Mom bargaining at a jewellery shop!!

NAMMA FOOD STREET

a mouth watering journey across sajjan rao circle.........

An evening walk across the streets of sajan rao circle ,u are sure to notice
our very own food street....No points for guessing what it is famous for...
Located in the heart of Bangalore at V.V. Puram, Food Street or V.B. Bakery
Road as it also known, is a true "adda" for hardcore foodies.I have been visiting
the place from since my PU days and since than i have been a fan of it!
Patrons come by walk, by bikes, by cars, park in the narrow streets branching
off of the main street and saunter lazily from one cart to another, sampling the fare from each cart.

The road has it all:from the " bun-butter congress "of VB bakery, to the akki roti,
masala dosa, gulab jamoon and the artistic stuffed bondas of the roadside stalls
The present attractions include 15 varieties of American baby corn masala,
badam milk and paneer fried rice to name a few.

The road had evolved over times to match the changing tastes of the people...
From south indian masala dosas to north indian rumali roti's,panner and gobi rolls to curryfied chinees food , the road is a sure treat for all groups of people.

But no mention of Food Street is complete without the cornwallahs and their pushcarts. Parked right at the end of the road, these vendors don't stop at just roasting and boiling corn. These people truly seem to be doing magic!!!.From butter baby corn, to American baby corn masala, and the seasonal mango corn mix the list is never ending!!. The number of recipes is just mind-boggling and the customer can mix 'n' match any recipe.

Then the famous gulkand stall serving the delicious gulkand with banana or icecream is a mouth watering climax........

In the days of PIZZA HUT and COFEE DAY culture these places are the only bond we have with the old times .Other traditional restaurants include Iyers Lunch Home, Maddur Railway Hotel (Tiffanys), Vidharthi Bhavan, Dwaraka, Brahmins Coffee Bar, Udipi Krishna Bhavan, Shivanna's Gulkand store….. The list could go on and on.

So, what are you waiting for? Get off your couch and rediscover the art of stuffing yourself silly. Food Street opens for business by 6.30 pm and is open till well after 11 pm.

what is the difference b/w hardware and software???

hardware is something that i can kick............software is something that i can't kick !!!

Sakleshpur
The green route experience

I still remember those days when i used to peep out of the barely reachable train window to get a glimpse of the beauty outside.I was just 7 yrs old then and train journeys to grandpa's place at mangalore was great fun.The stretch of track from bangalore to mangalore via hassan along the western ghats was an awesome experience. I never thought i would be trekking here some day..
Plans were ready..Totally seventeen of us packed our bags to experience the green route from Donigal(a place 6kms frm sakleshpur)to Edakumeri.
Edakumeri station is around 17kms frm donigal and along the route you would find a couple of waterfalls,bridges and tunnels. Since 1980’s(i think!)when the tracks were closed by the govt, (because of some budget problems) the route has been on the hit list of every trekker.
We boarded a KSRTC bus from Bangalore on Friday night .By 3 am we were at the sakleshpur bus station.It was a 5hr journey.From there we had planned to reach donigal bus stand using local transport.
After reaching there we got to know that the next local bus to donigal was scheduled at 5:30 ,so we planned to finish breakfast and pack our lunch for the day from the nearby hotel .By 6 we reached Donigal bus stand. A 5 km walk along the road lead to donigal station. It was an amazing sight!.The sun was not up yet and tracks seemed to meet the horizon with the morning fog being sandwiched between the clear blue sky and the moist wooden planks. It was our plan to finish off our morning ablutions out here, rest a while, and then start but then, we realized there was some trouble waiting for us at the station.
The station master was not happy seeing us there .He just refused to allow us to trek as test trains had started along the route and it might turn out to be a risky affair. After some discussions we finally managed to convince him that everything would be fine.We also gave him a written statement that we are going at our own risk! We asked him to give us a missed call when any train passed the donigal station.
After some rest and a quick munch of appetizers we managed to get everyone back on legs. It was about 6:45 then and the sun was up. Luckily the sky was clear with no sign of clouds anywhere. We ambled along slowly, taking in the beauty of the place.. the old tracks, an old moss covered signal at one end...new vegetation sprouting everywhere.Taking in the whiffs of fresh air and dew... it was a heavenly feeling!
At about 7:15 we were at the first bridge ! what a view!slowly one by one we moved along the metal rails of the old bridge.The donigal station incident had shaken some of us but after walking a couple of metres we gained confidence.. The view of the water 200ft below was both breathtaking and legs-shaking for me, for a while at least....We crossed the bridge pretty ok and savoured in the joy of our first bridge crossing! There was more to come I said to myself!
After walking about 3kms we got a call on one of our cell.It was from the donigal station master which indicated that a train is on its way.So we planned to halt for some quick snacks till the train passed us.After 5 mins we could hear the sound of a whistle from some distance and the small stones between the tracks were moving.A red goods train passed by.It was a huge structure and made a lot of noise.It was used to transport construction material.
After swallowing some rock hard idlis that we packed from SURBHI hotel in sakleshpur we moved on.We were told by the station master that there were no more trains till 12am that next day! This was great news for us…otherwise that fear of meeting a train in one of the bridge or tunnel was always there!.
After an hour of walking we came across our first tunnel crossing..again a feeling of thrill and joy came over.It was a 270 mtr tunnel and was built during the 70’s..we switched on our torches and moved on.After walking about 50 mtrs we experienced complete darkness Someone took a snap and suddenly the bats which were on the tunnel roof started moving all around. Man that was scary!i think the flash from the camera disturbed them.
The pace all through the trek was comfortable and medium. Somewhere in between, at one of the first few tunnels, there was a small opening in the side wall, to a viewpoint, a cliff overlooking a lovely stream in full spate down below, in the valley. We slipped out through the opening and did take pictures of the view.
A 10 km distance lead to a large number of bridges and tunnels in succesion.Tunnels ,bridges,tunnels …..the chain seemed never ending. The bridges were really breathtaking, in height, and in the really scenic views they offered of the ghats. Some were a bit scary with the absence of the metal plates on the wooden sleepers.The longest we met was around 400mts . If the bridges were awesome in the view they offered ( both around you and beneath you! you had to only look down and feel the relative motion of walking over them getting to your head and making you feel a wee bit uneasy ), the tunnels were awesome in that at times they offered no view at all, literally! :-) We covered the longest tunnel on the route, all of 572 m. But it was real nice. Near the entrances, with a bit of the sunlight streaming in, we could see the bats flying about everywhere on top.After some distance we found a waterfall and decided to take a dip.After that long walk ,the cold water was infinitely relaxing.
After the 19 th tunnel we got the indication of an approaching station(diverging tracks)..yes it was edakumeri finally!That joy..that celebration..cant be put into words..it was a great moment for all of us. The treck had been smooth without any problems.The sky was clear,no rain,and no problem of leeches..it was as if mother earth had called us home for lunch!
After a refreshing nap and a cup of lemon tea that we prepared it was time for some nature snaps.The view from the terrace of the station was stupefying!after the short drizzle the hill suface had taken a velvety green look…The fresh smell of the wet soil added to the feeling.
We met this person by name Shekar there.He was a real nice guy.He was the station master of edakumeri.He enjoyed our company(probably he was too frustrated staying all alone in the middle of the jungle )We were told that a goods train was expected that night at 1 which was destined to subramanya..
Shekar agreed to stop the train at edakumeri for us.We planned to board the train and reach subramanya.
We reached subramanya temple the next day at around 10 a.m. Subramanya is around 20 kms from edakumeri. After visiting the temple we were back to Bangalore…

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Reserved!!
50% reservation...100%politics!!!

Protests ,hunger strikes,"HANG ARJUN SINGH!!","Arjun sigh murdabad"...yes these are the frames that now rule the streets of delhi,bombay and most other cities... The government has justified its stand by putting forward statistics ,but what are stats...they are mere numbers and anyone can play around with it and model them accordingly.

Can this concept of reservation actually help the minority groups?

lets unearth some hidden facts..
Assume a person is given a seat in any of these prestigious institutions ,Can he actually survive there?Can he compete with the others who r there by the virtue of their brains and not birth?Won't he get demoralized in such an environment?being a student of the Indian Institute Of Science i know the kind of rigorous learning routine u have to face in such institutions..can an underqualified person sustain in such an environment??
What makes the government feel that these people won't discontinue their education at some stage?

More than 80% of the child labourers in our country belong to" minority groups " ,which the government seems to be very concerned about!To what extent has the government been successful in implementing the child labour laws.Why dont these kids get proper education? see this


The government has been implementing the reservation from several years ...what are the results?

In spite of the failure isn't it cheap politics to continue ...that too with an extension..Why isn't the government doing anything in the primary levels..?what the country needs is good primary schools in urban as well as rural places . The primary school fee structure should be affordable for the minorities .Quality improvement programms at these schools need be focussed on....

The remuneration and incentives at these primary school jobs should be increased.This would attract more eligible people into teaching and quality will automatically improve.

With a good educational background these minority groups will be competent enough to get into the IITs and IIMs without claiming thier caste certificates.This in effect would result in qualified
graduates...

hoping for a better INDIA..
JAI HIND!!

Universal Plug and Play
a review....

Universal plug and play is an upcoming technology which helps in establishing ur own networks with great ease.

As the name suggests all u need to do when u add a device(UPNP enabled)to the network is just power it up....the network does the rest ....this means no scraching ur brains on changing driver configurations and other complications.UPnP is more than just a simple extension of the Plug and Play peripheral model. It is designed to support zero-configuration, "invisible" networking, and automatic discovery for a breadth of device categories from a wide range of vendors.With UPnP, a device can dynamically join a network, obtain an IP address, convey its capabilities, and learn about the presence and capabilities of other devices—all automatically,truly enabling zero configuration networks. Devices can subsequently communicate with each other directly; thereby further enabling peer to peer networking.The varieties of device types that can benefit from a UPnP enabled network are large and include intelligent appliances, wireless devices, and PCs of all form factors.
With the use of standard TCP/IP and Internet protocols, seamlessly fits it into existing networks..
So eager to know how a UPNP enabled house looks,lets check out Bill's home...

Bill came home from a hard day's work and walked in his front door. He flips a wall switch, which, to most of us, just turns on the light in the foyer. With UPnP, this switch is much more than that. This switch is simply a UPnP service whose state is defined by a variable called "Position." When Bill flips the switch, "Position" changes to "On" and a script running on his Windows XP-based PC goes into action.
The script gets the notification that the position of the master switch has changed to "on". It then does the following:
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The heat turns on to a preset temperature.
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The answering machine starts playing new messages.
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Bill's stereo system turns on and is set to his favorite classical station, and the volume is set for ambient level.
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The window blinds raise, but only if it's after sunset (sunrise/sunset data is easily obtainable from the Internet).
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Optionally, the TV is turned on and set to the news station, with the sound off and the closed captioning turned on.
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Oh yeah, the light in the foyer also turns on.
Similarly, when you flip the switch to the "off" position, the reverse occurs:
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The heat turns off (or is set at a lower temperature).
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The stereo is turned off.
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The TV is turned off.
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The window blinds lower for privacy.
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All of the lights in the house are turned off.

Sounds interesting isn't it....yes with UPNP technology managing your network is as simple as it gets...