Skandagiri Conquered

Late noon of a lazy Saturday with no plans of what should be done to kill the weekend, life was supposed to be sad for the next 36hrs. suddenly a thought struck to my mind, and I thought lets go trekking. Picked up the phone, and conferenced Parmesh(Parmi) n Bharath. Coincidentally we had Parmesh speaking to Manjunath(Manju) and the instant plan worked out. We also contacted another friend but he was already out of city with family.

So we were supposed to leave at around 2am. Parmi n Manju camped in my room and Bharath was supposed to wake us up at 2. It took some extra time to get our lazy asses out of the bed(I being the main culprit) but finally around 245am we left towards Skandagiri, zooming in the Alto. I was not yet fully awake so I decided to take the wheels (driving gets the blood pumping in me) so by the time we hit the highways I was wide awake and all the old college stories were coming out. (yes…we all studied together and it has been 8+ yrs since those jolly days).

One pit stop for tea and burning some tobacco, we reaced the foot hills of Nandi Hills, I knew we had to take a right (left goes to Nandi Hills) so I followed the road and after taking directions from a few early bird oldies, reached the foot hills. Parked the car near the ashram (I had done my research on the place on net before hand). We were approached by a school going kid, maybe 10yr old and offered us to guide the climb for 500/- and when rejected he offered 300/- I saw Parmi, he said the target is there, showing the peak and said all roads lead to it…. That was an indication enough, we made sure car was locked properly and then started.

Auto Drivers of Bangalore….

80% of them are bad…I knew this very well, but had a technique to handle them, or maybe coincidence that I did not meet the ones I met in the last week before. 20+ years of travelling on the roads of Bangalore, many a times in autorickshaws, never did I have such pathetic experience. It has been a series of bad auto drivers making me irritated… to angry….to frustrated… to swearing at them too. Which is very much unlike me. Now that I work closely with the Bangalore Traffic Cops, I have decided to take these offenders head on. I will create awareness amongst public, create a platform for people to complain and make sure the complaints reach the respective authorities.

I feel it is high time something like this is up and running. Knowing our people’s mentality, they do not bother to complain as they have to take the pains of going to the Police Station. If this issue is addressed I think, there will be more and more people willing to complain and the offenders will have some respect for the rules.

New Feeling....

Being in sales and marketing, I just love to get into arguments just for the fun of winning it. I have lost many arguments before just for the sake of letting it go and felt good. But I have never felt very good after being defeated in an argument. YES obviously I have been defeated many times too…

But something new just happened…I lost an argument. Infact two, at a stretch and strangely felt good about it…Some gals I just realized have the cuteness to make you feel good even while doing things you do not like (if not hate it). I strongly believe gals are made to be pampered but the male instinct always does not let you feel good when you lose….

A NEW FEELING…. and Im willing to experience it more but will this cute gal stay back in my life and let me experience it or is she just another passing acquaintance. Lets see wats in store…

Ok let me get back to work now :P

Back now....

Its been long since I wrote anything, although Im not a regular blogger, I think I should make it a habit to do so.

So I come back with some stuff again. All I have been doing these days is getting trained on bettering my voice. Yes I have now taken up a job as Traffic reporter in Radio One. Nothing much but its only 30seconds on air 8times a day.

It was a challenging thing for me specially as I was never even close to something like this before. I jumped into the well without ABC of swimming and now I can proudly say I know rough swimming. Being the self I am (a lil slow in mastering) I think I will be a smooth swimmer in a few weeks from now.

So that was about why tin was not blogging....(sounds like a regular blogger, swalpa over.... :P) will get back to blogging from now.