The Furobiker

If i am writing a blog about a movie, its needless to say - I loved the movie!

The movie started with Sunny paaji and a firangan wife! There is a special charisma when sunny paaji is in Sardar roles! Ekdum natural get-up lagta hai! :D :D On top of this, he has two chote chote sardar kids, who start shouting 'teri bhen di..' within first 5 minutes of the movie! :D :D

And then it just got better! To start with, the first half of the movie is shot in the backdrops of Banaras! Every few minutes i was jumping when i recognized a street or a ghat! Had they shown some more close ups of the lanes, i could have even told the names of shops of each gali!! What the heck, i even knew the names of so many paan ki dukaan owners in Banaras!! :P :P

Varansi is probably the only place on earth which i can rate higher than Delhi at times! Having spent my best 4 years of life in those lanes, i am simply in love with that place!

Coming back to the topic, the movie is a brainless punjabi ishtyle comedy with no story at all. Everything is a ruckus, acting is clumsy, but still the Funjabi humor of the movie did not let me get up from my chair for whole 2 hours 30 minutes ! :D

The action sequences of the movie have portrayed Sunny Paaji to be the baap of Rajnikant! His one shout can blast the windows and blow up 20 goons! :D Needless to say, if you hit him with an iron rod, the rod gets bent while he barely notices as if something happened ! The best scene was, when Sunny paji is drinking a bucket full of desi daaru! Aaha! :D

Dharam Paaji holds his own place in the movie, though it seems that he would have looked much healthy and better, if he had just bunked a couple of liposuction sessions! :P The firangan has a small role, but when she speaks punjabi - oye hoye hoye! Badi soni lagdi hai! :D

The lead chick - Saheba, i think i have seen here somewhere else also. I guess, she has worked in some stupid saas bahu serials. How do i know? Simply because i watch those at times to kill time :D :D

All in all, a total dhamaal! (Aaila, main to shayar ban gaya!) :P  Anyways, i hope you all will also love the movie. Just remember to put your brain in the freezer before going to this movie! ;)

Here is the title song of the movie - Main Jat Yamla Pagla Deewana - with a few glimpses of the movie!

See the following image, click to enlarge it to see the face of the creepy guy!

Privacy Breach

This guy's name is Neil Patel (he is a NRI I guess), and he is a web entrepreneur of some sort. I visited his blog a few days ago to check out some article.

Now what happened is, after a couple of days of visiting his website, his creepy face started appearing on every website I accessed - Times of India, Economic Times, and many more! First I thought the guy must have started publicizing his blog to Indians too, but then I observed a strange pattern in these ads!

After I visit his blog, these ads disappear for about 2 days, and then again they are splashed everywhere!! It means, this guys website (www.quicksprout.com - Don't Visit!) is installing some trojan cookie or virus on my computer that is reporting back to his servers that i have not visited his website from past 2 days!! And then based on that, his advertisement servers are displaying his creepy face to me everywhere!!

Upon further investigation, I came to know that Neil Patel and internet marketers like him are using spammy companies like ReTargeter - www.retargeter.com (Don't visit their fucking website or else they will start spamming your screen too!!) These companies are installing trojan cookies in your computers and keep a track of your web surfing!!

Where the fuck did a thing named Privacy go? Who the hell gave rights to companies like ReTargeter or people like Neil Patel to intrude my privacy or my surfing history? More than that, why should I be forced to look at his creepy face, with such a looser hairstyle and read - "be cool like Neil Patel" every single time I open Times of India!!

Frankly speaking, there is a nai (barber) who sits just outside my apartment building (Yes, roadside barber!), he gives a much better haircut for just 10Rupees. I guess people will look more cool by visiting that barber instead of your website!

I think you are in a serious need of a reality check Mr Patel!

Click here to read about my first 3 days of travel in Sibiu, Romania

.. After a short 3 hour journey I reached Brasov!

Somehow, I have not been homesick, even for a single day, since I came to Romania. Everything seems exactly like India. As soon as i stepped out of Brasov train station, I was greeted by beggars, of all ages! And then i was flocked by Taxi drivers, of all beard styles! :P

Travel advisory for anyone travelling to Brasov!! Beware of the cab drivers here. Every cab has to have its fare written outside its front door. These cab drivers stand in such a way that you can not read the fare per kilometre! The good cab drivers charge about 1.5 lei per kilometre whereas the other cab drivers charge upto 4 lei per kilometre! 3 times the regular amount!! Son of  a bitch!

Anyways, since i was staying for a longer duration in Brasov (and also because i was running out of money!), I decided to stay in a hostel instead of some fancy hotel. As soon as I entered the hostel room, by God ki kasam, it felt like I dropped from Taj Mahal to jhopad patti! The room was decent, but just three hours ago, the room was awesome! :(


My hostel caretaker was kind enough to create a list of Tourist places in and around Brasov! On top of it, he even mentioned all the local bus numbers for those places! Bus system is strange in Romania. You pay 1.5 lei for stepping in the bus, no matter how far you are going! Needless to say, being a cheapo, I enjoyed multiple end to end rides in the buses, even though my destination was just 2 stops away! Paisa dia hai to wasooli to karni padegi na :D :D :D

Now go up and read the line where i say everything is exactly like India, i was wrong! Some things are even worse!! I was sitting in a McD, munching a burger, and suddenly there was a loud noise at the gate! Some guys (m not sure!) wearing festive dresses and drums in hands entered McDs and started asking for money from everyone! Looked just like Hijras (eunuchs) back in India, playing drums and asking money, but frankly, I never saw any eunuchs entering a McDs in India!


Since only half a day was left with me after train travel, power nap and lunch in hijra filled McD's, I decided to get done with all the museums on Day 1. Museums are anywayz a waste of time and money, but since i had come this far, its better to see what types of commodes did prehistoric Romanians use!  Seriously, the thing that intrigues me the most is to find out the advent of toilet paper in the culture and history of each civilization! :P

I visited some of their largest museums (website link). None of them had any history on the use of western commodes or toilet paper. Phew!

The story of the Churches was exactly same as in Sibiu. From outside, they were pretty awesome, from inside, they were all in ruins. Hence, no photography allowed! GRRR!

I was there when Jejus was born!

This place also had a nice Christmas village, although most of it was dismantled as it was already 28th of December. But whatever was left of it, was awesome. Mainly because the remaining shops were only of  food and wine sellers. :D :D

On day 2, i decided to visit a nearby city (Bran), by bus to see the famous castle of Romanian Dracula (Vlad Tepes)! I am sure most of you must have heard about this term - Tai Tai Fisssss! That is how i sum up my day!

Image taken from the internet. There were too many trees and i couldn't take a full picture

Firstly, the Dracula stories I heard back in India are all fake! Dracul in Romanian means 'evil', hence Dracula was the name given to the evil king. Neither did he had those pointed teeth, nor did he suck anyone's blood. :(

Secondly, the rooms in the castle were so small, I literally roamed around confused for sometime that is this the entrance to a large chamber or the real room??!!. I mean, I get the image of all those castles and forts of Rajasthan in my head whenever i hear the word Castles! But the Dracula Castle's living room (the largest room) is equal to the living room in my apartment. So much for a King, Sigh!

I think the main problem with building a grand castle must have been the installation of heating systems. As there were no electric heaters 200 years ago, only a small room could have been efficiently heated using a fireplace. But Sir, tourists do not buy excuses, all they buy is tickets! (whatever that means :P )

King's bedroom

Anyways, this castle is built in a hilly area, and the temperature was minus 19 degrees with winds at 28kmph! Even though I was looking like an eskimo, but the cold weather was taking its toll on me.

By the time I returned to my hostel room, I had sort of frostbitten feet, with fingers swelled so badly, that i was not able to put my feet back into the shoe.

With my feet not fully recovered from the frostbite, I decided to call it a slow day and visit some malls and churches around the town. I also discovered this Hollywood Ishtyle BRASOV board on the hills :D


Oh by the way, majority of the roads in this city are one way. So you can take the bus from a bus stop just outside your hotel while going to the mall etc, but while coming back, due to the one way roads, the bus will drop you two blocks away! And frankly, being a tourist, how will you know that its your stop, when you are still 2 blocks away! Needless to say, after getting confused 2-3 times, finally I had to get down somewhere midway, and hop into a cab to reach my hotel (through small bylanes) :D


31st of December - I decided to hop into a train and get back to my apartment in Timisoara to celebrate the New Year's Eve with some Indian friends here! Sala ekdum college ki yaad aa gai is bari ke celebration se to! Specially the fireworks at the stroke of midnight were super awesome! And yes, we went to a casino too, to check our luck for the coming year! :D

I don't know who he is, but baraf me har koi Santa Claus lagta hai :D

And kids, with that, we mark the end of a snow filled, fun filled holidays. We will be back with the new version of travelogue once we get a visa to visit some other country!

As soon as i opened the internet today, all i could see was the flood of Bigg Boss 4 related tweets, news articles and what not!

As you must have guessed Shweta Tiwari won! . Anyways, this season of Bigg Boss was the most boring one in my opinion.. Or maybe the theme of the show is getting too repetitive. My interest in this show has been plummeting season by season. (Though the season with Payal Rohatgi is still on the top ;) :D )

So with that, i have almost lost all my interest in the reality tv. Rakhee sawant was struck off the list long ago, and now even bigg boss has been kept on the ignore list. Oh Dear God, i need some new masala to sustain this blog!!

Coming to the other pain point in my life - January! This month of January has a strange feeling attached to it. It is the month, when we get "The Email" from finance department of the office to submit the tax savings proofs. Ghanta proofs! Mostly, till i get those emails, i don't even remember that I have to put a large chunk of my hard earned money under 3 or 5 year blocks so that i don't have to pay the taxes :(

Seriously, this month is a huge bummer on my bank balance. In addition, I have to use my little brains to think about Mutual Funds, Insurance Premiums, Provident Funds and what not... Sigh!

On a serious note its just akkad-bakkad-bambe-bo as i have no idea whatever is written on the big long forms i fill up relating to insurance explanation or mutual funds risks. :P :P  (btw, you can check this site for free insurance quotes for cars )

By the way, apologies for keeping my tavelogue on hold! I have my rough typed notes, which span over 4 pages. Hopefully i will get some free time next week to compile them into a blog post. As you must have guessed, i am spending all my waking hours working these days. :( :(

[[Insert a usual crib about work-life balance here]]

Be right back next week!

I typed most of this travelogue on my phone, while sitting in some restaurant or travelling in the train

Initially, while I was planning my trip, I used to call it only Sibiu. But after seeing "Sibiu - Cultural Capital of Europe" pasted on every nook and corner of the city, I have also started calling it by that name! They got that award in 2007, but i guess they will keep pasting it on their walls for the next 3000 years! Sigh!

Sibiu - Cultural Capital of Europe

Strange things happen to me everywhere, and this place wasnt an exception. My train reached Sibiu around noon and I hired a cab to the hotel. Luckily, this cab driver knew english well. Just to start some small talk, he asked me “You look like a tourist, so where are you from?”. I replied India. His straight next question was “Are you a Musalman?” You got to be knowing India, or Hindi to say “Musalmaan”, right? Because it is a hindi word!! I said “Nopes, Hindu”. And suddenly, he slammed the brakes!! Took reverse on the main road and turned into a very narrow alley!

You know, sometimes you get this strange feeling in your stomach, like you are gonna die at that very moment? I had few seconds of that feeling! But strangely, we reached the hotel within next 20 seconds! Before dropping me off, he said “I believe in lord Buddha! My life completely changed since i started following him!!” Then he went on blah blah that he couldn’t cheat a brother who follows the same God, hence brought me from the short cut! Icing on the cake - He didn’t even take cab fare from me!! Firangi’s are weird I tell you! :D :D

I took the top floor in the hotel, as its balcony was shaped like a hut! :D But, i never knew, the shape of the hut roof is also the shape of the ceiling of the room! Slanted! It was weird when i entered but after 15 minutes, it seemed normal. I am so short i tell you, i cant even touch the slanted ceiling! :(

My hotel room

After taking a short 7 minute power nap, i mustered the courage to go out and walk in the snow! In just 10 minutes walk, i reached this place - Piatza Mare (Large square). Hey, this place too had a christmas village! And certainly much better than that of Timisoara! It played this car crashing game like we used to have in appu ghar!! It was fun to bang some blondes! :D You know what i mean! :P

Car banging game

I also tried my hand foot at ice skating! Sadly, i was thrown out within the first three minutes, as i fell like 5 times in that time! :( :( Ouch! My back still hurts!

During my trip, I tried so many different types of romanian food, i dont even remember the names! None of them was vegetarian though! :D And yeah, the hot and spicy wine tastes super awesome when the temperature is in negatives!

Post that i went to their History Museum. As with all the museums, it was borring! 200Rs wasted! Phew

I walked back to the hotel, thinking it must have been like 1 am seeing the darkness in the sky! I was wrong yet again! It was just around 8 pm. It gets dark here at 5pm in winters! Anyways, i had a lot of time, so took a long shower using free shampoo and conditioner provided by the hotel :D And i so so so want to buy this fluffy white towel which every hotel has!! :((

At around 9.30 pm, I went out to the hotel restaurant for dinner. There was a marriage party going on in the adjoining hall. Since the romanian people eat their dinner between 7-8.30 pm, i was pretty much all by my own in the dinner area! Now go back up and read the line where i say, strange things always happen to me! Suddenly, an old unclejee from the party saw me eating (and also doing sitting dance on Romanian songs :P )! He came over and invited me to show off the Romanian wedding! Duh! Never, ever in your life, try to show off the grandness of a wedding to a Punjabi! Trust me, our coctail parties are grander than the weddings here! :D

Anyhow, i went to the wedding for about an hour. Had some free whiskey, ate some free dessert (It was awesome!) And danced their Penguin dance! Its very very funny dance! You hop like a penguin!! Got tired, came back and crashed on the bed to sleep!

Went out once more, visited some Fortified towers! Seriously man, had it been 17th century, i would have shitted in my pants seeing the level of fortification here! You cant enter this whole town from anywhere, without snipers, hiding in the high walls of the gates and clock towers, arrowing you down! (Remember, there were no guns at that time!)

I also visited some churches! All these churches are being refurbished and their ceilings reconstructed! So you can imagine - No Photography - written in big bold letters outside each of them! Bahar se to ekdum chikne lag rahe the, but it seems, they dont want anyone to publish in inner ruins in the newspapers!

25 feet tall Christmas tree

Went out to that Christmas village one more time, bought some high tech gloves! You know the half-gloves, which only cover half of your fingers? Now on those gloves, add a Mitten (with which you hold dishes out of microvave) like finger cover! Now that mitton cover is removeable! So you can use it as a half-glove when you are inside the home or office and are typing, and you can put in the mitten like cap on the fingers while going out!! This place is full of geniuses i tell you! I bought the whole stock of the seller!! (Roughly 4-5 pairs!)

Then started the biggest snow storm i ever saw!! Within an hour, there was close to a foot of snow outside! I spent the hour watching whole town from a telescope, while sitting on one of the forified towers!

Snow blizzard

I ran back to the hotel, to my hot shower, as soon as the snow slowed down! Spent the rest of the day watching some stupid hindi serial - Bidaai - on Romanian National TV (as it was crazily snowing outside!) Dude, the lead chick in that serial does a bit over on the make-up side!! Secondly, why were they airing such a lame Hindi serial on Romanian National TV??

Got up, packed my bags, and went to catch the train! This cab driver didn’t speak english, so i had to pay cab fare this time! Sigh! :(