Visapur Trek – 2nd Oct’08

Visapur Trek – 2nd Oct’08 – Gandhi Jayanti Trek to VISAPUR

DISCLAIMER
I write this blog out of passion, Incase I have hurted anyone in this Blog I simbly don’t care, I use all slang languages everywhere possible in case you don’t like it then why the F are you reading it just FO . . I want all of you who read this blog to leave comments below . . . I know there are lot of grammatical errors in case you find errors please don’t bother to inform me just correct it in your mind and continue reading you ass ! In case you can’t correct in your mind you are worse than me F###er
AKER SOLUTIONS IS NOT A TREKKING ORGANISER ALSO

Ok done with disclaimer let me start about the Trek of Visapur

Scene 1:-
Its been a fuc#### long wait and the old timers of White Smoke Trekkers have been dying for the next trek soon the last we made it to Kothilgad on 15th Aug’08, Finally after a long wait we all decided for the next trek to VISAPUR on 2nd Oct’08

I was just wandering that we almost had all the Trek’s on National Holidays specially many of these days have been on “DRY DAY” I was wondering why is this happening, BUT YES I GOT TO KNOW WHY . . . . . For all those who know Prashant (That same guy who singing “Mumbai Ki Chori’ ka song in the bus”) This Prashant one of trek to Rajmachi dropped a WHOLE QUARTER OF VODKA RIGHT IN FRONT OF the RAILWAY POLICE GAURDS . . . so from that day decided that in case we have any treks on holidays It has be a “DRY DAY” . . .So in short we don’t have Prashant dropping VODKA bottle’s in front of the POLICE MEN

The planning for 2ns Oct was on for almost 2-3 weeks where the short listing for the trekking location was on, the group finally zeroed down on Visapur

This was the first time we arranged a BUS, we usually believe in trekking the desi way public/local transport but based on Prasad’s (Vishwanath) research on the location we finally decided to hire a bus it actually made a lot of difference in terms of comfort level and helped bonding in the team

For the first time we had a group of 27 trekkers (Arpita couldn’t make it for the trek but she ensured we felt her presence by sending her good friend now my good friend also Vishal – He loves to be called Govinda)

Scene 2 : The Trek Day

I was supposed to send a report to my office on 1st Oct nite as usual around 1130PM Mr Ashok was there online on G Talk and we where chatting till 2 AM on 2nd Oct . . . . . The IMPACT OF THIS can be seen soon

The Bus was scheduled to leave Borivali at 5:45 AM and I had kept my alarm at 4:30 AM , I missed my alarm but luckily Prashant my good WST friend called me 5:05 AM and I rushed to the bathroom so that I don’t miss the bus, luckily I was on dot on schedule

BUT the impact on the late night chat with Ashok was there we had to wait for him for almost 30 mins at Andheri making us run behind schedule , Ashok next time don’t be online on the day before the trek you will land up late night on bed if you get me on chat

Though Ashok made it late we then had to start our hunt for the driver God know’s why he did the disappearing act, Maybe he had gone to some temple praying to God please let Ashok come fast

Now Prashanth and me decided lets call Smith and tell I (Glenn) has not yet come . . . Prashanth plotted this idea very well, I almost received 15+ missed calls from her (This made me realized how much she misses me though she denies it every time, I could feel it smitha but) but her sister spoiled the plan as usual, Im not able to plot a successful prank on these colonial sisters, it backfires me THEY KNOW MY WEAKNESS
(Smitha in case you didn’t like the line above Im sure you read the Disclaimer)

Almost all of us got into the bus at Sion station; I was taken by surprise when Jayanthi madam joined us for the trek though the list was out but didn’t strike me heard her lot about madam through Preetha

When Smitha joined us at Sion she immediately started her TC act of collecting and counting the money with Srinivas

All where on BOARD, We started our journey as usual with DUMBSHERA

The new comers in the WST where all thrilled to see our Prashanth act in the DumbShera

We took our tea break at the Food mall at Express highway around 9:00 AM the moment we reached there Vishwanath spotted a Big large grasshopper and we all where rounding up there to have a glimse , Lights and Camera’s where focused on the Grasshopper, The insect was so glad to see the WST team and it gave us wonderful poses

We ordered for Misal Pav, Idli Sambhar and Tea it was first time the hotel was handling such a big order

But by now we where all supposed to move BUT Jayanthi mam already kept everyone glued to her she was all already giving out her management gyan at the b/d table everyone was just hearing her out THE ETERNAL TEACHER I must say
( Jayanti Maam urf Jolly – We the WST are so happy to have you as part of the team), I literally had to drag everyone out from the class session since we where getting late

Unfortunately before reaching Visapur, Vishwanath had to rush back to Mumbai for some personal reasons (Vishwanath – We missed you buddy)

We reached the base of Visapur at 10:30 AM , We all gathered for an introduction session but there was ONE member missing Guess who else Govinda ( Very true with Bollywood Govinda also I heard he reaches late on the SET) ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………ha dotted line shows Govinda has come after some time we now started with our introduction session. . . .This time we didn’t we didn’t mention which animal we associate ourselves with since we realized that we are one of the worst animals on this planet ……………. The HUMAN BEING (Nature knights we stopped copying you )

This time Pradeesh was missing our Ace photographer (Actually he ain’t ace photographer just because he has a DSLR the photos accidentally come good), SO WHAT IF PRADEESH WAS NOT THERE . . . . . . . . Liz was there na with her SLR (She is definitely a good photographer unlike Pradeesh)
[Pradeesh – Please read my Disclaimer, Liz – You needn’t read disclaimer now I will tell you when]

Scene – Trek UP

As you all are educated and surely you know the rainy season is over and obviously the climate would be hot in the morning despite of all this factors we the WST belive in trekking all season , We are planning to Trek during the summers we shall post you on the SUMMER TREK’s ( During summer trek with WST NO water / caps and googles will be allowed, those who survive this trek will be get all sponsored trek to Leh and Ladhak during the winters there
Conditions – You will be sent to Leh and Ladhak with the same clothing you wear for the Summer Trek) Im sure you must have started liking WST now (NO ADENTURE GROUP can you offer you such excitement in life)

Now we hired a professional guide there in Visapur (We just ensured he is not like the same rascala the one we found in Rajmachi, for the benefits of others who couldn’t join us for the Rajmachi trek please read the blog available on whitesmoke-google groups)

YAWNNNNNNN – Im bored of writing so much stuff now but I will continue to write , now you see how much effort im putting to write all this and you guys are enjoying reading , its 1:20 AM Sunday im listening to FM and wring this blog OK now lets back enough of self pity

OK , Now as we started moving up VIDYA SERRAO one of the youngest and bubbly gal and newest member of WST was taking break every step, she was telling why isn’t there a elevator like in a MALL [ We need such people in IBM who think Innovative, IBM believes in INNOVATION, what a prestige to have people like Vidya in IBM not sure why is she wasting her energy in the synergy of OFS ]
[Vidya time for you to read my Disclaimer]

Because of Vidya slow moments our most energetic and old time member Preetha fainted below with Vidya innovative ideas, it took us a while to get her back to senses [Vidya time for you to read my Disclaimer AGAIN]

I also understood from Ashok that our Govinda happened to drop his bag on our Trek up and his mobile slipped in a bush which LIZ noticed and gave it back to him . . . . . . . . BUT LIZ realized that why did she gave the mobile back . . . . . . PLEASE don’t think LIZ wanted to flick the mobile BUT our Govinda took this opportunity to put his full impression on LIZ . . . .Govinda claimed that he has TWO mobiles with 150 numbers each in his mobile he was very thankful to LIZ and told her how happy he was to get the mobile back . . Govinda then continued to pakav LIZ all way long . . . .Also Govinda because of the mobile connection managed to sneak in all the snaps clicked on LIZ SLR [Govinda time for you to read my Disclaimer]

Now we all trekked up and finally reached the TOP

We had a lovely couple also Daksh and Shruti doing the couple trek with WST, very nice to see both of them enjoying their romantic trek hand in hand with their lovely sister Urvi [ Daksh, Shruti & Urvi neednt read disclaimer since I don’t like pulling family leg on blog’s]

Many of them busy taking pics of the ruins

Jayanti maam, Prasanth, Govinda and me managed to get a ROCK ON snap of ours

We then reached the top around 2:30 PM everyone shared their lunch like an happy family, I loved those Theplas , Boiled Corns , cheese sandwich . . . . it was YUM and filling

We then moved to check out the panoramic surrounding of Visapur

We then clicked Group snap on the step

We started our trek down around 3:30 PM

Scene 3

The trek down was the most best moments which Jayanti madam liked in the whole trek and that inspires her to come for the next trek’s going forward all of you should be knowing WHY? by this time [Prashanth stop blushing]

We finally reached the base around 530PM

We had over evening tea and snacks below

We had our feedback session but Prashant was still blushing
We left from Visapur and halted at lonavala at 7:00 PM for some more snacks and few of them picked up chikki and other stuff

Scene 4

This was the best part of the whole trek

We started Antakshari everyone participated, Prashanth was already in cloud 9 ( this was only after the trek down)

During antakshari we realized that Ashok was one of the greatest singer he had had all the songs for the barakadis in the hindi language. . Filmy saala

Vishal sathe kept us entertained with his Shivaji pulling each ones leg

Especially when it came to me I like the song “


- Thanks to all of YOU for making this trek a wonderful trek
- AO to white smoke trekkers

Special thanks to one and all for making this moment a special one

Vish - For arranging on the logistics
Prashanth - For giving personalized treatment to only few
Vishal Patil - For playing his mouth organ
Harsheel - Calling his GF’s from my mobile (I saved her number, Thanks)
Ruturaj -
Urvi -
Daksh & Shruti - Lovely couple
Vishal Govinda - Full of energy For his jokes
Arpita - For missing the trek and introducing Govind to WST
Vishal Sathe - For his Shivaji song
Ashok - During antakshari
Smitha Pillai -
Elizabeth JacobLIZ – SLR
Vidya Serrao -
Deepu Sadashivan -
Sreela Menon
Bharat Madan - For making it on time
Avinash Jadon - For ensuring Bharat was on time
Milind Meher - For getting the water from the fountain
Jayesh Gaikar -
Smitha - Can think of anything write one for you?
Preetha - Stop fainting you weak female
Srinivas Gundlapelli -
Vishal S -
Divya Rao - Call my EA to book my calendar for shooting
Chandrashekhar L -
Jayanti Das - Prashant will write this part