Sabarish

Wooooooooohooooooooooo! Just had one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life! A good friend of mine (Anshu) recently bought a bike, well not just any bike – but a Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R super bike (select the ZX-GR model from menu, also read a review here) and he came over to my place tonight to take me for a ride! Wooohooo and what a ride it was! I’m still shaking thinking of it!

The first time Anshu accelerated from some 30 kmph to 120 kmph, I was like – “holy f*ck – this is awesome!”. We went from Old Madras Road to the Indiranagar – Koramangala ring road where he ripped some more on what is probably the best road for ripping in Bangalore! It didn’t stop there, somewhere near Koramangala, we turned and headed back on the ring road and we had some clear road and Anshu (being Anshu) accelerated even more and God, the turns were really scary! Apart from the speed, what was even more scary was that there wasn’t any proper place to hold on to for the pillion, I was hugging the fuel tank for dear life so tight my hands are aching now! We soon (very, very soon actually!) reached the new airport road junction flyover, and that’s when he got even more crazy and suddenly set off with a wheelie that nearly threw me off the bike and that’s when we touched around 160+ kmph!! Amazing acceleration, never experienced such a rush before! God I loved it!

It was my first time on a real superbike and like another friend said “Speed is orgasmic”. Amen to that.

Damn just lost a nice big post that I had typed due to some connectivity problems. grrr! Will try and rewrite as much as I can remember.

I’ve been attending some training on advanced oracle and sql tuning since Thursday at work and by Friday it got too much and I just had to go out and have some fun. Met Anshu and a friend of his and had dinner at Desmond’s on Lavelle Road. We had lots of fun talking about life at college (PUC) and spent a lot of time laughing the night away!

After a long time I went to office on a Saturday, to attend day 3 of the training and as usual most of it went over the head and so as to not fall asleep and also getting into football fever, Kiran and I spent the afternoon playing book-football (dont even ask how it is played!!). The matches were exciting and close, but finally I won the series 3-1!! ;)

Went out with mom in the evening and I got home in time to finally see Saw. The movie comes under the genre of dark/psychopath killer/horror/crime and was one of the best movies I’ve seen in this genre apart from Se7en. The movie revolves around this psychopath killer, ‘Jigsaw’ – (but you can’t really call him a killer, because he doesn’t kill anybody. He just gives his victims a reason and the means to kill themselves) – who abducts people whom he accuses of not being grateful of being alive and puts them in a ’game’ as he calls the sick situations wherein they end up pretty much killing themselves or others just to stay alive. Lots of gruesome stuff and definitely not a movie for the faint hearted. But overall a great chilling thriller. The ending is a blood curling unexpected twist and just leaves you wanting to see Saw II.

I followed Saw with Mission: Impossible III. It was an okay movie. Nothing new. We’ve seen this kind of action before. Similar hero, hero’s babe, villains, babe gets kidnapped by villain, fights, gadgets, plot etc… similar to any number of movies in the past.

Hmmm thats about all I can remember about my lost post. A nice Sunday afternoon now and about one and a half hours to go for the British Grand Prix. I hope Schumi wins!

All of us went to my place and we spent some time talking about the past and then tried to see a movie from selection of over 30 good classic english movies. As was expected we ended up not seeing any movie that night!

On Sunday we wanted to avoid the city and its crowds and wanted to drive down to some place around Bangalore and return the same or even the next day. After much debate we finally settled on Nandi Hills – according to a guide some 60 kms from Bangalore. We left around 2PM and had brunch on the way at some dhabha. The food costed a third of what we paid at Tandoor but was just as good!

The sceneray started getting beautiful and green once we left the city limits. We were pleasantly surprised at how beautiful it was so close to Bangalore.

Road to Nandi Hills

The road to Nandi Hills passes through Devanahalli, where Bangalore’s International Airport is coming up (for the last so many years). The roads were great for most part of the trip and I had a blast driving the distance (some 73 kms from home).

Road diversion to Nandi Hills 

The road near Nandi Hills was quite bumpy and there were quite a few un-tarred stretches that tested the limits of the car suspension and to make matters worse it started to rain and we were afraid the rain might ruin our visit.

Rain on the windshield

But the rain had a very positive effect on the weather and when we reached the hill top – it was very cool and the climate was perfect.

When we reached the hill top, it was a major anti-climax. Being a holiday – half of Bangalore was there. It was very crowded and dirty and there was hardly any empty space to sit down alone.

Apart from the people there were lots of monkeys and dogs!

Nearly 75 kms from home and we were wondering what the hell we were doing here!

Nonetheless we wanted to make our trip worthwhile and tried hard to ignore the crowd and the crap and focussed our attention back on the great scenery that we were treated to right from the time we left the city behind.

Breathtaking view from the top

Me near the edge!
Behind me is the road to Bangalore City

I took a few more pictures around Nandi Hills. See them here.

We left before the sun set and in the end felt the trip was a pretty decent one. The drive was good and the hill top was fine – but could have been better if there werent so many people everywhere. The scenery was awesome and the company was great and I spent some quality time with my friends!

We returned to Bangalore by around 7.30 PM and had dinner at Casa Picola, where we met my school friends – Aditya and Deepak – and then all of us went on to have a nice evening! Kannan and Karthik went home from there, while the rest of us went to Aditya’s house (or should i say palace?) and stayed over there.

I returned home today and slept like a log. Went to Indiranagar for dinner and to buy some much needed food stuff for the week ahead.

Back to work tomorrow and I have a Microsoft certification exam coming up on Saturday, for which I am yet to start preparing! Our training concludes this week and our project allocation at work might also happen, for which we will meet some of the project managers. I hope I get into a good project and team.

It’s gonna be an interesting week ahead for sure, one that will (hopefully) match the excitement of the past weekend!

And yes everybody – Happy Independence Day!