A penguin's point of view: The Great Wizards Trip

This post should have come up a long time ago. But due to time constraints and ill health of my computer, that could not happen.

After the mad chase in Delhi, I’m writing about the other awesome events that happened during the trip to Uttaranchal…oops…Uttarakhand.

India TV: Gaur se dekhiye isse…. Anoop turned the boring news report into something really funny by muting the channel and giving out commentary like “yeh aapke bathroom mein bhi ho sakte hain”.

The virus attack: Mundu was attacked by an unknown virus which led to a system crash. The effects were no response to any input and a blank screen. The system also refused to process any food input and expelled it immediately. We suspected that the cause of failure was placing the system in its natural habitat, amidst other similar systems. We were extremely disappointed when the Mundu refused to execute Jhingalala.exe as the executable code was overwritten by the virus. The attack was probably because the other systems were threatened by the presence of the high speed advanced Mundu system. After several attempts to reboot the system, we finally got it working in safe mode, where the system started performing its regular actions at 1/10^th of the regular speed. “Sleep mode” was the only message on the screen at that time. The system then suddenly started functioning at super high speeds, leading to magnificent download rates.

Shilpa’s zoozoo voice: Exertion due to singing activities left Shilpa’s voice in a zoozoo state. The sound output was in very high frequency sounds. Mimicry of the zoozoo voice led to physical fights nearly throwing Ron into the pool.

Ron and his chicken: Ron eats chicken for lunch, chicken for dinner, and chicken for breakfast if given the option. He eats so much chicken that all the chicken-type birds at the zoo started schreeching when he went near their cage. The tiger also consumes less chicken than Ron. We’ve decided to arrange his wedding at a poultry farm followed by reception at KFC (where beep will proudly say “I did my MS here”.)

Gul explaining PJs: This can’t get any better. Gul explained the Sher-lekar joke to me when I asked Anoop where the tiger was. “Let’s keep the windows open at night. The insects would be asleep anyway” was another masterpiece.

The boozing: The girls’vodka party, followed by crazy dancing, middlewear tossing, jumping on the bed. No more to be said about this. *Wink wink*

The boating: We made a 6 seater Indian boat out of the 3 little duckies, and were the center of attraction in the lake. I have lost track of how many people photographed us. Something gives me a feeling that we were on the local front page the next day.

Dumb charades: Crazy games at Corbett park on the first night. Mundu acting out words like mitochondria. “Bhaagte hue bhoot ki udti hui lungi” was another favourite.

The other side of Jyot: We saw a completely new side of Jyot during the trip. Jyot saying “what yaar” all the time, giving out gaalis Dilli style “b***********”, wearing Hawaiian shorts and trying to look firangi, buying a 20 rs yellow ball and getting people to touch and autograph it.

Crazy bus driver: Nanaji, our eccentric bus driver, who cooked chicken and rotis in the open, drove the bus like a plane, leading to people praying and calling up home, possibly for the last time.

Ice cream cutting: The farewell at India Gate. VJ Wiz ice cream. Which I missed thanks to Jet Airways.

Beeped words: A set of strictly banned words like paper, exam, Pandit, wumpus, elly, which led to interesting conversations like “Hey look at the beep family”. “The baby beep is sooooo cute.”