winter of 2k8

Aaaaaaaah. It starts at around 12 in the night, i can call it 24th dec 2008 or even 25th dec 2008.

These guys are really crazy, ya the other 5 who were supposed to go to nainital along. Since i was already scheduled to get late :), they all met after office and drank like anything before even the trip starts.
The cab driver doesn't know the way to my house, and none of them in senses, wow.
The only one in some "hosh", chodar, calls me up and i guide them to my place on phone. Finally they make it to my place.

I reach the cab and all of us just yell on the road at midnight, though gondy and murgi shouting at seeing hot gals in the cars passing by :)
Now, all of us board the CAB, me and gondy sitting at the back. Everyone was already full ( with booze o'course), i thot, well i should not miss the fun.

We had the whole stock for 3 days in the car, i started with it, and started with it, and started with it, Dint want to stop, ha ha :). Actually i did stop after a while.

Fog, phew, even driver couldn't see as far as 5m, leave us drunk bodies alone.
then we stopped at a "chai-waala" to help ourselves in the cold night. The chai was amazing and after a 10 minute stoppage, moved on.
Who the hell knew that what lies ahead. We reached a place, dunno where. There were cars and trucks all around. When asked, we came to know that it is a 12-15 km long traffic jam. First thought, "saala itna bada jam ho hi nhi sakta". reality, it was messier.

Then again after sometime the need for chai was felt and we tried another chai-wala, had a good photo session (others on the road were really fascinated to see us enjoying the traffic jam). It was around 1 am in the night. Then the clocked ticked past 2,3,4,5,6, etc etc, we still there.
It was really terrible to sit idle in the cab for so long with murgi fast asleep (due to whatever reasons). Every1 wanted to sleep and had a small nap sometime in the night itself, but i couldn't.
What could have been more horrible? Even our driven started getting bored and instead of trying to get out of the jam , he also slept. When it started paining down there by just sitting in the car, me, chodar and pahwa decided to take it on. Went quite far walking to see the real cause of traffic jam but there was nothing of that sort, just some idiots standing in wrong lanes.

Finally around 10-30 in the morning we succeeded in getting out of the place. After driving for sometime, we had a stop for breakfast at a dhaba, had "aaloo ke paranthe" with curd and chai.
btw, we had sutta breaks at our will :0

Then taking another couple of stoppages, we reached the hills. Now it started getting chilly. But Mr Thakki with his "wonderful" stories that he saw on discovery channel and some knowledge that he gained by browsing the net, entertained us alot. Meanwhile, chodar was still concentrating hard on the road instead of the hills coz he thought that admiring the nature will make him feel dizzy.

We reached Nainital finally, now the search for the hotel starts. Me and chodar go to see and finalize the things and finally we are divided into 2 groups 3-3 each and head towards our rooms. Agenda was to leave ASAP so as to enjoy the "maal (or mall, whatever) road". We got fresh and courtesy pahwa, within 30 minutes, had already clicked more that 100 photos, big photography buff he is.

Saw a mosque on the way to mall road and then we went to a church, yes it was Christmas. All of us prayed and asked god for what all we need the most, every1 must have asked for something interesting i know :)

Now, every1 feeling hungry, all find the best place out there, embassy restaurant. Food was really gr8. It was realllly cold out there, and every1 now wanted to rush back to the hotel. Gondy and me, though wanted to get there early so that we can start drinking asap.

Now, the time has come, time to party. To start with, thakki and murgi were overly enthu ki "we will sit in the lobby and drink", but when tried, almost froze.

We sat in the room in the quilts and started, yes, every1 started enjoying and chodar started with his "romaaantic" songs. These ppl also challenged me and the challenge was that " i will get drunk and tell them everything, haha, probably they forgot me, sweety huun bhai). 2 "khambe" finished within 1 hour, wow, we have gr8 capacity. But in the end, all agreed, sweety is invincible when it comes to this :) and they couldn't get the things out.

Then a round of arm-wrestling, pahwa was enthu to try it on me, i being the easiest competitor, he thought.
Ha ha, he lost twice, and still said, "ab aa saale".

They still asked me somethings that i answered, interesting topic for all and the discussion continues for another 30 minutes or so.

Then thakki slept and so did pahwa and murgi. Chodar, me and gondy went to the other room. Chodar, afraid of the quantity that he had gulped, slept quietly and me and gondy started with some "thass", with gondy telling about his love and the whole story behind it. After sometime, we all slept, with a "mission" to wake up early in the morning, so that we can go trekking.
Yes, we managed to wake up early, thakki woke up with a hangover. Nonetheless, we all get ready to trek. We started and in less than 10 minutes, chodar was exhausted and wanted to rest. We decided to take a short-cut and took the stairs, the stairs were like hell, so steep that just 20-25 stairs broke all of us, and chodar, who had to rest after every 5 steps :)

walking and walking, it was really steep, china peak trek is TOUGHER than triund trek, believe me guys. After around 3/3.5 hours we reached somewhat close to the peak. There was a care-taker who promised us a chai each and 4 omlettes, that is all was there to eat. It was chilling out there and we had nothing to eat, no cigarette left either.
Me and chodar set out to see the actual peak to see if there is something available to eat. We could not se anything out there, was it fog or clouds, we don't know. Just white smoke all around, we could just see ourselves, thats it.Disappointed (that there is nothing to eat)and esctatic( for the amazing view of nature, clouds in our hands) we return back to have our chai. Then, the noble thought struck thakki, a really heroic idea it seemed. He suggested that we all will remove our shirts on the peak and then have some snaps. Gondy and pahwa thought that "thakki saala satak gaya hai" but me chodar and murgi thouth it to be interesting and decided to go for it.

We reached the top and looked at each other, just to confirm that "are we ready for it?", Ya, a nod from every1, all and 4 of us are half nude, chodar was a bit more though :)

After some "mast" photos, we dressed up again and then started admiring the beauty of nature. pata nhi kaise we spent around 2 hours there when it was so cold. Then we started with the downhill part of the trek, thought that it will be easy, haah, just thought.

All through the trekk, gondy played some good english music and thakki, found it tough to comprehend :) gondy would explain the whole song to him. But every now and then, pahwa would jump and come up with his jugni.

Pahwa, i think he featued in around 75% of the pics that we took, still was enthu to take more, of his shadow, of crow's shadow, in front of chief justice's home and what not. Finally it got really cold and we decided to buy some more booze. Then we had a hot and spicy soup at "sher-e-punjab" restaurant. Then dinner time, and this time we decide to go to moti-mahal. Food was good, but gondy was uncomfortable and didn't have anything to eat :)

Then all of us discovered a "friendship band" maker, who would make a band with a name written on it with wool, every1 got excited, only i know why :(

Thakki and pahwa decide to get candy floss for all of us, trick was that he who finishes last shall have first peg as "bottoms up" and that too "neat". It was thakki's trick to pull some1 else also as he had already lost a bet and was as it is supposed to do it, chodar lost the bet.

After we returned to the room, chodar started with his songs, this time better ones, and complete versions. After completing the drinks, pahwa wanted to try the flaming shot. Who else will teach, yours truly, sweety. I had one to show pahwa how to do it, and he follows the same steps, but did he enjoy it, ask him.
Hats off to chodar, great songs, mazza hi aa gaya tha...but every now and then, murgi would wake up and start with a para of the song which we had already sung and then chodar would say, "saalon, so jao, subah jaldi uthna hai".

That day, completely exhausted, all decided to sleep, and i took one last peg and went to bed. Early morning around 8-30, there's a voice saying " uth jao, saade aath ho gye, main ja raha hun". none of us bothered to wake up, and when we did, discovered that pahwa had gone for boating early morning.

Breakfast and all, and we head to delhi, pahwa now does a chodar. Says "ulteeee aa rhi hai". one could see the satisfaction on chodar's face, " gosh, main akela nhi huun". some songs, etc and then thakki pahwa and chodar sleep. Me and murgi sitting at the back seat, discover an "interesting" innova coming from behind :)

Luckily that innova also stopped at the same place where we had stopped for lunch, it was quite an expirience.

There were swings in the restaurant, thakki and me try see-saw. Certainlt thakki was destined to win, but still we tried. The gaurd of the restraunt came and scolded thakki, ha ha, says, this is meant for kids.

Then after some rest and after every1 had adressed to all the important calls (nature and stomach), we start again. Gondy and murgi ruled this time when it came to playing songs. In no time, we reached noida.

Looking back, if i refer anything about nostalgia, it would be just a cliche. These ppl really rock, and trip with all of us along, had to be SUPER. The trip was just one of its kind. CANNOT write everything, this one being a public portal. But yes, had a rocking time.

Again, time for introduction--
chodar a.k.a chirag
thakki a.k.a jatin
gondy a.k.a govind
pahwa a.k.a sourabh
murgi a.k.a rakesh
and
sweety, me

Hope u enjoyed!!
Comments are welcome, just wanna see "who all have so much patience to read through this :)"