Chennai v2.0

First love always have a special place in someone's heart. i respect this feeling even though i never land up to feel that feeling!!!...:(... But i can say it b/c i always had a special place in my heart for my first trip outside my state(First is imp here).... CHENNAI..

It was in the summer of 2008 for PS I(or so called training in conventional terms). Reason being because my closest buddies of college choosing there training centre in IGCAR , Kalpakkam(a name which i cant able to pronunce even after my train ing finished!!!). Not stressing further on this first trip, (because title itself saying this article is smt abt v2.0) so i would just say that this is the place whr i saw fall season first time in my life, hair fall...:(... so first trip is not a good experience for me...

This time i visited this city due to official work (that too my first official visit...:P). initially i feared a lot n/c of my previous expereince....but...

Tickets are of 2AC in durunto while heading towards chennai and in rajdhani while cmg back to square one...

CHENNAI - DELHI :- Initally itself train was 1hr and 10 min. late...finially it departs at sharp 5 o clock....WOOOO... Wht a train...lower seat with enormus space. got kambal, sheet, towel, 2 water bottles of rail neer...Train picking up speed and i m in awe by seeing every particle of the train. At 6, got snacks(mind it.. free ka :P) which includes sandwich, samosa ,sweet of haldiram. Then i thought lets do some work. So i started writing my diary (which is supposed to be write on every day , but i used to write it in bulk). By this time there is no use to see out side b/c night had engulfed the surrounings completely.By 7, i got bread stick with anul butter and tomato suop(which i refused to drink..even though it is free, i m pretty generous..:P). So 1st station came after 2hr and 30 min...Its agra, but train is durunto so i bid gud bye from inside itself..:) .Now around at 8pm got veg food. its face itself is saying that Indian rail changed a lot.Menu is same as its prevailed in whole country i.e. roti, dal , paner,Rice, and salad. Then for ice cream lovers its also thr. Just i finished the food, i get abt to know that i took my food in MP as train touched periphery of gwalior. its 8.30 now , then i thought to had a stroll in train ..(u know y..:P)..

i found pretty interesting things..

1. Youngistan mostly hearing songs or reading novels, on lappy, or talking among themselves

2. ladies .. same work jo ki ramayan kaal sae chall aa raha hai .. gappae

3. purush: gappae or sitting idle.

4. most interesting now....newly wed couples...games like that of poker , or sinking in each other talking.

just then train took stop at jhasi, i got amazed y..but i got then that it is place whr driver changed..after 10 min of halt.. it ran again , then i got info that bhopal is 4 hr from now means at 2 AM.. but i m sleeping at that time .

so on very next daytrain took halt at nagpur for taking breakfast and newspaper. before that at 6.15 tea and coffee was offered. got newspaper and breakfast at 8.15, which was of very good standard. next day when i roam in whole train i found that most of the persons are still sleeping till 11 in morning. then train took 2 more stops at warangal and vijaywadaso. got snacks n dinner also in train.

It reached at chennai central on 9.45. Chennai greated me with stinky smell of fishes alongwith 3 beautiful faces...:P. i noted it down , let c the this is a good or bad omen... :D.. chennai weather was so awesome at that time , i cant able to imagine that. cool breeze is flowing, no humidity at all. while roaming on road , i m feeling ki just be thr, n take the feel of cool cool breeze. then i headed towards the asia's largest bus terminal, CMBT. in front of them i got fainted by seeing the size of hotel.. oh my god i m gng to live in here for next 3 days... wooooo!!!!...awesome furnishing , flat tv screen, 12 feet thick gaadda.. light razzai and pillow on which just put head n u ll get asleep even faster than speed of light. calling room service man , at reception in itself a tashan...!!!! then took dinner at 11... my lord 16 dishes, 6 sweets, 2 cakes, 2 icecreams, +roti in chennai... feeling like a bada aadmi... OOOO...just open the pardha of window and finding the soothing sunrays in morning. On 5 th floor its looking a scenic picture having hundreads of mobile towers... ao 3 days went like that in roaming o differetn areas and meeting with friend, and so i can say v2.0 is not bad at all...

:)

cheers...!!!!

MP3(Not mera phela phela pyar) Selection

Music is smt which is very difficult to resist now. From our doodwallas to paperwallas to our dudes, all now days can be seen with a white or a black lace, lurking from thr neck. While travelling to office or sitting generally, MP3 palyer is becoming kind of O2 for ears now. But it require susbtancial amount of investment , as this is the thing for youngsters most of them r in thr starting age of earning money...
I also brought one mp3 few days back. what i got in time span when i m searching for brand , price listing, quality, factors which i shld look over while selecting MP3, i m shaping all these in words.
1. Battery life: a common mp3 takes 2-2.5 hr to charge and run for 7- 10 hr. this is the most imp thing which used to get detiriorate as time passes away. apple got best battery. sony and philips also quite good. recently sony launched W series of mp3 , in which initially 3 min charge will allow mp3 to run for 90 min. it take 1.5 hr, to charge completely, can run for 10 hr.charing is done by lappy mostly now, but can take charger whose cost starts from 100 to 600.

2. Size: Mostly Mp3 is used while gyming, running or in bus , car, so it require to be put in pocket sufficiently. philips and sony has bigger mp3 , apple's mp3 is quite nice. recently philips launced a small mp3 also.

3. Quality: Quality is in terms of keys, sound, display (if any), Warranty also. Keys quality can be checke by pressing it again and again if one feels thr is some loose connections then better to opt for some other piece. Sound can be detected by putting hands on ears as earpiece is in ear, this will avoid noise distraction, if some one feel some disturbance, then just reject it.put sound volume at high as well as low to check speaker intensity. Display can be detected by taking one point in mind that u have to use in daylight also so is colur combo is such like that u can see things in sun light or not. in shops environment is completely different. See for warranty card also.

4.Price: A imp factor from which we have to trade off the quality. first of all on net we can't get whole info on a single site. most famous brand is philips, apple,sony but thr r other also like gemini, sensui, sandisk,samsung , creative, transend etc. Getting thr info is quite difficult so search differnt sites on net. acc to myknowledge price starts from 500 of gemini in which no memory is thr and we have to use memory card which cost around 200 so overall it comes of 700. ranges goes to 15000 for high end. http://www.techtree.com/India/Guides/MP3_Players_Pricelist_July_06/551-74629-586-4.html
This is one source of knowledge.

5. Start purchasing: Just dont give one day for it, but visit it 2 -3 days and then take some de cision. initially aee the best apple , pjilips, sony , see it , feel it. Then if ur price range is lower, then say to different peoples to search for various companies in thr surrounding. and then take their feel and compare it with best quality and then trade off between different things.

Feeling is quite important thing while buying a MP3 b/c feeling is always difficult to feel.

Cheers...
P.S. : Give comment if u find some more thing to be look upon while buyin MP3.

Mercedes Benz S- Class

This got such kind of name b/c in german Sonderklasse means one in its own class and in short S- class. Its production started in 1954 but formally it got its name in 1974.It ranked as best selling sedan in world.In 1998 they sold as CL class but from 2011 they will be sold as S -class again.
Previously, model no. means engine capacity, then letter show its class and fuel injetction type or/and wheelbase. From 1993 designation started by a letter showing class( presently A, B, C, CLS, E, G, GL, GLK, ML, R, S, V are in use). formally there shld a space b/t letter and number.
Initially, they developed Ponton(1954-1958). it features 6 cylinder coupe, sedan and convertible type.
then come the fintail(1959-65), b/c it had tail on there back.It is the first one to have disc brake and air suspension.It was the most luxuries model of at that time.
Then introduced W108/109 from 1956. in 1969 first time V8 engine has been used in this model.During this period s ans Se had been used for short wheel base and SEL for Long wheelbase.Since advent of this model,MB always used 2 wheelbase lengths.
In 1973, W116 came which officially first car to be came under S - Class.it produced till 1979.Car safety got new measures in this model including ABS.
Newest in S calss is, is Sguard which is a bullet proof car costing around6.7 crore.
This class got award of best luxury car for 7th time in 2007.this car is first time ever to get environmental certificate from german government.

KITES

After a long time went in a hall.Seat can rest completely, so i thought now my sleeping time would last quite nicely.
As it Started it shows with 2 kites was flying, which remind me of jaipur while makar sankranti. Video Quality looked quite great. As it happened with most of the indian films, ek centi sa dialouge aaya. Now movie starts with showing hrithik in bad condition, here hrithik got a flashback which showed hrithik as poor belly dance trainer searching for money. he gave some examples how he miss good opurtunities for it. One day kangana ranut, became that girl by which he can get a hell lot of money. again for some minutes it started same hindi drama..
how the hell a boy dances and girls family became so mad that they became ready to consider that fellow as the most eligible person for their daughter!!!!!!???
So this happens in this movie:( , now our hero became a owner of a big car.but not lose his modesty.now anurag basu gave a chance to show that our hero had some mind also but i did'nt get point what kind of useless chance he had been given, i think this is director fault...So, he had being given a useless chance.
now comes the main thing which all is waiting for...Barbara Moori.
One of the most gorgeous girl on this planet was fiancee of kangana's brother having aajib si daddi..but as our dude jai(hrithik) use to earn some money by fake marriage to provide green card to some persons, he already married barbara once... so here starts smt b/t them. Natasha(Barbara) used to get some offense by Tony(kangana's brother). Just one day before her marriage she reside in her apartment, there generally jai came to meet and had fun. there both get abt to know that they both want money nothing else. Here it self, tony(ajib daddi walaa) came and do some thing which had been kept as secret. Now both of them ran away. Tony got furious with this. He searched for both of them, but both of them ran by some how. While they got married at some random place, our great villen tony find both of them and fires on them , but they able to run away from there, thanks to nice driving capacity of natasha. So at that instance, natasha hide jai in a train. after that now movie came in present tense.
On train station a person called tony , but jai fled away by some stunts. then he took address by some helper to meet with natasha. but later on he got abt to know by one of helper of tony that she is dead. Then basu uncle started video game, and jai killed all of tony's helper. Thereafter jai went to same place where she jump in water , which is bluer than camlin blue color.
here it shows how after packing hrithik in train, she got surrrounded by tony's and all. here anurag did a good thing, that he took reliance mobile free message pack.
here natasha did msg to jai. she is gng. Sorry.
Really a centi scene. and with her car she jump in water. so hrithik also jump in that same water, where they both met after dying.
Good: barbara acting, moori, twist at right time, songs, showing of love without language, Seats of multiplex.
Bad: Weak script, Middle part of movie is tp, sometime not getting whether thing is gng on in present or in past.

Bangalore-Mangalore-Udupi-Jog Falls-Bangalore

22/5/10
At 3 am collection of persons started, it took 4am to get ready to leave bangalore. this time this mangalore trip exit from bangalore from banerghatta side. wind was little bit cold. So our first stop came at some random readi to drink tea. Now after that i felt a lot of emptiness in belly so again we stop at some place to eat dosa's. then start the scenic journey towards mangalore. In the way while height is increasing, we stop for some minutes to have a look at classic beauty.
We reach at mangalore at around 12.30 o'clock. We took lunch. but we amazed by cheapness of food, if we compare it with bangalore.
then it take 10 min to reach at panambur beach. we r at beach at 2.30pm. we enjoy there for around1.30hr. so we leave for udupi at 4.00 .
so we was at malpa beach at 5.30 pm. it took around 1.30hr to reach at udupi.we play with mud here and make all persons dirty. udupi is 15 min from malpa beach. one can take ferry to had a ride to st marks island but it closed on 5pm. fighting with waves is a awesome experience. sea is not deep here.
here one shld take a polythene to kept wet clothes. one shld make proper planning so that from 1st beach to last beach ,there would be no need to change clothes. just change in cab itself.
After this we all got filled with sand. we took room at udupi. this city is damn cheap, 440 per room which can be shared among 4 persons. shops of soap and all such stuff is near by. at 8.30 we leave for temple of krishna ji. It is 10 min. by walk. closing time for temple is 10.30pm. then we eat panipuri, bhelpuri, and juice, all r tooo cheap. then for food we not able to find good veg hotel . so we reach at some hotel and took dinner. at 10.30 we get back to sleep.
Beaches r really hectic one. we plan on that day itself then we will leave at 7. We have to leave hotel at 7 itself.
Day 2
Now we leave for maravanthe beach it is 55 km from udupi. it took around 45 min. this is the place of scenic beauty. We took photos but we not get inside in water.
then we get down at mrudheswar temple of shivji at around 10.30am a perfect combo of place. it has beach , temple, water sport, trees. seeing temple took around 45 min , then cave is also thr to have a look on story of this temple. we took lunch here . but lunch is not that much good. we leave from here at around12 .
now next station is jog falls, it is at height. road is quite curvy. but herewater is not there, but arrangement for colddrink and all that thing is good. we took pics and sit generally for some time.
then at bidur our cab got some problem.
while in cab we play mafia, and cards, and talk with seat sidy.
now in bidur we search for tea stall and for chaat. We enjoy in group talkiing and commenting on eaach other. then we roam to find some place to sit together. we find a school ground. we play antakshri under the light of moon. we leave for bangalore at around 10. all r felling sleepy. noe and completely exhausted. It took around 4.30 hr from thr. we reach at respective house from 2.30 to 4.00am.

Bangalore-OOTY_CONOOR-MYSORE_BANGALORE(Part 2)

28/3/2010
I slept yesterday on 12 and i wake up at 7. Aaha what a nice sleep. So as we schedulded yesterday, we all got ready to went to railway station. we r at station at around 8.20 a.m. Line is big. We then think whether we get the ticket or not. But ok at last we got ticket. ticket costs varies from 3 to 96. Now there was a Queey for this train we stand there. then we got abt to know that this train is a world heritage. than Train with 4 wagons came. Oh what a experience. Now we r gng to sit in a world heritage train. So in the train there are two way seat in which some person face will be facing u. So this became Quite important to sit at proper side, means sit on side by which ur face shl face the moving side, and one more thing is that one shl sit on right side when he face himself in which side train would move. But unfortunately we aplit little bit. but ok . We find beauty in train itself!!!
while in the whole route awesome scenery is there. big big tress tree plantation all around , underbreezes where darkness engulfs the train completely. after 10 min train stops at some station , after that after 20 min it took halt for 5 min, after that one more station and we land up at Conoor. totally distance is 17 Km nad it took 45 min. to cover it. Just outside the station we got our car. There we decide to go to Sim's Park, there is also Dolphin Nose and some more r there to visit.
Sim's Park : It took around 1 hr to visit this park. it is around 5 min away from station. Here we took breakfast. this is a nice place to have photoshot. entry ticket and camera ticket is there . Entry here is around 20 bucks. One can took camera entry lite. We leave for ooty to take our lunch. By car we reach ooty after 45 min around path is quite risky and weather was also became riskier.
After hading Lunch in Hotel Gurga(this is third palce where we try food!!!) , it took around 1 hr to had lunch. after that we put our luggage inside the car , and OH once again raining . Nice experince again. After disel filling We leave at around 1.30 pm . after 20 min we are at Pykara Dam (Where no dam is there).
Pykara Dam : Place to have some Slope to be waking on . Nice for photograhy and to sit for some time to feel soothing wind. we leave after 45 min. from here. Just after 10 min from here we are at Pykara Falls(Where there is a nice WaterFall Really!!).
Pykara Falls: Had to walk for 5- 10 min from main road. Water was in full mood. But stones is quite slippery, so better to be carefull. all went in water to feel it except4. Good palce to have photos with water and with cow!! also. we spent here 1.30 hr. at around 4.30 we leave for Mysore. Passing by godalur, Madumali, Bandipur We are at Mysore at 7.15 pm , we start viewing mysore lighting at 7.30pm.
Mysore Palace: Lighting is Awesome. only on sundays. Timing: 7-8PM . Not allowed to enter inside the palace. Inside timimg: 10-5.30. Band is also there. Had photos with Palace and Tigers!! Spent half an hour. Had market also outside the palace. 2 temples also inside the Palace ground. after this went some where for dinner. 10 dosas. i m sure malik of this hotel would got panic. at 9.30pm we leave mysore. around 12 we touch bangalore again. Now feeling Quite hot after the cold weather of OOTY. So Trip Ends Here.
Thanks to all my friends, who arrange this nice trip, to [provide a platform to hang around with u all.

BANGALORE-OOTY-CONOOR-MYSORE-BANGALORE (Part 1)

27/3/2010-Saturday
3.12A.M. - Cab reaches to Sagar's home. At 4.20a.m. all 9 Bitsians r ready to explore OOTY.
So Trip starts at 4.20a.m., For which i m waiting for a long and long time. While in the way with nice music in background, i felt little bit cold wave.
In the way one can find many sellers of flowers bead. So around in 35 to 40 min. we r at Wonder La. In the half way itself Sun began to rise . As we started our journey in deep night , due to which our driver also feeing sleepy, So he took 2 stops to drink tea till mysore.
So we r at Mysore at 7 in morning. It took around 2 Hr and 40 Min. to reach there. While in the way we saw the boards of ranganpatta, Chamundi hills and had a glance of Mysore Palace. We again Stop for around 15 min in mysore to change our sitting layout.
At around 8.30 am we r at BandIPUR National Park, which used to get closed at 8pm in night and opens again at 6 am. So around it took 4 hr and 10 min to reach at that gate. It took around 20-30 min to cross this stracth. In this Park there is no sharp turns as such , So it is also safe to cross it in night time. There is also many guest houses available in Park itself. Dear used to come along the way. So around, it took 4.40hrs. to cross Bandipur gate from Bangalore.
After this Park, Roaming on mobile got started. So now we was in Tamil nadu. With this, Madumalai Tiger Reserve got started. This is a big reserve which took around 40- 45min to cross. Has some Curvy roads. We found Some elephants, dear and peacocks and Crows in this PArk!!. so we cossed this Park at around 9.15am .Just after this, Check post came of forest department which took 500 Rs. For entering in TamilNadu. After this , there was good places to eat . All this is adjacent to the park.
At around 9.30 we was at godalur which can be called as base station of OOTy. It took around 5 Hr. to raech this Place. Now its time of starting of nice scene for which OOTy is known for.
There is nice Scenes, long long trees all around, Can stop and have a view of all these . Road is really tricky one, which is most famouly known as Hair pin bend road.
So with singing , as cab cd player got bad !, we reached ooty at 11.15am, around 7 hr from bangalore. It took 1.45 min to complete hair pin bend road. This path is risky as well as beautiful also so it is better to cover this route in day time. In way it self there is Pykara dam, and waterfall, which r good to have look upon.
Now its time to search for a Palce to stay. We saw a lot of cottages around , and at last stop at lake view but not got satisfied as this is out of main city. Then we stop in Glanton manor which is in heart of the city. So around at 11.45am we was in our room.
After having lunch in same hotel we leave at around 2pm for doddabetta, highest peak of nilgiris, which is at around 2636m above sea level. It took around 1 hr to had photography, site viewing. Entrance ticket here was of 5 Rs. And no ticket for cameras. It is better to cover this in day time b/c of risky road. A nice palce to feel the top of mountain, a good spot for photography. So, we leave at 3 pm from here. While down hill we found a place for homemade chocolates and for tea.
Then we reach at botanical garden at 3.30pm where we park the vehicle but after seeing the rush we dropped our plan to visit it, although this is a major spot to visit. Just around this, there is a huge market where we can do a lot of barganning. The things in this market r quite cheap. Major articles found in this market is belt , bag, chocolate, handicraft etc.
boat house :
So at 4 we r at boat house, where we enjoyed a lot. Here we found one thing that there is no need to take cameras entry tickets b/c no one is there to see it! So then we discuss abt what type of boat – Row or Pedal one and whether 2, 4 ,5 seater.
There cost vary from 60 to 125. This is a place where one can hang around for a long time there is all type of eateries is available, car racing , other things for entertainment is also there, with a nice garden also. Boating lasts for half an hour which is sufficient to exhaust a person. It took around 2 hr to visit this place perfectly.
Then started the rain, so soothing rain, we r glad that we seen one more extra mausum at ooty.
While raining Ooty looks quite awesome.So we r at hotel at 6. We took rest than first went to commercial street where one can find many kind of things that to with lot of baargaing.
Now start the daamshi. Oh god, i try real hard to did'nt play it. But anyways i played it . that to till 12.