[IMAGE: the lovely tree house] DESTINATION: Eagle Eye Holiday Home is located at Hoscodu Estate, which is a sprawling 130 acre plantation land situated in Chikmaglur District in Karnataka, India. Eagle Eye Holiday Home is exactly 48 Kms. from Chikmaglur and approximately 300 Kms from Bangalore. CONTACT: G.H. Monis, Managing Director, Eagle Eye Holidays Hoscodu [...]

Just to introduce the topic, I am bit of a trekker (more of a hiker actually) and plan to blog with details here soon about the places I have been to, hopefully it will be useful to others. Anyways, my friends and I are planning for a 3 day trek for the upcoming long independence [...]

I know there is a lot of BMTC-bashing going on everywhere about various issues. I agree there is scope for lot improvement, but lets face it, bangalore is the one of the fastest growing cities in the world and the infrastructure is not able to keep pace with this growth. But the very debatable BMTC [...]

Speciality: Sakkat (kannada slang for awesome) South-Indian (tamilian) Meals So here goes, this is the scene there at around 1 PM: Tables are all setup beforehand for the first round of lunch with empty banana leafs and a glass of water. People (many of them techies) occupy their places and clean their banana leafs with [...]

The K750i has been around for a year or so. However now, this 2MP(MegaPixel) camera-fone has come down from the premium-segment Rs. 20k+ price last year (2005) to the budget-segment of mobile phones and is selling like hot-cakes with a price-tag of about Rs. 11k currently (July 2006). Camera: The K750i allows you to tweak [...]

Radio City and me seem to have some weird connexion. Imagine my surprise when the late night Valentine Day special on Radio City happened to have almost the very songs I generally listen to in my car! Songs from Bon Jovi, Metallica, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Bryan Adams….! It was eerie! Imagine switching from the [...]

[IMAGE: Arjun Halappa, Captain, Bangalore Lions] Amidst all the sports stories, there is one snuck in that reports that the Bangalore Lions have won the PHL, or Professional Hockey League. The Bangalore Lions triumphed in the second edition of the Premier Hockey League after a brace by Hari Prasad helped them down local favourites Chandigarh [...]

No.. I am not writing about GC in Java. This one is a bit of a stinking topic. I had a heated discussion on what the right strategy for garbage collection should be in bangalore with my colleagues. So I thought, I’ll throw the debate open here. Can people get away with littering the roads [...]

I had been to the Aerosports Jamboree on Dec17, 2005 (saturday) at Jakkur Airfield. Two of the microlights were on Kashmir-Kanyakumari Marathon (not sure if the word was marathon..) and couldn’t make it. Hence, very few tickets(worth Rs.600) were sold for flying on the microlights. However, all the 100 tickets available were sold-out for both [...]