One of the big advantage of working in big team onsite is project-party. This summer we had lots of project parties....quarterly party, common project party, silver jubilee party.......whatever is the reason but we are happy to be like party-animal. This is one sunny day in september. place is
versailles. The day was nicely planned, it started with group lunch in indian restaurent. after chit-chat, next event was palace visit.
But the real fun was in garden. After the palace visit, all of us gathered in garden. The next plan is boating in Grand canal of Chateau. But somehow somebody thought its worth to have voting to decide if we should go for boating. General opinion was 'I want to go for boating, who will row for me?'. "arre, sirf aadhe ghante ke liye lete hai. jo nahi kar payega woh idhar hi chakkar lagayega.", one acceptable comment, and it was decided. Total 6 boats are taken 4-5 people in each boat. All enthusiasts are geared up in mood of competetion, everyone wants to reach other end of canal, and come back. But this flame didn't last long, once everyone is in trumbling boat, with oars in hand, trying to find out what and how to do?
My team is full of enthusiasts. miss PV, miss SR, Mr. PP and myself. As soon as we settled in boat, the guy (who pushed our boat) said, "only one person should row!!". Its about PP n me to take decision. Being at wrong position/seat, oars came in my hands. I am sure everyone felt that the guy pushed their boat in wrong direction, and its difficult to get it into main direction. Somehow boat stops moving, or it just spins round. Oars just splash water on the next person. "Arre yaar, usne jorse dhakka diya hota toh sahi tha.". Getting into the direction is one difficult task, and another difficult one is to maintain straight direction. Somehow all the boats have got manufacturing defect, due to which boat always move towards left. or is it left hand is not sync with right hand?
Somehow our boat is in main direction. PV excitedly, "Hey, I want to try my hands on this, sil vous plait". Gentleman always respect lady's wish. "Ok, come over here. Take this left. I will handle right.", said me. PV got the trick very early. As per the Newton's third law (Sorry SR, I have to give science funda here), equal and opposite reactions, she managed to push the boat ahead with her delicate action-reaction, displacement on left-side is not same as on right-side. As a result, after 2 forward stroke, I have to make reverse stroke to compensate. SR is not interested to touch oar at all, she is holding her handycam all the time on us. I felt myself funny, to give smiling expressions while rowing(!!!).
"Jor laga ke.......haiyaaa!!"......."Lage raho munnabhai.." shout comes from nearby boat. NG is shouting from his boat. By now, he is master in rowing the boats. practice makes man perfect. Our boat is moving in regular zig-zag fashion, with delicate action on left and forward-backward strokes on right. "kitna time baaki hai abhi?", asked PV. "aadhe ghante mein wapas karni hai.", PP was prompt. me, "sure kya?". PP, "Dekh na ticket pe likha hoga na.". "Oh man! we already came this far in 20 mins." SR was curious how do we do it?
"I am tired", i said. PV is surprised, "what? so early? ok fine. PP will replace you". aah! only gawd knows how much mehnat i did. PP is also beginner, but he successfully managed to take the boat from center to edge, changed the direction. Even I pushed the boat from edge, the boat denied to come to the center. The couples on the bank stopped their work, and started enjoying tussle fight of our boat and bank stones. After hitting 3-4 times to the same rock, we decided to go for well co-ordinated scientic method. strength is measured, 3 left = 1 right. huh! PP is quite strong. Direction is defined, instructions are understood. For synchronisation, PP put himesh reshmiya's song "Aapki kashish...." in his kewl mobile.
We are all set to zig zag zoom. I am standing on behind of these two heroes, measuring strokes and angle of deviation. As this angle of deviation increases leftside, PP has to put his oar down, PV has to make it fast, and otherwise. This was successfull experiment. After entertaining all the people/couples on the bothside of canal, we managed to return back to the land successfully.
I got surprise, when i logged in my flickr account today. no of views has shot from 600+ to approx 6800 in just 2 days!! isnt it exciting. suddenly my album got huge no of visits. My album is so popular. just great feeling.
