Boys night out...

Spent an awesome evening yesterday with my oldest buddies.

Cheers mates!

My own personal Safety Car

Thank you Krish, for lending the SLS AMG :)

Andaman Islands

Andaman Islands, a photo by ihrishi on Flickr.

Andaman Islands

Andaman Islands, a photo by ihrishi on Flickr.

Andaman Islands

Andaman Islands, a photo by ihrishi on Flickr.

Andaman Islands

Andaman Islands, a photo by ihrishi on Flickr.

Andaman Islands

Andaman Islands, a photo by ihrishi on Flickr.

Andaman Islands

Andaman Islands, a photo by ihrishi on Flickr.

Andaman Islands

Andaman Islands, a photo by ihrishi on Flickr.

Andaman Islands

Andaman Islands, a photo by ihrishi on Flickr.

Andaman Islands

Andaman Islands, a photo by ihrishi on Flickr.

Andaman Islands

Andaman Islands, a photo by ihrishi on Flickr.

Andaman Islands

Andaman Islands, a photo by ihrishi on Flickr.

Andaman Islands

Andaman Islands, a photo by ihrishi on Flickr.

Andaman Islands

Andaman Islands, a photo by ihrishi on Flickr.

Andaman Islands

Andaman Islands, a photo by ihrishi on Flickr.

Andaman Islands

Andaman Islands, a photo by ihrishi on Flickr.

Andaman Islands

Andaman Islands, a photo by ihrishi on Flickr.

Andaman Islands

Andaman Islands, a photo by ihrishi on Flickr.

Fun in the sun...

Pics taken at Havelock, Andaman.

Marshal Post 18

This is the most experienced team in India with 5 interventions.

Fun in the sun...

On duty...

:)

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Now you see what I see...

View from my post. I am right before turn 13, which is the fast right right hander hairpin.

Superb view from my post, with cars visible from the back also.

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View from the back straight...

Did the track walk today. Got allocated to a position called MP 18.0

Have a fantastic wide angle view from my position. Did the pit walk today. The equipment has already arrived.

And saw n touched the safety car today... Yippie kay yaaay!!!!

-sent from my mobile device.

Back from paradise...

And here's a teaser...

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Do chocolates make an elephant fat?

;)

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Meet tammy!

My new lens just got delivered yesterday. It's a Tamron 17-50 f2.8 beauty.
It's super fast to focus, but noisy. And has gorgeous bokeh.

This lens finds beauty in the most mundane of all objects. I'm loving it!

SLS AMG

If wishes were horses, this would have been 1:1 instead of 1:40
:)

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Mahabaleshwar...in the rains...

Jet Airways...sucks

I have planned a trip to Andaman in the coming holiday season. Since it's a big pain to get tickets to Port Blair at the last moment, I did all the bookings in July itself.


And because the total flight time from Mumbai to Chennai and onwards to Port Blair is 4hrs, I took the call to use the so called Full Fare airlines for comfort and reliability...and I was SO wrong.


One month after booking the tickets, I get a mail from Jet saying that they have cancelled the Chennai PortBlair flight due to "technical" reasons. Ok,shit happens, so I cancelled the Jet booking, and booked on Kingfisher Red. Thankfully, Jet gave me a full refund.


And the icing of the cake was today. I had just logged into the Jet Airways site, to choose the seats for our return journey. Since the website was not able to pull up my tickets, I called their call centre and got the biggest shock of my life. It seems that Jet has cancelled my return flight also, that too without intimating me. WTF?


And very intelligently they move the PortBlair to Chennai leg on 23rd Oct, but keep the Chennai to Bby leg on 22nd! How intelligent. And the twist to this story is that I have to be in Delhi on 23rd at any cost for the Formula 1 race, where I am volunteering as a Marshal.


I spent around 30-40 minutes on a call with their call centre agent and was given two options...


1. Move the booking to 21st or 23rd.
2. Take the PortBlair to Delhi to Mumbai flight on 22nd, which means I fly for 7 hrs, on a low cost carrier after having paid for a full fare airline.


Now I am stuck with cutting one day of my vacation short, losing money on the hotel booking.


I am quite pissed with Jet for two reasons The first and the inexcusable reason is how could they cancel the flight without telling me. Second, they are totally inflexible while offering me a ticket on some other airline on the same day, or for accommodation if I chose to extend my stay. Heck, they even refused to convert my Chennai to Bby ticket to a Chennai to Delhi ticket if I had chosen to go to Delhi directly. And this was at no extra cost to them.

I dont think I am ever going to fly Jet Airways again. Even when I have to of my very dear friends flying for that airline.

Sorry Jet Airways, but you SUCK big time...And hope and pray that these flights don't get cancelled or rescheduled!

A little bit of Goa in my life..

So I don't forget the beach, the gently swaying palm trees and the soothing sound of the waves....
susegat!

Golf!

They say that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy...
So I (we), @office don't want to take any chance...
:)
-sent from my mobile device.

Garlic twisties

It was a dark stormy evening...and since there was no scope of having a civilized day out, tried my hand at some baking.

and this is what I ended up with...

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Nick

Yeah, that's what I was looking for... Iron Maiden, fits perfectly...

:-D

NH4 @ 0300 hrs

The end...

So this is what i am left with at the end of the trip. A truck load of memories and some pics to keep them fresh...

Thanks buddies, you made this trip memorable.
And to those who dropped out...well... Ur loss. :-P

Cheers...

Super chillout

Cuba, Palolem, Goa.

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Total chillax!

The Man Eater of Malgudi

And this is just before the ferocious lion pounced on the unsuspecting victim.

Go Goooooooa....

Memories of last year, to be refreshed in a couple of days :)
Yippppie kay yaaaaaay.....

Pic taken somewhere on NH4, just before Belgaum.