Bored today....

Well today began with me waking up late and staring at the TV that was off... I immediately started ruffling the bedsheets to check if the remote was somewhere there. Couldn't find it.
So started looking at the window - boring view again.
Was extremely tired of getting out of bed...

Jungle Safari - A week in Dandeli forest, Karnataka

It was chilling and already dark when we reached the Kulgi forest in Dandeli, Karnataka. We had planned a trip to this forest in the last week of December 2007. We were a group of 12 people from Pune.

It was a fresh and crisp weather - a very predictable one. The air - just a breath of it, blended with scents of from the woods, flowers and the moist earth was enough to refresh my spirits.
We went off to sleep immediately, as we had a Nature trek :) scheduled at dawn.

Mornings are a jump-start in such beautiful surroundings, as compared to the drowsy feel you have when you wake up at home. You get to wake up with the sounds of the jungle creatures. Since I enjoy light treks, this one was delightful. Walking amidst dense jungle, observing the trees, nests, flowers is something that we never get to experience in cities. Monkeys are a common sight in these forests. After a 3 km walk we came to a small hill with water flowing nearby, and there! people in my group saw a pair of spotted deer. They gave a typical squeal when they saw us and ran away to safety.

After returning from this supberb trek we were all charged up for our next destination - Syntheri Rocks! this is a huge rock formation at the bottom of which a spring originates. It is an excellent site to see, however it is extremely dangerous for anyone to venture into the waters.
In this jungle you get to visualize the rare scene where dew drops condense and fall down, giving an impression of a rainy morning! Simply fantastic!

Well, we slept for only a few hours to rise at 4.30 am sharp for our Jungle safari! A very first one by me!We were expecting to see some tigers on the way... were planning to click a few snaps, modeling near it :) While our guide asked us to keep our voices low, he was looking for animals at their most frequented places.
It had been almost 1.30 hrs now and we hadn't spotted anything apart from monkeys... I was begining to feel dejected. (I had heard that 2 other groups had had no luck with the safari's they had.) I took to watching different types of trees... birds, etc. And just then by sheer luck I spotted an Elephant at some distance behind some huge trees. It was a huge creature, calm and moving with natural grace.I pointed it out to our group. It was immensely exciting to see a wild animal in its habitat, eating away leaves from a huge tree. Unfortunately since we created some yelping noises... the poor guy got scared and ran for his life :( After this we got to see a pea-hen jumping into the tall grass, a fox who I mistook for a dog sitting on the road :) (my dad identified it from its tail). We also saw colourful birds - hornbills, bluebirds, etc.

The week in this forest was the most exciting experience that I've had in my life, away from the city's concrete jungle, pollution, crowds leaving no space to walk .... and the list goes on and on and on...

Is one lifetime enough?

After a long long time I am watching the sun set. Within the gray-white interiors of my office, I had almost forgotten how it feels to see something as miraculous as a simple sunset. The fluorescent skies, the river, the dark shadows and the birds, everything seems perfect.
This 45 minute drive home seems like a never-ending one today. It's Friday, the weekend. Lots of plans, lots of things on mind. Two days to myself! Ah no, its two days and an evening! But are they enough?
I wonder how many colors there are in the skies that I have not seen yet, so many different places yet unvisited, interesting people that I have not met so far. So much to do, so much to achieve, right here, right now. Sometimes I can’t help thinking….. Is one lifetime enough?

I am Unique! And so are YOU !

Sometimes to look someone in the eye and be not tensed - is difficult. Why does this happen? Do we feel guilty about something? Or is it plain shyness? Do we think we are inferior to them? Are some humans really superior to others? Who decides? What are the criteria? Why isn't this comparison done based on criteria where we are better than the other person? I think there is always something at which a person is very good at. However the funny part is, at such times there is some other person somewhere who is better at this very same thing. Then again ;) search another quality within you at which you are better than this very same person. And so on. The basic fundamental here is you have combination of various qualities. You may not be THE BEST at all or any of these, but it is the combination of your qualities and 'gifts' - that matter. It is UNIQUE. YOU ARE UNIQUE. So never be bogged down. So please remember…

"You are unique, ISN'T EVERYONE ;) "

Near death

Hard to describe the BLACK day. Me and mom were returning home from a long trip by train. we reached up on the railway foot over bridge. Both of us had huge bags. The bridge was damn crowded with ppl comin' in from all sides. and just in the midway i lost complete control of my bag. It was being pulled in the opposite direction. mom was way somewhere ahead. I decided to let go of the bag and get outta the crowd or else i'd be in a huge stampede. But it was more and more difficult to move.
i'thought this was it, my last day on the planet. then i saw my mom struggling in the crowd moving towards me. a look at her i gave me some courage to move ahead and finally we were out of the whole mess. in a few minutes cops took control of the situation. We began descending 20 mins later.

After some time we got to know the reason for this mad rush.
The announcements for 2 long route express-trains was incorrect, and was corrected later, causing havoc.
Whatever the reason. i sincerely thank GOD for saving me and my mom that day.

University of Pune, Main Building

University of Pune, Main Building
Originally uploaded by kavita31.

This is the main building of Pune University. It has a B-E-A-Utiful campus, with lush greenery. Its a paradise in Pune. My 2 years here are the most memorable ones in my life.

Hi this is for the crazy movie channel viewers!!!!

Hi all,

All right!!! Theres a limit to everything. Take for example, the good ol'movie "Terminator" and its sequels, aka T1 T2 T3.

I have seen these tonnes of times, on Star movies and also on HBO. Actually what i think is, that there's a secret pact, between both the above channels in India. Either its a cold war or else they have nobel thoughts of thoroughly educating the viewer, on all the aspects of the Terminator character. Thus when T1 is playing on Star movies... T2 is being telecast on HBO, simultaneously... Really!!! I mean it. It has happened all the time. Similarly vice versa is also true.


Same is the case with the "The Mummy " and "The mummy returns". They too are always being telecast parallelly.
Such is the height of repeatation that, me and my younger sister mute the volume and start saying the dialogues for the characters. Now, you might ask.. why they hell do we bother to watch it then? The simple answer is... all this is fun. Consider this, we can say whatever dialogues, (mostly inappropriate and out of context ones) we want during the scene (since we know what the next frame will be). We can learn a lot by looking at the guys other than the main characters. eg. in T2, do we look at the video games machines and the games they are made for while watching for the first time or second. Thankfully now we can!!!

So the basic point here is, (actually theres no point to all this, but i didnt find a way to conclude this) although these channels earn money .. .they do so by educating the ignorant masses like us. So one day when these movies are added to the school syllabus... we will surely excell.
Bye.