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I find it so hard to come up with some meaningful title to my posts. I end up spending more time thinking about an apt title for my post than in composing a post.

Has it ever happened to you guys ?

Currently Listening To...

"Tu Hi Meri Shab Hai" from the movie "Gangster". I just love this song. Must have listened to it for more that 25 times in the past week.

Broadband

Finally got a broadband connection at home. Yaaaaaaaayy!!!

So you can expect posts more often.

Why ?????????

I dont know why, but when ever I get into an auto, the auto drivers start talking to me in Hindi. When I respond back in kannada, they will be like "Oh !! You are from Karnataka only !!!".

Infact one of my colleagues told me that I dont look like a South Indian. It seems that I look more like a North Indian. Do you guys think so (Atleast the people who have seen me) ?

Eat, Eat and Eat

That is what me and my friend Ms. G used to do almost every other evening a couple of years ago. I think it was during our first semester of engineering. I used to drop by at her house in the evening and we used to take off on out eating tour :D.

We used to start with a nice & hot Tomato soup at a place called Turning Point. The soup was priced at Rs. 5 and was awesome. We had become so regular at this place and whenever we used to go there, soup was the only thing we used to have. Infact, we had become quite friendly with the cashier. By the time we landed there, the cashier would have made the coupons ready. No need to tell what we want. :D But then the shop closed down. No idea why. :( Really miss that tomato soup.

Anywayz coming back to our routine... After that we used to go to Jayanagar 4th block to have bhel puri... and no, not to a fancy eating joint, but to this road side gaadi. The stuff used to be amazing over there, plus the guy who used to maintain the gaadi was a stickler for cleanliness. Any thing u buy there was priced at Rs. 5. We used to start with a spicy Tomatopuri, followed by a Sevpuri and a delicious Bhelpuri. And mind you, we used to have one each!!! As an extra, I used to have one more Sevpuri and she used to have one Tomatopuri. Man, my mouth is watering thinking abt it. *drool*. After this we used to come back to Jayanar 9th block and have a nice juice/milkshake at Ganesh fruit juice centre. This was followed by a piece of Rasgulla at KC Das or a yummy Sabudana Vada. Whew.. And the best part is, we would have spent a max of Rs. 35 per person.

Although we were not able to do this everyday, the Tomato soup @ Turing Point was a very much daily routine.

Man, I seriously miss those days of absolute bliss.

*blush*

There is this sweet frined of mine, Ms. D, who happened to get married to another friend of mine, Mr. S recently (A love marriage obviously). What I find really sweet about her is the fact that even after all these years, she still blushes when we tease her with him. It so amusing :D. U should have seen face during her marriage... Totally pink... she was blushing big time....Very Very Cute.. :)

Keep it up Yaar!!! I hope the blush still remains in your face when u guys celebrate ur 50th wedding anniversary.

(Ring)ing Experience

U must all have seen the movie "The Ring". It came out about 4 years ago. A few of my friends happened to watch the movie in the theatre and raved abt it. It is this scary movie which really spooks you out. The movie is about this videotape, which if anyone happens to watch, will get killed. One more characteristic is that the moment you finish watching the tape n switch it off, you get a phone call which informs you about your impending death.

The concept seemed very interesting and since I could not catch the movie at the theatre, I got a VCD of the movie from the local video store. As it happens there was no one at home that day. I popped the CD into the PC and saw for about 20 mins of the movie. I could not continue further as there was a power failure. The moment the power went, the phone in my house started to ring. I was like, "Oh Shit!!!!.. Dont tell me". It was a quite scary momemt, inspite of knowing that it was just a coincidence... Now that I happen to think abt it =)).

The call turned to to be from one of my friends, who was feeling bored at home, so happened to call up. :)

Travel Chronicles - 3

Our next stop after Mt. Abu was Delhi. We had booked dorms at the International youth hostel. We set off to see the Akshardham Temple. Enroute we happened to pass through "Rajpath". We also saw the India Gate. The roads which we happened to pass by were really huge and there was not that much traffic either. It was quite cold though inspite of it being 2.00 pm. There was a huge rush at the temple. We had to go through some security checks before we entered the temple. The Temple complex is huge !!! The main temple building in itself is quite impressive due to its huge size and the carvings. The carvings have been done on a pink coloured marble. The carvings were quite good and I am sure lots of hard work must have gone into. But I felt that the temples in towns down south like Belur, Halebid and Somnathpur are much better and they seriously deserve more attention than what they are currently getting. There is also a food court in the temple complex which caters to the needs a cosmopolitan crowd. Down south, there is generally no food court in the temple complex and even if there happens to be one, they definitely dont serve pizzas and burgers !!!

After Akshardham, we visited one of my friends cousins house. We had to go searching for her house which took up some time. From there, we went to the nearest metro station to travel on the Delhi Metro. From there we caught the metro to Connaught Place. It was a nice experience travelling on the metro. The entire metro is on international standards, right from the station to the trains. My friends told me that it is exactly the same way as it is in Japan. There is a train almost every three-five minutes. All through the journey, there are announcements on the speaker as to which is the next station and some safety instructions. If such a thing ever comes up in Bangalore (Its high time Bangalore got one), I am sure it would be huge success. The cost of the ticket is also not that high. In Bangalore, for a journey from JP Nagar to Majestic on a BMTC bus, the ticket costs 9 rupees and it takes an hour to cover the distance. On a metro this distance can be covered easily in 15-20 minutes. You will also avoid the heavy traffic. A metro system must come into Bangalore very soon. I feel it will definitely make a difference.

That nite we boarded a train to Pathankot. Next day(28th Dec 2005) we had to report for the National Winter Himalayan Trekking Expedition at Dalhousie. This is an annual trekking expedition that is organised by the Youth Hostels Association of India (YHAI). The National Winter Himalayan Trekking Expedition at Dalhousie is for a period of six days. This was an awesome experience. Although the trek was a very easy one, I happened to meet so many people from many parts of India and made some very good friends. In our batch, there were around 16 people from Bangalore. We were a group of four. We happened to get along famously with four other people from Bangalore and one more guy from Mumbai. So we were like this group of nine and man, we had a blast!!!! It was really great meeting this set of people. One of the person we met has written a nice blog about the whole trip. Click here to read it. :D This guy has done an awesome job of writing it.. He has written about many many small but memorable incidents.

Travel Chronicles - 2

Mt. Abu fell very much short of our expectations. Places in south like Agumbe and Ooty are much better in terms of views and stuff. It was very chilly in the nights. We were there for two days in Mt. Abu. Saw places which are part of the itenary of a regular tourist like some view point, temples, sunset point, the Nakki Lake. The place has become very commercialized. Infact, there is a Coffe Day Cafe over there.

Have any of you experienced chill and warmth at the same time ? It was an amazing feeling, feeling cold and warmth at the same time. Its like having cold vanilla ice-cream with hot chocolate sauce. The only diff being, in the latter only your mouth gets to experience the contrasting temperatures but in the former its your entire body which get to experience the contrasting temperatures.

Travel Chronicles - 1

I had gone on a two week tour to North India, out of which 6-days included a trekking camp in and around Dalhousie. It just felt great to be out of Bangalore. We were a gang of four from my office. Our first destination was Mt.Abu. We took a train via Mumbai. The onward journey was quite good. All of us were excited about the trip and were pretty much yakking/cracking jokes and the usual stuff along the way. The first morning in train, I woke to a nice view of sunrise. God knows when was the last time I saw the sun rise... Plus the great feeling that you have two whole weeks to just enjoy. We had to change trains at Mumbai and also the station. The train from Mumbai to Mt. Abu was totally crowded, plus we had RAC tickets. So two of us had to adjust in just one seat. That part of the journey was so goddamn noisy. Even at 11.30 in the nite, people were moving up and down the train.. It was like a mad house!!! Whew!! The journey was quite uneventful. By morning 10, we were at Abu Road station. Mt Abu was abut 28 Kms from the station, so we ended up engaging a taxi to Mt. Abu.

I was quite surprised at what people had for breakfast. It was like samosas/jalebis/bread pakoda/rabdi... I have no idea how people can have such deep fried and oily stuff for breakfast.. We ended up having brunch that day.

Classic Phoebe Quotes

1. Phoebe Buffay ??? Fire Alarm ????
2. Phoebe: "I am realy sorry about before. Do you have anything worth 10 dollars over here ?"
Shopkeeper: "I actually have these two crisp 5 dollar notes"
Phoebe: "I will give you one dollar for them".
3. We need more bandages!!! Bandages !! Bandages!!!
4. Smelly cat, Smelly cat!!!

Can u tell when she said the above dialouges ???

Do you Know ?

How many of you out there know what "Kaleidoscopic Cerebrations" mean ?
And no looking up the dictionary/thesaurus.

What the Hell !!!

I sometimes seriously wonder if people have nothing better to do. I saw this scene on my way to office today morn. There was this problem/fight between two people on the road i guess. The police had come down and were talking with the people involved. There was a crowd of around 50 people around them who were standing and watching the fun, blocking around 30 percent of the road. Apart from that, there were these people on two-wheelers who had actually stopped their vehicles mid way on the road and wondering what was going on, blocking another 30 percent of the road and also the traffic. What the hell!!!! Its bloody so irritating. Why cant people mind their own business. And its not like it was an accident or something. The police were already there and investigation. I have observed this behavour so many times. People seriously need to grow up and start minding their own business. I dont think that either of the people who were watching the "tamasha" actually cared.

I also get seriously pissed when people stop their vehicles mid way on the road and start fighting because one of them banged into the other. Go to the side and fight all you want!!! Dont do it in the middle of the road and block the traffic behind you. Dunno when people are going to learn. X-(

After I came to office, I had called up one of my friends, a Ms D and was full time cribbing to her about this. She on the otherhand was full time cribbing about her problems. I was wondering, that all of us have some thing or the other to crib about..

What a Meal!!

I had been to my house of worship on sunday afternoon for lunch..:D Yes!!! U guessed it right.. Pizza Hut!!!! I was so hungry by the time we went there, I hogged like a pig. This is what I had...
1) 3 slices of garlic Bread
2) 1 whole plate of Pasta Arabiatta
3) 2.5 slices of some yummy pizza
4) 2 huge slices of white forest pastry
5) One glass of lemonade..

*drool*
*drool*
*drool*

Felt like a king after lunch that day. I was so satisfied. Man!! I dont think I have ever felt so satisfied in my entire life.

An Encounter

I had a kinda wierd experience while coming to office a couple of months ago in the morning. Now that i think of it, feel like rolling on the ground with laughter.. Anywayz here's wt hpnd ---

I ws on my way to office on my faithful activa.... was about 300 metres from office, when i saw this string on the vehicle left handle(near the brake).... it looked like a shoe lace... I ws like, “how the hell did a shoe lace come there”... I then observed that the “shoe lace” tapered towards the end... now that’s kinda weird.... all this was while I ws still driving... I then observed that the string started to move and ws quite sure that it was not because of the wind.... Well.. the string turned out to be........ “A Rat’s Tail”, Yikeeeeeeeeeessss!!!!! God knows how it got into my vehicle... I then had to drive for another 300 metres with the tail hanging from the handle( the rat ws inside the handle).... parked my vehicle in the parking lot, rushed to the loo n washed my hands thoroughly with soap n water.. phew!!!!.... In a way I am glad that I did not notice the tail earlier.. U ask why ? cause, in case I did, I would have to drive all the way to office with the rat in my vehicle n it tail hanging or I would have to stop the vehicle, pull the rat out with its tail (wooaaak!!! >:p)

=))

I was reading the blog archives of one of my friends and came across this. Chk it out

*drool*

Some of my Favourite foods :-
(in no particular order)

1. Pizzas @ Pizza Hut
2. Chocolate Walnut brownies @ Pizza Port
3. Pani Puri @ Bhavani's
4. Roadside chaat at this roadside next to BHS college.
5. Rasam made at my house.
6. Salads @ Namdhari's
7. Tomato Soup @ Wang's
8. Cheese Cake
9. Burgers @ Indiana

The Dumb Thigs that I Do

A couple of days ago I was watching a movie on my PC. I did not realise it immediately. Instead of watching and enjoying the movie, I was more concerned that the display was not alright, there were lost of disturbances, block noises and glitches. This is what happens when u take your work too seriously. FYI, my work involves audio and video encoders and decoders and multimedia players. I guess I definitely need a break!!!!

One more dumb thing that I did today morning. I was at my desk in office. I generally keep my cell phone on the desk in front of me. One of my friends called up on my cell and we were yakking around. All of a sudden I observed that my cell phone is not on the desk and started frantically searching for it!!! I mentioned it to my friend when she reminded me that I am talking on the cell. :D This is me!! I desperately need a break. I actually cant believe that I was dumb enough to do such a thing. Thank god that the people arond did not realise it. Else I would been the laughing stock of the day!!

One more Dumb thing. This actually happened around six years ago. I was with my friend Anthil. We were driving (Anthil was driving and I was the pillion)on airport road on my Hero Puch and there is this stretch from where you could see the runway (this was six years ago). We were quite a distance from this place when I saw a plane approach for landing. I wanted to a see the plane land from a more nearby place, so I actually encouraged my friend to accelerate the hero puch!!! And my friend actually did it!! So, here we were two dudes on Hero Puch trying to race a Jumbo Jet!!! =)) Man, I have a huge smile on my face thinking about it. And of course I have to run now as Anthil will be after me for putting this stuff on the internet.

Nostalgia

The four years I have spent during engineering at college have been awesome. Did total masti, met lots of people, made some very good friends, freaked out and studied a bit too.

In the first semester, we did not have a gang. It was just me and one more friend of mine with whom I used to hang around in college. Only in second semester did we form a huge gang (about 10 of us). It was great fun then onwards.

Once we shifted to our department from third semester onwards, we kind of got to know the lecturers also quite well apart from my other classmates. One special reference to one lecturer. Lets call her Ms A. What was funny about her was that she used to append the word "tum" to almost any noun she pronounced. So, a capacitor became capacitum, a voltmeter became voltmetum, motor became motum, generator became generatum and so on.... We could not even laugh out in front of her (it was tough to maintain proper composure after hearing these words). Luckily she did not do that to our names.

Most of the masti was from the second to fifth semesters. From the sixth semester, all of us became quite serious about about respective projects and placements. So, the masti was quite limited.

We are having a class reunion on the coming weekend. Will be meeting many of my friends and classmates whom I have not met in quite some time. Looking forward to meet them all.

Me toh full nostalgic right now.

OMG !!!!!

During our regular after-lunch walk today afternoon, one of our colleagues was telling us about the "conditions" the schools impose before they admit students. I was shocked on hearing some these "rules" and also on the amount charged for admission.

Sample this rule : "Both the parents are supposed to speak fluent english and they are supposed to have a minimum of one car". These rules just dont make any sense. I can relate to rules which say that the parents should have atleast completed their matriculation or should have minimum education. But these rules, its pure nonsense. Schools are supposed to teach students to stop discrimination. Instead, they themselves discriminate among prospective students on the basis of financial and social status. They are being such hypocrites.

Where is all this heading to ?