Kumar Parvatha

Recently, I had been trekking to evergreen destination called Kumar Parvatha, in Western Ghats of Karnataka, India. Here are few photos from the trek.

I will write trek description in the separate post soon.

Google Doodle

As we are aware of Google-Doodle, Google recently had been running doodle contest in India for children’s day (14^th Nov).

The contest was broken down in 3 categories; students from 1-3 std, 4-6 std, and 7-10 std. Thousands of entries were submitted out of which 45 finalists are shortlisted. Public voting will decide the winning entry for 14th Nov; Although voting has ended now but we can view the finalists on this page (http://www.google.com/intl/en_in/doodle4google/vote.html).

Have a look at these entries, these are amazing. The kids are really talented, I didn’t knew that at roughly 5 years age somebody could think of so much while designing a doodle. Here are few of these, jump over to Google’s contest page for all entries.

 

Munnar

After I had learned about stitching multiple photos to create a single panoramic photographs, i had certain experiments during my last visit to Munnar.

Here are few panoramic shots i had taken at Munnar (click to enlarge).

 

Analogy

 

At a discussion, here is a classic analogy for cutting costs across multiple iterations. Lets say you clean your house with broom and accumulate ‘X’ amount of waste; Sweep it second time and accumulated waste will not even be fourth or fifth of the original amount ‘X’; third/fourth time it will reach microscopic levels. Same is the case with cost cuttings, initially there will be huge savings but marginal subsequently.

2 words.

Two words, simple and easy. Each have different meanings and in any sentence you use them they stick to their meaning; i.e. what they are intended to.

“Sugar” – A sweetener and,

“Less” – Less in quantity.

But when they are used together “Sugar Less” or “Less Sugar” the meaning is totally opposite.

There will be many such examples, can you list them?

What if….

What if, I had not been the way I am?

What if I had been a super star?

What if I had been the richest person in the world?

What if I did not had any tension?

What if I had not to worry about salary?

What if petrol was like water, easily available and does not cause any pollution?

What if I wished and it was available?

What if others behaved the way I wanted them to be?

What if I had been the greatest sports star?

Dreams are many, it is up to us to live this life.

Fire in the Sky

This picture was taken while we were returning back to Bangalore from Delhi by Indian Airlines flight after the wonderful Leh trip.

A Gold !!!

28 years later, Abinav Bindra wins a Gold Medal for India at the Beijing Olympics in 10 meters air rifle event. The first ever individual Gold Medal for India. A long wait for national anthem to be played at the Olympics, but an amazingly nice feeling.

Heartiest Congratulations Abinav Bindra !!!

 

Image Courtesy: www.Rediff.com

Tags....

Reminiscence has been tagged by The Resurrection. Lately I have been quite lazy to write up something or other, so... here's a chance to write up another post.

 Last movie seen in a theatre?
Ugly aur Pagli (what a movie!!!). Wonder where these people get idea to make such movies.... hats off.. and I go and watch that.

What book are you reading?
"The five people you meet in heaven" by Mitch Albom.

Favorite board game
Scrabble

Favorite magazine
Not much a magazine reader. These days, any photography magazine (online). 

Favorite smells
Smell of the earth after it rains.

Favorite sound
Sound of instruments.... the sound of the Guitar.

Worst feeling in the world
Being really lonely.

What is the first thing you think of when you wake up?
How to spend today? Why can't I just lie and be at home doing what I like best.

Favorite fast food place
Pizza Hut.

Future child's name
Hmm....

Finish this statement. "If I had a lot of money I'd..."
be traveling places and photographing.

Do you drive fast?
Yes. I want to but for these Bangalore roads... and traffic.... Maybe if i had money I would build roads just for me.

Do you sleep with a stuffed animal.
No.

Favorite Drink
Kalmane Coffees.

Do you eat the stem of broccoli?
No.

Storms - Cool or Scary?
Cool. I want to feel how it feels to be feeling it.

If you could dye your hair any color, what would be your choice?
Dark Blue!

Name all the different cities/towns you have lived in:
Nagpur; Indore; Delhi; Chandigarh; Masoorie; Kota; Madhopur; Pune; Bangalore; (If I take liberty to add cities I have been the list would be huge)

Favorite sports to watch
Any, but still Formula 1.

One nice thing about the person who sent this to you
Over cautious but fun to be with.

What's under your bed?
The floor! Nothing, absolutely

Would you like to be born as yourself again?
Yes, with the voice of Sonu Nigam.

Morning person or night owl?
Nocturnal. Early riser only if a game of badminton or cricket or trek.

Over easy or sunny side up?
Easy!

Favorite place to relax
My Room.

Favorite pie
Chocolate Fudge

Favorite ice cream flavor:
Not fixed, the dish that comes with maximum ice-cream :)

You pass this tag to:
Ajit, Milind,

Of all the people you tagged this to, who’s most likely to respond first?
Ajit Oke.

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Laddakh Diary – Day 15 & 16.

19th July, 2008.
Route: Udhampur – Pathankot – Delhi.
Distance Covered: ~110km by bike, 476km by train.

The easiest day

There are two routes from Udhampur to reach Pathankot, one via Jammu and another via Surinsar mansar wildlife sanctuary and dayala chak. The other route via Dayala Chak is a short cut, it is not as good as NH1, but still in better condition. The journey from udhampur to pathankot was uneventful. We reached Pathankot somewhere around 12pm, searched for the GATI courier and cargo. Just after reaching Pathankot, my bike’s fuel got empty, the last petrol filled was in Leh, it gave an amazing mileage; from Leh to Pathankot in one full tank. By the time all the formalities are complete, it was around 3.00 pm; we booked train tickets to the Delhi, had late Lunch and back to the station. Tonight was to be spent in the train.

We would be in Delhi tomorrow.

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20th July, 2008.
Route: Delhi – Bangalore.
Distance Covered: 2061km

The last day.

Reached Delhi, First time we were not driving after so many days. Felt nice. Took a metro to Dwarka Sector 9, took cycle rickshaw to reach my sisters place. Spent the afternoon at her place. The flight to Bangalore was at 4.30pm. Sudhakar, Shantanu and Manoj went to a hotel and later they were roaming in and around cannaught place. They managed to miss the flight :) They got another flight back to Bangalore somewhere around 9pm.

Thus the hectic last 16 days came to an end. One has to visit Leh-Laddakh once in his life. It’s very beautiful. The most surprising thing that happened was we never encountered a situation where we were struck; the people are very friendly. We never had a single bike problem, not even a puncture. Most of the people have told us that falling from the bike, burning of the brakes, punctures are a common occurrence but we did not encounter any of it.

If you ride safe and preferably take your own bikes with disk brakes, you would not end up in problems. We met many people who had rented bikes ended up in problems.

We used all possible modes of transport in this trip, flight, train, metro, auto-rickshaw, cycle rickshaw, bikes, public taxi, private tourist vehicle and of course walking.

 

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