Sunday, June 13, 2010
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Trip to Pune & Shirdi
I have been to first time to Pune to meet my borther, Sanjay. While booking tickets thought of visitng SHirdi from there, as SAI BABA is one of my favourite GOD and I believe a lot in HIM. I landed @ 11 PM in Pune airport and Sanjay came to receive me. We went to his house and met bhabi and my MOM.Seen MOM after 1.5 months, so chit chatted for sometime and bhabi introduced me thier new pet :-) Rani (cat).
Next day, I woke up and booked a cab to Shirdi. Sanjay got me some good discount for the cab through his local contacts. I started @ 12 PM to Shirdia and driver told me that it will take max 4 Hrs. And till 3:45 hrs of journey everytihng went fine and we are about to reach Shirdi,unfortunately traffic jam happened (after Bangalore most painful traffic jam seen there) and we were stuck for 2 hrs there. Finally reached Shirdi by 6 PM.
I was standing in the queue to deposit my mobile in the locker, one person standing behind me warned me that dharshan will take at least 3 HRs as it is heavily crowded. My plan went totally wrong, as thought I can do the entire trip by 10 Hrs. But anyhow I want to have SAI BABA dharshan, as it's been 2 years that I visited Shirdi. I went into the queue and had good dharshan and came out by 9 PM. After that didn't had the time to visit 'DWARAKAMAI' and 'CHAVADI'. I did some shopping as I like shopping at the pilgramage centres, as you will get some different rare items there like idols, calenders etc...
While coming back to Pune, we started @ 10 PM and I asked the driver Are you OK driving in the late night? He said he is expert and said that he can drive faster and good during nights. I initially thought he might be expert as his morning drive was OK. bUt when we started his speed never crossed 90 KMPH and for almost every cross he was close to the other vehicles and I was bit scared with his drive. Once I recollected my drive during nights on highways, where my freinds call me as geek driver during night drives. I drive generally 110 - 120 KMPH and with much controlled vision. Finally we reached Pune safely by 3 AM.
Next day myself, Sanjay and bhabi went to see the city. There are some malls near by to my brother house and we have been there. Malls are more or like Bangalore malls but the crowd is too good and much better than Bangalore crowd :-). I know Pune is fast city but never thought that it will be more than Bangalore. After seeing the crowd, my assumption went wrong. From the mall, we went to a exhibition near by and njoyed by doing some widnow shopping. We purchased some kitchen items which typically we get in exhibitions, I have been seeing this items almost from my childhood as all these kind of exhibhitions will have this items like onion smash, chips cutter :-) etc....
There we were stopped by a shop where one person is performing magic tricks. There was one magic box which contains 200 magic tricks as told by the sales man there. We took one box to give it to my elder brother kids in Bangalore. We njoyed the exhibition walk.
Next day morning my return flight to Bangalore. Myself and MOM wake up in the early morning and went to airport along with Sanjay and bhabi. As usual,there were some tears from MOM and Bhabi at the airport when we were about to leave. After Sanjay and Bhabi left, we got the announcement that flight is delayed for 2 hrs. BY mistake I put all my books in the check in bag and was sitting idle and boring. I suddenly saw the books stall which is my favourite shopping and been there. I got one good book there, which is on 'Your Next Move' in your career/ role. Concept of book is good and did the timepass by reading the book.
We came to Bangalore @ 12 PM on the same day. I parked my car in the Bangalore airport itself whcih made me easy to reach to my place without any taxi's hassales.
Overall it was nice trip and njoyed !
Next day, I woke up and booked a cab to Shirdi. Sanjay got me some good discount for the cab through his local contacts. I started @ 12 PM to Shirdia and driver told me that it will take max 4 Hrs. And till 3:45 hrs of journey everytihng went fine and we are about to reach Shirdi,unfortunately traffic jam happened (after Bangalore most painful traffic jam seen there) and we were stuck for 2 hrs there. Finally reached Shirdi by 6 PM.
I was standing in the queue to deposit my mobile in the locker, one person standing behind me warned me that dharshan will take at least 3 HRs as it is heavily crowded. My plan went totally wrong, as thought I can do the entire trip by 10 Hrs. But anyhow I want to have SAI BABA dharshan, as it's been 2 years that I visited Shirdi. I went into the queue and had good dharshan and came out by 9 PM. After that didn't had the time to visit 'DWARAKAMAI' and 'CHAVADI'. I did some shopping as I like shopping at the pilgramage centres, as you will get some different rare items there like idols, calenders etc...
While coming back to Pune, we started @ 10 PM and I asked the driver Are you OK driving in the late night? He said he is expert and said that he can drive faster and good during nights. I initially thought he might be expert as his morning drive was OK. bUt when we started his speed never crossed 90 KMPH and for almost every cross he was close to the other vehicles and I was bit scared with his drive. Once I recollected my drive during nights on highways, where my freinds call me as geek driver during night drives. I drive generally 110 - 120 KMPH and with much controlled vision. Finally we reached Pune safely by 3 AM.
Next day myself, Sanjay and bhabi went to see the city. There are some malls near by to my brother house and we have been there. Malls are more or like Bangalore malls but the crowd is too good and much better than Bangalore crowd :-). I know Pune is fast city but never thought that it will be more than Bangalore. After seeing the crowd, my assumption went wrong. From the mall, we went to a exhibition near by and njoyed by doing some widnow shopping. We purchased some kitchen items which typically we get in exhibitions, I have been seeing this items almost from my childhood as all these kind of exhibhitions will have this items like onion smash, chips cutter :-) etc....
There we were stopped by a shop where one person is performing magic tricks. There was one magic box which contains 200 magic tricks as told by the sales man there. We took one box to give it to my elder brother kids in Bangalore. We njoyed the exhibition walk.
Next day morning my return flight to Bangalore. Myself and MOM wake up in the early morning and went to airport along with Sanjay and bhabi. As usual,there were some tears from MOM and Bhabi at the airport when we were about to leave. After Sanjay and Bhabi left, we got the announcement that flight is delayed for 2 hrs. BY mistake I put all my books in the check in bag and was sitting idle and boring. I suddenly saw the books stall which is my favourite shopping and been there. I got one good book there, which is on 'Your Next Move' in your career/ role. Concept of book is good and did the timepass by reading the book.
We came to Bangalore @ 12 PM on the same day. I parked my car in the Bangalore airport itself whcih made me easy to reach to my place without any taxi's hassales.
Overall it was nice trip and njoyed !
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