{"id":59,"date":"2005-12-10T12:45:54","date_gmt":"2005-12-10T17:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sikander.org\/journal\/?p=59"},"modified":"2007-03-19T09:11:35","modified_gmt":"2007-03-19T14:11:35","slug":"rescue-on-highway-401","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/2005\/12\/rescue-on-highway-401\/","title":{"rendered":"rescue on highway 401"},"content":{"rendered":"

my cellphone rang around 330 pm. i picked up and it was shekhar. i knew he was coming to toronto again since shweta was going to participate in the North American Talent Hunt finals. but shekhar & co. had had some trouble on the highway….. they ran out of gas!! lol.<\/p>\n

i know shekhar has a habit of ignoring the gas meter when it gets close to empty. once we were driving from mississauga to north york and the meter was exactly at E but shekhar kept insisting that we have more than enough to make it.. and we did. E is not completely empty but more of a warning to get gas as soon as possible. surprisingly you can drive quite a lot of kms after hitting E.<\/p>\n

but not today. they were stranded on the highway, in the left shoulder, somewhere close to Yorkdale mall. shekhar was wondering if i am free and if i can bring them some emergency gas right away. calling a tow truck would cost more than $100 – $150 just to reach the closest gas station.<\/p>\n

since i wasn’t doing anything majorly important, i agreed and left right away with gas in a small red gas container. they were on 401 west bound while i was driving on 401 east. i passed them about 20 minutes after leaving my house and then made a U turn after yonge street to get back on the 401 express west bound.<\/p>\n

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it was a bit scary driving at 110 km\/h on the fastest lane and then slowing down to come to a halt on the left shoulder. since its winter and there were remnants of the last snow fall on the shoulder, i was worried about whether i would have enough space to come to a full stop without loosing control because of the highspeed and snow. thankfully everything went ok and i reached them safely.<\/p>\n

later in the evening shweta sang in front of more than a hundred people… and she won!!!! now she’ll be going to India for the semi-finals.. airfare paid and provided by the organizers. so cool and awesome. congrats! lunato also called from korea to congratulate here. Rogers TV asked for a short interview and she will be on TV during one of the many multicultural news they have on the Rogers Local channel.<\/p>\n

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we had a late dinner at dennys and then went downtown toronto. eventually around 4 am shekhar dropped me home and they departed for their long journey back to ottawa.<\/p>\n

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my cellphone rang around 330 pm. i picked up and it was shekhar. i knew he was coming to toronto again since shweta was going to participate in the North American Talent Hunt finals. but shekhar & co. had had some trouble on the highway….. they ran out of gas!! lol. i know shekhar has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-25"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XQq-X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}