Sunday, June 13, 2010
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Trip to Pune & Shirdi
I have been to first time to Pune to meet my borther, Sanjay. While booking tickets thought of visitng SHirdi from there, as SAI BABA is one of my favourite GOD and I believe a lot in HIM. I landed @ 11 PM in Pune airport and Sanjay came to receive me. We went to his house and met bhabi and my MOM.Seen MOM after 1.5 months, so chit chatted for sometime and bhabi introduced me thier new pet :-) Rani (cat).
Next day, I woke up and booked a cab to Shirdi. Sanjay got me some good discount for the cab through his local contacts. I started @ 12 PM to Shirdia and driver told me that it will take max 4 Hrs. And till 3:45 hrs of journey everytihng went fine and we are about to reach Shirdi,unfortunately traffic jam happened (after Bangalore most painful traffic jam seen there) and we were stuck for 2 hrs there. Finally reached Shirdi by 6 PM.
I was standing in the queue to deposit my mobile in the locker, one person standing behind me warned me that dharshan will take at least 3 HRs as it is heavily crowded. My plan went totally wrong, as thought I can do the entire trip by 10 Hrs. But anyhow I want to have SAI BABA dharshan, as it's been 2 years that I visited Shirdi. I went into the queue and had good dharshan and came out by 9 PM. After that didn't had the time to visit 'DWARAKAMAI' and 'CHAVADI'. I did some shopping as I like shopping at the pilgramage centres, as you will get some different rare items there like idols, calenders etc...
While coming back to Pune, we started @ 10 PM and I asked the driver Are you OK driving in the late night? He said he is expert and said that he can drive faster and good during nights. I initially thought he might be expert as his morning drive was OK. bUt when we started his speed never crossed 90 KMPH and for almost every cross he was close to the other vehicles and I was bit scared with his drive. Once I recollected my drive during nights on highways, where my freinds call me as geek driver during night drives. I drive generally 110 - 120 KMPH and with much controlled vision. Finally we reached Pune safely by 3 AM.
Next day myself, Sanjay and bhabi went to see the city. There are some malls near by to my brother house and we have been there. Malls are more or like Bangalore malls but the crowd is too good and much better than Bangalore crowd :-). I know Pune is fast city but never thought that it will be more than Bangalore. After seeing the crowd, my assumption went wrong. From the mall, we went to a exhibition near by and njoyed by doing some widnow shopping. We purchased some kitchen items which typically we get in exhibitions, I have been seeing this items almost from my childhood as all these kind of exhibhitions will have this items like onion smash, chips cutter :-) etc....
There we were stopped by a shop where one person is performing magic tricks. There was one magic box which contains 200 magic tricks as told by the sales man there. We took one box to give it to my elder brother kids in Bangalore. We njoyed the exhibition walk.
Next day morning my return flight to Bangalore. Myself and MOM wake up in the early morning and went to airport along with Sanjay and bhabi. As usual,there were some tears from MOM and Bhabi at the airport when we were about to leave. After Sanjay and Bhabi left, we got the announcement that flight is delayed for 2 hrs. BY mistake I put all my books in the check in bag and was sitting idle and boring. I suddenly saw the books stall which is my favourite shopping and been there. I got one good book there, which is on 'Your Next Move' in your career/ role. Concept of book is good and did the timepass by reading the book.
We came to Bangalore @ 12 PM on the same day. I parked my car in the Bangalore airport itself whcih made me easy to reach to my place without any taxi's hassales.
Overall it was nice trip and njoyed !
Next day, I woke up and booked a cab to Shirdi. Sanjay got me some good discount for the cab through his local contacts. I started @ 12 PM to Shirdia and driver told me that it will take max 4 Hrs. And till 3:45 hrs of journey everytihng went fine and we are about to reach Shirdi,unfortunately traffic jam happened (after Bangalore most painful traffic jam seen there) and we were stuck for 2 hrs there. Finally reached Shirdi by 6 PM.
I was standing in the queue to deposit my mobile in the locker, one person standing behind me warned me that dharshan will take at least 3 HRs as it is heavily crowded. My plan went totally wrong, as thought I can do the entire trip by 10 Hrs. But anyhow I want to have SAI BABA dharshan, as it's been 2 years that I visited Shirdi. I went into the queue and had good dharshan and came out by 9 PM. After that didn't had the time to visit 'DWARAKAMAI' and 'CHAVADI'. I did some shopping as I like shopping at the pilgramage centres, as you will get some different rare items there like idols, calenders etc...
While coming back to Pune, we started @ 10 PM and I asked the driver Are you OK driving in the late night? He said he is expert and said that he can drive faster and good during nights. I initially thought he might be expert as his morning drive was OK. bUt when we started his speed never crossed 90 KMPH and for almost every cross he was close to the other vehicles and I was bit scared with his drive. Once I recollected my drive during nights on highways, where my freinds call me as geek driver during night drives. I drive generally 110 - 120 KMPH and with much controlled vision. Finally we reached Pune safely by 3 AM.
Next day myself, Sanjay and bhabi went to see the city. There are some malls near by to my brother house and we have been there. Malls are more or like Bangalore malls but the crowd is too good and much better than Bangalore crowd :-). I know Pune is fast city but never thought that it will be more than Bangalore. After seeing the crowd, my assumption went wrong. From the mall, we went to a exhibition near by and njoyed by doing some widnow shopping. We purchased some kitchen items which typically we get in exhibitions, I have been seeing this items almost from my childhood as all these kind of exhibhitions will have this items like onion smash, chips cutter :-) etc....
There we were stopped by a shop where one person is performing magic tricks. There was one magic box which contains 200 magic tricks as told by the sales man there. We took one box to give it to my elder brother kids in Bangalore. We njoyed the exhibition walk.
Next day morning my return flight to Bangalore. Myself and MOM wake up in the early morning and went to airport along with Sanjay and bhabi. As usual,there were some tears from MOM and Bhabi at the airport when we were about to leave. After Sanjay and Bhabi left, we got the announcement that flight is delayed for 2 hrs. BY mistake I put all my books in the check in bag and was sitting idle and boring. I suddenly saw the books stall which is my favourite shopping and been there. I got one good book there, which is on 'Your Next Move' in your career/ role. Concept of book is good and did the timepass by reading the book.
We came to Bangalore @ 12 PM on the same day. I parked my car in the Bangalore airport itself whcih made me easy to reach to my place without any taxi's hassales.
Overall it was nice trip and njoyed !
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Surpirse call after 15 years ..!
Yesterday I got a call from someone and he started asking about me. I asked him, 'who are you?' but he didn't revealed who he is but told about my schooling days.After sometime, he told he was my school mate and got my phone number from some social sites.
First thing, I was surprised to know that someone who was my classmate in 10th standard and remembered me, calling to meet me now after 15 years. I am still in touch with my few 10th standard mates but this voice sounded bit unfamiliar.
He gave me some clues to find out and finally I figured out who he is. After our schooling, he is the only guy who left our circle and went to some other state. So, there is no communication from him after that.But it was very nice to get a call from someone who you know long time back.
And interestingly how he got my number was, he searched my name in google which took him to my linkedin and other sites/blogs. Thanks to social sites, as sometime this helps for this kind of cause too :-) !
Overall, it is nice feeling !
First thing, I was surprised to know that someone who was my classmate in 10th standard and remembered me, calling to meet me now after 15 years. I am still in touch with my few 10th standard mates but this voice sounded bit unfamiliar.
He gave me some clues to find out and finally I figured out who he is. After our schooling, he is the only guy who left our circle and went to some other state. So, there is no communication from him after that.But it was very nice to get a call from someone who you know long time back.
And interestingly how he got my number was, he searched my name in google which took him to my linkedin and other sites/blogs. Thanks to social sites, as sometime this helps for this kind of cause too :-) !
Overall, it is nice feeling !
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Guru Dutt - A Life in Cinema
Last week I went to shopping with one of my freind to MG Road and Brigade Road.He wanted to buy some clothes, as he wants to attend some important marrigae.
We have been to some shops and he is very choosy and won't select in short time. He requires ample of time to take decision to buy simple T-shirt or Jeans.I m quite opposite to this and gets very irritated for long shopping especially for clothes. While he was shopping, myself and one of my other freind went outside and started walking in the NASA pub road and reached at the 'CoCo Beer Bar'. As I was alredy exhausted by walking from the morning to different shops, thought of relaxing by having a beer at that bar.Before I go into the bar, happen to see the 'Blossom book shop' which is next to that bar. Then immediately went into the book shop, as that is one of my favourite shopping.
When I looked at the collections, I was surprised that some rare collections of film books are here. In Bangalore, I have been to most of the books stall and here I found something rare books.In the films category, I have got 'GUru Dutt' autobiography, who is one of my favourite director. I took the book and immediately back home to read the book. I have seen Guru Dutt films and like 'Pyasa', Kaagaz ke Phool', 'Mr and Mrs 55', 'Sahib bibi aur ghulam'.
After reading the book, was surprised to know that 'Guru Dutt' born in Bangalore and was here in the childhood though shortime.I read how he went to calcutta, started film career and produced films. It is nice book and worth reading if someone is interested in Guru Dutt.
We have been to some shops and he is very choosy and won't select in short time. He requires ample of time to take decision to buy simple T-shirt or Jeans.I m quite opposite to this and gets very irritated for long shopping especially for clothes. While he was shopping, myself and one of my other freind went outside and started walking in the NASA pub road and reached at the 'CoCo Beer Bar'. As I was alredy exhausted by walking from the morning to different shops, thought of relaxing by having a beer at that bar.Before I go into the bar, happen to see the 'Blossom book shop' which is next to that bar. Then immediately went into the book shop, as that is one of my favourite shopping.
When I looked at the collections, I was surprised that some rare collections of film books are here. In Bangalore, I have been to most of the books stall and here I found something rare books.In the films category, I have got 'GUru Dutt' autobiography, who is one of my favourite director. I took the book and immediately back home to read the book. I have seen Guru Dutt films and like 'Pyasa', Kaagaz ke Phool', 'Mr and Mrs 55', 'Sahib bibi aur ghulam'.
After reading the book, was surprised to know that 'Guru Dutt' born in Bangalore and was here in the childhood though shortime.I read how he went to calcutta, started film career and produced films. It is nice book and worth reading if someone is interested in Guru Dutt.
My exp with sony Xperia X1
I generally like the latest gadgets and tend to look for the same when I purchase any mobiles / audio systems / electronics. When I went to Germany last year, happen to see sony ericcson Xperia X1 with one of my colleague and really impressed by it's features. So, thought of taking the same and enquired about the price. It was bit expensive which is around 600 EUROS.I callled couple of my freinds in India & UK and enquired about it's price. Finally I decided purchase in India, as I will get good after sales service.
After coming to India, the first thing I did was to go to mobile shop and purchase Xperia.One of my freind wanted to buy Iphone, we thought we will buy at the same place so that we get good discount. I just went to couple of shops and finally zeroed to one where we know someone and took a Iphone and Xperia.
I felt very happy and on that day whole night, was looking at it's features and setting up my outlook client, GPS and updating contacts. It was very helpful in emailing stuff and also in organizing things.
But after sometime, the real struggle started as it got some software problem and behaving weird without my intention.Sometime , it will automatically dial the numbers from my contact list and not sure which numbers it will pick. I always afraid that it should not pick my BOSS number, as he is in US timezone and shouldn't ring at the wrong time. And moreover the volume is low and the voice clarity is also not good. I managed it for 9 months after purchase, but one day suddenly my touch screen was not working. This time I got bit frustrated and went to Sony ericcson service and asked for the repiar. I thought of almost beating the guy by his answer, as he said it would take 15 days and that too costs around Rs 5000 which will not come under warranty.
One thing to note here,I used it in very rough way like I use my laptop :-)and didn't hanlded in smooth way. May be that could have caused this chain of problems with that phone.
Finaly, I decided to sell it off and get rid of that mobile.I asked the service center, how much I can expect for this mobile and he told that I will get 25% of my total cost of mobile.Now I decided to go for Iphone and looking for the latest 3G model.
From this I undertsood that I got white elephant and not a mobile phone :-) !
After coming to India, the first thing I did was to go to mobile shop and purchase Xperia.One of my freind wanted to buy Iphone, we thought we will buy at the same place so that we get good discount. I just went to couple of shops and finally zeroed to one where we know someone and took a Iphone and Xperia.
I felt very happy and on that day whole night, was looking at it's features and setting up my outlook client, GPS and updating contacts. It was very helpful in emailing stuff and also in organizing things.
But after sometime, the real struggle started as it got some software problem and behaving weird without my intention.Sometime , it will automatically dial the numbers from my contact list and not sure which numbers it will pick. I always afraid that it should not pick my BOSS number, as he is in US timezone and shouldn't ring at the wrong time. And moreover the volume is low and the voice clarity is also not good. I managed it for 9 months after purchase, but one day suddenly my touch screen was not working. This time I got bit frustrated and went to Sony ericcson service and asked for the repiar. I thought of almost beating the guy by his answer, as he said it would take 15 days and that too costs around Rs 5000 which will not come under warranty.
One thing to note here,I used it in very rough way like I use my laptop :-)and didn't hanlded in smooth way. May be that could have caused this chain of problems with that phone.
Finaly, I decided to sell it off and get rid of that mobile.I asked the service center, how much I can expect for this mobile and he told that I will get 25% of my total cost of mobile.Now I decided to go for Iphone and looking for the latest 3G model.
From this I undertsood that I got white elephant and not a mobile phone :-) !
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