Weekend

Been a pretty relaxing day today. Did not venture out of town, instead went to the nearby bank for some personal work, also sent across the income tax returns statement. Cleaned up some stuffs at home and above all had a good 3.5 hours sleep in the afternoon.

Now about to start reading a book, The Treasure Island on my newly acquired (used) kindle.

Cheers,

PS - Things to write about include.

my beach trek during the year 2013, Almost 1 year I need to recollect couple of stuffs and then write.
KP trek which I attempted 2 times this year.
Charmadi Ghats trek and Nishani Motte trek.

Purchasing a used kindle

I most likely will end up purchasing a used kindle by tomorrow. I am very excited. Its been quite a while I read a book to completion. Atleast and hopefully this will get me going.

Cheers,

Music during childhood days!

I have written in some previous posts about what music I used to listen to as a kid. I remember listening to Hindi songs from bollywood movies in the late 80's when I used to be a 3-4 year old kid. I remember QSQT, Tezaab and few other movies.

Apart from this, my father used to bring certain tapes which had english songs too. So here I could listen to U2, Madonna, Boney M, ACDC. I remember I never used to like ACDC, but now I enjoy them these days.

I loved Madonna back in that day and even today. Such awesome songs are hers. Then came the 90's. I still remember the year was 1994. One band re-appeared on the scene and they released a tape, the album was "Hell Freezes Over". And the band in picture was Eagles.

My father brought this tape and believe me, I too liked the songs a lot. New York Minute was my favorite and even to this date, it is still.

I never knew what was the story behind the Eagles. And after all these years of listening to their songs. Finally one day I thought let me read more about Eagles.

The year was 2010. It was never late. Apparently, The Eagles was an old band, which split up during 1980 and vowed never to re-unite again. And the saying goes. that the band would unite only if "Hell Freezes over" and so does the name come from. Someone please correct me if I am wrong.

When they re-united, they called themselves as a band which took a 14 year vacation. But how did my father know all about Eagles in 1994. The answer was pretty simple, he used to listen to them during 1970's too!

Same way, he knew about the Police too. I came to know about the Police only during 2007. I was aware of Sting, but never knew this 3 piece outfit existed.!

Then there was one more band which I grew up listening to, by that time satellite TV revolution had happened and I could get a hang of new songs in teh market. The band was MLTR. 2 albums and believe me, I used to listen to those songs again and again.

Even today at workplace, I listen to MLTR, The Eagles, and few others too. Years go by but the melodies remain!

So does Jagjit Singh! I shall write one more post about Jagjit Singh!

Cheers for today!

PS - Whilst this english music thing happened, we always had access to Bollywood movies, Phool Aur Kaante, Roja, Coolie No 1, Main Khiladi Tu Anari, Rangeela and many such Kishore Kumar, Mohd Rafi songs we got used to. Even to this date we still listen to those good old songs! Cheers once again.

Power cuts - during childhood!

This post is all about how I spent my time during power cuts during childhood.
It was a pre-internet era. Unlike most people in the west, we never had access to internet. I got a PC in 1996, but most of my friends could not afford one. Moreover there was no networking of sorts which we could make use of. Hence all of my childhood free time was spent on the streets, playing, speaking doing something with friends in the neighborhood.

So let me tell you couple of things which we did many times, once there was a power cut.

We used to sit on the street footpath and since the vehicles were not so common as of today, we used to sit there and tell out stories. especially ghost stories. Now after many years I realize all the ghost stories were cooked up, but believe me, at that age it was pure fun.

My friends were from all backgrounds, but the good part was, none of them were rich. they were poor, or moderate. All of them could not afford much of the richer things in life.

But being poor was a boon.
Life without internet was even more fun.
Without gadgets it was a bliss.. We could meet people everyday. There was no jealousy amongst our team.

Not sure where all of them have landedup. I hope they are earning sufficiently well. I moved out of Malleshwaram after 15 years, and been here for more than a decade at Uttarahalli.

Cheers,

2 day road trip, Kemmangundi to Tarikere, Sri Amrutheshwara temple

After Kemmangundi, we proceeded towards Tarikere, where we had our lunch and then to Sri Amrutheshwara temple. After which we drove straight to Bangalore. Thus one more road trip came to an end.

Cheers,

2 day road trip, Mullayangiri to Kemmangundi

After Mullayangiri we proceeded towards Kemmangundi. It was a hot day. But going through the Bhadra Wildlife sanctuary was like a breeze.

Cheers.

2 day road trip, Chickmaglur - Chickmaglur to Mullayangiri

The next morning started early towards Mullayangiri. Reached the parking lot and was all geared up for the climb along the steps.

Felt good visiting the temple, the climb. Everything went well.

Cheers,

2 day road trip, Balehonnur Sri Rambhapuri Mutt to Chickmaglur

After the Mutt visit, we headed back to Chickmaglur for the night's halt. Had not booked any lodge in particular. We found one and called it day!

Cheers,

2 day road trip, Chickmaglur - Yagachi dam to Balehonnur Sri Rambhapuri Mutt

After Yagachi dam, we proceeded towards Chickmaglur. Crossed Chickmaglur and proceeded towards BaleHonnur to visit Sri Rambhapuri Mutt.

The road was not that good, took quite some time to cover the 30 odd kilometers.

It was a nice place, really enjoyed the place, its calmness, tranquility.
Over here we could see a on a piece of stone, a 2 d stone carving, turning into a 3 dimensional one over there years. It is termed as a miracle. Not sure how to describe it in words nor provide more details on it. Worth a visit!

Cheers,

2 day road trip, Chickmaglur - Belur to Yagachi dam.

After lunch proceeded towards Chickmaglur, on the way stopped at Yagachi dam.

Need to post pics which reside on my other PC

Cheers,

2 day road trip, Chickmaglur - lunch at Belur

Since it was mid day prasadam was available at Belur temple. There is a huge premises diagonally opposite to the Belur temple parking lot, where people were calling out to come fast, saying last round of lunch was about to progress,

We hurriedly inside and completed lunch. Prasadam was really good. Felt nice.

Cheers,

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,