a 100 kms in the night

Wednesday, May 13

It was frustrating day but the night more than cheered me up.

A week ago, the night shifts had got over. It was back to day time sunlight working hours and how relieved i was to see the end of night shifts. But this day had plans to give nightmares in day-time. 

Me and my team (that is if we are allowed to call 2 ppl a team) were head-banging and  scratching our eyes out to fix some things up. Well we knew from the start that we are asking for trouble big-time since we were trying to make something work in linux when that thing was built for only and only for unix. So after billions and billions of changes here and there and everywhere, we got success and were so happy when things came crashing down all of a sudden. And what we were getting on the screen was a not so pleasant " http 404 not found ". Damn you http.

So after a very frustrating day, i decided to just forget abt the http and go to our "now regular joint" mc-donalds. I asked my friends if any of them would come or would want something but only sarvo, lalit and pradeep showed some interest. So we headed to mcdonalds, took the food and headed to lady's mile beach to enjoy there. We ate to our hearts content and then took off to home. Oh and while driving to lady's mile, pradeep got a bit-scared of my driving i dont know why. But i guess he will get used to it.

So i dropped off lalit and pradeep at their home and headed back when sarvo thought of " lets go and buy milk". For the confused reader, this phrase has kind of become a substitute to just go on a long drive which originated a couple of months ago. In our earlier days in cyprus, we would just head out actually to buy milk and stuff and would end up far away from our home searching for it and many times we returned home without any milk. Thus the phrase caught on and now we just go about buying milk every now and then.

Anyways, coming back on track, i was quite frustrated and thought why not go on a drive and have a good time since driving is one of the things i enjoy the most. So we reached the highway and instead of heading right towards nicosia which has been our route till now, we went left towards pafos. Initially driving with the intention of returing home soon, but then, we had a good chat, nice music in the background, the drive kept going longer and longer and longer. So i finally took an exit towards the aphrodite hills. Assuming the name would be the name of some hill, i headed where the sign-board directed only to land up in front of a resort. So we moved ahead and the next sign-board said secret valley to the right. Secret Valley!!!. What would be secret abt this valley and so we headed there. A narrow road wide enough for only 1 car, trees and small shrubs on both sides, pitch dark, not a sound, we moved on and on and the name of the place was sounding to make sense. It did seem like a secret place unexplored till now, but the end showed a big golf-course. Guess it was not that secret after all to have a huge golf-course.

And now, sarvo removed the gps to find an alternate old route back home. So we followed it, and this was the best part. The road leading back home had a small hilly terrain on the left and the deep blue (maybe should write black in the night) ocean in the night. And no other car traversing on this route. We headed on and on and stopped in a place. There we saw the moon and its sparkling reflection in the water. It was so over-whelming and the sound of the water hitting the rocks below, the sights of city lights in the distant dark, was all too good. We spent a couple of mins there, clicked some pics and headed back.

Then we came across a road leading to pissouri bay. We took that turn and there was no road there. Just a narrow stretch cleared of the trees being called a road. There we found ourselves in front of a beautiful, quiet beach. Sometimes just standing in places like these gives so much peace of mind and brings back that little smile which we yearn for.

After a good drive from there on we were back home in the civilized world. I never imagined the frustrating day would end so well at night. 

A 100 kms that ended my day in tranquility.