World's best road trip!

Atlanterhavsveien! Also known as the Atlantic Road.

This place is a series of bridges connecting two small towns in Norway. It's an 8.3 km long road, meaning hardly a 15 minute ride. And yet, you fall in love instantly with the flatness, the slopes and the curves!

Driving a convertible on a chilly spring morning can take one into another world!

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Affordable (X)cstacy!

The leading German luxury car makers marched into India a few years ago with it's battalion of beasts and took away more than half the candy from Mercedes.
Here comes another brave new soldier from the BMW stable.

The lowest order link of the X series is here. This SUV has been a success in all other countries and the fate doesn't seem any different in India. It's booked for the next 3 months already.
The looks are typically new-age BMW. A perfect solution to the urban complexities in a grand fashion. Suspension is the key to a good ride and that's where BMW scores all its points on this one. The sharp hood lines convince of a low centre of gravity on this not so magnanimous car. Although, let the size not be a deception as this car has all that can be packed in a small package.
Among the 1800 CC petrol and 2000 CC diesel, the diesel one can be expected to be the better bet.
The engine is a gem and the looks are worth a few heads. Master stroke is the price tag! A BMW X1 can be owned within a price of Rs. 30 lacs.

Joy is what you make of it! And for that price tag, this is joy many can afford!

The first Bang!

Coming out of your teens, you confuse desires with a sense of competition. Everybody does! And in the race to lose your inhibitions, it is important to draw a line. Of course, the line is subjective.

Its like taking your first bike for the first ride and banging into a bus. The bruised knee or oil on your bloody palms doesn't hurt. What hurts most is to see scratches on your fairing and a smashed mug-guard!

The point is to always keep in mind - better sorry than regret!

Say what you need to say!

When you are frustrated and you know it...talk it out!
Lyrics of this beautiful song should help convincing. 

John Mayer - Say

Take all of your wasted honor

Every little past frustration
Take all of your so-called problems,
Better put 'em in quotations
Say what you need to say

Walking like a one man army
Fighting with the shadows in your head
Living out the same old moment
Knowing you'd be better off instead,
If you could only . . .

Have no fear for giving in
Have no fear for giving over
You'd better know that in the end
Its better to say too much
Then never say what you need to say again

Even if your hands are shaking
And your faith is broken
Even as the eyes are closing
Do it with a heart wide open
Say what you need to say...

When you talk, still not many people care. What good will it do to NOT say anything?
Talk it out. Find yourself a mirror! Right now!

Claim

Claim Chowder:

Claim Chowding is speculating and going wrong. Many do it. Many go wrong.
It is good sometimes - good to voice something your hunch tells you, defending it and then going wrong. It makes you smarter about your hunches.

Claim Clouder:
Living in a cloud of estimates and speculations. (Related to dalal street, are we?)


Claim Survivor:
Not an estimate - it is voicing of an opinion you wish was true. You may be wrong, but having an opinion is important. Voicing it is more so. The most important, working towards making it true!

I guess the last one should be the most satisfying.
'Claim chowder' is a term coined by Daring Fireball's John Gruber.