Biker Clubs

Now that I had decided That my bike is a Thunderbird, I just looked around for more information regarding the same. In the process I came across various rider clubs that are active in Delhi each having their own unique identity. These are known by various names like Royal Beasts, Thugs, Bull Rodeos etc. What I found was that each club has their own requirements which have to be fulfilled before a new member joins in. The main criteria is that you should own a bike. In case of Royal Beasts any Royal Enfield bike will do while the Thugs is a group specifically for people who own a Thunderbird. These clubs hold their weekly meetings mostly on Sundays and the new member has to first interact with other riders of the club and then they decide his fate. Now these clubs have their own hierarchy, they have their own president, secretary etc. and some clubs like the Thugs even charge you a registration fee when you first join in. The best part about these clubs is the journeys the undertake as a group, going by the posts on their respective forums, Leh & Ladakh wins hands down , It the most sought after destinations for bikers. Then there are other destinations like Jaipur, Mussorie, Dharamshala and many more. The members of these clubs come from a diverse background resulting in an amazing mix of personalities and cultures.
Now the big question ?
Should I join one of these groups and if yes then which one.
I am pretty confused about it so I'll just prefer not to answer this question at this point of time.

Buying a Thunderbird

I had been planning on buying a bike for myself, all that I was waiting for was a job. Now when i had a job, I started looking for a bike that would suit my needs, 'coz a bike has to be such that it can carry my 6"2 frame and not look like a Luna. Keeping these considerations in mind the only bikes left for me were from Royal Enfield's stables. Now most of my friends are die hard fans of the normal bullet with its trademark rumbling voice but I chose to go for the Thunderbird and started looking for one. The search proved to be quite an exercise as I had to find a good second hand bike and that is only because the new one costs a whopping 1 lakh. So, I used the best resource available to me , the Internet. I narrowed my search to a bike in meerut and that was primarily due to the reason that the seller was located in meerut. I could always get hold of him in case of any problem. The bike is a Sep 2005 model , blue , and has done 12000 kms. Hopefully it'll run well. I paid for the advance 4000rs as a surety amount almost 10 days back but was unable to buy it at that time as the n.o.c from RTO lkw had not come , now i m still waiting for that stupid piece of paper to arrive before I close this deal. In the meantime I have started receiving offers from other sellers offering 2006 models at a competitive price but can't really do anything as will have to forfeit the surety then. Let's just hope that this bike turns out to be a good buy. Will post pics of it soon.

26th july the day that was

The day began on a pretty good note. I had an off so got up at around 10 am, had watched die hard the night before, it's a pretty cool movie but is running really short on logic, you have Bruce Willis going around shooting down helicopters with a car! but I must say the effects are sometimes overwhelming like the one inside the tunnel. All I have is one question is Mr. John a mutant or something that he can do everything and not be hurt fatally, looks like our Hollywood has also emulated bollywood and so here's Die hard in response to our very own Big brother which is not even worth talking about. With these thoughts I had gone to sleep.

Since I had nothing to do, I decided to go home, so I moved towards the bus stop at sector 37, after maybe half an hour a bus finally came, I boarded it and got off at Anand vihar. I wanted to get on an A/C bus for meerut but as the case is with me, all that I could see were those local buses lining up behind each other.
I reached meerut at 1 PM and as usual a power cut was on and to add to my misery it was an awfully humid day. I really have no idea why it is so but somehow the people of meerut have learnt to live without power between 8am to 2pm . This power cut has been happening since over 5 years continuously. What this has done is that it has prompted a change in the normal day to day functioning of people, so we have electricians opening their shops in the afternoon and people completing their daily chores before 8 in the morning. The only times this cut does not happen is when some V.I.P is in town or an election is approaching.

Finally the electricity came at 2 and guess what was the first thing I did, I switched on the T.V and I tuned in to a news channel and what was it playing, a Desi version of Nat Geo's Amazing videos, except the fact that they had their own irritating sound effects superimposed on the original one so there we had a tiger growling non stop, I mean common now there's a word worst but how do you describe such stuff which even worst can't describe, after getting fed up , I switched off the T.V and did the next best thing, I slept............

Prologue

Well my day today started really early, I had slept at around 12:30 and my mobile started screeching at around quarter to 4. That was my cab calling, looked like I was going to be late for work again.
OK, so now before going any further let me just update you about little somethings about me. I have had a pretty normal childhood, had my own share of sorrows and some moments of happiness too. I guess people are right in saying that you should watch your steps in adolescence because they might just haunt you for the rest of your life. Well i did not take there advice and contrary to the popular opinion of everyone, I decided to do a course in engineering, so everything started falling into place, coaching classes and other study material was subscribed to. As luck would have it, I got a fairly decent rank in the entrance exam and I went all alone for the counselling and committed my biggest blunder till date. I chose to do my engineering in Electronics, now for people having more less no technical knowledge this is a hallowed branch, if only one would look at those poor students watching enviously as students from computer science and Information tech. roam around in the fields and these poor things have to attend lectures, tutorials and laboratories and what not, but what happens in the end, It is the latter who walk away with most of the placements because India reportedly has a booming IT industry.
So what do the lesser mortals do, they shift from their field and move to the IT sector which is what I too have done. So here I am forgetting everything I learnt about Circuits and trying to get hold of the programming languages. Guess life's isn't that easy after all. So here I am working in an IT firm gaining some valuable months of experience that will help me in holding my ground sometime in the future.