My first DUCATI

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OK, it's just a pair of shoes,but it's DUCATI! :) And I am happy for finally having bought them! I have been thinking of buying something nice from Puma Ducati series but was always confused if I should really do that for different reasons. Sometimes I found them in green or blue which is certainly not Ducati colour, the red ones were so red that i didn't know when will I use them, sometimes the ones I found in Ahmedabad stores were so 'too much' that I just wanted to take that Ducati logo off from them, and almost all the time the price was beyond my budget! Ohh and once I decided no to buy them ever, after I watched the movie 'Children of Heaven'! hahaha...

Anyway, so yesterday When I actualy wanted (almost = needed) to buy a pair of shoes and didnt like anything other than the 2 Puma Ducati ones, the only option was to buy one of them! Sid acted like catalyst (even offering to contribute as my b'day gift! :), and I ended up buying these! Thank you Sid!

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The funny thing about these DUCATI shoes is, the instruction inside says,'Not recommended for riding!' hahaha....

I think I can't write any more meaningless and purposeless....

So thats it, and now I have something in July 2011 archive of my blog too! hooshhhhhhh...

ohh and before I conclude here is the newest and best from the Puma DUCATI series, which I would still love to buy (or rather be gifted) if it becomes available in India, The 'DUCATI Testastretta II' riding shoes. Dont miss the aluminum sole rim below heel and below puma cat in front! coollll, isnt it? :)

Once upon a time in TIME.

Once upon a time, there was a second hand, running inside a wall clock. Always fresh and energetic, he kept running, faster than the minute hand and much faster than the slow lazy hour hand. He was very proud of himself, his speed, his precision, his energy, his successful life! Meeting the 12 numbers every minute, he felt he was popular too! Untill one day, he decided to think about his successful life, or rather the life.

He couldnt afford to stop and think, actually the first thing he realised was that stopping was not in his hands, neither was running! disturbed and disappointed he kept running, round and round and round, reaching nowhere.

He wanted to ask those 12 numbers and the other two hands, what all this meant? And he realised, while trying to keep up with the time, he could never spend enough time with any of them! He realised, he had no control over his speed, motion, perfection, his successful life! He was bound to the pivot. The pivot which gave him the drive to keep running, all his life, in the same manner, in the same boundaries of the wall clock, round and round and round. He really wanted to see what was there, beyond the boundaries of clock, if not time. He wanted to know how it feels to once stop and think, he wanted to know how it is to be not bound to something.

Once upon a time, there was a second hand inside a wall clock, who decided to stop running for life, round and round and round.

Anushree

"Two types of people get sound sleep. The first who just don't dream, second whose dreams have come true! Few others like me, get up half way through their dreams, with anger in their half open eyes, and memories of their dreams haunting the day!
I feel, dreams have their own life, or is it that the life itself is a dream? You wake up and it's gone!"
(an attempted translation of Anushree's blog intro in marathi, all credits to her!)

The Italian Dream

Finally!.....
Valentino Rossi + Ducati

Rossi, now in RED!

The Unreachable

"You should go for things closer to you than the unreachable ones!"
-By Anonymous
I wish I could agree!

Inception

Cobb: Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

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Mal: I'll tell you a riddle. You're waiting for a train, a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you don't know for sure. But it doesn't matter. How can it not matter to you where the train will take you?

Cobb: Because you'll be together.

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Mal: You keep telling yourself what you know. But what do you believe? What do you feel?

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Mal: Do you know what it is to be a lover? Half of a whole?

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Cobb: Look at you. You're just a shade, a shade of my real wife. How could I capture all your beauty, your complexity, your perfection, your imperfection, in a dream? Yes, you're the best that I can do. But, I'm sorry, you're just not good enough.

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Ariadne: Why is it so important to dream?

Cobb: Because, in my dreams we are together.

What's in your blood?

कबुतराला गरुडाचे पंख लावता येतील.....

पण गगनभरारीचं वेड रक्तातच असावं लागतं...

कारण आकाशाची ओढ दत्तक घेता येत नाही॥!!!

This can be crudely (and not literally) translated as;

'A pigeon can be given wings of an eagle,

but the craving for flight has to be in blood....

'cause the longing for skies cannot be borrowed!'

(author unknown to me)

Dove

Thanks for chocolates Divya. :)

death of a dream

Some dreams cannot be replaced or forgotten or re-newed. Hummer was one such big dream, almost as big as hummer itself! I don't remember when I first saw it, must be long long ago, sometime back in my childhood, when I knew about very few automobiles. Like many childlike auto-enthusiasts I had been collecting its pics in the form of notebook covers to posters to desktop wallpapers, like true dreams this one has chased me till now. Probably because this is the only four wheeler I felt connected to, in any of its various forms!

I remember to have talked about hummers with many of my friends. Mosh had promised me that she will gift me Hummer (real one) on my 40th or 50th birthday. Both of us knew we may not afford it even then, but dream is a dream.

Today I read GM is shutting down Hummer production. I know they will still exist, but.... I still felt my almost impossible dream came to an unexpected end.

sad but true.

Jo barase sapne boond boond...

O re manva tu to baawara hai,

tu hi jaane tu kya sochta hai.

Kyun dikhaaye, sapne tu

sote jaagate?

Jo barase sapne boond boond

Nayano ko moond moond,

kaise mai chaloon, dekh na sakoon

anjaan raasate....

(song from movie 'wake up sid', image from somewhere on the internet)

some dreams...

Some dreams, you don't want to remember,

the ones, you don't want to talk about.

There are some, better seen with your eyes tightly closed.

You don't want to open your eyes, and know, 'thats the truth'.

Some of them may be even pleasant, so much that you pretend to be sleeping.

but some, so horrible that they don't let you sleep.

In any case, it's better you keep your eyes closed,

if at all you get the choice!

keep dreaming... so that they come true!

"Motorcycle" by The Rumble Strips

If only this bike was a motorcycle
i wouldn't be moving so slow
if only this bike was a motorcycle
i'd be over half way home

as i move down the street i'd be looking so good
and i'd be gone in a blink of an eye...

if only this bike was a motorcycle..
if only this bike could..flyyyy...

sometimes when i'm riding along i forget where im going!
i start a dream that this little old bike is a big loud glistening speed machine
im getting chased everywhere i go
by hundreds of girls all fighting to show how much they love me
so i, pull over and give them a ride on my
fast moving, street cruising, geek losing motorbike!

but it's all just a dream..
im actually moving quite slowly..
air is nice and clean but my bicycle seat is so lonely...
it's so lonely this bike..

if only this bike....

oh if only this bike was a motorcycle
i wouldn't be sad anymore!
if only this bike was a motorcycle
i'd move down the street with a roar
we'll be wild, we'll be free!
just my motorcycle and me...
with a glint in my eye...
i'd show you that this little boy can really... flyyyyyyyyyyy!

उजेड

आता सूर्य बुडेल थोड्या वेळात। लाटाही थकून शांत झाल्यायत। मी खिशात हात घालून सूर्याच्या दिशेने चालतोय। पायाखाली वाळू आणि वारयावर सळसळणारे कपडेच फ़क्त आवाज करतायत। आता सूर्य त्याच्या थरथरणारृया प्रतिबिंबाच्या अगदी जवळ येवून ठेपलाय। मी क्षणभर आहे त्या जागी स्तब्ध होतो। आणि एका क्षणाला सूर्य हळुच पाण्याला स्पर्श करतो। मला तो स्पर्श आत कुठेतरी ओळखीचा वाटतो।

मी उजवा हात खिशातून काढतो। बाजूला उभ्या तुझा हात माझ्या हातात घेतो। तो स्पर्श मला जाणवण्यापेक्षा आता समोर दिसत राहतो। सूर्य त्याच्या प्रतिबिंबामध्ये विरघळत राहतो, हळुहळू... "मला तुला काही सांगायचय", मी सूर्याकडे बघून म्हणतो। तू समोर येवून माझ्या मिठीत विरघळतेस। माझी नजर अजूनही त्या बुडणारृया सूर्यावर आहे। बस्स... आता फ़क्त काही क्षण, तांबड्या आकाशाखालचे! आता नजर सूर्याऐवजी प्रतिबिंबावर भिरभिरते। स्वताःपुराताच उजेड राखून ठेवून सूर्य आता जवळजवळ नाहीसा झालाय। आणि तशीच नाहीशी होतेय तुझी माझ्या मिठीतली जाणीव। वारयावर फ़डफ़डणारया कपड्यांच्या आवाजात मी ते प्रतिबिंब शोधायचा प्रयत्न करतोय।

दोन्ही हात खिशात घालून मी बराच वेळ तुझी वाट पाहतोय। सूर्य बुडाल्यानंतरच्या उजेडात तुझं नसणं खूप तीव्रतेने जाणवतं। वाट चुकलेला वारा माझ्या अवती भवती तुला शोधत राहतो। आता त्यालाही उजेडाची गरज उरली नाहीये... माझ्यासारखीच...

I dream 1:1 (part 2)

This time, the post is more entertaining, with the following video showing my skills (hahah) in playing with toy cars and using little bit windows movie maker. Watch it and enjoy! :)
(to watch it in better resolution on youtube, click here)

I Dream 1:1

Honda CRF 450.... latest addition to my collection, (i would not like to mention actually, but just to be honest, my collection refers to scale models as of now!!! :( , except for my baby yamaha FZ).
Anyway, the point is, these scale models of bikes are actually scale models of my dreams!. One day, I dream, to own them 1:1 ! These are reminders, or may be the image board for the future plans. Most of these miniature bikes are actually gifted by me to myself. So there are something I really want to own, I know my collection of scaled dreams is not complete yet, and i will keep adding my dreams to this collection as and when I get the clearer images of them! I am really happy to get this Honda CRF 450 as gift from sid not because it's some bike, but more because it's something I was thinking of for quite some time, but couldn't find a good one!
Thank you sid.
I promise to give you a ride on one of my dream bikes, when it becomes 1:1.
:)
(P.S. I couldn't resisit myself from sticking doctor Rossi's number 46 on this bike! Sorry Honda!!!)

problems....

I don't have any problem with someone's wrong deeds,
but I certainly have problem with their wrong intentions!
I don't have any problem with someone's lack of knowledge,
but I certainly have problem with their lack of wilingness to know!
I don't have any problem with people with shattered dreams,
but I certainly have problem with those having no dreams!
I don't have any problem working with people having some fears and limits,
but I certainly have problem working with those having no confidence and hope!
I don't have any problem if I have many problems,
but I certainly have problem if I don't enjoy them!
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