A Letter to Appraisal

My dear appraisal,

Where are you ? I am badly missing you ? you promised me last time that you will come on right time this year,but what the hack ? you are eight months late ? are you annoyed ? somebody misbehaved with you ? what happened ? wife pregnant ? mom scolding ? dad not letting you go ?
bade papa busy ?

see,last time you solved almost my all the problems, but you know what happened when you left ?
these problems arise -

-Sister wants to get married
-Brother wants to do a MBA from a reputed institute
-I want to buy a car
-Wife wants to go on a holiday abroad
and list goes on and on and on...

Worlds seems sad without you,I am sad without you, I have seen the faces who jam with you,bright, full of positive energy, look at me, I am dull, no energy left, no motivation
come to me baby, come to me

your buddy
Addie

बात बीज की है...

बात बीज की है ...

चाहत का बीज है आकर्षण
प्रीत का बीज है अर्पण
सौंदर्य का बीज है दर्पण
समय का बीज है क्षण
दीपावली का बीज है श्रवण

न होता श्रवण कुमार
न सजती राम की लीला
न जलते दीप
न होता ज्योति का सिलसिला

श्रवण कुमार.. एक दीपक
जो अपने माँ बाप की ज्योति था
सारी रामायण का जनक वह
दीपावली का बीज था

जब बीज मिटने को तैयार हो जाये अंकुर उसी क्षण आ जाता है
बीज का बीज है - त्याग
श्रवण कुमार का त्याग रामायण की शुरुआत थी
तभी तो रामायण और दीपवाली त्याग से ओत-प्रोत हैं
श्रवण,दशरथ ,कौशल्या,राम,सीता,भरत,लक्ष्मण,हनुमान...
यहाँ तक की नन्हे दीपक भी त्याग का दर्शन देते हैं

"इस दीपावली अपने बीज को खोजें
श्रवण बने
एक त्याग करें
अपने दीपावली के बीज स्वय बने |"

-धरम सज्जन ट्रस्ट [ transliteration by - Adil Amir ]

Pachmarhi-A trip to Backwoods

Panchmadi or Pachmarhi ? the name was really a confusion so was I, to go or not,after a lot of pressure and a mind boiling discussion I said "Yes ! Lets Go ".
I donno why I denied first and Said YES after, this cost me a cancellation charge and too much of headache.
Train was on 7 Pm from Jaipur we decided to reach at railway station at 6 pm [ we were there on 6:30 now you can imagine what if we told them to come on 6:30]

Asish, Harendra,Manoj picked me from PP and we picked Nitin from his home,the whole family was on the gate saying bbye to GHAR KA BACCHA ;) this kind of ritual ( yes its a ritual for me, my family never do these things ) was very rare to me.

Auto was JAM PACKED five persons were already in it and we were going to pick another one, GOSH !
Mr. Himanshu Saxena, but i was not stressed cause I know thin as thread Mr. Saxena will not take much place to sit so we picked Mr. Saxena and through to Railway station.

I really wants to say THANKS to Deepak who bring Sampat ki Aaloo wali Kachori and Namkin,it was too hot and too delicious,if you are planing to visit dont forget to taste SAMPAT KI KACHORI in old jaipur.

As you know I was in a nodding postion for this journey and my ticket was cancelled so I bought [ or you can say Harendra ] a general ticket to Itarsi.
The plan was this that we will goto Itarsi by train and take another train to Pipariya,Pipariya is the nearest station to Pachmarhi.

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We board on the train,our Dabba [ coach ] was a old one and in bad condition and I really hate when I get a old coach cause I am 6.1 Feet and the old ones are not for me and if you are on RAC life at its worst.
we had six seats in that dabba and all were on RAC and seriously it was hell but there was a special attraction to decrease the frustration, a CAMPER, yes a CAMPER full of Vodka,mixed with Limca and Ice [ Caution : I am not alchoholic,for us there were soft drinks too ]

I had a strange thing with me when I am on a train journey I always got a THARKI accompanying me, and my luck was on full charm and I got one here too,my god that man was really impossible [ I think he was gay ] he passes some terrible comments and trying to flirt with me... haha
we played antakshri with that tharki budda [ he was TUNN too ] singing beautiful songs in a very or really very terrible loud voice,an uncle ji came and warn us to keep our mouth mm,we were suddenly MUTED and the fun ends on a bad note and impression.

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I was very tired I exchanged my birth [ Berth - a place to seat and sleep not that birth rascal ( its a joke guys bare with it do not sms me abt correcting this) ]with Hemant,he was in in other dabba and that dabba was a gud one, I got UPPER BIRTH and went to sleep.
The journey by train is hell if you are 'sensitive of sound' what I mean is when a train passes by your train it feels like a bullet just passed near to ur ear oh ! such a bad feeling and the noise of tracks, I can't bear that so I used a noise reducing ear plug and TAN TANA...

What can happen when you are owned by a pressurized Potty early in morning ? and no toilet available ? I bet you will love to die instead of shitting in your pants and by the grace of god that terrible thing happend to me and I was on full mercy of god suddenly the gate of heaven opened and a beautiful fat angel aunty ji was out, giving me a smile with a note " Andar bahut Ganda hai " and I was like " Ok Aunty ji I will handle that, just give me the fucking way so I can go in and shit my head out".the Kachori's of Sampat were eager to come out.

When you have too much pressure in your head and in your ass you forget the mandatory things you will ask ? what mandatory ? so guys I forgot to bring the Bottle for washing my potty and there was no bottle available. GOSH now what to do ? thankfully my mobile was there with me [ I play NFS & TAKKEN on it and pass my time in toilet, sounds wired ? I know ! ] I called Hemant and he arranged a bottle for me.

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What will you call a man who goes in train toliet without any slippers or shoes ? answers is Vivek Pal Singh.this is not a one liner on vivek this is a hard bitter truth,yes guys yes, I've seen him using train toilet bare footed and no washing hand after.
The first reaction was OH MY GOD ! and I know its ur reaction too..well what can u do ? u can just tell others abt this super unhygienic thing.

My sound sleep was broken by "Chai Chai " in Bhopal. I saw Anupam asking for milk on a tea stall I asked him why milk ? he said " Bina milk ke Hamara Pressure nahi banta hai " and I was like ROFLMAO or u can say Rolling on platform laughing my ass out.

The Tunnels were beautiful so were the forest in the way to Bhopal and Itarsi,Tawa River what can I say " Ma Tawa tera pani nirmal kal kal behto aayo re" B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L

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We reached at Itarsi station at 9:30 am sharp we had to catch a train to Pipariya so we bought general tickets,the train was mumbai hawra.

I have never traveled in General Class this was my first experience,The general bogi was not only jam packed u can say there was no room for air to pass...your nose will touch other person's nose, I denied I will not board.
But my two three colleagues made their way to that shithole [ sorry for the language but what I have seen is what I am describing ]
Suddenly I saw Manoj making his way to the bogi for Disabled [ Kewal Viklango ke liye ] and I was shocked I ran to him told him that this is an offense you will charged by a heavy fine and prison, suddenly a person who was standing beside me said " Bhaiyya Ji hum to Bhaut durr se isi mein aa rahe hain ".

The Idea was this when train stop don't let ur ass found on that dabba,just come on platform and wait.Asish and others just started to convincing me for this,Pipariya was the next station from Itarsi so I was ready to take this risk.
suddenly train started to move and I jumped like a frog in that bogi.

I was feeling very bad that how I just occupy a place for disable the guilt was just too much,Me asish manoj harendra deepak and hemant were partners in crime.
There were around more than 100 person in that compartment and wanna know how many disabled in them ? just 5-6 ppl. strange na ?

I saw a small kids sitting near my feet I adjust a little and sit beside him I asked his name, he told " RamSukkha".
" Kaha se Ho ?" I asked,
"Jharkhand" was the answer
"Yaha kya kar rahe ho?"
"DP ke liye aaya tha ab ghar jaa raha hoon " [ DP is some kind of Labor work ]
"Kitna kamate ho mahine ka" [ I donno why I asked this question may be I was comparing my appraisal with his salary, funny me ]
but the answer was just shocking what he said was " 200/- Rupiya Mahina" and I was like "What ?"
me just turned myself into silent profile nobody can listen but the vibrations were ON.

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Pipariya to Pachmarhi was around 60 KM we hired a Bolero for that trip the driver was Saleem Khan a pure typical MP man and the language was fun.
We hired him in 700 bucks with two sightseeing. he agreed and we were ON to Pachmarhi.
The road was gud,the scenes were gud , Mother earth was smiling from her green blanket and Mr. Saleem what can I say, quite a character.

I want to mention one thing that Pachmarhi is not a very high hill station its just 1000 meters high and if you have been to Himachal, Pachmarhi is no fun for you.
The rainy season making Pachmarhi special and beautiful but I bet in other season its not worth the money.

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Day 1 in Pachmarhi
to be continued...