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After a lovely visit to Bgm ,meeting up with friends at Peenk's and Anand's wedding,some great time spent with the family coming back to office is nothing to look fwd to ! Ah ! i wish could spend all my life in Belgaum :Cleaner,greener ,peaceful and serene ,at home .. But I woke up in the bus to the sound of honking vehicles and knew -- yes I am closer to the much hyped 'IT city' /Garden City of India ... It's really a bad start of the day to wake up like this,then bargain and fight with the autowallah ,feel cheated and then u realize u also have to go to office .. The whole day in office ,i kept reflecting to myself as to is this what i wanted in life .Have we spent all our lives to reach here .Strangely this is what we wanted -well paid jobs in a software company ,living in bangalore -- now i have it all ...And i dont want it.. Deep in my heart i know i dont like it. They say that think carefully what u wish for --You may actually get it --Then there's no l

Trek Details : Junta : Ragya,Shivaji Guru and I Date : 19th Jan 2007 Route : Bangalore-Chikkaballapur- Papagni Math (base) - Skandagiri Peak Time to reach the base : 2hrs from bangalore Time of the trek : 2- 2.5 hrs from the base Level : Very easy Best time to trek : In the night What to watch out at the peak : A lovely sunrise , a Ganesha and Nandi Temple Available at the top : A small place where u can drink chai,coffee,have an omlette At Chikaballapur : Take a left turn towards Police station and drive straight for 1- 1.5 kms and take a left and go straight.Ask the locals for the Matha location.Vehicles can be parked at the Forest Department office located at the base.

Last Saturday we teamed up with the TreesForFree Organisation( http://www.treesforfree.org/ ) and planted 25 trees at Kasturi Nagar Blore. There were kids from the colony and it was lovely to see their enthu in planting trees . I felt really good after the activity and encourage all of you to do the same to keep our planet green and beautiful for ourselves and the next generations to come.

Date : 12th Jan 2008 PPl : Guru,his mom and me Places we visited :Srirangapatna ,Nanjangud,Karinji Lake,Chamundi Hills,KRS Dam,Mysore Palace

Sunset @ Marvanthe beach Sunrise @ kodachadri Date : 5th Jan and 6th Jan 2008 Junta : Rani ,Shivaji and Guru, Dakshina Route :Bangalore -Shimoga-Kodachadri Junction-Kodachadri-Kollur-Marvanthe-Kundapur-Bangalore I think its once in a lifetime that u get to catch the sunlight over a hill and sunset over the sea. At least for me it was a great SUN Day :We literally followed the Sun !!! :) For some logistics : We set out by the Friday night 10.30 train to Shimoga .Reached there at 6.45 pm; freshened up; and took a service bus to Kollur [Another 3 hours ]. [You can direcly go to Kollur as well,and travel by jeep directly to Kodachadri ]. We got down 12 kms before Kollur ; and this was supposed to be the starting point of our trek. .We had to walk for abt 4 kms along a Jeep track before we reach Santosh Hotel,passing by an eco village to the right and a school ; Quite tired by then ,we ordered Puttu < a difft form of idli > and meals ,along with some delicious butter milk .There ar