Chennai to Bangalore bike trip

Last August I made the biggest switch in my professional life moving to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. That was one important bend in my career grid. After a month of useless roaming I was allocated in a Bangalore project for which I was travelling to and fro between Chennai and Bangalore every month. Later I was asked to stay for couple of months in Bangalore instead of jumping from here and there every month. So I started to Bangalore from Chennai by November last week.

I initially went to Bangalore by bus as the company booked a ticket for the trip. After I reached Bangalore I was boxed between my office and my room. I was totally immobilized. Every time I want to go somewhere I have to check the bus routes, available buses, nearby landmarks etc to reach there correctly. And making it even more worse is – the ‘ugly’ Bangalore traffic. You’ll literally get exhausted. Seeing all these things I decided to bring my ‘All New Muscle’ Hunk. So I came back to Chennai on a weekend, convinced my parents for the bike trip, checked the bike conditions etc. and started my trip back to Bangalore in my beast.

It was my first long distance trip in a bike and so I was all prepared with my bike tools etc. to face any break downs. But it turned to be one memorable trip in my life. Since I was going to Electronic City which is right after Hosur I decided that I’ll take NH 4 – NH 46 route as that is the best route for me entering Bangalore from Hosur side. The roads are butter smooth and if you have a well conditioned bike it’ll be a feel-good drive. The entire route is covered with hills, beautiful lakes, green crops, coconut trees etc which makes the travel very pleasant.

I’ve clicked few photos when I returned back from Bangalore to Chennai today.

All along the road you’ll see hoardings with traffic safety quotes. You’ll get to see some quotes as good as

“Know safety. No injury.

No Safety. Know Injury.”

and as mokkai as

“Cinema poster pakkadhe.

Anjali poster aagadhe.”

(Don’t stare at movie posters. Don’t become an obituary poster.)

Finally few points to note -

1. Never ever listen to songs. If you do, you’ll never get to hear the honks behind you.
2. Try to travel at a constant speed instead of accelerating intermittently.
3. Take regular breaks to relax yourself as well as your vehicle.
4. Take enough water before hand if you dehydrate quickly (like me).
5. Keep the bike tools with you. If your bike is not in a good condition try to avoid travelling in it. Or else mark all the service show rooms on your way using Google maps before your travel.

I always wanted to get loose and go for a long trip after I bought my bike. And, it finally happened. Better late than never. I’m very certain I’m going to go for many more trips in the near future. So if you have a bike and get a chance to go for a long trip don’t ever give it a second thought. You won’t regret it.

Hi y’ll..

It has been over two months since i last posted in my blog. I know that it is really bad to leave behind my blog in this way. In fact, i planned to post a thing a week saying hello. There are lot of things to blog about indeed. I caught myself in despair after my to-do list for the blog grew large and finally i threw it in the bin in vexation. No plans are going good for me right now . The only good thing i’ve been doing (atleast for me) is watching atleast three movies per week. That keeps me up and running .

Watched 2012 with my friends in Mayajaal (for the first time) and i’m not at all impressed either by the movie or the theatre. Guys mayajaal sucks to the core. I just hate the theatre. ‘Saidai’ Raj is way better . You know, Raj has the facility to book tickets online. Lot of improvisations. I also went to Swarna Sakthi Abirami, which is claimed as India’s first ever five star theatre (wouldn’t IMAX be better than this?!). Watched Peraanmai with friends. The seats were real fun. Before the start of the movie and at the interval one can see all the people dallying with the buttons to recline and incline the seats, including me. Fun!

Meanwhile i’m going to loose an other of my closest friends in college who is going to Infy. Weekends will be blank after that happens. I always plan to read some books to pass some time and also got a few from my friend. I asked him to give a nice book to start with as i’m not used to this and he gave me Tom Sawyer which was bearing a name of a 7th standard girl in its first page. Ho ho! I’ve read its contents and introductory page a dozen times and i’m yet to go past that. Its hard to break the life time practice of closing the eyes while opening a book. My mind fails to discriminate a pleasant novel book from a brutal and baffling engineering book. I want to make myself a promise to finish that in a month.

For now, i’m drowned in System.IO and Microsoft.SharePoint!

Weekend gaiety

Have you already hooked yourself to a 9-9 job? You would probably realize this post just from the title. Yes, i’m talking about the the golden words Saturday and Sunday which brings out the remotely located delight from the inner us. I ask myself whether i have looked into these weekends with this much  pleasure ever before. The answer is no. Neither the mondays nor the wednesdays appeared distinct for me. Thats entirely because i flocked up with a golden gang always, be it a week day or a week end. I always had my felonious right in my college to make any day similar to a week end. It dint matter though as we always hate week ends in our college life keeping ourselves away from our dudes (dudettes for some).

But what daemons shifted to the other end? Nothing. I shifted myself to a round the clock bread-winning job. So what? Isn’t that a good thing that I have flung myself into a useful process of pressing the keys in the keyboards rather the ones in the TV remote? Yes, it is. But here enters the dirty word (at least for me) fatigue. I have always (for the past four months) enjoyed my job to the  core, but still you always tend to look for an outlet.  At one juncture, you get bored to keep declaring variables and to write recursive functions eternally. You look for some other excitements to hold you up and the weekends serve you to bring them. Having Saturdays as a working day, i’m used to see a lot of faces bearing that very excitement in their faces (and the loads of commodities bought by their loves in their hands) when i walk through the shopping malls and restaurants.

These Sundays really save me from my boss who as any other bosses in the world always expect the impossible out of me and drive me crazy. Eventually, i fall into the same group of professionals who wouldn’t risk saying a NO to their boss.

This is true!

This is one of my favourite snaps depicting the truth of this saga..

Credits : Sid