A Fun filled trip

I need to tell you about two trips where I had so much fun recently.
One was in my native town, Coimbatore, where we wanted to take a short trip to Anuvavi Subramanya swamy temple on a Sunday. It has been so many years (nearly 15 yrs or so) since I visited that temple. It is situated in a very serence place.
There are no shops, no offices, not much of houses also nearby. It was a pleasant weather (it had rained in the afternoon). But to our disappointment, the temple was closed. Reason: invasion by wild Elephants from the hills. Just 10 mins, before our arrival, a huge tusker had come and almost terrorized people. This is the place where the tusker was standing. A person who was there earlier had shot the movements of the tusker and showed us the video image. What a huge tusker it was. My God. They were running for cover too :).
It seems that people with kids and families were stuck above the hill inside the temple for almost 2 hours. During summer season, it is very common for the elephants to visit these places and at times create havoc in the houses in the nearby area. We tried going upstairs to half way, but everyone advised us against it, lest the elephant shud come and create more trouble for us.
So we left the place after waiting for sometime to see if it would come back and since it didnt we thought of visiting an Swamy Dayanand Ashram in the nearby Anaikatti area. It was so calm and peaceful that we were so relaxed. But since we didnt have much time, we just lazed around for a while and came back.


The other trip was to Innovative Film city in Bangalore, which was organized from our office. I was never much of a person who would enjoy in such places as IFC or MGM for instance. I remember the time when we went from our college to MGM and for almost 3 hrs I was waiting outside, because I dont play much. But this trip to IFC was totally different. I enjoyed the Wax museum, Ripleys believe it or not, Skates (where I had enough falls and injured by thumb, it is still swollen), 4D movie, Mirror maze and very specially Haunted Mansion. We had so much fun particularly in the Haunted Mansion and the Mirror Maze. Aqua kingdom brought me some nightmares but was fun. I also tried my hand at singing in Karaoke. It was so bad, and it wasnt that good either. But I was happy that I got to do that. We had so much fun and it was so relaxing. I was always hesitant to go out in such trips. But this was really an eye opener. I needed such relaxation after a tiring and depressive friday. Well altogether it was a wonderful trip.

See you later, bye for now.

Long Drive

I know that it has been too long since I have last blogged :) but well that is how I blog ;)

Actually this time, we again had functions at home (read Wedding and its related customs) and with work pressures and all, it was difficult to keep blogging.

What made me blog now ? It was the long drive which I recently enjoyed in my home town. It has been some time now since I went on a long drive in a two wheeler (either scooter or bike) and when I recently went on a long drive, say about 25 kms, I remembered how much I enjoyed long drives. And that too if it was a very scenic one, who wouldnt. With the big Nilgiri mountains spreading on one side of the road and the farms and farm houses spread across the other side, with tamarind trees on both sides of the road, and cool air breezing through your hair locks.

There are a few trips which I made in my two wheeler in Bangalore which I really enjoyed that I remember every second of it. I might sound bit crazy , but it is very strange how even trivial things (and at time maddening for some) as a drive through a city in the traffic at times can be so pleasing for some aint?

Once we made a trip from Bannerghatta Road via the Outer ring road to Marathahalli and then from there to Ulsoor and then to Rajajinagar and back to Bannerghatta Road, and I was driving all along and it was I guess Friday or Sat evening (if I remember correctly). We started at around 4 pm and ended up home @ 11 pm. :). This was my first ever long drive and I almost went round the city and that is why may be I remember it so well.

Well it was helluva trip and it was me, who was driving and even though we had terrible traffic in a few places, I enjoyed the drive throughout, even though the next few days I had a slight pain in my hands ;)

I wish I could do more of such drives. I love this stretch of road that comes on the way to Mrudeshwara, where we have the sea on the left side and either a backwater or a river on the other side. What a pleasure would it be to drive on such roads. Hmm...

'Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination' ~ David Russell
“All of life is a journey which paths we take, what we look back on, and what we look forward to is up to us. We determine our destination, what kind of road we will take to get there, and how happy we are when we get there.”