Communication breaks barriers.......

The TV Commercial of the above is a yet another Gem from Bharti (Airtel) stable....

Came across this big bill-board at Trinity circle (Bangalore) while driving back home....

The statement written on the bill-board is so true in whatever part of your life you apply it to....either with friends or professionally or at personal levels....it holds perfectly true.....now days even in cricket!!!!

So finally after some real long break from blogging arena.....I am back :) and it does feel gud.....

This new year had decided to re-start with my blogging and here I am and am sure I shall be regular in this.... :)

Two friends have been pretty much asking for a long long time.....why the blogging is on a pause and when shall the same start.....and here it goes.... :)

The Journey

Hmmmm.....its been a while since I last mentioned about my various trips....
Well over the past 3-4 months since April have travelled to 3 places and one of them being Delhi....which needs no mention....home visit...ghar ka khaana.....catching up with frnds there n all...

In April.....had a chance to go to Ranganathittu a Bird Wildlife Sanctuary on the route to Mysore from Bangalore. The Pics can be found at:

8th April, 2007: Ranganathittu and Srirangapatna

So this was a real BIRD WATCHING trip. Reached there by around 8:30 am and then there you can get a ten to fifteen minute boat ride around the sanctuary which is basically located in a very small area on river cauvery (this small area also is an advantage), the density of birds is way too high). Crocodiles are also available for viewing in this area (you can consider that as a complimentary view along with the birds).

While on the journey back we visited Srirangapatnam and sangam. This was my second visit to Srirangapatnam - earlier one had been jab mein chhota bachcha thha......

The second journey was in June to Hogenekkal falls - on the route to Salem from Bangalore - 180 Kms from Bangalore. Also managed to achieve 180 Kmph speed in my car on Hosur road. The last time I had been to this falls, they were furious. It was post monsoon and Caivery river was at that time full with water and the falls could be seen in full glory, and the restrictions on the boatings were there. This time around the journey happened before the monsoons came over. The water was there in the river, but the the feeling of calmness was prevailing over the whole area. The falls had shrunk and you could actually go under various small small falls without any fear.

The tradition of me donating something to the river cauvery in form of lenses continued, though this time it was not as expensive a donation like the last time. This time around I donated my spectacles to the river.

The pics link will be put up shortly for this trip.

And in this month - July first week, I had been visiting home.......

As of now the weather around Bangalore is asking to make one more short trip.....and something needs to be planned asap.....

River of Dreams......

It is one of the most beautiful songs with really beautiful lyrics to which one can relate at some or the other point in their life....

here is the song lyrics:


River of Dreams
Artist: Billy Joel

In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
From the mountains of faith
To the river so deep
I must be lookin' for something
Something sacred I lost
But the river is wide
And it's too hard to cross
even though I know the river is wide
I walk down every evening and stand on the shore
I try to cross to the opposite side
So I can finally find what it is I've been looking for
In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
Through the valley of fear
To a river so deep
I've been searching for something
Taken out of my soul
Something I'd never lose
Something somebody stole
I don't know why I go walking at night
But now I'm tired and I don't want to walk anymore
I hope it doesn't take the rest of my life
Until I finally find what it is I've been looking for
(Two beat Pause)
In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
Through the jungle of doubt
To the river so deep
I know I'm searching for something
Something so undefined
That it can only be seen
By the eyes of the blind
In the middle of the night (break)

I’m not sure about a life after this
God knows I've never been a spiritual man
Baptized by the fire, I wade into the river
That is runnin' to the promised land (Long Four beat Pause)

In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
Through the desert of truth
To the river so deep
We all end in the ocean
We all start in the streams
We're all carried along
By the river of dreams
In the middle of the night

Bird Watching :D

8th April, 2007: Ranganathittu and Srirangapatna

Highwaystar Back

Well well well.....

It has been a long long time since I logged into my Blogger account and voila....it has all changed....and a good change....

Now is the time to get the train rolling....chhuck chhuck chhuck chhuck....

4 months and I have been in Bangalore....

Though its another case, I have still now taken any breaks to go on a leisure trip till now - need to start doing that.

Aha...4 months down the line....my dear Canon EOS350D has been feeling neglected, just like this blog, I need to do something about it.

Now the thing which I miss max after leaving Chennai are the amazing beaches.....what fun it used to be to be sittin on the beach with breeze blowing late in the night....or just having fun on the beach when it was raining....

Anyways all this will slowly fall in place.

The World Cup died an early death with the exit of Pakistan and India in the very first round....

Wow...where has Indian cricket come to 25 years after winning World Cup. This sure is gonna be reflected in some major changes which will in a short while happen with Indian Team.

The World Cup this year also had its lowest moment with the death (or murder) of the Pakistani coach - Bob Woolmer

And now the king of advertisement spenders - Pepsi has had to work out a way to salvage its investments in the World Cup with the Blue Bullion theme falling all apart.....its time for Bollywood to take over the reigns....

But in advertising world in the Telecom side....its Motorola which is creating the waves.....the new Motorokr advt featuring Abhishek Bachchan (of Miss Aishwarya Rai's to be husband and might be to be Ghar Jamai fame). This advt. simply just simply ROCKS.....especially the last scene of the advt where Abhishek is shown as dead all set for cremation wrapped in white lying down and all the people around him crying and then suddenly his head starts shaking.....truly depicting the theme for the phone "Music Addiction by Motorokr". Another good thing about this advt is that is is able to communicate its selling points effectively....

The advt can be checked out at: The AB Motorokr Ad

The advt is made in a hindi movie format - where there is a Maa praying to get her son back in a Temple, a jung ka elaan, AB getting beaten, ABs wife declaring the son she is goin to have is not his but his friend and in each of these situations AB ends up singing...director asks him to take a break and in that break Motorokr features are shown and then coming back to movie on the death bed...dat sequence I described above. Now go and check out the link above for the advt. Its good. Motorola has been coming out with some real good ads recently which I personally feel have been amongst the best which any handset company has come out with.....good going...so now Motorola is back in race along with Nokia and Sony Ericsson....

Its Time

Well well well.....

It has been a long long time since I logged into my Blogger account and voila....it has all changed....and a good change....

Now is the time to get the train rolling....chhuck chhuck chhuck chhuck....

Now its almost 4 months and I have been in Bangalore....

Though its another case, I have still now taken any breaks to go on a liesure trip till now - need to start doing that.

Aha...4 months down the line....my dear Canon EOS350D has been feeling neglected, just like this blog, I need to do something about it.

Now the thing which I miss max after leaving Chennai are the amazing beaches.....what fun it used to be to be sittin on the beach with breeze blowing late in the night....or just having fun on the beach when it was raining....

Anyways all this will slowly fall in place.

As of now the BIG thing is cricket aha..... (abhi tak aaya nahin thha, so its finally mentioned)...
India finds itself in a do or die situation....making Friday match with Sri Lanka, nothing less than a final which it needs to win to move ahead in the World Cup...and all this has been courtesy a minnow team - Bangladesh which made India bite the dust in their World Cup opening encounter....

Just hoping Men in Blue get the clue and send the opposition running to the loo.....

Wishing the Indian Team all the best!!!!!!!

The

Well last evening was the day when I got finally cleared and relieved from my first ever company as a full time employee after resigning on 7th Nov 2006....after spending 18 months there....

So this every much implies a completely fresh start......move to a new city....a new co. .... new set of colleagues....THE CHANGE....

Still no clue whether its for better or not.....but I hope generally change occurs for better....

Now eagerly looking forward to that drive from Chennai to Bangalore....thats some highway....gaining high speeds on it will be very very tempting....mazaa aayega...

So in next two days the packing needs to start....post reaching the destination a new house needs to be found....needs to be setup....ah dats a difficult task hehehe....then hmmmm maybe a TV and home theatre system......man how much can one demand......hahahaa

Anyways.....the phase 3 of this blog begins....and the journey continues........
Phase 1: Started in B School....continued all through into the 1st Job (Phase 2) and now the journey begins into phase 3......

Rock n Roll cant stand still

After a real real long time.....today morning....felt like having a nice headbanging session...the first song coming to mind....HEAVY FUEL by Dire Straits....
the lyrics are awesome....toooo cooolll....

here they come:

Heavy Fuel by Dire Straits:
---------------------------

Last time I was sober, man I felt bad
Worst hangover that I ever had
It took six hamburgers and scotch all night
Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right
cos if you wanna run cool
If you wanna run cool
If you wanna run cool, you got to run
On heavy, heavy fuel

My life makes perfect sense
Lust and food and violence
Sex and money are my major kicks
Get me in a fight I like dirty tricks
cos if you wanna run cool
Yes if you wanna run cool, you got to run
On heavy, heavy fuel

My chick loves a man whos strong
The things shell do to turn me on
I love the babes, dont get we wrong
Hey, thats why I wrote this song

I dont care if my liver is hanging by a thread
Dont care if my doctor says I ought to be dead
When my ugly big car wont climb this hill
Ill write a suicide note on a hundred dollar bill
cos if you wanna run cool
If you wanna run cool
Yes if you wanna run cool, you got to run
On heavy, heavy fuel

Highwaystar on a Roll........

Five months into 2006....what all has happened.....

Kicked it off with the first day being spent in Pondicherry.....and I think that set the tone for the year.....

What a tone sensex from 9K level is now comfortably above 12K levels whoa and still going strong....

What a tone.....have not rested yet and rest seems far far away.....

From Pondicherry - The coastline in the deeper southern region of India having really beautiful beaches till the Mighty Himalayas - Vaishno Devi and Patni Top in Jammu.

Have also been to Ooty, Coorg and then back home and now plannin on to Goa, Kodaikanal, Kerala and a couple of wildlife sanctuaries around in South India.

Not to mention trips to Bangalore keep happening....

Going off to Pune-Nasik-Mumbai in 2 weeks and the 3 places in 2 days :D

Its been a roller coaster ride till now....and the year surely seems to just have started.....

My camera sure has been njoin itself to the max - check it out here

Pondicherry - the trip was a roadtrip - took East Coast Road from Chennai to Pondicherry on 31st Decemeber'2k5 to eneter into the new year at Pondicherry.The road runs just next to the beautiful coastal line which Tamil Nadu seems to enjoy...this is where I managed to get a maximum speed till date out of my car - the speed being 155 Kmph....it can do more than that - it is waitin for more.....Visit Pondicherry between October and February and you can spend your time playing or lazying around on the Beach. The beaches there r really beautiful and dats wat u can call perfect setting for playing in the water.....else mostly the beaches along the eastern coast of India are very rough....

Next trip was to Vaishno Devi and Patni Top in J&K in February'06 with parents and my yunger bro. It was my first time to these two places and Vaishno Devi is such an amazing place, it takes you to a completely different world. Had darshan thrice there and then went ot Patni Top. The best thing about Patni Top is - ITS CALM AND BEAUTIFUL. No noise. Not much to see there only enjoy the scenery around you. Where else can you find such a nice place to get away from the daily chores and noisy city life.

In April'06, went to Ooty with my XIM-B friends. It was for just one night, but was fun. Though must say Ooty is no more an ideal hill station, people flock there like crazy....though worth a visit once. The ooty lake is really gud, one should go there boating only in the evening time, thats when you will enjoy it the most with the setting sun. The tea gardens cover Ooty and it looks awesome :)

Again in April'06, went to Coorg with my cousins who are in Bangalore. This was during the weekend when Bangalore was closed courtesy death of an actor. Managed to reach Bangalore - what a journey it was, bus stopped at Hosur and there we had to wait and see how to go to Bangalore. Well some Karnataka buses were started and on then reached Bangalore. On the route to Coorg, one has to go on Bangalore-Mysore highway. This highway is still under construction but once its made it will be really good - I think the best thing Karnataka govt can do. Coorg has an awesome weather. The very first night it rained there. We had stayed directly in the middle of a coffee estate and very near to Nagerhole wildlife sanctuary :). We went to Wayanad wildlife sanctuary the very first evening. We could not spot a tiger or leopard or panther in 3 journeys through the wildlife sanctuaries. Two times through Nagerhole and once through Wayanad. Next time will have to work out something to reach to the core of the forest where the action happens. These two sanctuaries also have a major problem - they dont provide jeeps, they provide big vans to enter into the forest and in these big groups go, which make a lot of noise, as if these vans r silent. Also the jeeps are permitted to go, but visitors have to make there own arrangements. Again these vehicles make a lot of noise. The sanctuaries should provide their own low noise making jeeps and huge groups in vans should not be be permitted. We also went to Kushalnagar Monastery. It is supposed to be the second biggest one in India and it was amazingly beautiful. A must visit for anyone going to Coorg.

Last I have come back from my Home - Delhi......the city simply rocks :D

Lets see where am I off to next.....in two weeks I will be in Chennai - Pune - Nasik - Mumbai - Chennai in 2 days flat :D

and have to scout for where next after that....

India Wins and am off to Ooty

Heeehawwww

Dis time ye another yungster does it....Suresh Raina dis it for us....

From a seriusly bad situation he and Dhoni came to the rescue...

Finally India leads 2-0 to England.... :)

Well now am off to Ooty for short trip....

ciao everyone...back on Sunday evening :)

The Rising Sun

Finally got a chance to see the sunrise in Chennai standing on the beach :)after almost ten months of stay here...

Today morning after picking up 2 of my XIM-B friends from station we headed straight to the Besant Nagar beach (Elliot's Beach) to view the sun rise.

Have seen loads of sun sets and clicked loads of dem....but catching a gud sunrise is very difficult.....this was a gud one but not perfect.

For more pics click here

Remembering those Wonderful Days

Been just over a year since I left XIM-B (actually 1 year and 1 week)

That was my first experience of living away from home and living on campus in hostel....

Have made many frnds and couple of close frnds for life out there....have had loads of fun @ campus.....

No way will I forget those days of sitting late night study or project work and spending the whole time doin just bakkar....playing tennis late into the nights.....my non stop stream of caffeine....goin to canteen at 1 am or 2 am for something to satiate the hunger (which normally arises always wen u think of doin a project or think of studying), also post tennis game going to mess for masala cola (AT 4 AM!!!!!!!!)

Blasting of that hard rock music from my speakers well complemented with someone trying to listen to soft hindi music somewhere on the campus.......

"JUST LIKE THAT" - the night wen XIMB turned into a disc....and went dancing all night.....

Well anyone observing us wud have kept on thinking......do these guys sleep or not.....to see that he wud have to attend the class and try to find the junta there trying to catch sleep - with everyone having their unique way......

Wat fun it was.....truly "THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!"

Miss those days.....miss everyone there....

Hoping (actually dreaming) abt living those days once again.....

BSE almost kissing 10K mark

Well well well today morning - stock markets open and BSE is at 9915.94 (up 45 points)....

Will the market breach thru the 10K mark today or not...lets wait and see....till then HAPPY INVESTING AND PROFIT MAKING....

At the stroke of 9:30 AM on 26th January'2005,
When the whole of the Indian working junta will be lying in their beds - resting....

I will be in office.....

Well wat to say...it happens...

Rang de Basanti releasing.....need to watch it....

As of now two must watch releases have been....Bluffmaster and Zinda....

Bluffmaster truly is gud bluffy movie.....u need to see it to believe it....Priyanka Chopra truly looking really pretty in this movie....(actually should say...she is growing prettier in every movie she does...)Aby's baby....has been on a roll and has delivered in this movie too,......and his song...well its amazing....

As for Zinda.....Sanjay Dutt...has done a terrific job....he just fits the role he did....no one could have been there only Sanjay Dutt....After a real long time...a gud action movie has come on screen....gud action sequesnces.....ok its a lift off of a Korean movie...but still must say gud stuff.....though it gets a bit gory with all the bloodshed....

njoin life....and dats all for now.... :)

Run "FEAST" on a "DEAD" Pitch

They say its a dead pitch @ Gaddafi Stadium....
Batsmen say "I'm Lovin it"
Bowlers asking for a back massage.....

Its been a run feast for both the sides....

Pak 679/7 declared....
With a pace battery they have it was thought India might have to follow on....but but but....

Dravid and Viru opened the innings for india on the second day and with only 15 overs being bowled on third day, they were still holding ground on the play close for the 4th day with the score at 403/0 - lets see whether this is going to reach the highest opening partnership or not....the manner in which they are going it certainly seems more fireworks are on offer for tomorrow...

Dravid: 128 - The Wall is standing solid...no one can go through him right now...
Sehwag: 247 - An still kicking some serious butt....
and to top it all - its all at a run rate of around 5.2 or 5.3 and believe it or not - this is test match.....

Viru might be thinking of his last triple century when he was in Pakistan last time around....he might be wanting to better it and maybe go for a 400 on his own....

Awaitin more fireworks tom...but hoping other pitches have not been made in a similar fashion - need some real gud cricket between these two great cricketing nations..... :)

Also a Belated Birthday to "The Wall" - Rahul Dravid.....

My latest acquisition.....sheer power and force....and speed...."Highwaystar" is now truly a Highwaystar. The car is "Opel Corsa Sail - 1.6" Feature list - 1598 CC and develops 91 bhp at 5600 revs and 12.6 kgm at 3200 rpm. Blaupunkt CD system with Sony Xplod Oval speakers in rear and two pre-fitted from speakers - fully loaded.....or should I say Overloaded....
 

November Rain

"And when your fears subside
And shadows still remain
I know that you can love me
When there's no one left to blame
So never mind the darkness
We still can find a way
'Cause nothin' lasts forever
Even cold November rain"

Well Chennai has been experiencing this cold rainfall all throughout the month of November.

And its been actually cold - fans have been used minimally - aha low electricity bill.....

Great weather to spend time on the beach. Thats what I have been doing too.....

Can the weather remain like this - only the rains should not happen......cool breeze and little sunshine.....wow.....

What a life....

Rains rains and more rains.....it just does not seem to stop here....no fans reqd. at night....now that is what I had not heard happening in Chennai....but it is.....

Rains happen when you don't want them to.....TODAY WAS SUPOSED TO BE A CRICKET MATCH BETWEEN INDIA AND SOUTH AFRICA and it got abandoned due to rain.....

But one good thing.....Laloo raj ends in Bihar.....

Life getting way too hectic....was it supposed to be like this after MBA....maybe....

But alas...now can only listen to the lines "Those were the best days of my life" from the song "Summer of '69" and recall the days gone by....

Feel like just going for a short holiday.....to some hill station - this being the perfect weather.....

The pic taken from plane while going to Delhi. More pics on at www.snapshotsfromheaven.blogspot.com 

Diwali 2005

Wishing all of you a Very happy and Prosperous Diwali

Have a great time....

Loads of fun....

and just pure Rock n Roll....