Mangalore Trip

Last (longer) weekend, I went for 3 days trip to mangalore and near-by places with my room mates Ahish and Nitin.

mangalore trip

It was very enjoying and refreshing trip. First day we went to arabi falls near ujare. We spent night at dharmashtala, which has popular Manujunath Temple, which we visited next day morning.
Then We went to mangalore, and ullal beach from there. It was a great fun there.
The third day was even more exciting. We went to malpe beach, very nice and beautiful beach. We had ride of a water bike also there. Evening was for St. Merry Island. Very nice small island.
It was different experience spending an evening at such a nice island.

Jab we met

Yesterday night I watched a wonderful movie called Jab we Met.
I guess, it's one of very few movies in which kareena got a good role. The concept itself is amazing. The character geet is one of the most inspiring characters I have ever seen. Very, very optimistic, doesn't think much of future worries. There are problems in her life, she looks them very lightly and solves them in no time. Just go where the heart says.
I have learned very much from this movie, and decided to change my life like Geet. It's really wonderful, you will get whatever you like, if you actually like it. As SRK told in OSO,

तुझे पाने की इतनी कोशिश की है,
कि हर जर्रे ने तुझे मुझसे मिलाने कि साजिश की है.
Well that is called optimism. Jab we met, reminded me the Carpe Diem concept, which I learned from another fandu movie "Dead Poet Society".
I like the way shahid kapoor address his company, by saying that the company is already at it's worst stage, so whatever happens next, it will good only.
Now I am going to listen my heart, and going to take each problem lightly.

Back to India

Well, it doesn't matter how much you enjoy the foreign land, you will allways miss your MotherLand. I wished, I could be in US for few more days, but at the same time I wanted to come back also.
We started at 31st oct eve, and reached back at 1st Nov (no it's not 2 days, it was only 22 hours), via paris airport. Oh man the paris airport (charles de gua or some thing like that), is too big, that from our landing port, we took bus to terminal 2E, then we took train from their to 2E (76-96), then from there we took one more bus to 2E(86).
When the plane lands on Bangalore, that itself started giving good feel, because you are back. I know I have to wait in queues for the luggage, there will be chose outside, auto-ricksha guy will ask for 100Rs for 2KM, but that's OK, ultimately I am back.
Well I am more happy because, I am goning my home town for Diwali. I can't afford to miss diwali at my home, where all of my cousin brothers and sisters and nephews etc, we all will have a great time together. So going home is increasing my feel good factor exponentially.

So we will meet, after Diwali.
दीपावली की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं।

Trip to Niagara Falls

Last weekend we went to thousand islands and niagara falls.
Lots of fun and adventure from the starting of the trip itself. We allmost missed the bus, as we were totally lost in boston. We had reach the starting point at 6:45, and we were allmost there at 6:15. But since we had to park our car, a guy told us that you can park at south station and he showed the way, but I guess we misunderstood the way, we reached somewhere else, and then onwards we were just going here and there, but our destination. We went to a tunnel, after paying $3 (Rs120), from there we reached to north of boston again. It was allready 6:50. Now time was slipping from our hands. Bus had to start at 7. I decided to somehow reach the I93 highway again, from there we knew the way. Somehow we reached to beach road, where we found parking lot. I parked my car, in a smal passage, as a inch left or right, and car will get good look. When I parked, I found that, I cant open the door. Somehow I tried to come out from wondow. Then I pushed the button to close the window, and rapidely got my hand out of it. It was 7:15, and the guide was waiting for us eagerly.
So, बाल बाल बच gaye.
More about the trip later sometime।
Here are the pix

My trip to Mount Washington

Well, fall has started here, so it's time to go out somewhere in new hampshire. Now we heard that, there is a white mountain seriese, which is good to visit in NH. Then our coleague told that there is mount washington there which has nice view but the weather there is unstable. He told you can drive till up, or you can take the train.
But I and my friend Bharat decided to go to the top by trakking. We started early at around 6-7. But since we didn't know the rout, reached on the base at around 1;15. Now the lady at informatin centre told us that, we won't be able to make it, as it's 8 hour round trip. But we started with full josh, and reached till allmost top, at 3:15. Since I had no experiance of driving at night, I wanted to go down early, so we can finish our half journey to home before dark. We spent around 15 minutes at that local maxima, and started to came back.
The overall trip was a great fun. Very nice weather, nice landscapes in journey. It was tiring also. I realized that my stemina has decreased so much that, I was fully tired in the middle itself.

Here are the snaps.

Next day when I checked my weight, I had lost 3 KG, wow I was very happy, but one day later I checked and saw 1kg came back.

Me in U.S.

I am in USA for about a month. I came here at 20th sept.
We landed at Boston. Well I was exited about this trip. First few things I noticed in USA which are different than India:

• Cars, cars and cars: It looks like there is no human here. Afteer coming out of airport. I hardly saw people. We went to our appartment nobody was there. We went to office nobody is there in building. On the roads nobody is there but cars.
• Everybody does all his work: Since there is lack of man power (looks like), everybody does all his work. When I told people here that, in India there is a maid for cleaning my room and washing the cloths, another for cooking and there are couple of security guards in the apartment, for them it was like a great luxuary. Here you have to clean your house by yourself, cook yourself, wash cloths yourself (well everyone has washing machine). So after living few days here, it looks like you are like King in India. In India, in petrol pump there would be a guy to fill the tank, one to take money from you may be one for putting oil on you scooter another one for air. Here you have to do all by yourself.
  
• Automation: Most of the things are automatic here, so you don't need human assistance. No wonder India is having more and more outsoeced projects.
• There is no lack of space: In Bangalore, there is high fight for space. You need to park your car in small corner of the building. All the houses are sticked to each other. Here atleast in andover which is a suburbe of Boston, there is lot of space. In our office, the parking space is double than total work space. In bangalore we have 2 floors of parking and 9 floors of work in single area. Here lot of space for parking, only 3 floors for office, and lots of greenery.
  

And the list doesn't stop here. Overall it looks completely different to be here.