MUMBAIYYA......

I really donno from where to start? Hmm...But i am sure i will write every bit of ... Wanted to visit mumbai for ages for various reasons.. for its LOCAL TRAINS, BEACHES, DOUBLEDECKER BUSES, CROWD, LIFESTYLE, and ofcourse FOOD.....

We really planned a lot ahead(which i usually don't do) lot i meant is a month for the only reason that train tickets had to be booked... Tickets got booked even got them the previous day.. just the tickets to go... The return tickets has a big story to cover... soo will surely pen it down at the end.. :D

Finally 18th Dec Came.. i was all excited to leave to mumbai.... Me, Anala and Megha were all set for an expidition to a totally new place... i was all excited about it... We got onto the train at 8... and it was 24hrs long journey... So far i had never been on train for soo long.. All excited we started... There we go, we found our co-passengers.. they were 2 ladies with 5 kids around.. Hehehehe.. We thought its gonna be the most enjoyable one.. Since it was night, we didnt interact much with any of others around.. we had one boring vergetable biryani and veg fried rice(i never found any difference between both though) and slept.. i took the upper most berth by choice. I couldnt sleep as soon as i got and i was too excited to sleep.. Then came the next morning, all new... we started our day with UNO cards.. Believe me thats the best thing during our journey, brought those kids really near us.. We all played with those kids around and donno when the journey ended...

It was 8 and here we are "MUMBAI" All thrilled, anala spoke to supriyo and he was stil at office and we had to catch a train to Andheri.. and were suppose to reach a place called Chakala... I was all thrilled.. Just waiting to see the way things work, my first dream came true "LOCAL TRAIN"... we managed to ask people and buy tickets, and managed to catch a trainn.. we got on to a ladies comparment and here we go, we didnt know when does our stop come.. Though we knew we have caught a train to andheri, we were really worried about the way we would jump out and reach the place... I was all smiling bcoz we caught the train... :) And asked too many people when and where to get down and all that... I was amazed by the way people hopped in and out of the train within a minute... I liked it thought.. finally we reached Andheri.. now comes the point, is it andheri east or west.. called up supriyo again and found out we were supposed to get down in west and get an auto to chakala, near gurunanak petrol bunk.. Being very new to the place and the time being 9.30 we were little tensed.. we couldnt find an auto for sometime.. then someone asked us to get on to the fly over and then try catching a rick.. we managed to walk tll there and managed to get a auto at 10.. we reached the place and supriyo's wife was new to all of us.. she came to pick us up and we reached the apartment where we were suppose to reside.. all tired and with no energy managed to get on to the 4th floor(lift wasnt working) and she showed us the place.. she was really nice a person to meet with.. she cooked a lot for us.. lot means lot of it.. almost every night she cooked for us... We infact made them vegeterians for a week... One sweet couple we met....

Day 1:

We had Big List of Places to be Covered... Tried our best though to cover it... Next day we just relaxed and by 5 we left to Juhu Beach and another destination ChowPathy.... Caught an auto and reached there.. on our way saw too many people kind of crowded at one place.. asked the auto bhaiyya, he said.. Its BIG B's House... Got Down in Juhu.. It was way tooo crowded.. Man.. it was more than full... then walked around and went to chowpathy.. had pav bhaji, and KAALA KATTA.... It was really yummy...... Back to pavilion.. Only Problem with that place was, it was next to fly over and one main road of Andheri.. and the vehicles movement never stopped, throught the night we heard the cars and two wheelers, lorries, moving..

Day 2:

All set with all energy decided to go to Elephanta caves... We left home and went and caught a local to churchgate... we just knew very few things about the wereabouts.. Thanks a lot for Megha's reasearchs... We werent sure of what is Fast, Slow Local, Harbour line.. we didnt even have a clue... But I am Proud, we learnt it... Reached Churchgate.. I still remember the announcements made in the local trains.... "Pude station Bandra, Agla Station Bandra, Next Station Bandra"... I was amazed bcoz in everystation the train stopped for hardly 40 seconds.. everyone had to get down people had to climb on train again.. that was really amazingly quick.. Realised that u need to be really quick if u need to be in mumbai.... First things first, got a map to mumbai.. which had all the train routes and the places to be seen there..We were looking for a place called tea society of india.. Couldnt find it.. Then finally called up "Shivi Pathak"(Ravi's friend) to find the place.. Then he took us there and had nice tea and nice bfast and We started to walk towards gateway of india.. infact in search of it.. walked walked and walked... didnt knew it was quite far... we managed to walk looking at all the old stone buildings. I was really fascinated by all those buildings.. They were stoned and most beautiful ones.. This part of mumbai was really beautiful... Then we went there we found out elephanta caves would be closed on Mondays.. :( we felt bad.. next aim was lets go for a movie.. we went to Imax and watched AVATAR... I fell in love with that movie.. and then head back home..

Day 3:

Megha fell ill after this day.... and she couldnt think of coming out.. So finally me and anala started to see bandstand, jogger's park and Linkin Road.. Shivi had asked to shop in linkin road, since its the best place to shop... Bandstand and Jogger's park wasnt that great.. atleast i didnt enjoy it as much.. Then we shopped shopped and shopped in Linking Road... :) While coming back we got on to the train at a peak hour.. Oh Oh Oh Oh... I was literally struck between people and for my fate was standing on the opposite side of platform where i was suppose to get down.. Probably the first ever encounter of peak hours and after that we tried to avoid the peak hour from then,. But Local's something i loved about mumbai... :) Wherever you are you are in reach of a station and 45 mins max u can reach wherever across mumbai....
Day 4:

One more fell ill..... :( Supriyo showed us a nice place to have idli vada near his place.. Till we were back we made sure we ate there everyday.... Somehow our plans kept on moving ahead... We watched Paa that day... And came back home....

Day 5:

We Finally thought just another 2 days left we have to go to Elephanta today.. And we were successfull in doing so.. We went to Elephanta.. Its a beautiful place with all good carvings in it... The Caves were Huge.. It was really great... Then we came back and didnt know what to do. it was just 4... One more thing to see was MARINE DRIVE.... Then thought of SHIVI... We called him up, caught with him and he took us to Nariman point, Colaba Cosway(its actually a tourist attraction adn highly expensive) then we had a walk in Marine Drive.. The Place which i loved the most.... it was illuminated all over and we walked all the 3 kms.. looking at sea and walking next to it was sooo much fun.. I loved the whole feeling of breeze and saw the Queen's Necklace... Shivi made us eat like mad that day... We had one kind of local chai of bihar.. One kadak chai i had ever had in life.. It was really wonderful.. Tasted a lot of food that day.. Started home by 11.. Caught a Local from marine lines... was totally surprised to see the ladies compartment full at that hour.. Thats one good thing about mumbai, Girls are safe there... i mean they can roam at any hour there... :) We reached railway station and caught an suto back home....

Day 6:

Day to worry about the return tickets... Bcoz of tatkal thing we were suppose to get out tickets.. Thanks to bala.. he got us the tickets on time... :) We went to fashion street.. belive me it wasnt soo good as heard or expected... We went to marine drive again that day.. simply couldnt resist that.. We had been to "Not Just Jazz by the Bay", "Rustom's icecreams", Saw the sunset in Marine Drive.... I loved it... I loved the sun, the breeze and the sea... we enjoyed it...

Day 7:

Last day and still had soo many places in List.. went to see mahalakshmi temple.. Haji Ali Darga.... and finally shopped in linkin road.... and met Samit and got our tickets.. all releaved.... :)

Day 8: All set to leave to Bangalore.. 8 was our train.. got into a local at 6.45.. keeping fingers crossed to reach before 7.30... thank got we did... and here we go... started to bangalore..

Time to say Goodbye to Mumbai.. Good bye to the local trains... Good bye to marine drive and almost everything.....

Trip to Nagarhole....

After a year's planning our trip finally atleast few of us made it to the trip... I went to mysore for a weekend... Thought would hang out with few people and enjoy my weekend.. Saturday managed to get into the 7 O' clock train(though intended to catch 6.30 train)... Gosh after standing in a BIIIIIIIIG queue i managed to get one ticket.... Got into the train... Train was quite crowded.. Managed to grab a seat finally... Journey was good.. Met a stranger(turned to a friend) by end of journey... Once reached mysore.. its soo different a feel belive me,... That's heaven... :)

As soon as i entered mysore first person i missed was rashmi.... We both used to roam around mysore like mad...

Till 4 we were still talking and deciding on what to do and what to plan... it was just on... Werent even sure of visiting Nagarhole.. Finally decided to start on sunday.. Me, Deepanna, Pavi and Swaroop.... Evening went around roaming with my friends and had a good time....

Next day morning finally decided on going to Nagarhole... Aunty had prepared nice lunch along with gasgase payasa... After a wonderful lunch.. we were off to Nagarhole... On our way picked swaroop and pavi and here we goo.. we left... On our way, deepanna kept on telling about his previous experinces of his visit to nagarhole.. All excited and waiting for whats in store for us....

Reached Nagarhole entrance at 4 PM... started moving inside the forest... For a long distance we couldnt even see a ant... :P We just kept on waiting watching.... The LUSH GREEN.. oh man... treat to my eyes.. was all happy and enjoyed it... We posed and took a lot of pics... Deepana took us throught a place where it was bamboos all over everwhere.. GREEN BAMBOO..... Woooooooooooooow... that road was filled in with all the green........ I got out of car.. posed a lot... and took wonderful pics... :) After i got out of the car and pics taken, deepanna explained, thats the path where in there are plenty of elephants... oh my i was damn scared... Then we moved on... Suddenly swaroop said.. "erehula hutta" oh man.. all of us burst out of laughter... he never knew it was Geddalu hula not ere hula.... ;) We named him as ENTAMOLOGIST.... ;) Hehehehe....

Deepanna asked "How dares to touch and elephant and who can take a pic next to it?" Hehehe i said Yes and he stopped in a elephant camp.. Its good to see elephants far far away.. saw one wonded elephant which is being tamed for 3 months.. They said, it will take 6 months to tame an elephant... There i dared to really take a pic in next to elephant.. after taking 3 pics.. i found a better pic.. ;)

Then after few nice pics.. We started ahead to go near the forest guest house.. Hehehe found two deer.. We are like take our the camera and start shoooting.. Deepanna said" Come on you guys stop taking pics.. i promise to show atleast of 200 deers before we are back".. And that was true.. we saw as many as probably more than 200 deers that day.....I realised and We took loads of pic.. Literally by the time we were back we were bugged of seeign deers, stags... pavi started telling "Kuri Mande nodida hage agutte(sheep herd)" whenever we encountered deers... We saw peacocks too and by the time we reached the Forest Guest House it was 6 O Clock...We had a quick tea there.. Guards over there started hurrying up and asking us to leave... So we started at 6.30... Slowly we started from there.. Deepanna was all excited and thrilled on our drive back.. he said... we will get to see tigers and leopards.... Hmm started growing dark.. Oh Man... It was really scary.. Could see only the car headlights on the way and the moon light... It was really scary.. all the windows down and literally waiting too see the animals... We moved quite slow.. and here it comes, could see eyes shining... Hehehe.. There it was... Bisons.. two of them lying down and relaxing.... And we were about to take the pic.. there was some noise in the near by bush.. I started shouting somethign there.. deepanna just speeded away for few yards.... We realised it was another bison... Got nicely scolded by all of them.. :D

The roads were quite narrow.. there came another car and we slowed down to let them pass... i just turned and there is one elephant next to my window.. My breath was held for a minute.. we slowly passed it... Oh my.. t was breath taking... I will never forget it in my life..... Finally reached back to mysore by 9...

One of the best trips.. i love nature and would love to be with it forever...

THREE CHEERS TO..... DEEPANNA, PAVI,SWAROOP and ME...... We missed sandesh the most... :(

BHAM!!! I fell....

After a wonderful trip to Nagarhole, mysore... Took off on monday.... Came back to Bangalore and started for a party... There was party in Cafe Masala.... It was a party from three of us, me, pratibha and siddi... First time i ever had been to Cafe Masala resides in Brigade Road... Nice place, nice ambience, Nice crowd.. Was a big time party... Decided to start a little earlier bcoz was tired that day.... But these guys kept on telling some more time..so finally started at 10.30 was on my way home. Though Kumaran escorted me, He was on his bike and he just lead the way... I was close to Okalipuram... Suddenly the cab guy put the brakes and literally stopped... And i couldnt control my vehicle and it was BHAM... BHOOOM.... i was on road on the left side of the road... Lucky me.. no vehicle ran on me.. :P
two guys who were right behind my bike just stopped and helped me out.. I got up and sat on the divider... My vehicle was Jammed.. The tyre and the mudgaurd was jammed and locked infact.. Gaadi was jammed, didnt move a bit.. Literally those guys lifted my bike and took on the side... For a moment i was like in such a SHOCK.. I had a mixed feeling.. I was shocked, i was soo confused, messed up.. i donno what that feeling was.. Suddenly such a strange feeling, i thought soo many things.. I was thinking how will i go home? with a broken Bike? Will i be able to move? Oh man... Never in my life i was sooo damn confused or messed up, so scared, soo... i donno what those feelings are.....
Those two guys were too good to me... They unjammed the wheels, and corrected my bike.. Infact they even asked me whether i need any help to reach home.. By then Kumaran came.. And those guys left.. They were really ANGELS for me that day.... ANGELS... I am soo thankful to them.. Finally drove my bike really slow, since fork was bent and reached home.... Till i reached home too many thoughts floated in my head... I was hurt on my knee and loads of body ache... bruises.. Paapa my gaadi had a big dent in front.. :(
In this blog all i wanted to write was that feeling which i had.. I felt for the first time, I am responsible for my own life.. I mean.. i have been staying alone in Bangalore for almost 4 years... But never had i felt it. I felt tired, shocked, terrified and what not.. I reached home i was still shivering... shivering from inside... Though a strange feeling.... Probably is good i realised what life is in one way... :)

Cricket Cricket Cricket!!!!

Kumble............ My CRUSH,LOVE, CRICKET for me is him.... When my friends said, we'll go and watch cricket... LIVE... WOW.. In a stadium... i was all thrilled.... Belive me i was all thrilled and excited....

I remembered those golden days of watching cricket at home... Me, my brother and my Dad... Woooow.. those days were sooo damn good.... We used to probably watch all possible matches on TV... Ofcourse its been ages.. Those were the days.. These days i am not very much into watching much of cricket... Even then, watching Cricket LIVE, Watching KUMBLE... Wowieee.... dream come true....

Thursday i came to office and cricket was the only thing on my mind... Couldnt think of anything else.. was imagining how it might be in the stadium, how would be the view... oh man... tooo many things on mind.. Had to wait till 4 PM in the evening get out of my work place... :D

All the 10 of us gathered and decided to start to THE Inaguaration and CRICKET MATCH... BCCI Champions League... Royal Challengers Vs Cape Cobras( Hadnt even heard of it) in Chinnaswamy Stadium..... I had always seen the stadium from outside... never had i been inside... On our way, tooo much of trafiice.. hurried up and reached the place.. We all painted our faces RC RC RC RC RC... :) We would win.. ROYAL CHALLENGERS rock....

Tight security to enter the stadium while entering the stadium.. We had locked all our laptops already in office in our drawers.. so walked in empty handed.....

Belive me i didnt even know who are in the team except few players... Asif didnt have a ticket finally manged to buy one more in black(there also we got cheated in the block) Then these guys did a lot of golmal and finally all of us managed to get in and settle down....

We all sat in the seating exactly above the entrace of A stand.... We had a complete view... i could see the ground, see sooo many people.. Wow.. i was all thrilled excited.. We could hardly identify anyone on ground.. but could certainly watch the play.....

Slowly the crowd started building up.. Sooo many people.. and the stadium was FULL by 7... Tada... the inaguaration started... All the teams captians were called and they were asked to imprint their hand on the clay frame... We all cheered sooooooo much shouted and yelled when KUMBLE came.. Hurrahhhh.... Yeah.... it was soooperb.... Then all the artist started their performances.. intially i donno there was a lady singing.. we all made fun... thats all.. after that there was a dance erformance with all good drummers... man base drummers.. wonderful music.. and people dancing all around... fog, fire crackers... woooow.... There were 4 guys(climbing on the poles shaped a cube) who showed their gymnastic performance.. then.. chinese dragins... then the kerala guys doing kalaripayattu and chiinese showing their martal arts.... woww... the stage was on fire... there came shaggy, jemelia.. woooooooooooow.. Ingauration was the best one i had ever seen in my life.. LIVE and STAGE ON FIRE... woooow... cooooooooool one... Our money on Rs.350 was worth there itself... :)

MAN THE MUSIC, CROWD, STADIUM, PROGRAMS.... EVERYTHING WAS SOOO DAMN GOOD.... EXPERIENCE OF LIFE TIME..... :) :) :)

Now the time for the match.. Kumble and the puttock came for the toss.. Kumble won the toss and chose batting.. Crowd was sooooooooooooo enthusiatic, and cheering.. By then out voices were already gone... Cheered RC RC RC RC RC.... match started... Wooow.. all thrilled and happy i started watching it... and belive me we batted soo well... we got the hope on winning already..... 4,6 and woow.. and one ball was hit high... ooooooo thoguht he caught it.. Man.. he left that catch.. yipieeeeeeeeee we all screamed loud and wooow... One more ball dravid was run out, we were keeping our fingers crossed before the thrid umpire decision was given and booom... he got out... :(:(.. After that Taylor's turn.. Yipieeeeeeeeee sooo many 6, 4 ,... wooow.... we scored 145/4 in 20 overs.....Too good a play.. felt low when we lost our wickets... but still managed to keep ourselves cheered... Hmm.... wonderful it was to watch it live.....

Then came the cobras turn.. First 2 overs there wasnt any wickets.. 3rd over.. KUMBLE got a wickets.. Yipppie... Man those guys played well(even without any cheering for them) People were booooing when they played well infact( spoilt sports).. DUMINI saved them..... They won.. :( we lost with a smaller margin though... :( thats fine..

It was 12 when the match got over... reached home by 12.30... Wooooooooow one of the wonderful experience for the lifetime...

Three Cheers to all of us- Pratibha, Bala, Asif,Siddi, Ravi, Seema, Vasanth, Kiran, Kumaran, Manu, and ofcourse MEEEEEE

WE ALL ROCK!!!!!!!

JOG Jalapaata....... :)

Manavanagi huttidmele En En kandi... Saayo tanaka samsardalli ganda gundi... Herikondu hogodilla sattag bandi... Irodrolge omme nodu Jogad gundi......
Remember that kannada song from rajkumar... Yepp i did too... Finally i made myself watch JOG FALLS.... Atlast... I saw jog falls.. Infact i wanted to pen down things, beforei forget everything... Have soo much to write.. hope atleast i will write down everything atleast a glimpse of whatever i have thought of writing....
This trip was not at all a planned one.. Thanks to sheethu... she made my mind... I was successfull in dragging anala too.. :) Infact could not belive even the day i started.. Saturday had to leave early in the morning at 5.. All sleepy me and anala left home, managed to get an auto to majestic, met sheethu and hey we were ON..... To reach cheelur(sheethu's place) we had to travel in a train from bangalore- beerur( dont read it as beer ooru please) then from there another bus to shimoga and from there another bus to cheelur... Belive me on our way throughtout our trip there was nothing other than green... it was green GREEN and only green(all shades) All excited we reached cheelur at 12.... On our way(in the train) learnt to say cofeeeee,chaya,masala dooooza, badam milkeee.. lol
As soon as we reached, bisi holige was waiting for us... Aunty had prepared deliciuos holige... Ate couple of them.. ;) Relaxed for a while and yup Officially started with the TRIP:)

First thought we'll go vist tungabadra river, then we would go and see the temple.... But we started with sheethu's adike tota(Beetlenut farm)... Beautiful place(All greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen).. We got drenched in rain, enjoyed the nature.. walked all around... it was simply more than fun... we tried to take as many snaps as possible(tried to be proffessionla photographers without SLR camera though).. I am sure we were successfull too. Finally after that we moved on to the temple where resided a ganesha(on ocasion of ganesha chaturti). Poor god had to listen to the songs which were no where even near devotional ones( I'm afraid cant even say which ones :P) Then we went for the Coracle ride. Was expecting a small coracle which would hold 4 people max. But the scenrio was totally different, the coracle was too big, they said they take as many as 40 people in it... Infact i saw a guy put his bike into it to cross the river. We had walk in water filled in with loads of mud.. One guy managed to move his bike from the bank to the coracle and they put that bike into teh coracle. we were surprised because we had to balance soo much while walking near the coracle, mud was too slippery too... But then i got to know the reason why that guy took so much of pain in getting his bike there. To cross that tungabadra river and reach baagwadi it would cost them 3 bucks where as going by road would be taking 45 kms to reach baagwadi.. saving both money and time ;)
We went on a ride to baagwadi and came back by the same coracle to cheelur. Do you belive it costed us only 12 bucks for all the three of us... It was a great ride though....
After that we were quite tired walked back home, had a royal lunch and then relaxed for a while. There was no network for airtel. If wanted to make a call or so had to go running to the terrace speak and come back.... i did it thrice( had to call up my mom and my fren)... Evening just wanted to relax... we were lying on terrace, enjoyed the moonlight, counted stars, spoke and laughed a lot.... Then we all sat and finalised about the whereabouts of next day.. The next THE DAY..... Finally managed to get a car for the next day's journey...
Mornign we were suppose to get up and get ready and leave by 5.30.. Guess what, we left home at 8 :)..... Borrowed one of sheethal's brother's fren's car.. left home...
All the way it was nothing other than green... It was slightly drizzling there and the climate was really cool and good...

On our way we crossed shimoga and were on the way to sagara... Half way we stopped at one place had our packed bfast(aunty packed soooper shavige uppit).... Took couple of snaps, and started.... We were singing singing and singing the whole while.... On our way we saw a place called sirivanthe(which means rich lady).. i told anala that nanu neenu sirivanthe ge hogidvi... laughed at it... It took us around 3 hours to reach sigandoor... Though we wanted to take the car along in the LAUNCH( its the boat which is used to cross the SHARAVATHI river) counld not take it... We finally parked the car there and waited for half an hour for the launch to come.... SHARAVATHI was full.... Wherever we saw could see loads of green... it was really "NAYANA MANOHARA"(Beautiful!!!!!!).......... Ellello hasiru... ellelllo neeru.. abba... eshtu chennagittu andre sakat kushi aytu... :)

We were dying to get into the launch, managed to get in to the launch.... It was one of the best time i had ever had... nice view, nice water, it was more than what i expected.. It started raining... :D hurrah.. people hurried below the shelter, me and sheethu enjoyed the rain, crossing the sharavathi by launch and ofcourse beautiful green environment!!!!!!! Reached sigandooor, alli we had to take the jeep to reach the temple... Sigandooreshwari is famous and powerful goddess who protects the property..... There were a lot of boards also sold there, which says "ee jameenannu sigandooreshwari kaayutiddale"....... It seems that board protects the property from evil.. Belief.... :)

After darshana, we missed all the jeeps... had to wait for atleast another half an hour to get jeeps, and even get the launch.. We had nice tea at one of the hotels(sigandooreshwari hotel)... Managed to get the next possible jeep and reached the banks and got the launch.. But this time vinu(sheethu's bro) asked us to stand at the end where the launch will be open to the river.. It was wonderful experience.. Nice trip back... We got into our cars and rushed to JOG...

Another hour we were in jog.. On our way we were hungry still didnt stop for snack.. Rushed to jog.. Oh Maaaaaaaaaan it was beautiful, marvellous.. i haev no words to expaling the beauty.. We had lunch in a smallest possible hotel there.. good dosas... :) We were wondering whether we would go down the jog or to the otherside of the jog.. Beacause we had time constratint, it was 4 already and we were suppose to reach back shimoga by 9 so that we catch the train.. Still we made our mind to reach the place where the jog falls.. all the way 400 ft down.. :D We could see steps down... believe me we were thinking whether we can really make it bcoz it was the matter of 1500 steps down.... We climbed down soo many stairs, climbed down, climbed down and on on and on.. the steps never got over... Half way through fews guys said "dont go, you would not be able to come up"... But even i answered, we are trekkers... you know what we were dead tired by the time we reached down... Belive me, all our strain just flew when we saw jog... Then came another hurdle.. hurdle of rocks. had to cross it if needed to reach the falls... I did fall badly once while crossing the rocks, slipped :P... There it was raining, it wasnt the real rain, it was the water sprinkled from the falls... JOG Looked beautiful... I was THRILLED... All THRILLED... loved it for the view... All smiles.. May thats the energy i got to climb back.. climb back was faster too.. On the whole all this just took 1 and half hours... 3000 steps and we were back... :)

All tired we started back from JOG... We reached shimoga by 8... Me, Vinu and Anala rushed to hotel, hogged and hurried to the railways station to catch the train..... Vinu's friend had taken the tickets and infact had kept place for us too... Belive me.. Here started one more fun.... We got into the train :)..... Yippie.... we had two seats(above the regular seating where the luggage is kept) in a general compartment... :D :D

The whole train was more than filled... atleast me and anala on one side of the berth.. poor guys( vinu and 2 of his frens) on the otherside... I could not even think of sleeping.. Body ache all over on that what a place to sleep.. FInally got adjusted and managed to put ourselves to sleep... Bhooooom one Big fight started.. One lady started fight for a seat which she wasnt using.. Just for the sake of seat she fought, literally hit that guy.. now why will that guy not hit her back... The FIGHT Started.... It lasted for 3 long hours.. everyone in the train were tired of the fight.. but that lady filled with all energy fought fought and fought.. managed to get that guy out of train and handed over to the police too.. I had never had an journey so colourful before.. heard few of the worst kannada scoldings.... Man.. That lady was toooooooooo much... Finally she kept quite... we could think of sleeping... 4.30 in the morning we reached banaglore.. BODY ACHE... i couldnt even lift my hands or even move an inch.. Me and anala managed to get a bus and reached back home.. slept for half an hour and my usual day began....

THIS WAS ONE OF THE BEST OF THE TRIPS I EVER HAD!!!!! With the best of memeories be it the coracle, be it the adike tota, be it sharavati river, and JOG...... WOWWWWWWWWWWWW.... Thannks a lot sheethu... it was all because of you... :)

THREE cheers to SHEETHU, VINU, ANALA and ofcourse ME....

Snow Fall!!!!!!

Yes!!! Everywhere snow as white as milk!!!I am seeing it for the first time... I am all excited... all thrilled.... soooo hapy...yelling out of happiness.... I could see snow everywhere.... Got excited and started rolling all over.... Suddenly Bhaaam!!! I fell from my bed.... Realised once again a dream..... This is one dream i have been having since i am kid... And yes it was dream till last saturday..... It came a true..... I could not belive myself that i saw snow......


Yepp... finally after all my hard work for a week, i could get a chance to have some fun, infact making my dream come true....



Finally managed to gather aorund people and head to Lake Tahoe.... The whole night i never slept out of excitement... WAiting for the morning... Then got ready by 8.... Waiting for 2 more people to get started.... Manu, is my collegaue who is accompained me oniste from my team( for whom i cook everyday ;) ) were waiting for Sandhra and Gopal( Is Sandhra's friend, a very nice guy had never met him before, but he was very sweet who drove for us to tahoe.... )..... Finally Managed to start from hotel by 8..... On the way, all of us tried knowing each other.... Infact lot of discussions... And then slowly we entered the limits of Tahoe... My eyes were struck on the window wide open, because i was able to see snow covered mountains and trees, roads.... Man as i saw the snow, felt like stopping the car and run on the road and touch the snow... Would have done it if it was india.... unfortunately it is US, had to wait till i find a place to stop the car... :D

Once the car was stopped i hurried to open the door... Phooooooooooommm a cold wind hit me... i closed the door and couldnt take the cold.... Then slowly covered myslef with a sweater and a jacket and cap... managed to get down..... :)

My eyes were completely filled with such beautiful sceneray.... And was only snow in my eyes... We all got down and climbed on the a small snow hill.... Hehehehehehe i felt as though i was still dreaming.... But i wasnt... then started grabbing the snow... It was sooo cold, i had to pull back my hands.... Am i person who would give up... Nahhhhh... I again put my hand and was gathering snow.. before i could think of hitting someone.... Bammmm.... i was hit by Manu and Gopal... :)

We all played there hitting each other for sometime.... Gopal said, we should leave and about to leave, i had my first fall... Snow under my legs broke and Dhuuummmm I fell.. :P

After and hour's drive... I saw Heaven.... Place filled with snow, snow, snow and snow.... I couldn't belive it i was there..... Was thrilled to the core.... Then we hurried up to the counters where we get all out gears for skiiing... bought the tickets and all... Even collected the skii's,boots... Then realised it was soo cold that we could not have managed without gloves nad glassess... we dont have gloves..( I know that stupid of us not taking it there) We went and invested some money on gloves, glasses.... Thats fine.. we were all excited about the skiing.. We were sooo excited about the skiing we neevr felt that we were in -5 degrees :)

And here it came one more excitement... It started snowing... I was sooooooo happy to see the snow fall.... And we had to skii in the snowfall that excited us more...

We took the begginers lessons.. We were asked to Go on putting one skii first... Somehow managed to walk aorund... Then came the difficult part... Please put on both your skiis.... Hehehehe... All of us helped each other and managed to put on both the skiiis.... Instrcutor said please move a little bit ahead..... Hehehehe.. i was about to move ahead, unfortunately moved behind and Bhaaaaaaaammmm.... :P

Everyone were laughing... Belive me everyone fell within next 10 mins... hehehehehehe....

We kept on asking that instructor how do we put the brakes... He said, don't worry i will teach you... After sooo many falls... we learnt the way to put the brakes all by ourselves.....

Had tremendous falls.... Move ahead bhaaam... move sideways Bhaaaaam.... Move the otherside Bhaaam.... have had the greatest falls of my lifetime... :) Everytime fell on my back.... But the most wonderful and enjoyable falls were these....

Happy to say that end of day we all learnt to move ahead and put the brakes.... Wonderful sport is skiing..... :)

After all that 3 hours of lessons, falling and balancing... we learnt it.. I am proud about it... :)

Way back to Roseville there was a lot of snowfall.... Believe me it was great... Donno how the whole journey got covered.....

Once we were back everyone was enough hurt and enough of body ache and loooooooooads of good memories... and ofcourse had learnt skiiiing........ :)

Three Cheers to the GANG of Manu, Gopal, Sandhra and Of course Me!!!

Got My VISA!!!

Checking all my documents.. again and again!!!! Sooo damn nervous, new place to go in, where i don't even know the language.... Was sooo damn tensed.... Yes was leaving for my VISA stamping to Chennai..... Remembered my CET Counselling days.... when i was soo tensed, checking all the documents and hoping for things to go on fine...

Evening after returning from office, rushed to get all the documents photo copied and bought a file and checked with the list( check list for the first time) of documents to be taken along... Was in a big mess.. I don't believe i checked the documents couple of times before leaving home.. Finally started to majestic and gosh... a hell lot of traffic to reach there.... I reached just 5 mins before my bus could start... I made it and got into the bus.. Was full of excitement and tension.. was lot nervous..... don't remem when i slept... At 5 AM in the morning finally i reached Chennai... Then i had to reach a place called tirvanmeyur to reach my friends... I knew i can never utter a single Tamil word and its very difficult to manage in Chennai without speaking Tamil.... Somehow with help of one couple who travelled along with me to Chennai, i reached tiruvanmeyur.. was sooo happy to see sheethal there... :) :) :)
Once i reached, again,. document verification!!!!! ;) ;)
Now time to go to VISA office.... was getting more and more nervous as the time was nearing.. Managed to reach ajantha stop by changing 2 buses and there gymmy waited for me.. I reached American Embassy... My heart was pounding.... was sooooo nervous....
Then my documents were verified, gave my finger prints too... was little relaxed after that.....
Then time to stand in Queue for my turn to get stamped... there were 7 counters.... And few got VISA couple of them got rejected.... I was looking at one counter where people were getting rejected turn by turn... Could not believe when 6 people continuously got rejected..... And there comes my turn, to the same counter... Man i thought i lost it..... Then he checked all my documents and couple of questions.. and i heard the golden sentence " Thank you, will send your passport to your office in Next one week"
I don't have any words to express how happy i was... i smiled the whole while till i came out of the embassy!!!! I PASSED it... i yelled inside... :)

two more days i roamed a with my friends over there... Saw a wonderful sunrise in basanthnagar beach and had amazing idli in Murugan Idli shop!!! Saw a movie Spencer plaza..... Finally started back to Bangalore.. was thinking sitting inside the bus how tensed i was when i came here and how peacefully i am leaving.......... Left Chennai with a big smile on my face!!!!