Well I have loads of dreams with respect to travelling. Infact, if you are thinking, that I am talking about travelling abroad. Nopes, I am talking about, my travel in and around Karnataka.
There are loads of places which I love to visit along with my cousins.
> Yana, Sirsi Marikamba temple, Murudeshwar, Karwar
> Ooty, Kodaikanal, Yercaud,
> Chickmaglur, Kemmangundi, Kudremukh.
> Baba Budangiri, Mulayangiri, Kumaraparvata.
> Coorg,
> Mangalore, Udupi, Malpe
> Kerala, (bottom part - Cochin, Center part- wayanad, thrissur,munnar, Top part - Bekal, Kannor)
> Pondicherry.
> Goa
As of now, I can only dream of going out with my cousins. Not sure when they materialize. By the time they materialize people would have spread out. Lesser time for each other, no holidays. :(
I feel I just had the last best trip before coming over here. It was to Yercaud. Had a blast over a couple of days.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Past two weekends
Last two weekends have been kind of lazy. Last sunday went to Khansama for dinner with Kapil and family and Shreyas. Infact it was a treat from my side for my salary.
The day before, had been to a temple in Little India. It was Gurupurnima on Sunday and hence been to the temple to pray.
The week prior to this it was Shreays' treat. Had been to Malgudi, a restaurant, just opposite to Mustafa. So weekend's going in this fashion. Apart from that, have not travelled a lot on weekends.
Spoke to Sushant, who is currently in Malaysia.
This week, I head to library to drop the borrowed books :)
Cheers,
Sandeep
The day before, had been to a temple in Little India. It was Gurupurnima on Sunday and hence been to the temple to pray.
The week prior to this it was Shreays' treat. Had been to Malgudi, a restaurant, just opposite to Mustafa. So weekend's going in this fashion. Apart from that, have not travelled a lot on weekends.
Spoke to Sushant, who is currently in Malaysia.
This week, I head to library to drop the borrowed books :)
Cheers,
Sandeep
Books I am reading
Currently I am reading Night Shift from Stephen King. Finished reading From a Buick 8 from the same author. Will start with the Cell by Stephen King shortly. :)
Cheers,
Sandeep
Cheers,
Sandeep
Friends Circulating Library
Of all the things I liked in Subramanyanagar, the best was Venkateshwara Bakery and the next best thing was infact, the store next to it. It was none other than Friends Cirulating Library. I never was a big time reader, until this happened. Infact my mother enrolled my brother as a member of the library. I think the year was 1993-94.
So from that year, I started reading comics, Chacha Choudhry, Tintin and Mandrake, and many more. But I enjoyed reading Famous Five apart from all other books. I did not like Secret Seven that much though. so by the year 1999, when I was supposed to relocate to South of Bangalore, I had read many books of Hardy boys, Nancy drew and many many more..
Infact there were days, when I used to read two books per day, morning- afternoon - hardy boys, afternoon - late evening, Nancy Drew. (During holidays I meant). Loved reading them along side listening to MLTR, (Paint my love).
So finally in 1999, said goodbye to Friend's circulating library and transferred my account membership to my friend Abijit.
But since 1999, I have found it difficult to find a library in South of Bangalore. These days, I get books from Strand book stall / festival or from Avenue road.
Lately I heard, Friends Circulating Library ceases to exist and its given way to a browsing center. I have never been to Subramanyanagar after 1999. Sad to hear this update.
After coming over here, I have found Bugis National Library a metro station away, and have become its member. Its been 3 weeks since I ve been a member, and I ve almost read 4 books by Stephen King.
Wow, I could manage only 1 per month whilst I was in Bangalore, thanks to my travelling and the IDIOT box.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: Yes even after 11 years, I can still remember my account number, It is infact 374 .
Long live the legacy of Friends Ciculating Library
So from that year, I started reading comics, Chacha Choudhry, Tintin and Mandrake, and many more. But I enjoyed reading Famous Five apart from all other books. I did not like Secret Seven that much though. so by the year 1999, when I was supposed to relocate to South of Bangalore, I had read many books of Hardy boys, Nancy drew and many many more..
Infact there were days, when I used to read two books per day, morning- afternoon - hardy boys, afternoon - late evening, Nancy Drew. (During holidays I meant). Loved reading them along side listening to MLTR, (Paint my love).
So finally in 1999, said goodbye to Friend's circulating library and transferred my account membership to my friend Abijit.
But since 1999, I have found it difficult to find a library in South of Bangalore. These days, I get books from Strand book stall / festival or from Avenue road.
Lately I heard, Friends Circulating Library ceases to exist and its given way to a browsing center. I have never been to Subramanyanagar after 1999. Sad to hear this update.
After coming over here, I have found Bugis National Library a metro station away, and have become its member. Its been 3 weeks since I ve been a member, and I ve almost read 4 books by Stephen King.
Wow, I could manage only 1 per month whilst I was in Bangalore, thanks to my travelling and the IDIOT box.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: Yes even after 11 years, I can still remember my account number, It is infact 374 .
Long live the legacy of Friends Ciculating Library
As a child, I was afraid of my teachers :)-
I just recollected about this, a day after Gurupurnima. As a kid, I was afraid of my teachers. There is nothing wrong in admitting. I was extremely afraid.
Taking beatings with a wooden scale, teachers, squeezing our ears, even using bamboo stick, seemed to be very embarassing and even more in front of entire class.
Once, I had forgotten to bring a notebook to the class. We had the concept of classwork and homework, notebooks, one for classroom writing and one for writing exercises at home. I had not brought one of the book. I was so scared, that I will be made to stand out of the class, that I wasted two hours pondering over it and when the class was over, I can recollect, the book was never needed. What a waste of time.
This might be the reason, I ended up carrying bucket loads of books to school, out of fear. (Might be, I am not sure, I cannot prove it, because I have forgotten about it).
As I approached high school, I can recollect, it became an obsession to carry lesser and lesser books to the class. Infact, we used to show each others' bags just to see whose carried more books. The fear just gradually came down and down as I grew with age.
One more instance I can recollect, I literally forgot to complete my homework on time, and was about to get a signed letter from my parents, saying I was out of town and was not able to complete homework on time. But luckily, I stayed back at home for some more time and completed the same.
I still wonder, why I was so afraid of my teachers. May be it brought discipline in me. But I feel, fear results in lesser self confidence.
And in my case, it might have resulted in losing bucket loads of time. May be I could have read another TinTin comic or a Famous Five book or something else,
And as I grew up, as the fear gradually came down and after which what happened, well.. thats another story.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Taking beatings with a wooden scale, teachers, squeezing our ears, even using bamboo stick, seemed to be very embarassing and even more in front of entire class.
Once, I had forgotten to bring a notebook to the class. We had the concept of classwork and homework, notebooks, one for classroom writing and one for writing exercises at home. I had not brought one of the book. I was so scared, that I will be made to stand out of the class, that I wasted two hours pondering over it and when the class was over, I can recollect, the book was never needed. What a waste of time.
This might be the reason, I ended up carrying bucket loads of books to school, out of fear. (Might be, I am not sure, I cannot prove it, because I have forgotten about it).
As I approached high school, I can recollect, it became an obsession to carry lesser and lesser books to the class. Infact, we used to show each others' bags just to see whose carried more books. The fear just gradually came down and down as I grew with age.
One more instance I can recollect, I literally forgot to complete my homework on time, and was about to get a signed letter from my parents, saying I was out of town and was not able to complete homework on time. But luckily, I stayed back at home for some more time and completed the same.
I still wonder, why I was so afraid of my teachers. May be it brought discipline in me. But I feel, fear results in lesser self confidence.
And in my case, it might have resulted in losing bucket loads of time. May be I could have read another TinTin comic or a Famous Five book or something else,
And as I grew up, as the fear gradually came down and after which what happened, well.. thats another story.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Walking on the railway tracks in the hot sun :)
Some of the most memorable childhood memories, I have, is, about growing up, in the area called Malleshwaram. It was an awesome area. Loads of good people, loads of places to hang out, lots of options.
As a kid, we used to have summer holidays, infact, we had 2-3 months of holidays in a continous stretch. It was awesome. There we so many things which we got to do, during such holidays. One such thing, which might sound not so good, is walking on the railway tracks during afternoon time.
There are many such occasions, I can recollect, when after having afternoon lunch, sleep was difficult to come by, and, it being holiday time, I was always, wanting to play. So when I got bored of playing cricket, hide and seek, reading books or finishing my summer holiday homeworks, I used to walk along the railway tracks.
Yes, it might sound bizzare, but yes, doing bizzare things, gives me happiness, (not sure about you), like walking along railway tracks, and recollecting about them, writing about them, may be 15+ years later.
There is a railway line which passes close to Malleshwaram, which then goes to Yeshwantpur railway station and then to Tumkur etc etc.
So when nothing was left to do, me and my friend used to walk along the railway tracks. Dont worry, its not on the railway tracks, it is alongside railway track, at a safe distance from where trains used to go.
It was loads of fun, watching different trains go by. Meanwhile in between, all the train services were suspended, not sure if I am correct, because there was a conversion of railway line from meter gauge to broad gauge.
So there I was spending almost many afternoons, in the hot sun, after lunch, watching the workers as they laid new tracks.
It was fun, doing these kind of things over holidays. Sometimes, I feel, I am lucky. Even though, I did not have computer, internet or cable TV those days, still we had a great time, doing things, which people only can imagine doing.
One such thing was walking along railway tracks. I am sure, not many people would have grown up doing this.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: Please note, I have always maintained a safe distance from trains and I have never walked on the railway tracks.
As a kid, we used to have summer holidays, infact, we had 2-3 months of holidays in a continous stretch. It was awesome. There we so many things which we got to do, during such holidays. One such thing, which might sound not so good, is walking on the railway tracks during afternoon time.
There are many such occasions, I can recollect, when after having afternoon lunch, sleep was difficult to come by, and, it being holiday time, I was always, wanting to play. So when I got bored of playing cricket, hide and seek, reading books or finishing my summer holiday homeworks, I used to walk along the railway tracks.
Yes, it might sound bizzare, but yes, doing bizzare things, gives me happiness, (not sure about you), like walking along railway tracks, and recollecting about them, writing about them, may be 15+ years later.
There is a railway line which passes close to Malleshwaram, which then goes to Yeshwantpur railway station and then to Tumkur etc etc.
So when nothing was left to do, me and my friend used to walk along the railway tracks. Dont worry, its not on the railway tracks, it is alongside railway track, at a safe distance from where trains used to go.
It was loads of fun, watching different trains go by. Meanwhile in between, all the train services were suspended, not sure if I am correct, because there was a conversion of railway line from meter gauge to broad gauge.
So there I was spending almost many afternoons, in the hot sun, after lunch, watching the workers as they laid new tracks.
It was fun, doing these kind of things over holidays. Sometimes, I feel, I am lucky. Even though, I did not have computer, internet or cable TV those days, still we had a great time, doing things, which people only can imagine doing.
One such thing was walking along railway tracks. I am sure, not many people would have grown up doing this.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: Please note, I have always maintained a safe distance from trains and I have never walked on the railway tracks.
On the eve of Guru Purnima
Tomorrow is Guru Purnima. Yes, I am not sure, whether I blogged about it, last year, same time. But this time, I surely want to write something.
One the eve of Guru Purnima I would like to thank all my teachers, who have put me on the right track.
Whatever I am today, its because of all the teachers, who have taught me, who have scolded me, thrashed me, for my wrong doing, who have inspired me. Yes, I would be a goner without you guys.
As I type these words, I can recollect many of my teachers, right from LKG to my engg days. I have had some great teachers during my study days.
And a special thanks going out to my teachers of SJBIT. SJBIT was my last official place of study. After which I have never been to any college for any degree. I have been taught by few people at office, but SJBIT was the last formal one.
SJBIT always occupies a special place, it was close to my house, in an area which was fun to learn. Going to college was such fun.
Also a big thank you to all people who have taught me .NET. CSK, Seth, Salil, Prashanth, Thank you so much guys.
Its because of all these wonderful people, I still have loads of enthusiasm to learn new things and apply them.
Happy Guru Purnima.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: You might be wondering, why, every now and then I write a post thanking my teachers? Its true, whenever, I get something like a hike in salary or get some appreciaton for some good work, or clear a company interview, it always reminds me of my teachers, mentors, because of whom I could do it.
So time and again, I shall keep writing a post thanking my teachers.
One the eve of Guru Purnima I would like to thank all my teachers, who have put me on the right track.
Whatever I am today, its because of all the teachers, who have taught me, who have scolded me, thrashed me, for my wrong doing, who have inspired me. Yes, I would be a goner without you guys.
As I type these words, I can recollect many of my teachers, right from LKG to my engg days. I have had some great teachers during my study days.
And a special thanks going out to my teachers of SJBIT. SJBIT was my last official place of study. After which I have never been to any college for any degree. I have been taught by few people at office, but SJBIT was the last formal one.
SJBIT always occupies a special place, it was close to my house, in an area which was fun to learn. Going to college was such fun.
Also a big thank you to all people who have taught me .NET. CSK, Seth, Salil, Prashanth, Thank you so much guys.
Its because of all these wonderful people, I still have loads of enthusiasm to learn new things and apply them.
Happy Guru Purnima.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: You might be wondering, why, every now and then I write a post thanking my teachers? Its true, whenever, I get something like a hike in salary or get some appreciaton for some good work, or clear a company interview, it always reminds me of my teachers, mentors, because of whom I could do it.
So time and again, I shall keep writing a post thanking my teachers.
First trip to Chickmaglur in 1996
My first trip to Chikmaglur was way back in 1996. I have been to many places before 1996, Hubli, Dharwad as usual, Mumbai, Goa, and some places back in and around Bangalore.
But I cannot recollect any instances of going to Chickmaglur before 1996. But this first trip to Chickmaglur was a memorable one. As memorable as it can get. I dont know how to put it, but it was magical.
I remember having summer holidays at school, during that time, my father along with the colleagues of his office had planned a trip to Chikmaglur, infact Koppa. Infact a relative of one of my father's friend had a estate in Koppa, so we were all invited.
Few collegues of my father along with their kids came along in a rented Matador, yes those days TT was considered to be expensive, since Matador was available and it could seat more people than TT.
Infact I remember catching cold a day before the trip. I was worried, how would I ever manage it. I somehow took some homeopathic medicine and started on the trip. Would you believe or not, my cold just vanished as I left Bangalore and reached out other places.
I still remember, we passed through Kunigal then to Holenarasipura, where the driver of the rented vehicle had his house. We stopped at his place, where he loaded a 25 kilo jowar sack into the back of the vehicle, so we had to keep our luggage in the seating area.
Then we had lunch at Hassan, yes, we proceeded towards Koppa. It was 8 45 pm in the evening when we reached over there. Next day, we proceeded to Shringeri, then in the evening to Agumbe to watch the sunset.
Yes these are my memories of my first trip to Chickmaglur, way back in 1996. Yes, it was as beautiful as it is today. I can write more about the places I visited. But i do not want to. You can get that information anywhere on the internet.
I can also recollect having bath in the pond which used to run across in the backyard of the estate.
I have been to Chickmaglur after this few other times, but never been to the estate, yet again. May be someday, I shall get another invite.
Cheers,
Sandeep
But I cannot recollect any instances of going to Chickmaglur before 1996. But this first trip to Chickmaglur was a memorable one. As memorable as it can get. I dont know how to put it, but it was magical.
I remember having summer holidays at school, during that time, my father along with the colleagues of his office had planned a trip to Chikmaglur, infact Koppa. Infact a relative of one of my father's friend had a estate in Koppa, so we were all invited.
Few collegues of my father along with their kids came along in a rented Matador, yes those days TT was considered to be expensive, since Matador was available and it could seat more people than TT.
Infact I remember catching cold a day before the trip. I was worried, how would I ever manage it. I somehow took some homeopathic medicine and started on the trip. Would you believe or not, my cold just vanished as I left Bangalore and reached out other places.
I still remember, we passed through Kunigal then to Holenarasipura, where the driver of the rented vehicle had his house. We stopped at his place, where he loaded a 25 kilo jowar sack into the back of the vehicle, so we had to keep our luggage in the seating area.
Then we had lunch at Hassan, yes, we proceeded towards Koppa. It was 8 45 pm in the evening when we reached over there. Next day, we proceeded to Shringeri, then in the evening to Agumbe to watch the sunset.
Yes these are my memories of my first trip to Chickmaglur, way back in 1996. Yes, it was as beautiful as it is today. I can write more about the places I visited. But i do not want to. You can get that information anywhere on the internet.
I can also recollect having bath in the pond which used to run across in the backyard of the estate.
I have been to Chickmaglur after this few other times, but never been to the estate, yet again. May be someday, I shall get another invite.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Stationeries
DISCLAIMER - These are my childhood memories, some of the things which I liked, adored and some of the things which I did as a child. I know, when I recall those days, I feel, its absolutely ridiculous and even I feel absolutely embarassed as I am posting some of the thoughts over here. Yet I have made some courage to write over here, just to keep myself entertained, at same time, holding back these memories for many more years to come. Some of the memories dates back to mid and latter part of 1980's, when I was still writing in a four lines book, trying to improve my handwriting :). Yet I can recollect them, yes by God's grace.
As a child, I loved so many things. I cannot name them and I cannot remember many of them. Infact one thing which I can still remember is I love stationeries. [I somehow felt the smell of a brand new eraser to be very attractive.]. How do I remember it?
Answer is very simple. I still love stationeries. Everytime I went to the stationery, my eyes lit up. I wanted to buy so many things in a stationery shop. Initially, as a kid, love to buy pencils, erasers, stickers, labels of cricketers, cars. Yes I think everyone can recollect we used to have two books, One calle CW and the other called HW. [ Classwork and Homework]. We used to have labels on top of them identifying to whom it belongs to. I am referring to those labels over here.
After few years, when I was introduced to a fountain pen, I started liking Hero pen. I loved to write with a Hero pen. Everytime I went to a stationery shop, just wanted to buy a Hero pen. But yes. I could not.
Also I would like to share an occasion where I used to get stationeries for free. As kids, we all used to celebrate our birthday. So whenever there was a birthday, there used to a free distributiion of pencils, sharpners and erasers to all the kids of the class, by the birthday boy. And yes it was one of the most joyous moments I can ever recollect.
Though at the places where I have worked, over the years, we generally are provided free stationeries, the joy does not match up to the joy what we felt when we got free stationeries on someone's birthday. Not sure why.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: Recently I had purchased a 400 page long unruled notebook, in India, to write something. Could not bring it over here. Also saw a drawing book @ Mustafa. I somehow feel like buying it..
As a child, I loved so many things. I cannot name them and I cannot remember many of them. Infact one thing which I can still remember is I love stationeries. [I somehow felt the smell of a brand new eraser to be very attractive.]. How do I remember it?
Answer is very simple. I still love stationeries. Everytime I went to the stationery, my eyes lit up. I wanted to buy so many things in a stationery shop. Initially, as a kid, love to buy pencils, erasers, stickers, labels of cricketers, cars. Yes I think everyone can recollect we used to have two books, One calle CW and the other called HW. [ Classwork and Homework]. We used to have labels on top of them identifying to whom it belongs to. I am referring to those labels over here.
After few years, when I was introduced to a fountain pen, I started liking Hero pen. I loved to write with a Hero pen. Everytime I went to a stationery shop, just wanted to buy a Hero pen. But yes. I could not.
Also I would like to share an occasion where I used to get stationeries for free. As kids, we all used to celebrate our birthday. So whenever there was a birthday, there used to a free distributiion of pencils, sharpners and erasers to all the kids of the class, by the birthday boy. And yes it was one of the most joyous moments I can ever recollect.
Though at the places where I have worked, over the years, we generally are provided free stationeries, the joy does not match up to the joy what we felt when we got free stationeries on someone's birthday. Not sure why.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: Recently I had purchased a 400 page long unruled notebook, in India, to write something. Could not bring it over here. Also saw a drawing book @ Mustafa. I somehow feel like buying it..
A post out of nowhere...
Its been almost a month since I have been here. Its a different experience all together. So thought of writing my thoughts on how do I feel about the roads over here, driving experience etc etc.
I know its a bit weird kind of topic. But still, after having driven an Indica around for 4k kms in Bangalore, and seeing variety of cars over here, I could manage an opinion of my own.
Disclaimer - The thoughts written over here are completely of my own. I have to prove no one wrong. All my comparison done is by my own driving experience. People may completely disagree with my point of view.
I have driven my car in and around Bangalore. I have run through many rough roads, passed over many potholes, cross many humps, some of which I had to downshift to first gear and few other may be 2 or 3 where in the bottom part of my car touched the road (with 5 people on board).
But still I was very happy with Indica Vista Terra Tdi. It used to give me good mileage and it had bucket loads of space. But when I saw other cars, many a thing still eluded me. Like the initial pickup of a diesel hatch was very low. Every other petrol car used to overtake me when I slowed down and crossed a hump. It never bothered me. Since I was very much aware of it while buying the diesel hatch.
The problem of poor pickup once cropped up on the two lane Kanakapura road, where I had to overtake, a sand truck, when the driver gave me a handsignal to overtake, I dint have enough zip, rest of the time, there was on coming traffic. But in every other situation, it worked well, really well. Infact it was a gem.
Initially I used to think, what is the point in having a high end car sedan / SUV in India, you need good roads to touch great speeds. Its a waste of money. But after seeing loads of cars over here, I feel, owning a sedan in India and driving it on pothole and hump laden roads of Bangalore is the bestest thing.
Why?? Check out below.
There are no roadhumps over here, absolutely no potholes. the only hump I could see is in my office within the campus, where there is a deviation to the basement parking.
Diff - How will you test your car's shock absorbers on a flat well laid out road.?? Even an entry level hatch can match the comfort of a sedan on this road. (might be the leg room and AC etc mite come into picture but apart from this, I feel rest is the same).
In India, if you have a high end car, you can put it to thorough test and then find out whats the real comfort in the highly paid car.
Most cars over here I see are automatic geared.
The real fun comes with gears, without gears it more like driving a F1 car in a computer game, where you want to compete with people but with less pain. Or you can imagine driving a ungeared two wheeler.
I feel its with humps and potholes which determine that, its an awesome feel to own a huge high end car in India, coz its there where you can literally outperform the smaller cars. Yes I had to slow down at every pothole whilst the bigger SUV s with 15 inch + wheels just glided over them
And regarding high speeds which comes into picture. There are superb roads in and around Bangalore, so you can put it to test there.
If I am given an option to choose between speed and manuverability, I would definitely choose the second one.
Cheers,
Sandeep
I know its a bit weird kind of topic. But still, after having driven an Indica around for 4k kms in Bangalore, and seeing variety of cars over here, I could manage an opinion of my own.
Disclaimer - The thoughts written over here are completely of my own. I have to prove no one wrong. All my comparison done is by my own driving experience. People may completely disagree with my point of view.
I have driven my car in and around Bangalore. I have run through many rough roads, passed over many potholes, cross many humps, some of which I had to downshift to first gear and few other may be 2 or 3 where in the bottom part of my car touched the road (with 5 people on board).
But still I was very happy with Indica Vista Terra Tdi. It used to give me good mileage and it had bucket loads of space. But when I saw other cars, many a thing still eluded me. Like the initial pickup of a diesel hatch was very low. Every other petrol car used to overtake me when I slowed down and crossed a hump. It never bothered me. Since I was very much aware of it while buying the diesel hatch.
The problem of poor pickup once cropped up on the two lane Kanakapura road, where I had to overtake, a sand truck, when the driver gave me a handsignal to overtake, I dint have enough zip, rest of the time, there was on coming traffic. But in every other situation, it worked well, really well. Infact it was a gem.
Initially I used to think, what is the point in having a high end car sedan / SUV in India, you need good roads to touch great speeds. Its a waste of money. But after seeing loads of cars over here, I feel, owning a sedan in India and driving it on pothole and hump laden roads of Bangalore is the bestest thing.
Why?? Check out below.
There are no roadhumps over here, absolutely no potholes. the only hump I could see is in my office within the campus, where there is a deviation to the basement parking.
Diff - How will you test your car's shock absorbers on a flat well laid out road.?? Even an entry level hatch can match the comfort of a sedan on this road. (might be the leg room and AC etc mite come into picture but apart from this, I feel rest is the same).
In India, if you have a high end car, you can put it to thorough test and then find out whats the real comfort in the highly paid car.
Most cars over here I see are automatic geared.
The real fun comes with gears, without gears it more like driving a F1 car in a computer game, where you want to compete with people but with less pain. Or you can imagine driving a ungeared two wheeler.
I feel its with humps and potholes which determine that, its an awesome feel to own a huge high end car in India, coz its there where you can literally outperform the smaller cars. Yes I had to slow down at every pothole whilst the bigger SUV s with 15 inch + wheels just glided over them
And regarding high speeds which comes into picture. There are superb roads in and around Bangalore, so you can put it to test there.
If I am given an option to choose between speed and manuverability, I would definitely choose the second one.
Cheers,
Sandeep
First visit to Hubli, Dharwad
My first visit to Hubli, Dharwad was in the year 1992. I was there to attend the marriage of a close relative of mine.
Its almost 18 years back, but still I can recollect many instances of the trip. I had been there with my cousin's family.
Hubli and Dharwad was awesome during the early 90's. Now also its awesome, but the traffic thing just got the better of it.
I fell in love with Hubli, Dharwad because of its, then calm streets, good food, and the weather.
Infact, I travelled to Belgaum first, I can recollect I stayed at Hotel Satkar. Then I came down to Dharwad. Those days, the steam trains used to run between Hubli to Dharwad. So the Dharwad station had a turn table.
It was fun going to the station, sitting there watching trains come and go by. Now the story is different, the twin cities have changed a lot. The turn table still exists in the railway station, but it has never been used after the conversion to broad gauge has happend.
We visited lots of places around Dharwad, Yellamana Gudda, Gokak, Saundatti, Ramdurg,
Apart from this, we also purchased lots of Dharwad Pedha from Mishra Pedha.
Also one more incident I remember was @ Belgaum, where I ate Kunda for the first time. My parents gave me Kunda ,mixture and milk and told me to have the same. I found it very very difficult to consume milk with a sweet. Could not eat much of it.
Apart from this, I can also recollect, my mother and aunt, took us to the Potdar jewellers in Belgaum. I recollect sitting there for more than an hour, while my parents were discussing about some pattern on the jewel they were planning to order. (I have never again been to that place till date, coz there was absoultely no need).
So these are my sweet memories or recollections of my first trip to Hubli, Dharwad, Belgaum.
I might have gone to Hubli or Dharwad before this, but I do not remember anything about the same.
I have travelled to the twin cities a lot many times after this, yes, everytime, I have fallen in love with the twin cities more and more.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Its almost 18 years back, but still I can recollect many instances of the trip. I had been there with my cousin's family.
Hubli and Dharwad was awesome during the early 90's. Now also its awesome, but the traffic thing just got the better of it.
I fell in love with Hubli, Dharwad because of its, then calm streets, good food, and the weather.
Infact, I travelled to Belgaum first, I can recollect I stayed at Hotel Satkar. Then I came down to Dharwad. Those days, the steam trains used to run between Hubli to Dharwad. So the Dharwad station had a turn table.
It was fun going to the station, sitting there watching trains come and go by. Now the story is different, the twin cities have changed a lot. The turn table still exists in the railway station, but it has never been used after the conversion to broad gauge has happend.
We visited lots of places around Dharwad, Yellamana Gudda, Gokak, Saundatti, Ramdurg,
Apart from this, we also purchased lots of Dharwad Pedha from Mishra Pedha.
Also one more incident I remember was @ Belgaum, where I ate Kunda for the first time. My parents gave me Kunda ,mixture and milk and told me to have the same. I found it very very difficult to consume milk with a sweet. Could not eat much of it.
Apart from this, I can also recollect, my mother and aunt, took us to the Potdar jewellers in Belgaum. I recollect sitting there for more than an hour, while my parents were discussing about some pattern on the jewel they were planning to order. (I have never again been to that place till date, coz there was absoultely no need).
So these are my sweet memories or recollections of my first trip to Hubli, Dharwad, Belgaum.
I might have gone to Hubli or Dharwad before this, but I do not remember anything about the same.
I have travelled to the twin cities a lot many times after this, yes, everytime, I have fallen in love with the twin cities more and more.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Why do I love a weekday holiday ??
I love the idea of having a holiday during the 5 working days of the week. Its something which makes me go GA GA, or you can say I feel like I am on moon, whenever there is a holiday on a weekday.
But what is the reason behind it, since when did I start loving them?
Frankly speaking, it was since I started working, I fell in love with this idea. But I can recollect it was during my childhood days, that I first experienced weekday off and YES, I still remember the same.
The year was, I think 1986, and I was in pre-nursery. I have stayed @ Malleshwaram for the first 15 yrs of my life. So the pre-nursery was close to the railway tracks, somewhere in Malleshwaram West.
It was one such days, (during a weekday), that a leave was declared, not sure why. I came to know about the holiday only once I reached the pre-nursery. Infact my father used to drop me over there.
So I came back home and yes, I had food and slept, played and played the whole day.
It was the beginning, since then I have had so many days off during the week, many of them have been memorable, once in HighSchool, the school was closed on a working day, that too on the day of a test. Nice. So the whole day we played cricket and came back and started revising for the next day.
Such is the impact of a weekday off on me that, in my first company, I have bunked office few times on Monday, not because I was unwell, but just due to the fact that, I am lazy and wanted a day off during the week. And yes, the whole idea peps me up !!!
So here goes the first post in the collection.
Cheers,
Sandeep
But what is the reason behind it, since when did I start loving them?
Frankly speaking, it was since I started working, I fell in love with this idea. But I can recollect it was during my childhood days, that I first experienced weekday off and YES, I still remember the same.
The year was, I think 1986, and I was in pre-nursery. I have stayed @ Malleshwaram for the first 15 yrs of my life. So the pre-nursery was close to the railway tracks, somewhere in Malleshwaram West.
It was one such days, (during a weekday), that a leave was declared, not sure why. I came to know about the holiday only once I reached the pre-nursery. Infact my father used to drop me over there.
So I came back home and yes, I had food and slept, played and played the whole day.
It was the beginning, since then I have had so many days off during the week, many of them have been memorable, once in HighSchool, the school was closed on a working day, that too on the day of a test. Nice. So the whole day we played cricket and came back and started revising for the next day.
Such is the impact of a weekday off on me that, in my first company, I have bunked office few times on Monday, not because I was unwell, but just due to the fact that, I am lazy and wanted a day off during the week. And yes, the whole idea peps me up !!!
So here goes the first post in the collection.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Few posts which I have in my mind
Couple of weeks back, suddenly a thought came to my mind. How would it be, if I write about interesting days of my childhood and teenage days. Though most of them were as memorable as it can get, but I can recollect few of them very well. So here I am finally deciding to write about them.
Btw, all of a sudden how did I get an idea to write about this?
Two weeks back over the weekend, I saw few kids playing hide and seek whilst I was sitting in the park and muching over Murukku, it looked cool, I thought, miles away even in India, we used to play hide and seek when we were teenagers / kids, may be till 10 yrs back. So like is I found enthusiasm to write about my childhood days.
So thought about it for a day and came up with a whopping 15+ items in a single attempt. I hope I recollect more, I hope I write about all of them and also I hope I label my posts.
I have no particular interest in knowing that, anyone else apart from me is reading these posts. These posts are just for keeping me entertained and making these childhood memories everlasting.
So here are the topics:
1. Why do I love a weekday holiday ? Story behind it.
2. My handwriting as a kid.
3. Introduction to my childhood friends ( N, Nsis).
4. Why do I love stationeries.
5. Why do I collect coins?
6. My summer holidays at my grandmother's place.
7. Playing hide and seek, in the dark, during evenings, across localities.
8. Hubli, Dharwad visit for the first time.
9. Music I listened to as a kid.
10. Small wonder @ N's house.
11. Richie Rich @ N's house.
12. Cycling across Malleshwaram, Mysore Lamps.
13. Of playgrounds and cricket.
14. Walking on railway tracks in hot sun, during holidays.
15. Friends Circulating Library.
16. Vivekananda College grounds and cricket.
17. Watching old movies on DD1.
18. Trip to Koppa, Chikmaglur.
So planning to start one by one and add more entries to this list.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Btw, all of a sudden how did I get an idea to write about this?
Two weeks back over the weekend, I saw few kids playing hide and seek whilst I was sitting in the park and muching over Murukku, it looked cool, I thought, miles away even in India, we used to play hide and seek when we were teenagers / kids, may be till 10 yrs back. So like is I found enthusiasm to write about my childhood days.
So thought about it for a day and came up with a whopping 15+ items in a single attempt. I hope I recollect more, I hope I write about all of them and also I hope I label my posts.
I have no particular interest in knowing that, anyone else apart from me is reading these posts. These posts are just for keeping me entertained and making these childhood memories everlasting.
So here are the topics:
1. Why do I love a weekday holiday ? Story behind it.
2. My handwriting as a kid.
3. Introduction to my childhood friends ( N, Nsis).
4. Why do I love stationeries.
5. Why do I collect coins?
6. My summer holidays at my grandmother's place.
7. Playing hide and seek, in the dark, during evenings, across localities.
8. Hubli, Dharwad visit for the first time.
9. Music I listened to as a kid.
10. Small wonder @ N's house.
11. Richie Rich @ N's house.
12. Cycling across Malleshwaram, Mysore Lamps.
13. Of playgrounds and cricket.
14. Walking on railway tracks in hot sun, during holidays.
15. Friends Circulating Library.
16. Vivekananda College grounds and cricket.
17. Watching old movies on DD1.
18. Trip to Koppa, Chikmaglur.
So planning to start one by one and add more entries to this list.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Books I am reading
I have not been able to read much during the year 2010. Main reasons being travel to ITPL, somehow lacking interest in reading, reading technical stuffs (trying to clear interviews) and unable to find good books. But, yes, I have been an avid reader of few blogs over the internet, some blogs I have gone to archives read and read and read loads of posts.
But now that I have registered myself at the National Library @ Bugis, I am able to borrow upto 8 books for a period of 21 days. Yes, thats a whopping large number. I love reading, yes, my wish is to read through loads of FAMOUS FIVE books all over again.
It would bring back loads of childhood memories or infact teenage memories, some of which I shall document shortly.
So as of now reading Carrie by Stephen King. Awesome read, reading while I am travelling in metro, reading while I am walking in the station, that much I am loving the book. I hope I do not end up reading it at workplace.
Apart from this book, I also found, the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, " The story of my experiments with truth " @ Mustafa. So brought it and started reading it, but somehow in midway lost touch and its been a week and a half since I stopped reading it. Need to finish it quickly.
Apart from that I have 6 other books from Library amongst which is another book by Stephen King. Will read that one too, very soon.
Cheers,
Sandeep
But now that I have registered myself at the National Library @ Bugis, I am able to borrow upto 8 books for a period of 21 days. Yes, thats a whopping large number. I love reading, yes, my wish is to read through loads of FAMOUS FIVE books all over again.
It would bring back loads of childhood memories or infact teenage memories, some of which I shall document shortly.
So as of now reading Carrie by Stephen King. Awesome read, reading while I am travelling in metro, reading while I am walking in the station, that much I am loving the book. I hope I do not end up reading it at workplace.
Apart from this book, I also found, the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, " The story of my experiments with truth " @ Mustafa. So brought it and started reading it, but somehow in midway lost touch and its been a week and a half since I stopped reading it. Need to finish it quickly.
Apart from that I have 6 other books from Library amongst which is another book by Stephen King. Will read that one too, very soon.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Thoughts of offers turned down.
Finally I found some time, to write down few stuffs, which have been echoing in my head for the past few weeks. Today I am kind of confused, the ghosts of the turned down offers are haunting me badly than before. Why does the grass always look greener on the other side?
Its not that I am absolutely hating what I am doing currently, but once the thought of rejected offers, kicks in, you tend to start thinking too much about them, then you start making mental calculations about how much you could have saved in India and how much you can save over here etc etc and you end up with a number which you are not impressed and you start re-calculating all over.
Yes its true, this thought shall haunt you for days together. But for me I have learnt to deal with it. Though I cannot escape from such thoughts, I tend to get over it pretty soon, like in a day's time. So tomorrow should be a brighter day for me.
But in such situations its more convenient to think about the positive side of the situation rather than the monetary side. And above all God gives all of us the best of opportunities. So I should consider this to be a golden opportunity and move on. Yes.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Its not that I am absolutely hating what I am doing currently, but once the thought of rejected offers, kicks in, you tend to start thinking too much about them, then you start making mental calculations about how much you could have saved in India and how much you can save over here etc etc and you end up with a number which you are not impressed and you start re-calculating all over.
Yes its true, this thought shall haunt you for days together. But for me I have learnt to deal with it. Though I cannot escape from such thoughts, I tend to get over it pretty soon, like in a day's time. So tomorrow should be a brighter day for me.
But in such situations its more convenient to think about the positive side of the situation rather than the monetary side. And above all God gives all of us the best of opportunities. So I should consider this to be a golden opportunity and move on. Yes.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Time to post something
Hey there.. After moving over here. I am not posting much.. Yes its true. I do not get to access internet a lot many times. So weekly once, when I decide to come to the browsing center, I make up my mind to post something. So today is one such day.
I purchased a new laptop yesterday. It made me poorer by 1099S$. I still do not have internet connection. But once I do have that, I shall regularly post something.
By the way, I have a new thought of posting a whole bunch of articles on my childhood memories. Those memories which can never be erased. Those memories are evergreen. So one day, I finally got a thought to put something over here. I know, no one apart from me, would be interested in the same. But it would leave me much happier. Yes blogging makes me happy - MARK MY WORD.
So once I have internet at my house, I shall post random topics about my days as a kid, as a teenager and also some posts relating to my engineering days.
So I have loads of topics to write about. I shall single them out in my next post.
Till then..
Cheers,
Sandeep
I purchased a new laptop yesterday. It made me poorer by 1099S$. I still do not have internet connection. But once I do have that, I shall regularly post something.
By the way, I have a new thought of posting a whole bunch of articles on my childhood memories. Those memories which can never be erased. Those memories are evergreen. So one day, I finally got a thought to put something over here. I know, no one apart from me, would be interested in the same. But it would leave me much happier. Yes blogging makes me happy - MARK MY WORD.
So once I have internet at my house, I shall post random topics about my days as a kid, as a teenager and also some posts relating to my engineering days.
So I have loads of topics to write about. I shall single them out in my next post.
Till then..
Cheers,
Sandeep
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