Trip to Ghati...

It was a lazy saturday evening when suddenly i decided to go to Ghati the next morning mainly cos i wanted to travel by bus and my parents wanted me to go there..Had plans of sleeping early and getting up early...neither happened..slept at around 3 and got up at 8..Reached Mekhri circle bus stop by 9:30..then from there got a bus to Doddabalapur..it was a nice feeling to travel by bus after a long time..Switched on my mp3 stick and enjoyed the cool breeze and the greenery around..After one hour forty five minutes was in the Dbpur bus stand..bought a couple of fruit-n-nut chocolate bars and found a small cab luckily i got a seat..the capacity of the cab was about 10 including the driver but actually there were nearly 40 ppl on the cab..Happens only in India..after a slow journey for about 25minutes on the bumpy mud roads reached Ghati around 12:30..Ghati is a small town with just 3 roads..one road which has about 30-40 houses and the other road which has a temple and around 20 shop cum houses ..i just left my shoes and entered the temple and stood in a long queue..stood in the queue for nearly 40 minutes just to have a glimpse of God for about few seconds..then came out..my phone had no network so had to find a phonebooth to call up my friends who were staying there for field work as part of their civil engg curriculum but the phones weren't working just as i was wondering how to contact them i came across a small house kind of thing and seeing one girl there asked if that is where Bms civil engg students staying but to my surprise she was one the friends i knew and soon the gang of friends came and took me inside..My kiddo friend Bhargs was too happy and excited to see me..started asking about my journey and started showing their survey sheets..then i gave the chocolates to them and we all finished it in minutes..I was really happy to see all these friends of mine who really enjoyed my visit there..then we spoke for a while and starting thinking for a place to have lunch and since there wasn't any good place there we decided to go to temple for lunch after a lot of debate among ourselves..then we stood in the queue for about 20 minutes and we had our lunch which was really really bad...then we came out had tender coconut and then i bid good bye to them and caught a small cab..now i was supposed to stand on the foot board the journey..i enjoyed it..holding the bus with only one hand and only one feet in the bus...It was too much fun..then took a bus back to Bangalore..It was a very good and relaxing day..Decided need to go to such trips more often..

Expectations....Changes...Whatever..Life goes on....

As my first post goes Change is eternal and the only thing we can do is adapt to the change quickly..

I am not sure if i will be able to put my thoughts into words but i will try..

In life we come across lots and lots of ppl..some friends..some acquaintances..some competitors..and many more..but do all of them be the same throughout..NO..cos every moment everything changes..just like time everything changes so there is no valid point in a person expecting all or any of these ppl to be the same throughout..I will just tell an example..On my first day at PU i had a fight with one of the guys and the grudge continued till we passed out of college..There wasn't a single moment where we could tolerate each other but after about 3 years he found my profile on orkut and we started chatting with each other as if we were the closest of buddies in college and missed each other so with time everything changes..

You don't feel much if a person who is not in good terms with you changes for good..You just feel surprised..But its not the same when a person close to you changes..Initially you start missing the person and start feeling alone..miss all the moments you spent with him/her..You start anticipating him/her to change back to normal every moment..You try to be passive about the changes for few days then you try to indicate it to the other person..then you accept the change and change yourself accordingly..but if the person after a while changes back to how he/she was before also the excitement and the intimacy of the relationship seldom relives....

Whatever..

Do something for the society..

I have always admired Tata..don't remember which one but the one who told Mrs.Sudha Murthy "Give something in return to the society"..and Mrs.Sudha Murthy has followed it and thanks to her generous work Bangalore is bearable in some fronts..the movie of 'Nirmala Bangalore' and 'Swacha Bangalore' are successful..We always look at Narayan Murthy and others and get ourselves motivated to have such big pay checks but why not just follow some of their good deeds..

We usually spend somewhere around say 1 to 1.5k every month on eating outside and stuff..and we spend most of our weekends either being lazy at home or loafing around..I am not saying spend little and donate neither am i saying not to take rest on weekends..but we can try to somehow contribute 1k on some noble cause like trying to sponsor education of someone needy right from his/her school age..or atleast give a bit of your time to the orphans at an orphanage..be with them..just interact with them..that gives them so much happiness..
and even on birthdays why can't we just give the kids of an orphanage a treat..i think that would give them immense happiness..
i have seen people spending thousands and sometimes even lakhs of rupees donating to temples and performing some poojas..why can't we just donate some amount there and spend the rest on someone needy..

I have just put out my thoughts but again i would like to follow my friend's favorite Swami Vivekananda's saying "Be the change you wish to see"..
Hope i can be the change and wish to see the change in others too..

Can we fight corruption?

This is a question i have been asking myself for quite a long time now..everytime i read something about corruption i feel this shouldn't be continuing..everytime i watch a movie about revolution i feel yes i should also do something like that but most of it isn't practical..fine..lets not fight it but we can atleast not contribute to it..Do you think its possible???nope..very seldom can we avoid it.. suppose you gottu register a new house or property..just try if you can get it done without paying money to a broker or bribing the officer..damn it..its just not possible..
you need to pay the police to make him sign for the verification letter to get your passport..Damn the world..I want to change it but how?????

New Sprite Ad..

From the time sprite ads sprang into existence i have been a fan of them simple because they are simple,funny and sensible....

The first ad where a guy will be drinking sprite lying on the college steps and another guy tries to explain all the different means of enjoying and ultimately the guy drinking sprite says 'tho ab mein kya raha hoo'...That was nice and humorous..

Then there was that 'jaadoo ke peeche' to mock the Mountain dew ad of "do the dew"..which was a clear hit to me...

Then the story of the thirsty crow was just the act of brilliance..

But clearly the recent ad is just too amazing..it has a moral to it as well..it always works out that it is easier to escape speaking truth than otherwise..very sledomly is truth put under scrutiny..

Ah!!! Lazy Sunday!!!

Being lazy for a change makes you feel too refreshed...after a long week at office and a long saturday of roaming around..being lazy on sunday actually helps rejuvenate energy required for the new week..

for me sleeping only is not being lazy..you gottu be awake and must not do anything..even eating..thats being lazy..and thats what i did this sunday (10 feb 2008) slept at 3.00am on sunday morning and then woke up at 8:00..just went to the other room..cuddled myself in the blanket..switched on the tv..cricket match started..was sleeping for a while and watching the match..then wrestling started so was switching between channels watching 2 of the most interesting things i would like to watch on tv...messaging ppl..receive calls and speak lazily..then had breakfast around 12..again came back and resumed watching tv...then went back to my room..watched some stupid movie..was so lazy that i didn't bother to change the movie ...then finally got up and took bath with loud music at around 3:30..went to big bazaar to get a shirt exchnaged..then had lunch at pizza hut around 5.00......Then came back and started watching another movie..power went off..had dinner around 10.00..slept off at 12.30..very early to my standards..Ah..indeed a lazy sunday...

Vague Blog...

what is our professions doing to our personal lives...we just get so involved in our profession that we forget that we have a personal life..everyone of us are interested in making a big name and chunks of money at the expense of our personal life and relationships..we sometimes have to wait for weekends to speak to our own parents staying in the same home..Thanks to us we can call our homes as houses now..Fine all this apart...I miss being lazy after joining work,lazy in the sense having something to do but not doing it..after getting into this profession my mind is always occupied with something or the other related to work and work only..even in my dreams i just keep thinking about work and how to perform better..yes i was the same during college too,i always was occupied with studies but then i used to hang out with friends and spend time with my parents..not able to do this now..may be my office timings are like that..yeah look at me i am just giving reasons..this is one bad thing among us.we always try to blame others for everything..
Just wanna conclude by saying we gottu make a clear distinction between our professional life and personal life and balance in such a way that we are happy on both fronts..

Innovative Film City...

Me and my friends had been planning an outing from a long time..In the middle of the week my friend just gave me a call and told me about this place..So i just checked the internet to find more about the place..Got a decent idea of what it has and so we decided to go to that place that saturday..

We started near the shell petrol bunk on Mysore Road and finally when everyone came we started the drive at about 9.10 and not knowing where it is went all the way to Ramanagar..then realized it was near Toyota Kirloskar motors..There is a road opposite to Toyota Kirloskar motors..Its about a 5 km drive in the road..We reached there at about 10:30..seeing the board "open for trial run" we thought the place wasn't worth it..but hearing that certain things are completed we bought the tickets and went in..We first went to "Louis Tussad's wax museum",it was a good one..there were pretty good collection..some good some average..Then we went to "Ripley's believe it or not museum"..its a pretty good one with good collection..then we were hungry and went to hog..there are only 2 stalls open..one north style and one south style..we had pretty good food at reasonable price and then went for go karting..Its a pretty good track for karting..cars were good which can speed upto 70 easily..since the track was newly made it was slippery..we enjoyed it thoroughly..its 100RS for 6 laps..safety measures need to be increased here..then there is a collection of kiddo games..we went for dashing cars and there u have sponge balls whihc cane be loaded to cars and shot at each other..since the guns werent working we took the balls and started hurling at each other..it was good fun..Then we went to a artificial beach..not a big one but since we were wanting to escape from the heat we went and just enjoyed to the core..it was still under construction..then we played volley ball on sand..we spent a lot of time here..then there was a dino park..where they have kept statues of various dinos and speakers there will be making noise always...We didn't have time to go to funplex which they told was a very good game arcade..This is the time to go cos its cheap inly 50 rupees entry fee..

The other things coming up are 21 screen multiplex,mirror maze,haunted mansion,cartoon park,fossil museum and much more..It will be fully functional by april and heard its gonna be very expensive..Nice place to go and relax and have fun..

Can anyone give me an answer?

This incident happened around 5 years ago and it will be remembered throughout my life.

I with a couple of my friends had been to Malleshwaram to have tasty butter dosas and had parked my vehicle opposite the circle cricket ground,when i was taking my vehicle back a small boy came and asked for money, i just took a 2 rupee coin and gave it to him,he demanded more but i said its enough and came home...donno why but the incident kept haunting me so i again went to that parking lot just to find that boy and i found him..I spoke to him and asked about who he is and what he does..he told he is alone and stays there in the ground itself with a couple of other kids and told he eats food from the money he gets by looking after vehicles and sometimes wiping cars..felt sad and handed him a 20rupees note..he was happy and i came off...I wanted to help the boy but how..just giving him some money doesn't serve the purpose..I had heard about free education and free food in schools..but i had also read about the quality of food they provide...Taking this particular case i analyzed the forthcomings if he joined those schools..may be he will get education till 10th and a glass of milk and a meal per day but what is he supposed to do for breakfast and dinner..hw can he afford money for his books..suppose he got books too what will he do for his food should he again stand in the parking lot and earn his breakfast and dinner..he told sometimes standing the whole day he may earn just 20 rupees..and hw many days he may have to starve if he went to school..when will he have time to study..suppose he overcame all this and completed his SSLC..what will he do further..does government fund his future education or does he get a job with SSLC..NO is the answer i got..he may again have to stand in the same parking lot and earn his food..So whats the use of free primary education for such kids??.. I may help this kid but there are thousands of kids like this..what can we do help them???I may just write a blog and be sad but is it going to help such kids in anyway..I want to help them but donno how..

One way which attracted me was what PESIT is doing,they gather boys about 15-18yrs age group and give them primary training in carpentry and welding and other petty jobs in the mechanical workshops so that they could make a living out of it..

I request all those people who went through this blog to kindly spare a moment and think about these kids and do whatever you can to help these kids..
They are the future of our country,please let them have the opportunity and support to make the future bright..