Last weekend was a daring one for all of the interns at JCB India, there were two parts which gave it an adventures flavour, the first and the more audacious part was that we started our weekend from thrusday without informing anyone in the company (this was the first step towards facilitating early end of our intern). The second part was a trip to manali and rohtang pass (yet again). Just a one day back few amongst us made a plan and there we were all set for it. Before the trip began what everyone was most concerned was the number of cameras we can have on the trip, what is the memory available for photo storage, whether we have ample backup given by the battery of the camera. This is not the first time that this concern had occupied the prime position in any trip, rather many time trips are weilded around camera. Take this, "wahan ja kar kya karenge, that is not the best place for excursion", here comes the reply--"arre mast scenry hai wahan ki, 500-1000 photo khichenge aur kya karenge", and this argument often becomes strong enough to convince others to go for a trip. So with it began our trip and the reckless work of camera which had to prepare itself for reaching its thereshold clicking potential. While we were travelling, we did only two things in the cab apart from sleeping, mocking each other (unfortunately I happened to be the receiver of the brunt on maximum occassions.) and clicking photos (here too I tried to take an active participation). Wherever we stopped or stayed everyone did had his photograph clicked in virtually every possible pose (be it a cool dude looks photo aur be it peeing in public photo). Once we were fed up with ourselves than came the turn of crowd. Mind you everyone in the crowd is not worth being clicked I need not mention further for whome was our camera searching for. No matter how difficult it is still, we did figure out the ways to take the pic without the person even knowing it. (At least we satisfy ourselves by believeing this) In this regard the trip was slighlty unsuccessful as our camera could discover just one beauty in the ravines of Manali. But it this still did not ease out the work of camera, We clicked and clicked and clicked............ and finally ended up with a collection of 1072 photographs, a feat achieved in just 3 working days (of our camera). We got a lot of photos clicked while we were on the banks of river beas. The water was as cold as it could , still we did take plunge into it and fought our body's desires to come out of water untill the shivering body was captured by the camera, in all the views. Enthusiasm for getting the photo clicked was even higher than that for river rafting and remorse even more grave than the one we had when we found no ice in rohtang pass.
When we reached Delhi back and I was seeing the product of our great photographical skills, I was forced to think that what is the reason that few good photos ,which often happens to represent one smarter, more daring aur cool than actual reality, makes ourselves feel that the trip was successful. I thought deeper into it and tried to relate it with other things. I figured out following reasons that could have been the dominant ones for this intense desire of ours to get clicked:-
- Since this is a period of social networking site, so a good photo which could be uploaded at such a site coupled with a thoughtful caption, which in combination portrays one as superman, is what most people, who are hooked to such sites, desire.
- A good photo can always boost your capability of making stronger mark on the oppostie sex.
- One always want to keep memories of all the actions that we had done, and best depiction of action is what one would always desire.
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There are a few points which i too would like to highlight after reading the meticulously written blog. First of all the skill which Vivek possessess while recounting any detail or anecdote from the past is clearly reflected in the blog. The attention paid to the minutest of the details is a skill which only the most keen observer can acquire and use. Moving on, i too believe that the photography session does form the most integral part of any trip. The duration of the session is as long as the trip and these pics actually help us re-build each and every second of the trip which we so thoroughly enjoyed. Of the things we missed out on were the sliding on the snow (unfortunately our inventor of the "snow sliding mat" could not come up with one this time :P),the Rs.1800-15min para-gliding exercise and our famous and characteristic visit to the CCD in the town. All in all the trip will again go down as those unforgettable moments of our life in which one experienced maximum enjoyment and did total masti. But to end the review i would like to mention that the biggest mistake we did is that we did not come back richer when we had the best opportunity (people may disagree over here). It was true representation of the "Become rich in 5mins" events. The risks involved where nil, but due to pre conceived notions one has about a few things it was not to be our day when actually we should have made this "priceless" journey actually "priceless" for us. :D
PS NOTE: There was a non JCB internee too. ps make corrections
There are a few points which i too would like to highlight after reading the meticulously written blog. First of all the skill which Vivek possessess while recounting any detail or anecdote from the past is clearly reflected in the blog. The attention paid to the minutest of the details is a skill which only the most keen observer can acquire and use. Moving on, i too believe that the photography session does form the most integral part of any trip. The duration of the session is as long as the trip and these pics actually help us re-build each and every second of the trip which we so thoroughly enjoyed. Of the things we missed out on were the sliding on the snow (unfortunately our inventor of the "snow sliding mat" could not come up with one this time :P),the Rs.1800-15min para-gliding exercise and our famous and characteristic visit to the CCD in the town. All in all the trip will again go down as those unforgettable moments of our life in which one experienced maximum enjoyment and did total masti. But to end the review i would like to mention that the biggest mistake we did is that we did not come back richer when we had the best opportunity (people may disagree over here). It was true representation of the "Become rich in 5mins" events. The risks involved where nil, but due to pre conceived notions one has about a few things it was not to be our day when actually we should have made this "priceless" journey actually "priceless" for us. :D
PS NOTE: There was a non JCB internee too. ps make corrections
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