IBM Rocks

It was on 28th Sept.. All were invited to take part in AMS Imprint, thats annual celebration of our AMS unit... We all went there by 3 PM. After a very short speach by our director, entertainment programs started..

First performace was by VIVA gals.. Anushka and Mahuwa.. It was not that great..
Then came Sanjay Kini, who has made his fame in The Great Indian Laughter Challenge
At last .. guess who came .. It was The great, sweet Sonu Nigam.. It was a pleasant surprise to all of us. It was amazing experience. I was standing in the firts row and we danced, jumped exhausted ourselves.. Great it was ...

Weekend

Saturday:

Got up early ( 8AM) - Early for Sat na ?

Went to SLV to buy Break fast. Decided to not to put on stove :). Bought Masala Dosa, ( Without Red Chutney inside) and maddur vade. But It was too late for the movie. Could not have at home.

Went to Amrtha Dhare with Amma and Sowmya. It was 10:15 Show at Uma theatre. We went by 10:25.. Missed first scene.. which was title song :) Listent to it.. Super song :))

Had the Break fast what I had bought at the theatre itself .. hahaha..

After the superb movie, went to NMH VV Puram. Had a superb lunch and went back home and slept ...

Evening was again lazy.. dint go anywhere

Watched Ankhe in Star Gold in the night.. Had missed that .. so watched completely.

Sunday was good again .. Had been Sow's Aunt's house for lunch. Menu --> BBB (Bisi Bele Bath) , Koasambari, Curd Rice, Chips, Sweet Pongal. Yummyyy it was cool.

Evening: Shilpa had come.. Shilpa Sow and I had gone out for Tikki puri .. Then we had a small tutorial for Sowmya for riding two wheeler.. She was too scared. After riding she was lil confident. Shilpa rode my pulsar :) cool na !!

Thats all Folks

Yet Another Cloud

Yet Another Cloud
Originally uploaded by Karthik1.

Thanks for liking those slides, which encouraged me to post another cloud pic :)

Clouds

Clouds
Originally uploaded by Karthik1.

This is a shot taken when we had been to Waynad .. I love this one .. The

cloud formation, rocks wow !!!



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I live in Bangalore 2nd floor !!!

Just a though !! After seeying the even growing population, enumerable no. of vehicles, hectic traffic jams, raising value of land.. it came to my mind that some day we can also strat building a new city above our sweet bangalore. We have seen bangalore growing extending its outskirts, swallowing surrouning towns.. Bangalore's width has crossed about 40 KM radius.. It too much now.. Bangalore might start thinking growing tall as well.. We might start building a new city above our existing one. Which has its own people, schools, land(in air), houses, vehicles, roads, KPTCL (2nd floor), BWSSB (2nd floor), BMTC (2nd floor), BCC 2nd floor, separate corporators for Bangalore 2nd floor and what not. .

How far ( altitude ) should Bangalore 2nd floor be ? I think 300 - 500 mts is needed :)

Join me in building this new city called Bangalore 2nd Floor.. .

Lunch everyday

Rajesh, Pallavika, Lavanya and me have lunch together. Just wanted to show you how would be our menu ... This is a sample :)

Waynad Trip

Hi All,


Long time I had been here... Was very busy at home and at office.. We had been to Waynad Last to Last weekend. It was amazing .. Here are some snaps..

In Bus..



Near Falls...



Some Dam


Dinner


Whole troupe on the way to Edkal Caves

At Edkal Caves


Entrance of Edkal

Another Wild Pic

Another Wild Pic
Originally uploaded by Karthik1.

This one is another wild pic.. Can you guess whats this ?



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Go Waynad

Hurray!!! Yet another outing ...

This has been in plan since 2 weeks. Now almost confirmed that we are going for a trip to Waynad, Kerala. You must be thinking which gang is it right?? Its IBM gang.. Planning to leave bangalore on Friday night and come back on Sunday night..

Thinking Wild

Thinking Wild
Originally uploaded by Karthik1.

I took this shot last sept .. I was turning very wild and mad becos of

lonelyness.. Guess whats this ??

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Gowri Rangoli

Gowri Rangoli
Originally uploaded by Karthik1.

I think most you know my niece Gowri. She had recently participated in a

rangoli competition conducted by ISKCON.. She got second prize for this

one..



Congrats Gowramma... Keep it up ..



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Yahoo with Voice

Hi Guys,

I installed Yahoo Messenger ver 7 with Voice.. Its really good.. Why dont you try too ..

Pak w/o Mysore

recently we had been to a restaurant for lunch. Orderd some Jeera Rice.. Here goes the conversation:

Ram said .. hey man whats this there is no Jeera at all in this Jeera Rice ..
Immediately Aravind replied.. Hey do you find Mysore in Mysore Pak ...


We all could not stop laughing ..

Independence Day

On Aug 15th, I was wathcing a TV program. Some one was singing a so called Patriotic song.. One of the lines says:

"Bharatiye ninna janma dinadandu ninage namisuvevu ..." something of that sort... Meaning we bow to you on your "birth day"

I was actually astonished to listent to this line... How can Aug 15ht be celebrated as Bharat's Birth day ?? Its disgrace for all of us. We have not understood the meaning of our independence day but everyone takes the day off and enjoy their life... I felt really bad..

How can anybody determine Birthday of Bharat ? Its there since the time of Rishis and Munis .. we have got the proof also.. Alas our so called poets dont know this simple matter.

Weekend Trip - GRS Fantasy Park

On Tuesday, Father In Law told that they want to goto Mantralaya but they can't go this time as no one is there to look after the house and tuffy. Sowmya and I had asked them to go ahead and leave all house responsibility to us. On that promise they tried to get a train, bus or what ever the transportation to possible Mantralaya on whole Wednesday and Thursday. Till Thursday evening nothing was finalised and they had almost dropped their plans. That made us to go ahead with our trip plans.

It was a long weekend. Wanted to go out somewhere, desperately. We all (jukka, roopakka, shilpa, sowmya) started planning on Thursday evening. After half an hour of discussion and telephonic calls, it was almost decided that we go to Ooty and Black Thunder water park for 2 days. At the n th moment I got a call from my Father in law saying that they got the tickets to Mantralaya and requested us (Sow and me) to stay home to take care house and the their dog, tuffy. Tussssssssssssss.... our plans got dropped for that moment ..

Atleast we wanted to go out for a day. Every one was ok with that and we decided to goto GRS Fantassy Park, Mysore. I booked
Tempo Traveller (TT). Our whole family went for that. Amma, Sowmya, myself, Roopakka, Bhava, Shilpa, Yashu, Jukka, Bhava, Gowri and Bhargav. We were 11 in total. Our trip started at around 6:30. Sowmya and I had come from my in-law's house. We were little late. More over we had to prepare tomato-onion gojju (kind of curry ). Jukka and Amma had prepared, Chapathis, Puliyogare and Curd Rice. TT came to roopakka's house in Wilson Garden at 6. They were all ready and came to our place which is around 7 KM at around 6:20. We joined the troupe at 6:30 and started.

We took a break at Maddur to eat Maddur Vade and also had break fast there itself. The place we went to buy maddur vade was crowded like hell. Ussshappa...


Allinda .. we went to a Sai Baba Ashram on the banks of river Kaveri, on the main road itself. It was amazingly calm appealing .. Here are some snaps ..

Sai Mandir, River Kaveri, Sriranga Pattana


Bhava, Shilpa, Gowri, Raju Bhava, Bhargav, Karthik, Sowmya



Raju Bhava, Srinivas Bhava, Roopakka, Amma, Bhargav, Jukka, Karthik, Gowri, Sowmya, Anant Yahas





From there, we went directly GRS and had great fun.

So many rides...



Women and Kids pool


Bhava and me at Pendulum, most scary water ride. .


Lazy River


Sowmya loves to Swing, Shilpa joins her




We all .. at red Indian Falls


Oh! Dont touch 'em


Red Indian Falls


This is called 1-2-3 Photo

Loong weekend ... !!!

Many of us have a long weekend this time.. List out all your plans please ...

I am working out the plan .. let you know by evening ..

kuy kuy naayi mari ...

It was around 3AM yesterday night. A small puppy started screaming ... Kuy kuy kuy .. waw waw waw .. We got up as it was disturning too much.. Sowmya likes pets a lot. She kept on asking me to go and check whats the problem.. I was reluctant for some time.. When it was intolerable I had to go in search of this puppy. I searched here n there. Opened the main door and searched near the gate, in the 'mori' ( road side pit) and everywhere. The kuy kuy sound seemed to be coming from very near place. I could not locate it. Then I thougt it might be in in neighbours compund. Peeped there also. Not successful. Then I observed one thing that the direction of the sound was differing left and right. Then I supposed that puppy might be in the terrace. Walked up in search of it. There I found it. It was very happy to see someone. I held my legs very tightly. It was lovely. I liked it. I carried it to Sowmya, to see her blissed face. She was excited to see it. It had stopped screaming. But I realized that it was hugry like hell. We poured a glass of milk and it drank the whole of it at once. We left it outside the compound and it ran away happily..

We slept in peace for the rest of the night .. :-)

Khara UppiTTu with Bisi coffee

Most of us have our own favourite tastes .. These favourite tastes are dynamic also .. ie They are weathe dependent. Tpday its very cool in bangalore.. I am feeling like eating Khara uppiTTu with Hot coffee .. I was thinking deep on dynamicity of the favourite tastes.. Let me list them

Favourite Food	With ....	Weather Condition	Location	Partner
UppiTTu (Upma)	With Hot Coffee	Chilled Weather without Rains	Anywhere ...	Friends
ELneer (Tender Coconut)	-	Hot Sun	In Highways Under Trees	Friends
Bajji Bonda, KodbaLe, Chakli	Coffee	Mane (Home Sweet Home)	Heavy Rains Outside	Wife, Mom and Rest of Family Watching Kannada Movie
Baby corn Manchurian	Tomoto Souce	Gokuls	Normal Cool Evening	Wife

More to come .. Why dont u update ur taste ..

Abstract Accepted for IBM Sharenet

Hurray!!!

Every year IBM Conducts Sharenet for all the Competencies. This time SAP Sharenet is scheduled on 25th Aug. Center of Competency had called for abstracts last month. I had submitted mine too.. There were about 130 submission. 8 were selected out of them. I am proud to say that mine was one of the selected abstract. It was on EBP Shopping cart approval. If you remember I had submitted an ICM on this also .. More details on this would be posted in my tech blog


Now I have to work on this and prepare a presentation and submit by 10th Aug. The venue of the event --> ITC Hotel Windsor Sheraton & Towers :-) All big shots and tech guru would be there n that seminar.. I need to prepare very well .. It will be 40 min session from me.. 30 presentation and 10 min Q&A.. Wish me guys ..

Kishan's Psych test

My Good friend Kishan has put a psych test on his blog...
Why dont you take that ? --> Link

Recently he described the looks of his "not seen" blog friends, by reading their blogs. He Seems to be turning psychic. Ki ki ki . Check that out here


Maja maaDi ..