Motor Cycle Diaries - I

Motor Cycle Diaries – I

 

This is the first of a series of posts that would detail how I went about learning to ride a motor cycle.

 

The story starts way before I bought my new Motor cycle last February. It start when I actually wanted to ride one and started on my professor's splendor. My professor consented on allowing us - me and my room mate - to learn on his motor cycle. He ended up running behind us so that his motor cycle does not fall.

 

The next chance to learn the motor cycle came when i started using my class mate's Yamaha RX 135 while doing my master's. Obviously, I managed it badly since the gear system in the RX 135 makes you come to neutral after the first gear and then go to second gear. The worst thing was managing the first gear and the clutch without stopping.

 

I did try a couple of times but never really mastered the trade. On the other hand, my brother had already mastered how to drive it while doing his under graduate studies. It was indeed at this juncture that I decided that I wanted to buy my own motor cycle.

 

After a brief discussion at home, where every one except me was dead against buying a motor cycle, we eventually went ahead and booked the bike - a super splendor.

 

What happened next would come in the next posts.

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Fashion Vs. Utility

Fashion Vs. Utility

There are times when we are torn towards buying a thing more impulsively rather than being able to understand why we want to buy it.

We have never tried to think about these. I was an impulsive buyer till I went to one of my sister's shopping trips and came back exhausted - not because she took time but because of the number of things that runs in her mind with respect to buying a dress.

All of us have a need and a perceived need. We are almost always wrong about our perceived need. When we buy something for a need, we would look at the thing from a completely Utility point of view. When we have a perceived need, we - at times - let the utility point go in the air.

Anything that we buy hence should be based only on a real need and not on a perceived need.

Utility is the first thing that we should look when you buy something and not fashion. however fashionable it might be, if it cannot serve the purpose, there is no use for it. Once a item satisfies your real need as well as the utility, should you look at fashion.

This is not to brush aside that fashion is irrelevant. Fashion is required since it makes a thing desirable to use. It also brings the ease of use component in items. However, everything must have its own place when you buy an item. A classic case is the attachment that come with ceiling fans in fancy colours - often golden - that revolve with the fan but serve no real purpose other than being good to look at.

My Daddy Strongest

The other day I had a meeting with some of my old PG class mates and we had a very lively cobversation.

WE came to a point where we were discussing about our respective investments in building a house and I ended up enquiring how my friend managed to finance his house. He ended up saying "My daddy strongest".

We had a good laugh but a few days later, it made me think how I used to think the same whenever I am in trouble...which I am often.

Right from the time when I was stuck up with SBI for my home loan and he came in to push it to the time when I had issues with the EB department over some power lines through my house [yes, through my house] and he came in and smoothened that out.

There are a lot of issues where I would not even have realised that he was there behind. Indeed, some of the ads in India capture the essence of our emotions and helps us with words when we really need them.

Right now it is "My daddy strongest"