2 day road trip, Chickmaglur - Halebidu to Belur

Next on our destination was Belur. It was well past noon and it was pretty hot. One more awesome place to visit with those fantastic temple our ancestors have left behind for us.

Just wondering what would it have been in its full glory.

Cheers,

2 day road trip, Chickmaglur - Bangalore to Halebidu

On this trip, we started from our home, took NICE road from Kengeri to Tumkur road. Our first place of interest was Halebidu. The ancient temples are simply awesome. I was lucky enough to visit them again.

Cheers,

2 day road trip, Chickmaglur & surrounding places. - Prologue

In the month of November 2013, my cousin from Pune had come over to Bangalore. As a result, me and my cousins decided to travel out of town on another road trip. This time, not by our vehicles, instead via a hired TT tempo traveller, 12 seater.

The place we finalized was Chickmaglur. I have been to this place many times, but still agreed as this was one of a kind experience.

Here is a list of places we covered.

1. Halebidu.
2. Belur.
3. Yagachi dam.
4. Balehonnur Sri Rambhapuri Mutt.
5. Mullayangiri peak.
6. Bhadra forest.
7. Kemmangundi.
8. Tarikere Sri Amrutheshwara temple.

It was an awesome trip. Worth the time spent in all ways. Now time to document it a bit.

Cheers,

3 days road trip -> Jog falls to Bangalore

After Jog falls visit, moved towards Sagar and Shimoga. Had evening snacks at Hotel Ashok in Shimoga and then started towards Bangalore by 6 30PM.

It was an all out drive towards Bangalore mostly through 2 lane roads. Reached Bangalore around 12 45 AM midnight and reached home around 1 40 AM.

This brought to a close an awesome 3 day trip. Partly planned rest all by instincts.

Cheers,

3 days road trip -> Apsara beach to Kamath Hotel to Jog falls

After playing football, taking pics and then spending loads of time on the beach. moved on to Kamath hotel in Honnavara. Incidentally, this happened to be the same hotel where I had breakfast when I did 10 Temples trip.

Found out that, the same waiter who served us, was still available, and served us this time too. Had south indian meals, skipped curd.

Most people ate icecreams after lunch. I did not. The after effect of which all of them fell asleep while climbing Jog Falls Ghat section.

These guys handed the responsibility to drive on me as all guys in the car dozed off. I drove on that road as slowly and carefully as possible!

Reached Jog falls around 4 20 PM, there was a huge crowd as Rajnikanth and Sonakshi Sinha were there shooting for a movie. Apart from that, there was a huge weekend crowd. Felt very hard to negotiate traffic, as I was driving petrol car. I am used to diesels, petrol seems like a new thing to me!

Cheers,

Installing whatsapp for blackberry.

Now I have a wireless router, I got whatsapp for blackberry installed. Now happy to use the same, until I buy a new phone.

Cheers,

Tips to write, for me!

I read quite a few blogs, on a not so regular basis. Each of the writer uses great words to describe stuffs they want. So in the end, apart from me there are many such readers who follow them.

My blog has been quite silent in the last 2-3 years, due to many reasons.

> I always was not in reach of a PC/laptop, so that I could sign in and just post.
> I spent one year away from home
> I have loads of topic to write, but always have wondered, how do I write or post them, in way similar to other bloggers or rather professional bloggers.
> Trying to chose topics, which interest other readers.

Due to the reason 3 and 4, I only have ended up on the losing side.
> I have not blogged much.
> Though loads of things happened around in me in the last 2 years, (By God's grace everything is fine, I am still doing good), I did not chose to write.
> Also I did not attend to my blog that much.

Now that I have got the power of wifi router & I no more am interested in what other people want to see on my blog nor I am bothered about my writing style, I am more interested in documenting things which I am into, so that I can atleast read them some day in future. I may end up making this blog private, not found on search engines as well, but till that day. cheers.

Yesterday was watching the movie Ghayal, today saw bits and pieces of the movie HUM. How thankful I should be to have watched these movies as a 6-7 year old kid. I never could soak into these two movies but as an adult. totally appreciate Amitabh Bachchan's acting in HUM and Sunny Deol's action sequences in Ghayal.

And these two movies are almost 25 years old. I guess these guys were 25 years ahead of their time, that is why they could produce, act contribute to such awesome movies!

Cheers

3 days road trip -> Mirzan fort to Apsara beach, Honnavara

After Mirzan fort, we had planned to go to Apsara beach in Honnavara. In the middle, we found a shop to inflate the football which we had brought along with us.

Within 30minutes we were at Apsara beach. The crowd was less almost nill. Played football, clicked pictures and had a nice time at Apsara beach for more than 2 hours.

Cheers,

PS - To post pics from other machine which has the pics

Today @ office & home

Not much to write about workplace today. Many people were on leave and few others were busy planning for the annual day event, thinking of what events to organize.

All in all a relaxing day. Since I could not get shortlisted for either of the two trekking events oen being my reasons given and the other being not available on whatsapp, I have two days to write much wanted posts on this blog.

Also thinking of buying Xiaomi Red Me phone this Tuesday. For tomorrow planning to go in search of Forclaz 500 shoes. Seems like there is a 1200Rs waiver at selected stores in Rajajinagar. But even before that, need to check on the price in Decathlon. Will do that.

Watched a part of, one of my favorite movie Ghayal. I simply love the movie Ghayal. They dont make movies like that anymore. What background music. What a plot, what action. Believe me, even if I watch it 100 times I will never get bored of it. The only not so interesting part is the first half where some unexpected events turn up, which really are not that enjoyable. But all in all, I simply love the movie GHAYAL.

Its a true source of inspiration for me atleast, to work my ass of in reaching a well deserved goal.

Cheers,

Handling rejections - 2 day trek

After my last post on handling rejections, here is one more. Here is all how it unfolded.

I presently go for treks with one group in Bangalore. I do not want to name the group. I also am involved in some not so important voluntary activity of the group and also participated in a social event organized by the group.

So there was this so called 2 day trek organized by this group and the organizer being XXX.

About organizer XXX I had got some feedback, saying there shall be ragging sessions at the end of the day, where a person is literally asked to do something which he is not interested in. This feedback was same across 3 different sets of people who had participated with this organizer.

As a result, in the registration form, I mentioned that, I wish not to be ragged or asked anything to do which I am not interested in. And can you guess what happened after that, I got rejected.

As per the group's policy person taking part in social event gets the first priority callup. Now out of nowhere I had to deal with another rejection. I could have escalated this. But since the group is a free service provider anyone can act as per their fancies. So I had to swallow the bitter pill.

Never mind, I still remember the two construction worker kids on an early morning, who were very satisfied with their packet of buiscuits unaware of what is happening in Kudremukh!

I have a long term goal in mind. So I need to work on that.

As I complete this post, found this nice article on DLM!

http://www.dumblittleman.com/2014/09/let-go-little-things.html

Cheers,

PS - This has got nothing to do with me expressing hatred towards someone. Its just about a point where everything we expect just does not happen. We have to deal with rejections. 

3 days road trip, Mirzan fort Kumta Day 3

After good night's sleep, woke up early got freshened up and first thing was to visit Mirzan fort in Kumta. I simply love the highway starting from Udupi till Goa. Its too good.

Last time I had the previlege of driving on this road, in the afternoon, early morning. Thoroughly enjoyed my drive on this road. This time too the case was same.

Once we reached Mirzan fort, came to know it was not yet opened. Hence proceeded to a nearby hotel in the main road.

Breakfast was Misal Bhaaji. What a lovely food. I had 2 full plates of a low calorie one and my friends made fun of me as if there was no tomorrow. When I came back and searched internet, found out its a specialty of Kumta. How proud I feel that I ate two plates.

Its nothing but Avalakki, on top of that, boiled vegetables, lentils, masala and salt, topped up with Sev. I tried the low calorie one with no Sev top ups and left out the potatoes.

Within the avalakki there were lots of fried items too,which I left out, like Chakkuli, Nippat etc.

All in all the shop was a go-down of fried items. What a nice breakfast I thought, next time, definitely will take my parents over there too!

Cheers to Misal Bhaji.

Cheers,

Topics to write...

There are actually loads of topic to write, which I am thinking of. It can be categorized into

1. Childhood.
2. School.
3. College.
4. Work.
5. Cab.
6. Travelling.
7. Trekking.

I remember many such happenings which I would like to write about. I always wonder, how would it have been if I had maintained a journal writing account of each day. It would have been fabulous. On top of that, writing with pen and paper in days without internet would have been even more fantastic. I can only wish.

But I still got a chance to go into rewind, remember as much as possible and put it up over here.

So hoping to write as much as possible, so that, in future, I could read them and not miss the current happenings.

Lets see how it goes.

Cheers,

At office today

Usual day @ office. Today we had no much work as, we had a sprint release yesterday and today was more of a cleanup day. Infact since last 2 weeks we had only minute modifications, nothing major though. Hence it was bit relaxing for the last 1.5 weeks after hectic schedule for the last 5 months.

Was looking at pluralsight today looking at some tutorials, as well as read some javascript stuff. Thing which have eluded me since many years. Hope I can become proficient in web technologies as well.

By evening, we had a major discussion for the next sprint and that guaranteed more work for coming days. In one way its better, but again, cannot read much at office!

Cheers,

At office today

I still have some excitement left for posting today making use of the new router. At office my neighbor got a new Xaomi Redme phone. It looks cool, just the worrying factor being amount of free RAM.

Never mind, another preparatory mail on a topic has put me to caution. Also looks like my expenditure shall go up, because of that. As of now kinda concerned.

Cheers,

Favorite eat out spots on the way back 2012 - 2013

The year being 2012- 2013. I worked as contractor for one of the companies in Mahadevapura, whitefield. It would take us lot of time to come from all the way to Mahadevapura to Uttarahalli. As a result there were many such occasions when we stopped and had snacks on the way back.

There were a bunch of fully enthusiastic guys in the office shuttle. We had a list of favorite spots to chose to eat.

1. Iyengars bakery - JP Nagar 3rd phase.
2. One more bakery in JP Nagar on the road to Indira Gandhi Circle,
3. Kaggi's Chikkalsandra.
4. Dominos pizza JP Nagar 3rd phase.
5. Goli , vada pav - Chikkalsandra.

The entire crew of the cab was just fantastic. I badly miss the company we had over there. After I left the organization, few others too went onsite. Few people still ply via the same route, but the unity was somehow broken!

Cheers,

PS - If someone from that cab Route # 19 reads this post, holla to you guys!

Office cab today

As usual came by office today, people were hungry and stopped on JP Nagar 3rd phase, in order to have some snacks at Iyengar Bakery opp to FedEx.

It was already late, I mean 9 15PM, but people were still insisting, so had to stop.

All in all people were happy.

The last time, we ever stopped at the same Iyengar's bakery opp to Fedex was sometime early in the year 2013, whilst I was working with ABB. Our cab used to come by the same route and we once stopped over there and gobbled up Nipattu, Palya bun and puffs I guess. That time it was sponsored by our cfo. I was still not that calorie concious and had eaten pretty nicely.

This time I controlled myself and did not eat anything, which is kinda achievement.

Cheers, 

New wireless router

Finally, I have it over here, posting from my faithful old laptop which I purchased in Singapore. Got a new WiFi router and now I am a happy man. Shall post more entries into this blog. Many of which correspond to the past events in my life over the years.

I wish to write more.

Cheers & Yay, I am a happy man.

PS - Without a wifi router something was surely amiss. I hope I can keep my excitement to write more, going for many days to come.

3 days road trip -> Magod falls to Kumta

After visiting Magod falls, we headed to Kumta, it was turning dark, the roads were curvy along with good amount of traffic. Coupled with that, there were heavy rains. It was difficult to drive, but we managed and reached Gokarna cross.

If we went straight, we could proceed to Gokarna, we took right it would lead us to Ankola and Karwar, left to Kumta. Refilled at the fuel station and took left turn towards Kumta.

Two of our guys on the bike had searched for rooms in Kumta. It was Hotel Vaibhav, so we stopped at Hotel Panduranga International for dinner. It was nearing 10 PM and the hotel was nearly closing. Completed dinner and headed right to our hotel for a good night's sleep.

Cheers,

3 days road trip -> Khanapur -> Yellapur -> Magod falls

After lunch, we decided to go to Kumta directly instead of Karwar, there seemed to be a way to reach Gokarna/Kumta instead of Karwar and we chose that.

So we proceeded towards Yellapura. Over here couple of stops for pics and then proceeded to Magod falls which was totally unexpected. On the way we saw a board to Magod falls and took a deviation. Thats it.

The falls was nice, since it was the first time of me visiting the same.!

Cheers,

3 days road trip -> Gokak -> Belgaum -> Khanapur

After completing Gokak falls, we headed back to Belgaum to proceed towards Karwar or Kumta. It was not yet decided. Where to have lunch too was not yet decided.

We started towards Khanapur, and I told the rest of the guys that, we shall have lunch at any Khanavali available in Khanapur. Back of my mind, I was not sure whether we would encounter any Khanavali over there or not.

I just told them convincingly that, there shall be one. And believe me, we could find one with ease. It was along the main road.

Cheers,