Summer 2011 - The Jalopy and The Trips to nowhere.

Summer 2011 - My first summer in college and the first in which I had no hoildays , I cribbed and sulked . How could we have one whole month of training immediately after our first year finals? Life could not get worse. But now that it is almost over I can this was my best summer ever. Apart from the training , which was not bad at all , I had the time of my life.Will write about the training bit in the next post.

I  got my driving  license two months back. It was a glorious moment after closely missing it the first time because I could not drive up a slope anyways  I have  it now. The feeling was great .And with my driving license I also got this jalopy , which broke down twice in a month and once the tyre burst.But still I fell in love with it , it took me places.Without it my life would have been incomplete.

My love

 And here are some facts about this beauty:

• It only plays a Bryan Adams Cassete , yeah I have cassete player in my car ,cool isnt it?
• And when you try tuning in the radio , it gets silent and when you have given up all all hopes and start hitting all the buttons on the player or probably forget about it , its suddenly starts playing the Bryan Adam tracks.
• Its a 2000 model 
• There are times when the gear gets stuck and refuses to change gears.
• It gets wobbly if you drive at the speed of 70
• It has an A/C which does not cool , so better roll down the windows. 
• It makes all sorts of embarassing noises sometimes like a tractor.

Two months driving this and I never want to part with it .Everyone curses it and the the some probably curse the driver too but still they love it.By they I mean my friends , we have been on countless drives , drives people wont exactly call sane.

Whenever someone is in a bad mood this little thing comes as a ray of hope , lifting up the mood , Uncle V and Swat , my partners for these litlle geris(drives in panjabi) ,will agree with me the most.Although I bet AYG and CA swear that they wont go anywhere when I am driving that car.

Initially it was just the quieter side of sukhna  lake we ventured to , but later on the car pushed us further , to the ouskirts and smaller places , places away from the city. Every single of these little trips has something crazy about it , never intentional. Just happens , it's like we get high without drinking, high on life.

Last time when Swat and I went , still dont know where , the car tyre burst and that was one scary thing. We dont know how to replace it and for good 15 minutes I refused to halt the car thinking it wont start again (err I did not know it was just a flat tyre , thought its much more than that) Awesome aint I? Nobody could be more dumb than that.But when I finally stopped , I was relieved that it was just a flat tyre and nothing else. Fortunately this dude helped us .

Two months with this car and a year with these eccentric people I know my next three years in college are going to be more than  awesome.Few glimpses of trips to nowhere:

Untitled Story Chapter 1

                   ******* Trying to write a thriller , haven't thought of a title***********

He heard a blood curdling scream , followed by an eerie silence. It sent a chill through his spine.

Who could it be on a Saturday night when everyone in the town preferred to be at the happening places instead of the deserted outskirts. He had chosen this location because of this very reason. It was deserted and nobody ever came there.

He was about to dismiss it as a figment of his imagination when he heard it again, this time louder. He immediately put down the crime fiction he was reading and rushed out of his house in his pajamas.

Just as he stepped out of the gate, he was blinded by the headlights of a speeding land cruiser, he jumped in time to save himself from being hit by it. Something is seriously wrong - he thought. He followed the Tyre tracks that the cruiser had left behind for half a mile till it ended near the woods. It was 1 am on his watch. No person in their right senses ever entered these deep dark woods at any time let alone past midnight, he too was petrified. But then he had nothing to lose. It was 9 years back during his NYPD training when he was 20, had learnt to fear nothing. He fished for the tiny torch that he always carried no matter where he was. He had flashbacks of his crime solving days at NYPD . He was the most dangerous officer and no criminal ever managed to escape when he was on a case. Everything was perfect until he until he mistook the chief of police for a drug dealer and shot him. The chief survived and the officer was kicked off the force. NYPD officer Mike Turner after seven years of selfless to the department was fired. Mike dismissed all the thoughts from his mind and walked into the woods. He walked cautiously trying not to make a sound but he did step over a few dead leaves but the crunch of the leaves under his slippers in the pitch dark and dead silent wood seemed like a bullet being shot. As he walked he flashed his torch in all directions somewhere in the woods he could hear a wolf. After a fifteen minute search when he had almost convinced himself that nothing was wrong and it was probably some drunk people being adventurous. When he flashed his torch on the ground he noticed a trail, trail of something being dragged. 

It lead deeper into the woods. He followed it, just when he was near the river that flowed through the woods he stumbled upon something. Losing his balance he fell over it. He looked at what had made him fall and saw it was a body and he could hear the person breathe. Alive and breathing. He knelt next to the body to examine it, the person was lying on his back and had been stabbed in the abdomen. For the first time Mike Turner did not know what to do  at a crime scene. Here he was a fired cop at 1:45 am in the dark woods in the middle of nowhere, with no prove that it wasn't he who had committed the crime. Coming back to his senses he called 911

Mike: Hi Mike Turner here. I am calling from the Green Estates, I have found a man. He has been stabbed in the forest nearby. Please send an ambulance immediately....