Goa - starters for now

To do justice to the serene picturesque landscape I must call this post - Madgaon. A little more than 24 hours is all I had to offer to this place and trust me, was a steal. Met some absolutely cool people (other than the super-cool people who got me there ), had adventurous bike rides, hunted down veg restaurants when the timed calls would not stop coming.But the highlight of the evening - PARA-SAILING - a detailed post on this later. Next day,we also managed to squeeze in a couple of intro-talks - Prabha & Vaidehi taking center-stage - me chipping in towards the end aided by a couple of videos. Soon it was time to bid bye, the train was on time, and it was freezing and unprepared as I am, spent the night wearing another shirt over whatever I was wearing and headed back to EGB 4A-108, IBM by 12'ish, with a mind still stuck at the beach.

Overall enjoyed this one day starter to Goa and cant wait to have the full course meal.

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Bannerghatta

After the shady post prior, I am back to what I do best - more photos.
What was marked as an eventful day (in ways more than one - my best friend was in town, a bad exam result bringing an unceremonious end to a year of preps) also saw the duo (Thomas n me) venture out in accordance with the pre-planned itinerary.




A quick drop @ Maddy's for the lens, and a bumpy 14 km bus ride, we were there @ Bannerghatta National Park. Green (by Bangalore standards) and definitely hot(Jan it was), 125 bucks each and we were in.

What was to follow was some shameless clicking on burst mode (guided by rules of probability more than anything else)-peacocks, snakes,macaques,elephants, pelicans, and quite a few more. Yes - all caged.




Next, it was said was the time to make our tickets worth - a safari to the tiger park - an enclosure targeted to provide a feel of the forest(had nice marked roads with more tyre-prints than pug marks ) - on a really rickety bus (resembles the old blue colored police vans used in tamil movies).


We had waited 10 min for an empty bus and rushed to find a sweet spot for the camera. The 25 min ride - Unimpressive - except for this 'okay' shot of a tiger and a decent shot of this deer. We saved the Butterfly park walk for Thomas's next Bangalore schedule, bought packets of Lays and rushed into a nice VOLVO, another 30 minutes and we were home, editing the day's catch (on a serious note this time, with Thomas around)

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Memories ...

Friday 27 Feb 2009 .. Scorching sun, a cricket bat in hand.. @ domlur shanti sagar P.U. college grounds with the complete office team around .. but the mind had walked through many a lane - the car porch @ home emptied for the finale - long hours of ONE PITCH ONE HAND with kuttu (my little brother,not really little now) & me battling it out, the prospective winner amongst us taking up commentary( mimicking Ravi Shastri for the first minute and Tony Grieg the next ).. was nice ,, re-living the moments down the memory lane ..

Today afternoon : Office Pantry .. Heights of fruitless discussions .. We speak about writing response mails and suddenly a thought pours in .. The first line of every answer @ school was very easy .. Rewrite the question ( tweaking the tense ) ..Din get it ,, here s what

Q: Why is the sky blue ?
A : The sky is blue because ,,, and so on ..

I blurt this out today and the people around walked down their own alleyways .. small
things that can get us to really smile from within ,, helping us live the person we really are ,,forget everything that is around us,, things that all of us relate to in our own way,, the person that you really are,, school suddenly becomes a stunningly beautiful place ,, college even better ,, and then you realize that the milk in your cup is over and it is time to head back to your workstation.

P.S : Nice status message that I came across recently
"A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a
train stops. On my desk, I have a work station..."