Trek to Thadiyandamol Part 1

My trek to Thadiyandamol Part 1

I love to go for a trek. All these years I was never serious about it. Though I enjoy being on the road (esp on highways), I even enjoy being in the wilderness as much. So having loads of thoughts on going for a trek since the year 2010, it took quite a while to materialize.

I had plans to go for a trek in the month of July 2012, but things did not materialize, and one person whom I trusted to join me during the trek just said no. I did not take his NO that much seriously, but the fact is he went with his family for a weekend trip, while I was at home waiting for him to join for a trek, hit me way tooo hard.

I decided, hence forth there are no friendships involved in trekking, its only me all way and the trekking group. My parents were concerned how I would go for a trek with strangers, without me knowing anyone. But I was hesitant.

I registered for a trek to Kumaraparvata, and did not worry about who comes for it or not.How I registered for the trek is another story, which I hate to write, coz it will be kind of exaggerating to write about events what happened.

The day after registering, I did not get proper updates from the trekking group about the trekking registration. Finally on the day we were supposed to leave Bangalore, I came to know that, the trek to Kumaraparvata had been called off, due to lesser number of people of enrolled. Instead they asked me if I was ready to go join the Thadiyandamol trek, instead of KP. Unwillingly I accepted, but it turned out to be the best decision I made during the year 2012.

So we were supposed to leave on Friday and since we proceed on Mysore Road, I opted to have a pickup at Kengeri instead of some place within the City. I chose to stand in front of the Kengeri bus stand. That day there people digging a borewell in front of the Kengeri bus stand, I reached there around 10 15 pm and came to know that the pickup would be around 11 30 pm. I waited and waited watching people pass by and also watching people digging a bore-well.

The cab finally came sometime after 11 pm. There were all strangers in the cab. I did not speak to any of the fellow trekkers till the next day. Initially I occupied the last seat. Since the windows were sealed, I chose to move to the first seat instead. Sat next to the co-ordinator and behind the driver and then all through the night, kept on speaking to them, finally after 2 am in the morning found great sleep, I was snoring sitting in the front seat, which was kind of funny.

Also sitting right next to me there was one guy whose name I could not pickup even after  4 times of him repeating. Never mind, started speaking with him too. Told him, about my crazy road trip which I took to Goa, during the year 2011 December. I spoke about all the things which we did in Goa, just to realize he was a native of Goa. What a co-incidence I thought.

Then after I found sleep I was woken up around 5 Am when we lost our road. Incidentally, the road which was supposed to lead us to the Home stay was dug up and even our co-ordinator was kind of clues less on which road to take and it was pitch dark.

What happened next.. I will continue in the next post....

Cheers,

Things to write about !

Though I told myself, I would write about 25 posts, during my 2 day weekend, of 9-10 March 2013, I haven't been able to do so. One reason being I could not get enough things to write about, the second being, I sat down to watch the movie Forrest Gump today and after which I slept of totally.

But before that, I have listed down few stuffs which I would love to write about.

1. Trip to Hubli Dharwad and Gadag. November 30, 2012.

Though I have already written couple of posts about my travel to Hubli, Dharwad and Gadag, I still feel I could write more. I thoroughly enjoyed myself on the trip and Gadag was one awesome place to be. Far far away from Bangalore crowd, I felt harmony, peace over there. Hence want to write some more stuffs.

2. Trip to Vellore Golden Temple September 27, 2012.

I went to my neighboring state of TamilNadu to visit the Golden temple at Sripuram, Vellore. The trip was indeed fun.

3. Trip to Kasargod, Coorg December 2012.

Would want to write couple of more stuffs about this trip as well.

4. Trek to Thadiyandamol. December 2012.

My first trek after planning for more than 3-4 months.

5. Trek to Kumaraparvata February 2013.

Some amazing events and lots of walking !

6. Series on IT industry Tamasha to be continued..

7. My Indica Vista TDI
On owning one for 3 years period out of which I was out of India for about 1years 2 months.

Cheers,

Now its time to go back sit, and write few lines in my notebook and come back and type in over here.!

Things to do or learn this year !

There are loads of things which I have on my list of things to do.. Not sure if I can call them bucket list, but yeah...happy to have a big list.

So here I am trying to list down few of them.. along side topics of posts which I intend to write in the next couple of days..

I am two down,, #23 posts pending 48 hours remaining !

Without typing any more unwanted trash, let me start writing actual stuff which I intend to write.

On thing which I wish to do in the new year

1. Travel -
       Though in the last couple of months there has not been much interesting related to travel, I still have the    entire year open, and I am pretty much optimistic about it. Though I am not keen on travelling out of Karnataka, coz it takes longer duration, I am still open to it. Also keen on travelling with cousins and relatives.

2. Photography -
      I have been taking photos for quite a while now, I have been using my D90, wherever possible, but I still end up with crappy photos most of the time, and it leaves me embarrassed all way along. So I wish to improve my photography skills.

3. Drive -
    Driving goes hand in hand with travelling, but sometimes I travel using hired vehicles, so keeping this option as a different point. My love for driving has increased by many folds once I did my 1100km drive to Hubli Dharwad and Gadag !

4. Photography editing.
    Photography not only deals with taking pictures, but also editing them. I have installed GIMP since long time, but kind of not getting interest or time to invest into it. I have loads of plans to modify pictures which I have already taken to make them better. I get very jealous when people use all kinds of tricks just to get one photo right ! When they can do, why can't I ? Well, may be I have pretty much other stuffs to look into !

5. Read some books.
   Have almost not read any book to completion in last 6 months. Started couple of books, but could not complete them, somewhere in the middle just lost interest in them.

6. Learn something new technically.
    Love to learn ASP.NET MVC / Ruby on Rails and something using which I can build a website. So this includes stuffs apart from my routine office work.(Javascript, REST, some more web related stuffs is my priority).

7. Write proper code professionally.
    Though I have been writing code since quite a while, still not satisfied with quality of code I write. I am realizing this after interacting with a European counterpart and finding it difficult to get 30 lines of code pass through review. Actually would love to scrutinize each line of my own code in future, instead of unneccesarily putting in few kilo lines which in the end will never reach production.

8. Join a new organization.
   I currently work as a consultant to a company, so one of my priorities would be to join an altogether different company. For years I have been evading and trying not to become a lead (team lead / tech lead whatever crapola) but looks like now, its inevitable. Wish me luck !

Cheers, will update the list as and when I have more points !