Finally to Sameer Hill

This is a short account of my visit to sameer hill....
my laziness kept me away from this awesome place since two years in IIT ....but finally because of a week's shut down due to swine flu syndrome in mumbai....we finally decided to spare a few hours for sameer hill.

Sameer Hill is the Hill on North west side of IIT Campus and it keeps IIT Bombay protected from the Leopards and other illegal elements to enter in to the campus. It is a picnic spot for us, if you wanna to be chiled just climb up to sameer hill, if you wanna see a beautifull sunrise just climb up Sameer Hill, you can see the Entire Campus, you can see Powai Lake, you can see the beauty of Vihar Lake, you can see the Mumbai Harbar, and if you have good eyes you can see Vashi Bridge and aeroplanes@airport and bandra worli sea link .....
"Zara hans ke, zara bach ke, ye hai mumbai meri jaan"

well i guess it would be quite boring ..browsing all pics ..so in order to reduce burden at your head i have created a movie ...it will take you through all in just 50 sec ...and if you are really interested plz feel free to ask for album link....
comments are welcomed .....

Although the time spent in IIT Bombay is only 2 years nw ....
But this little span of time was full of learning .... Full of pleasure ......Full of knowledge .....
Be it the Lectures .... full of questions of stupidity .... where the length of questions use to be much much longer than the answers
or the the funny lab work, the realtime experience of experiments ......

Cheers-
Gaurav

Visit to Akshardham....

Its June end by now, the wind howled and great scudding clouds raced overhead ...its rare thing here in my hometown Udaipur (often called the Venice of east & the city of lakes), over the last few years rains had been very scarce in the city of lakes, newspaper headlines will title tomorrow by so much inches rain here and there.But rains are almost routinous in Mumbai and so the mumbaiya life....."Zara hans ke, zara bach ke, ye hai mumbai meri jaan"

Anyway rain created quite a fantastic atmosphere around, we (me with my parents and my sister) were all soon to depart for Ahmadabad, a city I had visited half a dozen times in last 1-2 years but only a max of 4-5 hrs every time. But this time it was planned for a complete day. Finally we reached our destination early morning, visited few relatives ....just from one corner of city to another. Ahmadabad unlike Mumbai is a well planned city, it’s beautiful too...and what adds more is the polite, helpful nature of Gujarati people. Gujarati’s, I believe are the most cooperative people in India. As there was the whole day ahead and climate was too pleasant, we switched our direction towards Akshardham Temple, name which needs no introduction. It’s one of most awesome place I have ever seen. Mandir, exhibitions, verdant gardens and other attractions ......and not to forget the restaurant inside are worth visiting. We were short of time so we had to rush through all that.Then we made our way to Hathee Singh temple, it’s too an architectural marvel that has been built using beautiful white marbles. It was evening by then, I was completely tired....but I had to depart for Mumbai in a few hours. And next day I opened my eyes in Mumbai.

A Trip to Marine Drive

Pleasure over fun

It was yet another hot, humid days of Mumbai. The evening surprised with a mild jet of early monsoon showers. The summer break, boredom of life these days and first monsoon shower of the season –what more is required to plan outing, miles away from campus ..so finally we made our mind to set all the way up to marine drive, for just a change from normal routine’s life in front of a 15inch flat screen.

It was about 9 pm, a long waiting of autoriksha did not killed out enthu , and finally we walked all our way to nearest railway station Kanjurg Marg. The rain made the road the roads slippery and that made the bikes slip ...and there was one .....and one more right in front of our eyes. The local trains, blessed with an efficient coordination and mechanism unlike anything else in Mumbai, made distance all the way up to CST an unmemorable experience.

Again we walked and walked, and finally the vibrant sea was ahead. We expected that a cool breeze of wind will coordinate with the water waves and relax us, but rather it was a calm night with no noise of air around
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Finally we afraid that it will be too late if we don’t walk over steps back soon. At 11:30 or more we catched a local train and enjoyed a rush less journey of 40 minutes back to where we belong. (Of course our campus our home ...not just a home, much more now). And the very entry inside the campus, made us feel that we have again landed in heaven ....a place too fantastic ...away from noise ....away from pollution ....away from that sorrows and suffering from the millions outside. The air, so fresh, so sweet, unmatched with even the best of the marine drive. That’s all it was, almost 1 in night and my soul was more tired than my mind ..and as usual I slept with my lappe waiting to get itself shutdown till the morning sunshine ..Rather It was morning alarm.

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