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The Wind beneath My Wings

Came back from a week long trip to Pennsylvania, and boy am I in love! I thought Massachusetts/New England was pretty, but Pennsylvania was awesome.

Loads of fun stuff happened, but the “high point” of the trip was sky-diving! I can go on and on trying to put into words how I felt, but this is one thing that is to be experienced, not written or read about. There are a few important lessons I have learnt though, and will keep in mind next time I jump from a plane 10,000 feet above the ground.

1. The quality of the video of the dive is inversely proportional to how well you feel after the dive. The more nauseated you feel after the dive, the better (more Bond-ish/Bourne-ish) you look in the videos and the pics.
2. Start working out a few months before your actual dive, and try to build some muscles. There should be no loose flesh whatsoever on any exposed parts of your body. The extremely high speed is sure to play clay-modeling with your flesh. Now we don’t want to scare our parents by looking like Elastic-man in the videos, do we?
3. In case you can’t develop muscles by then, be well-covered.
4. When attempting to give flying kisses during free-fall, be prepared to give kisses emanating from the nose and the fore-head instead of the lips. Similarly, don’t be surprised if when attempting to give a thumbs-up to the videographer in front of you, one of the thumbs-up is received by the aunty sitting at the window seat of the Boeing 747 flying past you toward your right, and the other by the bird flying below you that just happens to look up toward the heavens.
5. Smile! You’re on candid camera! It is a little difficult to pull-off, considering you are thrown off a plane from 10, 000 feet, but it’s worth trying. You’ll have the pictures for life baba.
6. Enjoy the experience to the max. In spite of all the little bloopers (we have many, amongst the 14 of us who took the “plunge”), the experience is unbelievable! You might not look like a Lara Croft and the pimples adorning your fore-head might be the high-light of every pic, but nobody can take away from you the experience of falling freely, of flying!

*Yeah I’m freeeeeeeeeee….Free falling!!*

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Belated Happy Birthday, Bhatia

It was Bhatia’s birthday on Friday, and since I wasn’t around, I couldn’t write an “ode to Bhatia”. Sorry baba An extra-special ode to you next year! *uummuuuaaah*

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