Colonnade?

Jurong Colonnade ?

Leh 2006

Two years ago, this day, I began my 16 day long biking journey towards one of the great mountains, the Himalayas. The trip remains an unforgettable experience in my life. While I'm planning for a similar trip in coming 2009, a small revisit to those days.

Excerpts from the Day 1 log.

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Day 1: 02-Sept-2006. Reached Delhi by 10:00 am. Learnt that rains had just stopped there. Took a pre-paid taxi for Rs.250 from Airport to GATI office in Delhi south only to get disappointed. Only Arun’s bike was found there while my bike was transferred to Delhi north office. Took delivery of Arun’s bike, filled some petrol that was brought in a can from a nearby petrol pump, saved some fuel in the can for my bike, took an auto-rickshaw for Rs.200, went to GATI office in Delhi north, collected my bike after all the formalities. We started loading/packing our stuffs in the bikes immediately and were ready by 4:40 pm when the sky was getting darker with clouds. We decided and left Delhi to begin our wonderful journey. Within few minutes, there was a heavy downpour. After just 5 mins shelter under a huge flyover, we continued our biking in the rains. Had a small ‘chai’ break in a petrol pump on the way and also filled our bikes tanks with petrol. Ride, ride and ride all the way through rains, bad roads, heavy traffic and reached Panipat at around 8:30 pm. Panipat, a famous historical place. We had done only 100 kms so far. Somehow we had left Delhi and that’s what was satisfactory to us. Checked into Rainbow Guest House on Panipat Highway (on the right hand side) and retired for the day.
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Marvellous Clouds

Last two days were rainy and it's still raining now at this time of blogging. I clicked the below pic from my room today when rain had stopped awhile.

Look at those clouds. Waaaaooouuw!!

Dinner at Boat Quay

Friday evening was filled with full of fun & joy in Boat Quay with my office colleagues. There was a dinner party in two different restaurants viz. Kushbu and Maharaja, the same night (??) organized by Suresh and Prakash together. The occassion is their ending bachelorhood, I mean these guys are getting married in the coming months ;) We had a very good time around the neighbourhood till late night. The guys present were Prakash, Suresh, Phani, Jay, Dilip, Madhu and myself.

Some of the pics are uploaded in my picasa album.

The below is one lovely pic where this rickshaw man is attempting to hit me. The fact is I didnt know of his such a pose until I downloaded the photos to my laptop. What a surprise! Oh man, you too?? :)

Boat Quay at Night - Part 1

MacRitchie Reservoir

Nilave Mugam Kaatu

Nilave Mugam Kaatu
- by Ramichellakumar

A latest Tamil full novel by my mom published in this August issue of Tamil monthly PENMANI. I'm very happy that her work has come out after a very long time. Much more so because the magazine is available even in Singapore and I got a copy too.

This is her third full novel and I know how difficult it is for her to spare time for these activities as she would be engrossed with family, cooking, homework, housekeeping, etc. Great! mom. I expect more such books from you.


I just started reading it and so far completed only two chapters. Looks like the story goes around a teenage girl who is raised by her aunt. I've no idea how the story goes about.

Let me read this fully and come back again.