there's no view from ontop of this hill

here i am, earning a steady salary, contributing to my city making a difference, upgrading government schools, developing river fronts, giving cyclists and pedestrians their rightful share of the road . . . loads of good shit. working hard, more or less regularly, and almost meticulously . . .

. . . i still manage to travel quite a bit, and the trek to zanskar was unparalleled . . .

why then do i feel the impending doom and pointlessness at every instance
why do i have to run away
why am i stuck in a inertial gel

they say you climb the mountain to see whats on the other side, strangely there seems to be none

disillusion is a part of life i have learned to believe
but drive is integral to the machine'
its strange to be headed nowhere
at no particular pace
not that i'm not used to it . . . but things change when the metophorical climb seems to be going downhill and the elation of the ascent got missed somewhere along the line . . .

. . . i want my own tree,
see it grow and fruit
wither and blossom
permanence . . . eternity . . .

lets hope there's some more climbing up ahead . . .

padum on kadum

phhew . .

just tiled all of guwahati on google earth!

new roof . .

well, i finally managed to move out of raabiya's place! chattarpur! really nice stand alone two bedroom house, just off the farmhouses, amazing atmosphere in the place, like delhi kinda missed the colony and flew by, the first night always gives testimony, and if the soundness of sleep is anything to judge by, it rocks!

done

Welcome to where time stands still
No one leaves and no one will
Moon is full, never seems to change
Just labeled mentally deranged
Dream the same thing every night
I see our freedom in my sight
No locked doors, no windows barred
No things to make my brain seem scarred

Sleep, my friend, and you will see
That dream is my reality
They keep me locked up in this cage
Can't they see it's why my brain says “rage”

Build my fear of what's out there
Cannot breathe the open air
Whisper things into my brain
Assuring me that I'm insane
They think our heads are in their hands
But violent use brings violent plans
Keep him tied, it makes him well
He's getting better, can't you tell?

No more can they keep us in
Listen, damn it, we will win
They see it right, they see it well
But they think this saves us from our hell

Just leave me alone

Fear of living on
Natives getting restless now
Mutiny in the air
Got some death to do
Mirror stares back hard
kill is such a friendly word
seems the only way
for reaching out again

to quote

i have this disconcerting feeling that its going by too quick. i realised my poor blog hasn't been posted on in all fairness, its the too many blogs syndrome. so i import, resubmit, highlight, attempt to slow down and enjoy!

so this is the brief e diary of my last trip to the tip.

from clutch

Thursday, April 27, 2006

9000
parikrama over, back to erode! its been quite a hardcore two weeks, tamil nadu and kerela make one hell of a pair! erode, kodi(yes we scored mushrooms, but dry mushrooms are fuck all you have to come in september!)then adi left for his daddy! and the pace quickened for a toddy guzzling enraged driving bout with swastik.madurai, rameshwaram, dhanush kodi, eruvadi, tuticorin, tirunelveli, nagercoil, trivandrum, enter kerela! varkala beach . . . jew town cochin . . . pannor beach, tellicherry, waynad, ooty, erode. . . awesome circle. the roads were also great leave a few!now i plan to drive up the centre, lets see how fast i can manage it! its about 2500 . . . my average has dropped to just 200 km/day since i met adi! cheers!someone post
posted by tj at 2:09 AM 1 comments
Wednesday, April 12, 2006

(-;
we're upto 3! almost managedfour but the big gada andhisoldbike couldn'tpartfrom bangalore.so now tik adi and i go further down! we've reached erode . . . adi's mansion full with blasting music, net servants dogs and aircon! the mushrooms are calling!the drive down the centre of the country was really something else! the plateau is quite spectacular! never expected such expanse . . . and then some! not to mention ajanta ellora daulatabad bijapur hampi where we decided notto bunk the entire coast and head out to gokarna . . . truely one of the virginestbeaches i have seen! golden sand transparent waves and lush green mountains crumbling stonily into the surf . . . beats the pants off goa!nh17 hasclimbed up to the top of my favouritehighways! udipi manipal managalore bangalore erode . . . the drive from banagalore to tamilnad is also something else! you can sensethe peninsula petering out bouldering southward! the last leg promises to elevate!cheers!
posted by tj at 12:35 AM 0 comments
Wednesday, March 29, 2006

4500KM AND GOING STRONG . . .
hey! with trepidation i tread on a blog worn with posting! whats up with the biketr bunch? vasant kunj gatherings . . . at moni's place in meera road, bombay. quite a contrast from cuffe parade last night! feels quite cool to have reached the fast city, and now that adis with me . . .we take on the peninsula . . !its been quite a crazy last two weeks, delhi, tonk, bundi, bhilwara, mount abu, bhuj, narain sarovar, lakhpat, kaladungar(khavda), junagadh, bagodra, baroda, daman, mumbai and tonight meera road!from hewre we go north east towards ajanta ellora and daulatabad . . . adi's bike is quite cool standard a350 god knows what that means but it rides cool. found a good mechanic in andheri set up adis bike all right, he trained it up, so broke the indicators, and break lever and stuff, also his point was worn and gearbox dry! but we seem all set to roll . . . there is so much to say, its dificult to sift thru the experiences!adi just walked in with a couple of cold beers so things are looking up!cheerstj
posted by tj at 7:20 AM 1 comments
Thursday, March 09, 2006

off . . .
finally, its something preparing for a solo trip, or maybe i'm just paranoid . . .
posted by tj at 6:46 PM 0 comments
Sunday, March 05, 2006

got 'em
the very one in the picture. quite cool, better on the outside than inside though! rearing to go . . .
posted by tj at 1:47 PM 1 comments
Friday, March 03, 2006

ideas for the bags
oye peoplewe can get some idea about the bags we are wanting to achieve from the website mentioned.www.cramster.inthe picture is that of 'stallion' - the series this comapny makes for bullets as such....it's a bangalore based firm and the bag in the picture costs about 2000 bucks.
posted by lvs at 9:57 PM 1 comments

hey babe . . . take a walk on the wild side!

sounds like a dream!
at a large scale a job may be fulfilling, i sure learn a hell of a lot, besided doing a lot for a change! but really this couldn't be the answer!

i'm designing a historic precinct and a riverside of a small town. the powertrip hardly chinks through the gaps in the sheer flood of work involved! not to mention waking up at 8 every morning! then the whole ball game of actually having to pick up your phone whenever it rings, saying goodmorning to 20 enthusiastic colleagues, i could go on . . .

3 months is too early to weigh the balance, at least i know for a fact that its not a very tilted scale anyway. boss is really cool actually and that makes it possible and worthwile!

this blog stands updated (-;

as is drags . . .

there's something about going downhill . . . the sheer fatality of the situation! security! over the bridge they call it . . . well whaterver . . .

gadi bangla aur bachhe'

not to forget the naukri!

it seems like a bit of an extreme step towards never ever getting out of this place, but if i look hard, it could be a stepping stone. none the less, i'm quite petrified of growing roots. ge plans to make 10 billion dollars here by 2010 . . . i guess thats my deadline then!

going thru all the shit i've done in the last decade or so since school is quite a wild experience . . . a bit of a drag putting it together in comprehensible/appreciable form, but the reminiscing is cool! it wasn't all faffing . . . thats kinda a relief in some vague way!

anyhow here goes i think . . . bring on the leash or saddle or whatever they strap on (-;

belated new year posting . . .

i guess its the too many blogs syndrome, i haven't posted here for months, just to make up for it, i shall be posting trip updates here as often as possible. cheers. keep the party rolling . . . : - )

the bhagirathi making its way down to tehri. 

days go by . . .

loose end . . . i'm fed up and hope u die.

sunning around almora . . . watching a free eye camp! 

kebabs

eternally ghalib kebab corner oposite lal mahal nizamuddin
but today khushboo opposite bari masjid hauz rani really impressed . . .10 bucks plate of 5 seekhs or tikkas . . . not quite the ghalibs attitude, but more wholesome, if you can apply such a wuss adjective to the bigger flesh!

earaly moring routine chex . . . at dhaba on nh24 

back . . .

and what a blast it was! 5 bikes has got to bethe ultimate power trip. fused with the meditativeness of biking in the hills . . . phew . . . thats stressing language a bit too much. my first trip into kumaon (beyond nainitalm ranikhet et al) truly magnificent. the pahari capital almora took my breath away. what a city. not to mention the obscenely cheap hash. i shall post snaps as soon as lvs has conceeded to pass them on. the 35mm's will take some time as i don't have the money to wash them! but will keep posting.

meanwhile, the german video art is coming up at apj media gallery. a retrospective of mammoth proportions featuring namjung pike . . . collossol show to say the least . . . lookin forward to it. . .
cheers
tj

off to the hills . . .

finally . . . we are off to munsiyari, utranchal! 5 bikes and an indica should be great! lvs, nadeem, hemu, jeetu, tj, madhav and joshi! here we come so watch out thc!

a more explenatory snap . . . the reflections in the gallery are really cool to play with! 

i stop dreaming of biking . . . the mexican architecture exhibition is 3 days away . . . this id a piece from crosstown traffic, from fact liverpool . . . dryden goodwyn.wait . . . putting it up was quite psycho, but well worth the effort. a 5 screen magnamopus . . . centered around slomo's of people waiting for various things, to get married, for a goal, at the airport . . . to take a snap . . . the soundtrack is also spectacular . . . climaxes and low bass . . . on the whole a subliminal piece . . . i m ust have watched it over a dozen times!  

. . . and i thoght i was important . . . 

on the way to kargil, epitomizing the region, the gompa perched on the megalith! the skys in the himalayas are almost as breathtaking as the folded plates themselves!