Mangalore…..
Mangalore is one nice place….. You know whenever I get bad week of work in Chennai; I jus take my train to Mangalore…. It was the same last week end… I was like workin all days and nights in and out…. And I desperately needed a good weekend…. Where I will forget the website…. Its Mangalore again.
This time it was not a lone travel. I had a company Mr Kannan. I had my train @ 5 in the evening, I thought of taking a leave … but our beloved boss Maddy was relieving on the same day… so I cancelled my leave to accommodate a lunch @ Manshuks’
(I am being vegeterianized … ppl around are tryin to find a goat in me… but I wont give up)
But I end up in troubles….. I was changing the content in some e-mailer till 4.30 … I got my train @ 5… I messed it up this time around too… I pinged davis , told him … “Central in 15 Mins… ?”. He said “yes… lets go…”…. And I jumped off… literally ran out of office… I found a empty purse when I reached central (again)…. The SBI ATM didn’t accept my credit and debit cards (again)… I will be running in some platform to catch hold of some coach (again)…. You know these things have happened so many times that I eventually got used to all of em…. Finally got some cash outta the Canara bank ATM and got into the train in the last minute.
At last made it…. Found that kannan anna was surprised to see me… he was very amazed, that I at least made it to there…. (The things that we came across in train were supposed to be published here… but due to strict restrictions of Google regarding NC-17 Rated content. I am not able to publish more on this). There was not much entertainment… there were some nice scenaries…. But
- My N72 ran out-of battery
- Anna K810i ran out of battery
- The Digi cam ran out-of battery
- The Back-up batteries in Digicam were also empty
- I did buy a AA Alkaline batteries…. They too didn work in that digi-cam.
- The only thing which had some amount of battery was anna’s T610 which had 20/30% power but it went off by the time it was morning.
So no pics on our way to mangalore. The only entertainment on the train was over in Calicut. We got cute 4 yr old kid and his dad boarding in salem. That kid was my company till mangalore… very naughty guy.
We reached managlore to find a fat guy (yes deepak has doubled in size). We went to room, took bath, anna met some of his friends.Friends -> Shopping, Did some nice amount of shopping. Did have a good time while shopping purses (J). Then went back to room. From Room to Beach, it’s a pleasure watching the sunset at the beach. It’s a real pleasure… we took some beautiful snaps… we had food somewhere and returned room. Indian/Bangladesh match was goin on…. We lost, I slept.
Nothing spl in Mangalore other than ice creams…. Had so many of these ice creams that I eventually got tired of eating ice-creams…. So –many … ppl here should be stupid….
Took the train back home exactly at the last minute… travel back was dull nothing spl…I was clicking snaps all the way…. So many of them, I had a target of clicking 500 snaps, but I could only make some 160 odd. Something special here… the train stopped at some unknown station in karnatake… i desperately needed some water/coke and some food. so i got down and ask ordered for the same.. this shoopkeeper guy was packing em up for me.. i was staring at a beautiful face stiitng out there… all of a sudden this girl comes up to me askin… will this train take me to mangalore…. (i was like… oh shit… if you told this earlier… i wouldn have left to managlore… ). i told her the way out…. by time the train had started… i forgot to notice the horn sound in the discussion… i quickly got my things and got the change…and had to catch the train on the run. but i had forgot the “Lays Pack” …. 15 Rs Loss…. forget it… while in train , I learnt the fact the late night temperatures in tamil nadu is lot-lot lower thane the temperatures in Kerala/Karnataka.
We reached Chennai in good time… I reached home, I had brought some macrons. They had an excellent response in my office. And work started as usual….. ha ha…
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Risky Travel
Yup, its bangalore again…. I missed out to blog on pondy trip (31/dec), there wasn’t much action out there…. so its bangalore again on this edition of my travel blogs…..
Bangalore, Nice place, cool, serene, peaceful city… people live in fun and masti ….. This definition matches all except in case you are from Tamil Nadu or mistakenly speak Tamil… If you are a tamilian and you luv to speak tamil, bangalore becomes the most uninhabitable place to live in…. Especially when some cauvery issue breaks outta court.
I travelled this time exactly during the announcement of the cauvery river water case judgment… the result fortunately /unfortunately favored the tamilians, and I was traveling to bangalore from Chennai, friends and ppl at synap were telling me all sorts of stories about tamil people suffering in bangalore during the recent riots regarding the cauvery river case… But I was never really worried about all these…. You know when it comes to travel, I forget everything else…. I travel for the sake of traveling. I got my tickets online, but when I was trying to get a ticket back home, IRCTC website gave me a BULB (it usually happens). So I had to resort back to booking tickets in KSRTC. So this time I was sure that I will at least have a hassle free travel back home….. don’t be over excited, read on you will get to know the truth.
It was some lone Friday night (9th Feb), my train ticket was reserved for night 11:30 train starting from Chennai, which will drop me off in bangalore next day morning. I started outta office at some 10:30 with this guy called Davis (* a very good friend of mine at syanp, he is so good that he almost convinced me to cancel this trip) WE started off in his bike from office, on the way he started giving me all sorts of advices and nightmares of the situation of tamilians is in bangalore now… I was like saying this to myself “did I make a wrong choice???” … We landed at the station some 30 mins ahead of time …. Stupid thing again the ATM doesn’t work …. He started giving me weird advices that I never heard of before… He was saying words like…. “You are a great warrior Krishna … I have never seen sucha brave person like you !” ….. and I was like …”What? @#@#$” It was 11:29 at night and I was thinking… “Shall I cancel my trip now…. ?”Atleast I made up my mind Let whatever happen, I won’t give up…. And I BRAVELY said good bye to Davis….. I was feeling like a Boarding a Train to Islamabad during Kargil War …. 
I stepped into the train, took my berth, did speak a word with anyone, switched on my XpressMusic Player and slept, this guys reaches office and calls me up at 1 am asking “How come you are still alive….? I thought they would have bombed your train by now….?” …. I was saying… “Dai please da… don’t do this to me..“
Amidst all nightmares I managed to wake up alive in Bangalore station, Now I m all set to forget one language from my résumé…. Called up Deepak, spoke in hindi + english in a very low voice, hung up , just to notice that the guy sitting next to me was shouting at his son “Eadatha vittu navundhaey , konnu ea pottuduvaen” (I will kill you if you move)…. I felt like I did the dumbest thing on earth…. Ah I found this guy… Deepak traveled all the way from mangalore , he knows bangalore very well so he comfortable with the local transportation… I step out of the railway station and we head towards the tea-stall. All our communications are either in the dumbest version of hindi or fairly reasonable English. No tamil …. I felt like I landed in islamabad with some traditional Indian wear….
Now we headed to the rooms, the place was near somewhere…. I don’t know much about there… so leave it now… we managed to reach the hotel…. And atlast we found the place.. kannan anna was waiting for us. Rest, bath and sleep, food, coffee…
Were were all set to visit Infosys Bangalore., considered to be one of the world’s largest software campuses, Infy Bangalore is truly an exciting place. It was clicking all the way with our multi mega pixel mobile cameras… We did some shopping for eatables and were back on room. While coming back we took an auto, and I spoke with that auto guy in telugu…. That was really funny. Telegu is obviously my mother tongue, but you know first time in my life, I was like speaking my mother tongue for survival J. Next day we were at Indoor stadium for some event.
This is Sunday(11th Feb) night , I had my ticket booked for this night 11:20 Volvo bus from KSTRC, I was waiting till 10:40 ,, busses for 11:22, 11:30 etc have arrived but not mine… I was little worried, bcoz there was a local bandh here the next day for cauvery issue. Atlast the bus came… I boarded the bus.. and slept…
After a while…I hear some one shouting Koyembedu… I open my eyes…Its 5:20 AM My left leg is aching ,, probably I slept in some wrong posture…. I manage to snatch my bag and get down, I landed safe and fine in chennai…. I was so happy when I stepped down, I felt like I won a war against them…
The ground reality is that situation is not really that bad out there… But you need to be cautious at times. Jus keeping yourself updated of what’s going on will be enough. And regarding Tamil there are 100’s and 1000’s of them speaking Tamil with freedom out there… so don’t really need to panic …. But again be careful, speaking Tamil might end you up getting pissed off somewhere… But there is nt much to worry about… there aren’t much terrorists around.
Tags: Bangalore, College, deepak, Travel Blogs
Bangalore This Time
It has been long since i had posted any travel blogs. This one is for Bangalore TRIP, a relatively short one , and of course a miserable travel back. i don’t know how, but i have developed this weird affinity towards, facing hard times while traveling home, all the fun and enjoyment i get i traveling and visiting places gets lost in the way back home( Its like i m not happy to find my way home. )
This was in mid-December, i was already in between a hectic schedule. I was busy in some personal activities, new-site went live, was busy fixing up some new scripts that i wrote a couple of weeks back, etc… it was all busy times…. i really needed a desperate break and arun calls up one fine day saying that , he has an interview at some company in bangalore (*for those who dont know about Bangalore, more than
50% of the world’s blue chip companies run out of here…) and said like, he s moving alone and needed a company….. “why not, with pleasure….:-)” and here we go, i got the reason to slip outta chennai one more time….
I made it to the bus stand, very earlier than arun on that day, i was like waiting for this guy to come for close to an 30~40 mins…. i m very serious about timings…. i don’t like waiting for others, i will only make others wait…. he he , this guy made it very late…. we fortunately found some couple who were about to sell their tickets, got the tickets…. what next, board the bus…. it was close to 10:30 in the night… i thought we will reach comfortably by around 7/8…
ITs all old memories crepping in when the bus crossed Sastha Inst., ” College life was fun na…. ? i miss it badly …” it was around 11 odd then. I pulled on the bedsheet and went into sleep………………….damn,… . that driver halts the bus in 4:30 in the morning, 4:30 AM ….. :0….. imagine, i have never seen such a time in my life for more than 4 months…. and you are in Bangalore during december, just imagine the amount of chillness we would have felt…. i was shivering like anything .. my jaws were making a new music every time i tried to speak… We had to goto a place near kemp-fort, it was don’s brother’s home… so we called up don’s bro… he guided us to that place… we took an auto… we told the auto driver, not to go very fast as we were already shivering….. never in my life i have seen an auto driver flying through the city roads… he was cruising in 60’s and 70’s…. atlast he stopped near some kids shopping mall…. someone had opened a tea dhukaan outside… wow… tea… tea means fun…. and having a tea in that climate is like crazy. we went to that place… i slept for some time.. had some nice breakfast made by don’s anna… arun in the meanwhile slipped for the interview…. i ran through the streets a couple of times but did nothing….
Arun came back from the interview…. we headed to the shopping mall… did some jaldi-jaldi shopping…. i wont forget what arun asked for in the shopping mall…. I was desperatley searching for some toys for a 1 year old kid…. while .. he was searching the same for a 25 yr old kid ( what he calls as ‘boy’ ?)… amazing…. the salesman was stumped when we asked we need a toy to play for a 25 yr old….. then arun says ‘boy’ …. (I will give you the choice to guess who that 25 yr old kid is…?) …. forget it … kemp-kids reduced the thickness of my credit card by a few millimeters…..
Now its time to do some routine shopping…. we stepped out with don’s bro and his friends…. JP, kathir, etc… we ran thru… all city malls…. BG road… city center/…..lots of other places…. and the gud thing is … were never bought anything…. thats the spirit of shopping….
wat else… lets find our way home….. sweet home….. but how is the question… this is severely unplanned travel… i didn book any tickets, neither did arun…. i had to be in office the next day… i din have a choice…. We went to bus-stand… trying to find some unknown travels… jus to get them saying “NO TICKETS”… we were feeling very hungry… so we thought of having some food… and continue the ticket searching…. food …. one bad thing about karnatake… food is always worser than your least expectations…. nothing changes here… we managed to have what others called as food… and continued our ticket searching…
We found some guy who was selling tickets for some unknown travels company… i bought the tickets…. and we ended up walking some 5 kms to get to the place where the buses stop for that “unknown travel company”.,… arun is one guy , who worries about comfort, quality and brand… in my travel dictionary these words never exist…. “So no matter, what he says , or whatever i feel….. i was not gonna worry about it”… and that “Unknown-travels” guy…. takes so much time to bring out buses…. that u end up going pissed off by their service…. but theres’nt much of a choice either….
We ended up in chennai by some 5~6 am in the morning….. thats all for this edition of my travel blogs…. will catch u in some other place….
Tags: Arun, Bangalore, Krishna, Travel Blogs
Thing You find only in Mangalore
Managalore Engleesh
The City Traffic Police is using Eggjelent engleesh par itz Safety Hoardings … have a look at this
25 NayaPaisa
I didnt have an opportunity to use 25 Paise coin for the past couple of years…. i dont even remember the last time when any one use the denominations in 25 paise and 75 paise… Bu when i came to mangalore… i was astonished that people here still use 25 Ps and 75Ps as denominations… here are some the sample bus tickets … (NOTE the values 325 and 375 denote the numbers in paise not in ruppees [esp for chennaitees]…)
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Mangalore Nagaram….
Mangalore Nagaram….
I jus wanted to jump out of chennai for a weekend, thought of going to mangalore but tickets were not available,but i desperately needed a break out of this flyover-city, i had very few reasons to travel 1), to meet deppak 2),i want to travel because i love traveling, at last found a ticket through tatkal in some coach bound to mangalore which will drop me there at 5 am on sunday….
Sunday 4:45 AM
A Lightning of noise awakes me i turn down from my upper berth jus to see an empty seats, wow, i have reached mangalore, its shivering now, i rang up deepak he said he was on the way, i packed the stuff that i brought with me, came down, its stupid man, unbelievable i saw the railway clock , it ticks 4:45 ( the train is supposed to arrive at 5:15), for a second i got confused as if the train has stopped in some other station and it would leave to mangalore now, but i turned back to confirm that its mangalore only…. the recent hike to railways’ guys is paying off in gold for us…
While getting down itself i get a message on my mobil saying that i have a meeting with my CEO scheduled on Tuesday 10:00 am, I have to be in chennai on monday morning at ANY COST… So my deadline was to take the 1:10 chn mail from here to chennai on monday morning …. so i have been allocated 30+ hours to enjoy …
Deepaq came down to pick me up…. we headed to his place, a nicely furnished room, had chat about latest updates in both our lives, went for bath an then headed to beach (dont ask me the names), it was nice place, great beach guys i ll update fotos as soon as i get their soft copies, the beach was very close to the port , we saw a big ship crossing in front of us, dont know why I started to develop some kinda of HATRED towards SHIPS…. i saw a restaurant nearby the beach , i said we can have some dinner over said , deepak said we can have it near his office, i told we can have it here, bcoz i was very hungry, i didnt eat much during travel also… BIG MISTAKE i did, food was as horrible as ever… checkout deepaks’s blog for a detailed description… We then headed to his office , INFOSYS Mangalore , It was cool man… great building, interiors, facilities.. the company was nice…. we took some snaps , he would need some for his orkut….
5 hours katham, 25 left
Then We did some shopping had some famous ice-cream, whose names i never knew, dont even know that anyone else back home will know… We headed to meet that FaztArithmetic Guy, i wanted the meeting to end in five minutes , it lasted for more that some 1 or 2 hours… man this guy ate a huge chunk of my time…. when we stepped off his office it was raining and raining cats, dogs, donkeys, and cows tooo… chalo… its has been long since i last got wet in chill rain, enjoy that one tooo… at last we found some auto to drop us in the bus stop that will take us to udippi,
One crazy thing about Mangalore… Auto-Rickshaws run on meters.. unbelievable stuff na… believe me or not this guy charged us with 18 Rs… i dont even remember last time i got a auto in chennai for less than 20 rs…
15:45 (Sat)
We took some odd bus to Udippi Which will leave us in udippi terminus, we had lunch before we took of for the bus, went to udippi beach … (aval parandhu poonaley …. udippi beach povarey bus le oru ponnu… marakka ve mudiyaley)… went to the beach … enjoyed the sunset in beach … first time in my life i m having the sight of sunset at the beach …..(back in chennai-east coast its only sun rise by the beach) took some awesome snaps with the indian ocean….
19:45 (Sat)
We headed to manipal …. still dont know why we went there…. thought of finding some nice place to eat… but ended up finding that manipal is not tourist friendly place ( i mean in terms of navigation and pathfinding). We had to resort back to mangalore very quickly … so that we can at least find some proper place to eat , its a 2 hours travel from here and the roads are the worst in the record…..
21:45 (Sat)
In the bus we found this tamil girl… aiiyo avaliyum marakka mudiaythu…. 2 hours non stop discussion…. about nothing but useless stuff… we get down and say … bye bye
Back to mangy… now we had rush in to some hotel for FOOD… Food for survival… got one… and learnt a lesson… Kannidiga Biriyani’s are the worst preparations of biriyani in the whole world… dont ever bother to try it… its that horrible….
Get back to sleep…. The next day i will have to find my way hometown….
In the bus we found this tamil girl… aiiyo avaliyum marakka mudiaythu…. 2 hours non stop discussion…. about nothing but useless stuff… we get down and say … bye bye
Back to mangy… now we had rush in to some hotel for FOOD… Food for survival… got one… and learnt a lesson… Kannidiga Biriyani’s are the worst preparations of biriyani in the whole world… dont ever bother to try it… its that horrible….
Get back to sleep…. The next day i will have to find my way hometown….
09:00 (Sun)
We went to a place called sultan battery to take some nice snaps…. and headed to railway station…. Nothing spl on trains… Nothing Spl on train, except for the fact that i had to travel through kerala and lots of college girls are returning back to their hostels after their weekends…. Found a friend on the trains , he was a 70 year old , we discussed a lot about the young age comparing with what that guy used to do when he was of my age….
We went to a place called sultan battery to take some nice snaps…. and headed to railway station…. Nothing spl on trains… Nothing Spl on train, except for the fact that i had to travel through kerala and lots of college girls are returning back to their hostels after their weekends…. Found a friend on the trains , he was a 70 year old , we discussed a lot about the young age comparing with what that guy used to do when he was of my age….
Back to chennai… Back to home… a Fast brush and a lightning quick bath… Meet the Web Master, Synaptris.com in the mirror… and get to back office… and life restarted as usual but on a different role….
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