Trip to Pune

 One of my friends shared a video which showed what are the things worth spending money. Travelling, was the answer. If you spent 3k on a weekend trip with your friends it will be more worth and memorable than most of the materialistic thing. Living in Hyderabad gives us a lot of opportunity to plan small weekend trip. After lots of discussion and debates, Pune, was our destiny.

Getting a confirmed train ticket under tatkal quota is like achieving a grand feat in India. But lucky us  ,we had a confirmed ticket in shtabadi and all was set for pune. Excitement of our journey started from our home itself. We had to catch the local MMTS and only ten minutes were left. But none of our friends was ready to drop us there. So we thought we will park our bike at station for two days. In hurry we picked up the keys and ran straight away. My friend tried to unlock the motorcycle, but key  was jammed in. Attempted once again for same result. After wasting 3 precious minutes we realized this is not the right key instead in haste I got my friend's bike keys. Shall I get my bike key? I asked. No shouted my friend, lets go by this one only. Kicked it and accelerated it and there we were going for Khandala and Lonavala. But world doesn't work the way we plan. There was no local train on platform, we missed it cried one of my friend. I enquired has the train left , station master replied "MMTS band today, Hyderabad band., no bus, no local train. Now it was a grave problem. How we will reach railway station to catch Shtabadi. We hailed an auto and asked him can he drop us to Begumpet railway station? No sir, today is "band", police will tow my auto. We flagged down another auto, his response was quite unique , Sir I can go but my auto doesn't have diesel. No diesel, no problem we have 3 petrol pump nearby you don't worry about that, replied one of my friend. Sir today is band no petrol pump is open for fueling. It was heart breaking.

So that seems to an end of our going to be awesome voyage. And we decided to go back to our home. Before going at least eat something, said one of my friend. There was a cart full of bananas, we bought one dozen, eating them while walking back to pavilion. But, destiny had other plans for us and an auto came and stopped nearby us. "chalte kya bahiya" utterd the auto driver . Ofcourse!!!! we 4 jumped in and auto rushed through the empty roads of Hyderabad.

Finally , we reached to station after paying 5 times more amount than amount in normal days. As soon as we reached on platform, we saw shatabadi moving away from us. Our heart stopped beating, it was running fast and we were not able to catch it. We missed our train ,with disappointment on our face we were walking back, when someone told us that don't worry  this same train will return  after dropping all the passengers at next station.  Words of joy.

For time being we waited and enjoyed tea and samosa.

India is home to 61 million stunted children under five, the most in any country but still India's expenditure, as percentage of GDP ,on social protection is half of what lower middle income Asian countries spend. At present it spends about 0.9% of GDP which will increase to 1.25 if National food security bill works well. 

How facebook can tell about your behaviour.

Lately I have been observing how people use facebook and it revealed  subtle things about their behavior.How much time they spend on facebook can help us to know about their nature
Let us analyse it.

• Friend A: A comes from office late night and the first thing he does is log in into his facebook account. He checks each and every update on his time line and scrolls down for almost 20 mins. Quite keen to know what is going on in others life. But he rarely puts any update from his side. So he is a kind of guy who wants to know what others are doing, but never want to reveal what he is up to.
• Friend B: B puts everything on facebook, from lunch in Taj to feeling sad, from playing in ground to working in office. Posts a hell of photograph on facebook and is always interested in knowing who all are following him/her. He/she has become narcissist, who wants to be liked, wants to seek attention and wants to become favorite. Whatever they do, it always has one thread attached to facebook , for ex, Click my photograph while I am riding on horse so that I can share it with my friends on facebook. Moreover they find happiness only when people appreciate what they are doing. And in this race they just become an object to please others. 
• Friend C: He is a kind of person who lies in between Friend A and Friend B. He daily checks updates of  others  and is always tagged by friends like B(As B needs followers to prove that they are doing something extraordinary). And they are happy being in the parachute of B with getting a little limelight. So they are kind of people who feel that whatever you have be happy with it.
• Friend D: Now this is totally different class of people , who are bored of facebook and rarely check it. They know it that it is all crap and when only something important is there like advertising about their new startup, event, or invitation for any meeting. So they are trend setter people who actually make changes.
• Friend E: these are extreme of Friend D, who have deactivated their account and don't feel like using facebook for anything. They have done all the things they wanted to do with facebook. Friend D and E actually have lots of time to do things for themselves. They know what actually reality is and how to be happy in life. Keeping yourself busy in some productive work instead of whiling time away on facebook.

Quotes from The Oath of Vayuputra

I have started reading the third and the final book of Shiva Trilogy , The Oath of Vayuputra. There are many inspirational quotes which I would like to share.

• Hope alone does not win battles. Only an honest evaluation of one's weakness, followed by their mitigation, can win the day.
• inspiration before its time appears like a rebellion.