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Bday Party

Pup wanted to give her sis a surprise by asking us, tags members, to be present at her place on her (sis’s) bday. On 29th, I went to Kavin’s place at about 4 pm and along with naaku, went to buy gifts. We then left to pup’s place at 5 pm and Inc, Prasanth and Indhu had almost finished decorating. Some last minute touch up and we were ready. Hiding the footwear, we all went inside(Hari, me, Inc, Indhu, Pup, Ram, Prasanth, Priya). Divya came and we went shouting SURPRISE! the candles were lit and Divya was asked to blow it out. After just one blow, she knew what was happening. Shes smart!! :P she figured that these were those kind of candles that can not be put out! She tried and indeed put one out but pup blew and brought it back. Later, the bday baby used her brains(?!?!) and used a scissors to remove the candles and dipped it in water. Kavin came late and Inc shouted surprise at him! :P

Cake was cut and as we had agreed not to have a cake fight, we ate it instead…or at least that is what we did until pup applied the cream on the bday girl. Cake fight followed! :P
After sometime it subsided only to begin again and finally stopped. Pup later swept the floor :P .Oh yeah, priya missed the cake fight! After 2 hours, we gave the gift one by one to divya. Inc started shouting WOW and i joined as she took each gift, opened it and viewed it.

Hey DIVYA…CARE FOR ANOTHER BDAY PARTY?! :p

01.07.2009 Experience, Funny 3 Comments

Trip to Himalayas – II

Day 5

The atmosphere is cool….peace and tranquil…too quite though! Woke up yet again by 5 am! And again saw the first ray of sun illuminating the snow on top of the mountain! Thought of taking a snap of that scene but lo, camera didnt switch on…changed batteries but in vain…i thought that the circuits must have froze. Oh well, we started to Causani, the Switzerland of India as said by Gandhi. We traveled and traveled and traveled. I heard sound of electricity passing overhead through the power lines. The traffic discipline in a place called Pandukeshwar is worth a mention here…amazing! Remember the gate i mentioned in my previous past??? Pandukeshwar is mid point. There is just one line! Sooo unlike Chennai! Well, it maybe because of the presence of military there that they stick to the discipline! The route from Badrinath to Causani, we had to go through Gwaldham, a big town/city there. Tranquil again and the pine trees..wow..erect and tall. The roads were perfect..no bumps…Cool!

Songs that matched perfectly to the weather and other conditions there
Dr.Alban – It’s a beautiful day
And just as a cold breeze swept by, the song on my ipod switched to Malai Oram Veesum Kaatru…what a coincidence!
And “ada paavingala” I muttered as the song switched to “Guess who is coming to dinner” by Dr.Alban….Why? Listen to Carolina from some Vikram film and you’ll understand! And again, after listening to Enemies by Dr.Alban, same thing…listen to some tamil song copied from this!

Reached Causani by 4 pm and the people at the hotel were LAZY! No English again. Even the Tv telecast were in hindi…NGC, Discovery, CN….everything in Hindi! From the hotel window you can see the valley, with mountains as backdrop.

Day 6

Woke up by 5 am once again.(what is it with 5 am and me?!?!)Planned to leave by 7 am to Nainital but left only by 7:30. Its a 4 hour drive and we reached by 11:30. Once again, strict traffic discipline. All yellow board vehicles are thoroughly checked. No vehicle is allowed to park on the road. Along with a person who was working in the hotel, I searched for some shop that can fix the camera. Another friend of his joined and he said to me “You are not from this country are you?” :P hahaha…Regarding the car park..they have two vast open areas…free for parking. Round the clock service. Later that day, went to Eco Cave Park…climbed into Tiger den, Panther den and saw Flying Fox cave, Bat cave and two others. A different experience. Next up was boating in the lake…Huge one! Takes about 40 to 50 minutes for one circle around the lake.
Finally…after sooo long, saw lots of stars!

Day 7

Got up yet again by 5 am..weird!! Went on a winch ride. If i had not been on the Joshimath – Auli winch, i would have said this one was satisfactory. Uptil this day, view from the hotel room on the scenery was just tooo great. But the best was from Badrinath! After one week, I read newspaper.hehehe…Once again, No one spoke English but understand it if spoken to. That night, we had a musical dinner. A guy was playing an acoustic guitar. Not to my surprise, rotis are cheap here but 3.50 a piece?! :-o …!! Road side dhabas make rotis right in front of your eyes. Most of the restaurants are vegetarian here.
Day 8

Woke up a bit late, by 5:30 am.. ;) . Saw TV and at 9 am, we left to Jim Corbett National Park. Its a two hour drive from Nainital. Temperature is a bit hot. The driver overshot the hotel we were to check in by at least 25 km!!! One hour wasted there. TV isnt working in the room…no current and generator is running! There are two types of jungle safari in the national park: core and buffer. You have to book 10-15 days in advance to go into the core part. Tickets werent available to the core part and so we tried the buffer zone.
Jim Corbett was a hunter turned tiger saver. He built India’s first ever national tiger reserve.
Day 9

Woke up at 4:30 am to compensate for the late waking up for the previous day ;) . Started at 5:20 am to the buffer zone of JCNP. All We saw was two peacocks, three spotted deers, one white tailed deer, a langur. Oh yeah,..how can i forget…I also saw LOTS of Inchara and Harikumar(donkeys and monkeys :P :P :lol: ) . We then started at 10:45 to Delhi and were help up about 150 km from Delhi (from 1:30 pm tp 2:30 pm) due to roadside protest(saalai mariyal). After my dad said that we had to catch a plane at 4 pm twice(though the plance we had to catch was not until a day after ;) ), he let us take a detour through a village….lots of vehicles followed from the back of the line! And arrived at Delhi. Searched for the hotel and checked in. Never have I been so tired till now. I dozed of without eating the instant i lied down.
Final Day

Woke up at 5 am AGAIN! Went for some shopping and saw some places. Then left for airport. Spent one hour at the airport’s food palace, passing time! :P and saw some planes taking off.
What would you do at 31000-32000 feet??? TAKE PHOTOS!! :P Took lots of snaps of the cloud’s shape, size ans color.
Came back to Chennai airport and just as i got down from the plane, I heard something which confirmed that we wee in Chennai…”avan periya parupu madhiri pesaran” hehe.

North India has something that Chennai will never have…Ganges….water source…! Besides that single point, Chennai is good enough!

24.06.2009 Experience 4 Comments

Trip To Himalayas – I

I am going to write what all happened during the 10 day trip here!

It all happened sooo suddenly, within a matter of four days…the trip was planned and a day before the journey found us relaxed as we(dad, mom and me) had packed a day before itself! Some last minute stuffing and went to bed.(Trip date – 12th june to 21st june)

Day 1

I got up at 4 am and got ready to catch the 7 am flight to delhi (Jet Airways). The take off and landing were smooth! During the grand time of 2 hours and 30 minutes, I read Harry Potter book 1, sw the cloud shapes….they looked like bales of cotton, spread across the sky.

Reached the airport at 10:30 am and got into the cab waiting for us. Yet again, I continued to read Harry Potter and we stopped to have lunch at 2 pm. The place was tooo busy. No chair to sit. Poor service as well! After lunch, we started to travel again and by about 6 pm, we took bath in Ganges. Quite cold and by 8 pm, we finished dinner and went to bed (though I slept only by 10).Oh yeah, i lost my specs near where I took the dip in Ganga!! :P

Day 2

Next morning, Waking up at 5 am to a bright sunshine, we started at about 7:15 am and headed to Joshimath. We were going uphill but the temperature did NOT drop…it was getting hotter! IRONICAL…I thought that as you gain altitude, temperature drops. Enroute, we saw Raman Jula and Lakshman Jula(just two bridges) and later by noon, took a dip in Devapriyag(the place where Alaknanda and Bhagyarathi (tributaries of major rivers) join). Brrrr….too cold! Temperature of the water would be around 4-16 degrees. This day was mostly traveling. While going up the mountain, I saw the dust coming from a rock slide at a another mountain! And oh yeah, I saw my first ever snow capped mountains!!!
Night stay was at a hotel called Chardham Camp. Joshimath was a military area but I didnt expect to sleep in TENTS!!! Thats what exactly we did….Chardham Camp indeed have camp…tents! With all provisions except TV. Night was cold.

Day 3

Time:5 am. Morning was colder. After getting the breakfast packed, we went on the longest and highest winch ride in India, Joshimath to Auli. A 4 km winch ride takes 22 minutes to go and another 22 to come back.It takes about 25 people up and down.Auli had nothing much to see…but the view from there was awesome! A boy err…a teenager, showed us the peaks of all the mountain through a telescope…WOOOOW!AMAZING! Getting back to Joshimath by 10 am, we left to Badrinath at 11:30

The road joining these two places is quite narrow…just enough to let two cars pass side by side and to avoid accidents, the government lets the vehicles pass in slots…they have a gate which opens only at specified time…five times a day and no vehicle is allowed to travel after 8 pm in the road! This day and the day before, we were having ganga alongside us….almost always parallel to the road…you take a look down and you would be out of breath(both ways…due to altitude and due to the beauty)
We then saw two places where the river cuts the road and during the third place, halted the car and filled a bottle. man oh man…the water was sooo pure and tasty…and COLD! The next U turn had us lost for words…There was this mini waterfall…super scene! Arrived at Badrinath and checked into the hotel. What a view from the room…You take a look outside the window and you will see mountains…rocky and snow capped! The river near the Badrinath temple was quick and ferocious! Moved back to hotel and by around 7 pm, temperature is dropping FAST! After eating, went to bed and saw the mountain and slept. English…FINALLY! at the hotel…past two days, no one understood english…they only spoke and breathed hindi!
Chennai reaches a minimum temperature of what…22 degrees in winter??? Imagine…Badrinath has a max temperature of 17 during summer and the whole city is closed and all people except army moves out of town during winter…gets THAT cold!

Day 4

Early next morning, by 5 am, the first ray of the sun touched the snow mountain peak…this is a must see sight for all. I didnt sleep that long but did sleep well.One cant guess the time just by looking outside. You NEVER can. We then started to Mana, considered to be the last part of India. End of Indian Land. The place where Saraswathi rivers flows into the land and emerges only at Allahabad, all the while traveling underground. The car can take you just close to Mana…you have to walk 10 km from there to see the last piece of land! Dad and me walked for 30 mins and I think we covered about 2 km or so. Main part of the Saraswathy river goes into the land. Back at the hotel, temperature just got worse..rain! Further drop in temperature. A car’s wind shield broke because of the drop in temperature!

Rest of the trip in next post!

24.06.2009 Experience 2 Comments

A long One To Come

Well yeah, a long LONG post is about to come from yours truly in a day or two…will write about the trip i went on to delhi-haridwar and places i visited…a LONG one!

So, get your eyes ready to read it…hehe!

21.06.2009 Experience, General No Comments

Long time!

Been a while since I made an entry here. What have i been doing all this time? Nothing…hehe…been playing NFS:MW, yeah…just started and made it to black list number 6 in just a couple of days, play CS now and then…oh yeah…feeding stray animals from 4th June (TAGS idea).(Hope you do it too :) )

i am hoping to finish off NFS, then start with some other game and err…dunno what else! Oh yeah…the farewell, which is being ‘prepared’ by ourselves for ourselves…hehe…have to attend it! :P

09.06.2009 Earth, General 14 Comments

Even Signature?

Some of the funny/irritating experience i had today, while writing the TANCET MBA exam.

There were two lady inviligators(say A and B). Jjust before the commencement of the exam A shouted “ask doubts…any doubts” and some student asked a doubt and to that, one of the inviligators said” Are you LKG student? Asking silly doubts!”. (Whats the point in uttering the above said  statement then?)

And for correction/attendance purpose, we had to sign in a form. While A was getting it signed, she started to shout at a girl…reason??for 

  • for not signing in the answersheet(yeah…valid reason)
  • for keeping the paper in a diagonal way and signing and A advised the girl to keep it straight and sign
  • for not holding the pen in a proper way!(heck!! :P )

The inviligator A, i believe, is too short tempered! B was quite almost all through the exam. It was also clearly given on the answer sheet (OMR Sheet) that shading can be done in either pen or pencil. Both A and B shouted at a couple of students for shading in pen and they did not follow the rules and regulations as well..it stated that a student can leave 15 minutes before the end of exam and they made all the students wait!!(hmmph…like as if!)

It was fun in the beginning, people getting shouted at for not bringing pen/pencil…but later A shouted for even the slightest of things..for not putting a box in the question paper…and a lot of other petty things…She was irritating!

Lets see if something like this happens tomorrow!?

30.05.2009 Experience, General 6 Comments

Wedding Bells!

After 67 years of flirting, Archie finally selected his partner. Archie has chosen the vixen, Veronica, to he his better half. Betty Cooper, the girl next door, though kind and all good, couldnt make Archie Andrews fall in love with her.

Veronica Lodge will wed Archie Andrews after they finish their college. Betty fans are enraged as the goody girl was not Archie’s partner and some other fans think that Archie shouldnt marry at all as the marriage would mark the end of Archies comics.

Anyways, there was this one issue of Archies where it showed that Archie was married to Veronica and took over Lodge Enterprises, Betty was working and was well settled. Veronica was, the usual, spoilt…buying buying…BUYING! :P

28.05.2009 Favorite, General 11 Comments

Filled with Fun, Feelings and many many more…

Today, I flipped through the pages of my slam book. (Dont ask me why, I spotted the book on my table and wanted to read what all people have written, again!). Reading it for the first time, while still in college didnt have that much err..’effect’. I did read it quite a few times but…urm…just read it! Thats all. But this time, it was different. all these (final) days, I was waiting for the college to end. But after reading a few entries of my friends, (NOW) i want to go back to college…be with the lot…hehe….typical for any student whose college life ends, eh?

When will we sing “maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamm….maam”, or…errr…record work…observation (like as if we complete this! :P ) bus travel…birthday bumps ;) chitchatting, what else did we do? lots…cant write those things here…else the post wouldnt end!

Coming back to the slam book, i was almost to tears and was laughing inside after reading just a few entries!

  • NC’s entry was funny, touching.
  • Madan’s was good
  • Manju’s was just toooo funny! :lol:
  • Melody’s was nice! Malliah wanted to tell something but wasnt able to (privacy!!)
  • Teddy lied in a place or two!! :P
  • Arul maam said she was inspired by my ’speech’, in bus..to this day, i dont know what i spoke off and she forgot what i spoke about!

Reading all the entries, made by some staffs, classmates, 3rd years…2nd years and first years!! haha!! really good.

WILL EDIT!!

28.05.2009 Experience, Favorite, General 2 Comments

Flying High…High

While en route to Bangalore on 22nd May, I saw something in Sriperambathur, which every person in India would love to look upon…yep…you guessed it…the Indian flag! I am making this post because until that date, I have never seen a flag that big in person! The flag was moving in a wave like motion due to the wind. It was majestic and great to look at. We passed the flag too quickly and I made my mind up to take snaps on the way back!

The moment I saw the flag, I sort of got a feeling similar to goosebumps..cant explain how i felt exactly…but I guess even you wouldnt be able to express! Patriotism i guess :)

Jai Hind!!!

26.05.2009 General 9 Comments

Bollywood Out!

IPLT20, the three teams owned by bollywood artists are out of the tournament. I was watching the score updates on cricbuzz when this titbit came up

The first team to be out of IPLT20 was KKR owned by SRK, next to follow was Shilpa Shetty’s Rajasthan Royals…will Preity Zinta’s Kings XI follow suit?

Funny isnt it? Punjab lost and as DC was not able to attain the 171 in 11.2 overs in today’s match, Bangalore is through to the semis!

Delhi Daredevils, Chennai Super Kings, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Deccan Chargers will be playing in the semifinals.

Update:

Semi Final Fixtures:

Chennai vs Bangalore (saturday) and Delhi vs Hyderabad(friday…tomorrow). Poor deccan chargers…this is the second time hyderabad are going to play a match one after the other…on consecutive days!!

21.05.2009 Funny, General 10 Comments

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