Another episode gone.. This time the epsiode was meant for enjoying and bathing in lake or sea. The journey started with selecting Ashutosh as captain(once again) and riding to Phuket(680 km from the place they were staying). As expected, they could not complete the whole journey on their bikes and a van was hired to port them to their destination. All the way they were sleeping like hell and on reaching their hotel in Phuket, they were still feeling damn tired. Nothing for the day except sleep, sleep and sleep. The next day they reached a place with a great scenic view. A lake with a small wooden platform (with a big storm fan and a drum, few feet away). Ranvijay greeted them explaining their next money task. They were to balance themselves on a drum against the force put by storm fan. The longer they manage to withstand, the more money they would earn. The maximum time limit was 1 minute for each roadie and per second the prize was Rs. 100. Surprisingly as a captain, Ashu chose to go first(to avoid any kind of criticism). He hardly managed to balance and fell into the lake after 2 seconds. The same situation was with other roadies except Nihal and Ankita who balanced for the longest, 13 seconds and 20 seconds respectviely. The stake was increased to Rs. 500 per second as the totality was only 43 seconds. The next day they got a stroll which gave them a shock full of excitement. No immunity task for the day, instead they were taken to Krabi’s beach (remember Kaho Na Pyar Hai song)… They all had a great time flirting around, watching foreign gals having sun bath. Nihal and Ashu topped the charts. After coming back to hotel they got another scroll telling to gather and meet Ranvijay for the elimination. Elimination without any immunity task, strange. The box was opened on meeting Ranvijay. He told them instead of elimination, they had to vote a person whom they think, should stay. One person could get one vote and more than one also. So all could be immune or only one could be immune. Fortunately or unfortunately, all voted for each other leaving behind Vibhor and Ankita.  All discussions between Vibhor and Nihal for eliminating Ashu had fallen into ditch. How to decide the elimination now ? No, not re-vote again… The elimination would be decided by a task, and what a task it was !!!! I liked it and would like to do it on one of our team outings….

The next day they were taken to a sea shore where the setup for the deciding task was done. Two parallel ropes were tied to 2 trees with one rope hanging. What was required to be done was, they had to walk on the rope(holding the hanging rope), starting from one point and reach to the other point. The person covering the maximum distance would win. No time limit with the exception, if both of them fell at the same distance then the time would count.  Vibhor was the first to go. One piece and all fit and fine, I thought he would be able to finish the whole distance. I did not know what happened to him, he started running on the rope. Heights of stupidity there….. and he fell of from the rope. Next one was Ankita, in full pain and not able to walk properly. Nobody expected her to even climb the tree to start the task. But she was determined. Somehow she managed to start the task. She was uncomfortable, all sweaty due to pain and moreover it was raining. She could not balance and finally lost the balance. Now the decision. Vibhor covered around 7 meters and Ankita won by covering 8 meters. So Vibhor had to go.

I think prayers of lots of roadies fan had been heard this time.