Gagan Kaul Blog

I went on a weekend drive to Pune, a pre-planned activity to beat the regular weekend blues. Instead of lazing around and sitting idle, the drive was a refreshing change from the usual banalities; of course it left all of us tired at the end of the trip. The experience of driving Maruti Swift is simply awesome. The car is smooth as silk even at high speeds. Since I am yet to get the first service done, the maximum that I hit was 90 km/h, with 60 km/h as average speed most of the time. It was raining heavily on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, but the wide roads coupled with excellent tar condition made the monsoon drive extremely pleasant. There was lush greenery all around with waterfalls at a lot of places. The pictures of the trip are posted in my photoalbum.

And a weekend without the trip to Crossword is incomplete. So the current sojourn resulted in me buying Woody Allen’s ‘The Insanity Defense’. It seems to be a good book smeared with sarcasm and humor. I am still half-way through Straight from the Gut. But this book is now a great motivator to complete Jack Welch’s autobiography and hop on to this one.

Woody’s following quote was the decision maker for me:

“Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: Frequently there must be a beverage.”