Pearl Valley ..

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Originally uploaded by Karthik1.

Had been to Pearl valley last weekend. This is one of my fav exposures.

Bad things..

My close friend Anil, aks MS lost his father on last Tuesday .. He was 62, and was diabetic.. and was heart patient. But it was unexpected. He could not take it so easily. He was all set to fly to Singapore for is Maters. His father was backbone to his family.. He was in panic state. Was very tough for us to console him..

Last Thursday my mother suddenly felt very sick. She had some breathing problem. We took her immediately to the hospital.. After all the medications and hospitalizations she is alright now.. Little bit tired. After the investgations we found that she is having a slight heart problem. Doc has started medications for that. Thanks to Dr. Jayaprakash, who took all the pains to investigate and treated her at 11:30 PM. She is discharched from hospital on Friday. I was home all the day taking care of her.. I pray God, that everything goes fine and she gets well soon...

Being at home.. I am watching one of the all time hits of Dr. Rajkumar, Gandhada Gudi .. What a wonderful effort by the whole crew.. I love this movie.. Now listeing to famous song naavaaduva nudiye kannada nudi ..

Other lovely songs are

elloo hogalla maama

and

arare gini raama

catch u later ...

Weekend :)

Quite excited... weekend has arrived.. From 2-3 weeks I was very busy one or the other programs. Could not relax much.. So decided what come may.. we have to go out tomorrow. So we are planning to goto Neeladri Amusement and Water Park tomorrow. Hope everything goes well ..


But, bad news is that I have to come to office on Sunday for some interviews .. :((

Secret parcel

ussappa anta manege banu koote.. amma EnO bareeta idru .... adyEno Infosys inda ondu letter bandide nODo andru .. *full confuse mukha*.. Infy indana...letter a ande
amma.. adyEno parcel thara ide nODappa andru .. *tale kerkoLta* naanu IBM nalli almost settle aagideeni... Infy ge inteview koTTa jnaapaka illvalla .. id yaava letter ankonDu adanna kainalli hiDkonDe ..

From Thejesha... anta ittu... idyaavonappa thejesha *kaNNu mele keLage maaDing*, open maaDde. nODidre ondu T-shirt ( nanna magu aadre adikke aguvashTu chikkadu) innondu pink cute cap ittu.. jotege ondu love greetings... wishing my marriage... *mattoo confused*

alla idyaavonappa infy inda nange wish maaDing.. mane address elli siktu antella Open maaDire adu namma Manjesh uruf Neo du wah ... sakkat kushi aaytu .. Nange matte Sowmya ge avnu wish maaDi T-shirt (ade nanna magu aadre aa sizedu) matte ondu TOpi kaLsidda... DhanyavaadagaLappa.. alle idda nanna akkana magaLu Gowri ( ade manji neenu Handwriting analysis maaDidyalla avaLu) .. maama ninge hEgoo ee t-shirt aagalla nange irli anta tegedu konDu hOdaLu :)

~o.*.o~ dONi mane ~o.*.o~

namma madhuchnadradalli maaDida innondu romantic sadhane andre ibroo dONi mane(House Boat) nalli kootu oTTige dONi mane bagge kavana baredvi. nangantoo sakkat kushi aaytu.. Sowmya sakkat talent iTTidaaLe kavana bareyOdralli.. tOriskoLalla ashTe...

Here is our First poem which we wrote together..
















ದೋಣಿಮನೆ:

ತಣ್ಣನೆಯ ಗಾಳಿ ಬೀಸುತಿರಲು,
ಸಾಗುತಿರೆ ದೋಣಿಮನೆ ಹಾಯೆನಿಸಲು
ಸಂಗಾತಿ ನೀ ಎನ್ನ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಇರಲು
ಸ್ವರ್ಗಕ್ಕೆ ಏಣಿಯಿದು ದೋಣಿಮನೆಯು ||

ದಡದ ಮೇಲ್ ನಿಂತಿರಲು ಕಾಯುತಾ ದೋಣಿಯನು
ಕಾಣಿಸಿತು ದೂರದಲಿ ಅಲೆಯ ಜೊತೆ ಸಾಗುತಲಿ
ಬಾ ಎಂದು ಕೈ ಬೀಸಿ ತನ್ನೆಡೆಗೆ ಕರೆಯುತಲಿ
ಬರುತಿಹುದು ಟೀವಿಯಲಿ ದೋಣಿಮನೆಯು ||೧||

ಬಿದಿರು ಕಟ್ಟಿಗೆಗಳನು ದಾರದಲಿ ಬೆಸೆಯುತಲಿ
ಮನೆಯಂತೆ ಮೆರಗಿಹುದು ದೋಣಿಮನೆಯು
ಬೆತ್ತದಾ ಕುರ್ಚಿಗಳು ಮೆತ್ತನೆಯ ಹಾಸಿಗೆಯು
ನೀಡುತಿದೆ ವಿಶ್ರಾಂತಿ ಕಷ್ಟಗಳ ಮರೆಸುತಲಿ ||೨||

ಸಿಹಿಯಾದ ಎಳನೀರು ಸ್ವಾಗತವ ಕೋರಿದರೆ
ಸಂತೃಪ್ತಿ ನೀಡಿತದು ಭೂರಿ ಭೋಜನವು
ಹಣ್ಣನ್ನು ಸೇವಿಸುತ ವಿಶ್ರಾಂತಿ ಪಡೆಯುತಲಿ
ಕವನವಿದ ಗೀಚಿದೆವು ಒಮ್ಮನಸಲಿ ||೩||

- ಸೌಮ್ಯ ಕಾರ್ತಿಕ್

Suri's Marriage

It all started actually on Friday morning. I had a meeting at 6:30 AM Can you believe one can come to office at that time... Reason being, it was Singapore customer and project manager is from US. They scheduled a meeting at 9:00 AM SGP time which will be 9:00 PM in US and 6:30 AM here. Meeting was over by 7:15 AM and I rushed back home to pick my mom. I take her to Marath Halli, Near Bangalore Airport which is around 20 KM from my place.

Suri, my brother-in law's brother and my good friend was getting his upanayana done on the occasion of his marriage which was scheduled on 26th June, ie. yesterday. I dropped mom and stayed there for some time and again rushed back to office.

Saturday, was again a long day. In the morning we had some leisure time and in the evening, Sunil, my brother in law flew to London for on work deputation for few weeks. We had to help him for packing and give a lift to Airport. Before that I dropped my mom to Suri's wedding hall, where in Varapooja was being performed. We dropped Sunil and came back to wedding hall, finished dinner and went back to home. Err.. Sorry missed one thing.. I had to drop Sowmya to her mom's place as she was alone..

Sunday whole day we spent at Suri's wedding. It was very nice. Yet another weekend has gone ... :( .. Planing something really good next week.. Will let you know once decided.

How do people start blogging ...

Yesterday I was thnking how do people start their blogs.. I came to know that only way is seeying others' blogs. So let me list how did I start and how others started looking at mine ..

It started in around May 2004, when Sridhar Rajanna of Kannada Audio started his blog and he used to keep injecting his blog link where ever possible. I used watch his blog often, and comment on it. He is master of KFM (Kannada Film Music). I used to get loads of information from his blog. At present he does not actively blogs..

I have to tell how did Sridhar Rajanna start his blog right?? Sure why not .. If you check my co-blogger lists you find a Blogger named VC. VC, The Big nosed Vinod as he describes himself is brother in law of Sridhar. Sridhar got inspiration from VC ot start his blog.

Let me list people who started/re-started/revamped their blogs looking at mine :)

First of all Jyothi Karant started her blog looking at mine.. I loved her blog name, Anoojna which means One who has aquired Knowledge, if I am right.. Even her blog is sleeping now a days ... To introduce Jyothi.. I must say she is a good singer, she is a Vainik (One who plays Veena), Painter (Can have a look at her couple of paintings in her blog)..

Next comes our beloved Aravinda, very commonly called as sisya. Used to post very interesting facts. Now he has stopped blogging.. Hope might start soon. Sisyan's interest are wild life, adhyaatma, samskrit and english action movies. He is really done great work on Bird watching and study on wild life..

Then started my UVCE classmates, Sridhar, Shashi and Kiran. All are great explorers. They have tripped a lot, trekked a lot. Shashi used his blog for sharing his great trek experiences usually.. Sri keeps updating his weekend activities. Kiran is very talented in writing.. Not much written, may be coz is busy with fiansee :)

One of my IBM friends Sridhar Sarva, also got inspired and started his blog but alas stopped at very early stage :(

Kishan, one of my good friends and RSS buddy had his old blog. But he revamped to new blog after seeying mine ...*Proud smile*. Kishan is a great photographer, a music lover. You can see awesome exposures in his nicely maintained blog.


Recently my senior RSS friend, Narendra restarted his blog. He used to blog last year and had stopped for some reason. I had placed a comment in his blog long time back.. (even I had forgotten).. He recently saw the comment and viewed my blog and restrated his blog..

Yet Another Inspired Blogger

Cerebration Kudos to you.. Narendra, one of my friends and my senior in RSS went thru you and got inspired and restrated his blog.. :))

Take a look at his Post

kari kaapi lOTa

heege ondu chuTuka geechide

ದುಗುಡವಳಿಸುವ ಮಾಟ, ನಿನ್ನ ಒಡನಾಟ
ಕಾಲ ಸ್ಥಗಿಸುವ ನೋಟ, ನಿನ್ನ ಮೈಮಾಟ
ಅಗಲಿ ಓಡಿದರೋಟ, ಅದು ಕಾಲಕೂಟ
ಇನ್ತಿರಲು ಬತ್ತೋಯ್ತು ಕರಿ ಕಾಪಿ ಲೋಟ

Our Weekend...

It was Jun 11th, exactly one month after we got married.. One of our family friends, Krishna had given us a gift voucher for Buffet Lunch/Dinner at Windsor Manor. We planned to go for Lunch. I called them and booked a table. Went at around 1PM. Man... it was amazing... very nice ambience. Buffet was arranged in The Raj Pavillion. We both enjoyed a lot.. We had a veg clear soup, Chinese noodles, Phulka, Rumali Roti, some curries.. I must tell that salads were too good. At last was our target ... There were around 10 different items for deserts.. Man.. they were too good.. Badam, Kaju kheer was the best ... Chocolate Cake was next best ..


Evening we went to Kannada Movie Gowramma.. Che .. it was a mistake.. Was not good... Went to Kamakya Theatre.. which is very near to our place .. Had been to 6:30 PM Show. .. Came home and slept off....



Sunday we had to attend a Satyanarayana Swamy pooja in the morning.. Had to attend a get together cum kitty party at Cubbon park. Its a monthly get together party of Sowmya's family .. They collect money from each and pick a chit.. who ever is selected .. they have to host the next month party... Collected money would be given to them. We were slelected for the next month party ...

Nice Quote

One of my good friends, Praveen has cool sense of Humour. If he is not there in office, we get bored. Today he came up with a nice Quote of his own.. Here it goes..

" Birth is an Accident, Life is Optional and Death is Inevitable "

Paper Published (*u*)

I submitted a paper on "SAP-EBP Shopping Cart with n-step Dynamic Parallel Approval" to ICM. ICM is Intellectual Capital Management of IBM. I am very happy to say that my paper has been accepted and Published in ICM AssetWeb of IBM.

Feeling proud .. hmmmm

Enu bareyali, Entu hogaLali

tuMbaa dinagaLa naMtara oMdu kavana barede... Sowmya ge samarpita






















ಏನು ಬರೆಯಲಿ, ಎಂತು ಹೊಗಳಲಿ?
ಹೇಗೆ ಅಂದವ ಹಾಡಲಿ ?
ನಿನ್ನ ಚಂದವ ವರ್ಣಿಸಲು ನಾ
ಯಾವ ಭಾಷೆಯ ಬಳಸಲಿ ?

ಹೋಲಿಸಲು ನಾ ನಿನ್ನ ಕಂಗಳ
ಯಾವ ತಾರೆಯು ಸಮವಿದೆ ?
ಮುಗ್ಧ ನಗುವಿಗೆ ಯಾವ ಮಗುವದು
ಸಾಟಿಯಾಗಲು ಸರಿಯಿದೆ ?

ವಿಶಾಲ ಹೃದಯವ ಕಂಡು ಸಾಗರ
ಬತ್ತಿ ಹೋಗದೆ ಇರುವುದೆ ?
ಬಿಂಕ ವೈಯ್ಯಾರಗಳ ಕಾಣುತ
ಸರಿತೆ ಮತ್ಸರ ತಾಳದೆ ?

ನಿನ್ನ ಹೃದಯವು ನನ್ನಲಿರಲು
ಯಾವ ಸುಖವನು ಬಯಸಲಿ ?
ನೀನೆ ನನ್ನಯ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಬಾಳಲು
ಯಾವ ಭಾಗ್ಯವ ಬೇಡಲಿ ?

Insipred by you my dear ... "Cerebration"

Wooooww... Blogannaa... ella ninna mahime...
I was so excited to see this post from my beloved friend, Kishan... He says he is inspired you gotta?? He has started ih blog copying you ante.. Copyrights problem illa taane pa???

Kishan's Blog

Tuffy, The Binkada Singaari...

This is Tuffy ... Sowmya's pet. She is very cute and agile.. She plays a lot but never allows you to touch her.. ummmmm. The song "binkada Singaari .. mai donkina vaiyyari " suits her a perfectly... Now Sowmya misses her a lot..

Restarted RJing

Some of you guys know that I do RJing for an Internet Kannada Radio called KannadaKasturi . I had not done any program since loong time.. Today I am happy to say that I recorded a program and uploaded it. I am not sure when will that be aired.. If I come to know I will let u know ...


So what else ??

Honeymoon continue . . .

Ok ... where were we ....

Yea... we just finished Munnar sight seeying .. next day morning we were lazy like hell... Got up very late and had breakfast before taking bath..
Checked out West wood by noon and started to Kuttikanam.. That was our next destination...

One of the best shots on the way ..


Reached Trisangu Heaven resort by 3:30 PM. We missed lunch ... On the way we stopped at a bakery and had some snacks. We relaxed for sometime and went on a small trek to trisangu hills very next to the resort in the evening. You know what by this time I got Airtel signal.. Called my home and also her home. They were all very happy.


The view from the hill was amazing .. even the resort looked great from hills. It was chilling cold there... Sowmya was shivering ..


Some one took our shot on the hills.. He shaken like hell ... mammeee...


On that night ... resort guys had arranged a candle light dinner for us.. It was so good.. Thank you...


Next day we went to Tekkady. Went on elephant ride


and then went to look at Spice plantation



and at last went to Periyar wild life sanctury .. it was good.. we saw some elephants, wild boars, sambas.. We were more interested in watching 2 littlle kids Neha and Rishi who had come there with their parents on the occation of their 10th year wedding anniverssary.


Sowmya Karthik on Periyar Cruise


After that we went on shopping in Tekkady and bought some stuffs for my sisters' kids and back to Trisangu Heaven.
Dinner: We ordered Gobi Manchurian for the starter.. Man it was soooo nice.. I had never had such a nice gobi.. We ordered the same next morning also ..

End of Day

Next day morning ... we checked out and started to Kumarakom for House boat.

This was our House Boat ...called Rainbow Cruise, Yellow. Amazing na ...


It was complete house... We had a veranda, dining hall, 2 bed rooms, kitchen and all ... cool stuff...


Actually we were searching for tender coconut drink since day 1. We never got a vendor. But here in House boat it was the welcome drink ..
we were so impressed..


Another View


A self shot ...


He stopped for lunch break at a place where we had coool breeze...


Evening he anchored at the middle of the Backwaters .. it was great experience .. to watch the sunset from Cruise..


Next day morning after breakfast we checked out the house boat and started to Cochi.. and we had some time till we board the train .. so went to Cochi beach..


We both enjoyed a lot in the beach... till we came to know sea has taken Sowmya's sliipers off.. She was upset .. It was hot summer .. she could not walk bare foot.. and was reluctant to wear mine.. Then asked Mohan (our driver) to goto to nearest footwear shop and bought a new one.

Boarded the train at 3:00 pm and the journey was cool... and reached our pretty lovely bangalore by 4:15 AM on the Friday morning.. :)

Thats all folks ...

Kerala Trip - Hmm Honeymoon trip ... (^o^)

It was our Honeymoon trip to Kerala, the God's Own Country. It was just amazing !!!!

Trip strated on Friday evening ... the 13th May.
Started from Bangalore to Cochi by KPN Volvo bus. It was quite good except a dabba malayalam movie till 12 Midnight. Sowmya was irritated like hell..
Reached New Cochi by 6:30 AM..
Refreshed had breakfast in Udupi Bhavan
Our Taxi Driver, Mr Mohan was ready and started Munnar ..
On the way we found a small falls.. It was very charming and attractive ... We took a break there



Our Driver -->

We reached West Wood river side resort. They gave some dabba room. Shouted at them and got an executive room..


Evening we went to near by Tea Musuem and to some tea plantations .. Can you the misty clouds... we could almost touch 'em



Evening we went for boating just behind our resort.. Initially the guy told no boats available.. we were so sad.. then by chance one boat got freed up... and we go it ... hurreyyy!!


Next morning after breakfast we went for sight seeying...
Went to Raja Malai.. on the way a tea plantation ... took a break ..


This is what we see in there ... whats this called .. wild bakra ?? This can climb the rocks vertically.. wow !!


It was very hot day .. There was a traffic jam on the way up the hill. We had to get down and walk up the hill for half an hour..


Small stream in RajaMalai..


From Rajamalai we started to Mettupatty dam. It is a superb dam. Very nice place..


We went to speed boat ride .. ... zoooooooom it was amazing experience ...


From there we went to Echo point.. where u get bakc the echo .. I meanif you shout .. I shouted "Sowmyaaaaaaaa" .. However she was shy to shout my name aloud :)


Next was Kundala Dam.. Superb place... Very romantic place... Damn it .. we dint get the boating again ......... mammeeeeeeee ... I was almost like crying .. It was so cool place,,


Some Aunty and uncle were enjoying the romantic place ...


so did we ..


Last place on that day was top station.. It was too late by the time we reached there ... could not see any view from there except


Cool sun set


Next morning ...... oh wait ... this post is becoming too large... let me put rest in subsequent posts .. :)

See ya ..

Back to the field ...

Hmmm ... Evreything was fine ..........

9 days more ....

May 11th is approaching in full swing.. Started invitation distribution in office... Too many frnds to be invited... ufff...


Blog... do you remember Pallavika had invited for a lunch party couple of weeks back. Here is the pic ...