A Ride in the Rain! Aseem N wrote this at 11:52 pm • Filed under I, Me and Myself •

I just love to ride… yea you could bet on that blind… While its raining cats and dogs out on the streets, you ride over 30 kms with almost dead bike brakes yet maintaining an average speed of 70kmph… it cant be anything else. You simply love biking! Drenched in one of those few unmerciful heavy rains in Goa, I was travelling back to Panaji from Vasco. And it was certainly the best ride I have ever had!

I am not a great fan of rains… infact I hate them because everywhere I go on bike, I have to carry my rainwear… Today while I had over 30kms of travel to reach back to Panjim there was a sudden (nah! expected) downpour of rain which didn’t look like one that would stop soon. Nor was I in to wait for it to die out of water. Luckily I had a jacket… but my trouser was soon getting all soaked. Kinda giving a cooling effect everytime a little more of it got wet :p. Soon it was all heavy as though it had drank over 100 gallons of water. Wearing my jeans which were more water and less denim by now, I just couldn’t care for the roadside dingy water splashing all over me as wagons paved through puddles. What I was busy enjoying, was my ride in the rain…

The rainwater drops were hitting me like a swarm of honey bees would sting onto your body, over and over again. But I was in no mood of taking a halt. Luckily I had a bus in front, I was riding just a few inches close to, so that I could miss the hard hitting rains. Hoping that the buswala won’t brake all of a sudden, as I knew my bike’s brakes will not follow suit.

While I reached a bridge, I noticed many two wheelers parked aside and their riders wearing full length raincoats having stopped by… and before I could wonder why, my bike’s pace had already got me onto the bridge. And there I was on a toss by the violent wind blowing over the bridge… Shifting my bike along with me from the left lane to the right, ofcourse which wasn’t for me but for vehicles traveling back from where I had come. And boy… this time right in front of a truck, head-on! Thanks to the super sweet response time of my bike’s brakes, I couldn’t stop, even if now I wanted to. I was wishing so badly that the wind could blow from the otherside just for once (God Plz…Plz…). The truck flashed its lights… those headlights looking like angry eyes suggesting me “Boy… this is your last ride!”. Luckily the truck had decent enough brakes to slow it down, leaving just a little chance for me to get back on my track defying all the Newtons in the force of the wind which was pushing me back onto the right lane (I mean the wrong lane :p). My bike followed a zig-zag path for a while, and I was glad that the bridge was finally over. Kids in air-conditioned cars passing by looked like kinda mocking at me. But I couldn’t care more… I was back to busy enjoying my ride in the rain…

And after I made it back… at the same CCD with the same friend, the same hot Cappuccino I ordered yesterday, suddenly had a great taste today!

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Yahoooo!!! Finally its all over! Aseem N wrote this at 12:20 pm • Filed under I, Me and Myself •

Finished up with my engineering exams yesterday… though still have the final year project presentation (and project itself!) pending and a couple of vivas which i never study for. It seems like its almost all over! :D.

And now, I am on a never before like schedule… enjoying my last few days in Goa before I join TCS.

DEGREE was a dream… but ENGINEERING made it possible!

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