With Jose and ‘THE’ Vitara.
One of the first trips into Shoaib, 4 tree point, 1 tree point, cars getting stuck, digging sand out, BBQ with fine braised sand etc!!
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Steve with … sorry, but I only recognise OG. Someone please chip in with names and comments. I think this was in 1996, Ooty/Kodai .. |
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| With Jeffery |
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One of the many impromptu music and drinking sessions over lame excuses of wanting to eat ‘home cooked naadan curry!’ |
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| Stephen and Arun ... Enjoy in Peace! |
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Marathon camping! No pre-planned agenda other than drive, have fun, camp! Stayed outdoors for I think 2 or 3 nights!  |
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Another memory from this trip was when that silly donkey attacked our camp just before dawn. I saw a brave Prashina peeping out from their tent with glimpses of a rather sloshed Shamil behind her checking on the intruder! I heard you tell her ‘You check Prashi, I am right behind you!’ Ofcourse this comment has never been owned by Shamil who thinks Prashi and I made this up! |
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| Shamil – was this trip with the rather infamous and never said so ‘Not now!!’ comment from Steve?! It was just too cold for Sarah’s friend in the tent. So I reached for the car keys in Steve’s jeans pocket. He was so drunk, very cozy in his sleeping bag that he screamed out loud ‘Not now …. !!’ Ofcourse this comment has never been owned by Steve who thinks Prashi and I made this up! |
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The most painful part about camping is getting the sand out of the tent before pack-up. I think eventually Steve and Shamil invested in a hand-held car rechargeable hoover amongst other gadgets! |
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Shamil and Steve pretending – Not sloshed! No hangover! Yeah rite!  |
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| Stephen and OG - Tull concert in India |
Does anyone keep in touch with Jose?
ReplyDeleteJeez! Shamil, I hope you are not offended by my comments or the photos I have uploaded! U seem to be unusually quite!
ReplyDeleteHey Shyla, here I am finally! Thanks for the step by step classes on how to get here! :)
ReplyDeleteyes, totally offended by all your comments! (NOT!). I should have a lot more photo's of all of us..going to dig them out soon and post them here. It is outdoors season once again here in Dubai..miss the times when we used to camp out...Steve had a way with his GPS (even at one time without batteries!!). Good times....
Heyyy Shamil! Ahlaaaiiiin!!! Sho Akbarak?!!
ReplyDeleteJust like that ok! Wanted to use the 2 bits Arabic, haven't done so for a while ;)
Will look forward to you blogs!
Shamilbhai atlast....
ReplyDeleteits been a while. Shyla, its a bit difficult toi getb hold of young shamilbhai as he`s kinnda travelling all the time - almost being freight-forwraded logically, no, logiostically as he`s now head of north africa and ME of logistics and freight for nokia. so there you go! getting him to come on line is quite a trick....
good on you shamilbhai! when do wwe get to see you with a long blog and lottsa pics?
Khader THE Karady?!! LMAO! Amal?
ReplyDeleteIts no small feat Head of ME and N.Africa, wow Shamil, congratulations! Good on you Shamil!
But you gotta admit - it does feel good right? The heights of corporate success, duty travel etc?!
I loved every bit of it, till self realisation forced me to call it quits. Retired at 37 as Head of Customer Operations Middle East and Africa :) Loved every bit of authority and success tho' :))
Who is Khader the Karady? Mr. Prasad, you seem to have a lot of time? lecky!! :)
ReplyDeleteAnyway, correction there...actually MEA..been doing this for a while now... 4 yrs...so yeah not too bad. But nothing like it if one is in a position to retire as early as you did Shyla!:)