Holi 2006

Yess.......... Even this time we enjoyed like anything..

To see Holi celebrated last year click here

Pictures of this year celebrations...

Jukka, Gowri, Bhargav, Sowmya and I




Decorated :-)


Holi Couples


Holi Abhisheka

Trip to Ghati and Nandi

My FIL had arranged a trip to Ghati and he had arranged a Pallakki Utsav for the diety on 26th Jan 2006. We all had gone there and incidetly that was my first long trip in my car. Road was not all that great so really dint enjoy the dirve. Here are some snaps..

Me and my father in law leading the Pallakki


Gopura of Ghati temple


Lunch which was carried from home. We had in the park down the temple


Small cute fishes in a pond near the temple


Thoudands of Nagara Idols


Koti cheshte



The whole family


It was really good trip while coming back we went to Nandi and came back. Its around 20 KM from Ghati.
It was amazing experience for me to drive the Nandi Ghats :-)

I will post some cool photos tmrw...

Dangerous Plastics

This is what I saw this morning when I heading home from jogging. I felt very bad .. I dont know where is out city going to. Reespecitve officers are careless and civilians are more careless. You can see many cows are grazing plastics there. Its very hazardous for them.. Get up Bangalore do something..

From Archives..

I was going through my flickrs photos.. This one struck me.. :-)

Tour to Himavat Gopalaswamy Hill

This one was trip conducted by Sowmya's cousins. Every month they meet and perform a kitty party. Usually it will be somewhere inside the city and this time it was proposed at Himavat Gopalaswamy Hill, which is around 220 KM from Bangalore.


A KSRTC bus was booked and our tour started at around & in the morning. We need to board the bus from Water Tank, Banashankari. The place is away from Mysore. Its there in Mysore Ooty road.


A diversion from Gundlpet leads to bandipur forest, and this hill is one the way to Bandipur Forest.

Had breakfast near Srirangapattana near temple, which had some beautiful scenaries.





We reached the place at around 1 PM. After pooja etc, we had nice lunch.


Amazing Scenaries from Top of hill

My tirps in 4 weeks

Eventhough I was tooooo busy in last two months I have not stopped roaming around. Look at my trips in 4 weeks.

Jan 22 - Himavath Gopalaswamy Temple
Jan 23 - Chennai
Jan 26 - Ghati Subramanya
Feb 3 and 4 - Hassan and Hariharapura
Feb 11 and 12 - Bandipura Forest Resort

Nidhaanakke ondondanne explain maaDteeni ..

Some of my new clicks

Some pics

Hi Folks ...


Get some pics of our New Year Celebration :) .. It was amazing


He is eldest member of our family.. He is my doddappa.. ( Elder Bro of my father)
He is turning 90 soon .... People ar tying Ponys to his sparely available hair .. hehe




Some salads for the Lunch :)



Tomato Salad



Hehe ... Its lunch time... We had brought lunch from Nammoora Hotel.. who serves food in bulk qty..



Some games after lunch ... Antyakshari


Bursting baloon by blowing it .. I won this one ..


Girlzzzzzz


Housie Housie ... aks Tambola


Newly married Couple: Kishore and Pooja ... married on 23rd Dec

Happy New Year ...

Olle kathe ... After a looong time I am wishing my blog reader new yr... :-)

Manji ... I have started my new year quota ..


Will upload more snaps on New Yr party that we hosted.. All my cousins had come .. :)

IBM Outing

Had mentioned in one of previous posts that we were planning for an AHM (All Hands Meet). We had it in Manipal County on 24th Nov 2005.

We initially planned to go by bikes but as it was raining I changed my mind to take my sister's car. I was around 10 KM drive from Silk Board Juntion on Hosur Rd.
As it was a Friday there was considerable amount of Traffic on that rd (As usual)

The whole day was divided into many things.. Too many team building games were planned. Pallavika, Lavanya and myself conducted many games after lunch..

Some snaps are here ...


Ganesha @ Entrace welcoming us.


Whole Group Photo ---> Can you locate me ??



Introducing each other --> There was a game to memorise all others name


Some Games Games were played in teams of 4... They were called Panthers, Cheetahs, Leopards, Jaguars .. I was in the team of Panthers .. Grrrrr


Have you ever played Indoor Lagori .. See here we have played

Hurreyyy now I own a "Car"

Another update from myside is I bought a car ..
It was very tough to select a model, color etc.. for the whole month of Nov.. Everything came to an End when my cousin Kishore bought a Santro Xing.. He had come to our place to show the car. After I drove it, I had almost decided that I sould go for it.. I was amazing to drive. He had bought Real Earth Color.. I went and booked the same model in 2 days.. Sowmya was interested too much in Scarlet red color. I had a concern that maintanance of the color would be tough. But atlast I had to go by he words.. (No wonder huh! )

But no regrets ... Its too good color and car is really good... Take a look at it ..

Srirangapattana - Tula Snana Trip

Another trip which Sowmya, Amma (mother) and I went was to Srirangapattana , Pashchima Vahini ..

This one was a kind of piligrim trip.. According to Solar Calendar a month Starting from Oct 15th to Nov 15th (approx) is called Tula Masa (A month called Tula).
In this month taking bath in Rivers is considered to be auspicious.

It all was unplanned. Actually when we got an invitation from Sri Na. Krishnappa, an eminent RSS Pracharak for this event. Sri Na. Krishnappa's elder brother condcuts an event every year for newly wed couples. So we planned to go and take mom also ..

I had taken Jukka's car and drove myself. It's around 120 KM from Bangalore.. It was great drive.. I had never driven car such a long distance in India.. ( I have driven in US )

Here are some snaps..

Mom and Sow


Pooja


The Venue


Ganga Pooja by all women

Kodai Trip

So Many trips have not been blogged... I will do one by one..

We had tripped to Kodaikanal 2 moths back.. Hmmm.. to be accurate we started on 3rd Nov and were back on 5th Nov.. It was amazing trip

Sowmya and me along with her parents, brother and her cute little doggy tuffy.. ( Click here to see tuffy)

I was amazing trip, we had hired a Tata Safari.. Initially we had booked a Scarpio but just 30 min before our scheduled start time the owner told he can rent out the vehicle. Shucks...
But good thing is he arranged another vehicle for us. Good for us.. We started by 9:30 and reached Palani by evening 6PM. After a nice darshan of Lord Subramanya (Muruga) we reached Hotel at late night.

Here are some snaps...


Way upto Palani Temple using winch


View Croaker's Walk


Me her and Tuffy


Look at the fog


Bicycle ride with two seat .. amazing it was ..



Boat ride in the morning ... (Did u observe the fog... woooo ... it was chilling )



Some time pass at the park .. Shot this in the park... Calling for Partner ?

Cup of Life !!!

Here is something very interesting, so I thought its a good idea to share it with you.....

"A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said: "If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the better cups and are eyeing each other's cups."

"Now, if Life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change." "Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

So folks, don't let the cups drive you...enjoy the coffee instead"


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