it can be done in computer... Infact i sometimes wonder whats the hue and cry about "logic development" in Programming since essentially (at least C ) programming is translation, so u gotta know the syntax and structure of a few basic prgrams after which if u are good in the language u'll be able to exdtend that....
Another aspect of alnguage is that u dont need to know a lot of it to understand the subtelties of Human Interactions, for eg i dont know telugu but when i watched some part of Happy Days, i understood it, however i know a little bit of Marathi now and when i watched a Marathi play titled "Ga ma bha na" i was surprised by my own understanding of the undercurrents of the play...
So much for Language...
Monday, September 29, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
A Lot of Things are common between Brains, NFS Carbon and Terrorism...
Lately i have been thinking a lot about the human brain, and also playing a bit of NFS Carbon....(now that i have a laptop which has 2Gb RAM and a 128 Mb Graphics card...ah! the sheer execellence of that.... beautiful!!!)... So these are a few of my random thoughts...
NFS Carbon has three types of cars, the Tuners: which can be tuned to give good performance; the Muscle: which have raw horse power and give u good straight line acceleration plus speed but nothing else; the Exotics: which are costly but look good and will perform depending on the players skills (My Fav - Tuners!!). In these types also there are three level of cars.. the tier 1,2 and 3.. each tier better than the previous one such that a fully modified tier one car will not be able to beat a tier 3 car...
THE evolution of brain has given analogous results.... the primitive brain is an unmodified tier one tuner car, good for nothing except the most basic sensory and effector functions. It will sense a danger and run for it. The next level of brain resides in higher animals and regulates and controls an increasingly complex gene machine, thats the body...its like the ECU of a sports car (albeit much better) which has to control a lot of functions at the same time. The Tier 3 brain is the HUMAN BRAIN. It is good at sensing danger, but better at avoiding it and even better at preventing it altogether. If it cant do that, it will "scout" better ways to escape (like the design of a cheetah,built for speed - might sound ironic but makes sense to me); else it will make sure that a "cooldown" spot is near by (like the absolute camouflage of stick insect!!), and it will always have a store of "nitrous" (The sprint of a lion!!) and "speedbreaker" (the stink of a skunk!!) for emergencies...(some terms would be understood only by people familiar with carbon - i wont go into those terms!! You will also notice that there are "semicolons" and "elses" in my "syntax" thats the c programmer in me blogging!!! :-) )
In the Humans also there are different tiers of brains....some are unmodified tier 3 Tuners!!! the saddest of em all. The best are ofcourse the fully enhanced Tier 3 Tuners!!.... Some are like the fully modified Tier 3 Muscle.... fantastic straight line acceleration but inflexible - read orthodox or brainwashed; unable to think or digest new information or memes - (some PhD guides can be that way, all terrorists also fall in the same category!!). These brains are excellent databases, they make excellent backups, once data is put into them it cant be erased nor new data put into them, there will never be any redundancy here and theres absolutely zero processing power!! (Yeah i take my Introduction to Database Systems course seriously!!)
This zero processing power unfortunately is quite widespread, for example my roommate has stuck some wierd symbol and geometric pattern on the wall just above his little worship corner, he says they are the symbols of Lord Hanuman and on meditating on that he recieves positive energy and better concentration. I pointed out that even if he meditated on a point on the opposite wall he will improve concentration and feel good (that is positive energy)..... he understood that and digested it... he is a tuner and i am thankful of that...
Some times i wonder what has happened to independent thought... why wont peole think about what they are doing and why they are doing it...Where are all the Howard Roarks?? The ability to question is inherent to Human Brain... it doesnt matter if a person is rural or urban, he/she must question, none the less rural people are more superstitious than urban... how strong is peer pressure a factor here?? When does a Human Brain "forget" to question?? Mind that i use the word "forget" not "lose" since the brain never loses the ability to question as is evident from the inspiring oratory speeches given by bent minds to bend more minds... there the normal peole start questioning and turn into a mob and then we see a more complex social behavior as a result of what is called as mob mentality... may be that is embedded in our brains and i see a connection to the herds of bison crossing the savannas...
Today i read an article in the newspaper giving the Muslim's view point of the terrorism in the country... in short a few black sheep have soiled the impression of the whole herd. So what can be done about it??? Why dont we attack the root cause and remove the Jehad clause from Islamism?? How can any war be ever holy?? What, as a people, are they trying to prove by killing non-muslims?? And now the situation of Muslims is even worse... now they are targetting themselves as is seen by the act of terrorism in Delhi and Islamabad carried out by the "Indian Mujahideen" (pathetic) on fellow muslims. Had there been an independent thought process all would have questioned the clause... who wrote the book anyways?? what were his qualifications and what is its credibility in todays context?? Many people might be hurt by these statements... i can only ask them to think independently...write their own book, for themselves. My views about Hinduism are the same btw, and for all religions... the other day i was asking a friend of mine her reasons for fasting for a month... she said thats what they do in Jainism....hello? why are u denying yourself? this Q shud have been asked by her instead of me... This is the reason why i am not religious, nor very spiritual...
Why dont people question???
BTW all these correlations, similarities and analogies between seemingly different topics is also a result of brain activity....amazing piece of evolutionary engineering!!!
NFS Carbon has three types of cars, the Tuners: which can be tuned to give good performance; the Muscle: which have raw horse power and give u good straight line acceleration plus speed but nothing else; the Exotics: which are costly but look good and will perform depending on the players skills (My Fav - Tuners!!). In these types also there are three level of cars.. the tier 1,2 and 3.. each tier better than the previous one such that a fully modified tier one car will not be able to beat a tier 3 car...
THE evolution of brain has given analogous results.... the primitive brain is an unmodified tier one tuner car, good for nothing except the most basic sensory and effector functions. It will sense a danger and run for it. The next level of brain resides in higher animals and regulates and controls an increasingly complex gene machine, thats the body...its like the ECU of a sports car (albeit much better) which has to control a lot of functions at the same time. The Tier 3 brain is the HUMAN BRAIN. It is good at sensing danger, but better at avoiding it and even better at preventing it altogether. If it cant do that, it will "scout" better ways to escape (like the design of a cheetah,built for speed - might sound ironic but makes sense to me); else it will make sure that a "cooldown" spot is near by (like the absolute camouflage of stick insect!!), and it will always have a store of "nitrous" (The sprint of a lion!!) and "speedbreaker" (the stink of a skunk!!) for emergencies...(some terms would be understood only by people familiar with carbon - i wont go into those terms!! You will also notice that there are "semicolons" and "elses" in my "syntax" thats the c programmer in me blogging!!! :-) )
In the Humans also there are different tiers of brains....some are unmodified tier 3 Tuners!!! the saddest of em all. The best are ofcourse the fully enhanced Tier 3 Tuners!!.... Some are like the fully modified Tier 3 Muscle.... fantastic straight line acceleration but inflexible - read orthodox or brainwashed; unable to think or digest new information or memes - (some PhD guides can be that way, all terrorists also fall in the same category!!). These brains are excellent databases, they make excellent backups, once data is put into them it cant be erased nor new data put into them, there will never be any redundancy here and theres absolutely zero processing power!! (Yeah i take my Introduction to Database Systems course seriously!!)
This zero processing power unfortunately is quite widespread, for example my roommate has stuck some wierd symbol and geometric pattern on the wall just above his little worship corner, he says they are the symbols of Lord Hanuman and on meditating on that he recieves positive energy and better concentration. I pointed out that even if he meditated on a point on the opposite wall he will improve concentration and feel good (that is positive energy)..... he understood that and digested it... he is a tuner and i am thankful of that...
Some times i wonder what has happened to independent thought... why wont peole think about what they are doing and why they are doing it...Where are all the Howard Roarks?? The ability to question is inherent to Human Brain... it doesnt matter if a person is rural or urban, he/she must question, none the less rural people are more superstitious than urban... how strong is peer pressure a factor here?? When does a Human Brain "forget" to question?? Mind that i use the word "forget" not "lose" since the brain never loses the ability to question as is evident from the inspiring oratory speeches given by bent minds to bend more minds... there the normal peole start questioning and turn into a mob and then we see a more complex social behavior as a result of what is called as mob mentality... may be that is embedded in our brains and i see a connection to the herds of bison crossing the savannas...
Today i read an article in the newspaper giving the Muslim's view point of the terrorism in the country... in short a few black sheep have soiled the impression of the whole herd. So what can be done about it??? Why dont we attack the root cause and remove the Jehad clause from Islamism?? How can any war be ever holy?? What, as a people, are they trying to prove by killing non-muslims?? And now the situation of Muslims is even worse... now they are targetting themselves as is seen by the act of terrorism in Delhi and Islamabad carried out by the "Indian Mujahideen" (pathetic) on fellow muslims. Had there been an independent thought process all would have questioned the clause... who wrote the book anyways?? what were his qualifications and what is its credibility in todays context?? Many people might be hurt by these statements... i can only ask them to think independently...write their own book, for themselves. My views about Hinduism are the same btw, and for all religions... the other day i was asking a friend of mine her reasons for fasting for a month... she said thats what they do in Jainism....hello? why are u denying yourself? this Q shud have been asked by her instead of me... This is the reason why i am not religious, nor very spiritual...
Why dont people question???
BTW all these correlations, similarities and analogies between seemingly different topics is also a result of brain activity....amazing piece of evolutionary engineering!!!
Monday, September 15, 2008
Brain and Dimensions.
Human brain has not evolved to visualise,understand or grasp things like extra dimensions and for good reason... we dont encounter extra dimensions in our struggle for survival.
Well these are my ideas on visualising extra dimensions and this may be as far as possible from real physics that we understand today.... so if you dont agree, feel free not to comment and close this tab in your browser window (And if u use the silly IE the close the window all together!!!).
When a cube of clay is pressed into a wall, it will flatten out into a paper thin plate. This happens because 1 dimension is being deleted from the system. The particles constituting the clay cube travel along the 2 available axes and we get a 2D object. Now imagine a system of infinite axes.... for doing this just make instead of 2 axes infinite axes of any shape in any direction.... so the axes can be curved,have vertices or can be srtaight, curved, have sharp bends and peaks all in the same time!!! (Pun intended :-) for those who didnt understand the pun, time is the 4th diemsion!!) Now we take our clay cube and press it into this system of infinite dimensions... as happened before, this time also we see that particles of our clay cube travel in the directions of different axes and in the end we get an nD object which may look like a crumpled ball of paper.... or something else depending on the axes...
If these dimensions are present then their effect can be seen only from the nano level down cause its the particles constituting the system that use these axes. Maybe brownian motion is nothing but movement of atoms and molecules in these axes. Thus for absolute entropy all we need is a system with infinite dimensions.
These dimensions are all pervading and omniscent and so the proteins in my blodd move in brownian motion whether or not i am in motion. However at macro level my body is moving in the 3D space that i am familiar with but all my particles are moving in all the dimension with its many axes.
The brain only analyses the motion of the macro system of praticles which is restricted to 3D only, though the particles may be moving along multiple axes... and therefore our inability to comprehend multiple dimensions.
Who knows may be the best equiped organism to understand such dimensions can be microorganisms. For a tiger to catch a deer, understanding of 3D space is enough, but for an E.coli to catch its glucose molecule, which is under brownian motion, it needs to understand those axes... to trap the molecules it needs to atleast come in the way of a glucose molecule moving along a particular axis if not bend the axis, who knows ???? IT is not yet known why a bacteria moves in a particular direction if motile, but a lot of things in that microbe is not at random and a lot many things are definitely directed, so who knows!!! what the mighty humams fail to understand might be grasped to the hilt by measly microbes!!!
Well these are my ideas on visualising extra dimensions and this may be as far as possible from real physics that we understand today.... so if you dont agree, feel free not to comment and close this tab in your browser window (And if u use the silly IE the close the window all together!!!).
When a cube of clay is pressed into a wall, it will flatten out into a paper thin plate. This happens because 1 dimension is being deleted from the system. The particles constituting the clay cube travel along the 2 available axes and we get a 2D object. Now imagine a system of infinite axes.... for doing this just make instead of 2 axes infinite axes of any shape in any direction.... so the axes can be curved,have vertices or can be srtaight, curved, have sharp bends and peaks all in the same time!!! (Pun intended :-) for those who didnt understand the pun, time is the 4th diemsion!!) Now we take our clay cube and press it into this system of infinite dimensions... as happened before, this time also we see that particles of our clay cube travel in the directions of different axes and in the end we get an nD object which may look like a crumpled ball of paper.... or something else depending on the axes...
If these dimensions are present then their effect can be seen only from the nano level down cause its the particles constituting the system that use these axes. Maybe brownian motion is nothing but movement of atoms and molecules in these axes. Thus for absolute entropy all we need is a system with infinite dimensions.
These dimensions are all pervading and omniscent and so the proteins in my blodd move in brownian motion whether or not i am in motion. However at macro level my body is moving in the 3D space that i am familiar with but all my particles are moving in all the dimension with its many axes.
The brain only analyses the motion of the macro system of praticles which is restricted to 3D only, though the particles may be moving along multiple axes... and therefore our inability to comprehend multiple dimensions.
Who knows may be the best equiped organism to understand such dimensions can be microorganisms. For a tiger to catch a deer, understanding of 3D space is enough, but for an E.coli to catch its glucose molecule, which is under brownian motion, it needs to understand those axes... to trap the molecules it needs to atleast come in the way of a glucose molecule moving along a particular axis if not bend the axis, who knows ???? IT is not yet known why a bacteria moves in a particular direction if motile, but a lot of things in that microbe is not at random and a lot many things are definitely directed, so who knows!!! what the mighty humams fail to understand might be grasped to the hilt by measly microbes!!!
Everybody Loves Music...
We realise the importance of anything after we have lost it or are far away from it or are being denied it... I realised what music was after i rediscovered it... After i lost my Sony mp3 player life was not so bad... Ok the time spent travelling was real boring and the night time just before sleep was disturbingly quite, still life moved on....
But with my new Philips mp3 player..... its too good.... like being reborn maybe.....
A tired stressful day, 1 session of your fav music and the worlds at peace!!! Give 2 tests every monday morning and with the player pluged into my ear in the night my system reboots, ready for another week!!! Sitting in front of the PC (which i do a lot lately) getting some music in my head is always good!!!
But a bigger Q is, why is music such a need for humans??? I havent yet disovered its evolutionary significance... is there any... why are humans so bound to music... Why does music have the effect it does on the brain....?? Does this happen with animals also???
I havent yet met a person who didnt like music....people dont like choclates (unreal man!!!), i dont like mangoes, but everyone loves music... Why is it that - Everybody Loves Music...???!!!...
But with my new Philips mp3 player..... its too good.... like being reborn maybe.....
A tired stressful day, 1 session of your fav music and the worlds at peace!!! Give 2 tests every monday morning and with the player pluged into my ear in the night my system reboots, ready for another week!!! Sitting in front of the PC (which i do a lot lately) getting some music in my head is always good!!!
But a bigger Q is, why is music such a need for humans??? I havent yet disovered its evolutionary significance... is there any... why are humans so bound to music... Why does music have the effect it does on the brain....?? Does this happen with animals also???
I havent yet met a person who didnt like music....people dont like choclates (unreal man!!!), i dont like mangoes, but everyone loves music... Why is it that - Everybody Loves Music...???!!!...
Monday, September 8, 2008
Happy Teacher's Day...
Its a tradition of bioinformatics centre that we organise a small get together on teacher's day... and its the MSc 1 who do the organising... and so on 1st the MSc 2 CR came to me and told me i had to do all this organising and stuff....me??? me??? why??? well i announced in my class that we had to this program and that it was a class activity and those who want to volunteer can please do so....
Nobody had much of an interest...(read: not one of em volunteered man not one of em...) So i decided that may be i'll do what i can. Me and the girl CR....CRni as shes called...Shraddha, were the only one, it seems, who were interested.... me a bit under pressure.... anyways....
So what are the things that need to be done:
Send invites to all profs....get their email Ids first...30 of em...??? yeah... will all come??? no. how many will turn up? generally 4-5 come up. Great... BTW 5th sep is not a hol and we had lectures.... so when will we hold the do??? so go to Director and ask for a free time slot..."We will not, in any condition, compromise on lectures and course work"....categoric!!!
all this was taking place on 2nd....3rd was ganesh chaturthi...hol.... and bascically on 2nd not much work was done since only me and CRni were on it....4th sep.... now i started feeling the heat majorly, nothing concrete was decided or done..... what are we going to do in the get together???
first....saraswati puja....some small program.... singing by girls (Anasuya and Sonal did a good job), Poem reciting... the poem was written by Divya and it was alo excellent.... then a bit of student teacher interaction...we asked Director mam to share her experiences with her profs and to tell her experiences with former students....
Food: Decide menu.... how much to buy, how much to serve and when to place orders....
We decided on veg pattis, with wafers, sweet(kaju katl/ri) and tea....
The orders were given by me and CRni....though pranav was put on the job, CRni handeled it...
Now gifts....1 big gift for the dept. we bought a Ganpati wall hanging after a lot of indescision it was a coin toss which clinched the gift.... and what to give to individual teachers...it should be personalised and not readymade....makes things complicated......on 4th night people in the class started waking up to the fact that we needed help and thankfully rose to the occasion....in a short while we had made individual bookmarks for teachers....Dhiraj did a FANTASTIC job here.....damn good...he's a natural with colours....
For compering Divya CRni and Satpreet came forward and did what was required.... Anasuya, Daksha, Pradnya and Pranav helped in loads of ways.... I did the running around....filling up of gaps....coordinating people on what to do...and doing a lot of it myself!!!
5th sep, D day....6 hours lecture!!! then...on the terrace...i got 3 jhaadus and we cleaned the terrace... i also got my clean bedsheet... to be used as a table cloth for keeping the Saraswati murti.... the girls made a rangoli, fantstic job they did.... 7 profs came, 6 from non teaching staff and 1 guest who is from vietnam doing her project with Director mam, seniors and us...the terrace was pretty filled...the function went without a hitch....no probs whatsoever, except the hungry seniors....we asked the Director mam to cut a cake.... people had their fill, then went.... later the seniors also went back.... We stayed back in the terrace, had loads of fun and later cleared up and we also left....
All in all it was a good program, seniors also appreciated it and i was happy in the end....
My and CRnis role in it was as a organiser, planner, executer and also as a coordinator. and so all in all it was a pretty good experience, tiring but rewarding and though it was full of tension it was also loads of fun!!!
Nobody had much of an interest...(read: not one of em volunteered man not one of em...) So i decided that may be i'll do what i can. Me and the girl CR....CRni as shes called...Shraddha, were the only one, it seems, who were interested.... me a bit under pressure.... anyways....
So what are the things that need to be done:
Send invites to all profs....get their email Ids first...30 of em...??? yeah... will all come??? no. how many will turn up? generally 4-5 come up. Great... BTW 5th sep is not a hol and we had lectures.... so when will we hold the do??? so go to Director and ask for a free time slot..."We will not, in any condition, compromise on lectures and course work"....categoric!!!
all this was taking place on 2nd....3rd was ganesh chaturthi...hol.... and bascically on 2nd not much work was done since only me and CRni were on it....4th sep.... now i started feeling the heat majorly, nothing concrete was decided or done..... what are we going to do in the get together???
first....saraswati puja....some small program.... singing by girls (Anasuya and Sonal did a good job), Poem reciting... the poem was written by Divya and it was alo excellent.... then a bit of student teacher interaction...we asked Director mam to share her experiences with her profs and to tell her experiences with former students....
Food: Decide menu.... how much to buy, how much to serve and when to place orders....
We decided on veg pattis, with wafers, sweet(kaju katl/ri) and tea....
The orders were given by me and CRni....though pranav was put on the job, CRni handeled it...
Now gifts....1 big gift for the dept. we bought a Ganpati wall hanging after a lot of indescision it was a coin toss which clinched the gift.... and what to give to individual teachers...it should be personalised and not readymade....makes things complicated......on 4th night people in the class started waking up to the fact that we needed help and thankfully rose to the occasion....in a short while we had made individual bookmarks for teachers....Dhiraj did a FANTASTIC job here.....damn good...he's a natural with colours....
For compering Divya CRni and Satpreet came forward and did what was required.... Anasuya, Daksha, Pradnya and Pranav helped in loads of ways.... I did the running around....filling up of gaps....coordinating people on what to do...and doing a lot of it myself!!!
5th sep, D day....6 hours lecture!!! then...on the terrace...i got 3 jhaadus and we cleaned the terrace... i also got my clean bedsheet... to be used as a table cloth for keeping the Saraswati murti.... the girls made a rangoli, fantstic job they did.... 7 profs came, 6 from non teaching staff and 1 guest who is from vietnam doing her project with Director mam, seniors and us...the terrace was pretty filled...the function went without a hitch....no probs whatsoever, except the hungry seniors....we asked the Director mam to cut a cake.... people had their fill, then went.... later the seniors also went back.... We stayed back in the terrace, had loads of fun and later cleared up and we also left....
All in all it was a good program, seniors also appreciated it and i was happy in the end....
My and CRnis role in it was as a organiser, planner, executer and also as a coordinator. and so all in all it was a pretty good experience, tiring but rewarding and though it was full of tension it was also loads of fun!!!
Against all odds... My First Road Trip!!!
The odds were against me right from the start. Ok, what are the odds that i would be stuck in between 2 absolute strangers, in a stalled auto, on a flyover, going to a place i dont know forget evern been to, with pouring rain and me absolutely wet even inside the damn auto!!! a million to one??? The day i was to leave pune to go to mumbai and get the scooter was 1 in a million!!! The trip in the volvo was horrible... my pants were wet, the AC was set at 21 degrees.... brrrr (am cold, not burping!!) the only good thing was that they had put jaane tu ya jaane na.... which is a movie i really like!!!
I finally reached mumbai... at 1130 in the night. It was predecided that me and dad would leave at around 2 next afternoon and hit the road early so as to reach pune by evening so dad can return by volvo in the night.
With a few pre road trip preparations (like installing the spare wheel, filling up fuel and checking air pressure, and buying a bottle of chyawanprash) we were ready and Hit the road by 2:15...
Vehicle: Honda Eterno 150 (150cc engine, 4 stroke, single cylinder,4 Gears, 8.5 bhp, loads of torque, and even more trust)
Km reading: 11516 on the odo.
Distance: 113 km
Estimated time: 3 hrs with an average speed of 50kmph.
Weather: Couldnt have been better!!!
Traffic Conitions: It was Ganesh Chaturthi... every one was at home.... absolutely open roads!!!
BUT.... this day was also 1 in a million (What are the odds that there will be 2 days consequetive both 1 in a million???!!! after all the odds are stacked against me remember??!!)... We had cleared the toll naka on the old highway and were doing pretty good with lush fields on both sides, good scenery in the distance, cool wind, when the weather started deteriorating. It started to rain slightly and so we put on our windcheaters but the rain clouds were hovering and soon it started raining heavily. Visibility was reduced drastically and it wasnt wise to ride on so we stopped at a petrol pump and waited for the rain to stop... and we waited....and waited...and waited and waited...and waited some more....and waited some more..... we took this unscheduled stop for a whole 45 minutes!!!! this stop was 7 km before Khopoli, the lonavala khandala ghats not even touched yet...we still had to do 67 km to pune and the rains wouldnt stop......
Well the rate decreased and we were on the road.... by the time we touched khopoli, the rain had stopped and guess the irony of it all....clear blue skies and sun!!! now what are the odds for that???!!! well i was thankful of the weather.... and we touched the ghats.....
And this is where Eterno showed its brilliance.... there was an apache and a pulsar going up....and my Eterno was giving them a tough one!!! it didnt falter even once.... stood strong in 2nd and 3rd gear and even with a pillion and some luggage it went real smooth..... not a single hitch.... amazing piece of engineering man...love this machine!!!
We joined the expressway in the ghats region...and i was feeling really wierd being on a scooter on the expressway but it allowed me to open the throttle and touch a constant 55kmph.... i was even taking turns at 55kmph.... and the one tunnel was amazing.... but but but.....
This day was 1 in a million right??? Now what are the odds that u will be stopped just outside the expressway exit and fined 100 bucks for not having a PUC certificate and that too by the lonavala traffic police??? (Lonavala traffic police?? helloo???)Well dad had to shell out 100 bucks here.....(the first thing i did in pune with my Eterno was get it a PUC it deserved!!!). With the ghats cleared we hit the plains behind the western ghats.... smooth straight roads with not a single pot hole even in the rainy season!!! beautiful.... India is progressing definitely!!! good for that.... I was doing a constant 60kmph here to make up for the lost time and speed...
Eterno rides like a dream....dead stable, good torque, i was overtaking other riders and cars and trucks effortlessly and speed whenever u need it.... Plus a comfortable riding position... Now all u need is a long distance and good tarmac....and we had that.... Soon we reached the outskirts of Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad, From here to University is around 30-40 min depending on the traffic... Luckily the traffic wasnt very heavy and we did good time and finally reached the university around 6:15 in the evening....
And so my first ever road trip ended..... Beautiful !!!
I showed dad around my hostel, room (seems to me he wasnt impressed but i am perfectly fine here... may be he should see the baroda hostel....aditya, man... no offence!!!), introduced him to my friends, room-mates, had something to eat in the NCCS canteen and dropped him till Parihar chowk from where he took the volve back home!!!
And so the day ended and so does this blog!!!
I finally reached mumbai... at 1130 in the night. It was predecided that me and dad would leave at around 2 next afternoon and hit the road early so as to reach pune by evening so dad can return by volvo in the night.
With a few pre road trip preparations (like installing the spare wheel, filling up fuel and checking air pressure, and buying a bottle of chyawanprash) we were ready and Hit the road by 2:15...
Vehicle: Honda Eterno 150 (150cc engine, 4 stroke, single cylinder,4 Gears, 8.5 bhp, loads of torque, and even more trust)
Km reading: 11516 on the odo.
Distance: 113 km
Estimated time: 3 hrs with an average speed of 50kmph.
Weather: Couldnt have been better!!!
Traffic Conitions: It was Ganesh Chaturthi... every one was at home.... absolutely open roads!!!
BUT.... this day was also 1 in a million (What are the odds that there will be 2 days consequetive both 1 in a million???!!! after all the odds are stacked against me remember??!!)... We had cleared the toll naka on the old highway and were doing pretty good with lush fields on both sides, good scenery in the distance, cool wind, when the weather started deteriorating. It started to rain slightly and so we put on our windcheaters but the rain clouds were hovering and soon it started raining heavily. Visibility was reduced drastically and it wasnt wise to ride on so we stopped at a petrol pump and waited for the rain to stop... and we waited....and waited...and waited and waited...and waited some more....and waited some more..... we took this unscheduled stop for a whole 45 minutes!!!! this stop was 7 km before Khopoli, the lonavala khandala ghats not even touched yet...we still had to do 67 km to pune and the rains wouldnt stop......
Well the rate decreased and we were on the road.... by the time we touched khopoli, the rain had stopped and guess the irony of it all....clear blue skies and sun!!! now what are the odds for that???!!! well i was thankful of the weather.... and we touched the ghats.....
And this is where Eterno showed its brilliance.... there was an apache and a pulsar going up....and my Eterno was giving them a tough one!!! it didnt falter even once.... stood strong in 2nd and 3rd gear and even with a pillion and some luggage it went real smooth..... not a single hitch.... amazing piece of engineering man...love this machine!!!
We joined the expressway in the ghats region...and i was feeling really wierd being on a scooter on the expressway but it allowed me to open the throttle and touch a constant 55kmph.... i was even taking turns at 55kmph.... and the one tunnel was amazing.... but but but.....
This day was 1 in a million right??? Now what are the odds that u will be stopped just outside the expressway exit and fined 100 bucks for not having a PUC certificate and that too by the lonavala traffic police??? (Lonavala traffic police?? helloo???)Well dad had to shell out 100 bucks here.....(the first thing i did in pune with my Eterno was get it a PUC it deserved!!!). With the ghats cleared we hit the plains behind the western ghats.... smooth straight roads with not a single pot hole even in the rainy season!!! beautiful.... India is progressing definitely!!! good for that.... I was doing a constant 60kmph here to make up for the lost time and speed...
Eterno rides like a dream....dead stable, good torque, i was overtaking other riders and cars and trucks effortlessly and speed whenever u need it.... Plus a comfortable riding position... Now all u need is a long distance and good tarmac....and we had that.... Soon we reached the outskirts of Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad, From here to University is around 30-40 min depending on the traffic... Luckily the traffic wasnt very heavy and we did good time and finally reached the university around 6:15 in the evening....
And so my first ever road trip ended..... Beautiful !!!
I showed dad around my hostel, room (seems to me he wasnt impressed but i am perfectly fine here... may be he should see the baroda hostel....aditya, man... no offence!!!), introduced him to my friends, room-mates, had something to eat in the NCCS canteen and dropped him till Parihar chowk from where he took the volve back home!!!
And so the day ended and so does this blog!!!
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