Honeymoon Ahoy!!

Top of the season to you all!! I just got back a few days ago from my honeymoon. Yeah, that's right folks, I got married some time back (even now, I sometimes wonder if I really have got married). Because every one used to tell me, "maga maduve aadmele life FULL change aagbidatte kano..... & blah & blah & blah........." ("Dude, after marriage, your life will change fully & so on................"). Frankly, I feel nothing has changed. With a FANTASTICALLY good life partner who is SOOOOOOOO understanding & puts me on top of everything else, I still am the same devil that I used to be earlier. I say this because even now, GBK & "Sania Mirza" are always my targets. Whenever we go swimming, I manage to yank their undies off...... he he he. Even now, when I talk to "Sania Mirza" or GBK my tone & absolutely everything else is the same.

We wanted to do something different for our honeymoon & not go to the same places that have now become dirty, crowded & polluted. So we went on a road trip to Mudumalai, Ooty, Kabini & BR Hills (K Gudi). Each place was an experience of a different kind. My MOST favourite (as was my partner's) was Kabini. Here are a few pics that I shot from our digital SLR.

I must have shot close to 650 photos atleast (thanks to digital photography, otherwise I would have gone bankrupt in getting 650 negatives develioped & photos printed to see atleast 300 good prints :( or I would have ended up shooting only a few 70 or so photos, sigh....).

1. The Gaurs & the Sunlight filtering through were in NagarahoLe (Karnataka ROCKS seriously Jai Karnataka Maathe)
2. The Cottage was in Blue Valley, Mudumalai (very nice quiet place)
3. The "Enclosers" was in Ooty (wonder who these "enclosers" are & what it is that they are enclosing)
4. The "Hotel" was in Kharapur (no longer do you have "Kaaka Angadi" or "Kaaka Hotel" )

Route Map

If you are driving, nothing like it.

Blue Valley.

The route that we took was very good. So that I what I will write about here. From Bangalore drive towards Nanjangud & as you enter the town limits of Nanjangud, keep going towards Gundlupet. At Gundlupet, take the road to Ooty. You will pass through Bandipur on the way & please drive slow there, because you will have wild animals crossing the road. Cross Bandipur & you enter Tamil Nadu. Keep going straight & then take the road to your left at "Theppakudu". This road will take you towards Masinagudi & then Blue Valley. Again please drive VERY slow because you are certain to find, Elephants, Wild Boar, Deer & Peacock right next to the main roads.

JLR (Kabini).

Again from Bangalore, cross Nanjangud & then just about 13 Kms before Gundlupet, you will find a road going towards your right & here there is a sign as well that points to Kabini. Keep going down this road (about 85Kms). You will pass through Sargur. Keep continuing through that road. Then you will reach HD Kote Circle. Take a left there & go about 6-7 Kms you will come to a fork. Here if you take the left road you will go to the Kabini Dam. Take the right road instead & drive about 32 Kms, you will come to JLR. 

JLR K Gudi.

There are two routes from Bangalore.

1) Bangalore, Kollegal, Chamarajanagar, K Gudi (shorter)

2) Bangalore, Nanjangud, Chamarajnagar, K Gudi.

The roads are closed from 6 PM to 6 AM. If you don't get there within that time, you are in for trouble. The forest is REALLY thick. Enter the lodge area before 6 PM or leave the jungle area before 6 PM. Don't get caught in between.

Just a few things to be kept in mind. PLEASE DON'T WEAR BRIGHT COLOURS INCLUDING WHITES for the jungle. PLEASE DON'T WEAR PERFUMES OF DEOS for the jungle. Please refrain from using plastic. Enjoy

NLP Session at Ashirwad

Well I have been in hibernation for a long time. Although I don't like to say this I will because I am not able to come up with a better excuse. "It is just that I have been toooooooooo busy (doing nothing) & hence have not been able to post anything" Anyway, let me come straight to what I want to mention about........ In February I was in a beginners' NLP Practitioner session. It was an AMAZING experience & I shot some pics with my N81. Here are the pics.......

Circle of Exellence & Anchoring

Recently I was at a workshop of No Logic Please (AKA NLP-Neuro Linguistic Programming) ;-). 
We were doing an excellent exercise on the circle of excellence. This is an excellent excercise to do whenever I need confidence. Takes about 13 mins roughly. So just download the audio from the 
 link below & use it whenever you need confidence.

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http://www.esnips.com/web/The-Ramblers-Uploads

All that you wanted to know about Verbs & Adjectives

Listening to this piece, I realised that no other word 
in the English language has such versatility [:)]



He says: One of the most interesting words in the English language today is the word 'fuck'.
It is one magical word: just by its sound it can describe pain, pleasure, hate and love.
In language it falls into many grammatical categories.
It can be used as a verb, both transitive (John fucked Mary) and intransitive (Mary was fucked by John), and as a noun (Mary is a fine fuck).
It can be used as an adjective (Mary is fucking beautiful).
As you can see there are not many words with the versatility of 'fuck'.
Besides the sexual meaning, there are also the following uses:

Fraud: I got fucked at the used car lot.
Ignorance: Fucked if I know.
Trouble: I guess I am fucked now!
Aggression: Fuck you!
Displeasure: What the fuck is going on here?
Difficulty: I can't understand this fucking job.
Incompetence: He is a fuck-off.
Suspicion: What the fuck are you doing?
Enjoyment: I had a fucking good time.
Request: Get the fuck out of here!
Hostility: I am going to knock your fucking head off!
Greeting: How the fuck are you?
Apathy: Who gives a fuck?
Innovation: Get a bigger fucking hammer.
Surprise: Fuck! You scared the shit out of me!
Anxiety: Today is really fucked. And it is very healthy too.

If every morning you do it as a Transcendental Meditation -- just when you get up, the first thing, repeat the mantra "Fuck you!" five times -- it clears the throat.
That's how I keep my throat clear!
Enough for today.

One of my Favourite songs in my Favourite Raga

Below is the lyric of one of my MOST FAVOURITE songs in my MOST FAVOURITE raaga, Darbari Kaanada. The song is an expression of EXTREME INTIMACY & SINCERE GRIEF. The reason I say this is because, these words came tumbling out of the poet when his wife lay dead in front of him. MY dear dad has sung this song & the song is there on You Tube. Here are the lyrics of the song.....

kalpanaa Chaayeyali
nalmeya naukeyali
neelamaNi hoLedaMte
hoLe hoLedu hOdeyaa
shakti tanu jaate,

kalpanaa Chaayeyali
nalmeya naukeyali

jagavella malagihudu
chaMdiranu nagutihanu
taMgaaLi beesutide
neenelli manadanne
kuMtaLaa shObhe,

kalpanaa Chaayeyali
nalmeya naukeyali

aaprathama darshanadi
mogada cheluvaa tori
noopuraadharava beeri
malligeya nage nakke
tanirasada tavari

kalpanaa Chaayeyali
nalmeya naukeyali

aa nuDiye nuDiyaagi
aa nageye nageyaagi
aa nEha madhuvaagi
manadalli suLiyutide
naaTya praveeNe

kalpanaa Chaayeyali
nalmeya naukeyali
neelamaNi hoLedaMte
hoLe hoLedu hOdeyaa
shakti tanu jaate,

kalpanaa Chaayeyali
nalmeya naukeyali

Yathaa Raaja, Tatha Prajaa!!!

This is a saying in Sanskrit, which means:

As is the King, so be the subjects :)

My Association with "@$$"!!!

I've been away for sometime, thanks to my schedules......

Anyway, something happened today (Sunday, the 30th of September, 2007)  that had me thinking along these lines. Let me explain.

I somehow or the other, seem to end up having SOME or the other connection with the human posterior, be it mine or some one else's.
This has been happenening to me ever since I have been in college.

Here is the history of how it started.

The first time:
My buddies from my class ALWAYS used to rag me (not that I minded, because I didn't), anyway
when I asked them why they made me the "butt" of all jokes, they said: "that is because, you have the biggest of all" He he he......

The second time:
I was walking down the corridor towards the Physics lab & one of my close friends (I will call him only by his nick name here), Kunta Bhasi was coming behind me. Seeing my "fashionable butt", Kunta decided to sneak up behind me & give a SHARP flick to it. He did that, & ended up breaking his nail at the 
very base of it. The reason, I had kept my thick house key, in the hip pocket......
Boy did his finger bleed that day!!!

The third time:
Today (Sunday, the 30th of September, 2007), another close friend of mine (I will call him also by his nick name), Prodigy (Karthik The Kashyap Child, KTKC as he is also known as), came
home & as soon as he saw my Guitar, he jumped &wanted to try it. In his hurry, he didn't 
notice the D-Link Router's adapter. He sat with a LOT 
of enthusiasm on my cot & again leapt up screaming (pretty much the same way Tom does 
when he has something poking his backside)!!! He sat on the pins of the adapter with
SO MUCH force, that the pins actually broke!!! If you have noticed the adapter, you would
realise that  the pins are firmly molded into the plastic, now to be able to break that, just imagine 
the amount of force he must have sat with!!!!

That, folks is the story of my ass! Oops!! Sorry, the story of "My Association with "@$$"!!!"

I recently was in Hyd on an assignment. I was treated like a member of some royal fraternity. Why? Well, for one I was chauffered around in Toyota Corolloas, Maruti Suzuki Balenos, Ford Ikons & what not!!! The kids themselves were awesome & a couple of them actually gave me on spot feedback. I have one of those here, the other one will be up shortly :)