a lot has happened lately and i as usual have been at my lethargic best not to pen down all of them and keep this blog updated.
All my roomies left to different places and left me all alone in bangalore :( { miss u all }, went to college and got some really nice pics... i have also been to an exhilirating trip to coorg, ran 10 km in 1 hr 10 min... {yeah i am a stud :) } ... and i have shifted to a new place in bangalore... i have seen some good movies.. read some nice books.. wanted to post a blog about sachin tendulkar too {I am a die hard fan of sachin... and most of you know that}..... but all these have to wait. .. err.. had to wait..
will update this blog soon....
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Monday, April 27, 2009
Cycle
Every year what happens with you is mostly like a cycle, like a series of events which happen sequentially spread over a time of a year and that cycle changes from when you are kid to a teenager to a man who has responsibilities until you finally die. At least this is what I think. Over the years, the cycle has taken different shapes for me and many who are reading this.
I used to hate holidays when I was a kid and was very eager to see the school start so that we can have one more year of competitive knowledge thirst quenching. That cycle was interesting for me. The part of the cycle which is called holidays was the one that I did not hate though but did not enjoy very much. Then it was when I was college during my under graduation when we had 4 months of holidays per year which was some amount of time. But then the 4 years of college did not seem much of a time to pass by as events like ragging in the first year, getting adjusted to a new class and classmates in the second year, tours and event management in the third year, placements and parties in the fourth year took place. Time passed by, I did not even realize that I had to spend the rest of my life either by taking responsibilities or more responsibilities. This cycle was the best of all and never did I hate any part of the 4 years much.
But when you get an opportunity to study more, you would die to do that, for reasons which more or less obvious. Firstly you are doing that to earn more. And again you meet more people, you have 2 more years of fun and 2 more years where you do not have to earn money and spend, rather you have papa’ s money to spend :). So, I have been trying to do this from the past three years. But somehow the odds do not favor you and suddenly you are stuck in another cycle, another year of confused, complex living where you just go where the fate takes you. God, I hate this cycle. Having said this, aren’t many of you going through one or the other cycle, which has complications either less, equal or more than what I have? Sadly, you can’t escape it, neither can I. So, just relax, take a deep breath and keep cycling :).
I used to hate holidays when I was a kid and was very eager to see the school start so that we can have one more year of competitive knowledge thirst quenching. That cycle was interesting for me. The part of the cycle which is called holidays was the one that I did not hate though but did not enjoy very much. Then it was when I was college during my under graduation when we had 4 months of holidays per year which was some amount of time. But then the 4 years of college did not seem much of a time to pass by as events like ragging in the first year, getting adjusted to a new class and classmates in the second year, tours and event management in the third year, placements and parties in the fourth year took place. Time passed by, I did not even realize that I had to spend the rest of my life either by taking responsibilities or more responsibilities. This cycle was the best of all and never did I hate any part of the 4 years much.
But when you get an opportunity to study more, you would die to do that, for reasons which more or less obvious. Firstly you are doing that to earn more. And again you meet more people, you have 2 more years of fun and 2 more years where you do not have to earn money and spend, rather you have papa’ s money to spend :). So, I have been trying to do this from the past three years. But somehow the odds do not favor you and suddenly you are stuck in another cycle, another year of confused, complex living where you just go where the fate takes you. God, I hate this cycle. Having said this, aren’t many of you going through one or the other cycle, which has complications either less, equal or more than what I have? Sadly, you can’t escape it, neither can I. So, just relax, take a deep breath and keep cycling :).
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Tour Diaries-1
Antara gange.... hmmm..let's see... the idea to go here all started an hour before we actually started... which might seem stupid... but actually was worth more than what we really expected...
the idea of going somewhere started a week back with the most of the discussions driven crazily by muddu. At first, we were all game to go to Skandagiri, which is a damn good hill trek and a nice spot to catch the glimpse of the early sunrise... two of our team(rampi and rp...for convinience .. i named the people in the photo) were already there and thus thought it would be a redundant effort for all of us to go there..( though i am bit sad that we did not make it to skandagiri.. i am glad that we made it to antara gange...)
we started on a saturday night... in fact to say..it was the early hours of sunday ... at around 12... i took uma's bike... (my room mate... and no uma is not a girl...it's uma shankar)... fuelled it at the nearest spot and we 8 ( me, muddu; rampi,rp; kasyap,jp; macha, murali) hit the roads... at around 12:30 in the morning... the ride to antara gange.. was scary.. as the roads to that place were all under construction and with the heavy truck vehicle traffic .. it was hard to drive at more than 50... (for me)... we stopped at a near by dhabha to fuel our stomachs... i as usual had a cup of tea... ok..two.. to get going....
funny things happened enroute...macha... forgot to actually turn on the lights of his bike.. and all the way was complaining of bad light... and murali was scared...because macha has some history with his bike...rampi and rp encountered with a local police who reprimanded them for the very idea of going on a night trek to that place...
at last we reached the place at 3:15 and the we were looking for the way to start our trek.. we dint have a clue where to start it from.. neither did we find a potential start point in that night... all we had was 4 torches and 8 of us... then we saw ... two ghostly figures walking towards us... actually they really looked like ghosts from a distance... and when asked if we could go ahead and start the trek... one of them was really serious and asked us not to start that... in arundhati movie style... which mr murali.. by the way... has copied very well...
but then ... this another guy turned up and he encouraged us to start our trek.. and with the torches we begin our trek up hill. it was a good trek...with the torches.. and we reached up hill by an hour.. then at around 4:30... then we did try to explore some places over there .. as the uphill part was like a small village... but we were dead scared.. as a herd of dogs almost chased us.... from no where... and some how were out of that hitch.
next thing we did was to find... a nice to place on a hill top to watch the sun come out and dazzle us.. which it did..eventually...
overall the tour was damn good... and a night trek worth remembering...
and in the end... pradeep and bhanu... dont tell mom that i went there on bike... she will kill me...
the idea of going somewhere started a week back with the most of the discussions driven crazily by muddu. At first, we were all game to go to Skandagiri, which is a damn good hill trek and a nice spot to catch the glimpse of the early sunrise... two of our team(rampi and rp...for convinience .. i named the people in the photo) were already there and thus thought it would be a redundant effort for all of us to go there..( though i am bit sad that we did not make it to skandagiri.. i am glad that we made it to antara gange...)
we started on a saturday night... in fact to say..it was the early hours of sunday ... at around 12... i took uma's bike... (my room mate... and no uma is not a girl...it's uma shankar)... fuelled it at the nearest spot and we 8 ( me, muddu; rampi,rp; kasyap,jp; macha, murali) hit the roads... at around 12:30 in the morning... the ride to antara gange.. was scary.. as the roads to that place were all under construction and with the heavy truck vehicle traffic .. it was hard to drive at more than 50... (for me)... we stopped at a near by dhabha to fuel our stomachs... i as usual had a cup of tea... ok..two.. to get going....
funny things happened enroute...macha... forgot to actually turn on the lights of his bike.. and all the way was complaining of bad light... and murali was scared...because macha has some history with his bike...rampi and rp encountered with a local police who reprimanded them for the very idea of going on a night trek to that place...
at last we reached the place at 3:15 and the we were looking for the way to start our trek.. we dint have a clue where to start it from.. neither did we find a potential start point in that night... all we had was 4 torches and 8 of us... then we saw ... two ghostly figures walking towards us... actually they really looked like ghosts from a distance... and when asked if we could go ahead and start the trek... one of them was really serious and asked us not to start that... in arundhati movie style... which mr murali.. by the way... has copied very well...
but then ... this another guy turned up and he encouraged us to start our trek.. and with the torches we begin our trek up hill. it was a good trek...with the torches.. and we reached up hill by an hour.. then at around 4:30... then we did try to explore some places over there .. as the uphill part was like a small village... but we were dead scared.. as a herd of dogs almost chased us.... from no where... and some how were out of that hitch.
next thing we did was to find... a nice to place on a hill top to watch the sun come out and dazzle us.. which it did..eventually...
overall the tour was damn good... and a night trek worth remembering...
and in the end... pradeep and bhanu... dont tell mom that i went there on bike... she will kill me...
Monday, April 6, 2009
sweet syllables....
Nothing great from side... just wanted to post lyrics of one of my favorite songs
O cheliya naa priya sakhiya ....
Movie: Premikudu
o cheliya na priya sakhiya chey jarenu na manase
e chota adi jarinado aa jaade marichitine
nee andelalo chikkookoondani nee padamoola cheritine
premante enni agachatlo mana kalayika telipinade
na goondelalo prema paravasamai iru kannulu solenule
o cheliya na priya sakhiya chey jarenu na manase
e chota adi jarinado aa jaade marichitine
eepoota cheli na mata ika karuvaipoyenule
adharamu udharamu nadumoona edo alajadi regenoole
veekshanalo nireekshanalo ara kshanamoka yoogamele
choopulanni ventadinattu madi kalavaramayenoole
idi swargama narakama emito teliyadoole
ee jeeviki jeevana maranamu nee chetilo unnadile
o cheliya na priya sakhiya chey jarenu na manase
e chota adi jarinado aa jaade marichitine
kokilamma nuvvu sai ante ne padenu sarigamale
gopurama ninu cherukoni savarinchenoo nee kooroole
vennelamma neeku jola padi kali metikelu virichene
veecheti chali gaalulaku terachapai nilichene
na asala oosule chevilona chebutane
nee adugula cheragani guruthule prema charitalu antane
o cheliya na priya sakhiya chey jarenu na manase
e chota adi jarinado aa jaade marichitine
nee andelalo chikkookoondani nee padamoola cheritine
premante enni agachatlo mana kalayika telipinade
na goondelalo prema paravasamai iru kannulu solenule
o cheliya na priya sakhiya chey jarenu na manase
e chota adi jarinado aa jaade marichitine
ain't they beautiful lyrics....??
O cheliya naa priya sakhiya ....
Movie: Premikudu
o cheliya na priya sakhiya chey jarenu na manase
e chota adi jarinado aa jaade marichitine
nee andelalo chikkookoondani nee padamoola cheritine
premante enni agachatlo mana kalayika telipinade
na goondelalo prema paravasamai iru kannulu solenule
o cheliya na priya sakhiya chey jarenu na manase
e chota adi jarinado aa jaade marichitine
eepoota cheli na mata ika karuvaipoyenule
adharamu udharamu nadumoona edo alajadi regenoole
veekshanalo nireekshanalo ara kshanamoka yoogamele
choopulanni ventadinattu madi kalavaramayenoole
idi swargama narakama emito teliyadoole
ee jeeviki jeevana maranamu nee chetilo unnadile
o cheliya na priya sakhiya chey jarenu na manase
e chota adi jarinado aa jaade marichitine
kokilamma nuvvu sai ante ne padenu sarigamale
gopurama ninu cherukoni savarinchenoo nee kooroole
vennelamma neeku jola padi kali metikelu virichene
veecheti chali gaalulaku terachapai nilichene
na asala oosule chevilona chebutane
nee adugula cheragani guruthule prema charitalu antane
o cheliya na priya sakhiya chey jarenu na manase
e chota adi jarinado aa jaade marichitine
nee andelalo chikkookoondani nee padamoola cheritine
premante enni agachatlo mana kalayika telipinade
na goondelalo prema paravasamai iru kannulu solenule
o cheliya na priya sakhiya chey jarenu na manase
e chota adi jarinado aa jaade marichitine
ain't they beautiful lyrics....??
Monday, February 23, 2009
India Calling ...
Need an Oscar???... come to the east .... Slumdog has revealed just a few aspects of Indian cultures and poverty at its best. You will find more...
Pinki smiles is one other documentary on India which has won the director an Oscar. Centuries ago, many travellers and foreigners came to india as it was called the golden bird... "Sone ki chidiya"... And they thought they looted everything from india... the britishers, the portugeese.. the mughals..
Nope.. they were wrong ... India still has a tremendous potential to be exploited.. and no it is not it's riches that i am talking about... it's the mediocrity... that the world is trying to cash upon ...
I feel slumdog is a decent movie but it is over rated way above it's standards.... and it has won 8 oscars.
And Anil kapoor says.. "Fantastic!!! Can you believe it??"...
No i don't... As many other indian directors and actors would agree that there were many other great movies that Indian cinema has come up with,,,
The likes of black, swades, taare zameen par, lagaan, ab tak chappan... are rarely acknowledged in the global arena..
Million other rahman fans would agree with me that he has produced better songs than these..
I agree that... the hard work has payed off...but i feel that... the music scores for the original indian movies should also be nominated for the awards tantamount to the oscars...
In these tough times of recession... if you want to have bullish run... come to india... :)
Pinki smiles is one other documentary on India which has won the director an Oscar. Centuries ago, many travellers and foreigners came to india as it was called the golden bird... "Sone ki chidiya"... And they thought they looted everything from india... the britishers, the portugeese.. the mughals..
Nope.. they were wrong ... India still has a tremendous potential to be exploited.. and no it is not it's riches that i am talking about... it's the mediocrity... that the world is trying to cash upon ...
I feel slumdog is a decent movie but it is over rated way above it's standards.... and it has won 8 oscars.
And Anil kapoor says.. "Fantastic!!! Can you believe it??"...
No i don't... As many other indian directors and actors would agree that there were many other great movies that Indian cinema has come up with,,,
The likes of black, swades, taare zameen par, lagaan, ab tak chappan... are rarely acknowledged in the global arena..
Million other rahman fans would agree with me that he has produced better songs than these..
I agree that... the hard work has payed off...but i feel that... the music scores for the original indian movies should also be nominated for the awards tantamount to the oscars...
In these tough times of recession... if you want to have bullish run... come to india... :)
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Random observations
Random Observations:
I solicit the readers, followers of this blog not to expect any correlation between the posted observations...( i know this is redundancy as the topic clearly mentions..."Random Observations"...but still... bolne mein kya jaata hai...). this post is intended to be a big one as i have taken long time to write a new post...
1) I have recently completed the book "Between the assassinations" by Aravind adiga and it is a not complete let down but a bad second one after a good debut. The name of the book is in no correlation with the content and it would have been better if the author named it as "Kittur days". The two assassinations mentioned in the title of the book are that of Indira gandhi and rajiv gandhi. I am not sure whether the incidents are real life incidents btween these to incidents but the content was surely not comparable to White tiger. The story is very much similar to the R.K. Narayan's Malgudi days. I am a very big fan of Malgudi days.. so might be many of you, so i found the book by adiga a bit interesting. The narration as it was in white tiger, very good in this book too. I would rate it 2 out of 5 and recommend you to buy Malgudi days than this one as it is much cheaper and much better.
2) Recently, i have been to warangal, my native place and have been to few temples. due to the unavailability of bike, i had to travel in an auto rickshaw. I have observed that the margins that they strive so hard for are in the range of 1-2 rupees per ride. It has been the same always, but as i have been staying in bangalore for the past 16 odd months, i have observed how totally contrasting the two regions are. I accept that the living standards are very high in bangalore, but margins of 15 bucks(average) per ride in bangalore is really very high. Hardly any auto rickshaw driver in bangalore agrees to abide to the rules of the meter. Time may come when.... the only customers in bangalore malls will be auto rickshaw drivers going for pepe's and wrangler's and chilling out in coffee day's and barista's.
Hope in the times of recession (and due to reduction in the global crude oil prices) at least the prices of auto charges come down.
3) The above pic is from the train from bangalore to kacheguda, which i captured in my mobile camera. It is sheer negligence of the railway department and this lax can be very dangerous. the dc power outlet where there is a facility to charge the mobile phones was kept completely open. This happens to be just beside the sink and rest rooms and thus can be very dangerous. I incidentally warned one of the co-passangers of the peril as he was about to rest with his back towards the dc power outlet.
4) In the wake of the recent developments in karnataka and the actions by sri ram sene(SRS) in mangalore, the chief Pramod muthalik has been arrested and the same person has been released on bail after 2 days. He happens to make a statement yesterday in CNN-IBN that he has plans to ruin Valentine's day in bangalore. He says "Pyaar karne ke liye ek day nahi chahiye. Aaj karo, abhi karo, kabhi bhi karo (You don't need a day to celebrate love. Do it whenever. It's a feeling, why a day?)".....
I have utmost respect for the indian and hindu values, but this kind of moral policing is not just. I believe that the traditional values of India have been and will be carried generation after and generation and there is no doubt about it. But we have to welcome different traditions into our system. It is absolutely the right of an individual how he wants to lead his life , ofcourse not disturbing the communal harmony, and Amen!(So be it!)....
The statement made by muthalik can be easily countered that any other festival in india which are celebrated with great enthusiasm and shraddha.. can be celebrated on any other day.. why have specific dates to do that. For example dusherra which is celebrated on the name of the victory of good over bad... can be celebrated on any other day... why celebrate on that very dashami of the year....
Many more incidents to discuss.... but.. i shall pen down my thoughts...soon..in another post... Till then.. Have a nice time.. Aloha!
I solicit the readers, followers of this blog not to expect any correlation between the posted observations...( i know this is redundancy as the topic clearly mentions..."Random Observations"...but still... bolne mein kya jaata hai...). this post is intended to be a big one as i have taken long time to write a new post...
1) I have recently completed the book "Between the assassinations" by Aravind adiga and it is a not complete let down but a bad second one after a good debut. The name of the book is in no correlation with the content and it would have been better if the author named it as "Kittur days". The two assassinations mentioned in the title of the book are that of Indira gandhi and rajiv gandhi. I am not sure whether the incidents are real life incidents btween these to incidents but the content was surely not comparable to White tiger. The story is very much similar to the R.K. Narayan's Malgudi days. I am a very big fan of Malgudi days.. so might be many of you, so i found the book by adiga a bit interesting. The narration as it was in white tiger, very good in this book too. I would rate it 2 out of 5 and recommend you to buy Malgudi days than this one as it is much cheaper and much better.
2) Recently, i have been to warangal, my native place and have been to few temples. due to the unavailability of bike, i had to travel in an auto rickshaw. I have observed that the margins that they strive so hard for are in the range of 1-2 rupees per ride. It has been the same always, but as i have been staying in bangalore for the past 16 odd months, i have observed how totally contrasting the two regions are. I accept that the living standards are very high in bangalore, but margins of 15 bucks(average) per ride in bangalore is really very high. Hardly any auto rickshaw driver in bangalore agrees to abide to the rules of the meter. Time may come when.... the only customers in bangalore malls will be auto rickshaw drivers going for pepe's and wrangler's and chilling out in coffee day's and barista's.
Hope in the times of recession (and due to reduction in the global crude oil prices) at least the prices of auto charges come down.
3) The above pic is from the train from bangalore to kacheguda, which i captured in my mobile camera. It is sheer negligence of the railway department and this lax can be very dangerous. the dc power outlet where there is a facility to charge the mobile phones was kept completely open. This happens to be just beside the sink and rest rooms and thus can be very dangerous. I incidentally warned one of the co-passangers of the peril as he was about to rest with his back towards the dc power outlet.
4) In the wake of the recent developments in karnataka and the actions by sri ram sene(SRS) in mangalore, the chief Pramod muthalik has been arrested and the same person has been released on bail after 2 days. He happens to make a statement yesterday in CNN-IBN that he has plans to ruin Valentine's day in bangalore. He says "Pyaar karne ke liye ek day nahi chahiye. Aaj karo, abhi karo, kabhi bhi karo (You don't need a day to celebrate love. Do it whenever. It's a feeling, why a day?)".....
I have utmost respect for the indian and hindu values, but this kind of moral policing is not just. I believe that the traditional values of India have been and will be carried generation after and generation and there is no doubt about it. But we have to welcome different traditions into our system. It is absolutely the right of an individual how he wants to lead his life , ofcourse not disturbing the communal harmony, and Amen!(So be it!)....
The statement made by muthalik can be easily countered that any other festival in india which are celebrated with great enthusiasm and shraddha.. can be celebrated on any other day.. why have specific dates to do that. For example dusherra which is celebrated on the name of the victory of good over bad... can be celebrated on any other day... why celebrate on that very dashami of the year....
Many more incidents to discuss.... but.. i shall pen down my thoughts...soon..in another post... Till then.. Have a nice time.. Aloha!
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
2008... for better or worse...
Picking up from where muddu has left off, i thought i would do some research as to why it has been such an ominous year. According to the chineese astrology, this year is termed as the rat year. It is an animal associated with aggression, wealth, charm, and order, yet also associated with death, war, the occult, pestilence, and atrocities. While i have seen nothing regarding the wealth and order(and not even charm, except for few good looking girls i have seen at Forum :P)... this year has been a true representation of aggression, death, war, occult, pestilence and atrocities. While most of the other predictions that i have stumbled upon in the internet for the year 2008 have been proved to be fallacious, it is certainly an year to think about, rather than just forgetting and moving forward. 2008 has seen some disastrous events like the economic slump, the market blood bath, terrorist attacks. People have reacted to the atrocities. A great leader emerged in the americas, few more were duly elected in india. Let conscience prevail and bring positive changes...
Let us also pray in these last moments of one of the disastrous years... so that peace and prosperity is restored everywhere.
So.. i propose a toast to a better year and a better world...
Happy and prosperous new year 2009
Let us also pray in these last moments of one of the disastrous years... so that peace and prosperity is restored everywhere.
So.. i propose a toast to a better year and a better world...
Happy and prosperous new year 2009
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