Hogenakal

After a good movie on Saturday, on my way back I got my bike checked for Sunday. I along with some of my friends had planned a trip to hogenakal falls in TN.

Sunday morning I got up by 7 in the morning. All thanks to Adi. We were supposed to meet at the forum mall in Kormangala by 8 am. I got ready, had my breakfast was there by 7.58(before timeJ) and found only Adi there. Waited for sometime, Varun was next to come and soon Ajith also came. Btw when we were waiting there, Adi was so interested in the dogs which were there and also where they were shitting.  Anyways we left by 8.20. It took us sometime to cross Bangalore city. The electronic city area was bad, not very good roads as some road construction was going on and on top of that it had rained last night and was drizzling that time, so all slush around. Our bikes and shoes had them all over. But as soon as we got out of city limits, the roads were WOW. Especially after Hosur, you just rip n rip and rip. Varun was like a cool dude all the way, not ripping too hard but still enjoying the roads to their best! A little time before our first stop when Ajith was leading a lady was crossing the road, she saw Ajith coming at some 120kmph and stopped but all of a sudden something came to her mind and she started running to cross the road, he was so close to bang into her and I was also very close to Ajith with almost the same speed, but a little on his left. So when he slowed down I was not going to bang into him in any case but if he misses the lady than for sure I will bang into her. His bike skidded some distance and so did mine and we stopped so close to that lady. Somehow we managed to avoid that collision. Finally we reached A2B, stopped there to take a break and grab something to eat. But the place was packed and there was no place to sit. And the roads were so tempting that we decided to give up on food and hit the roads. But before that we had a little photo sessions with our bikes, also capturing the slush on it which had dried by that time.

From there we were to go till Dharmapuri and from there take 2 right which will head us directly to our destination. The road was smooth, the bike was zooming and we were enjoying every bit of it. After we took right from D we guys thought that the roads will be a little rough but to our surprise they were really good. Usually you don’t find this good roads in village areas. They were so good that on those roads also we were zooming on 90-1000kmph. And since they were through villages and farms there were many awesome curves which any biker will like to hug. A small stop in between and we were at our destination by 11.30.

We parked our bikes and reached the river side, now to see the whole area u really need to take a boat, so we all decided we will. After bargaining a lot or rather say after trying a lot to bargain we hopped onto the boat. The boats were also funny, it’s only this side of the country that I have seen boats like these. We all were really scared when Adi was about to get onto the boat, what if it sinks??? But we decided to risk and got onto the boat with Adi. A little ahead the boat guy got off to buy some ticket and that time Ajith was given the job of taking care of the boat, and he did it pretty well, along side entertaining us with his poses for the pics.

 

The boat ride was smoothing. The river was calm at that place. We saw some small water falls, we also did ‘boat sanan’ as it was said by the boat guy in which he took us below the waterfall. Than at one place he asked us to get off the boat and start walking, and we had to walk a lot. I really mean a lot and that also through small streams. But it was worth the fun. At few places there was no stone to step on and cross so Adi decided to soak his shoes and get into the stream while Ajith and I were trying our best not to get into the stream and look for an alternative. Varun on the other hand was confused whether to join Adi or us and at some places he struggled also. After a lot of walking we came close to the main falls. Now to get there again you had to cross little streams, this time I saw no alternatve and me also soaked my shoes into water and so did Varun. But Ajith was our hero, he still looked for stones far away and was hopping from one onto another till at one point he fell into water and landed up with wet feet. Reached near the falls, Adi and Varun being tired gave up some way before the edge and sat there while me and Ajith went close to the edge and clicked some photos.

After chilling for a while there we headed back, now the boat guy took us through a very more calm river. After walking so much this ride was really worth going for. We cracked jokes, talked and had a nice time.

 

After reaching back to where we started we started hunting for some place to eat as we were very hungry. We knew we won’t find a very good place. Found a place called C.M. hotel. But to my bad luck they had only South Indian meals. To be honest I don’t like this type of meals a lot. But when you hungry anything and everything goes. So we all ordered for meals. Now to add to it they had no spoons. Damn, I can’t eat rice with hands. Have had like that a few times in the past but its tough. But hunger made me have, I somehow struggled and was eating and others were having a nice laugh on the way I was eating. For my good luck those guys did not take a photo of me while eating. After a full stomach and in lazy mood it was time to hit the roads again and set back to Bangalore. This time we did not rip so hard but were just crusing on 100-110kmph. Stopped by at A2B again, hydrated ourselves with some drinks a little food, settled our accounts and back on our babes. It was starting to get a little dark now. We were expecting a huge traffic when we hit Bangalore but it was less. So it did not take us long to reach silk board where we all parted and took different ways to our respective homes.

Of all the bike trips I have been to I will rate this one my third best after Lonaval-Khandala and Bilikal Rangaswamy Betta trips. And about roads, the second best I have ripped my bike on, after Mumbai-Pune expressway. To end with I will say I said a fun time, and may be last fun time before I start studying for my coming exams which are very close. Its time to stop punching keys and pick up my books. Adios.

 

Dostana

The weekend that just passed by was quite a one. I was very confused if to actually do some chilling out or to stay back home n study for my exams that are starting on the coming Thursday. Then came a savior, she told me just do as much masti as you can this weekend and let it be your last for this semester. After this weekend study properly. And I decided to listen to her. So on Saturday, 15th November, I decided to catch up for a movie.

Decided that I will go for movie DOSTANA with some of my college friends. This is the very first time I am writing a movie review, so just pass by if something seems inappropriate. And ya, one more thing, I can’t get into too much technical part like who is the director, music artist…. Bla bla bla. And no narration of story also.

Dostana was not at all a bad movie. I would not say it was too good also. It was mediocre. The first half was about humor and humor and humor. People in the auditorium went crazy laughing. There were some parts which I did not find amusing at all but still you can hear roar of laughter from the audience. I think it’s all the difference in sense of humor. John has acted well in the first half of the movie. But Abhishek does not have that charisma. Kiran kher has a small role and wow, what an over-acting. I know it’s a comedy movie but this much, man she is crazy. At few points even Abhishek seems to be doing over. Out of the two, John and Abhishek, certainly John has an upper hand and all I got to say is ‘well done’. Now the babe, Priyanka, she has done a good acting. For those who did not know I will tell you that this is Priyanka’s 6^th movie in this year. The last one was Fashion, where she has done a glamorous role. She carries her glamour here also. Has no problem in walking out of water in a bikini, oops a swimsuit (as she calls it), or showing off her zero figure or long shaped legs. At no point you feel it’s vulgar or indecent. But she sure is looking good in the movie.

After a humorous first half comes a second half. Here we have our very own Dharmendra’s Puttar Bobby Deol! I have no clue why they decided to take him, the role demanded someone better. Now he can’t be taken as an editor of world famous magazine ‘Verve’. I feel he is not stylish enough. And his champu hair style with those efforts to try to look stylish. This part has very very little humor. They have just dragged the movie. But it does not get so boring also, something keeps you hold on to your seats. As the movie closes to the finish the end gets very predictable. Our editor of Verve marries the co-editor, that’s Priyanka.

Over all I will say that if you want to spend some time out and want to catch up some movie than it’s not a bad option at all. It has nothing substantial like Fashion but it sure is a good entertainer. You won’t come out of the movie hall saying that you wasted your money. But one more thing, the humor is not for everyone. People who are not ok with Gay relationship might not like the humor. But I feel there was nothing wrong, as I said before, apna apna sense of humor. So in case you have not watched this movie till now, do it but with a light and open mind. And just enjoy the movie instead of finding the wrongs in it.

Cheers.

India

Sitting on my couch and watching news the other day I just wondered about the constitution of our country. What I read in history books was that when our constitution was to be framed the body, whatever it was called, headed by Dr. Ambedkar did intense search and made numerous efforts to draft our constitution. Also read that these people studied the constitutions of different successful countries and picked up the best from there, complied it and we got our very own constitution. That sounds very similar to what many people do to their computers now-a-days, common term that is used it “assembling a computer”. But do these assembled computers give max performance? Well sometimes they do and sometimes they don’t. So the point is that all depends on the parts and their compatibility with each other. Considering a bike, it’s so made that all parts work in harmony with each other and give best out of it. If u replace any part with any other bike’s part than it might not be as good as it was before.

Now that was just about bike and computer, merely objects. If one gets spoiled than can dump it and buy a new one. But now the talk is about our constitution, we followed a some what similar thing in framing it. Assembled. That’s why we have different states having a government of their own, than on top of it a central government. We have so many political parties, every now and than you see some minister splitting from his party and making a party of his own. And talking about ministers, you will find in every corner of every city. They are just so many of them. And than there are so many supporters of our so many mWe hear and say politics is bad, but no, politics is not bad. It’s the people involved in it presently are making it appear bad. When someone has to get some work done he bribes, that’s so common and understood. And in bribing you have to pay sufficient amount that the person from top level minister to his supporters all are well fed. Some ministers are state level and some are central level.

And what I have observed lately is that when one party is ruling in the center and some other party is ruling some state that there is no co-ordination in between center and state government in tackling a situation. There are so many examples of this thing happening. One latest is our RAJ T case that is going on. As expected the matter is becoming big and big. All ministers from all over the country (or say particularly from north) are giving their valuable comments. The center says something, the state government saying something. Ufff…. That’s all I can utter. Even this Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu case,which is hot nowadays, is on same ground. So many, there are so many such instances where lack or coordination between both the government leads to delay in obtaining the solution and aggravating the problem.

My say is that there should be just one level of government. Either make it state or central. In which central is any days preferred. So that one body has control over the whole country. And it can work efficiently and give it best for the benefit of the country. This will also lead to cut down of number of ministers in our country and hopefully less corruption. May be this also brings in feeling of oneness among people of India. Right now due to our great politicians for many of them its all about their state and country comes a long way behind or does not even exist. While it should be country first and than state. But can we really do something to change our constitution now? Will anyone at all support it? I don’t think so; it will be opposed by all, politics after all. So I request everyone to stop dividng each other on basis of caste, religion or our latest factor STATE and live in harmony and peace. After all we all are INDIANS first.   

Vah kya advertisement hai

Now-a-days while watching television we watch more advertisement than other stuff. Whichever channel we tune into it’s just flooded with them. In more general terms we call them ads.

Now every company has there own ways of producing ads. Most of them just hire a team or something who makes ads for different other companies, give them the outline and basis and other necessary details and they come up with the ads that we see on TV. The best part is that nowadays on NEWS channels we see more ads than news itself, and whatever news is there is all to just increase the TRP of the channel.

But what weight these ads carry in our day to day life. Do they affect us at all?

Sure they do. It’s through these ads only that we come to know about the latest releases or upgrade of products, promotional offers and so many other things to bring increase in sale of products of growth of company. But recently some ads have tried doing something different, which I found really very impressive. These ads are trying to motivate the youth to come ahead and take a lead, do something productive. For example, latest I saw was some tea ad where a couple of young guys are giving tea to people outside a movie hall saying you sleeping, on other people trying to bounce back they say, “aaj election hai, agar aap vote nahi de rahe toh aap soo rahe ho”. Man this ad was impressive, than they tell about their website where you have all details about the election system and how to vote, how to get voter ID card and other thing. I myself saw this website before writing it down and it indeed had all info. Another ad was where a youngster picks up some wrapper which was thrown by someone else and throws it into a dustbin. There are few more to count. Unknowingly these ads do make a difference, if not other people’s loitered stuff but at-least people will throw there rubbish into a dust-bin. And about voting, stats say that youth is rising, they have stared voting, and ads like these will surly inspire a few more.

Many of you must have seen the Idea mobile ad also, where Abhishek is some school Principle and the teacher teaches student via phone, the students learn so much and teach their family members also and so on. I liked the ad, am very sure it must have added to the sales of idea mobile sim cards. Out of curiosity I mailed these people and asked if they have actually done something or it’s just an ad not to my surprise I have not received a mail from them. So I assume that they haven’t done anything in real, and it’s all for publicity.

Than there are some which show bike stunts, am sure that also inspires many youngsters. There are ads promoting the use of condoms. Like this the list goes on. But we should be careful; some wrong ads should not inspire us and people around us. And at the same time we should learn from the ads which convey some positive message. Cheers.

B R B

Recently I went on a trip with my friends. Well to be honest not too recent but sometime back, in the month of august ‘08. But that time I never used to blog so writing it down now. Will also pen down about other trips in reverse order of date. We went to this place called rangaswamy betta, also called bilikal rangaswamy betta (B.R.B.).

To be honest all my friends are waste, they want to go out, want to do thing but do not like to take initiative. And some who try to are not good enough to convince everyone and have poor managerial skills. So every time it’s all on me. The first problem was deciding the place. As am new to Bangalore I don’t know many places around, so I relied on different travelling websites and blogs to decide on this place. And not to miss, I was helped by Moutushi to finally decide the place, thanks a lot for it Moutu. The next hurdle was to see who all were in for it and how many bikes we really had. The thing I hate is when others act like pussies, and come up with a reply ‘can’t confirm now, will confirm by tomorrow morning’.

So we decided to meet at 7am at marathalli bridge. Asked every one to be there by that time so that can leave by 7.30 max, but hell no! people just love to be late n late. And the worst thing that happened was there were more people and less bikes, thanks to some very cool people who did not turn up at the last moment(which was happening the first time). Prachi, I am really sorry for that day. Anyways we left by around 8 am, and look the boy-gal ratio, only for girls turned up and TWO boys!!! So six people(rohan,swetha,moutushi,soumya,preetha and me) on one unicorn, one active and one dio. Ha ha ha. Anil and his girlfriend were the last minute entry. I felt that their motive was to spend time together rather than the interest in the place.    

Left at 8 am, started towards the destination BRB. I had taken the route from a website but still though of confirming it with local villagers on the way. But we dint know that those guys will be more confused about the way to BRB. All throughout they were guiding us to some other Bettta place which was really far, Anil lost hope half way and going by the distance that villagers told he took a U-turn and went back. Luckily at one place a guy told us that we have come a wrong way and a long way. This was out time to take a U-turn and head on the right path. And as we headed close to our destination we became more and more sure that we on the right path now. The localities on the way warned us against the wild elephants we might come across and this totally thrilled us.

 The ride got a little hilly on the way but nothing compared to other hilly rides I have been to. Rohan was a little hyperactive all through the journey and every body else just enjoyed abusing him for his stupid activities. Some 3 km before our destination the road became really bad, or rather say no road at all. A local suggested us to park our vehicle there only as the road above was worse and will be difficult for activa and dio to pull till the top. I am proud of my unicorn.

 From there we started trekking. The trek route was pretty long, and we had wasted a lot of time already by going wrong way so we took a way through the jungle made my flowing water with little hope in our heart to catch a glimpse of some wild animals. Reached top finally but very tired, but more than tired was the feeling of proud of reaching the top of mountain.

Now a little about BRB- it is situated on top of a high mountain, don’t know the height above sea level. But it’s really high. The view from there was awesome, too good. Have never seen a place like this in Karnataka, never thought there can be place like this. This place was called BRB because of a temple of a GOD RANGASWAMY which is over 600 years old. As per the information given to us no one lives there except the pujari of the temple. But we did find some crowd there, more than we expected. But compared to other commercial places it was very quite and pleasant. Overall I will rate it 8/10. The amazing thing there was a pond which looked very dirty but the water in it was very pure and chilled. The source of water in the pond was not known.

After resting for some times n clicking some photos we realized we were hungry and got nothing to eat. Went to the mandir, they gave us banana as prashad. I don’t like banana but that time it was as good as DBC. Than we asked those guys if there is more to eat, as we very hungry. May be it was a little cheap but they had, those bhandara kind of thing they have at many temples n gurudwaras. They gave us tomato-rice and one more kind of rice which was sweet. I really got to admire the hospitality of those people. For the first time in the state of Karnataka I was treated so nicely by some one who is not my friend. Ate real nicely and continued back our journey, we were getting very late so hurried our way down, got our vehicles and started ripping towards Bangalore. To add to all the fun we had it started raining as soon as we hit Bangalore. I was home by 6pm but some others lost their way inside the city as they were acting too smart and reached home after 7pm only.

Overall it was a nice experience, first trek after coming to Bangalore and loads of fun.

(P.S. –since it’s about a 2 month old trip, I have just given a very brief information excluding many other interesting things that happened on the way) 

SHE IS MINE

“Is my shirt ironed?” “Yes!” “Are my shoes shining?” “Yes!” “Is my hairdo looking good?” “Yeah!” “Do I smell nice?” “yes yes yes!” “Okay, last question. Am I looking fair?” “Ummmmm….”.

So much so for metro sexuality, both of us had slept nicely last night and did not work the whole day so as not to get dark circles or look tired. After all we were going to a disco first time in Bangalore and that also on a ladies night!!!

“Phew, am I late?” “No, the party starts late”.

In the car…

“Damn, all the cars in Bangalore are on this road or we driving at 20 km/hr.” “Forget that; tell me how am I looking? What should I do if some girl asks me to buy her a drink? Can you smell my perfume?”

By now I was more than bugged of my friend and his questions. I could not understand why he was so excited about this party.

The car stopped in-front of ‘fuga’, we could hear the blasting music and see those hotties walking inside.

“Oh my God! Just look at her. The one walking in backless top is so pretty.” “I know, I know. You have fallen in love again. Let me guess, is it 129^th time…?”

We both burst out laughing and walked inside. Once inside, we saw all the Casanova’s kicking a beat to DJ’ number while all the shy ones were hesitant and could be located in some corner. After collecting my guts asked a girl for dance and was enjoying it pretty much.

“So you from Bangalore itself?” “Nope, I am from Mumbai” “Oh, what a co-incidence, even I am from Mumbai!” “Hey Tirth, I just met someone who is also from Vapi and she is desperate to meet someone from her hometown”  “ Uhhhh Supriya, I will be right back….”

That was the last my friend saw of her in that party and worked hard not to cross her again during the whole session. In the meanwhile mouth watering snacks were being served. Meanwhile on my end…

“Are you sure you not hungry?” “Yeah! I grabbed few puff from the bakery near my house in the evening and I am full to the brim.” “Tell me about your relationship. I mean….are you out with anyone?” “Who? me? Naaah! I never met someone my type.” “Ahem! Ahem! So what is your type?” “Beautiful eyes like yours, cute dimples just like….”

Tring tring…

“Oh, hi. I am doing well. Have come to a party with friends. Ya, me too. Ya ya, love ya!!!”

My friend thought acting like a nerd might just help in catching some fish. At times it’s nice bait.

“So you in college? Which one? Which year?” “BMS college, electrical, 2^nd year” “Wow! That’s a nice college, and tough branch, by the way even I am in the same branch. So if you have any problem with any subject you can contact me.” “Sure, if you think you can help a BMS topper who happens to be the president of math club, quiz club and also electrical department general secretary than please do!”

While it was getting tough for him to handle one at a time I managed to carry off five at a time!!!

“What is your name?” “Shristi” “Aditi” “Anisha” “Neha” “Priyanka” “One at a time. Please, one at a time. By the way, my name is Naman….”

After all the hours of dancing and lying to each other, people started settling for drinks and food.

“I love beer. Why aren’t you taking something?” “Actually, I don’t drink on Saturdays, religious stuffs you know …..”

Now Tirth was acting too innocent.

After the drinks and dinner, proceeding towards the exit.

“So you are going?” “Yeah, we will probably meet sometime again” “What’s your mobile number…..”

A few hours together created such a hullabaloo in our hearts! I am trying desperately trying to sleep right now but my friend has been bitten by a love bug.

He is murmuring in his sleep…

“She loves me… she loves me not…she loves me…!”

 

Young and restless

Land of opportunities…

“KADAM KADAM CHALAYE JAA, KHUSHI KE GEET GAAYE JAA, YEH ZINDAGI HAI KAUM KI, TU KAUM PER LUTAYE JAA”. Ever heard these lines? Must have, on India’s Independence Day or republic day celebrations. We from the bottom of our heart really like these days and wait for them, don’t we? But, what’s the reason? Do we really wait for them so that we can cherish some XXX years of our country’s independence or becoming a republic? Or to salute the people and appreciate the efforts of millions who just put everything on line so that we can have two great days like these to celebrate?

As far as my observation goes, we wait for them because those two days are national holidays. And if they around weekend than BINGO! Take a day off from office, club holidays with weekend and its holiday time. Otherwise just laze around that day, get up late, or get up early and catch up with your old friends for a game of cricket or badminton (choices may vary). In the busy schedule we got now-a-days all we crave for is a free day and a free day and more free days. And all we want to do is NOTHING. But have we every thought if we doing anything for the country? Many answer, obviously we are, my company does this-that, they support Indian market, economy…. So through my company I do a lot for my country.

 Let me re-phrase my question, Have you as an individual ever done anything substantial for your country???

 Now the answer to that will be a straight NO by most of the people, and the reason? We never got an opportunity! Wow, it’s so easy to just save your @$$ in matters like these, learn a lot in corporate world. In this life you got, opportunity never comes to you but you have to go look for it, grab it and work on it, be it for your country or to talk to some nice girl in a disc or other worthless matters like job and all. Many of us really like to go and watch movies that show a little patriotism like ‘chakh de India’ or ‘rang de basanti’. Will walk out of the auditorium very proud of the country and will surly think that YES, I WILL ALSO DO SOMETHING FOR MY COUNTRY. But how long does this zeal stay inside us? For 1 week, or may be 2? Sometimes 3 weeks. After that we again need something to boost the Indian in us.

So now the questions arise, what is the solution to it? Where to look for opportunity? What to do? How to do? And so many more….

But how do I know the answer, I am one like you all….

STILL WAITING FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO KNOCK AT MY DOOR!! ! 

What’s going on…..???

I just switched off my television, now-a-days you don’t have much to watch on tv. So I prefer watching news most of the times. But right now all news channels had same thing going on, and watching it you really feel how sick people can be. Am talking about what happened in Mumbai today on 19^th October ’08. Some students, oh my mistake some NORTH Indian students had come to Mumbai to write an exam, that’s not of much relevance of what exam they came for but what is more important is what happened with them. As soon as they got down from their trains at various stations they were surrounded and than beaten up and others who reached their examination centers (I wonder how they managed to…) were beaten up there. And I think it’s pretty easy for you folks to guess by whom or rather say on whose command.

Our very own Laloo ji was very angry over this matter, and I feel he has all rights to be. As a matter of fact for sometime even I was angry but than after sometime I was sad about where our country is heading to. Well, it never head on the best possible path but still, nowadays Indian politics is getting too much political. All that happened in Mumbai was to gain political interest or a real love towards your state??? Just in case it was love for you state, let me bring to your notice that your state is a part of a country called INDIA, and if you think your state can survive without the aid of center that all I will say is ‘stop living in a fool’s paradise’. The only fault of those poor students was that their nationality was NORTH INDIAN, had they been only INDIANS nothing would have happened to them, AM I RIGHT Mr. T??? After all you love your state (and indirectly your country) very much. The best about the whole matter was the reaction of our great CM, what a diplomatic answer he gave. He blamed the railways for this mis-hap. According to him he was not informed about this examination that was conducted in his state, railways should have informed him, they called for it, bla…bla…bla… and in the end, the usual, ‘ will force an enquiry into it’. Our Mr. T has such a strong hold in his state that no BIG B, oh I mean no big person can do any thing to him in any way, as they say in Hindi ‘koi bhi uska baal bhi baaka nahi kar sakta’. Good work, long way to go…..!!! 

K, this i my first blog and i have no clue what to write here. I got exams tommorow and me here blogging, lolz. Right now i am so frustated that i can only bitch about my college and people out there. Some times i do repent why I joined this stupid college when i had options of better ones, though the streams I was getting there were not as good. But onyl after joining it I came to know that this stream in this college is not so good either. Anyways whats done is done. Just trying to stay happy in what i have. But its tough, after all its all human nature to always want better in life. Oh, talking about all this i forgot 2 bitch about my college. Hmmm, lets bunk it, because if my college people reads this blog they will create a issue about it, they are crazy enough to do it. It happened with me in my first semester, I had posted about some teachers and clasmates and someone sneaked to them what we posted, actually sneak wont be the excat word as it was all publically posted. Anyways, they all created a big issue about it, the Principle got into the matter bla bla bla....thats why i said will tell about it some other time, best time will be when I pass out of my college. For the same reason i have not mentioned the name of my college also till now. And I better be carefull not to post it in future also. So much now for my first blog. I am really bad at this writing stuff and all. Hope I improve with time.