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.

CAT

So,at last result came out of the institute of which every MBA aspirant dreamt of.

This time CAT has many first with it.

First time so late result , first time its online version ,first time students have waves of discomfort, first time when no one knows abt marking scheme even after results are out, first time when no one suggest how many question attempt would be safe for call and many more.

This time CAT has 60 Questions with 20 each in three section, total paper is of 450 marks with 150 in each section.

So after result, again the same saga , what is the cutoff, even some one got 99%tile then also no call, unexpected results etc. etc.

This time it is quite difficult to predict ,by how many marks one leaves some call or even a call.

I m puting a list of marks compiled with the help of net to give fair idea abt marks and related percentile.