AGUMBE

the next snaps were taken ten minutes before....

more closer to heaven than earth.....

if it didn't rain 330 days in the year, i'd ride up this road more often...

at the summit.....

partly in the clouds....

18 til I die

Wanna be young - the rest of my life
Never say no - try anything twice
Til the angels come - and ask me to fly
Gonna be 18 til I die - 18 til I die

These were the words running through me the other day when out of the blue someone asked me if I was a fresher… happened to be in the university at the time the admissions were going on, a friend’s mother’s friend’s daughter (hope I used the apostrophes correctly there) was getting into college… and me being the ever helpful guy volunteered to help the out of towners in the process… the oldies had gone on some errands and the freshie was filling some forms… and me playing on my phone as usual (my favorite pastime) when I heard this oh-so feminine voice from the next sofa go ‘are u a fresher’…

Ahhh was so nice to hear those words… I surely must be growing younger everyday… thank god I had shaved that morning… turned to look at who it was and I almost missed her… there was this 5 feet something sittin in the next sofa… it surely couldn’t have been her… not that midget…. As if she understood, she repeats herself with a crooked smile… think she wanted to rag me… almost said yes… but somehow blurted out that I was here with another fresher… damn I thought… it would have been fun to be ragged by her… chatted her up… she had that cheeky grin all the while… turned out that she was a fresher herself…

Been lookin out for her since then to rag her… but alas… no luck… don’t think I’d actually rag her though… how can I… she’s said the best thing I’ve heard in a long time…

And as Bryan would have said…

Wanna be young - the rest of my life
Never say no - try anything twice
Til the angels come - and ask me to fly
Gonna be 18 til I die - 18 til I die

Can't live forever - that's wishful thinkin'
Who ever said that - must of bin' drinkin'
Don't wanna grow up - I don't see why
I couldn't care less if time flies by
18 til I die - gonna be 18 til I die

Ya it sure feels good to be alive
Someday I'll be 18 goin' on 55 - 18 til I die
Anyway - I just wanna say
Why bother with what happened yesterday
It's not my style - I live for the minute
If ya wanna stay young - get both feet in it - 18 til I die

A 'lil bit of this - a 'lil bit of that
'Lil bit of everything - gotta get on track
It's not how ya look, it's what ya feel inside
I don't care when - I don't need ta know why


18 til I die - gonna be 18 til I die
Ya it sure feels good to be alive
Someday I'll be 18 goin' on 55 - 18 til I die
Ya there's one thing for sure - I'm sure gonna try
Don't worry 'bout the future
Forget about the past
Gonna have a ball - ya we're gonna have a blast
Gonna make it last

Crash boom bang….

Apart from the bang I guess that’s how it would have sounded when I touched the ground with my ride. More than the bodily hurt I was more concerned bout my bike. How could I let this happen, how could I have done this to the only thing that mattered to me… my bike… never happened before (apart from the falls on other bikes), not once in our association of four years… I was too careful… nothing would ever happen to my gleaming machine I had vowed… me and my bullet... the minute I sat on it we were one.. nothing could do us apart until I reached my destination which would include a lot of detours en route just for the sake of a good ride… happened the same way this time too.. Front wheel locked... Rear end spun… bike went down and so did I… for the first time I was wishing that we weren’t one…
The aftermath… turns out that the bike didn’t even feel it… nothing significant other than a bent lever which was repaired in ten minutes by my trusted mechanic rash… and me… I managed to bruise all four limbs… was in bed for a day… was banned from the OT for the past month for fear of infection (I had open wounds), no not infecting my wounds but me being a source of infection inside the OT… almost a month now, the wounds have healed.. had decided to enter OT today but then turns out it was closed as there was some organism growing somewhere… my my thank god a didn’t enter OT all these days… who would have infected whom…