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Yesterday... Was a lively lovely day... A date with rain , sun ,cool breeze with rocks monkeys and dog at shivagange. Wat a wonderful date it was . Muahhh. I just love trekking

My trek on Saturday was very interesting , though after my accident due to my hurting leg & Surgery , I haven’t done any exciting Trek , SRS hills was quite a small trek in comparison to Shiva Ganga and Savandurga. Shivaganga is less tougher compared to Savandurga, cos there are steps to traverse at Shiva Gange.

Shiva Ganga is a hill about 50 km from Bangalore, 20 km ahead of Tumkur. It’s a pretty tall hill with two Shiva temples, one very close to the foot of the hill and another, that’s possibly around 5 km uphill! The deities are “Gangadhareshwara”, and his consort “Swarnambha”.

The place is just fantastic, with breathtaking views from the high altitudes. Brilliant are the views of the surrounding city, the nearby `pushkarini’ or pond, from the top of the hill. Most of the place is rocky, with railings to hold on to as you climb, and monkeys to make sure you don’t take any offerings to the deity on top! A very unforgettable experience was how Akshath was snatched of his bag by a monkey searching the bag for for some food but only found his text book, PSP which he threw away as it was a waste (luckily it was safe as it fell on Grass).Another experience was monkey sitting on Jazz back pack ,and one more was quite expereinced the terrror of monkey myself.

Once we reached at the top I saw that there were many of them starving , so bought cucumbers and cut them into pieces and distributed to them. I saw a dog also looking so adorably he wanted something to eat, so bought a biscuit packet and gave a few biscuits . Kept rest of them to myself so that I can feed myself while walking down.But one of the sharp ones among them saw that I kept in my side pocket, he came down to along with me to search in the pockets and took it and ran away. I remember another funnier thing how he took Vani’s water bottle and struggled so much to drink water.

Some of the places on the way to the top were reminscent of `Prince of Persia’, where you had to figure out a way which is hardly apparent to the eye (the typical hidden ledge you would climb on to)! In all, it was an experience in trekking as well . Inside some of the rocks (of which even the temple and the deities and sannidhis are a part of!), you could find some small fountains or water bodies, that we were told, never dry up throughout the year! But the most intriguing of all was a tunnel which supposedly led into the heart of Bangalore (couldn’t snap this up though!).

About the Tunnel, this was dug as secret escape passage from Bangalore , which is also from GaviGangadhareshwara temple . Could you believe to travel from Bangalore it takes normally around 1 hour 30 minutes but if u traverse thru this secret tunnel it is just 20 minutes they say.. Unbelievable..

One more Unbelievable part of Shivaganga is when u smear Ghee over Lord Shiva’s Head on the shivalingu u get Butter..Is it ever possible in Science as we know it and irreversible chemical process… But here u will experience this.

The way back was the same, but more easily traced (without the pebbles of Hansel and Gretel), Took about 2-2.5 hours to go up I guess and around 2 hrs to get down the hill. Being a Saturday, there was hardly any crowd, but we were told that there’s a lot of queuing on Sundays and on Overall, it appears to be a great place for a quick weekend trek.

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Family is having dinner , December winter days....Dinner special is Raagi Ball and avarekaayi curry.Family of four , Dad, Mom , Boy and Girl kids.Girl seated beside and looking at the Ragi ball in Dad's plate.She was not given raagi ball as she dint know to swallow it properly and this affected her health very badly.The small girl still eyeing on dad's plate ...Father's habit was to make small balls out of the that and roll it in curry and keep it aside.When the father was busy watching in TV , the girl took up a Raagi ball and gulped it off , 1 , 2, 3, 4.....Four balls inside the mouth and not able to swallow and cant chew also.Dad looking back into his plate doesn't find one also and looks at his wife , now both look at the girl trying hard to swallow the Raagi ball...HAHAHHAHAHHA!!!! Family burst out into loud laughter......Immediately she was made to spit out the balls and eat the rice.Second PUC 1st year Chemistry Class would start after the lunch , the girl and her friend has some misunderstanding , now the girl is trying to convince her friend.The friend is adamant.She goes to the blackboard and writes up a song for her friend just to tease her and make her laugh." Eh Shivani , tu lagthi hai naani "is the original song, the girl writes it as Eh Triveni as her friends name is Triveni.. The whole class burst out laughing and the girl goes out to wash her hands (Clean the Chalk Dust)....Triveni goes to Black Board and writes it as Parvathi ..(Chemistry HOD's name whose class was next after lunch break) Ooops....By the time the girl entered the class HOD was already in the class and screwing the one who had written the poem , not knowing the same girl who had entered the class just then had written the song on the Black Board...The whole class was silent and nobody revealed it was this girl who had written it....F*&K ...Lucky me the girl thought and kept quite...Third The brother and sister had a good bonding , the brother who was elder always used to share about his friends to his sister from small age.. Now the girl was in College and the brother in some training..and the girl wanted to know if the bro had a GF would he reveal the same....She spoke about this to her close friend and both decided to Pry on the brother. Her friend called from her home to the brother's office and started speaking as Nayana..!st day over, the girl awaited bro will come and tell her ...Nopes he dint speak about it..Second day over still No Chance..Third day she made her friend call her home and bro picked up ...Her bro cut the call ...The girl was moping the floor and couldnt stop smiling ....Zyyyyyyyyiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn she went under Sofa laughing to control her laugh.....Bro came to know something is wrong ..Nayana Hmmm... APS College.... Hmmm wants to date with me..Hmmm Come out ya and tell me who is this...The girl just argued she dint know at alll.....Dinner time Bro took out this topic in front ofparents and parents were laughing , the girl finished her dinner and ran to her room ASAP.Fourth:

This happened at work place night shifts.. Pulling each others leg was daily routine.. Even the manager was also not spared though all had a special respect towards the manager.. The girl started a mail teasing two girls in her team...CCing everyone in the team.Chain mail started everyone replying as per the conversation going on ..Enjoying the conversations...While the conversation was on thru mails , manager went suddenly to one of the guys desk to check the QC report for the month.Sudden POP up of these mails led to his curiosity and he opened the mails and started reading all the mails...He went to his desk back drafted a mail saying "meri amma "ab bas bhi karegiii....Immediately chain mail stopped and everyone serious back to work...The girl came to zManager['s desk Grinning ..Sat beside the space by the desktop @ manager's workstation...

Manager " Arey tum logon ko seriousness hi nahi hai"?I have given you a team, tumhe tho kuch farak hi nahi padthi hai...Hmm aur batao kiske naam lekar un donon ko chida rahe the...
The last sentence was enough for her..

"-----", Friday mood mein hai yaar..masto tho rahegi..Ab se phir nahi hoga kasam se sorry yaar mein chali...

Abe rukh ja tu ...ab bolke hi jaaa u r culprit in my team..sabko Bhigadegi tu...

This type of nok jhok happened till 3 :00Am until the girl got her call from CAB,...

FIFTH...

This is the funniest part.. Weekend ..OWL group as usual awake..messaging one another..
The girl had done with her 100 free messages for the day, so slowly took her bro's mobile and started messaging her friends...She messaged one of her close friends PINGOO..Pingoo dint know whose this number was..So she started with Who are you..This idea stuck the girl to play up with her a while..

Time 12:30 Am
Pingoo: Who are you?
Girl:Sweetheart it's me your childhood friend

Pingoo:Which Childhood friend, you should have a name right?Tell me your name.
Girl:Sachin ..

Pingoo:I dint have any friend by that name.
Guirl :You forgot me, Cheee my life is a big waste now. I just came back for you only.Just for you dear..

Pingoo is so confused she messages all her friends asking if they knew who it was ..sending the number.

The girl already had sent all her friends not to reveal its her ..so totally confused and scared pingoo was.......This went on..She stopped messaging after saying Stupid..again the girl messaged her "dont u rememeber at all honey" Sadd....

So Pingoo started the conversation again as who it was

The girl said , we were childhood friendss studied in Christ school we both ate in same .We were neighbours.. ....

Pingoo started pleading..... Everyone in the team knew this girl was playing prank but nobody revelaed it.

Again this girl started off telling , I am outside your door , come out and see.Am sitting on my bike waiting for you .If you dont come I will come and ring the bell.

Man this took of pingoo's life she was so scared who the mad is at 4:00Am early some one at my door.Finally this girl messaged sweetheart its me ....Had a nice time fooling sleep well Good night...Pingoo started cursing her and just if they right then face to face she would have killed her..

He He many more such pranks to add on....Like parking lot incidence on mail some great to remember some not so good....Not to lose on the part who is the Prankster her..It's the great great great Me...

Nevermeant to hurt but just for fun....

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To write about this was from the days I was in hospital , when I saw a couple helping each other.Very old couple who were sick, the old lady was on wheel chair and the uncle was pushing the wheel chair. I was there with my granny , who had come to take care of me for some tests.

Old ladies blood test was over and that Uncle her husband was taking for collecting urinary sample, he was pushing it himself .Grandma offered help saying she will take the lady in, but Uncle said its alright.

There were no kids with them , talking to them came to know , they have 5 kids and all of them settled abroad and two of them in Delhi.Out of 5 none of them is ready to keep the parents near them. My mind went floating off with thoughts , after a certain point of time in life , its no one else will be there with you, ur husband or wife tats it .no kids , no brothers and sisters no relatives..

But in many of our lives we wouldnt respect that partner and we go off behind somebody else...with these thoughts remembered a song which I had heard long back , where the guy asks his girl a few questions.......

In most of the love relationships , we see now guys want a time pass when their first love is away somewhere..for this short duration time pass relationships guys give a name as love.. its not Guys even girls also..

In a way girls are smarter when they know guy is falling for them they let them encourage them , I dont blame all girls few of them cant say NO to the guy who is in love with them , and they suffer inside..but few girls encourage guys to fall though already in relationships and finally give a reason as my parents dint agree , In these kind of relationships the second guy would be ready to anything to the girl on a competition , he would be loyal , he wouldnt look at any other girl to impress the girl he loves...she would have been his life...his heart beat, but the girls use up this sentiment and get their work done...the guy would have so much fooled that he would have spent his entire earnings in amusing the girl and girl wouldnt have much left to withdraw from him...she would be very sweet with few tears and saying parents are totally against , I just wanna live my lifetime with you but parents are barriers...

In relationships where girls think from heart always get hurt , first guy would be behind and the second guy would be black mailing saying I cant live without pls dont leave me stuff. The girl continues even after her marriage also he would use her until his marriage as his support and finally blame her that she is not letting him live his life..

Is relationships become such cheap that we seek our comfort and not others happiness...I know lots of people seek relationship as WIFE or HUSBAND is necessary for me when I need something and fulfill my needs....relationships is not only finance, sex , family increment but its an unbreakable bond which has to live for years together.

Some of the marriage break due to ego problems, nobody wants to compromise.. Marriage is not carrying ego or to show I am great..They are just the wheels of the chariot without one another "Chariot of marriage " is not carried further.Why cant we adjust with our partner, its not only for girls even for guys both should leave their ego and go further...some marriages break just cos husband was snoring or smelling bad....

In some cases people get married to the person who is working abroad so that they get a VISA easily to land abroad..its kind of deal..is relationships become so cheap...

Real Meaning of marriage is not understood during early years of marriage cos we dont live life for us , we live life for our future and our children, We start living life after 30 years of marriage where children are also settling up and then we look for our partner who was with us all this while.A person who had never respected his wife thru out his life starts caring for her at this age, A middle aged lady who looks for her children support during her 40's realises ,children need their friends rather than parents anymore...... some unlucky people would have lost their spouses before even living this life..In kannada there is a saying Nee nanage Naa ninage..this is when life starts ...so why live life after so many years ..live each moment of ur life for ur spouse ..respect ur spouse dont dominate,
..keep aside ur egos say sorry be it whosoever mistake
..finance and sex is not the important thing in life
..forgive each other;s mistake each others lies
..if u feel u cant give happiness to the other try being the way they like , and the second one please accept ur loved one as they are or atleast notice the effort they are making.by having a breakup or divorce u wont get peace but u will just add ur numbers to the list of ur spouses.
If you feel in ur love life , u cant give happiness , there is nothing as good relationship after a break up, so break it up completely so that the other one wouldnt come back to u to say sorry and hurting each other and having an unhealthy relationship....just break it completely its good u become villany rather than staying good and spoiling everyones life around u....

I dont what sense it makes to all but my understanding abt relationship is crystal clear....

Chennai -Visa INTERVIEW.

Everybody has favourites in their life.Same here, I have fav song, fav movie, fav genre, fav place and also the deadly opposite most hating place. CHENNAI.

If one place I hate in this world the most its one and only Chennai.Its got nothing to do with people of my acquaintance there but my personal exp which happened in Chennai..The most disastrous yet memorable events took place there.

It all started in the month of April , My Senior process manager wanted all supervisors who were handling teams to apply for VISA.So all of us had to get docs ready and apply. I informed my friend that night who was then in US , and then after reaching home to my parents. Mom started off you going alone so farrrr..No chance , first marriage and then you can go anywhere. I replied , mom , first I need to get VISA approved only then if there is such incidence I will be sent.
Things calmed up at home after the discussion.

From next day started up with collection of necessary docs for applying and me SMITHA(SMIKOO) applied together.So we got the same date scheduled Jun 2nd 2006.

The Day came when we had to travel to Chennai , Jun 1st 2006, the same day was my best friends wedding another fickle minded person as I call him always..Me and Smitha got our room booked in the Grand Orient Hotel .

Me and smikoo had to go towers office to collect our DD and Ticket.
I was excited not that I am going to chennai or for VISA, but this was my first train travel henceforth I was excited that too shatabdhi,,, At 3:30 we got our tickets which was not confirmed yet , then on way met my friend and then back home.. Dad mom accompanied me to Railway Station and then bro joined up there. Smitha arrived 5 min late. I met my tuition sir (also the person whom I worked as assistant in taking tuitions during college days).He was also in same train , and also visiting Chennai for the same purpose as mine.



Bro helped in getting our seats confirmed.. and here we started out journey..It was A good feeling traveling in train but as all windows wll be closed.... We reached Chennai at 9:30 PM I guess.We hired a Taxi from The railway station to the hotel and on the way recharged my TN mobile number given by my friend who is from TN.



We reached hotel and got fresh, and then started preparing our docs. Called home and Called all my friends to say I reached safely. Me and Smikoo were talking...Sari Called , I said butterflies in my stomach as I was restless scared ... first time staying away just me and one more girl......She sang a song for me to cool me down..U know something all my friends pamper me so much ...I ask them anytime to sing they would sing..Then Santhosh called around 12, he also sang songs to calm me down....am one spoilt brat, adamant ..stubborn...until in SPS bangalore my world was different, at one place I was handling a responsible role but at the same time very childish .....Thanks to Sari and santhosh who never denied my requests though tired they always sang songs for me...Listening to songs when I closed my dont know, Sandy called again as he dint know I had slept , I said GN and slept off....



Next morning got ready and left hotel at 9:15 after breakfast.. We took a RICK to Embassy , Reached there in less than 5 min... He charged 50 rupees...so started a bad day for us..

We saw the queue which seemed like never ending , If u had been there u cud have seen us in all possible postures standing, sitting, resting ,on one another.....



At 12:30 PM an American came out and called al the 9:30 Scheduled people in.. We were again pushed back so finally we went in at 2:00PM .Again I met Shamanna Sir there just before my interview and he wished me All the Best.. We were questioned for 5 minutes and informed as we had our VISA approved..Then a BIG SHOCK was awaiting .. Our DD's were expiring on MOnday June 5th and we need to produce a NEW DD.



We soon went to the nearby bank and got out DD done..and came back and produced it. So our cash was completely NIL just 50 Rs in hands of each of us.We reached our Hotel at 3:30PM . with nO food there also and dint find any good hotels nearby also ..Starving from hunger and also Tired...Ufffffffffffffffffff came in front of the room tried opening the room door..Punch card dint work at all and Ooppps Door not opening....CHENNAI CHENNAI....felt like yelling...Finally gave a Hard KICK on the door ..MIRACLE!!! it opened ...WOW KICK works out .. but finally got neighbours out peeping ..Felt Embarassed but dint care abt it..Just walked in fell on the Bed..



Called Mom and informed and also Bro, me and Smikooo both were tired of CHENNAI thought of cancelling our sunday ticket and going back the same day to Namma Bengalooru ..Called up Railways to cancel and rebook our tickets for same night but no seats available....called up Bus Service to fnd if any buses are there for the same day they said one is there at 4:30PM and we need to reach in half an hour... We just kept the phone.. I called up my friends and said deciding to come back same day Tarun Rachel Sari Sudeep all said ya better come soon..Called up Santhosh informed Abt VISA approval , He wished congrats and then when I said I wanna come back as I dnt have a Pie extra then 50 Rs he said "R u Mad"?Just enjoy Chill over there..I said What to Chill in this heat..He said He will ask his friends to drop in money to the place I stay In the evening. Thanks a lot Santhosh and his friend who dropped in Money for us 2000 Bucks.....



When Sandy's friends came , we were in Spencers which we had traversed by walk .... and had idli there...and did some window shopping..



At 7:30 PM Madhavi came to the hotel and we packed and checked out from the hotel.. Here we took a rick went to Egmore from there Local train to Thambaram... We had enough seats to sit but still me and Mads near the door just remembered Saathiya movie where they look at each in moving train and I was teasing Mads , as to Everyday how many get swept of their feets.......



We reached her place from Railway station by RICK he charged 75 Rupees for 10 minutes drive....uffffffffffff tired dead tired with these auto guys. We reached home , just then power cut.It had slightly drizzling also me and mads sat oustide and spoke of all three years missng....While smikoo went to take CANDLE LIGHT BATH..Just when she came out Power was back ....WOW...felt like heaven when power was back .....AC and Fan .....



We slept after dinner at 12:30 ..next morning we woke up late at 11:45 AM..found Mads already had left to office and she had left us guidelines to reach T nagar. Aunty was preparing pickle , me and smikoo got the recipes cos its quite different then south Indian pickles.



Aunty was weaving a sweater we learnt a bit of that also , finally went to get ready had lunch . We forced aunty also to come along with us as she was alone..Aunty was all the time complaining mads goes to work even on saturdays also. We reached T nagar at 5:Pm seeing the crowd there remembered the GIRI MALLIKA( PEOPLE go around the Thiruvannamalai hills every full moon in the night , it will be so crowded , u need to walk u wil swim in the crowd as the crowd pushes u forward.....) same thing in T nagar as soon as u come out of the railway station..



We had DOSA in near by hotel and went to shopping .. Went to Chennai Silks asked him to show some sarees...He started off with jingle bells sareers( I call the worked sarees with all the jingles on it , I dont like it . I particularly like simple sarees , Kanchi sarees and Mysore Silk) .He then said he has Mysore Silk Sarees for 1000 Rupees..I was wonderstruck ..Mysore Silk just for 1000Rs.. When I saw that I very soon knew its not Mysore Silk Its Crape......Pure Mysore Silk would cost not less than 2,500 rupees 3000Rupees this is least now tho its more than 9000Rupess minimum... Finally brought a dress for maddy as it was just 3 days after her birthday....


Then we were again in train on our way to beach all the while I was waitng for .....we reached Beach Station at 7:45PM . we took a rick to beach just to find all the entrance for beach were closed for vehicles .. we had to walk some distance.Had Bajji at the beach played 10 minutes and again back to station by 9:00 PM . We reached Thambaram at 10:30 PM I believe.As soon as we stepped of the station it started raining Cats & Dogs..uffff one more incident here just to prove how unlucky was our travel to chennai....We asked auto guys to drop us at PADMAVATHY Nagar and they were lke charging 200 and 175..finally agreed at 150 and we reached at 10:50 home...We put all our wet clothhes on fan and eveywhere to dry for our next day travel.. We had rice with pickles only as we dnt want to trouble aunty as she was also tired .I massaged her leg as it was paining badly and she went to sleep..We got our beds ready in the hall watching movie . we three girls had our night out , talking and taking snaps till 3:00AM . Smi slept at 3:00AM .Mads and me continued our talks...me teasing her of every possible thing...

Finally closed eyes at 4:00AM and woke up at 4:30 AM got ready in half an hour and the auto guy who dropped us previous night was waitng for us at the door at 5:35AM. we trio got into the rick and reached Thambaram at 5:50Am. We took the local train and then finally reached Central with Mads help..me and smi were praying no more shocks in our journey we were tired of Chennai ..and the travel .. we were not ready for any more wierd things ...Thanks to Mads for helping us ..... We said Good Bye to Mads and to Chennai ... GOOD RIDDANCE might be CHENNAI CITY thought HAHAHA...Finally we both settled in train tired sleepy adn we reached blore at 1:30 PM in the afternoon ..Once we reached we felt the fresh air and a new energy in us to face any challenge..Our dear own Bengalooru ....Finally ....

Thanks a lot to who helped us ...
namaka tappani nijamaina noovika ravani chebootoonaendookoo vinado na madi ipoodainayevaroo edoorooga vastoona noovemo anookoontoonanee roopam na choopoola nodilenaendarito kalisoona nenontarigane oonanoovodilina ee ekantam lonakanooloo teriche oona noovoo ninati kalave ayinaippatiki a kalalo ne voona