At last . . . traveled on Hosur road flyover !
Really it was like, dream come true, atleast for those who have been traveling on hosur road from past 5+ years or so. Should say, man it took ages anyway better late than never, right
I was going to Habbal from Ecity, so initially thought of going via jail road(aka hosa road),outer ring road but last moment decided to take hosur flyover. No toll charge was being collected and heard will continue to be toll free for some more days. I would definitely suggest all of you traveling near by to have a test drive on this. You can’t believe, it just took around 7 min from EC main entrance till silk board junction. Might be because, it’s was night time but I think, on an average one can easily clock 80kmph.
Just to mention, off late it was not really that horrible traffic on hosur road. Thanks to NICE corridor connecting Hosur road and Tumkur road. So I guess, many people still don’t mind traveling on the hosur road considering the proposed toll charges. I heard, plan is to collect around Rs.10 for two-wheelers, Rs.30 for four-wheelers. Looks like bit expensive, atleast for daily travelers.
Note: am writing this from Opera Mobile on my Nokia E51

Sharing few snaps !
[update 12th Dec]
Sitting idle inside hospital, I have tried to change baby’s hair style… he he, is it Ghazni look alike

[update 1st Nov]

Currently, we are in Kochi for some training. It’s hard to explain but I should say, Kerala is the place one should visit in his lifetime.When u look outside from the train window while entering the kerala boarder, you will feel the difference.Typical overcast condition with all sides looking green. Drizzling for some time and again sunshine,these are just few key points which I noticed.
But wait a moment, it’s been a week and we already started feeling the pinch. condition is hot and humid.It’s really uncomfortable for the people who are not used to this kind of weather. We are into a long weekend(being Monday holiday).
On Saturday evening, we had been to MG Road and had a heavy diner at Woodlands’s Rangoli
And, yesterday, we had been to 3.5hr boat journey which just covers some typical tourist spots like dutch pallace etc. The trip was OK kind of. Posting some snaps.

BTW, Will be returning back to blore this week end(i.e. 26th Sept). But the plan is to again come back to Kochi in Oct 2nd and 3rd week.

Probably, this has to be the longest trip inside Karnataka and indeed a memorable one. Whole trip was completely unplanned and free style
Only thing which we had in our mind is, to spend some time in and around Udapi-Mangalore.

On Wed,24th Dec, our journey started from Bangalore-To-Mangalore in Sharma travels. (more…)

Recently we had been to a place called Yercaud, popularly known hill station near Salem, Tamil Nadu. Initially, the plan was to visit Hogenakkal falls and drive back to B’lore. But then, after finishing the regular tasks at Hogenakkal, the majority is of the opinion, to visit some other places near by. Since it was the long weekend, so all agreed. We checked with one of our Tamilnadu friend, he suggested a Hill station “Yercaud”

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It’s been a while, I did not update this BLOG due to so and so reasons
Yes, sort of hibernation after I returned to Bangalore in December.
Now, me again, back to Shanghai. Though, it’s for a very short time. From today i.e 1st May to 3rd May, it’s holiday time in CHINA. No plans as of now. I am waiting for my return tickets, will be flying back to Bangalore this weekend.

I forgot to write something about Diwali which we somehow tried to celebrate in Shanghai, faaaaaaaaaaaar away from our families
This is infact my 3rd Diwali in Shanghai and it was indeed happening.
At first, attended Pooja at Mr. Ramapathi’s place. Then we went on to tryout some crackers. We thought of firing the crackers on Zhong Hua Xin Road. There is a big footpath which we targeted. To be safe, we did check with Shanghai traffic police regarding this. They said, we may fire crackers after they leave from that place. They did not want us to fire crackers when they are on duty
Anyway, at 10PM they left and then we fired lots of crackers… It was real fun
Check these snaps . . .

This time, holiday started with the woman’s football final “Brazil Vs Germany”. We had tough time in searching for the black tickets outside the stadium. Somehow got the tickets for 150RMB each. When we entered the stadium, the match has already begun. It was so amazing, lush green and the lights
We were cheering for Brazil but unfortunately they lost. Germany defeated Brazil with 2-0. Anyway, we really enjoyed it.
Then we roamed around some of the standard tourist spots like Nanging Road, People square, Bund etc. On Saturday we went to Shanghai science and technological museum. 4D movie was too good. All ‘n’ all had a nice holiday

Thanks to both Soapcast and pklivecricket.blogspot.com.
What a match… India Vs Australia semi final went down to the wire
Chasing 188 with around 10 runs per over Australia were really in a driving seat till 15th over. And then comes the magician, Bajjhi… he bowled that magic 18th over in which he went just under may be 6 runs and took the wicket of Clarke.
Anyways…that’s it, Indians have pulled off an amazing win, a win by 15 runs to storm into the Final, and will meet arch rivals Pakistan!!!
Had a gr8 time watching the match late night… it’s almost 3.30am here, so a very good morning Shanghai

So me again back to Shanghai and the story “Me and My Laptop” continues
Yesssssss, the trip started with a BANG, typhoon Wifa. After 2 days of horrible wind and rain, today it seems to be bit normal. This time staying in an apartment just 5min walk from our office. Nothing special to mention. Here comes just another weekend.