Coorg - Day 1 Part 1

The best decisions of my life have always been the ones that i've made without thinking too much. Which is why when one fatefully-boring-weekday-at-office i jumped the gun and SMSed a couple of friends that we desperately need to make a weekend trip. P jumped at the chance and i shot mails in all directions.

Before anybody could realize P had made all the bookings and arrangements, where-to-stay, how to get there.. bla bla. She even managed to strike a friendship with Shabari the most hospitable-storyTelling-sweetest host ever, while A managed to ransack every retail-cum-provision store in the neighborhood so that we had potato chips-coke for breakfast, chips-wafers-pepsi for lunch and again kurkure-coke for dinner for the full 2 days. *Sheesh* Jokes apart we had amazing coorgi delicacies thanks to our hostess.. but more on that later.

Everything happened very suddenly, and before we knew "we" ( Dee, P, A, BPS, One, S, Dash) along with our bag packs were aboard on the "traveller" we had booked at around 1030 in the night on the 27th March '09.

"we" ...


S and One enjoyed the bumpy-seat-ride throughout the trip..

Singing-sleeping-playing into the night we reached Madikeri - the capital of Coorg ( don't ask me the details, even i thought only countries and states have capitals and Coorg as far as i knew was only a small town). It was only 3.30 in the morning and our driver Manju (again don't ask) started craving for tea. So Manju, BPS, Dash, One, S and Dee got off the traveller in search of tea and accompaniment (now you-kno-what-it-is). Not only was it dark and freezing cold but the people there seemed to be practicing for F1 at an unearthly hour.. I almost got run over by a freekingly-speedy car while posing for a pic.

Another instance where BPS was almost gonna get run-over by a bus.. One is startled to death.. while S and Dee are happy enough at the prospect of being clicked at 3.30AM..!!

We reached our campsite by around 5 in the morning after a little trek in the dark coz the traveller could not be taken there. One look and all of us fell in love with the place instantaneously, even though it was pitch dark and we could hardly make out what we were gaping at..


I guess there was something in the spirit of the place that attracted us like a magnet..



















Another one at Civet Creek..


our shacks looked soo welcoming..


Tired of travel, as Shabari rightfully knew we were, she had already pitched out our tents. All we did was thank her and straightaway crashed on our cozy beds and dozed off to sleep at 6 in the morning..












theres more of Coorg to come in the future posts. so you keep reading..
-Dee

Home-Comming

There has been a-lot of "happening's" in the last few days, loads of events to account for, but it would only be justice if i delve back a little into the past to narrate the background before i start talking about the trip i just returned from..

After about almost a year in Bangalore my roomie-cum-gang-buddy A, another gang-buddy P and i(Dee) decided or rather felt the urgent need of moving out of a single room in the pg into a flat of our own for there were so many reasons behind. A couldn't invite home certain special friends.. we couldn't throw parties on-n-off and landed-up paying huge amounts at eateries each time we wanted to catch-up with friends. We (A, P, Dee, One, Nandu) also ended getting molested by the Karnataka Police for the mere offense of trying to cut my Bday cake on the road outside our pg at midnight .. So on the auspicious occasion of the Republic Day of India '09, we decided to go Independent (mere coincidence) and got our own house (okk, a rented one). Since that day there's never been any holiday we've spend sans parties.. Holi.. random lunch.. friend-catch-up.. So although our monthly budgets have sky-rocketed (I dunno how, but it makes me happy.. Seesh :/ ) we've made some zillion friends ever-since in Bangalore. It work's this way : A's school-buddy becomes Dee and P's cool-buddy. Dee's friend becomes P's and P's friends'-friend and so on and on.. Maybe this is how the six-degrees-of-separation found its origin.

So one fateful week-day at office P and Dee realize that they were getting very bored with the rut-life and needed some change in environment. So coupled up with P's school-buddy S and Dee's college-cum-ofc-colleague BPS they come up with a cool plan of a trek-view-raft-fun-trip over the weekend to Coorg (although the raft part had to be given-up coz looking at things pragmatically March end => no rain => no water in Kaveri => no rafting). However this was too petty a thing to deter our spirits and we headed on with our "Coorg-28-29" trip and shot off chain mails amongst 9-10 friends. Every mail saw some 40-45+ replies and finally "we" a group of 7 budged-on with the plan that turned out to be a legen-waitForIt-dary trip. :)

I'll carry on with the trip in the future posts.. so you keep reading..
-Dee

4.30PM..everyday..

the sun shines through the corner office and hits me in the eye.

I enjoy seeing its gold orange glow reflected off the modern steel and glass structure opposite the window, and I imagine briefly, that I am sunning myself on some tropical island..

And I wish I could exchange the tweed umbrella in my bag for a tiny coloured paper one in my drink.

OnTheJob : The First Part

It's been some 2 years since there has been any activity here.. Alas..!!
On checking out other similar places i owned i came across this very apt post.. **Seesh**.. how my life is going only in circles.. Nyways.. "ReUsability" is a keyword of great importance in the life of any S/W Er.. so i decided to copy paste not only the post but also the comments.. ;) Guess 5 cool comments on a re-return post will pump-up my enthu.. :)

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Its been about 4 long mnths that i last updated this place... Many approving souls cribbed tht i refrained from wrk.. many others on-the-contrary felt happy coz it meant i wouldn't be able to bug thm wit "plzz read".. "plzz commnt".. and other such stuff...

Nevermind.. all why's/whynot's/how/who/where/blabla ... and all the rest answering what kept me "busy-and-away" from this place would be dealt with some other tym.. There aint anything special today.. nor is today a very auspicious day that i thot of reverting back to this place.. but im simply bored today..
## i've tried pinging ppl.. but evryone on earth apart frm me is-or-seems busy...
## tried googling every possible wrd.. phrase.. statement.. my inference : googling google gives d most intresting results...
## i've got zillions of nu s/w's installd..(almost all my company had d license for) played nd xperimnted wit thm(none f thm happn to b nfs or aoe but still..)
## changed all my accnt nd ibanking passwords..
## tried using 3 different IDE's for d same JAVA version..
## scrapped and replied to evry scrap nd mail.. chkd all d pics uploaded by ppl.. to the heights-- evn of those who i know jes coz they appear on my friend list.. :(
## created 5 diff welcome screens for my lotus notes tht i chnge 5 tymes a day..
## dwnloaded all possible manuals for my iPod nd wud-b-iPhone...

...nd m still gttng bored... :(
ordering a Mc.D chicken puff is wat i want to do now... (sadly its only a dream tht they'll delv it in d part of B'lore i work..)

It was a mere coincidence that a friend-cum-blogger-cum-friendlyBlogger some 2500 kms away somewhere happened to be in-d-absolute same situation..(:P) the only gud thing being her post helpd me kill 10 mins... anthr 5 mins it took to dawn on me tht this is one unexplored region tht cud help in my mission to kill tym.. and it did..wonderfully... so here im..

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Now the Comments.. ;)

5 comments:

Musings!!!! said...

good one.......all of us though staying at diff places are going thru d same phase...abhi bhi saath saath......neways....achha hai....keep blogging.......nd dont worry.i'll always b thr to drop by nd put in a comment :)

December 10, 2007 3:04 AM

Nishant Kumar said...

ekdam se velli ladki hai ... just hope that none of your company guys, goes through this, coz that would mean tons of work for you to cope up with in the upcoming 24 hours ... nevertheless, well written :)

December 10, 2007 3:16 AM

pallavi said...

hope you utilize ur free tym n regularly update both of ur blogs...n don worry whenever u fall short of topics, i will always lend u some and inspire you..jaisa aaj maine kiya..hehe..lols

December 10, 2007 3:33 AM

ag said...

hey sweetie

knw wat,while reading ur blogs,the ques is alwayz running on back of ma mind "how u write so beautifully?".. :)

alas,i've not open n updated my bolgspace in last 8 or more months.. (not that m as busy as u r 'vehla' :P)
hope i get ma chance too
hey keep blogging,u seem to be nearer than u are that way :)

happy blogging :)

December 10, 2007 8:32 PM

ag said...

see my smartness,i knew ek baar mein comment publish ni hoga,so i copied the text n kept on pasting everytime it failed till it actually published it :P :))

gonna do same with this one :)