And yes, this current tone of narration really seems convenient... so put up with it for some more time. [:P]
11.30 am
Alarm rings.
Nothing extraordinary about it.
Has been ringing for the last 4 hours.
Now phone rings.
Sandy.
"Blah blah...Hangar @ 1pm"
Checklisk:
Have to copy a predecided set of questions.
Have to find a wearable pair of clothes.
Have to interview Mr. VG.
Have to eat sumthing.
Have to shit.
HAVE TO HAVE A BATH!
Not necessarily in that order.
12pm:
Crossed numbers 1, 5 and 6.
6 feels nice.
2 shouldnt be that difficult.
3 will take its own sweet time.
Hmmm... 4...
Try to get Krishna and Dhawan to hurry up and run to Sahara.
Krishna *halo around his head* declares its time for his own No. 6.
Dhawan has no such pressing needs.
Krishna: " Order blah blah for me. Godspeed."
Me thinking: *If looks could kill*
12.20 pm: Sahara
Two months ago, the Sahara ppl would have shouted 'do aloo paratha' to the kitchen by themselves.
Not today.
Times change.
Duhh... senti kaata.
1pm
Ditch the others and run from Sahara explaining how running after eating hastens the metabolic rate and helps the protoplasm and cytoplasm convert the lipoprotein and bucolic acid to the more somatophilic glucocytes.
Okay... eyebrows down please.
1.10pm: Hangar
Bloody hot.
Perspiring like anything.
Cant interview VG this way.
Search the whole of Nehru museum for one single teeny weeny aquaguard.
:(
Hmm...Idea.
Go to remote sensing center.
Flash I card in FBI ishtyle.
"Dada I'm the blah blah, I'll neet to blah blah. You mind if I use your sofa for some time?"
Well...[:D]
1.30pm:
Enter Sandy.
Enter VG's cavalcade.
Hoohaa gorgeous beauties on view.
"Dont gape. Dont gape. Dont gape"
Ford Mondeo was the best I'd say.
Okay... no interview here then.
Take Sandy on a guided tour of Remote Sensing Center.
Still very hot.
Sometimes, it shouldnt be Sunny all the way.
Just sometimes.
:P
2pm: RK
Go to Billoos.
Drink Dew.
Weather changes.
Dew really works man!
VG is supposed to land in RK at 2.30pm.
Change clothes.
Go to hall foyer.
Hall ke wadde wadde log come into view.
Update.
Mr. VG will come to RK at 3.30 pm.
And leave at 3.45 pm.
OOPS!
4 groups of ppl already queued up to get a word in with him.
DOUBLE OOPS!
2.45 pm:
Time for action.
Decide to ask VG only peaceful questions.
Apparently, VG is currently in Tech Guest House.
Dash!
2.50pm
Cycling outside Vegies.
Cavalcade again.
"Dont gape. Dont gape. Dont gape"
Tick tock. Tick tock. Tick tock.
They turn into the LLR road.
We follow.
Paparazzi? Anyone??
They go into MMM.
We go into MMM.
They alight.
We alight.
They step into a hall.
We dont.
Slight problem... dunno what VG looks like!
Photo in VGSOM is pretty old.
Approach tour manager.
Says," Mr. VG isnt here. He's in VGSOM now"
Bloody liar.
We: " Do you know where he'll go after that?"
He: "No"
Ah! Okay... maybe he was just managing his own tour.
SOB.
Tired.
But run to VGSOM.
3.10pm: VGSOM
Ask the guard.
Says VG isnt there.
F***.
Now we're reeeealy tired.
Shirt wet again.
Last resort: Go to Tech Guest House.
If that doesnt materialize... interview kaata!
3.25pm: TGH
First thing we see... Director talking on the phone outside TGH.
Okay... cool... at least this means he's in here!
Enter foyer.
Ask a fellow where VG is.
He's sitting on the sofa set with a group of people.
Fat cigar in hand.
Cuban??
Wouldnt bet against it!!
Director standing behind him with phone in hand.
Director:" Vinod, this person wants to talk to you"
VG:"Tell him I'll talk to him later on."
Director:"Achcha Vinod will call you later on"
*Swallow* This guy IS important!
Sandy goes to him with paper and introduces the two of us.
VG: "Ah! yes.... I've seen your paper"
Schol Ave had been slipped in his room in the morning with the usual paper!!
We: "Sir, we were wondering if we could get an interview with you"
VG: "Sure sure! Have a seat."
We sit.
He gets up.
Goes out.
Whoops?
Will he come back?
It was 3.30 anyways... RK time!
Sitting.
Wondering.
He comes back.
VG: "Yeah... so what can I do for you"
"Umm... sir... just answer a few questions!"
Two of his batchmates are sitting with him.
We begin asking.
Strategy: confine ourselves to only feel-good and about-the-past questions.
Now we're talking!!
Memories start flowing and we dont even need to prod him for anything more... he's flowing by himself!
Interview ends.
Business funda starts.
He starts telling us how to manage the newspaper.
How to organize the team so that its well branched out.
Tells us to get out of gymkhana and become autonomous.
Freedom of speech and expression.
He's been in America a long long time u know!!
Before we left, he gave the two of us a convocation T-shirt each.
Heard the song... 'I'll keep this feeling like a souvenir' ??!!
Alarm rings.
Nothing extraordinary about it.
Has been ringing for the last 4 hours.
Now phone rings.
Sandy.
"Blah blah...Hangar @ 1pm"
Checklisk:
Have to copy a predecided set of questions.
Have to find a wearable pair of clothes.
Have to interview Mr. VG.
Have to eat sumthing.
Have to shit.
HAVE TO HAVE A BATH!
Not necessarily in that order.
12pm:
Crossed numbers 1, 5 and 6.
6 feels nice.
2 shouldnt be that difficult.
3 will take its own sweet time.
Hmmm... 4...
Try to get Krishna and Dhawan to hurry up and run to Sahara.
Krishna *halo around his head* declares its time for his own No. 6.
Dhawan has no such pressing needs.
Krishna: " Order blah blah for me. Godspeed."
Me thinking: *If looks could kill*
12.20 pm: Sahara
Two months ago, the Sahara ppl would have shouted 'do aloo paratha' to the kitchen by themselves.
Not today.
Times change.
Duhh... senti kaata.
1pm
Ditch the others and run from Sahara explaining how running after eating hastens the metabolic rate and helps the protoplasm and cytoplasm convert the lipoprotein and bucolic acid to the more somatophilic glucocytes.
Okay... eyebrows down please.
1.10pm: Hangar
Bloody hot.
Perspiring like anything.
Cant interview VG this way.
Search the whole of Nehru museum for one single teeny weeny aquaguard.
:(
Hmm...Idea.
Go to remote sensing center.
Flash I card in FBI ishtyle.
"Dada I'm the blah blah, I'll neet to blah blah. You mind if I use your sofa for some time?"
Well...[:D]
1.30pm:
Enter Sandy.
Enter VG's cavalcade.
Hoohaa gorgeous beauties on view.
"Dont gape. Dont gape. Dont gape"
Ford Mondeo was the best I'd say.
Okay... no interview here then.
Take Sandy on a guided tour of Remote Sensing Center.
Still very hot.
Sometimes, it shouldnt be Sunny all the way.
Just sometimes.
:P
2pm: RK
Go to Billoos.
Drink Dew.
Weather changes.
Dew really works man!
VG is supposed to land in RK at 2.30pm.
Change clothes.
Go to hall foyer.
Hall ke wadde wadde log come into view.
Update.
Mr. VG will come to RK at 3.30 pm.
And leave at 3.45 pm.
OOPS!
4 groups of ppl already queued up to get a word in with him.
DOUBLE OOPS!
2.45 pm:
Time for action.
Decide to ask VG only peaceful questions.
Apparently, VG is currently in Tech Guest House.
Dash!
2.50pm
Cycling outside Vegies.
Cavalcade again.
"Dont gape. Dont gape. Dont gape"
Tick tock. Tick tock. Tick tock.
They turn into the LLR road.
We follow.
Paparazzi? Anyone??
They go into MMM.
We go into MMM.
They alight.
We alight.
They step into a hall.
We dont.
Slight problem... dunno what VG looks like!
Photo in VGSOM is pretty old.
Approach tour manager.
Says," Mr. VG isnt here. He's in VGSOM now"
Bloody liar.
We: " Do you know where he'll go after that?"
He: "No"
Ah! Okay... maybe he was just managing his own tour.
SOB.
Tired.
But run to VGSOM.
3.10pm: VGSOM
Ask the guard.
Says VG isnt there.
F***.
Now we're reeeealy tired.
Shirt wet again.
Last resort: Go to Tech Guest House.
If that doesnt materialize... interview kaata!
3.25pm: TGH
First thing we see... Director talking on the phone outside TGH.
Okay... cool... at least this means he's in here!
Enter foyer.
Ask a fellow where VG is.
He's sitting on the sofa set with a group of people.
Fat cigar in hand.
Cuban??
Wouldnt bet against it!!
Director standing behind him with phone in hand.
Director:" Vinod, this person wants to talk to you"
VG:"Tell him I'll talk to him later on."
Director:"Achcha Vinod will call you later on"
*Swallow* This guy IS important!
Sandy goes to him with paper and introduces the two of us.
VG: "Ah! yes.... I've seen your paper"
Schol Ave had been slipped in his room in the morning with the usual paper!!
We: "Sir, we were wondering if we could get an interview with you"
VG: "Sure sure! Have a seat."
We sit.
He gets up.
Goes out.
Whoops?
Will he come back?
It was 3.30 anyways... RK time!
Sitting.
Wondering.
He comes back.
VG: "Yeah... so what can I do for you"
"Umm... sir... just answer a few questions!"
Two of his batchmates are sitting with him.
We begin asking.
Strategy: confine ourselves to only feel-good and about-the-past questions.
Now we're talking!!
Memories start flowing and we dont even need to prod him for anything more... he's flowing by himself!
Interview ends.
Business funda starts.
He starts telling us how to manage the newspaper.
How to organize the team so that its well branched out.
Tells us to get out of gymkhana and become autonomous.
Freedom of speech and expression.
He's been in America a long long time u know!!
Before we left, he gave the two of us a convocation T-shirt each.
Heard the song... 'I'll keep this feeling like a souvenir' ??!!
11 comments:
yawn .... and finally zzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZ
pretty darn good i'd say ... first time i am visiting ur blog though so don't read too much into that ;) ... and nice to see you commenting on my blog ... in fact i was pretty sure u'd be the first one to do so given the opportunity ... so thanx and here i am returning the favour ... keep writing ...
@ Hari:
Thankew :)
@ Saransh:
whatever
@ Apro:
Thankew! Yeah... I remember when u used to write in ur blog abt ppl not commenting and I used to wonder why it was such a big deal to anyone that there are no comments on his blog.
Well... now i know what that feeling is!
:P
@ Anonymous:
Waah! Awesome...said so much without saying anything.
May I have the honor of knowing who's behind the garb of anonymity.
Kindly do not reply with a :P!!
The cavalcade was good...n u liked the ford mondeo !!! There were beauties in this dank, creepy place...n i dnt know !! you shud hv told me dude..
neways, nice narration...kindly change the tune in the next post. whnz the paper coming?? n yeah u shud get autonomous. you can make this paper a buzz...u know like Raid-yo !!
best of luk
Hey dude,
will you just send me kshitij's web url? I will just try to see if people here partiipate in a few competitions.
~suneet
@ Anjai:
Yup...would have told u... but i didnt want ya to have feelings for anyone other than ek-saath-do [:D]
And will change the tone in the next blog... unless its another timeline - type post :P
@Suneet:
No progress yet boss... aaj dekhte hain
good one.
Why is it that this trademark style of presenting rocks..... MAN I suppose this is your greatest creation ..... Awesum.
So are u planning to go autonomous. You should have said VG. "Sir, IIT is also autonomous. Can do anything, anytime"
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