Saturday, September 01, 2007

Treeful of Kingfishers !

Beer Tree - planted by some hopeful drunk morons. Grows beers every monsoon. Location : Fort Avchitgad, Roha.Dist. Raigad, Maharashtra.

P.S. The fruits were plucked and disposed. Nevertheless, you can try your luck :p

Mf***g Bloodsucking Leech


This bloodsucker latched onto me today at Thoseghar. I had got "at least" three of these m*frs on me as far as I knew. I had not seen a leech ever before in my life. When I asked the forest guard at the office when I spotted some weird creature in my socks : "Are there any leeches here". The answer was YES. After a while he pointed out to this one on the floor and said, THIS WAS ON YOU, you might not figure out now where it bit you but late at night you sure will.

And now I come back home after 9 hours to find I am bleeding right at my waist. Yes a narrow escape. He said a Leech latching on "THERE" could be the biggest nightmare a MAN can ever have...
Still bleeding as hell. Btw these m**rs just spit this blood out after a while when they think they have had enough, and no matter how much you stomp on them etc. they just don't die. Never push your luck with these m**f**g leeches :-(

Friday, August 24, 2007


Ready to eat Bhuttas - A hutment enroute Fort Visapur admist heavy rains. Heavenly. 18th August 2007
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Friday, December 29, 2006



A happy face popularly known as Chuck from our Mahabaleshwar-Pratapgad excursion this Thursday. Chuck is a multi-talented individual. In his spare time he composes Telugu songs and sings them well too.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Getting a chance to put down something after a while. Keeping busy lately. A plugfest I attended in Taiwan and then work has been pretty overwhelming. Though the Author is not here to brag about his workload. Other thing that has been keeping me busy these days is matrimony. YES. Et tu Author !!

I would write a conventional/traditional/philosophical constipated rant about it later. I would write about people we all love to hate during this whole matrimony thing.... Our parents. Though during this whole process I came across variety of specimens which I am trying to classify and thats the focus of this post.

Disclaimer1: Author is not a disgruntled specimen in this market. The author is a tall handsome individual who earns well beyond the average salaries for an average IT joe and his profile statistics reflect that too. The female readers of this blog are encouraged to leave their contact details in the comments field :-)

Disclaimer2: No chicks were harmed during the writing of this blog post. If it turns out that all the characters here are real then any coincidence is a work of fiction and WUI [ writing under influence ].

Either case, coming back to the thesis - So the categories roughly go as

1] Rohini Hattangadi Types - Well just by the looks actually. Secondly this variety has not yet lost the baby fat. Has some time on hands [ 23 yr old or something ] for the parents to be alarmed reasonably and the realization to sink in that you arent drop dead gorgeous.

2] Miss Cheap Chick TM - This one looks wise is oppositte of former one. Yes she is good. Though she is dumb. Which did not get her a job in campus at college. Miss Cool does not secure a bf from college. Age wise this specimen falls in the same league as Ms. Hattangadi. Now the work at hand this one has is to register on these portals and work on the GRE.
Typical demands are - Settled in US, State - Any. When the demands are not met, this specimen resorts to Guirella tactics and drops the whole thing.

3] Miss Cheap Cheek [ Ulhasnagar finished Miss Cheap Chick TM ] - This one is undereducated, ghastly in appearence. Though the expectations match miss Cheap Chick TM.

4] The NGO Types - She is the most sweet mannered chick AKA Gayatri Joshi in Swades except her looks. She has excellent written and verbal communication skills. Though she is too nice for a lazy cheap psycho like the Author.

5] The multiple personality disorder chick [ AKA Miss Edward Norton from Primal Fear ] - This one has conflicting statements in two versions of her profile across portals. Especially around the smoker and boozer..err...drinker field. Typically this one makes a nice trophy page 3 wife.

6] The Crossdresser Chick - Guys who are bad at filling up the sex field at these websites.

7] The Little Red Riding Hood Chick - Typically, the chick's baap, bhai etc hiding behind the PYT. Very dangerous variety.

Stay tuned for more ...

Monday, September 25, 2006

BCCI - I am back !!

They have a portal called www.bcci.tv where they claim that their website is coming soon. How soon ? I guess it would be when Duke Nukem forever would be released.

Apart from ICC there is something called asian cricket council. Well apparently as per the ACC website the BCCI head-office is still SK Nair's house. Check this page on ACC website.

Check this page at Marylebone cricket club [ MCC - Lords ] website. SK Nair strikes back.

Check this page on Newzealand cricket website. Even Bangladesh cricket has a website. Hongkong cricket has a website. Whats wrong with BCCI? And whats with SK Nair? Wake up Pawar, we arent that dumb. Gone are those days. Face the flak. Wherever the office is..update the address dude. Even Kiran More is gone now. Why have Nairs name there ..

I sincerely request all you guys to drop SK Nair the ex-secretary an email at the email ID mentioned below and ask him what was he thinking when he put up HIS home address and this stupid email address called secbcci@sify.com [?] as BCCI contact details. Poor guy...not his fault. But I mean was he nuts when he did that?

Here is how the conversation would have went - when ICC/ACC/MCC wanted the contact details.

Timeframe - Navaratri - Durgapuja days
Location - Somewhere in Calcutta.

Nair - Mr $[Dal]miya, I got a "fax" from Malcom Speed. They say they need our contact details and web address.
$miya - Website? whats that? Why the fuck do they need that. Tell them people in subcontinent dont care about what-is-it-called..website..
Nair - Err Sir, there is this thing called Internet which is a series of tubes. Everyone has their address there these days and its required apparently.
$miya - Crap, whatever. Look I have to go. I got to go talk to the Ten Sports guys. Lot of $ at stake you see. Why dont you put your residence address for now on that Internet?
Nair - Err..Okey Sir. But they need an email address too sir.
$miya - Email address? What on earth is that? Look Nair I have to go its important.
Nair - ? ...Sir..
$miya - Okey, hey why dont you go talk to Saurav I guess he would know about it. Talk to him and figure it out. Afterall, if he is not doing good with the bat, he better be good with this whole email thing. Now I have to go, getting late..

[ And the rest is history. Not only Saurav solved Nair's problems, but he did create few for $miya too and he did all that using EMAIL ... ]

Disclaimer :

If sometime in future the BCCI guys are pissed off since I get the first hit on google [ which means they are idiots at SEO as well ] here is a cached link as an evidence.

The contact details for BCCI -

BOARD OF CONTROL FOR CRICKET IN INDIA

Kairali
GHS Lane
Manacaud
Trivandrum 695 009
Kerala India
Phone: ++91 471 476 893
Fax: +91 471 464 620
E-mail: secbcci@sify.com

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Apple and their ways !!

They send me this newsletter saying the Nano is available in new vibrant colors etc. They have upgraded the max capacity to 8G. The new Nano looks like a thinner version of Mini. Okey fine, I never wanted a PINK nano or something, but that makes me fear if the new ones make my black nano obsolete?

Well, there is a catch - Now the 4GB Nano no longer would be available in black. You need to get a 8G one. And all those vibrant colors are available only in 4GB version of new Nano.

History repeats itself. Apple has always made money on colors. Why do you think a black MacBook for same configuration is 200$ costlier than the white one?

My 4G black Nano is a prized possession. Thank you Apple !!

Sunday, September 17, 2006


Sunset on CA-1 at Big Sur.

Monday, September 04, 2006

Definitely dumb [male] ..


This guy almost got his bike to the base of Lohgad..trying to return after a failed attempt....beyond the good old Hotel Lohgad point..Background ..his gf...
They parked it *somewhere* and returned though ..

Sunday, September 03, 2006

Monday, August 21, 2006

Saturday, July 29, 2006

My Gulti Fan

Well, I have been packing up for my long ride home from SFO to MUMBAI, I returned my rental car today so weekends I am kinda locomotionless. I had procured enough fuel for the weekend anyway. So since its my turn to get bored and stoned, I decided to get onto yahoo chat. And since I was stoned I just got onto it onto the #India chatroom with my primary ID.

I use gaim for messaging, I like it. Gaim sucks at times with its tooltips getting stuck on a specific region of screen area. Today I noticed that even when I signed out of the chatroom gaim didnt log me out completely.
The author would like to dedicate the following post to the developers at http://gaim.sourceforge.net and the makers of Heineken who made this possible. The author is also greatful to Redpine Signals, for hiring the author for a period of 2003-2004, and letting the author discover the gulti mess called Hyderabad.
So, gaim didnt sign me out completely and it started a series of 99% gulti IMs when author was busy freeing up disk space for pr0n and consuming Heineken.

Disclaimer: I am least bothered to mask the IM Ids in the following conversation, if you try bug the author, you would be reported to yahoo. I dont know about the other man. Gult chicks, maybe you can try your luck. So here we go.

(04:28:25) ravi_kalla: hai

(04:28:35) ravi_kalla: how r u dear

[ Sounds like Ford ad.. Bold moves ha....dear and stuff? ]

(04:29:02) hemantaaa: im grate

[ Well I have to try my best to sound like a gult chick ]

(04:29:19) ravi_kalla: hello

(04:29:27) hemantaaa: hei

[ Even if it takes texting like a gulti ]

(04:29:39) ravi_kalla: where u fr
(04:29:51) ravi_kalla: wts grate???

[ Well whats hai idiot? If you can say hai, I can say I am "grate "]

(04:30:06) hemantaaa: grate..

(04:30:16) ravi_kalla: yyyyy

(04:30:25) ravi_kalla: y.....

[ Well he wants to say why? ..he wants to know why I am "grate "]

(04:30:33) hemantaaa: me frm hyd

(04:30:40) ravi_kalla: ok

(04:30:51) hemantaaa: y am grate?

[ Well what the hell. Do I have to explain why I am great? ]

[ Let me go grab another "grate" beer ]

(04:31:13) ravi_kalla: wts GRATE???

(04:31:41) : Buzz!!

[ Eager Beaver getting impatient]

(04:32:19) hemantaaa: u dont knw grate?

(04:33:15) ravi_kalla: dont know

(04:33:33) hemantaaa: its good

[ Enough "grate "ing the "coco" nuts here ..lets move on ]

(04:33:44) ravi_kalla: ok

(04:33:49) hemantaaa: ok

(04:34:03) ravi_kalla: asl plz

[ Bang on target, Dude ]

(04:34:19) hemantaaa: i tol you na im from hyd

(04:34:30) hemantaaa: y ask for l?

[ Trying some chick stuff, man ..I am enjoying this stuff ]

(04:34:51) ravi_kalla: wts u r name

(04:35:37) hemantaaa: its sailaja

[ Some gulti chick I know, or Swat"h"i would help too ]

(04:35:42) ravi_kalla: ok

(04:35:57) ravi_kalla: r u studying ?

(04:36:50) hemantaaa: i work

(04:36:51) ravi_kalla: iam also fr hyd

(04:36:55) ravi_kalla: ok

(04:37:10) ravi_kalla: iam also working in hyd

(04:37:11) hemantaaa: whre frm?

[ Man this stuff is difficult, its like unlearning all the english you learnt, all the way ]

(04:37:15) ravi_kalla: hyd

(04:37:37) hemantaaa: whre do u wrk?

(04:37:55) ravi_kalla: working in software

(04:38:24) ravi_kalla: hello $ u???

[ Whats that? He wants to know my salary? ]

(04:38:50) hemantaaa: wats that

(04:39:01) ravi_kalla: hello & U?

(04:39:05) hemantaaa: i dint get wat u say ravi

[ By calling the bakra by first name..the Author is trying to connect to the victim bakra on a personal level ...]

(04:39:11) ravi_kalla: where u r working

(04:39:32) hemantaaa: which company u wrkin for?

(04:39:41) ravi_kalla: igate

[ Honestly, looking at what this guy is upto, I wouldnt bother to even look around on web for this thing ]

(04:39:50) ravi_kalla: & u

(04:40:24) hemantaaa: i wrk for redpine

[ Moment of truth, Sailaja did work for Redpine ]

(04:40:36) hemantaaa: whres igate ravi

[ Again, the first name thing.. ]

(04:40:46) hemantaaa: is tht ur name?

(04:40:52) ravi_kalla: banjara hills

(04:41:00) ravi_kalla: ya ravi

(04:41:17) ravi_kalla: wts hemantaa means

(04:41:20) hemantaaa: were? rd no 2?

[ Well, having stayed there helps. Everyone knows Banjara hills, but go on..you'd figure out ]

(04:41:51) ravi_kalla: near prasad eye hospital

(04:42:09) hemantaaa: me too near lv prasad hospital

[ Thats where my Gulti employters had their office, back in 2003-2004]

(04:42:16) hemantaaa: weres ur office?

(04:42:36) ravi_kalla: where it is redpine ?

(04:43:12) hemantaaa: u knw sagr sceity

(04:43:24) ravi_kalla: YA I KNOW

(04:43:58) hemantaaa: weres ur office?


(04:45:17) ravi_kalla: opp telugu desamu party office

[ There was a random barron land that ChandraBabu Naidu the EX-CM converted into a park called KBR park, thats what is oppositte the party office ]

(04:45:36) hemantaaa: thers kbr park opp party office

(04:45:47) hemantaaa: ur ofice is in the park?

[ See, knowing hyd really helps. I am glad this dude came into my life tonight, I was so bored man ]

(04:46:18) ravi_kalla: near kbr park

(04:46:31) hemantaaa: k..

(04:46:47) ravi_kalla: y u asked about sagr society???

[ When did I ask man? I was telling you about it ]

(04:47:06) hemantaaa: bcaz my ofice is there

(04:47:37) ravi_kalla: ok

(04:48:29) hemantaaa: u know sagr society

(04:48:41) ravi_kalla: u r office near there u know about igate

(04:48:48) ravi_kalla: ya ikow

(04:48:53) ravi_kalla: i know

[ Ok dude, I can read, I am not deaf too ]

(04:49:03) hemantaaa: i donno abt igate

(04:49:11) ravi_kalla: ok then cool

(04:49:38) ravi_kalla: tell me about sagr society

[ Making a conversation ha? Whats there to know about that place? ]

(04:49:58) hemantaaa: can u tell me more abt igate..i can tell u abt sagr soceity

(04:50:16) ravi_kalla: ok wt details u want

(04:50:31) ravi_kalla: its a software compny

[ Making a conversation dude, You want to know about Sagar Society, I want to know about Software companies. I just love them you know ]


(04:50:34) hemantaaa: like wat u do ther

(04:50:54) hemantaaa: k..i like software

[ See I like soft "wear" ]

(04:51:07) ravi_kalla: test engineer

[ Eeeks, thats like the worst of the gulti bf to have ]

(04:51:45) hemantaaa: u use winruner..my frnd use it

(04:52:02) ravi_kalla: no iam in mannual testing

(04:53:57) hemantaaa: how do u do tht

[ This is a news to me, this is worstest.. I dont know what exactly this manual testing is..but having watched gultis I can guess ]

(04:54:08) ravi_kalla: which type of company (redpine)

(04:54:17) hemantaaa: sorry if im aksin 2 many qns

[ Well, you have to bring in this thing at times to keep it chick"ish" ]

(04:54:51) ravi_kalla: by mannualy

(04:55:04) ravi_kalla: ok

(04:55:17) hemantaaa: i dono much abt softwre testing

(04:55:19) ravi_kalla: tell me about redpine

[ Now he wants to know more about Sailaja ]

(04:55:34) ravi_kalla: ok ask no prob

(04:55:40) hemantaaa: i do pcb work for redpine

(04:55:51) ravi_kalla: pcb means

[ Honestly, the kind of work that went on at Redpine, for this kind of character, PCB layout chick was the only appropriate occupation I could come up with for my Alter Ego ]

(04:56:25) hemantaaa: printed cirkit brd

(04:56:38) ravi_kalla: ok

(04:56:50) ravi_kalla: can i know u r age

[ Well, trying to get into my pants...its hot in here dude..I am not wearing any ]

(04:56:53) hemantaaa: u dont know pcb

(04:57:14) ravi_kalla: no

(04:58:01) hemantaaa: ok..u engineer na

[ Trying to play on the guys ego ]

(04:58:21) ravi_kalla: ya

(04:58:25) ravi_kalla: then

[ See ]

(04:59:07) hemantaaa: no pls dont get upset..just aksing

[ Iodex... ]

(04:59:23) ravi_kalla: ok

(04:59:52) ravi_kalla: hemantaa means ???????

(05:00:54) ravi_kalla: hello

[ Law of conservation of Liquid - Too much liquid intake needs equal amount to be given away by body. Since the amount of liquid in body == constant. READ - Author went to take a leak, and subsequently grab another beer ]

(05:01:35) hemantaaa: i dont no what it menas

(05:02:09) ravi_kalla: y u kept that i think u r name is sailaja

(05:02:09) hemantaaa: u like icecrme?

[ Why is he after my IM nick so much man? ]

(05:02:17) ravi_kalla: ya

(05:02:37) hemantaaa: bcoj i don want ppl kno my real name

(05:02:50) ravi_kalla: nowu r enjoying ice cream

[ What am I? Chick wearing polka dot essentials? Licking a strawberry cream icecream ?.. ]

(05:02:54) ravi_kalla: ok

(05:03:11) hemantaaa: nowu..no

(05:03:46) ravi_kalla: u r staying with u r parents

[ No I am Preity Zinta, I am Gulti to the core and I am living in with Saif Ali Khan and my address is 69, Salam Namaste ]

(05:03:58) hemantaaa: yes ravi

(05:04:02) ravi_kalla: ok

(05:04:10) ravi_kalla: where u r home

(05:04:28) ravi_kalla: me sri nagar

[ So he wants to know ha ]

(05:05:33) hemantaaa: i in venkatgiri

[ Well this is some major shady area bordering Jubili Hills and Yousufguda. Again thanks god I met this great guy from Hyderabad ]

(05:05:44) ravi_kalla: ok

(05:06:17) ravi_kalla: u forget about sagr society

(05:06:40) ravi_kalla: y u asked about sagr society

(05:06:45) hemantaaa: wat did i frgt abt it

[ What the fuck is wrong with Sagar Society now? What does he want to know about it? ]

(05:06:52) hemantaaa: i tol u

(05:07:02) hemantaaa: my ofice is ther

(05:07:18) ravi_kalla: ok soorry

[ Oops...Mr Dude apologizes ]

(05:07:42) ravi_kalla: tell me u r age ???

(05:07:57) hemantaaa: u tell then i tell u

[ Bhartiya Nari ]

(05:08:07) ravi_kalla: 25 m

(05:08:27) hemantaaa: im 23

[ The Author is 27 .. ]

(05:08:37) ravi_kalla: ok

(05:08:49) hemantaaa: which collage did u go

(05:09:09) ravi_kalla: andhra university

[ Well I didnt know about this part..or university ]

(05:09:36) hemantaaa: no JnTu?

[ Jawaharlal Nehru Technological Univeristy, a good college in Hyd ]


(05:09:59) ravi_kalla: no

(05:10:27) hemantaaa: ok

(05:10:29) ravi_kalla: fr chaytanya collage from kakinada

(05:10:42) hemantaaa: ok

[ So kakinada is in AP ha? All i know is most of the coastal storms always hit Kakinada...INSTAT-1B 3C..whatever...Anyway enough playing games with the guy..Author needs another beer and its 5 here...]

(05:10:52) hemantaaa: hei ill go

(05:10:59) ravi_kalla: ok

(05:11:06) hemantaaa: bye


(05:11:30) ravi_kalla: ok bye bye

(05:11:34) ravi_kalla: take care

(05:11:52) hemantaaa: bei bei


Disclaimer: Please note that the author is capable of communicating in english fluently in both verbal and written forms. All the comments posted to this article would see a grammatically correct reply. The coloring of post also comes due to the fact that you can export the conversations as HTML in gaim. The author is efficient and not bored to an extent to color the conversation.

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

I miss ...


Some of the things you miss not being a part of the monsoons in Sahyadris.
Location - Fort Visapur, Maharashtra, India.

Saturday, July 22, 2006

Ancient ..


Slice of an old [?] tree trunk in Big Basin Redwood state park CA.

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Bixby Bridge


Bixby Bridge, CA-1 CA.

Monday, July 17, 2006

Big Sur


Sunset sky on CA-1 near Big Sur

Sunday, July 16, 2006

Ruins ..


Last pieces of fortification on Rohida ..


Location - Fort Rohida, Bhor, Maharashtra - India

Friday, July 14, 2006

Lush ..


Trek to Hadsar ..Year 2005.

Location - Fort Hadsar, Junnar, Maharashtra - India.

Ah ..




A rather blue day at Santa Cruz, CA.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

I took a heavenly ride through our silence.................
I knew the moment had arrived.............................
For killing the past............................................

Coming back to life ..........................................