→ August 28, 2006
I participated in the SportzVillage Inter-Corporate Basketball Tournament. Here is my review on the event: 12 Corporates teams were participating: Infosys, Ocwen, HSBC, Wipro, Oracle, Tavant, TransWorks, iflex – Solutions, Reuters, SAP, Honeywell. The venue was the Sree Kanteerva Stadium basketball courts. The league matches were held on Aug 26- Aug27. The finals are yet [...]
→ August 23, 2006
KARAN JOHAR’S multi-starrer KANK grossed 72cr in its 1st week of worldwide release. Although having a storyline that’s not been appreciated by everyone, the movie now targets cracking all the overseas records (these days – the strategy of bombarding screens with a large number of prints). (PVR Hyderabad has 2 screens running the show at [...]
→ August 17, 2006
Engine : Awesome. Sheer delight. (add superlatives). It just begs to be revved, and boy, its got a good tune too! I have taken it to 8,500 rpm (redlines at 9K rpm) and there wasnt even one bad vibe (in all gears except the 4th and 5th - havent gone beyond 95kmph even at 105+ [...]
→ August 17, 2006
Patel’s Inn : http://www.patelsinn.com/aboutus.htm Address : 38/2/2,15th Cross, 2nd Block,Govindaraj Garden, R.T Nagar, Bangalore-560 032, +91-92434 13880, +91-080-2333 0182, 2333 7575 Landmark: 3-4 Kms from Funworld, Palace Ground, Very close to R.T. Nagar BDA Complex
→ August 15, 2006
More Kodachadri Trek Photos at BubbleShare [travelogue of trek to Kodachadri Peak (near Kollur-Mookambika Temple, Coastal Karnataka)] The gang of 3: Nara, Kamu and me (sumne), took the Sugama Travels “J” bus (why not just Kundapura bus, nearly missed the bus, when I thought it was the “G” bus) from Bangalore to Kundapura (Rs. 300 [...]
→ August 11, 2006
I am a regular customer at JJ, Koramangala [close to jyoti nivas college (JNC)] during lunch time and sometimes in the evening too. As a result, I am a partial Fruitarian now. Anyways, I was suprised today to find another one in Jayanagar 9th block. On enquiring further, I found out that its a chain [...]
→ August 10, 2006
[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 [...]
→ August 9, 2006
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 [...]
→ August 7, 2006
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 [...]
→ August 3, 2006
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 [...]