Saturday, October 18, 2008

Wonderful "WONDERLA"

I just love trips. This is about the trip we made today to Wonderla.
First of all let me say, awesome it was....!!!
We were 7 of us, an all girls gang. We have been procrastinating this trip for quite a long time and in the end we were actually making it there. I would  reach Minu, Anna, Neenu and Tommy's home at Koramangala. From there we would goto Majestic to pick Franci and then would set off for Wonderla. 
This was the plan. The surprise element in the entire plan was the presence of Acha(Reenu Acha John). I was meeting her after college and that was a wholesome surprise. She remains to be as fat as ever!!!Quite sure that she will kill me reading this...:), although i have told her myself. She reminded me of the  "Still d One" song which i made her dislike after constant playing of the same...!!!! and ofcourse the "Sutta" song tooo...hehe:)
This plan got executed barring the unavoidable and most certain of the delays. on the way, we played UNO.
That was a funny game of cards which only two of the 7 knew properly. But thank god i wasnt a loser in this game compared to the BLUFF that we played in the Munnar trip..!!...But, my folly with the cards continued to reign supreme considering the fact that i failed to call the penultimate card "UNO", almost thrice...!!!
I was just reiterating that i am bad at it.....anyways..
we reached wonderla sometime around 11.30. that was quite late. but then we quickly took tickets and managed to start the rides by 12.
we had planned to start with the wet rides, but that would begin only at 12.30 so, we decided to go for some dry ones.
so here we were, standing in front of "MAVERICK" and "Y scream", confused as to which one to go for?
both seemed to be scary enough. The experienced person among the lot Minusa, gave us directions. we decided to start with Y scream and then MAVERICK. 
the time of waiting for the ride is the actual testing time. we are staring at other people screaming their heads out and thats when a lot of calculations happen in mind as to whether to go for or not...
then suddenly the big sum of 450 comes to the mind...and all confusions diffuse...!!!
there's no looking back.....courage is the last resort...
Y scream was dready for the first ride...it wasnt as scary though as expected....the only thing that needs after the same is some amount of stability to be provided to your head after all the turns and more of turns...
at that moment, i thought this was the most scariest one other than hurricane....but i was only wrong...
there was one "INSANITY" to come....!!
now that we were done with the BADE BAAP, MAVERICK would not be a problem at all, we thought.
we 7 of us lined in the back row. This time i was determined to keep my eyes open for the entire duration of the ride. that was a personal challenge. another collective challenge that we set for all of us was to count the number of upside down turns and the diagonal turns and to scream it out load !!!! (crazy us..!!)
by now it was past 12.30 and we set off for the water rides. water splash was on the way....
it was too good, that removed the twisty-turny feelings and we were refreshed...!!!
the WAVE POOL was the next followed by the RAIN DISCO. we danced and enjoyed our hearts out.
we were recollecting all those dances that happened during hostel days.... the old steps..the manjusha step...
d micheal jackson step...likewise...hehhehe:)...and ofcourse the regular gapfiller of those days and still now----mangapari -chelikkuthu:)..
the water pendulum and the twisters were the next. franci was shit scared of all the water rides, so was acha wid the dry ones...!!but both managed well.....they r brave...hmmm!!!
twister was kinda boring...so we went for the more adventurous VERTICAL FALL....
That was the coolest of the water rides....without any safety gear....just a free fall...franci screamed the hell out of that place....!!
now that again, as we mastered the toughest one, we went for free racer, uphill racer and banded traits. 
if the free racer was flat, sliding and easy , the uphill racer was a bit more steeper and wavy...
one girl got stuck up in between because of lack of momentum because of her lesser body weight....
no too much physics here:)
we had got splitted after the vertical fall as 4 others, anna, neenu, acha and minu had decided to go for boomerang whereas we 3, tommy, franci and myself decided to go for uphill racer...we got separted after that...
we couldnt find them out, in the course of the search whereby we went for DROP ZONE and NET WALK..
Drop Zone was good and Net WALK the regular stuff...
we were on the look out for the 4...
we were hungry, none of us had even a single penny with us, neither the locker keys and we were not finding those 4...
after a hell load of searching....at last..we found them...near the restaurant itself!!!
had loads of food.....and then again...went for CRAZY CARS...
only i could make it to that as he dint notice that i was wet....
i literally jammed to everyone else's car....so did the other's in the group..
the other's later said that my expressions were way toooo funny..!!!....it was as if i was venting out all my frustration...i was literally fighting..hehehe:)
from there we went for BAMBA....that was too kewl..
i started off well, only to find that there was some locking error. in between the ride was stopped and the fault was detected ....the lock got corrected and we got to ride it twice....we were all dancing..it was absolute fun..
minusa was very enthu about her TORA TORA..her pet name for INSANITY..
she terribly wanted to go for it...and she wanted us also to accompany...
so...there we were all @ INSANITY...
the only thing i remember is the bad words showered by anna and neenu on her(minusa!!) after the ride..
that was actually an insane ride...
but still, i loved it.....the twisty turny INSANITY....we were all flying...n flying...
it was almost time by then...
we had to decide between giant wheel and musical fountain...
we decided on the fountain...
the laser show was way toooo kewl......amazing it was...
the laser beams coming from the projector, the smoke fumes that were sprayed in to it...which created the whole 3D effect....it entralled us....!!
it was 7....and we 7 were finding it hard to leave. 
but, that was the end of an absolutely rocking day...!!! of total adventure, fun and frolic....we all enjoyed to the max...as we wanted...
packed our bags by 7.30 and there we were, in the rented Qualis...back home...
dropped down at franci's place to meet anupa, hridya and mili...
i was meeting anupa after college for the first time.....10 friends from college days....it was kinda REUNION...

I just HOPE that this hope remains,
the hope that we would meet all the more again,
the hope that the friendships would be stronger and harder,
as the days pass by...
i just hope that i shall not stop hoping to hope more!!!








10 comments:

pets2goodhomes said...

Superb boss! simply superb... u jotted down every bit of it. The vertical fall was my fav one n i loved it even more watching each one of ur expressions! esp... franci's scream n poor serin got traumatized after that :D
oh yeah u bet i aint gonna forgive u for that comment on me. wait till i meet u nxt... I will make sutta out of u itself! :)
N keep hoping dear, more and more cause this friend of urs here aint gonna let u down for sure!

Radhee said...

@acha
seems like i will be crushed the next time i see u.....
ohhhhh myyyyyy godddd.....
lol:)

donichayen said...

Too detailed yaar... but what flair!

cheers..

you will have to write about Dhoni soon
I am falling in for him. n yesterday when he presented dada with one stump, I got a big feeling.. cant explain, wont understand..

continue..

Radhee said...

@doni...
ya...i hav been and continue to be a gr8 fan of Dhoni...:)
ofcourse remember i was called by his name after ma loyola...mayb u might not be knowing that piece of info...hehhe:)
anyways, i feel that he's one of the most cool and level headed bloke in the contemporary cricket arena.
i am too sad that i cudn see the stump being presented to dada, but can imagine how u might have felt for both of dem..!!!
dada being ur fav...ofcourse..

mashe..i can understand that...
i guess, this is one good great example of a selfless deed or happiness from us...
our fanship is our pleasure...but apart from that pleasure we are not getting anything seeing this game, right?

but...the happiness for sure..is exhilarating..!!!

GMW said...

haha..though Oh !Phew !! were my first impressions after seeing the mile long passage by a maverick by herself,it soon became Aha ! gr8! while reading thru and finally kewl! wen I read the last line and sat firm on my chair...Really a stunning passage,I cudnt resist the temptation of jumping up from my chair(Infact I did once,and my manager's eye collided with mine..i read a question "Dude..wat went wrong??..Is ur code surprisingly working or u got a bee sting")..that forced me to take back my seat...hmm,Though the characters are absolutely alien to me,their so called adventure make me believe that they are essentially humans..I really enjoyed the vicarious pleasure of being in Wonderla..My only complaint that for a person who himself believes to be suffering from ADD,it takes a little pain to read thru completely..but I did..thanks to the wonderfully fluid style of writin..Hats off to u dear Friend...Keep on writing...But,Lemme go back to sleep before the vile eyes of my TL are cast upon my code

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MC said...

After lot of scope and resolution here is my comment:)
In your words simbhly KEWL, by the way this is the seventh comment for the blog "The trip that we 7 made:)".

Every line i read jostles me into the plots you gals enacted and i bet the script here is better then the play:).Regarding the Maverick that is indeed the God of all!! and you rejuvenated my wonderla trip. I ll definitely encourage guys at home for another trip, if denied, this link will be enough for their approval.
I loved the way you hope on hope and the frankness and rawness in your writing and I bet your friend wont spare you (use your hope theory then).
Keep blogging more trips so that we virtually enjoy more than you.

minu said...

dont ya dare blame me for my tora tora.. :)))..wsnt dat an experience?? nw u knw hw clothes feel ven de r being washed in washin mchine...cool!!!
i vudn forget francie's scream 4 anythn in dis wrld...cant help laughn jus readn bout it..
hope reading dis entry after yrs will bring bak de same feeling in me.. :0 am glad u wrote dis

KIDS said...

Nice one to read ! The way of presentation augmented the speciality of each and every shots; well by mature.Still contemplating on which section you emphasized, should I comment on.

Way sure by miles that it was a hell out of high time for ya ladies :)

Three cheerio to the gang!



Take Care,

Akhil

Soumya said...

fabulous!!!!it almost felt like being there wit you guys for the trip...superb writing as always..keep posting !!!