I like Twitter

I like twitter because of following reasons:

1. its micro blogging and helps me in posting my current state of mind.
2. My identity is hidden
3. I m still connected to few of my close friends
4. helps me vent out my frustration in anonymous way
5. connected to few strangers and their posts give me a new idea/perspective.
6. gives a plateform to also interact with others through tweets
7. Its quick
8. Mozilla has given an addon called twitterfox which updates you on all the tweets recieved in the bottom of the window. It doesnt not require logging in everytime you want to access. Pretty Handy.

Want to go: Seychelles

I have found a new place that i would like to visit, Seychelles.

I have done quite a bit of R&D on net and from couple of friends and all my data says its pretty expensive but still worth visiting. Looking forward to an exotic trip to Seychelles.

See Seychelles

Movie Review: 8*10 Tasveer

Never thought this movie will disappoint in the end! I had hopes, infact high hopes from Akshay kumar's movie. Thankfully i watched it on a DVD!

One time watch.

Swimming

I used to be so scared of water in my childhood. I always wanted to learn swimming but fear of not breathing inside water always made me nervous.

I dared to push myself for a swimming class this yr and fortunately got a good swimming pool and a good coach. Swimming pool's distance from home/office was not less than 5-6 kms and on top of it i did not get the morning batch. We got evening batch of 8-9 p.m weekdays. We thought of trying these timings and they were pretty hectic.

Reaching back home from office at 6 and then managing to cook dinner in 1 hrs time in between was hard initially. After swimming coming back and then finishing dinner and kitchen related work and hitting bed by 12. Had no time for anything else.

But even when i missed many things, i enjoyed my swimming classes. They helped me in diverting from office related pressure and eased to a great extent! Used to feel fresh all the time and more than freshness it was excitement in me. Did 2 months course and i liked it more because coach used to give me 5 extra minutes in the end for teaching a new style. I like the way in which he instilled confidence in me.

have left swimming because of rainy season. But i still feel that it was the best thing which kept me occupied and diverted from lot of stuff. I can see myself getting irritated these days because of weight gain furstration. I seriously want to join the swimming class again!

Trip to chickmaglur

I witnessed the most beautiful sunset @ chikmaglur. This is the highest peak in karnataka and is called as Mulyangiri hill.

About Chikmaglur -> Chik means younger and maglur means daughter in kannada. This literally translates to the Younger Daughter's Town. According to popular legend, this town was presented as a dowry to the younger daughter of Rukmangada, the famed chief of Sakrepatna.

We started at 7 am in the morning from Bangalore and reached chikmaglur at 2.30 p.m. The roads were nice and weather was little hot. This was the most awaited trip as it had a gap of 4 months, which is a big gap for a travel freak like me. My last trip was sometime in oct to Kerala backwaters & Munnar. In chikmaglur we had booked a homestay. Homestay concept is very popular in Karnataka which I haven’t seen at many places in India. Homestay means a traditional house/ family invites you to stay with them and experience the place in their style. They provide you accommodation as well as local cuisine. This homestay was located in Bhadra wild life Sanctuary. It was a pretty decent accomodation. As we reached, we were served yum chicken and other delicacies (it was also the Ugadi festival which means the start of new year for Karnataka) but it was the first day of navratri and my conscious did not allow to eat. But I had made up my mind to be flexible for rest of the days for non vegetarian food, as that’s the specialty there. The homestay had hammock where we lazed for sometime, played badminton till winds started taking the shuttle far from the court. We carried cards to play in the night. There was TV in the common area but who was interested in it! Honey taught us new game called “UNO”. We enjoyed playing till 1 in the night.

Morning we went for trekking cum coffee plantation tour (chikmaglur is also famous for its coffee plantation). The mgr appointed there explained us the coffee making process, which definitely was a good to add in our knowledge database. Evening we visited Mulyangiri hills to see the sunset. The scariest part was the last stretch to hill. The road was broken and one really had to be careful while driving because the broken part was exactly in the middle of narrow slanted hill road. After we reached the hill parking area we realized it wasn’t the end of journey. There were some 490 stairs to climb to reach the top and no other ways of climbing it. Climbing stairs was quite painful. We had to take rest in between. We knew the aftereffects will be known in the night. Along with us was there a couple with a small cute little daughter who joined from homestay to the hill top trip. It was fun to have them with us. The Mulyangiri had a small temple which was active. At the hill top we realized that the next cliff was better for a sunset view so we decided to comedown and started climbing another cliff which obv. did not have any stair case. We somehow managed to reach before sunset and it was the most amazing experience there. It wasn’t crowed at all as we were just 5 and half people there. (I m counting baby to be half :P). we returned late in the night to homestay. He gave us yummy chicken and awesome food. We were drooling over it before we even could put stuff in our plates. I surely wood recommend this beautiful place to people staying in Bangalore. Worth utilizing a long weekend.