Last week

It was quite tough but worth memorizing some of the moments. One of my school friend, Harish contacted me on May 27th through orkut, and asked to meet him and another friend of mine Manu for a get together. We chose Gurgaon for general hangout.

I wasn't feeling well enough to go, but it was almost after seven years that we would be seeing each other. So, I decided otherwise. Bike was the obvious choice as compared to Delhi public transport.

I reached Metropolitan, one of the biggest posh malls towering along the MG road going towards Mehrauli. The area surrounding this road is quite developed as comapred to old Gurgaon. The mall was pretty huge and nicely constructed. We talked a lot about our lives, jobs, babes et cetera along with some chilled beer and kababs at Charcoal. Since, Manu is working in Army, a life which we hardly know, we had a lot to discuss. Also, he is a doctor and a lot of things happen around him. We watched Da Vinci in the afternoon from front seat. I have never done that before.

It was almost 5:00pm by now and we decided to leave for our homes. It was quite good to see those guys after almost 7 years. I started of by 5:15pm and wasn't feeling quite well. I definitely had some fever with some body ache.

Near Delhi Cantt crossing, I saw a car burning in the middle of the road. It was quite surprising as I have seen such things happening only in movies. I felt like stopping for a while to figure out what has happened, but decided to leave as the fever was increasing. I am still thinking how come that car caught fire? Did someone do it purposefully? But I did not observe any unrest around. Well, this will remain unanswered. Moreover, as you can see people were waiting calmly for the red-light to turn green around that burning car.

After crossing the moolchand flyover, I faced another shock. I felt quite strange at that time. One might say, I was frightened. I heard a harsh screeching sound behind me and, when I turned back, some bullshit taxi driver had almost hit me. The car behind him did hit his car. Well, any sane person would slow down if there is a ditch in the way, and thats exactly what I did. Hmm, nevertheless, I kept moving to avoid any brawl. I did not want to spoil my toll-bridge drive.



The 8-laned toll-bridge connecting Aashram and Noida is a treat for driving. It is picturesque too. Although photography is not allowed, but I still managed to click some shots while driving. I hope you like'em.

I reached my apartment by 6:30pm and was burning with 102F fever. Rest of the week went in taking pills, sleeping and making fractals. The fever was bad but at the same time it was quite amazing to take a 5-day break from the routine life. BTW, I did utilize the time and explored some of the best regions of Mandelbrot fractal. Visit Illustrations of Infinity for more details.