Missing Bombay mari jaan !

Eventful and surprising day , was happy to see new people around made new friendz ,
had bhang and lots of fun.
Morning after breakfast , my house was raided by Nikhil's gang , Nikhil , AM , Aligator aka Surjeet and Anand and then soon followed by SAPians Rahul , Lokesh , Spotty and Aditya.
The colours were all over the terrace and of-course on participants. Aditya bought the stuff and Swapnil and Chandu prepared it.
It was nice experience although it took toll on me resulting me over sleeping on Sunday afternoon.

A great start for the Sunday .. As woke up at 6:30 (yeah that's right 6:30 in the morning :-D ), Rushing home ,cutting thought the fog on the intermediate ring road at some decent speed made my hands as chilled as ice candies .

Why? .. was the question for this early start in this cold then there was answer i wanted to attend a Marathi musical program by Salil and Sandeep. This was the Version 2 of their last year's performance.




The crowd was wonderful and when the prg began it was musical treat, hearing the songs and the poems that touched my heart for few moments but impacting every moment of my life. Although me and swap was got the place at one extreme of balcony but we did lots of commentary work and swap did as usual the naming rituals for almost every person he can see. Meet new friends and so some usual faces too. Thanks to Anand who has given me the ticket for the show.







The food was the next question ... but that was solved by Chandu's mom . Since she came in Bangalore my Marathi food problem been solved :D. This was the first time that i was been having food that i like on the festive season. Really i thank chandu and his mom for that.



Upto Tea time i was doing somethings which most of the time i called TP like , ripping cd , sipping tea and watching the DDLJ . Something always happens when more than one enthu person is present at my place :D, so this time also it struck !!



"Go Karting" was on the menu ... so the plans was ready in 15 mins and we were there in hours time ... getting though the Bangalore Traffic to reach RT Nagar. This was the First time i was holding steering of that tiny toy-like vehicle (?). At first sight it look very easy to me .."piece of cake" but it turned more interesting we zoomed thought the lanes "Santosh , Swapnil , Kaustubh , Praveen and Me ". Although I manage to came 2nd place after being start last, byt not before banging 3 cars and smashing a dozens tires on the track . By the time i was looking good on track it was my last lap . As usual every good thing has come to an end this one also .... But it was really awesome experience better than bowling . Now this is on my radar if there is any every personal or professional. The Coffee day along the track was also looking great.


I really need to thank Anand , Chandu & his mom and Santosh for have such wonderful day in my life. But am I missing someone ... there was one person common throughout...yeah mr swap. . :-)

Thank you God , please let everyone have such wonderful day ... and every holiday of mine , be like this much action packed and spaced on track.

It was a planned event by  my roomie Swap , for the kayaking and Bunggy jummping .
Bike on the Mysore road rocks!!! 80 avg speed turns out to be great thing todo except when it rains.
Breakfast at Ramnagar and then sncks at Srirangapattanam . Then went along with the adventure sports guys to pandavakada. And landed on Visweshwarya canal for kayaking. After the 3 hr we moved on to the Mysore University Pavalion grounds for bunngy jumpping . It was awesome , heights still scares me.
Got room booked and went to CCD and then moved to Palace and finially Ramanshree for food.

It was awesome day !


That what i called action packed day :-D

Bangalore Marathon


The experience to be part of the mammoth race is awesome. I was privileged, to be there and I'm proud of it :D.
Of course it was not that easy to get off and run on Sunday morning. Swapnil took lots of effort to get registration done just few hours before the race day.

On the day we had nice juice and went early there. I was surprised to so many people running in half marathon which was 21 km. I didn't even look at the full marathon 42 km. I just preferred and told myself the achievement of my life is 7km Celebration Run! .


The venue was quite full of people , the joy and the energy there was wonderful. Also lots of company used this occasion to brand them self . the firms which mark their presence was : kotak (yessss... give me red), LG soft, Times Group (red cap). Britannia . I really like their idea of bringing the employee to the marathon and making it feel special.


The race was painful for sometime and then it went smooth as the time passed . I was totally tired after crossed post #1 but seeing people around and especially physically challenged one i was inspire to run.

I saw uncle , aunty , Parikrma kidz , fat guys than me :-D , running faster than me . but after some (de)moralization i ran upto the finish .

Really its fun .. My heart says ....let do it again .............

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emmmmm ...may be after a year or so ;-)

• Night Travel pleasure and pain
• Morning Sea and Swimming
• TT and Snoocar , brunch
• Temple , Lake View and dinner
• Morning Ragga at breakfast
• Ferry to St Mary's Island
• Living on rocky island
• Washout at Malpe
• wayback ...
• The chilled weather .

SOD

It was our team-building day !!! All of us came gather early in the morning yeah early and all set for Savandurga. We had ball time while traveling out there , AC bus broke down just 12 km away from Bangalore. So our great gurus decides to travel further and not to wait and blame any one. Bangalore Mahanagar Palike's bus.But that was not enough then we had a bone-checker ride in temp , yeah right , we had everyone in tempo , team-building. Somebody cracked a joke " Please do collect your belonging after ride , please do check your bones" :-)).
It was awesome when we landed there , worth pain :-) , The adventure team gave us Caps and water bottle along with food :-), I felt where the heck they good this cook in this jungle, who cooked nice food , better than some place on MGRoad .

Adventure activity was raffting and Rapping , Creative and Team building was , Creating Missile Launcher and Balloon race , and passing rope knot. I like them all even though i did not win some of them. I played Cricket and football during the rest time. After Lunch we headed for the Mountain / Rock climbing . It look ok to climb but stepping down as difficult as it was tiring going up. . We had meditation on the rocks :-D. yeah I was so tired i was almost felt a sleep while it was going on. We came down to had Hi-tea and I had lots of pattice and lots of tea :-).It was pleasant surprise, when got a award for shouting all the time :-D
Return journey was not that enthu at starting , slowly and steady we have build a antashari environment and pulled everybody in it :-D. Some individuals was remarkable in the contest .

All day was like dream come true. I really enjoyed my trip .

EOD

Going South was always fascinating for me . It was my chance to see the places . Thanjavur, formerly known as Tanjore, is a city in Tamil Nadu, in southeastern India.And the ospicious occasion was my colleague's marriage. All though I spent more time in traveling rather relaxing. But I swear i enjoyed travel , and of course the food :) (/me was always stuffed.. equipped).

The evening bus journey on a Friday evening initiated my travel towards the destiny. Was not very sure how it will be so .. prepared my mind for any situations. All night could not get the sleep . I hate valvo running in traffic with much of speed breaker . Some How i managed to have dinner. As soon as bus got its first pit stop i was out and searching for good food . Middle of night , and guess what I got .. Popcorns and Sugar cane juice & thou was satisfied with this feast. It was dawn when landed in Trichy .


The Voyage started early morning , Temple one , Temple two . Both temple was good and was unique in their style. Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu .
Till noon this temple "hopping" lasted. And I was suddenly religious person . (/of course after seeing the prasada). Thanjavur was the destiny for the side seeing .Palace and Art museum and the Watch Tower , Photo gallery. Some how I felt University building was well maintained than the palace ;-). Then visited yet another temple. Evening I was more sleepy than usual & crashed in bed . End of the Holy Day ( holiday :-) )

Palace was huge , its spread across over 100 acres. Art and Photo gallery are treat to eyes. There is small shop for some goodies . I amused to see all the history without the book.

The marriage was every early in the morning. Everything was fine till i got paged and my tour was again horrified by the pager menace . Consolidation was that it was at the end ceremony.
And return travel started.

Yup it was YEP Yahoo Year End Party for 2005. It was so awesome that even rain God and shown its attendance over there .

Songs , dance sequences , Talent Shows , Ratna Awards and DJ Dance Floor along with Sports activities , Beer , and food was awesome . The place and people were phenomenal.



I was On my bike showing off my new jacket , bike and cap and got some reward for that also .. was parallel to the ground while coming back on a sharp turn and my roomie actually driven my bike along with me back :((